DIVINE
HEALING
Divine Healing-"healing direct by a miracle from
ALMIGHTY GOD, as a result of believing PRAYER."
Evangelist Raymond F. McNair discusses
DIVINE HEALING TODAY IN THE CHURCH OF GOD
Many today in God's Church pray for healing. But they have not been healed. They pray again. And again! But there is no improvement. What is wrong? We have learned that God does heal. In the past we have experienced incredible miracles. Many were healed in God's Church in the past. But why so few now?
Cancer and various forms of illness seem almost rampant throughout God's Church today. Obviously God had not changed -- He is the same from eternity to eternity. He has promised to heal, and His Word is SURE! The fault is not with God. It must be with us.
But where?
WHERE is your faith and WHO is your God?
Your faith is either in Almighty God, the ONLY true Healer and Protector, or in the GOD OF MEDICINE (II Kings 1:1-4), drugs and vaccines.
Some think healing was only to prove JESUS was the CHRIST -- the promised MESSIAH -- but not for this day and age. Is the day of miracles PAST? We read in the New Testament that when Jesus Christ was on earth 1900 years ago, He HEALED THE SICK. And it seems there are so MANY MORE sick today than there were then. Well, is the day of miracles past? WHAT ABOUT this thing we call divine healing?
A doctor can't heal! And any honest doctor will admit it. And none of his drugs, or medicines, or knives can heal. There is no healing in any of them. There is only one kind of healing, and that is healing directly by the almighty God. There is no other healing !
Now people today misunderstand this truth entirely. So many seem to believe we should go to the doctors, then pray for God to cause their medicines to heal. They assume God raised up medical science and blesses it and works thru it. But this is merely the same old Pagan practice of idolatry tho very few realize it today. Truly all nations have been DECEIVED into practicing Pagan idolatry believing it is true Christianity! For the real Christian who has faith in God there is a better way!
Healing is nothing more or less than the FORGIVENESS OF SIN -- the consequent removal from us of the PENALTY we have incurred -- and no human doctor, no medicine, no drug, has ever been given power to forgive sin -- whether spiritual or physical!
NONE BUT GOD CAN FORGIVE SIN ! Therefore none but GOD can heal!
( The Plain Truth Personal from the Editor, Herbert W. Armstrong, December, 1967)
What our Creator says about health and sickness.
It is God's will that we be IN HEALTH (III John 2). God intended us to obey His laws -- His physical laws that operate in our bodies for good health as well as His Spiritual Law. Yet He knew our weaknesses and rebellious nature. When we repent of breaking His Spiritual Law and transgressing against Him, our loving and merciful Father has provided a way for removing the penalty -- through Jesus' sacrifice, paying the penalty in our stead.
In like manner, when nature's laws have been broken, this is God's instruction to those who have become His begotten children:
"Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and THE PRAYER OF FAITH shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him" (James 5:14-15).
Notice important specific points in that instruction. First, it is addressed to, and pertains to those who have become God's own begotten children -- those who ARE Christ's -- and in Romans 8:9 it is made plain that ONLY those who have, and are being LED BY, in daily living (verse 14) His Holy Spirit, are Christ's. Next, it says the prayer of FAITH shall save the sick. But James also says (chapter 1:6-7) that if one's faith wavers, he will not receive the answer. Yet also, in the "faith chapter" of the Bible, Hebrews 11, we read this: "he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that He IS, and that He is a REWARDER of them that diligently seek Him" (verse 6).
And again, what we ask of Him we receive BECAUSE we keep His Commandments, and do those things that please Him (I John 3:22).
So, although God DOES HEAL, there are conditions -- we do have our part to perform.
Notice further: When the sick came to Jesus, He healed them "... that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses'" (Mat. 8:17) and that "by whose STRIPES ye were healed" (I Peter 2:24). Before Jesus was crucified, He was beaten with stripes -- paying the penalty of our PHYSICAL transgressions in our stead.
This kind of healing -- and nothing else IS actual HEALING -- is a divine miracle, FORGIVING physical SIN -- and removing its penalty. It is a MOST SERIOUS THING, not to be taken lightly -- not to be made a mockery of by fanatical and wild public demonstrations in "healing meetings." Jesus healed -- the apostles healed -- He gave AUTHORITY to His ministers to heal -- but they did it quietly, without demonstration, as a ministry of LOVE -- not as a highly publicized circus sideshow to attract crowds.
This sort of sensational "divine healing" is NOT the way of God. Such practices today have only brought ridicule and discredit and in no sense do I advocate or approve it! The courts and law-enforcing agencies, as a result of these UNSCRIPTURAL divine healing practices, are completely hostile to "divine healing." But what Jesus did, and commissioned HIS true ministers to do, IS SOMETHING ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT.
Real healing by God's power is a matter of FORGIVING SIN -- sin against the physical body. Read Luke 5:18-26. None but GOD can forgive sin (verse 21). Doctors, therefore, CANNOT HEAL. They can work WITH nature's laws -- but that is not HEALING.
Do we, then, advise people AGAINST going to medical doctors? BY NO MEANS. Doctors have their place in this world. But the healing that God performs is NOT OF THIS WORLD.
I have answered the call of thousands, who have come to me for prayer for healing. Many HAVE been healed --miraculously -- of even cancer and an advanced case, in a hospital, of leukemia. On the other hand, many HAVE NOT been healed. Yet I have prayed with the same faith for the one as the other.
WHY are many not healed? Jesus said it is ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH. Perhaps they did not fully believe. Perhaps they were not obedient. Perhaps they should read James 4:3, where it says: "Ye ask, and receive not, BECAUSE ......" And you may read the answer yourself.
So let me make this plain.
I DO NOT SAY, don't go to the doctor of medicine. I DO NOT KNOW whether YOU will be healed by God -- because I cannot know whether you have the faith, are conforming to God's conditions, have really repented and turned from violating God's laws. I do not leave people without ANY help -- for, if they do not have the faith, have not repented, are not keeping God's commandments, they probably won't be healed, and I cannot advise them against the only help they might have -- that which this world's society has set up. Healing by God is NOT a thing to experiment with!
But, why not solve this whole question by avoiding the CAUSE?
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