By: John Stenen When I was a young Christian I heard many sermons preached telling us that when the last apostle died (John), healing passed from the Church. They said the New Testament had been written, the Church was established, and all the healings and miracles the apostles did are now over.
As I grew in the grace and knowledge of God’s Word, and as I learned from many excellent Bible teachers and preachers, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever,” Hebrews 13:8. In fact, most Churches still sing “What a Friend we have in Jesus….. what He’s done for others, He will do for you.” But too many in the Church today really do not believe that. “Only the apostles could bring about miracles and healings” they said.
Then what about Stephen, the Church’s first martyr? Scripture tells us in Acts 6: that he was a deacon in the Church waiting on tables; yet we read in chapters six and seven that he had great faith and power in Christ and did many healings and miracles; and because of this the religious leaders wanted to shut him up so they brought false charges against him and murdered him.
Also, look at Phillip, another deacon in the early Church. In Acts 8: he had a revival in Samaria; great healings and miracles happened, and many demons were cast out of people in the name of Jesus. If you will study the history of the Church and the many great revivals, especially in the 1700 and 1800 and 1900’s, after the Church came out of the ‘Dark Ages,’ when the true Gospel was once again burning in the hearts of preachers of righteousness, hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of healings, have occurred just as they are today. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, but doubt and fear come by hearing that God is the Great I Was, instead of the Great I Am.
Please, prayerfully study your Bibles for yourself, ask the Holy Spirit to help you learn the truth of God’s Word, and He will do it. The blood of Christ, and the name of Jesus, are just as powerful today as they were two thousand years ago. God bless.
