Building on a Firm Foundation: A Guide to Developing Your Christian Walk by Frederick K. C. Price

Author:Frederick K. C. Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, General, Christianity
ISBN: 9781883798215
Publisher: Faith One Pub.
Published: 1998-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Healing—The Children’s Bread

(Matthew 15:22-28)

If we were to take a poll of people from every denomination, we would probably have no argument from anyone on whether or not God can heal. I am sure the people polled would admit that God can heal any person of any physical condition if He wants to. But if this is truly the case, why then are so many Believers dying every day of sickness and disease?

For the sake of argument, let us say it is not God's will for every one of His blood-bought children to be healed. How do we find out, then, which people God wants to heal? To find the answer to this question, we would have to look at whom Jesus healed when He ministered in this earth-realm. Once we make this determination, we can use the same principle to ascertain whom God will heal today.

Matthew 8:16-17:

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses."

Matthew 9:35:

Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Luke 6:17-19:

And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their disease, as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.

And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him. and healed them all.

In each of these passages, and in many others in the four Gospels, the pattern is the same. Jesus healed everyone who wanted to be healed. Let me also point out that every one of the people Jesus healed was living under the Old Covenant. Paul tells us in Hebrews 8:6:

But now He [Jesus] has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

If the New Covenant is better than the Old Covenant, our covenant should have all the benefits afforded under the Old Covenant, plus more. If this is the case, how could people under the Old Covenant be healed, and people under the New Covenant—the "better covenant"—not be healed? This would not make sense.

Why Everyone Is Not Healed Today

Many times, a person's opinion on divine healing is based on the experience of people, not on God's Word. For example, some "wonderful saint of God" was stricken with some sickness or disease, and the people in the church prayed for this person, but this person died anyway.

If you operate strictly in human understanding, it can be difficult to say that the person who died could have missed something.

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