Healing Forever Settled by Kenneth Hagin Jr

Author:Kenneth Hagin Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:52+00:00

Chapter 4 Divine Healing Is Available to God's People Today

We've looked at the statute of divine healing that God established for His people in Exodus 15:26. Then we saw healing in the plan of redemption: " Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). We saw the healing power of God in Jesus' earthly ministry, and we saw that Jesus commissioned the disciples and then the Church to preach the gospel and to heal the sick.

Healing is as much ours today as it was for the children of Israel in the Old Testament. Healing is as much ours today as it was for those who lived when Jesus walked upon the earth. And healing is as much ours today as it was for the Early Church. We know this because the Bible says, "... I am the Lord, I change not..." (Mal. 3:6). And Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. " God's will concerning healing is the same for the Church today as it has always been for His people. The healing that Jesus purchased for each one of us in His death, burial, and resurrection is available to all today.

One argument we hear against healing being for us today comes from many modern-day theologians who say that miracles and healings passed away when the last of the twelve apostles died. One reason this couldn't be true is that in the Bible there were more than just twelve apostles! Certainly the Book of Revelation talks about the twelve apostles of the Lamb; that is, the original twelve who followed Jesus in His earth walk. But we already read in Luke 10:1 that Jesus anointed seventy other disciples besides the twelve to go out and do the work of the ministry. Barnabas and Paul were two more apostles who ministered God’s healing power, and they were not included with the original twelve apostles who followed Jesus in His earthly ministry. We know that healing was characteristic of the Apostle Paul’s ministry because the Bible says that mighty signs and wonders followed as Paul preached the gospel (Rom. 15:19). Besides that, as we’ve already seen, the Lord Jesus Christ commissioned all believers to preach the gospel and to heal the sick (Mark 16:15-18)! If you are a Christian, then "all believers” includes you! You have been commissioned or authorized by Jesus Christ the Head of the Church to preach the gospel and to heal the sick.

Divine Healing in the History of the Church

If healing stopped with the last of the apostles as some people say, then why do we have documented historical records of divine healings that date after the death of the apostles? For instance, in A.D. 165, Justin Martyr, an Early Church father, made the following statement about divine healing:

For numberless demoniacs throughout the whole world, and

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