Posted on 05/23/2016 4:25:24 PM PDT by Frank Broom
This article is to those that might be going through a physical affliction and wondering if it is God's will for you to be healed. I just want to encourage you that it is God's will that you receive your healing. Let me make these points to help convince you of that because I want you convinced so that nobody can talk you out of it. First, In Matthew 15:26 Jesus said healing is the children's bread. What is bread, it is your right. Every child has a right to be fed. In fact, it a father's obligation to feed his children. And Jesus said it(healing) is the children's bread. Second, God the Father is the most loving father and in Luke 11:11-13 the point Jesus is making is that if you being evil know how to do good for your children how much more God. James 1:17 says, every good gift comes from God. And Act 10:38 says, God anointed Jesus with the Holy Ghost and power and with the Holy Ghost and power Jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil. So, healing is a good gift from God. I want to make this point because there are those that say these bodies are just dust and they don't matter to God. But, yet we see God anointing Jesus to heal these dust bodies and he did not turn anyone away. Now, what natural parent if they had a child out playing and the child fell and was bleeding badly tell them, "Now baby don't worry about it your body is just dust." NO, a good parent would pick that child up rush them in the house, nurse their wounds, put a bandage on them, dry there tears, and do everything in their ability to make it better. Well, how much more God. Third, Hebrews 1:3 says, Jesus is the express image of God and Jesus said he only did what he saw the Father do so everytime Jesus healed it was the Father's will and not one time did he turn anyone away. Not one time did he say, "God is using this to teach you something." Not one time did he say, "I'm sorry, but it's not God's will. You know all those religious ideas people come up with. Not one time did he say no and God does not change Malachi 3:6.
Fourth, God anointed Jesus to heal. Jesus told his disciples to heal. Jesus told believers to heal. So, healing must be one of God's top priorities. Fifth, Jesus was lashed and cut open for your healing Isaiah 53:4,5. He was beaten so badly he didn't even look like himself Isaiah 52:14. Now, how can anyone say that healing is not important to God. Sixth, God has an assignment for all of our lives and without these bodies we can't fulfill them. Seven, Some say that it's more important to be saved than healed. And I agree totally, but God provided for both 1Peter 2:24. If He provided it then He must wants us to have it. Eighth, Jesus said many are sick and sleep(dead) because they don't discern the Lord's body, that it was broken for your healing 1Corinthians 11:24,29,30. People recognize that what Jesus did brought salvation, but they don't realize that what he did brought healing so they don't receive it. Ninth, Everything about Jesus speaks of healing. The lamb in Exodus 12 is a picture of Jesus and notice as a result of eating the lamb everyone was healed Psalm 105:37 (make a note of that from point 8). In Numbers 16 the atonement Aaron made for the people represents what Jesus did for you and I. And in Numbers 21 that serpent on the pole represents Jesus on the cross taking our sins. Notice, in every case it brought HEALING. Tenth, In Acts 5 and 19 God used handkercheifs and even a man's shadow to heal people. Look at God. So, do not let people minimize God's desire for you to receive your healing. And do not let them trivialize what Jesus went through for you to be healed. So, if you are believing then keep believing. God Bless!!!!
I am not quite sure what point you are making. Are you saying that since Paul said that there may be some preaching another Gospel there that are to accursed then he isn’t saying grace and peace to everyone there? When Paul says grace and peace to you it can be assumed that he is speaking to the true Christians there, not the tare that might be mixed in. We can know by this greeting that for the true Christian it is God’s desire written through Paul for them to have/know His grace and His peace. This also does not contradict anything that Christ Himself said is His desire for us.
Please.
Try reading this:
The Soft Prosperity Gospel by Erik Raymond
And then read it again.
Hoss
“Life...finite or eternal? Christ didn’t have to come here to give us a better temporal life; he DID have to come here to die for us on the cross so that our more abundant life would be everlasting and with him in glory.”
The Kingdom is now and eternal!
Luke 17:21 -
“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Hoss and his modern day Pharisees do just what the Pharisees of old did - change the word of God to their liking and then call the actual word of God “false Doctrine”, ironically to the face of the Word of God himself, Jesus Christ.
So after calling Scripture itself “another gospel”, they actually make up another gospel and call it “The Soft Prosperity Gospel by Erik Raymond”.
