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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Saturday, June 16, 2007 http://orm.cc GOD IS GOOD Evelyn Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "When Oral was seventeen and dying of tuberculosis, some people would visit him and pray, 'Lord, if it be Your will, heal this boy.' But Jesus never hesitated to heal anyone. When a leper approached Him, saying, If you wilt, thou canst make me clean, Jesus replied, I will, and He did (Mark 1:40,41). If you were to say to someone who had never heard of Jesus, 'I want you to serve my Jesus, but He won't heal you or meet your needs,' how many people do you think would want to serve Him? Not many! But our God is not like that. Matthew 7:11 NKJV says, If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! I believe it's when people hear that god is good and they learn that he loves them and wants to meet their needs that they will want to serve Him." ON DOCTRINE NOTE: It is quite interesting that Evelyn Roberts has changed the appeal of the gospel message from that found in the Scripture, which is forgiveness of sins and rescue from hell, to that which comes from the heart of human beings. Hoping that the God and Jesus Christ of Christianity will heal all their diseases, fill their wallets with money, eliminate all conflicts in their lives and make life a perfect paradise on earth, apparently those who come to Jesus Christ under those conditions will reject Him if they find that it is their spiritual condition that is being addressed and condemn themselves to hell because their temporal needs are not being met according to their own definitions. The reality is that Jesus Christ made some specific claims regarding those who should follow Him: "Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, 'If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ""this man began to build and was not able to finish."" Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions,'" Luke 14:25-33 (NAS).The gospel was not offered in order to satisfy the desires of the heart but the need of the soul. If Evelyn Roberts' reasoning is accepted, then the apostle Paul should have rejected Jesus Christ because he was told directly by the Lord that he would not be healed, 2 Corinthians 12:7-9. Trophimus and Timothy should have run to another religion because Trophimus was not healed by the apostle Paul, 2 Timothy 4:20, and in the case of Timothy, Paul told him to take wine for his stomach as a medication, 1 Timothy 5:23, instead of expecting his miracle. Perhaps Evelyn Roberts should have looked into why all of the apostles lived their lives in poverty, never having mansions, sumptuous meals served to them by legions of servants and a new gold-plated chariot delivered to their door whenever they desired. Perhaps she should look into why almost all of them were beaten, imprisoned or martyred and lived their lives in deprivation instead of having their "needs" met according to their desires. Of course, if he was looking to have his needs met, Stephen was certainly surprised when he became the first martyr for believing in and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, Acts 7:59-60. In spite of what Evelyn Roberts might wish for everyone to believe, Jesus Christ never commanded anyone to follow Him so that they would receive health, wealth, fame or power. It is true that Jesus Christ could heal every disease, but He did not heal every person with a disease. The healing He performed on the man at the pool of Bethesda provides the example. The pool of Bethesda had five porticos, and "In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame and withered . . ," John 5:3 (NAS). But, out of the multitudes who were there, Jesus picked only one man to heal, while the rest remained unhealed. Evelyn Roberts would like people to believe that just because Jesus Christ healed, He healed everyone and that just because God gives good gifts, one of those good gifts is healing for every Christian. Both claims are not true. |
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