The SAME Test

One easy test can dispense with a large number of objections to divine healing.  Hebrews 13:8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.  So this test is simple: Did Jesus ever do or teach something in the Bible?  If He didn’t, whatever it is should be considered suspect immediately.

Companion Scriptures for this test are John 14:9, where Jesus said that if you’ve seen Him, you’ve seen the Father, John 8:29, where Jesus said that He always did things that pleased the Father, and John 6:38, where Jesus said that He came to do the will of Him who sent Him.

So how Jesus acted in the Bible is how He acts today, and what He did was always the will of God, and thus still is the will of God today.

Let’s take a few objections, some of which are handled in more detail elsewhere, and see how easy it should be to see through them using this test.

“God says Yes, No, or Wait to our prayers for healing.”
Jesus never told people NO and He never told them to WAIT when they wanted healing.  Therefore, He will not do so today, and neither will God the Father.

“God won’t heal you of your FINAL ILLNESS that He’s using to ‘take you home.’”
If this were true, Jesus would have to have refused to heal at least one person because the sickness was a God-ordained “final illness” that God was using to take the person home.  He NEVER said that, and He never WILL say it.  He NEVER refused to heal anyone for any reason.  As long as you’re on the earth, God wants you to be in health.

“God uses sickness to teach you things and build your character.”
Jesus never thought that God sent ANY illness to teach things or build character.  If He had, He would have had to refuse to heal some sick person so that he would receive the full benefit of the sickness before being healed.  In fact, if this objection were true, Jesus should have been going about doing bad and sickening all those who weren’t oppressed by the devil so that they could also share in a similar wonderful character-building learning experience.

“Like David, we should say that it is GOOD for us to be afflicted.”
If it’s so good, why did Jesus eradicate afflictions?  Jesus obviously did not think it was good that the masses were afflicted with sicknesses, given the number of times that He “healed them all.”  God can’t think it’s good either, since Jesus demonstrated His Father’s will when He made healing available to everyone.

“We glorify God by patiently enduring sickness.”
The hideous conclusion would be that Jesus was taking away opportunities for God to be glorified every chance He got!  He never told anyone to patiently endure sickness for God’s glory, and He will certainly never do so today.

“Sickness may be your cross to bear.”
Jesus never told anyone that he had to remain sick because it was his cross to bear, and He never will.

“God heals when it’s His time.”
Apparently, God’s time was always NOW in Jesus’ ministry, as He never made anyone wait to be healed.  Therefore, NOW must always be His perfect time today.

“You should peacefully accept your sickness rather than struggling to be healed.”
Jesus never told anyone to peacefully accept sickness, so He never will today.

“Sometimes God wants you sick so that you can witness to your roommate in the hospital.”
Jesus never told anyone that he had to stay sick to witness to someone else at the Pool of Bethesda or any other infirmary, so He never will say that today.  He doesn’t want you to be sick for any reason, period!

“Being sick helps you identify with sick people better so that you can minister to them better in the future.”
If this were so, Jesus would have told at least someone to stay sick because God was trying to improve that person’s future ministry to the sick.  Since Jesus never did that, He would never want someone to stay sick to minister better in the future today.

“We must pray IF IT BE THY WILL when requesting healing.”
The leper had this idea, and Jesus refuted it by assuring the leper that it WAS His will to heal him.  Jesus taught that you must believe that you receive when you pray; He never taught people to pray modern time-wasting IF IT BE THY WILL prayers.

“We need to pray first and ask God if it’s His will to heal a certain person before we attempt to minister healing to that person.”
Jesus never did that, so neither should we!

“God sometimes heals gradually instead of instantly because He knows that a certain person would backslide if he were instantly healed because he’d stop seeking God.”
Because Jesus healed them ALL in multiple cases, this is tantamount to claiming that Jesus was responsible for some people’s backsliding because He didn’t let anyone who touched His clothes get healed gradually!  There is no such account in the gospels.

“God wants you to ask what He is trying to work in your life through the sickness that He ALLOWED you to get.”
You cannot find such a ridiculous statement in any of the four gospels, so it is false.