They are truly a confused bunch, being lead around the nose by the Deceiver himself it would appear.
Versus being led around by the pocketbook and the love of money? I've seen a few "name it and claim it" preachers as they drive around in their Bentleys or chauffeured in limousines as they enjoy their mansions, expensive clothes, private jets and various "youth-preserving" plastic surgeries. I've seen the grandmas sending in their tithe/seed money to the TV evangelists in the hopes their Social Security check will get them through the next month.
Sorry...God repeatedly tells those who would shepherd His flock to NOT do so for "filthy lucre's sake" and the way the unsaved world looks at such goings on is plain to see - hypocrisy. The example Jesus gave to us was to forsake the world and all the things that are "of the world" because the love of the world is enmity with Him. God certainly has blessed many people with prosperity and I believe it is for the purpose of reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ - not to have ministers live in splendor while looking down on the "little people".
The irony is how you continue to ignore all the passages that Hoss has posted in favor of riding the hobby horse of cherry-picked snippets of out of context verses. I wonder how many people never come to Christ or grow closer to Him because what has been promised by such wolves in sheep's clothing never happened to them? Talk about making the word of God of none effect!
Amen, and amen.
Hoss
But, oddly, reading this, and reviewing the posts so far, I must say I've not quite seen such an attempt to twist the point around so severely since RCs here have tried to explain that bowing and praying to a statue of Mary is not idolatry.
Just for fun: PROVE that the Prosperity Gospel aligns with the Gospel given to us by Christ. That means, point by point, demonstrate that there is no contradiction to what Christ taught, and what the "Blab It and Grab It" ministers teach.
You're very good at contradiction, but honestly, anyone can do that; prove by argumentation that what you claim to be true IS true.
Hoss
Your confusion and lack of understand about God's word doesn't negate the doctrine of scripture.
Good luck boatbums.
As I told you, your argument is with God not with me. The Bible says ALL Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is profitable for doctrine (2 Timothy 3:16). You don't like I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers (3 John 2) even though it is Biblical doctrine. So instead you make your own reasoning doctrine instead. THAT is false doctrine.
Your confusion and lack of understand about God's word doesn't negate the doctrine of scripture.
Good luck Hoss.
Scott, notice how these modern-day Pharisees, like the Pharisees of old and Satan himself, want you to focus on everything except the word of Christ. Just an encouragement - don’t fall for it.
Perhaps you don't like the fact that God certainly does allow suffering in our lives to fulfill His purposes and plans or you have no workable explanation for the many believers you come in contact with who DON'T receive all the material and physical "blessing" you have become convinced is ALWAYS His will for all His children? Either way, those of us who have experienced the more eternal weight of glory our Father works in our lives through trials, temptations, persecutions and troubles rejoice in knowing that He works ALL things for our good because we love Him and walk according to His purposes.
I won't wish you luck because luck has nothing to do with it. Instead, I wish you understanding and the peaceful assurance of knowing that even if He slay us, we can/will STILL trust in Him.
Good luck boatbums.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Phil. 4:11-13)
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. (Heb. 13:5,6)
God's word stands as doctrine and trumps your lack of understanding. Perhaps it is your own inability to differentiate between Gods' desire to bless you versus a guaranteed result? As has been stated before on this thread, for some, God's complete, miraculous healing won't happen until we see Him in glory. The REAL question then is will you be content with that and trust Him implicitly?
Hoss
The issue boatbum isn’t what I do or don’t do. The issue is your “cherry-picking” God’s word, discarding what you don’t like and then calling your personal opinions and misunderstandings that discard God’s word, “doctrine.”
Not going to keep going around with you boatbum.
Good bye and good luck.
Been there, done that, Hoss. We’re done.
Bye.
Well, I guess there’s no explaining a false gospel then; you had the opportunity.
Bye.
I’ll have to see what “The Soft Prosperity Gospel by Erik Raymond” is. There is only one true Gospel and that is that Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, God come in the flesh, on the cross died in our place for the forgiveness of our sins. All we can do is believe in Him and accept Him and what He has done for us. Salvation is a free gift bought in full by the blood of Jesus Christ. He is worthy of our hearts full love and worship. He is faithful and we should obey Him for He loves us and we trust that He knows what is best for us. He has united our hearts and lives to The Living God.
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