DEWITT TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
COMMON
SENSE AND DIVINE HEALING
By C.W. Wood
AUGUST
2014
Is it always God’s Will to heal when we believe, or not?
If it is not His Will, then we need to stop praying for His People.
What does His word say? Who
are His People? Jesus asked the
question, “Who is my mother?”
Matt. 12:47-50, “Then
one said unto him, Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to
speak with thee.
48
But he answered and said unto him that
told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49
And he stretched forth his hand toward
his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren.
50
For whosoever shall do the will of my
Father which is in Heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Healing from Jesus Christ, our
Creator, for our physical bodies is a priceless blessing that is ignored by the
world, generally speaking! This is
understandable that the lost world is blind to God’s great desire to heal
people, but it is much harder to understand when those in the churches also fail
to see this glorious and lifesaving truth!
Having studied the scriptures for forty-five years concerning God’s
will to heal all who will simply believe He wants to, and having studied the
ministry of men like Br.William Branham, F.F. Bosworth, John A. Dowie, John
G.Lake, E.W. Kenyon, A.A. Allen, Oral Roberts and others, I would like to set
forth some facts that I pray will win some over to God’s side in the matter.
In this sermon, I will be remembering that there are also people who are
in what we call the End-Time Message who are in desperate need of God’s Divine
Healing.
No one ever preached Divine Healing anymore clearly and positive than Br.
William Branham. We will be
repeating some things that he said, as well as what some of the other men we
mentioned preached about it. The
great need that we see all around us and in myself also, has prompted this
review.
One of the greatest hindrances to faith in Christ for healing is the
wrong teaching that God is the author of disease, and that He wills the sickness
of some of His worshippers! This is
a tradition of men that even some of those who preach Divine Healing have had
wrong. The truth, as this writer
sees it, is that God is the Controller of all sickness, just as He is the
Controller of all that He has created. But,
He does not send sickness on us, not only does He not send it on us, but He
clearly tells us to resist it when it comes and do not receive it.
When it comes, He tells us to pray for each other and get rid of it, and
believe He wants us well! We know
that our Lord uses sickness in His dealings with us, just as He uses all that
the Devil does, and turns it around so that it makes “wrath to praise Him.”
Ps. 76:10, “Surely
the wrath of man shall praise thee, the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain (stop).”
But to say, or teach and preach, that
God wants His Children to be sick is to sadly misconstrue His Word.
Acts 10:38, “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.”
If this was the only scripture we had,
we should know that Jesus Christ was not going around doing something that God
didn’t want to be done! For three
years, Jesus went about healing all that were oppressed by the Devil, or that is
all that come to Him and asked for it. The
Scripture in Acts 10:38 tells us why He did that, and by what authority!
It says clearly, “For God was with Him.”! God
was in it. God was anointing Him to
do it. It was God’s will and
God’s loving, merciful Plan! If
God wanted us to be sick sometimes, why did he tell us to “Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.”?
(James 5:16) Did God tell
us to pray for something that is not His will to do?
Surely not! He said, “Pray
that my will be done and I will hear and answer.”
Our Father, knowing we would get sick at times because of our
disobedience which causes doubts, fear and unbelief, told us to bring our
problems to Him and ask for mercy. He
will show us mercy, forgive our sins and heal our bodies and our minds and soul.
Then He says, “Go
and sin no more lest a worse thing come on you.”
(John 5:14) He told us to
“resist the Devil (that brings sickness) and he will flee from us.” (James
4:7) But if we let him in and make
him welcome with our testimony, he will build a nest in us.
If sickness is God’s will for His Children, then Jesus was a
lawbreaker, for He went about healing all that were oppressed of the Devil1
If sickness is God’s will for His worshippers, then every doctor and
every nurse is a lawbreaker because they are working against God’s will.
If it is God’s will for us to be sick, then every hospital is a place
of rebellion against God’s plan to make us sick!
If God wants us to be sick sometimes, then it is a sin to want to be well
and pray to be well because we are to pray for the will of God to be done in our
lives.
Here is another tradition of men we need to address.
Some say we glorify God more by remaining sick and being patient about it
than we can by being healed and up about His business.
Now, hear God’s balance. We
are to be patient when a sickness comes on us, but never to the point of
believing that God wants us to be that way.
We know some that teach that we glorify God by staying sick more than by
being healed. Let’s examine that
teaching by the Word (We have that teaching in churches in DeWitt.)
If this teaching is true, then Jesus robbed God of all the glory He
could, because He healed those who came believing!
Also, the Holy Ghost that was working did not hesitate to rob God of all
the glory He could in Acts 5:15-16, “Insomuch
that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and
couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some
of them.
16
There came also a multitude out of the
cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed
with unclean spirits: and they were healed everyone.”
