Yes, it's called being sick and needing healing.
If that's so, why did Jesus do secret healings? He also healed all who came to Him. You've missed the most important thing. That God heals people out of pure love. We should be seeking God for miracles in the name of Jesus , in order to glorify Him. Everytime God does a miracle in the name of Jesus it glorifies God. It also confirms the Gospel.
Really well said Mahogany Snail...!! Full of life and love!
Wattie..
The interesting thing about the passages you mentioned of 1 Cor 12-14 etc.. (and to say I get where you're coming from I do speak both Greek and Hebrew fluently ) is that even in English we can understand the main points of what Paul is trying to communicate..
Here's what I understand:
1 Cor 12
i) Despite the varying gifts and ministries, all flow from the same Spirit i.e. the Spirit of God.
ii) These are for the profit of all for
(v7) And because Paul is addressing the Church he is expecting these things to continue beyond the current Apostolic oversight..(Disciples etc)
(v37)
iii) The Body (i.e. the church) or a 'member' of that Body cannot say I/we have no need of you and your gift to another member of the same Body
(v20-21) Every gift and ministry no matter how insignificant or significant it seems, is valid and treasured as coming from the Spirit of God for our profit.
iv) If miracles and the more 'supernatural' ministries have ceased from a 'new' dispensation according to this passage so have the much needed help and administrations gifts and ministries?!
(v27)
1 Cor 13 'The more excellent way'
Paul then goes on in this well known passage in the context of giftings and ministries to talk about the possibility of moving in gifts and callings without love and how love is the greatest gift above all... Like Mahogany Snail said God heals out of love which is why these gifts and callings have flowed down to us.. to flow out from us to a dying world and the building up of the Body. They best show the world what he is truly like and communicate his will to the sick (see also Isaiah 61)
i) v8-13 that which is perfect is Jesus! we shall see him face to face.. then and only then will the gifts given us cease..
ii)"NOW abide Faith, Hope and Love"
(v13) Why is LOVE the greatest? because it's the only ETERNAL gift listed.. when we step into eternity we will not need faith or hope.. that's the context for the previous gifts and callings.. Can we say a dispensation has come where we no longer need faith or hope?
Eph 4
i) says that gifts and callings are for the building (equipping)up of the church, "until..."Once the body grows into maturity it's equipped to train up the next generation etc..
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i) Is the body in need of encouragement that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever? YES!
Did God pour out in smaller measure gifts of healing and miracles, Apostolic oversight, Prophets and Teachers in the OT? Yes... the same Spirit of God
ii)Why in a more glorious covenant of better promises would he stop now? Is not the darkness darker than ever before and the light in more need to be brighter than ever before? Yes, when Jesus healed and performed miracles they were signs that pointed to the greater truths of who Jesus is... but he heals and builds up the body out of love
iii) Is the world to be without light of the Gospel of the Kingdom and still expected to draw close and pick up it's bible? Doesn't God heal even though those healed fall away or even still don't come to him despite what he's done for them? Yes because God still hates the works of the Devil and still loves us.
Lastly, and this is not an attack but I can't imagine sitting next to those that I have, dying of cancer having them read how Jesus healed all those who came to him, and telling them he's not in the miracle business anymore.. perfection has come. ?
No matter what people have experienced in their small corner of the world.. the perfect standard that is to become our experience (not the other way round) has been handed down to us from Jesus as a man....Jesus healed ALL who came to him.
"You can give without loving but you can't truly love without giving..." (Kris Vallotton)