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Jesus,
the Lamb of God, who bore the sin of the world, also,
"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses. "—Isa. 51: 4, 5. Matt. 8: 16, 17. He
is, therefore, a complete Savior of the body from
sickness, as well as the soul from sin. "And he
healed all that were sick."
" And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogs, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease
among the people. "—Matt. 4: 23.
"And Jesus went about all the cities and villages,
teaching in their synagogs, and preaching the gospel of
the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease
among the people."—Matt. 9: 35.
What a wonderful benefactor to poor suffering humanity!
Nor has his love and sympathy grown less by the lapse of
centuries, nor his power and willingness to save and heal
diminished. In fact he is " Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, and today, and forever. "— Heb. 13: 8.
The same gracious power of God that was manifest in
healing the sick in the morning of this last dispensation,
was designed to bless the church of the living God to the
end of time. Hence it was couched in the final commission
and sent "into all the world," and "to the
end of the world."—Matt. 28:19, 20.
" And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not
shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that
believe. *** They shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover."—Mark 16:17, 18.
These signs did follow the apostles, as the inspired
history shows; and the same miracle healing continued to
be manifest through the second and third century, and
gradually died away in the loss of spirituality through
the apostasy. But with the reformation of Bible holiness
it also revived, and in these last days thousands are
being healed of all manner of diseases. And thousands of
poor sinners who are oppressed with afflictions, and
contracting doctor bills they are scarcely able to pay,
would be made every whit whole without money and without
price, and also without medicine; if they would give their
hearts to God, and their case in the hands of the Great
Physician, who came to seek and to save the lost, and to
heal the afflicted. He is the living ever present
Physician in all the families of the saints. And he
invites all to cast their burdens upon him. Oh how great
in every way, the blessedness of having such a Friend,
such a Savior, such a salvation of soul and body!
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