Is sickness a blessing?
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Pay attention here Folks -----God speaking Here-in Scripture below ---Proverbs 4
-- ----Telling you to kept His WORD _____Who is Jesus ------in the midst of your heart ------so you can have Life and HEALTH To all your Flesh ------NO SICKNESS MENTIONED HERE ------and He is telling you to keep your HEART with all Diligence ----because out of it FLOWS the ISSUES of LIFE ------
So keep His Word ---(Jesus )-----in your midst -- and don't allow the Issues of Life in that cause your ill health and eternal death to invade your space --------
Keep your Gate closed to the cares of this world and your enemy Satan -----and rely on God's word and do as it says and Health and Peace will be your Friend ----when you loose your peace within ---Stop and reflect on God's Word to regain your inner Peace -----peace brings health --------
I know this as I myself have not been to a doctor in 14 years ---I use to be plagued with Migraine Headaches- monthly --and had Bronchitis every winter -----but NO more as I have done what this scripture said -------- no sickness --or disease -----no flu --no colds --no nausea --no headaches ----I am 75 years old and very healthy and on NO MEDS at all -----I live a Great Healthy --joyest ----happy --wonderful life ----doing what God wants me to do ---and keeping (Jesus) ---The Word Close to my Heart -------
God has lead me to Look after an 83 year old lady who has crippling Arthritis and I have not missed a day in 14 years looking after her because I am sick or have ill health ------we have prayers and devotion every morning ----she has been able to cope better with her pain and has made progress with her mobility issues -----her Faith is growing in Christ every day ----through hearing the word --prayers and devotion -----
So the HEBREW WORD for diligence is
Strong's #4704: spoudazo (pronounced spoo-dad'-zo
from 4710; to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest:--do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.
-- ----Telling you to kept His WORD _____Who is Jesus ------in the midst of your heart ------so you can have Life and HEALTH To all your Flesh ------NO SICKNESS MENTIONED HERE ------and He is telling you to keep your HEART with all Diligence ----because out of it FLOWS the ISSUES of LIFE ------
So keep His Word ---(Jesus )-----in your midst -- and don't allow the Issues of Life in that cause your ill health and eternal death to invade your space --------
Keep your Gate closed to the cares of this world and your enemy Satan -----and rely on God's word and do as it says and Health and Peace will be your Friend ----when you loose your peace within ---Stop and reflect on God's Word to regain your inner Peace -----peace brings health --------
I know this as I myself have not been to a doctor in 14 years ---I use to be plagued with Migraine Headaches- monthly --and had Bronchitis every winter -----but NO more as I have done what this scripture said -------- no sickness --or disease -----no flu --no colds --no nausea --no headaches ----I am 75 years old and very healthy and on NO MEDS at all -----I live a Great Healthy --joyest ----happy --wonderful life ----doing what God wants me to do ---and keeping (Jesus) ---The Word Close to my Heart -------
God has lead me to Look after an 83 year old lady who has crippling Arthritis and I have not missed a day in 14 years looking after her because I am sick or have ill health ------we have prayers and devotion every morning ----she has been able to cope better with her pain and has made progress with her mobility issues -----her Faith is growing in Christ every day ----through hearing the word --prayers and devotion -----
So the HEBREW WORD for diligence is
Strong's #4704: spoudazo (pronounced spoo-dad'-zo
from 4710; to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest:--do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.
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And sends them cancer, gets their child hit by a car, gives them covid and all the other things sin has caused to exist.
God works through what we incur usually because of our own or others sin. God does not have a handbook of disease to send here to cause 'growth'. Notice whenever the Israelites were 'afflicted', they caused it themselves.
We actually grow as we seek God and have our minds renewed by His word...the Bible. This is not the Old Testament and Christians now have the Holy Spirit within them. God can and does cause good to come out of trouble, calamity and whatever we may suffer in this world.
Does God send us disease and sickness? Absolutely not! But He does allow things to happen and we often suffer because of what we do and then cry out to Him.
God is good. He is not evil.
God works through what we incur usually because of our own or others sin. God does not have a handbook of disease to send here to cause 'growth'. Notice whenever the Israelites were 'afflicted', they caused it themselves.
We actually grow as we seek God and have our minds renewed by His word...the Bible. This is not the Old Testament and Christians now have the Holy Spirit within them. God can and does cause good to come out of trouble, calamity and whatever we may suffer in this world.