Here the Holy Ghost (Jesus) healed all (everyone) that was brought into
the streets of Jerusalem so that all who had been made sick by the Devil (vexed
with unclean spirits) were healed. God
gets glory when the world sees His healing power raising people up, not by
casting them down. In Acts 28:9
where Paul prayed and God healed all the sick on the Island of Melita, he was
doing contrary to God’s will (that is if God wanted some of them to stay
sick). Friends, if we don’t get
well, it is never God’s fault, something is wrong down here or else the Lord
is testing our faith. It is wrong to
suppose that it is not God’s will to heal all who need it!
Let’s apply some Holy Ghost enlightened horse sense to that teaching.
Truth is, God will heal anyone that will simply believe it.
If it is only God’s will to
heal some that are sick, then how do we know that we are in that group that He
wants to heal? No!
It is for everybody that will believe it!
We do not need a special, personal revelation from the Holy Ghost to know
that God will heal anyone that will believe it.
Why not? Why don’t we have to have a personal revelation that God wants
to heal William Wood? Because we
have already been told in His Word that He does!
Are we supposed to close our Bibles and wait for a special revelation
that God wants all to be in health? (See
111 John 1:2)
No! We are duty bound to read
the bible which is His Will and Plan, and there we see where He healed them all
that would believe. To say that God
does not want to heal everyone that needs it, is like saying that He does not
want to save everyone that’s lost! Of
course, He knows who will come to Him for salvation believing and who won’t
come. But that does never change His
written word that says healing and salvation is for all!
If healing was not paid for (for all) how did the multitude in the Bible
get from God what He didn’t want them to have?
Does the scripture say that Jesus was a respecter of persons?
No! It says He was not
partial to any but loved us all and would not that any be lost!
Ezekiel 33:11, “Say
unto them, As I live, saith the Lord
God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked;
but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye from your evil
ways; for why will ye die O House of Israel?”
Matt.
4:23, “And
Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching and preaching the Gospel, and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner of
disease.”
Matt.
9:35, “And
Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching and preaching and healing
every sickness and every disease.”
Matt. 12:15,”But
when Jesus knew it, He withdrew Himself from thence and great multitude followed
Him and He healed them all.”
Matt. 14:14,
“And Jesus went forth and saw a great
multitude and was moved with compassion toward them and healed their sick.”
Matt. 14:24-36,
“……they sent out into all that
country roundabout and brought unto Him all that were diseased….and as many as
touched Him were made perfectly whole.”
Luke 6:17-19,
“And a great multitude of people out of
all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to
hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexed
with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
And the whole multitude sought to touch Him: for there went virtue out of
Him and healed them all.”
In these scriptures, and many more we
see that they brought all that were sick and Jesus healed them all!
Were all these multitudes of people out of the cities and villages
Christians? No!
He said to some, “Go and sin no
more lest a worse thing come on you.”
The sick and the lost just heard that there was a man passing through
that was healing all kind of sickness and all kinds of disease and they came to
check it out. When they saw it, they
went to Him and got what they needed also! Didn’t
we see in the ministry of our Prophet that same Jesus heal everyone in the
prayer lines that would believe He wanted to?
Don’t we believe that He has not changed?
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
Then, who has changed? We
have. We have failed to believe like
we should in His never changing promises. And
look around us, we are paying a terrible price for it, but it is not our
Lord’s fault. He is knocking on
the hearts door, and asking to be let in, but the door latch to the heart is on
the inside. He does not come in with
His revealed life-saving Word until we open the door.
Do we want to get well physically? Then
turn our lives over to him all the way! Walk
in the light. Repent when we fail
and keep walking. There is no other
formula! This is it, take it or
leave it. It’s up to us and it’s
up to the people we pray for. They
have to believe it with us. Scripture
says, “If any two of you will come to Him and believe.”
The Elder and the sick person both believing!
In closing, we will make this all important point again.
It is not
God’s will for His
Children to be sick. Jesus said in Matt.
15:26, “Healing is the Children’s
bread.”
Come and dine, the table is spread! We
now have a full seven course meal spread out before us.
The Seven Seals are open. But
although the spiritual food is on the table, we have to go to the table, take it
on our plate and get it down in our soul.
God does not put sickness on His people.
He allows what we allow. It
shall be unto us according to our individual faith (Matt. 9:29) Do you believe
the Lord wants you sick sometimes? You
can have it! Do you believe He wants
to make you well from every disease that comes to you?
You can have your healing! The
scripture says of Jesus, that He came to do the Father’s Will (John 4:34) then
was not the healing of all that came to Him believing, the Will of the Father
for their bodies, and for ours, since He changes not?
1 John 3:8 says that, “Jesus
came to destroy the works of the Devil.” Certainly
it is a finished work for all who will believe it.
Look up and be healed Bride of Christ!
Amen.
