I Object!

“I OBJECT!
Wilford Reidt
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“I OBJECT!”
Overturning the Traditions of Man

Concerning Healing
Wilford Reidt

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forward…………………………………....…….......6
Preface…………………………………………...…..8
Introduction: What Shall We Teach?.........................9
PART I
1. God Does not Always Heal. I Object!...................14
2. Trophimus Was not Healed. I Object!..................23
3. Luke Was Paul’s Physician. I Object!....................25
4. Paul’s Thorn was a Sickness. I Object!..................29
5. You can Have Job’s Experience today
I Object!.....................................................................35
PART II………………………………………….…44
6. You may be Tempting God to Wholly Trust
Christ for Healing. I Object!…………...…………...45
7.You cannot Use Jesus’ Words in Doctrine
I Object!.....................................................................50
8. Matthew 8:17 Has Been Fulfilled and is not for
Today. I Object!...................................................….53
9. Death is a Healing. I Object!.................................54
10. Jesus Deliberately let Lazarus Die. I
Object!........................................................................55
11. God Caused a Baby to be Born Blind.
I Object!…...………………………………………...56
12. Paul Was Sick. I Object!......................................58
13. Jesus Refused to Heal the Sick at Bethesda. I
Object!........................................................................59
14. Your Flesh is of no Value. I Object!....................60
15. Jesus Refused to Heal the Man at the Beautiful
Gate. I Object!...........................................................62
16. If God Would not Deliver James, He May not
Heal You. I Object!....................................................63
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17. Paul Recommended the Use of Medicine. I
Object!.......................................................................64
18. Hebrews 11:35 Shows That all Will not be
Healed. I Object!.......................................................65
19. Everybody Has to Die So Don’t Ask for
Healing. I Object!......................................................66
20. The Case of Epaphroditus Shows Believers
will Get Sick. I Object!.............................................68
21. Jesus said the Sick Should go to a Physician. I
Object!.......................................................................70
22. Since There is no Command to be Healed,
Healing is not Important. I Object!...........................72
23. Positively Presenting. Jesus as the Great
Physician. No Objection!....…………………......…74
24. God’s Way is Perfect. No Objection!...................78

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Foreword
By: Curry R. Blake
In the darkest days of my life, immediately after

the death of my daughter, I began searching for the truth
concerning healing and the power of God. I had heard
about all the great miracle-workers: Smith Wigglesworth,
Aimee Semple-McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman. But
when I heard about John Lake I knew this man was
different. Not only did he have great miracles happening
in his life but he was able to teach others how to have
faith in God to have miracles in their lives. I knew I had
to find out all I could about him. I began contacting
everyone that had any information about him, eventually
coming into contact with his family including his
daughter Gertrude and her husband Wilford Reidt.
I could not have known the impact that they, along with
Lake would have in my own life and destiny. I began
telephoning them weekly, talking for hours at a time.
They were so patient and helpful. I was an unknown
young man from Texas, yet they thoroughly answered
every question I had.
Several months into our long distance relationship,
I received a package of sermons that Dr. Lake had
preached. I later learned that this package was the same
sermons they had given (and at times sold) out of the
trunk of their car in the parking lots at Bible Schools they
ministered at. Then a few months later, they sent me a
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manuscript that Wil had written himself concerning what
he had gleaned from Dr. Lake’s ministry before Lake
passed away. What you hold in your hands is that first
manuscript Wil sent me. “I Object!” answered many of
the questions I had and those that people always brought
up when I ministered to them. This is one of the most
helpful books concerning healing I have ever found.
Later, as our relationship deepened and they saw that I
was going to be the person to whom they would pass the
ministry, they began to regularly send me packages with
material. Some had never been published. Some had
been published but not by them and only after heavy
editing.
None of Lake’s unedited sermons have ever been
published. Shortly before Wilford’s death in 1988, he sent
the final material including manuscripts for his own
books that had not been published and gave me the right
to publish everything he had sent me. This is the first in a
series of books we will publish written by Wilford and
which will include all of Lake’s unedited sermons,
prophecies, etc. I believe you will quickly see the value of
these materials.
For more information please visit our website: jglm.org.

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PREFACE
“I Object’ is written about a positive

approach to the presentation of “the fullness of the
blessing of the gospel of Christ” (Romans 15:29).
Through Jesus Christ God has given us
three great gifts, salvation, the Baptism of the
Holy Spirit, and healing. There are other gifts
also.
All of these are included in the “fullness of
blessing”. In deciding any issue Jesus has the final
word.
His words are the Supreme Court of

the Book.
For us His word is final and so it will be in

this study.

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Introduction:
What Shall We Teach?
Mankind is deeply interested in deliverance

of some kind. In order to recommend and teach
Jesus’ method there are a number of obstacles to
hurdle. To do this let us set up a frame of
reference by looking at the positive attitudes and
actions of people during Jesus’ ministry. We must
also consider the Master’s response. We will use
this study as a core for the present consideration.
In Matthew 4:23, 24, “They brought unto
him all sick people..” It was a positive act of faith.
His response, “He healed them”.
In Matthew 8:16-17, “They brought unto
him all sick people…” It was a positive act of
faith. His response, “He healed them.”
In Matthew 12:15, “Great multitudes
followed him, and he healed them all.” They
were following Him. The result was deliverance.
In Matthew 14:35-36, “They sent out into
all that country round about, and brought unto
him all that were diseased; and besought him that
they might only touch the hem of his garment:
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and as many as touched were made perfectly
whole.”
“And great multitudes came unto him
having with them those that were lame, blind,
dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them
down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them”
(Matthew 15:29-31).
In Matthew 21:12-14, He first cleansed the
temple, and then “the blind and the lame came to
him in the temple; and he healed them”.
In all these incidents you see a positive faith
and a positive move toward Jesus. In response
you see a positive move by Jesus that resulted in
deliverance without exception.
Any positive move toward Jesus is a step of
faith and is sufficient to bring the blessing. Jesus
recognized their step of faith. In the case of the
man with the palsy that was let down through the
roof, “Jesus seeing their faith” acted (Matthew
9:2-7). In the case of the woman with the issue of
blood was, “Thy faith hath made thee whole”
(Matthew 9:22). To the woman of Canaan He
declared, “O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto
thee even as thou wilt” (Matthew 15:28).
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today
and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). Any positive move
towards Jesus will bring deliverance today. But it
must be exclusively towards Him as it was with
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those who came to Him as we have seen in the
many incidents mentioned so far.
Our love and duty towards mankind must
be to encourage the same positive standard of
faith as demonstrated by those people. It is our
call to teach mankind that same positive attitude
of faith. “Have faith in (margin “of”) God” (Mark
11:22).
“For there went virtue out of him and
healed them all” (Luke 6:19). This is the only
remedy Jesus ever used. It is sufficient to free
mankind of every oppression of Satan no matter
the ailment or condition (Acts 10:38). It was a
remedy that was immediate and if not immediate
it was obvious that it went to work immediately
and very soon ended the oppression. The ten
lepers were healed before they arrived at the
temple (Luke 17:12-19). The blind man received
his sight when he washed in the pool (John 10:6-
7). They made a positive move based on the word
of Jesus. They obeyed.
Jesus used only one remedy as we have seen.
He did not spend thousands of dollars or spend
great lengths of time discovering it. If it were true
as some claim that God is now using medical
institutions to heal, would He not reveal the cures
immediately so that people could be freed from
the oppression of the devil as quickly as Jesus did?
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Can’t God reveal a cure without spending
thousands, yes, even millions of dollars and years
to find a cure? Why doesn’t He do it? Because
He has already provided a method of healing
through His Son, Jesus Christ. The Church of the
Apostles’ day used it. There is no record that they
ever used any other.
Note that Jesus’ remedy was painless.
Note that Jesus’ remedy is free.
There can be no charge.
Note that Jesus’ remedy was perfect.
Note that Jesus’ remedy took care of all ills
and abnormal conditions.
Note that Jesus’ remedy preserved the body
blameless (1Thessalonians 5:23). The “preserved”
in the Greek means “to guard against loss or
injury by keeping the eye upon.” In man’s way of
healing is to cut out or off the diseased part and
throw it away.
In this study the object is to obliterate those
things that hinder people from having
faith in God’s healing power. Any positive move
toward God should not be trammeled by poor
teaching. The purpose is to give good direction
purpose to some scriptures used out of context to
hinder the faith of Jesus. We pray you will read
this presentation carefully and prayerfully. Search
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the scriptures and see if these things are so (Acts
17:11).
The scriptures used in this study are from
the King James Version unless otherwise stated.

