Healing 1: A Biblical Basis page 1
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Healing 1: A Biblical Basis page 1 |
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'Everyone
was pleased when Jesus healed the paralytic man, except Simon who had to pay to
have the roof mended.' Healing is disruptive, even when there is good news! More seriously, though, the subject is fraught with difficulties. We long for healing: some of us have witnessed it, even in our own lives; some of us have cried out for it, but it has not happened. Then there are the controversial practitioners. There are many very responsible and careful Christians who pray for healing, but there are others whose procedures are dubious. My mother and I have arguments about one healing evangelist called Benny Hinn. Some Christians go so far as to denounce all expectations of healing as a result of prayer. I once heard a preacher denounce every Christian who believed in healing as people who demanded that God perform to their orders. This is a terrible misrepresentation of many Christians. So the subject needs careful handling. It is difficult for any of us to be completely objective about the question of healing in response to prayer, and that includes me. I have known friends and family members healed, I have also had my own share of disappointments, where even to this day I don't understand the reasons why. With all this in mind, that is why I am going to take six sermons to explore this theme. Even then there will be much I cannot cover. However I hope I can at least give a rounded treatment of the subject as far as I am able to go. This week, the theme is a basic introduction, a biblical basis for Christian approaches to healing. To do this, we shall journey with the story of God's involvement with his creation, from the Great Beginning to the Great End. I propose to do this in four stages.
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