DEWITT TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
COMMON
SENSE AND DIVINE HEALING
By C.W. Wood
AUGUST
2014
Is it always God’s Will to heal when we believe, or not?
If it is not His Will, then we need to stop praying for His People.
What does His word say? Who
are His People? Jesus asked the
question, “Who is my mother?”
Matt. 12:47-50, “Then
one said unto him, Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to
speak with thee.
48
But he answered and said unto him that
told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49
And he stretched forth his hand toward
his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren.
50
For whosoever shall do the will of my
Father which is in Heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Healing from Jesus Christ, our
Creator, for our physical bodies is a priceless blessing that is ignored by the
world, generally speaking! This is
understandable that the lost world is blind to God’s great desire to heal
people, but it is much harder to understand when those in the churches also fail
to see this glorious and lifesaving truth!
Having studied the scriptures for forty-five years concerning God’s
will to heal all who will simply believe He wants to, and having studied the
ministry of men like Br.William Branham, F.F. Bosworth, John A. Dowie, John
G.Lake, E.W. Kenyon, A.A. Allen, Oral Roberts and others, I would like to set
forth some facts that I pray will win some over to God’s side in the matter.
In this sermon, I will be remembering that there are also people who are
in what we call the End-Time Message who are in desperate need of God’s Divine
Healing.
No one ever preached Divine Healing anymore clearly and positive than Br.
William Branham. We will be
repeating some things that he said, as well as what some of the other men we
mentioned preached about it. The
great need that we see all around us and in myself also, has prompted this
review.
One of the greatest hindrances to faith in Christ for healing is the
wrong teaching that God is the author of disease, and that He wills the sickness
of some of His worshippers! This is
a tradition of men that even some of those who preach Divine Healing have had
wrong. The truth, as this writer
sees it, is that God is the Controller of all sickness, just as He is the
Controller of all that He has created. But,
He does not send sickness on us, not only does He not send it on us, but He
clearly tells us to resist it when it comes and do not receive it.
When it comes, He tells us to pray for each other and get rid of it, and
believe He wants us well! We know
that our Lord uses sickness in His dealings with us, just as He uses all that
the Devil does, and turns it around so that it makes “wrath to praise Him.”
Ps. 76:10, “Surely
the wrath of man shall praise thee, the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain (stop).”
But to say, or teach and preach, that
God wants His Children to be sick is to sadly misconstrue His Word.
Acts 10:38, “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.”
If this was the only scripture we had,
we should know that Jesus Christ was not going around doing something that God
didn’t want to be done! For three
years, Jesus went about healing all that were oppressed by the Devil, or that is
all that come to Him and asked for it. The
Scripture in Acts 10:38 tells us why He did that, and by what authority!
It says clearly, “For God was with Him.”! God
was in it. God was anointing Him to
do it. It was God’s will and
God’s loving, merciful Plan! If
God wanted us to be sick sometimes, why did he tell us to “Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.”?
(James 5:16) Did God tell
us to pray for something that is not His will to do?
Surely not! He said, “Pray
that my will be done and I will hear and answer.”
Our Father, knowing we would get sick at times because of our
disobedience which causes doubts, fear and unbelief, told us to bring our
problems to Him and ask for mercy. He
will show us mercy, forgive our sins and heal our bodies and our minds and soul.
Then He says, “Go
and sin no more lest a worse thing come on you.”
(John 5:14) He told us to
“resist the Devil (that brings sickness) and he will flee from us.” (James
4:7) But if we let him in and make
him welcome with our testimony, he will build a nest in us.
If sickness is God’s will for His Children, then Jesus was a
lawbreaker, for He went about healing all that were oppressed of the Devil1
If sickness is God’s will for His worshippers, then every doctor and
every nurse is a lawbreaker because they are working against God’s will.
If it is God’s will for us to be sick, then every hospital is a place
of rebellion against God’s plan to make us sick!
If God wants us to be sick sometimes, then it is a sin to want to be well
and pray to be well because we are to pray for the will of God to be done in our
lives.
Here is another tradition of men we need to address.
Some say we glorify God more by remaining sick and being patient about it
than we can by being healed and up about His business.
Now, hear God’s balance. We
are to be patient when a sickness comes on us, but never to the point of
believing that God wants us to be that way.
We know some that teach that we glorify God by staying sick more than by
being healed. Let’s examine that
teaching by the Word (We have that teaching in churches in DeWitt.)
If this teaching is true, then Jesus robbed God of all the glory He
could, because He healed those who came believing!
Also, the Holy Ghost that was working did not hesitate to rob God of all
the glory He could in Acts 5:15-16, “Insomuch
that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and
couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some
of them.
16
There came also a multitude out of the
cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed
with unclean spirits: and they were healed everyone.”