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Objection Number 1:
God Does Not Always Heal.
I Object!
Just look at the number of people who come

for ministry. How many are really healed? How
many are not healed? Those healed appear to be
in the minority. So human experience shows and
proves that God does not always heal. It is
obvious to any observer.
In answering this objection, there is another
question that should be, must be, asked and
answered. Has there ever lived a person under
whose ministry all were healed who came? The
answer is an emphatic, yes. Who? Jesus. He
healed all who came to Him. “And they brought
unto him all sick people…and he healed them”
(Matthew 4:23-24). “For there went virtue out of
him, and healed them all. (Luke 6:19). “How God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power: who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the devil;
for God was with him” (Acts 10:38). Jesus proved
true Psalm 103:3, “Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities ; who healeth all thy diseases.” He came
to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).
In delivering all who came to Him, Jesus
showed a consistency in delivering from the
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possession or oppression of the devil. He was
consistent in His warfare against the Kingdom of
Darkness.
In delivering all that came to Him, Jesus
demonstrated the will of God – the whole will of
God concerning healing. “For I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of
him that sent me” (John 6:38). See also Hebrews
10:7, 9. To say that Jesus will deliver one and not
another is saying that Jesus will destroy the work
of the devil in one instance but will not destroy the
work of the devil in another instance.
God is perpetually at war with the Kingdom
of Darkness. He seeks every opportunity to
destroy the work of the devil.
Jesus Christ came in the flesh (2 John 7).
See also Hebrews 2:14. Jesus ministered through
his human body. That body is the church, the
believers, individually and collectively.
To the believer Jesus made this startling
declaration, “He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do” (John 14:12). In other words,
Jesus expects His body, the church, to impart
deliverance to all that come and ask.
We build faith on the Word. We do not
build our faith on other people’s experiences. It is
the Word that counts. God always heals. If it is
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not being done the trouble does not lie in God but
in the people down here. It is ever God’s will to
deliver. Jesus set the standard. Let us aim to
achieve it. Let us never interpret the Book to fit
people’s condition. Don’t lower the standard.
Keep it high. God loves all men equally. He
hates the work of the devil and always stands
ready, willing and able to deliver. He only needs
vessels out of which can flow that virtue that
healed them all even as it did in Jesus’ ministry
(Luke 6:19). God does not expect us to do the
works that Jesus did with less equipment than he
had. He gave the Spirit to Jesus. “For God giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him” (John 3:34).
Since we are members of His body (Ephesians
5:30), we can expect the Spirit to be bestowed on
us without measure also.
Another question arises. Has there ever
been any man since Jesus ascended under whose
ministry all have been healed? Read carefully.
You will find no failures in the Book of Acts. Two
examples are submitted: “And they were healed
every one” (Acts 5:15-16); “So when this was
done, others also, which had diseases in the island,
came, and were healed” (Acts 28:8-9). John puts
the seal on it when he writes, “And whatsoever we
ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
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commandments, and do those things that are
pleasing in his sight” (1 John 3:22).
Still another question poses for an answer.
What about the present century, the 20th century,
do we have an example? I will use one believer as
an example. He is the nearest to the apostolic
standard that I know. I will let him speak for
himself. First in South Africa: “At Pretoria on
one occasion a couple of years after my baptism in
the Spirit, God anointed me in such power as I
question of any other man in the history of
this movement has ever enjoyed, as far as I know.
The Spirit of God ran through my person like a
river of heavenly fluid. Cancers withered under
my touch, cripples of every type were instantly
restored, works of creation in the bodies of men
took place. “I have seen people healed by the tens
of thousands, and the most amazing miracles of
God take place in other ways.” Second in
Spokane, Washington: “In the way of individual
miracles of healing, we have as great miracles of
healing as there were in Africa in our church here,
but not in numbers. We have a woman, Mrs.
Carter, who developed a fibroid tumor of fifteen
pounds. She thought she was going to have a
baby. We ministered to her three times. I
rebuked that thing in the power and Name of
Jesus Christ. She went to bed and awoke the next
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morning completely healed. There was no
passage of blood, tissue or substance. It just
dematerialized.
During the flu epidemic we ministered to
some three thousand three hundred people in all
stages of infection, some had developed
pneumonia. Many were sent to us by the doctors
after they had done all they could. Of the three
thousand, three-hundred, there was only one
known recorded death. 1 We had a woman, Mrs.
Teske, who had developed a fibroid tumor of
thirty pounds. She is a woman of about thirty-
five. Just imagine a twisted mass of muscle, sinus,
arteries and veins, and you have this tumor. A
thirty pound tumor is equal to three and a half
large babies. Twins are usually about seven or
seven and a half pounds; it would require four or
more such babies to make the weight of this
tumor. One day in the agony of her soul, when
she could not lay down and could not sit down
because of the awful compression, she threw her
hands to heaven and cried, “Jesus, heal me now!”
The power of God struck her; that mass began to
twist and churn and wither and diminish, and the
action was so terrible she cried out at the top of

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The epidemic of the flu followed World War I. It came suddenly on the world.
In that same winter 1, 100 people died from the flu in Spokane. That is the
number as I remember it.
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her voice, “O, Jesus, not that way, not that way.”
But in three minutes the thing was totally gone. It
had absolutely dematerialized; no blood, no pus,
no substance, all had utterly vanished. These are
the quality of healings we have, but we do not
have the quantity. God gave me five glorious
years at Spokane, where 100,000 people were
healed of God, besides the multitudes that were
saved and baptized in the Spirit. People come
from all over the world.2 Probably no man in this
century came so close to the standard set by Jesus.
Many were the times when all who came were
healed. In one meeting sixty-five came for
healing. Sixty were immediately healed. It was
found that the other five were professing
Christians. But each of them was practicing a
secret sin. Each repented and was healed. Sixty-
five came and sixty-five were delivered. This is
the way it should be.
You may ask, “What about today?” I would
like to throw out something for your
consideration. The foundation for my proposal is
found in 1 Timothy 3:6, “Not a novice, lest being
lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation
of the devil.” In choosing leaders Timothy was