Does God send us disease and sickness? Absolutely not! But He does allow things to happen and we often suffer because of what we do and then cry out to Him.
God is good. He is not evil.
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WHY? WHY did God so such displeasure with the Israelites? You seem to be missing that info.
You know, it seems to me when people are so stuck on God punishing everyone, it is because they themselves have something going on and so they take comfort and declare the calamity was the will of God.
It's an excuse because the Bible says differently. There are better responses in this thread than any I have given, so maybe just go back over it and ask someone else
moving on....
Thinking about 'Job’s infirmities'…
… Read Romans 5:1-5, especially take note of verse 3, “we
glory [rejoice] in tribulations.” We are not instructed here
to glory in spite of the trials of life we find ourselves in, but
we are to rejoice because of them.
That is to say we are to thank God for allowing times of
suffering into our life. This passage of Scripture expressly
states that The LORD Uses the tribulations of life
To this end, He uses all things “to work together for good to
them that love God, to them that are the Called According to
His Purpose” (Romans 8:28). As we grow mature in The LORD,
our Savior Is Glorified.
As believers in Jesus Christ it is given us “in behalf of Christ,
not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His Sake”
(Philippians 1:29).
Think about it...
(E Bedore ‘Job’s infirmities’)
… Read Romans 5:1-5, especially take note of verse 3, “we
glory [rejoice] in tribulations.” We are not instructed here
to glory in spite of the trials of life we find ourselves in, but
we are to rejoice because of them.
That is to say we are to thank God for allowing times of
suffering into our life. This passage of Scripture expressly
states that The LORD Uses the tribulations of life
“to Conform us to the Image of His SON” (Romans 8:29).
To this end, He uses all things “to work together for good to
them that love God, to them that are the Called According to
His Purpose” (Romans 8:28). As we grow mature in The LORD,
our Savior Is Glorified.
As believers in Jesus Christ it is given us “in behalf of Christ,
not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His Sake”
(Philippians 1:29).
Think about it...
(E Bedore ‘Job’s infirmities’)
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But it was God who started the ball rolling, by pointing satan toward Job. God used satan as a surgical instrument to accomplish His will in Job.
Job wasn't "punished", he was put through a (rather brutal) PROCESS of self discovery, resulting in his repentance, and restoration. The Book lays out the extents that God will go to, in order to accomplish His will in us.
Job wasn't "punished", he was put through a (rather brutal) PROCESS of self discovery, resulting in his repentance, and restoration. The Book lays out the extents that God will go to, in order to accomplish His will in us.
what a very western way of thinking. this must mean our brothers and sisters under the Soviet regime failed to be obedient. or those under Mao, or those this very day in Cameroon. 
i do agree with you; i chose poorly using the word martyrdom. i should have said death. do you know, medically speaking, no one dies of old age? no, it's always some body part or system fails to work properly, which is the very definition of illness. thus, no Christian should die, unless it be by accident or violence?
i am frustrated by inconsistency.
i do agree with you; i chose poorly using the word martyrdom. i should have said death. do you know, medically speaking, no one dies of old age? no, it's always some body part or system fails to work properly, which is the very definition of illness. thus, no Christian should die, unless it be by accident or violence?
i am frustrated by inconsistency.
Christians are different. Often, God decides that our time on this earth is up. He takes our spirit and soul home. There is nothing to keep our bodies functioning, so our organs will fail. Satan is the murderer from the beginning.
Some Christians get sick because of sin. Paul raised this problem with the church at Corinth. Some despised the less well off believers. I know a church where this was a problem and many lost their lives there.
There comes a time when the Christian has fulfilled God's calling in their lives and He wants them home with Him. Death is simply the entrance to new life. I'm 71. I've had health issues. I could have died on two occasions but the prayers of the faithful were answered. The prospect of death did not bother me one bit. However, I've yet to fulfill my calling in God. One day I will be able to say that I have finished the course set before me. By the grace of God, my race will be run. I'll be happy to leave this world.
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start "believing" or start studying God's Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided (2 Timothy 2:15)? = sickness/healing more study, from
almost a Century ago, we found:
"...Another example of Undispensational teaching, which has caused
much “Fanaticism,” and sometimes mental distraction and religious
insanity among earnest sincere Christians, is the determined, but futile
attempt on the part of religious healing preachers to recover for the
Christian Church the program carried on by the apostles of the Lord
Jesus, in obedience to His commission recorded in Matthew 10:7 to 9,
which we quote: Matthew 10:7 TO 9
on this kingdom program of kingdom signs and miracles, but the
Seventy were sent forth two by two without money for expenses,
and empowered by Christ to cast out demons. Luke 10:1 to 18.
