Healing is one of the most important things you can learn about in life. Why? At some point in your life, you or someone very close to you is going to need it. You or someone very close to you will be sick, and the options given you by the medical community will not be good ones. They may have nothing for you but means to prolong your life without giving you quality of life. You may have to take medications that have side effects as bad as the original condition.

I have learned that you don’t want to wait until you are diagnosed with something serious before you learn about this. That would be like going off to war without ever having gone to boot camp.

Healing for some people is like winning the lottery, but for most people it is like fighting off somebody who is trying to break into your house.

But beyond all this, healing will teach you more about God than you will probably ever learn otherwise. When you pray for other people and other things, you are not the only person who is involved in the outcome. So the first mountains you want to move are the ones in your own life and body. As you see these move, you will gain confidence to move others.

Healing might be the first place in which you will see miracles from God. God will seem more real to you, and you will become more aware of His love when you see Him work on your behalf.

In 1996, I was diagnosed with stage 3, mixed cell, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I refused all medical treatment and have not received any medical treatment since then for that. It was quite an experience, and I have written a book, called The Importance of Healing, that tells about it as well as just about everything else I have learned about healing from the Bible and life.

I am not trying to sell you a book here. I am trying to save your life. Or least give you an understanding of God and the Bible which is usually sadly missing today. I have started posting chapters from the book and will continue to do so.

You can get the book at amazon.com or other book sites on the internet.

I also have two other websites where I have posted my writings: poligion1.blogspot.com has my articles on politics, culture, and public life and LarrysBibleStudies.blogspot.com has my other articles on the Bible. And I have started to make videos on youtube.

If you want to contact me, email is best: lacraig1@sbcglobal.net

Thank you.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Which is Better?

Which is Better?  John 16:7


John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 

            If Jesus were to come to your church Sunday and say: “I can stay here for a couple of hours.  What can I do for you?”  Why do I think that people will be lining up the aisles for Him to heal them?  And He would.
            Now Jesus told His disciples that it was better for them that He leave them.  If He stayed with them, the Holy Spirit would not come to them.  If He left, He would send Him. 
            Now we have already noted that, if Jesus were physically present in Jerusalem, He would not be physically present in New York.  So Jesus being physically present on the earth would limit how many people He would actually be able to help.  But Jesus told the disciples that it would be better for them that He go away.  Now that does sound strange.
            The reason is that, if Jesus were to go, He would send to them the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.  In another passage (John 14:16), Jesus tells them that the Father will give to them another Comforter.  The Greek word for ‘another’ (a)/lloj allos) means ‘another of the same kind.’  The Holy Spirit would continue the work that Jesus did, though now there would be no limitations on location.  The Holy Spirit would be with each of them at all times.
            Now we know that Jesus did the work of the Father (5:19).  He just did what He saw the Father doing.  And we know that much of what Jesus did was healing people.  We know also that after Jesus’ death and resurrection, the apostles did the same thing. 
            And then the Bible account stops.  Acts 28, the last chapter of the Bible history, tells of Paul healing every sick person on the island of Malta. 

            Today we think God’s program has changed.  But if it has, then we need an updated Bible to tell us how things are to work now, because the only Bible we have shows healing as the regular program of God for His people.
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