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Quotations come from the writing of John G. Lake and from a letter written by
him to N. H. Wright in Johannesburg, South Africa November 5, 1928.
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exhorted not to pick a novice, a beginner. The
new born babe in Christ needs some time to be
taught and trained before assuming responsibility
for church offices. Pride is the danger. If this is
true, will God empower a novice, a beginner, with
the power to fulfill John 14:12? Jesus spent about
three and a half years in training his disciples.
They were thoroughly schooled in what Jesus
wanted done and in how to do it. They had
observed His healing ministry. They had
partaken in it. He had sent the twelve to preach
and heal (Luke 9:2). He had sent out the seventy
to heal and preach (Luke 10:9). When it came
time for Jesus to ascend He gave His disciples
some instructions.
They were to wait in Jerusalem for the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-5). They
were promised power after that the Holy Spirit
had come upon them (Acts 1:8).
It is significant that after receiving the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit the power was
immediately manifested. They had been so
thoroughly trained by Jesus that they knew how to
maintain humility while experiencing and
exhibiting power for the impossible.
When a new convert is baptized in the Holy
Ghost there is seldom a manifestation of the
measure of power manifested in the disciples. See
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Acts 5:12, 15, 16). The beginner in the Christian
faith needs training. Otherwise too much power
may result in pride entering. In Ephesians 4:11-13
we have a list of gifts for the perfecting (equipping)
of the saints, for the work of ministry. This
“equipping” of the saints includes learning how to
maintain a spirit of humility when the power of
God is manifested in the measure of that
manifested in the disciples after Pentecost.
We know it is not necessary to tarry for the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit helps
the new convert to understand the word and to
grasp its meaning as he is taught. It seems to me
that they should be given enough training to
enable them to be acquainted with the methods
Satan uses to try to trap saints. It also seems to
me that they should be acquainted with their
position in Christ and its potential. They should
also know how to put on and use the whole armor
of God (Ephesians 6:11-18). Then they will be
trained vessels meet for the Master’s use. But with
end of training they need to be endued with
power (Luke 24:49). At this time they should tarry
until endued with power. “But ye shall receive
power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you…” (Acts 1:8).
It seems that we should give careful and
prayerful consideration to this proposal. God is
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able, ready and willing to pour out His love on a
devil-blinded, and devil battered race. A loving
Creator desires to see John 14:12 in action today.
It was characteristic of the early church. It was
said of them who hated the church, “They that
have turned the world upside down of them who
hated the church, “They that have turned the
world upside down are come hither also (Acts
17:6). Actually they were turning the world right
side up for God.
Objection number one is sustained by the
Word. We cannot look at the circumstances
about us and then lower the standard of Christ to
fit the situation. We need to believe and again
bring into existence that power that characterized
the ministry of Jesus and the early church.

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Objection Number 2:
Trophimus Was Not Healed
(2 Timothy 4:20)
I Object!
Paul left Trophimus sick at Melitum. Some

say this proves that God does not always heal. In
view of the great power that rested upon the early
church we interpret this in such a manner that
will not violate the promise of God, “Who
forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases” (Psalm 103:3. If you do not believe He
heals all of your diseases, how can you believe He
forgives all your iniquities? One is as valid as the
other. Jesus “bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17).
In view of this fact, “they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18).
This explanation does not violate the
promises of God. In Spokane, Washington, my
late pastor, Reverend Moser, was conversing with
a visiting minister. There came a call from a lady
who was sick and who lived alone. They called on
her. After prayer they left. The visiting minister
was appalled by the fact no one was called to stay
with the lady. Brother Moser assured the man
that he had obeyed God in leaving. He also
assured the man that she was in good hands, the
hands of the Perfect Physician. That visiting
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minister could say as Paul did that they left the
woman sick. From all outward appearances she
was. The next morning she testified that in about
ten minutes after they left her home she was
asleep and perfectly healed. How soon after
Paul’s departure Trophimus was healed we have
no idea. Paul, under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, left Trophimus in the hands of the Great
Physician.
We must be careful not to downgrade the
faith and the word of Jesus by allowing the
imagination of our minds to run on a devil-
inspired track. We are not ignorant of his devices
(2 Corinthians 2:11). The trouble starts when a
person tries to justify a position lower than that set
by the Master. Satan will be right there to help
twist things into a rationalized form. Don’t let
him use you.
Be positive in your interpretation of the
scriptures. Interpret so as to build faith. “For all
the promises of God in him are yea, and in him
amen, unto the glory of God by us” (2 Corinthians
1:20).

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Objection Number 3:
Luke Was Paul’s Physician
I Object!
Some Considerations from the Ministry of

Paul At Lystra – Acts 14:19-21. God performed a
great miracle in the life of Paul at Lystra. The
people stoned him and drug him out of the city
supposing him to be dead. Note verses twenty,
“Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him
he rose up…” The disciples were standing
around. This included Luke if he were present.
He was not helping Paul in a medical sense. Paul
“rose up, and came into the city: And the next
day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.”
Except God perform a miracle, one day is not
enough, medically speaking, for a man to recover
from a stoning. Note that only Barnabas
accompanied Paul when he went on to the other
cities (verses 20, 21). If Luke were Paul’s
physician you would have thought he would have
gone along. Ephesus – Acts 20:7-12.
Have you ever seen people go to sleep in a
service? Maybe you have seen some elderly
people go to sleep. But in this case it was a young
man. Eutychus fell into a deep sleep. The trouble
was that he was sitting in a window of the third
loft. Naturally his muscles relaxed and down he
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went. The result was that he was taken up dead
(verse 9). How was he delivered? Did Paul call on
Luke to care for this young fellow? “And Paul
went down, and fell on him, and embracing him
said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him”
(verse 10). “And they brought the young man
alive…” (verse 12). God exclusively used Paul to
meet the situation.
Melita – Acts 28:3-5. Here we have the
account of Paul being bitten by a poisonous viper
(snake). What did Paul do? And he shook off the
beast into the fire, and felt no harm (verse 5). If
Luke were present Paul certainly did not call on
him for help in a medical sense. Paul acted on the
words of Jesus, “Behold, I give unto you power to
tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any
means hurt you” (Luke 10:19). “They shall take
up serpents…” (Mark 16:18). It was the
protective law of the “spirit of life in Christ Jesus”
at work (Romans 8:2). We “reign in life by one,
Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:17). We are reigning
with Him over all circumstances here and now.
We are the victors and not the victims of
circumstances. “We are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us” (Romans 8:37).
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth
us to triumph in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14).
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The best protection is a Spirit-filled life coupled
with a positive faith. “Greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Melita – Acts 28:8, 9. The father of the chief
man on the island was sick of a bloody flux and a
fever. It is written, “…To whom Paul entered in,
and prayed, and laid hands on him, and healed
him” (verse 8). It was a positive move on the part
of Paul that brought healing. Such a deliverance
cannot be hid. It inspires faith. It arouses the
desire in others to be delivered in the same
manner. When the people saw it, “Others also
which had diseases in the island came and were
healed” (verse 9). It was the same positive move
people made toward Jesus: “And the whole
multitude sought to touch him: for there went
virtue out of him, and healed them all” (Luke
6:19). The same virtue that flowed from Jesus
flows from the believer. “He that believeth on
me, as the scriptures hath said, out of his belly
(inner being) shall flow rivers of living water. (But
this spake he of the Spirit…” (John 7:38-39). One
of these rivers is a river of healing.
Where is there a single scripture that
supports the idea that Luke was Paul’s
personal physician? He was no more Paul’s
personal physician than Matthew was his tax
collector. If Jesus revealed all the will of God and
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if He is the image of the invisible God, then God’s
method of healing is divine and does not include
medicines. “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy
will, O God” (Hebrews 10:7). That “virtue that
went out of him, and healed them all” is sufficient
to meet every need of the person that believes.

