The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1950, Page 7

>" team constrained to write you: a few lines ,jthrough The Citizen on the’ subject of “Divine - Healing’ (so-called): “Is It Divine?” ‘ ‘\ ‘Scripture clearly teaches ‘that at the beginning aH one of the “signs” given to the apostles. to accom- D pany the pi hing of the Gospel, for it was the Bai oe hat Towel beginning eraane saint on earth, and whenever 4 P . et ¥ - God began a new work He always did it with OR, SMITHS SUG-GOSH, | IT WAS. ‘signs following”. HIT THE: pm. FELLERS, UR: ACT URNEO (OUT. ALL ey ‘The legal dispensation, under Moses, began with signs and miracles in Egypt. When the legal | dispensation was drawing to a close, John the to that dispensation for “all the law and the prophets were until John.” yet we read of John that he “did no miracle,” (John 10:41). It was the end of the legal dispensation and that was passing away: God was about to introduce a new thing entirely, the truth of Christianity, and He would introduce it with miracles, gifts of healing, diver- sities of tongues. etc. (I Cor. 12:28)” ical The age in which we now live, enown as “the cai day ‘eet which began on the day of Peiie- cost will continue until’ the’ Lord ‘phase very shadows se the earth that the next:' ‘of time is ready to begin. tha period known as, “' Jacob's trouble” 6 “the tribulation pefiod.« Indsmuch a8 we are at the end of the present age, it is not expected that the Holy Spirit is working in the same. power which charecterized the beginning of this age. The Scripture: “Jesus Christ, the Same yesterday and today; and for- is blessedly true, but His operations are not same in all ages; any careful reader of the Holy Striptures knows this to be true. From Adam tg Nosh there was an age of "light": (1) the light of creation, (2) the light of conscience, (3) the light of promise. From Ncah to Abraham there ‘was an age of government, “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed,“ (Gen. 2:6). From Abraham to Christ there was an age of law, the legal dispensation, extending ovér 1500 years. From the birth, death and resurrection of Christ and the advent of the Holy Spirit to the coming of the Lord for His church is the present dispensa- nina | Hoh, fast drawing to a close. Following this dis- perisation. will be the period of God’s judgments upon the ‘earth according to Rev. chs. 6 to 19 incl.: this is fhe last week oPDaniél’s prophecy of 499 a 483 of which have already transpired and the last “week” of seven years still tocome,, Then the last of the dispensations is the golden age to Himself His great power and reign.and when jing will be brought into subjection to Him- (Ps. 72: Isa. 65 and 66). The Millennial Age terized by miracles and works of “the powers of the world (age) to a iisi & iteac 3 VAMAT BTIVOM IMon fF! 4% 2 i : eee oeeneenewenens: i And Willing of healing performed by our Lord and His disciples, they were done immedietely insomuch that “the. multitude marvelled. and glorified God. which had given such power unto men,” (Matt, $8). The case of healing in this chapter (Matt, 8) | was that of “a man sick of the palsy”, and #0 prove to teh multitude that Christ had power on earth to forgive sins, He commanded the sick of the palsy, “Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thine house. And he arote, and departed to his house.” In the first chapter of Mark, Verse 21, the man possessed with a demon was immediately deliv- Bapti:t was the last of the men of faith belonging ’ ered: that gives us‘deliverance fron sick of @ fever, and anon alt Him “and took the restlessness is healed: “Jesus, His hand and | touched a leper touched), “and 1 ‘ clean, And as soon as He had spoken, | ATELY the leprosy departed from him and cleansed.” ¥ sin, In Mark, Chapter 2, of the palsy, referred to the M. And since the apostle Paul had the gift ft” a healing, why did he leave Trophimus sick at tum (II Tim, 4:20)? Why did he instruct we to: “Drink no longer water, but use a little ay for thy stomach’s sake and thine often 74 an (I Tim, 5:23)? Were the sicknesses in these de « *» voted servants of Chriét “demons” thet wore cast out? A thousand times NO! hal ties were allowed of God that the power of might rest upon: them, AND IT ces Ridley Havergal, Fanny son Flint, David Brainerd, C. H. poerererprernyg re ny 62 aye g vty ; ‘ carried frail, infirm bodies with them, i" : ject to ies like yours and mine? bid! They were brighter lights in the of God’s service than all their accusers hope to be. When Epaphroditus was “sick death” (Phil. 2:27), was it because he ed with a demon? What saith the “Because FOR THE WORK OF C! nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to your lack of service toward me,” (Verse 90}. To the beloved Gaius, to whom the q John addressed his third epistle, he writes: toved, I wish above all things that thew mayest prosper end be in health, even as thy soul prem pereth.” (V. 2). In other words: I wish you Were as well in body as you are in soul. The believer is looking for the coming 6f our Lerd Jesus Christ, who “shall change our of humiliation (RV), that it may be fashioned unto His glorious body.” (Phil. 3:21). His salva. tion is threefold: (1) He was saved when he pul his trust in Christ; that is eternal; (2) He is being “saved” in the sense of deliverance from earthly, trying circumstances, (Phil. 2:12): (3) Me will be saved, as to the body. at the coming of the when the first resurrection takes place, (Phil. 3:21 Romans 8:23). How much more vital. therefpre, is tion of the soul than the healing knows that the “earthly house willbe dissolve, sles. peme, Be. Nass” 5 ORR God, an house not made with hands, eternal in heavens,” (II Cor. 5:1). Reader. are you a citizen of that country? - “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thew shalt be saved.” (Acts 16:31). PrTT iit