The Seventy, as well as the Twelve, “went through the towns
preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.” Luke 9:6. And
ALL of these disciples were thus instructed by Christ: “Sell that
ye have, and give alms.” Luke 12:33. “Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.”
Luke 12:22.
Public healing demonstrations are becoming more and more
frequent. The healers fail at least nine times out of ten to produce
their miraculous cure; but if even one out of twenty claims the
healing, the news reaches the other unfortunate people who are
suffering with physical afflictions and they flock to sit under the
unsound teaching of the healing preacher, seeking relief. The
preacher forgets to quote Matthew 8:16, “healed ALL that were
sick,” or Acts 5:16:
They tell their victims that they are proving that Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today and forever, by perpetuating or
duplicating the miracles of Christ and His apostles. They seem to
forget that that was the purpose in John’s Gospel in presenting
the seven great miracles of Jesus, recorded in that Divine Record,
John 20:21.
Seven is God’s perfect number. The seven miracles recorded in
John’s Record are: “the turning the water into wine,” “Christ walking
on the water,” “the healing of the nobleman’s son,” “the healing of
the impotent man (37 years a cripple), “the feeding of the 5000,”
“the healing of the man born blind,” and “the raising of Lazarus four
days dead.”
The present-day miracle-working preachers should duplicate all
seven of the miracles to prove the Deity of Christ.
Most assuredly, with their slogan: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today and forever,” they should not insist that afflicted ones must
first have their souls saved before they can receive miraculous bodily
healing, for by reading the fifth and ninth chapters of John, we learn
that the impotent man and the blind man did not receive soul
salvation until after they had received bodily healing.
Once in a great while one of the more zealous healers makes
an unsuccessful attempt to raise the dead, but he never tries to
demonstrate his Divine power by walking on the water, or by feeding
5000 hungry people with a half pound of food. Raising the dead and
cleansing the lepers are included in Matthew 10:7, with healing the
sick. God has joined them together.
Some time ago a very zealous, sincere Christian man decided that he
would go out in the Christian ministry, under the commissions of the
Lord in Matthew and Luke mentioned above.
Property was disposed of and away he started on his mission. Was he
earnest? Very much so. He had very poor success with his miracles and
even less in meeting his expenses.
In the meantime his broken-hearted wife called me on the phone;
told me of her financial predicament and physical distress. This dear
man thought he had Scriptural authority for his missionary endeavors;
but he found that what worked when Jesus of Nazareth among
Israelites was approved of God by miracles, wonders and signs
while He proclaimed “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” will not
work during this dispensation of Grace. He was Scriptural but
(JC O'Hair "isms and schisms" Bible study for Bereans 1936)
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Thus, what is the question we should be asking?:
Even more study (Approved Unto God?), almost a Century later!:
UnScriptural or UNdispensational?
cc: @MaryM and @memmett
Divided (2 Timothy 2:15)? = sickness/healing more study, from
almost a Century ago, we found:
"...Another example of Undispensational teaching, which has caused
much “Fanaticism,” and sometimes mental distraction and religious
insanity among earnest sincere Christians, is the determined, but futile
attempt on the part of religious healing preachers to recover for the
Christian Church the program carried on by the apostles of the Lord
Jesus, in obedience to His commission recorded in Matthew 10:7 to 9,
which we quote: Matthew 10:7 TO 9
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast
out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither
gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purse.”
Not only did the Twelve proclaim this kingdom message and carryon this kingdom program of kingdom signs and miracles, but the
Seventy were sent forth two by two without money for expenses,
and empowered by Christ to cast out demons. Luke 10:1 to 18.
The Seventy, as well as the Twelve, “went through the towns
preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.” Luke 9:6. And
ALL of these disciples were thus instructed by Christ: “Sell that
ye have, and give alms.” Luke 12:33. “Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.”
Luke 12:22.
Public healing demonstrations are becoming more and more
frequent. The healers fail at least nine times out of ten to produce
their miraculous cure; but if even one out of twenty claims the
healing, the news reaches the other unfortunate people who are
suffering with physical afflictions and they flock to sit under the
unsound teaching of the healing preacher, seeking relief. The
preacher forgets to quote Matthew 8:16, “healed ALL that were
sick,” or Acts 5:16:
“And they were healed EVERY ONE.”