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Objection Number 4:
Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh was a sickness.
I Object! (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)
The first thing that should be considered is

the use of the phrase “Thorn in the flesh” in the
scriptures. Is it used in a literal or figuratively
sense? “But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants
of the land from before you: then it shall come to
pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall
be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides,
and shall vex you in the land where in ye dwell”
(Numbers 33:55). The other place the idea is used
is in Joshua 23:13, “…But they shall be snares
and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off
this good land…” It is used in a figuratively sense.
The people left were not literally sticking into the
sides of the Israelites nor in their eyes. This is the
sense in which Paul is using the phrase. As a
further example Paul used the phrase, “I was
delivered out of them mouth of the lion” (2
Timothy 4:14-17) to describe his encounter with
Alexander the Coppersmith. As with Paul’s thorn
some would interpret this to mean Paul faced lions
in the Coliseum. The Coliseum was not built
until after Paul’s death.
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Paul distinctively states that the “thorn in
the flesh” was a messenger of Satan. The word
“Messenger” is from the same Greek word as out
word “angel.” It was an angel of Satan buffeting
him. Buffeting means to strike blow after blow.
Immediately after Paul introduces the
“thorn in the flesh” and asks for deliverance from
the buffetings, he speaks thus, “Therefore, I take
pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches in necessities,
in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake… (2
Corinthians 12:10). The word “therefore”
connects what follows with what is said before.
Therefore the word “therefore” places the
infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecutions,
and distresses in the context of the “thorn in the
flesh”. Then it logically follows that the “thorn in
the flesh” the angel (messenger) of Satan was using
these things to buffet Paul. Let us examine some
of these buffetings and see how God’s grace was
sufficient for him (verse 9).

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Buffetings Cause Result
Infirmities Stoning Acts 14:19 Endured -
delivered
Stripes Acts 16:23 Endured-
delivered
Necessities Travel expenses, etc. Yet sent
once and
again to my
necessity
(Phil. 4:16).
Reproaches By hostile people Endured-
delivered.
Persecutions Alexander the Delivered (2
Coppersmith (2 Timothy
Timothy 4:14). 4:17).
Persecution Acts 16:23- Endured-
24. delivered
(Acts 16:40).
Jailed for 2 years Endured –
Acts 24:27 delivered
after
Acts 28,
A.D.62. He
wrote 2
Timothy
A.D. 66.
5. Distresses Three shipwrecks. Endured-
2 Corinthians 11:25. survived.
In 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, Paul lists his

buffetings and dangers. In 2 Timothy 3:11, Paul
shows deliverance, “Persecutions, afflictions,
which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at
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Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of
them all the Lord delivered me.” God’s grace was
sufficient to meet and deliver in every situation.
He speaks of afflictions. If you do not believe that
stoning and stripes cause afflictions be the object
of one of these sometime.
Jesus healed all that came to Him. Why
would He make an exception of such a faithful
follower as Paul, that is, if the “thorn” were a
sickness. It would be a violation of Psalm 103:3,
“Who healeth all thy diseases.”
Jesus bore our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17). If
Paul’s thorn were a sickness, now he is asked to
bear it himself.
God is not a respecter of persons. He would
be if He healed one and then refused another.
Jesus would not turn down Paul for He is the
same yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews
13:8).
The “fullness of the blessing of the gospel”
includes healing. How could Paul be sick and
enjoy this blessing? (Romans 15:29).
Jesus came to destroy all the works of the
devil (1 John 3:8). If Paul’s thorn were a sickness
then God was refusing to destroy a work of the
devil. He would be working against Himself.
Some claim that the light that blinded Paul
at His conversation was the thorn. It is nigh
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blasphemy to call that glorious light shining from
Jesus a messenger of Satan.
Oh, some claim it was a contagious eye
disease called “ophthalmia” who would
accept handkerchiefs and aprons from him to lay
on their loved ones? (Acts 19:11-12). How could
he inspire faith with pus running out of his eyes?
The Scriptures declare that this great apostle
labored more than all others. If he was sick it
didn’t seem to hinder him. Many are sick and
calling it a “thorn in the flesh” who do nothing.
In fact, many of them tie up good workers who
could be out in the vineyard of the Lord.
To say Paul’s “thorn” was a sickness that
God refused to heal destroys the foundation upon
which faith for healing must rest. It declares that
Jesus bore the sicknesses of some but not all.
If Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” were a sickness,
there is no record of Luke treating him. If he did
treat him it was a failure. Again if it was God’s
will not to heal Paul then it was His will Paul be
sick. In such a case Paul would have had to refuse
Luke’s help.
He could not accept it as it might bring
healing and get him out of God’s will. Don’t
those people who believe it is God’s will for them
to be sick know that it is a violation of God’s will
to go to a medical man for help?
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In conclusion, we find that the evidence of
Scripture sustains the objection. Paul was
buffeted. He also refers to being buffeted in 1
Corinthians 4:11, “…And are buffeted, and have
no certain dwelling place.” Jesus was buffeted.
“Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him;
and other smote him with the palms of their
hands” (Matthew 26:67). Paul was partaking of
Christ’s sufferings. Jesus’ sufferings did not
include sickness or disease of any kind.
When Jesus sent out the seventy (Luke 10),
He gave his disciples power over all the power of
the enemy. He said, “Nothing shall by any means
hurt you” (Luke 10:19). They healed all kinds of
disease among the people and also cast out devils.
No devil, no disease could touch them. “Nothing
shall by any means hurt you” is a protective
promise. The only way the devil could get at
them would be through people. The devil cannot
touch or make a believer do anything (1 John
5:18). He can only suggest. How did Paul take
the buffetings and things he suffered? “Who now
rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that
which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my
flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church”
(Colossians 1:24). “As sorrowful, yet always
rejoicing…” (2 Corinthians 6:10).
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Objection Number 5:
You Can Have Job’s Experience Today.
I Object!
In this study there will be given several

examples of the value of the Book of Job.
Following this the question, “Can Job’s experience
be repeated under our New Covenant?” will be
discussed.
The cry of Job’s heart is the cry that arises
out of the depths of every person’s nature. It is a
universal cry.
The first cry that came out of Job‘s heart is
found in the 9th chapter verse 33, “Neither is there
any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand
upon us both.” God provided the answer in His
Son Jesus Christ. “For there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
The second cry that came out of the depths
of Job’s being is found in chapter 14, verse 14, “If
a man die, shall he live again?” Jesus gave the
answer, “I am the resurrection and the life: he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live” (John 11:25).
The third cry coming out of the life of Job is
found in chapter 28 verses 20, 21, “Whence then
cometh wisdom? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of
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all living…” Jesus again gave the answer, “But
the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you
all things.” “All things” here does not mean
everything in the universe. The words “all things’
are always interpreted within the context in which
they appear. “All things” written in the Bible are
within the understanding of all who desire to
know.
A fourth cry that came out of Job’s heart is
found in the twenty-fifth chapter, the fourth verse,
“How then can man be justified with God? Again
the New Covenant gives the answer. “Therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).
See also Romans 4:23-25.
Some other values of the book:
Patience under pressure, “Ye have heard of the
patience of Job” (James 5:11). It shows the
courage of a man to declare he had not sinned
though accused. It shows ability to admit it when
you have spoken words without knowledge.
It shows the ability to intercede for those who
have wronged you or opposed you.
Possibly the great overall value lies in the
fact that Satan’s low estimate of the race was
shattered by Job’s integrity.
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Satan’s double challenge is found in Job
1:11, “…Touch all that he hath, and he will curse
thee to thy face.” Job 2:5, “…Touch his bone and
his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
Herein is Satan’s blasphemy against mankind.
Job’s faithfulness proved to Satan that man could
and would serve God regardless of circumstances.
It was this two-fold challenge that caused all of
Job’s sorrow. It is the only cause. This is stressed
by God Himself when He spoke these words,
‘…Although thou movedst me against him, to
destroy him without cause” (Job 2:3).
Now the question arises, “Does every person
have to have Job’s experience to prove his
integrity?” Evidently not, for the experience has
never been repeated.
A further question arises, “Can a person
living under the New Covenant have the same
experience that Job went through? It was an
evangelist that started me to pondering this
question. He simply stated that Jesus would
intercede against it. He would tell His Father that
the person Satan was after was a member of His
body. He knew the strengths and weaknesses of
that member and further He did not need Satan’s
help to find out what they were.
While meditating on and pondering the
question and what I heard I discovered the
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following principle, “Promises prevent past
performances”. The flood gave me my first
example.
Promises Prevent Past Performances
Performance Promise
“And, behold, I, even I, do bring “…Neither will I again smite,
a flood of waters upon the earth, destroy any more every living
to destroy all flesh…” (Genesis thing, as I have done” (Genesis
6:17). See also (Genesis 7:17). 8:21- 22).
Job
“Behold, all that he hath is in “And thou wilt not deliver him
thy power” unto the will of his enemies”
(Job 1:12). (Psalm 41:1-2). Our greatest
enemy is the devil.
“Behold, he is in thine hand; but “…Neither shall any plague
save his life” (Job 2:6). come nigh thy dwelling” (Psalm
91:10).
God’s promise that there will never again be

