<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Now, let it be known to every one, that I do not believe that there is such a thing as a man being a Divine healer. Whether he's doctor, or whether he's a psychiatrist, whatever he is; there is no Divine healers. There's only one Healer, and that's God.
Now, we have doctors, and medical institutions, and scientists to research in medicine, and which we are grateful. And as Christian people we should not let a day pass without praying for the help of those men who are trying to--in research to find something to help relieve the suffering. I think it's a real thing, a real Christian act, for men and women to pray for men to find something another to help us. Because what if it was you sick. See? You'd want anything that could help you. Well, then when a person gets to a place that they have--that the doctor can do no more for you, then I think we have a right to call on God, we who believe God.

L-5 Now, it's undisputed in the Scriptures about Jesus Christ and the early apostles. They did, by faith, heal the sick. Jesus claimed that He never healed the sick. He said, "It's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He does the healing. And I only do as He shows Me by a vision." Now, any Bible student knows that's true. Saint John 5:19. Jesus never performed one miracle in His life without first God the Father showing Him a vision to do it; or He told something wrong in the Bible, for He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, Divine healing is not based upon some emotion. It's not based upon some laying on of hands, or some strange feeling or sensation. It's based upon a faith in a work that was done for you by Jesus Christ at Calvary. It's a finished product. And every person here tonight that's sick and afflicted, as far as God is concerned, you are already healed. See? And every sinner here is already saved, for it was finished at Calvary. And now, to the deans and teachers of the school, if the old covenant, the old atonement, included healing, and this is a better atonement than the old one was, how much more has this got healing in it?

L-6 The Bible said in Isaiah that He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were healed. Now, someone tried to speak and say that was fulfilled in Matthew 12 when He said He took upon Him the infirmities of us, and He healed them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, "He bore our infirmities." That was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made. Then if that be true, where many trying to argue against Divine healing, then the atonement had more power before it came in force than it did after it's come in force. So you...
And I can show anyone, or any Bible reader, where that Christ gave His church, whether it's called Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Pentecostal, whatever it is, He gave them power to heal the sick. Now, I'm asking for any man, any student, any Bible student or historian, to produce to me one piece of Scripture where Jesus taken that power back from the church and told them they didn't have it any more. He never took the power from the church; the church is afraid to exercise or to practice what Christ told them to do.


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