They tell their victims that they are proving that Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today and forever, by perpetuating or
duplicating the miracles of Christ and His apostles. They seem to
forget that that was the purpose in John’s Gospel in presenting
the seven great miracles of Jesus, recorded in that Divine Record,
John 20:21.
Seven is God’s perfect number. The seven miracles recorded in
John’s Record are: “the turning the water into wine,” “Christ walking
on the water,” “the healing of the nobleman’s son,” “the healing of
the impotent man (37 years a cripple), “the feeding of the 5000,”
“the healing of the man born blind,” and “the raising of Lazarus four
days dead.”
The present-day miracle-working preachers should duplicate all
seven of the miracles to prove the Deity of Christ.
Most assuredly, with their slogan: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today and forever,” they should not insist that afflicted ones must
first have their souls saved before they can receive miraculous bodily
healing, for by reading the fifth and ninth chapters of John, we learn
that the impotent man and the blind man did not receive soul
salvation until after they had received bodily healing.
Once in a great while one of the more zealous healers makes
an unsuccessful attempt to raise the dead, but he never tries to
demonstrate his Divine power by walking on the water, or by feeding
5000 hungry people with a half pound of food. Raising the dead and
cleansing the lepers are included in Matthew 10:7, with healing the
sick. God has joined them together.
Some time ago a very zealous, sincere Christian man decided that he
would go out in the Christian ministry, under the commissions of the
Lord in Matthew and Luke mentioned above.
Property was disposed of and away he started on his mission. Was he
earnest? Very much so. He had very poor success with his miracles and
even less in meeting his expenses.
In the meantime his broken-hearted wife called me on the phone;
told me of her financial predicament and physical distress. This dear
man thought he had Scriptural authority for his missionary endeavors;
but he found that what worked when Jesus of Nazareth among
Israelites was approved of God by miracles, wonders and signs
while He proclaimed “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” will not
work during this dispensation of Grace. He was Scriptural but
“Undispensational...”
(JC O'Hair "isms and schisms" Bible study for Bereans 1936)
-------------------------------------
Thus, what is the question we should be asking?:
Even more study (Approved Unto God?), almost a Century later!:
UnScriptural or UNdispensational?
cc: @MaryM and @memmett
A fair summing up of all this I think you will agree is that the miracles signs and wonders pertain to the next dispensation, the 1,000 years.
He quotes Hebrews 13. 8 as a slogan employed by would be healers which I find a bit off. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever is scripture.
In one way the perception is correct for all the gifts and workings and manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Ghost do indeed pertain to the Millennium dispensation. When the Kingdom of Heaven will indeed be a reality. Jesus will reign.
Hebrews again calls these manifestations "a foretaste of the future age"
But the Kingdom is now, it is here already a reality ... to those who believe and receive it. Jesus is King over all the Kings of the earth now ... whether He is believed on or received or not.
Whatever pertains to Christ and His Kingdom belongs to us who do believe and have received now. The miracles signs and wonders are the PROOF.
Jesus said "all power is given unto Me in Heaven and ON EARTH GO YE THEREFORE and announce this good news to everybody"
Good news Jesus is Lord
But folks rather that the bank manager were lord over their finances or the government
they rather that the doctor and medical scientist be lord over their health
They entrust their souls to Christ but not their physical well being, so Jesus is not Lord over all.
Here is another classic mistake your theologian makes [Cornelius Stam?]
He looks about him and sees what is happening in the church of his day, The Brethren [from whence came modern dispensationalism] had close links to Edward Irving and unless I am mistaken the missionary he is referring to is Mr Anthony Norris, a godly man but perhaps mistaken in some areas.
He looks at this imperfect picture and assumes that this reflects a theological truth. In other words he has ceased to go by the bible because of the faultiness and frailties he witnesses in those of his generation's proponents of those doctrines. He is going by what his natural eyes see and his natural ears hear.
I have seen much, much greater success in my lifetime than he saw of those doctrines, revelation has moved on. But I see nothing like perfection or perfect bible. That does not disprove the bible.
If you had visited any church in the 14th century you would have witnessed very little gospel truth.