a flood to destroy all flesh prevents Him from
performing a past activity. It is the same with
Job’s experience. The promises supersede a past
activity and prevent it.
Jesus “is the mediator of a better covenant,
which was established upon better promises”
(Hebrews 8:6). On one side we will quote from
Job and on the opposite side the New Testament
declaration about that incident.
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Job New Testament
“All that he hath is in thine
hand” (Job 1:12).
His children were all destroyed, For the Son of man is not come
(Job 1:18, 19). to destroy men’s lives, but to
save them” (Luke 9:54-56).
“All” included his wife. Satan “Wives submit yourselves unto
turned her against Job. “Curse your own husbands, as unto the
God, and die” (Job 2:9). Lord” (Ephesians 5:22, 23, 28).
The New Testament teaches
harmony in the home.
“Behold, he is in thine hand;
but save his life” (Job 2:6).
Satan was given power over “Behold, I give unto you power
Job. …over all the power of the
enemy” (Luke 10:19).
Satan smote Job with boils. 2.”…He that is begotten of God
(Job 2:7). keepeth himself, and that
wicked one toucheth him not”
(1 John 5:18).
Job did not know of the 3.”…How God anointed Jesus
conversation between God and of Nazareth with the Holy
Satan. He thought God smote Ghost and with power, who
him with boils. (Job 9:17). went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed
of the devil” (Acts 10:38). Jesus
came to destroy the works of the
devil. (1 John 3:8).
Satan had power over Job. Job 4….”Neither give place to the
had to give place to him. devil” (Ephesians 4:27).
Job could not resist the devil 5….We understand. (Colossians
and make him flee. He did not 2:15). “Resist the devil and he
understand the situation. will flee from you” (James 4:7).
Job did not ask for deliverance 6….Is any sick among you? Let
but for death. (Job 6:8, 9). him call for the elders of the
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church: and let them pray over
him, anointing him with oil in
the name of the Lord and the
prayer of faith shall save the sick
and the Lord shall raise him
up…” (James 5:14-15). Let him
call is a command in the Greek.
Job did not expect to be healed. 7….We expect to be healed

(Job 7:6-7). because Jesus “Himself took our
infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses” (Mathew 8:17).
Healing is in the atonement.
Because he did not expect to be 8…With long life will I satisfy
healed, he did not expect him…” (Psalm 91:16). It is also
long life. long life by promise. (Ephesians
6:1-3).
Job did not have the written 9…We have the written word.
word nor any of the promises of We have the promises.
God that we enjoy. “Nothing shall by any means
hurt you” (Luke 10:19). It is
protection from diseases. There
is no sin in God. (1 John 3:5).
There is no sickness in God as
proved by Jesus’ life. If our life
is hid with Christ in God, as it
should be, the same would be
true of us as it is with Jesus—no
sin and no sickness. (Colossians
3:3).
Satan took Job captive. 10…Jesus came to free the
captives.
(Luke 4:18)
Let us again state the principle “promises

prevent past performances”. God in Himself
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never changes. God wills changes in things and
circumstances.
Think. If Job’s experience were repeatable
today, why is Job’s example of trust ignored?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…” (Job
13:15). If you believe you can have that kind of
experience then you should do as Job. You find
your ash pile or whatever and trust only in the
Lord. Forget all medical science as he did.
Some who claim Job’s experience is for
today also say it is only for those who could take it.
What about those who claim they could not take
it? Are they excused from giving up all for Christ.
God requires total commitment.
Some claim that a person does not know
what he would do if confronted with some
circumstances such as severe sickness. Then what
good is a total dedication to God? Let us quit
this wishy washy business and get down to rock
bottom. If we are going to please the Lord then
let us make a commitment and live by it, and if
necessary die by it and for it.
Conclusion.
“I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have it more abundantly” (John
10:10). Abundant life does not mean being turned
into the hands of the destroyer, the devil. It
means health and life here and now.
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Let our goal ever be “Because as He is, so
are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). It is
attainable. If it were not it would not be in the
book. God does not speak idle words.
Jesus, in a burst of triumphant joy, declared,
“All power is given unto me in heaven and in
earth” (Matthew 28:18). Jesus Christ revealed the
total sovereign will of God. God’s sovereign will
operates only through the revelation of Jesus
Christ. It has been said that God in His
sovereignty can overrule the prayer of faith and
refuse to heal the sick. That is saying that `God in
His sovereignty can break His own promises.
God is true to His word and cannot break His
promises.
The objection is sustained by the promises of
God. A Job experience is not possible under the
New Covenant. The promises of God are too
great. The Holy Spirit is preparing a bride for
Christ. God is not turning a single member of the
bride, the Church, over to the devil. He can
prepare that bride without any help from Satan.
Who turns his sons and daughters over to an
enemy? Who would turn his bride over to his
enemy for even a moment? We are soldiers of
God with an invincible armor (2 Timothy 2:3 and
Ephesians 6:13-18). No captain turns his men
over to his enemy. So with confidence you can
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fight the fight of faith. You know where you stand
in God. As members of the magnificent body of
Christ we should never think of ourselves as
meanly but as magnificent.

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I OBJECT
Part II
The Christian, the believer, who has committed

his Body as well as his spirit and soul to God,
ought not to be a subject for healing. He should
be a subject of continuous abiding HEALTH,
because he is filled with the life of God.
By:
Wilford H. Reidt

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Objection Number 6:
You May Be Tempting God to Wholly
Trust Him for Healing.
I Object!
It is believed by some that totally trusting

yourself to the Lord for total healing would be
tempting God. Didn’t the devil tempt Jesus to
cast Himself down from the temple. Satan used
the scripture, “For He shall give His angels charge
over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways, they shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone” (Psalm 91:11, 12). What was the
devil trying to get Jesus to do? It was to get Him
to take a short cut, to show off, to convince the
people that He was the Son of God. Jesus refused
by quoting the scripture, “It is written again,
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God”
(Matthew 4:7). Jesus was to become known by
obeying God which resulted in the destruction of
the works of Satan in people. This Satan was
trying to avoid.
Is it tempting God to get rid of the work of
the devil? “And great multitudes came unto him,
having with them those that were lame, blind,
dumb, maimed and many others, and cast them
down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them”
(Matthew 15:30). If these people were tempting
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God by casting the sick down before Him for only
His method of healing, why didn’t Jesus reprove
them? He healed all of them.
In order for a person to tempt God in the
line of healing would be to deliberately have a
doctor inject into their veins disease germs as a
means of showing off their trust in God. That
would be comparable to the temptation of Jesus
mentioned above.
In view of this another question pops up.
Would it be tempting God if a person would go
into the home of one sick with a contagious
disease? Let us look at the practice of Jesus and
His example. Jesus “went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil…”
(Acts 10:38). Jesus touched a leper, “And he put
forth his hand, and touched him saying, I will: be
thou clean” (Luke 5:13). He was not tempting
God. He delivered the man. In training the
apostles He took them out where the need was.
One of the great needs of the people was for
physical healing. He gave them practice. He sent
out the twelve “and gave them power and
authority over all devils, and to cure disease…”
(Luke 9:1-6). Diseases had no power over them to
attack them. He also sent out the seventy. “And
heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them,
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The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you”
(Luke 10:1-20). Why didn’t they get sick?
“”Behold I give you power…over all the power of
the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt
you” (Luke 10:19). “Nothing shall by any means
hurt you” gives protection from the demons,
diseases, sicknesses that they might encounter in
obeying the command of Jesus. “Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations…Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I commanded you…”
(Matthew 28:19-20). “Nothing shall by any
means hurt you” goes along with 1 John 5:18,
“…But he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.”
One way of keeping himself is to take God at His
word. “For all the promises of God in Him are
yes, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by
us” (2 Corinthians 1:20).
The Perfect Physician The Imperfect Physician
One perfect remedy, “Virtue Has many remedies.
went out of him and healed
them all” (Luke 6:19).
His remedy is harmless. A remedy may help one and
harm another.
He cures all sicknesses and Cannot cure all abnormal
abnormal conditions. conditions.
Jesus expects total commitment Expects total commitment.
to Him and His way of healing.

