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Monday, December 15, 2014

Divine Healing?

Many people say that there is no longer any need for miracles, but there is a fallacy in this argument. Consider that there are many people in the world today who have never heard of Jesus, and there are many people who have heard of Jesus but who don't believe in Him as their Savior. This is the exact same situation that we see in the New Testament, yet Jesus and the apostles and the early Christians used miracles specifically so that people would believe and be saved. Miracles and miraculous healings are every bit as useful and as valid for evangelism now as they were in the first century. In fact, we have been personally commissioned by Jesus, in writing, to use healing miracles for evangelism. So if God has not changed and if the purpose for miracles has not changed, then what has changed between the first century and now?
The answer is that we have changed! The body of Christ for the most part no longer seems to have any faith in miracles, unless they happen in some remote part of the world. But miracles, including laying hands on the sick, often require faith. So there's a downward spiral here: We think that we don't see miracles happening, so we find passages in the Bible which seem to support the "fact" that miracles died out, which further takes away our faith in modern-day miracles, which prevents us from seeing modern-day miracles, which is why we "find" Scripture passages to support the fact that we don't see miracles, and on and on and on.
Yet from the beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation, God has shown Himself to be a supernatural God, and He has told us over and over that He does not and will not change. He is still a supernatural God! He is still a God of miracles and healings, and He still works through the body of Christ to perform signs and wonders and to heal the sick and to cast out demons. But for the most part we no longer believe that He does these things. It is much easier for us to rationalize away Scriptures that we're not comfortable with and to say that they belong to this fictional "early Church" than it is for us to believe that the Bible really means what it says and that God is still a supernatural God. When we hear modern accounts of healings and spiritual gifts (tongues, prophecies, etc.), we often find it easier to attribute these things to the devil rather than believing that God still operates according to His Word. Jesus said, "when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8).
If we will simply believe that the Bible means what it says, and then if we will step out in faith, we can see some New Testament kinds of healing miracles because Jesus promised we would! This was Jesus' commission to His Church, this is our commission, this is part of our "job description" (so to speak) as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ! To learn more about the Great Commission, and to learn how to see healing miracles, I invite you to study this for yourself, dig out the scriptures and determine for yourself what God intended. 

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