It is not the object. It is The Holy Spirit moving through the hem of Jesus’ garment, or Paul’s napkin. It is God’s Spirit. God is the power.
These objects were not kept and used repeatedly over time for healing, or they would have been worshiped. God doesn’t want that.
Remember the bronze serpent that was lifted up in the wilderness? The Israelites were worshiping it because at one time it had been used by The LORD to heal people, as a types of Jesus Christ, when He would be lifted up for our forgiveness and healing. The word “Nehushtan” means “a thing of brass”.
This is written for our learning and application. We must never pass the line and worship anything material, or even give it undue “veneration”. It isn’t necessary. What is always necessary is to worship God Himself, and only Him.
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2Ki 18:1
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2:Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3:And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
4:He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
HERE is wisdom.