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A man does not tempt God by totally
yielding his body to God for healing. God invites
a total commitment, “Who healeth all thy
diseases” (Psalm 103:3). “Himself took our
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew
8:17).
In Psalm 91 it states that “no plague shall
come nigh thy dwelling.” In the New Testament
we are asked to go out into the highways and
byways and to compel them to come in. Now you
leave the safety of your home and minister to the
sick and protection is guaranteed if you will
believe it. This is one place where our “better
covenant which was established upon better
promises” stands out in vivid contrast.
“I pray not that thou shouldst take them out
of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them
from the evil” (1 John 17:15). The word “evil” in
this scripture refers to anything hurtful. God
stands ready, willing and able to answer this
prayer on your behalf. But you must allow Him
to answer it by willingly subjecting yourself to trust
Him. “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to show himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect
toward him” (2 Corinthians 16:9). The perfect
heart is the one that takes God at His word and
fully trusts and commits all to Him. He wants to
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preserve your body blameless (1 Thessalonians
5:23). “Preserved” means to guard against loss or
injury by keeping the eye upon. God wants to
protect you.

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Objection Number 7:
As A Gentile You Cannot Use Jesus’ Words
in Doctrine.
I Object!
It is said by some that Jesus was speaking

only to Jews. Therefore, we as Gentiles cannot
use His words in doctrinal teachings. Gentiles
must use only the epistles for doctrine.
God sent His Son to be the Savior of the
world. “And we have seen and do testify that the
Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world”
(1 John 4:14). “Have I committed an offense in
abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I
have preached the gospel of God freely?” (2
Corinthians 11:7). “…because I have preached
the Gospel of Christ” (Romans 15:19). Paul calls
it our gospel, “For our gospel came not unto you
in word only but also in power” (1Thessalonians
1:5). Paul calls it my gospel. “In the day when
God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel. (Romans 2:16). We are
one with Jesus as members of His body so we can
call it my gospel, our gospel, God’s gospel. “But
he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit” (1
Corinthians 6:17). Jesus communicated to His
disciples that gospel that He wanted taken to the
whole world. “How shall we escape, if we neglect
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so great salvation; which at the first began to be
spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us
by them that heard him” (Hebrews 2:3). The
disciples communicated it first to the Jews and
then to the Gentiles beginning with Philip’s
conversion of the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26-40), and
then with the conversion of the House of
Cornelius by Peter (Acts 10). It is set forth in the
great commission, “Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you”
(Matthew 28:20). It is the same gospel as set forth
by Jesus.
We ask a question, “Is Jesus’ teaching a part
of the scriptures?” All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). The four gospels
are considered a part of the scriptures by
practically every scholar. They are a part of
scripture and are usable in doctrine. “If any man
teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome
words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and to the doctrine which is according to
godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing…” (1
Timothy 6:3-4). Why does this appear in this
setting? Because a person once tried to persuade
me that Luke 10:19 could not be used for today.
He is not alone in this belief. “…He that heareth
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my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath
everlasting life…” (John 5:24). Christ’s words are
the final court of the Bible.

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Objection Number 8:
Matthew 8:17 was fulfilled and is
Not for Today.
I Object!
Since Jesus healed before the cross, some

claim that He bore sicknesses at that time and
fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy mentioned
in Matthew 8:17. Therefore they claim that
healing is not the atonement and is not for today.
Jesus also forgave sins before the cross
(Matthew 9:2). Will they say that forgiveness of
sins is not the atonement and is not for today?
Jesus both healed and forgave sins before the
cross. If one is invalid so is the other. He both
healed and forgave sins on the basis of His coming
sacrifice. They are both a part of the gospel that
the apostles communicated to us. It is proved “By
whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). And
“Is any among you sick? Let him call for the
elders of the church…and the prayer of faith shall
save the sick; and the Lord shall raise him up”
(James 5:14-15).

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Objection Number 9:
Death is Healing.
I Object!
A Bible professor promoted this idea. He

claimed death is a healing and no one gives it any
attention. According to his idea everyone is
healed.
What does it mean to be healed? The word
“heal” comes from two Greek words that mean
“to cure” and to relieve (of disease). Jesus healed
but he never used death to the body to do it.
Death is the enemy of God and can heal no man.
Disease destroys a life and death is the result.
The disease comes to an end. The physical life of
the person comes to an end.
In all places in the Bible where healing is
mentioned, it is deliverance from the disease. The
person continues to live.

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Objection Number 10:
Jesus Deliberately Allowed Lazarus to Die.
I Object!
Just a matter of counting will correct this

false idea. Where was Jesus when Lazarus took
sick? He was beyond the River Jordan (John 10:40
and 11:7) from Jerusalem and Bethany.
The messenger was sent (John 11:3).
Considering the modes of transportation and the
distance, it would take the messenger almost all
day to get to Jesus. Jesus then tarried two days
(John 11:6). This makes three days. It would then
take Jesus the most of one day to get to Mary and
Martha. When He arrived Lazarus had been
dead for four days. Therefore, Lazarus died the
same day Jesus received the message of his
sickness. He could have been dead by the time
Jesus received the message. Jesus did not tarry so
that Lazarus would die. Had he been present, He
would have met Lazarus’ need just as He did for
others.

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God Caused a Baby to Be Born Blind.
I Object!
“And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man

which was born blind from his birth. And his
disciples asked him, saying, “Master, who did sin,
this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus answered, “Neither hath this man sinned or
his parents: but that the works of God should be
manifest in him” (John 9:1-3).
We throw out this question, “Did God blind
an unborn baby just to show how big He is?” The
man had not sinned neither his parents. The
defect came from back in the heredity of the
family. It surfaced in this baby. Sin has marred
the race and caused all these things. Satan is the
oppressor and the destroyer. Jesus took the
person marred by sin and brought glory to God
by delivering the person. Jesus “went about doing
good and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil” (Acts 10:38). He healed those that were
oppressed of the devil. None of them were
oppressed of His Father.
If God were the cause of all blindness so that
He might be glorified, would it not be reasonable
to expect that all blind people would be cured?
God is not partial. He created the race perfect.
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Had there been no sin there would be no
blindness or other defects.

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Paul Was Sick
I Object!
“Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh

I preached the gospel unto you at the first”
(Galatians 4:13). “For I bear you record, that, if it
had been possible, ye would have plucked out
your own eyes, and have given them to me”
(Galatians 4:15).
If you will take a good look at 2 Corinthians
11:23-28, you will find that Paul received some
real rough treatment for the gospel’s sake. He
talks about this infirmity being present at the first
part of his ministry to them. So it was of short
duration. Most likely it was something that had
not healed entirely, which he had received from
rough treatment. In view of the power that rested
upon the early church this is the only reasonable
explanation. “Nothing shall by any means hurt
you” (Luke 10:19), bars it from being a disease.
The only way the devil could get at the church
was through hostile people.