You do not believe in healing from Christ with the same rock solid assurance that you believe in the forgiveness of sin or the new birth ... But you MUST, you must have that same faith for it is as much promised one as the other. He hath borne our sins, He have borne our sicknesses. He carried our griefs and sorrow, the price for our peace was laid upon Him.
How many preachers and theologians preach and teach it? how can people believe if they are not told?
Nay they make up doctrines and philosophies to rob people of faith.
God understands all of this ... He has simply gone elsewhere, China and Africa, amazing things are happening.
God will give you what you believe Him for in accordance with His word.
Peace my brother.
He quotes Hebrews 13. 8 as a slogan employed by would be healers which I find a bit off. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever is scripture.
In one way the perception is correct for all the gifts and workings and manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Ghost do indeed pertain to the Millennium dispensation. When the Kingdom of Heaven will indeed be a reality. Jesus will reign.
Hebrews again calls these manifestations "a foretaste of the future age"
But the Kingdom is now, it is here already a reality ... to those who believe and receive it. Jesus is King over all the Kings of the earth now ... whether He is believed on or received or not.
Whatever pertains to Christ and His Kingdom belongs to us who do believe and have received now. The miracles signs and wonders are the PROOF.
Jesus said "all power is given unto Me in Heaven and ON EARTH GO YE THEREFORE and announce this good news to everybody"
Good news Jesus is Lord
But folks rather that the bank manager were lord over their finances or the government
they rather that the doctor and medical scientist be lord over their health
They entrust their souls to Christ but not their physical well being, so Jesus is not Lord over all.
Here is another classic mistake your theologian makes [Cornelius Stam?]
He looks about him and sees what is happening in the church of his day, The Brethren [from whence came modern dispensationalism] had close links to Edward Irving and unless I am mistaken the missionary he is referring to is Mr Anthony Norris, a godly man but perhaps mistaken in some areas.
He looks at this imperfect picture and assumes that this reflects a theological truth. In other words he has ceased to go by the bible because of the faultiness and frailties he witnesses in those of his generation's proponents of those doctrines. He is going by what his natural eyes see and his natural ears hear.
I have seen much, much greater success in my lifetime than he saw of those doctrines, revelation has moved on. But I see nothing like perfection or perfect bible. That does not disprove the bible.
If you had visited any church in the 14th century you would have witnessed very little gospel truth.
You do not believe in healing from Christ with the same rock solid assurance that you believe in the forgiveness of sin or the new birth ... But you MUST, you must have that same faith for it is as much promised one as the other. He hath borne our sins, He have borne our sicknesses. He carried our griefs and sorrow, the price for our peace was laid upon Him.
How many preachers and theologians preach and teach it? how can people believe if they are not told?
Nay they make up doctrines and philosophies to rob people of faith.
God understands all of this ... He has simply gone elsewhere, China and Africa, amazing things are happening.
God will give you what you believe Him for in accordance with His word.
Peace my brother.
A fair summing up of all this I think you will agree is that the miracles signs and wonders pertain to the next dispensation, the 1,000 years.
He quotes Hebrews 13. 8 as a slogan employed by would be healers which I find a bit off. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever is scripture.
In one way the perception is correct for all the gifts and workings and manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Ghost do indeed pertain to the Millennium dispensation. When the Kingdom of Heaven will indeed be a reality. Jesus will reign.
Hebrews again calls these manifestations "a foretaste of the future age"
But the Kingdom is now, it is here already a reality ... to those who believe and receive it. Jesus is King over all the Kings of the earth now ... whether He is believed on or received or not.
Whatever pertains to Christ and His Kingdom belongs to us who do believe and have received now. The miracles signs and wonders are the PROOF.
Jesus said "all power is given unto Me in Heaven and ON EARTH GO YE THEREFORE and announce this good news to everybody"
Good news Jesus is Lord
But folks rather that the bank manager were lord over their finances or the government
they rather that the doctor and medical scientist be lord over their health
They entrust their souls to Christ but not their physical well being, so Jesus is not Lord over all.
Here is another classic mistake your theologian makes [Cornelius Stam?]
He looks about him and sees what is happening in the church of his day, The Brethren [from whence came modern dispensationalism] had close links to Edward Irving and unless I am mistaken the missionary he is referring to is Mr Anthony Norris, a godly man but perhaps mistaken in some areas.
He looks at this imperfect picture and assumes that this reflects a theological truth. In other words he has ceased to go by the bible because of the faultiness and frailties he witnesses in those of his generation's proponents of those doctrines. He is going by what his natural eyes see and his natural ears hear.
