The Pentecostal Experience- The Operation of the Gift of Healings. Part 7.
Introduction
The Essential truth of this last teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit deals with the gift of healings. The purpose of the gift of healings is to deliver the sick and destroy the works the devil in the human body.
The gifts he leaves are given by God for the supernatural healing of disease without natural means from any source. Every one of the nine gifts of the spirit is supernatural.
We may have some difficulty, because of our limited knowledge, in the defining of these other gifts, but there should be a little difficulty in defining the gifts of healings. Nearly everyone understands about healing. Of course, Jesus brought healing into prominence by his own ministry. He also gave authority to his disciples to heal the sick.
Matthew 10:8
We want to emphasize the supernatural character of all the gifts of the spirit, including a gifts of healings. These gifts have nothing to do with medical science or human learning. Luke, the beloved physician was with Paul, and many of his missionary journeys. Luke wrote in the Acts of the Apostles, as well as in the gospel which bears his name. He was with Paul when he was shipwrecked on the isle of the Melita (Acts 28). Nothing is said to the effect that Luke ministered to the people with his medical knowledge. In fact, Luke records that the father of the chief man of the island was sick and Paul, laid his hands on the man and the man was healed by supernatural power. The people brought sick throughout the island, for Paul to minister to them, and they were healed.
Of course, we believe in medical science, and we thank God for what they can do. We certainly are not opposed to doctors. But some people confuse medical science with the gift of healings. We thank God for medical science, and what doctors and hospitals can accomplish. We are not speaking against them with the great advantages they have created in modern medical technology. We also thank God for many good Christian physicians, who have the interest of their patients at heart and meniscal to them. But supernatural healings do not come by diagnosis or prescribing treatment; it comes by laying out of hands, anointing with oil, or sometimes speaking the Word of God. I believe in natural healing and I think God for, but I also believe in supernatural healing.
Jesus’ Ministry of Healing
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38.
Jesus ministered as he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Jesus was much as the Son of God when he was 25 as when he was 30. At the age of 25, he had not healed anyone, and not one miracle healing had been done under his ministry. He was just as much as Son of God who is 29 has when he was 30 throughout the 29th year no one was healed, nor had he brought any miracle healing.
When Jesus was 30 even on the day before he was baptized by John in the river, Jordan and the Holy Spirit, descended upon Him to anoint Him to minister, Jesus was just as much as the son of God, as he was afterwards. Until that happened. He had never healed anyone. There was no one manifestation of power operating in His life.
It was only after the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus, in the form of a dove to anoint him to minister that these things begin to happen. In fact, Jesus himself never claimed to do the works. He said …the Father that dwells in me, He does with the works John 14:10. Jesus stood up and read in his hometown synagogue, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me…(Luke 4:18). Years later, Peter, preaching to Cornelius and his household said how God has anointed Jesus and Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power (Acts10:38).
Although Jesus is and was always the son of God, he never healed anyone until after he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power. This should prove conclusively that he wasn’t healing by some power which was inherit in him as a son of God, the second person of the Trinity, but that he was healing the sick just as any believer would minister to the sick today, by anointing of the Holy Spirit through the manifestation of the gift of healings.
A Full Measure of the Spirit in Jesus’ Ministry
Scripture tells us that Christ had the Spirit without measure. Therefore, we will see the manifestations of these things in His ministry, which we wouldn’t see in anyone else because He had the measure the Spirit without measure, and no other individual does. The one whom God has sent speaks God’s words, because God gives him the fullness of his Spirit. (Good News Translation John 3:34.)
Consequently, an individual would not have the same measure of success and ministering, even the guest of healing with Jesus had, because He had the Holy Spirit without measure, and having the Holy Spirit without measure, Jesus would have the manifestation of all the gifts of healing.
In the ministry of Jesus every manner of sickness and disease was healed. All the gifts of healings were in manifestation because Jesus had the Spirit ‘without measure”.
Two Different Manifestations of Healings
There is a difference in the manifestation of gifts of healings, and one simply receiving healing by our own faith in God ‘s Word. God has taught us through the years that differences between the two. We believe that vine healing has stated her statement of faith standing on Mark 11: 24. so any one can receive healing by standing on the word of God in faith.
Must understand that the gifts are given to the blessed church. All the gifts and ministries that are mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28-30 are given to bless the church. There are no lone rangers in the Church of God. The Spirit blesses individuals through us to bless the church. Thank God for his word and for the privilege of believing and acting upon his word. Thank God for the supernatural manifestations of these gifts according to his will.
Now the gifts of healings (plural) are because there are different types of illness and diseases. I have seen God through me heal people of different diseases but not every disease. I have never been used to God to heal the blind or deaf. I don’t have the full measure of the Spirt as Jesus did. Jesus was not limited other than by the lack of faith by some. But if we believe in His word we can receive what we believe according to the word of God.