Here the Holy Ghost (Jesus) healed all (everyone) that was brought into
the streets of Jerusalem so that all who had been made sick by the Devil (vexed
with unclean spirits) were healed. God
gets glory when the world sees His healing power raising people up, not by
casting them down. In Acts 28:9
where Paul prayed and God healed all the sick on the Island of Melita, he was
doing contrary to God’s will (that is if God wanted some of them to stay
sick). Friends, if we don’t get
well, it is never God’s fault, something is wrong down here or else the Lord
is testing our faith. It is wrong to
suppose that it is not God’s will to heal all who need it!
Let’s apply some Holy Ghost enlightened horse sense to that teaching.
Truth is, God will heal anyone that will simply believe it.
If it is only God’s will to
heal some that are sick, then how do we know that we are in that group that He
wants to heal? No!
It is for everybody that will believe it!
We do not need a special, personal revelation from the Holy Ghost to know
that God will heal anyone that will believe it.
Why not? Why don’t we have to have a personal revelation that God wants
to heal William Wood? Because we
have already been told in His Word that He does!
Are we supposed to close our Bibles and wait for a special revelation
that God wants all to be in health? (See
111 John 1:2)
No! We are duty bound to read
the bible which is His Will and Plan, and there we see where He healed them all
that would believe. To say that God
does not want to heal everyone that needs it, is like saying that He does not
want to save everyone that’s lost! Of
course, He knows who will come to Him for salvation believing and who won’t
come. But that does never change His
written word that says healing and salvation is for all!
If healing was not paid for (for all) how did the multitude in the Bible
get from God what He didn’t want them to have?
Does the scripture say that Jesus was a respecter of persons?
No! It says He was not
partial to any but loved us all and would not that any be lost!
Ezekiel 33:11, “Say
unto them, As I live, saith the Lord
God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked;
but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye from your evil
ways; for why will ye die O House of Israel?”
Matt.
4:23, “And
Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching and preaching the Gospel, and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner of
disease.”
Matt.
9:35, “And
Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching and preaching and healing
every sickness and every disease.”
Matt. 12:15,”But
when Jesus knew it, He withdrew Himself from thence and great multitude followed
Him and He healed them all.”
Matt. 14:14,
“And Jesus went forth and saw a great
multitude and was moved with compassion toward them and healed their sick.”
Matt. 14:24-36,
“……they sent out into all that
country roundabout and brought unto Him all that were diseased….and as many as
touched Him were made perfectly whole.”
Luke 6:17-19,
“And a great multitude of people out of
all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to
hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexed
with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
And the whole multitude sought to touch Him: for there went virtue out of
Him and healed them all.”
In these scriptures, and many more we
see that they brought all that were sick and Jesus healed them all!
Were all these multitudes of people out of the cities and villages
Christians? No!
He said to some, “Go and sin no
more lest a worse thing come on you.”
The sick and the lost just heard that there was a man passing through
that was healing all kind of sickness and all kinds of disease and they came to
check it out. When they saw it, they
went to Him and got what they needed also! Didn’t
we see in the ministry of our Prophet that same Jesus heal everyone in the
prayer lines that would believe He wanted to?
Don’t we believe that He has not changed?
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
Then, who has changed? We
have. We have failed to believe like
we should in His never changing promises. And
look around us, we are paying a terrible price for it, but it is not our
Lord’s fault. He is knocking on
the hearts door, and asking to be let in, but the door latch to the heart is on
the inside. He does not come in with
His revealed life-saving Word until we open the door.
Do we want to get well physically? Then
turn our lives over to him all the way! Walk
in the light. Repent when we fail
and keep walking. There is no other
formula! This is it, take it or
leave it. It’s up to us and it’s
up to the people we pray for. They
have to believe it with us. Scripture
says, “If any two of you will come to Him and believe.”
The Elder and the sick person both believing!
In closing, we will make this all important point again.
It is not
God’s will for His
Children to be sick. Jesus said in Matt.
15:26, “Healing is the Children’s
bread.”
Come and dine, the table is spread! We
now have a full seven course meal spread out before us.
The Seven Seals are open. But
although the spiritual food is on the table, we have to go to the table, take it
on our plate and get it down in our soul.
God does not put sickness on His people.
He allows what we allow. It
shall be unto us according to our individual faith (Matt. 9:29) Do you believe
the Lord wants you sick sometimes? You
can have it! Do you believe He wants
to make you well from every disease that comes to you?
You can have your healing! The
scripture says of Jesus, that He came to do the Father’s Will (John 4:34) then
was not the healing of all that came to Him believing, the Will of the Father
for their bodies, and for ours, since He changes not?
1 John 3:8 says that, “Jesus
came to destroy the works of the Devil.” Certainly
it is a finished work for all who will believe it.
Look up and be healed Bride of Christ!
Amen.