I have seen much, much greater success in my lifetime than he saw of those doctrines, revelation has moved on. But I see nothing like perfection or perfect bible. That does not disprove the bible.
If you had visited any church in the 14th century you would have witnessed very little gospel truth.
You do not believe in healing from Christ with the same rock solid assurance that you believe in the forgiveness of sin or the new birth ... But you MUST, you must have that same faith for it is as much promised one as the other. He hath borne our sins, He have borne our sicknesses. He carried our griefs and sorrow, the price for our peace was laid upon Him.
How many preachers and theologians preach and teach it? how can people believe if they are not told?
Nay they make up doctrines and philosophies to rob people of faith.
God understands all of this ... He has simply gone elsewhere, China and Africa, amazing things are happening.
God will give you what you believe Him for in accordance with His word.
Peace my brother.
He quotes Hebrews 13. 8 as a slogan employed by would be healers which I find a bit off. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever is scripture.
In one way the perception is correct for all the gifts and workings and manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Ghost do indeed pertain to the Millennium dispensation. When the Kingdom of Heaven will indeed be a reality. Jesus will reign.
Hebrews again calls these manifestations "a foretaste of the future age"
But the Kingdom is now, it is here already a reality ... to those who believe and receive it. Jesus is King over all the Kings of the earth now ... whether He is believed on or received or not.
Whatever pertains to Christ and His Kingdom belongs to us who do believe and have received now. The miracles signs and wonders are the PROOF.
Jesus said "all power is given unto Me in Heaven and ON EARTH GO YE THEREFORE and announce this good news to everybody"
Good news Jesus is Lord
But folks rather that the bank manager were lord over their finances or the government
they rather that the doctor and medical scientist be lord over their health
They entrust their souls to Christ but not their physical well being, so Jesus is not Lord over all.
Here is another classic mistake your theologian makes [Cornelius Stam?]
He looks about him and sees what is happening in the church of his day, The Brethren [from whence came modern dispensationalism] had close links to Edward Irving and unless I am mistaken the missionary he is referring to is Mr Anthony Norris, a godly man but perhaps mistaken in some areas.
He looks at this imperfect picture and assumes that this reflects a theological truth. In other words he has ceased to go by the bible because of the faultiness and frailties he witnesses in those of his generation's proponents of those doctrines. He is going by what his natural eyes see and his natural ears hear.
I have seen much, much greater success in my lifetime than he saw of those doctrines, revelation has moved on. But I see nothing like perfection or perfect bible. That does not disprove the bible.
If you had visited any church in the 14th century you would have witnessed very little gospel truth.
You do not believe in healing from Christ with the same rock solid assurance that you believe in the forgiveness of sin or the new birth ... But you MUST, you must have that same faith for it is as much promised one as the other. He hath borne our sins, He have borne our sicknesses. He carried our griefs and sorrow, the price for our peace was laid upon Him.
How many preachers and theologians preach and teach it? how can people believe if they are not told?
Nay they make up doctrines and philosophies to rob people of faith.
God understands all of this ... He has simply gone elsewhere, China and Africa, amazing things are happening.
God will give you what you believe Him for in accordance with His word.
Peace my brother.
It has always been a mistake to preach faith, the message we preach is God's grace, God imparts the faith.
When folks put faith first they do so from the basic belief in human freewill. They therefore preach to move the hearts and minds of the people.
Grace preaching is the pure gospel message preached with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven to work in the minds and hearts of the people.
Faith chugs start stops, start stops ....grace flows from the throne of God.
That woman with the issue of blood KNEW if she would touch even the hem of Jesu's garment she would be healed. Faith preachers shout and scream and jump up and down trying to instil the faith by their exertions. This faith, this knowing comes by grace,
That is not what the Bible says ---God Said Job was a faithful up right man
Job 1
International Standard Version
Job’s Faithfulness
1 There once was a man in the land of Uz[a] named Job. The man was blameless as well as upright. He feared God and kept away from evil
It was he supposed 3 friends who said Job was self righteous -----they were not really good friends and surmised juob had sinned -----
Job 1
International Standard Version
Job’s Faithfulness
1 There once was a man in the land of Uz[a] named Job. The man was blameless as well as upright. He feared God and kept away from evil
It was he supposed 3 friends who said Job was self righteous -----they were not really good friends and surmised juob had sinned -----
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