I think what is important is not to get too caught up following whose teaching as correct resulting in division in the Church.
Christ Jesus should be the centre of our attention.
There is no one theologian who has perfect knowledge of God.
For example people have accepted John McArthur as an excellent theologian but He doesn't believe in Healing.
Billy Graham is another super Evangelist but people have began to criticize him as of the devil at one point.
People are people, Man views of things are flawed in many ways.
What's important is that you guys read your Bible everyday, asking the Holy Spirit for revelation of his word and practise your Christianity walking in love.
Any teaching that points to Christ and Glorify his Finished Work is legitimate.
If there's some teaching you feel uncomfortable with, check and see it occurs in the Bible. God will never contradict his word.
Has God promised to heal everybody who has faith? He doesn't promise He'll always heal, but I think the Christian can look to heaven for healing. Now I want to turn the table a little bit as I close in the next couple of minutes. I think that we can go to the Lord for healing. I think we can pray to Him for deliverance from disease, and I do believe there are times when God touches us. Sometimes He heals through medicine, sometimes He heals through surgery, sometimes He heals through natural process working in the body. The body is an amazing self-healing thing, sometimes He may just heal supernaturally because it's His will, and we can look to heaven for that. We can cry out to God in our sickness and ask for His healing, and I would suggest that there are three reasons why we could expect that God might heal.
One, He might heal because of His person. You remember his Old Testament name? That wonderful name, it's really Yahweh Rapecca, the Lord that Heals, God heals because of His person. "I the Lord am your healer," He told the Israelites. The very fact that when Jesus came into the world He could have done a lot of different miracles. I mean if He wanted to convince people about His Messiahship He could have just flown around, and He could have said, "See, I can do this, and who else can do this?" Or He could have jumped a building at a single bound, or flown faster than a speeding bullet, or He could have put on a Superman show and everybody would have been in awe of that. But why did he choose to heal people? Because He was demonstrating His compassion, and a compassionate God has a heart to heal, and I think we've experienced that at times in our life; God raises up someone from sickness.
Secondly, I think God heals because of His promise. He says, "Whatever we ask in His name, believing and according to His will, He will do it," and there must be times when He'll do that. There certainly is a description in James 5 of a broken, shattered, devastated person, who goes in for prayer. The elders gather around that individual and while the pain of that situation is spiritual and has tremendous physical ramifications, and through prayer that person is restored. The effectual fervent prayer avails much. If in God's will He has designed that He'll do that because of His promise.
Thirdly, God heals because that's His pattern. It is true that in the atonement God bore our diseases, Matthew 8 says it. Matthew 8 says, "He Himself took our infirmities, and carried away our diseases." Now we've already discussed 1 Peter 2:24 and I won't do it again; it doesn't mean that healing for every sickness is in the atonement for now, but healing for every sickness is in the atonement for some day, isn't it? Someday He'll remove all of those diseases. Ultimately, eternally, we'll be delivered from sickness and infirmity. It may just be that He would chose because of that pattern of providing a salvation that ultimately delivers us from bodily infirmity when we get a glorified body, that maybe He'll give us a taste of Glory Divine.
God may heal. That poses the final question, should a Christian go to the doctor? We come all the way back to HobartFreeman again. We would never advocate such idiocy. You say, "Well does the Bible say anything about this?" Sure, read Isaiah 38, not now. I knew you'd do that; your heads just go right down, that's good, Pavlov's dogs, just instant response. That's not derogatory by the way, that's trained response. But anyway, in Isaiah 38, King Hezekiah was deathly ill, and you remember the king was crying, and he was crying tears, and then he was crying to the Lord, and God answered his request and He says this, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover." Isn't that good? That's what we used to call a poultice. Right? Now God is saying, "Do the medical thing." In Matthew 9:12, Jesus confirmed the same idea when He said this, "It's not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick." So the Lord has given us that instruction also.
Now in closing, I simply say, I want to reiterate that I believe God can heal, God can do anything He wants to do. I do not believe the gift of healing is for today because it was to authenticate the Biblical message and messenger. That is in place; it needs no more authentication then the authentication given to it by the Spirit of God to the heart of the reader, but I do believe that God may in His grace chose to heal, and we have every right to pray for that, at the same time seek the finest medical help that we can because the Lord desires us to do that as well.
http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/90-60...-god-still-heal
Sep 29 2014, 10:02 PM
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If you're so adamant that He is really Lucifer, I've got nothing more to say to you about this. 
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