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Jesus Refused to Heal
the Sick at Bethesda.
I Object!
There were a lot of sick folk at the pool, all

intent on being the first in after the troubling of
the water. Jesus came along and saw one man
who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. He
healed the man. Who saw Him perform this
miracle? Not the people, they were intent on
being ready for the troubling of the water. Who
knew who Jesus was? No one, not even the man
healed could identify Him. He never spent that
much time in Jerusalem.
Some claim that the people saw the miracle
and cried, “Jesus, me too,” but He turned and
walked away. Jesus healed the only person at the
pool who gave Him his attention. (John 5:1-14).
That Jesus would walk away from those calling for
help is only the figment of someone’s imagination.

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Your Flesh is of no Value.
I Object!
The basis for this statement is found in John

6:63, “…The flesh profiteth nothing”. The
argument is set forward in these words, “The flesh
is of no profit so God is not too interested in its
healing. Why should He waste His power on
something of so little value?
Let us examine the context of the words “the
flesh profiteth nothing”. What was Jesus talking
about? The basis for communion. “Except ye eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
ye have no life in you” (John 6:52-54). Did He
mean to divide up his physical body and eat it
literally? That is the way the Jew took it. Jesus
declared that “it is the Spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing” the words that I speak
unto, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
Jesus was talking about a spiritual connotation
and not a physical one. In the sense of eating his
literal flesh, it would profit nothing. It would not
go very far. But we can see in the communion
what He really meant. Thousands would partake
of His flesh and drink His blood and live.
Of how much value is your physical body?
We are to present our bodies “a living sacrifice”
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(Romans 12:1). “For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body…” (1
Corinthians 6:20). God paid a precious price for
your body. He would not go to that extent if it
were of no value.
We need to “rightly divide the word of
truth” (2 Timothy 2:15). This means to interpret
the Word in context. To do otherwise is to err.

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Jesus Refused to Heal the Man
at the Beautiful Gate.
I Object!
Jesus is accused of passing up the blind man

at the Beautiful Gate. After Jesus cleansed the
temple “the blind and the lame came to him in
the temple; and he healed them” (Matthew 21:12-
14). What prevented the lame man from coming
in and being healed with the rest? There were
plenty of people around who would have helped
him. Even some of those lame folks who were
healed would have helped. If those who brought
him would have taken him in he would have been
delivered. When Jesus passed him he could have
asked. When he was healed under Peter and John
it was not because he asked (Acts 3:2-8). To say
that Jesus refused to heal him is to malign the Son
of God.

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If God Did Not Deliver James
He May Not Heal You.
I Object!
What happened was that Herod grabbed

James and had his head cut off. (Acts 12:1-2).
Peter was also jailed by Herod. Peter was
delivered in answer to the church’s prayers (Acts
12:3-17). God did not deliver James so He might
not heal you. In the first place James was not sick.
In the second place what has martyrdom got to do
with being healed from a disease? They are two
different things. Martyrdom is partaking of
Christ’s sufferings. Jesus said that men will kill
you (Matthew 24:9 and John 16:2). See 1 Peter
4:13. Jesus never said disease will kill you. He
healed all that came to Him. Disease and sickness
are not in the category of things that Jesus
suffered. You do not have to be sick for, “Himself
took our infirmities, and bare out sicknesses”
(Matthew 8:17).

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Paul Recommended the Use of Medicine.
I Object!
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine

for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities”
(1 Timothy 5:23). Evidentially it was the same
kind of wine that Jesus made at Cana (John 2:7-
10). To substitute wine or mix wine and water is
still in practice in some of the same regions. The
water is not the best in the world. I have been
there among the common people and I know.

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Hebrews 11:35 Shows All Will
Not Be Healed.
I Object!
“Women received their dead raised to life

again: and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might obtain a better
resurrection (Hebrews 11:35). In the first place
these people were not sick. They were being
tortured for righteousness’ sake. They refused
deliverance to obtain a better resurrection. They
were not refusing deliverance from disease.
‘But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of
Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be
revealed, ye may be glad with exceeding joy” (1
Peter 4:13). Jesus never suffered from sickness or
disease so they are not a part of His sufferings. He
will deliver us from all sickness and abnormal
conditions. Divine healing is a means to an end,
health. God wants the body of His Son, the
Church, to be healthy. Jesus said, “I will, be thou
clean (whole), (Matthew 8:7). This expresses the
will of God for all time. To refuse to be healed by
God is to reject Jesus as the bearer of your
sickness. That is a violation of God’s will. Love
Him by yielding to Him.
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Everybody Has to Die so Don’t
Ask for Healing.
I Object!
"For the Lord himself shall descend from

heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall arise first: then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air…”
(1 Thessalonians 4:15-17). There will be a large
group of people who will never experience
physical death.
To even think a person should not be healed
is wrong, to teach it is even worse. There is a
command given by the Holy Spirit through
James, “Is any sick among you” Let him call for
the elders…” (James 5:14-15). “Let him call” –
you let him call. In the Greek this command is
expressed in the third person imperative for which
we have no equivalent part of speech in our
English language. To translate the command into
English we have to use the helping verb “let”. To
teach anything that would hinder a person from
calling for the elders of the church would be a
violation of this command and is sin.
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What does God want? He wants a person to
die “well”. God needs no help from the devil to
get you into heaven. There is not scripture that
proclaims one must die from disease. “Knowing
that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle…”
(2 Peter 1:14). Peter had a part in putting off or
leaving his body. He needed not help from any of
the diseases or sicknesses of Satan to get him into
heaven. I think of E.W. Kenyon. He was in his
eighties and healthy and well. One day he sat
down in his big chair and said, “Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit” and he was gone. Let us aim
for the best God has.

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The Case of Epaphroditus Shows
Believers Will Get Sick.
I Object!
Philippians 2:27-30.
Why do believers get sick? Well, here is one
reason. I have seen believers schedule themselves
into a physical or nervous breakdown. Even when
symptoms surface that warned of impending
breakdown they were ignored. It’s simply the sin
of intemperance. Temperance is a fruit of the
Spirit (Galatians 5:23). Jesus understood this. He
called His disciples aside for a rest (Mark 6:31).
Jesus understood this. He called His disciples
aside for a rest (Mark 6:31). Jesus understood the
limitations of the physical body.
Some Christians are so scared that some
need is not going to be met that they overdo and
are in trouble. In such cases they take over
instead of letting God meet the need. He knows
the situation and has the resources to meet it. It is
simply a case of “Be still, and know that I am
God…” (Psalm 46:10).
If Epaphroditus had stopped when sign of
impending trouble surfaced and taken the
situation squarely to God as God desires (Hebrews
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4:16), “Lord, I have gone as far as I dare.” God
would have supplied Paul’s need by another.
It seems that people who go so far as to
breakdown are saying, “I must: God is not able.”
It’s simply a case of unbelief.
In this case I see no reason it should be a
hindrance to believing in God’s power to heal.
He didn’t say to Epaphroditus, “It is your own
fault, suffer it out.” God healed him. He is a
merciful God. (Psalm 118:1). We should take this
experience of Epaphroditus and learn a lesson
from it. Don’t be intemperate and you have
removed one cause for sickness.

