Objection: God Can and Did “Play Favorites” with Healing; Jesus Was Only Sent to the Jews, and Gentiles Were Excluded from God’s Healing Covenant

The idea here is that God does not treat everyone equally, therefore we cannot expect everyone to be healed.  Indeed, The Old Covenant was not made with the Gentiles, and Jesus said that He was only sent to the Jews during His earthly ministry before He went to the cross.  This was obvious when He told a Gentile woman that healing was not rightfully hers because she was not a Jew.  He said that it was not right to throw the children’s bread (healing) to the little dogs.  She got deliverance for her daughter anyway through faith, but Gentile healings were a rare exception in Jesus’ ministry.

This is a moot point today because there is no difference in Christ between a Jew and a Gentile.  In Christ there is no Jew or Gentile (Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11).  Healing is available for all.  The natives of Melita were not Jews, but all of them who were sick got healed.  Paul did great signs and wonders among the Gentiles.  It is true that God did treat certain classes of people differently in the past.  However, Christ broke down the “middle wall of partition” between those classes (Ephesians 2:14).  Everyone is now on the same basis with God, including you.

Jesus never turned anyone away who came to Him for healing.  Thus, you cannot prove from Scripture that Jesus Christ would ever “play favorites” among those who come to Him for healing today.

The reason that God cannot play favorites with healing is that Jesus Christ bore OUR sicknesses and OUR pains at Calvary.  It is the same reason that God cannot play favorites with forgiveness of sins, because Jesus was wounded for OUR transgressions at Calvary.  God cannot deny to any man that which is already legally his in Christ.

Finally, even under the Old Covenant, a Gentile could become a Jew and thus qualify for God’s healing covenant, so the door was not completely closed to the Gentiles even then.  Ruth the Moabitess decided to become a Jew in a famous example of this – she became King David’s great-grandmother and is listed in Jesus’s genealogy (Matthew 1:5-6).