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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Friday, October 15, 2004 www.orm.cc DON'T WASTE A DROP Lindsay Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "My mother once received some promotional coupons from a local department store. The coupons came in $10 values, but if you used less than the exact dollar amount, you didn't get change back. For example, if you used the $10 coupon on a $6 item, you lost $4. So my mother was stretching those coupons out in order to get every single drop of their value because they were rightfully hers. My mother's careful management of those coupons made me think of Jesus' precious blood. first Peter 1:18-19 NKJV says, You were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold...but with the precious blood of Christ. If we're so frugal that we make sure we use every cent of a $10 coupon because we don't want to waste one penny of its value, why would we waste one drop of the value of the blood of Jesus that He shed for you and me when He went to the Cross? How do we waste Christ's blood? By not availing ourselves of everything it bought for us: salvation for your souls, healing for our bodies, our finances, our relationships, our emotions, and deliverance from doubt and fear. Plus much, much more! At one time we were without Christ, being...stranger from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. but now in Christ Jesus [we] who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:12-23 nkjv). Let's not waste a drop of His precious blood. It's a priceless treasure!" ON DOCTRINE NOTE: In Lindsay Roberts' theology, the atonement is said to bring about many things: salvation, healing of all types, restoration of lost property and opportunity and all the other desires that a person might have in this life. However, if a person looks at what is claimed, there is a problem. In her theology, salvation is obtained by means of the gospel message, but all of those other elements, although made possible through the atonement, are not actually obtained at the same time as salvation, but must be appropriated later by other means than the gospel message. All of the other things are subsequent to the atonement, are said to be a right for every believer, but are not possessed until doubt (also defined in that theology as fear) is eliminated and then faith is exercised through agreement with others regarding whatever is desired, which causes God to act on behalf of the person. So, in that theology, if a person has not obtained their "rightful" healing, then they have wasted the blood of Jesus Christ, because healing is said to be part of the atonement. The same is in regard to any other definition of "healing," ie., broken marriage relations, broken dreams, lost money or property, unfair treatment by others, etc., because failure to obtain the restoration of those things in a person's life, which are said to be part of the atonement as "healing," is to waste the blood of Jesus Christ. Doubt and fear are also claimed to be eliminated through the atonement, so any time a person expresses those elements in their life, they are considered to be wasting the blood of Jesus Christ. Lindsay Roberts drops a guilt-trip on the believer, claiming that any person who does not adopt her teaching about the components of the atonement, which especially includes healing, are wasting the blood of Jesus Christ. That is a pretty powerful coercive element to use in order to persuade people to adopt her particular belief. However, healing is not part of the atonement. The verses that Lindsay Roberts and many other use in order to prove their case is as follows: Surely our griefs he Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried, yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of god, and afflicted. But He was pierced though for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed," Isaiah 53:4-5 (NAS).According to the Word of faith healers, the scourging of Christ was the guarantee of healing, but according to Matthew, healing was not part of or fulfilled in the atonement, but was in the life of Jesus Christ when ". . . they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill," Matthew 8:16. Matthew adds the footnote which explains the statement in Isaiah 53:4: "This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: 'HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES,'" Matthew 8:17 (NAS).Lindsay Roberts' theology is based on an attitude of getting; a teaching that a person should have everything that they believe can be obtained from God, and not to have those things is to waste the blood of Jesus Christ. But that teaching has a flaw, because not every Christian has everything that they might wish, and not every Christian is granted everything that they ask from God. If fear and doubt prevent miracles from happening and faith causes God to act, then the apostle Paul must have been consumed with doubt and fear and totally lacking in faith, because he was not healed and was specifically told by God that he would not be healed, and in the process he must have wasted many drops of the blood of Jesus Christ. The only conclusion that can be understood from this theology, is that if a person does not have perfection of existence in this life, then they have not appropriated into their life all of the elements that are said to be part of the atonement, and therefore, all Christians are wasting the blood of Jesus Christ on a continual basis. But where is that teaching ever found in the Scripture? It isn't found in the Scripture, because it is the Gospel of Lindsay Roberts, which she adopted from her husband, father-in-law and the numerous other Word of Faith teachers that she accepts. SEE: "Is There Healing In The Atonement?" - Dr. Richard Mayhue "Does God Still Heal?" - John F. MacArthur "Does God Promise Health and Wealth?" - Part 1 - John F. Macarthur "Does God Promise Health and Wealth?" - Part 2 - John F. Macarthur |
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