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Jesus Said the Sick Should
Go to a Physician.
I Object!
In the parable of the ten virgins, Jesus

illustrated the necessity of being ready when He
returns (Matthew 25:1-12). One man in the
immediate post-apostolic period interpreted this
illustration to mean that only virgins could enter
the kingdom of God. He completely missed the
point of the parable. He taught against marriage.
Yes, he gained a following.
Men today are interpreting an illustration
Jesus used to justify building hospitals and clinics
for believers. “They that are whole need not a
physician: but they that are sick” is used by Jesus
to illustrate that He did not come “to call the
righteous but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:31,
32). Jesus used familiar illustrations to help clarify
what He meant. To say He endorsed building
hospitals and clinics is missing the point
completely. Medical practice is man’s best effort
to pull himself out of the mess he got into when he
sinned and rebelled against God. Jesus method of
healing is superior to man’s way. Jesus’ way
always works. His remedy is perfect. People just
do not want to believe Him. It is easier to go to
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what they can see and feel and touch. You cannot
see that “virtue that went out of him, and healed
them all.” (Luke 6:19)
This is not a condemnation of medical
practice but is given to show a better way and a
safer way. “For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways…” (Isaiah 55:9). There is the scope of the
gap. God’s way of healing is far above man’s way.
There can be no comparison. There can be no
equality. It would please God beyond your
imagination if you would choose the way provided
through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus.

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Since There is no Command to be Healed.
Healing is not Important.
I Object!
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the

Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and
great commandment. And the second is like unto
it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
(Matthew 22:37-39).
How can a person preach all of God’s will
and leave out thee healing part of “the fullness of
the blessing of the gospel of Christ?” To refuse to
teach and practice the healing power of God is to
disobey the command of James 5:14-15). “Is any
sick among you? Let him call for the elders…”
We are not to break this command either by
teaching or example. How can one say that he
loves his neighbor as himself and refuse to teach
him the truth of divine healing? If I love my
neighbor as myself then I will set before him a
good example.
There is no command that you have to be
healed. It is your choice. I know a lady that did
not want a miracle of healing. She passed away.
It was her choice. Why are not some healed?
This is one reason.
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“Be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus” (2 Timothy 2:1). That grace includes God’s
gift of healing. Be strong in embracing it and in
practicing it.

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Item Number 23:
Positively Presenting Jesus as
the Great Physician.
No Objection!
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who

healeth all thy disease” (Psalm 103:3).
God’s gift of salvation is presented in a
positive light. I have never seen it otherwise. It is
presented in full assurance of God’s willingness to
accept the repentant. It is presented
enthusiastically because of the great change
wrought in our lives. It is presented with a
determination that we have something that cannot
be gotten anywhere else. It is presented boldly
because of the joy and peace that we have and do
experience. Such a thing as failure is not
mentioned. Why? God never fails. When a
person goes forth to witness prayer is offered up
for wisdom and guidance.
I believe the gift of knowledge could be used
more widely in presenting salvation. More of the
objections could be eliminated. Years ago in
Spokane a man kept attending the church but
would never surrender his life to God. He said he
could never do it. One day a lady took him aside
and told him why he would not give his heart to
God. He had committed a crime. His partner in
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the crime was fatally injured. His partner had
him swear he would die and go to hell as he was.
Moreover he swore to keep it a secret. He was
astonished to say the least. He was shown that
Jesus said, “Swear not” (Matthew 5:34, 37). He
repented and was known after that by the
nickname of Smiles. It is the gift of knowledge in
action. It shows the great value of the gift. God
lets you in on some of the knowledge in order to
help someone.
“Who healeth all thy diseases” (Psalm 103:3)
Why not use the same approach in presenting
God’s gift of healing? Jesus bore our sicknesses
just as He bore our sins. “Himself took our
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew
8:17). “Who his own self bare our sins in his own
body on the tree” (2 Peter 2:24). “For whether it
is easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to
say, Arise, and walk” (Matthew 9:5). As far as
God’s power is concerned one is as easy as the
other.
God heals the sinner. Jesus healed many
who were lost as He was sent to the lost House of
Israel (Matthew 15:24). It is the goodness of God
that leads men to repentance. (Romans 2:4).
Healing the sick is God’s goodness and love in
action. In the majority of cases the healed one
will give his heart to God in appreciation. Even
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though the healed one will give his heart to God
in appreciation. Even though the healed sinner
will not immediately give his heart to God, God
has a hook in him. One man came for healing of
bleeding ulcers. He was instantly healed. It was
ten years before he gave his life to God.
God’s gift of healing should be presented in
a positive light. It should be enthusiastically
presented because it means getting rid of the
oppression of the devil. It should be boldly
presented because we are storming the gates of
hell. They cannot prevail against us (Matthew
16:18). It is presented in full assurance that God
stands ready, able and willing to meet the need. It
should be presented in the confidence of the
immutability of God’s promises.
It is said that one of our faults in presenting
God’s healing gift is that we never mention
failures. God never fails so why should we?
Failures are not a part of presenting God’s great
gift of salvation as it would hinder. So we contend
that failures should not be mentioned in
presenting the gift of healing.
God never fails. It is people who fail.
Therefore, I do not build my faith in Jesus as the
perfect Physician by looking at other people’s
experiences. I do not know why people fail,
anyway not always. I know that Jesus never fails.
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Only God knows their hearts. I firmly believe
that the gift of knowledge could be used to bring
healing to everyone. Through it God can reveal
the difficulties. What sick person would not be
willing to repent of some secret sin if it meant
healing and a relief from suffering? Healing
always come to those that respond.
Leave the failures out of your presentation of
deliverance. They would only be a hindrance and
might even weaken or destroy faith. “I shall come
in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of
Christ” (Romans 15:29). I will present only that
that will build faith.

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Item Number 24:
God’s Way is Perfect.
No Objection!
God wants to take care of all our diseases

and abnormal conditions in the manner
demonstrated by Jesus and confirmed by the
practice of the apostles in the Book of Acts. Jesus
is the Way. He is the perfect Way of healing,
“Who healeth all thy diseases” (Psalm 103:3).
Link up this with “Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17). Now
consider “For there went virtue out of him, and
healed them all” (Luke 6:19). Then add, “…By
whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). And
you have the basis for faith for the healing of every
need.
Man’s way of healing is imperfect. Jesus’
way of healing is perfect. Because, “Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above…” (James
1:17). God’s gift of healing is the only wholly
good and the only wholly perfect way of healing.
There is no shadow of turning from the method of
Jesus to another, by the Father. Furthermore do
not equate the imperfect to be equal to the
perfect.
Some men are quick to brand as extremism
complete trust in the finished work of Calvary.
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What they do not wish to practice to extremism.
A church leader once told me that I was an
extremist. He agreed that Jesus was an extremist
because he walked totally in trust to His Father.
Yet this leader did not want that in his church.
“We told you before that we should suffer
tribulation” (1 Thessalonians 3:4). The word
“tribulation” from the Greek means “to crowd” or
“to be under pressure”. It is translated affliction,
trouble, persecution, etc. If men brand us as
extremists what is wrong with suffering such
persecution? All we are doing is trusting and
believing as the Master taught and demonstrated.
We should walk as He walked (1 John 2:6). Are
people afraid of persecution? Which are we
concerned the most about, our reputation in the
Kingdom of God or our reputation in the world
(the Kingdom of Darkness)? We are interested in
our heavenly reputation. That is where it counts
the most. “Well done thou good and faithful
servant…” (Matthew 25:21). It will be better
than hearing the words, “Why didn’t you take Me
at My word? It is because of this that some are
going to “be ashamed before him at his coming”
(1 John 2:28).
Jesus demonstrated the whole will of God.
Let us interpret all scripture in the light of His
teaching and demonstration of truth. He healed
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all that asked and more. To contradict His
revelation of the Father’s will by endorsing
methods that He never endorsed should never be
a part of the presentation of the truth in any of
our teaching. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in
the Lord, and in the power of his might”
(Ephesians 6:10).

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