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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Monday, July 11th, 2005 www.orm.cc Doctors Treat, But God Heals Richard Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "There are several time-honored Bible ways of receiving your healing. One method is by the laying on of hands. Jesus said all believers 'will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover' (Mark 16:18 nkjv). That verse doesn't say anything about your needing a special calling. Every born again believer is to have a ministry of healing. Healing can also come through medical treatment. Jesus put His stamp of approval on medical science when He said, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick' (Matthew 9:12 nkjv). God approved of prayer for healing in James 5:15 nkjv which says, The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. The concept that the streams of medical science and prayer work together to bring healing came through my father's ministry many years ago. In the Bible the apostle Paul laid hands on he sick and they were healed; Luke, the physician, treated them medically and they were cured. I don't limit God in the way He heals. When I get a headache, all I want to do is get well. So I pray and take a couple of pain relievers. I don't really care which one works. I don't put my faith in the prayer, nor do I put my faith in the medicine. I put my faith in god, who is the Source of both. No matter which one works, I give the glory for the healing to Him. As you seek the healing you need. focus on and give the glory to God, the Source of each and every healing miracle!" ON DOCTRINE NOTE: The Bible says a number of things about healing, but the statement in Mark 16:18 is not one of them. Mark 16:9-20 are problematic verses for three reasons: 1. They do not represent reality in the Christian life. 2. They do not say the same things as found in other Scripture. 3. They are later additions to the Scripture and were not written by Mark. As early as the 4th century A.D., there is a record that the church fathers Eusebius and Jerome noted that the earliest Greek manuscripts in their possession did not contain verses 9-20. The earliest manuscripts of the gospel of Mark do not contain those verses, so they are an interpolation, a later addition not original to the writing of Mark and cannot be considered Scripture or claimed to be the words of Jesus Christ. But the integrity and agreement of the Scripture with itself, along with reality, are not a consideration when trying to support a teaching that brings in the money to pay the bills. In spite of the fact that the verses are not part of Scripture, Richard Roberts uses them in the attempt to support his claims. The reality is, that not all Christians have "a ministry of healing" and they never have, even in the early church, as the apostle Paul explained in 1 Corinthians 12:28-30. "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?"One of the issues in the ministries of Oral and Richard Roberts is the continual reference to the "healing streams of prayer and medicine" which were to be epitomized, actualized and illustrated through the City of Faith, which Oral Roberts built. Unfortunately, the City of Faith failed and those healing streams never actually merged, since Oral Roberts claimed that God was going to give him the cure for cancer through the facility, but that never happened. So, Oral Roberts made God into a liar by stating that God said He was going to do something which He did not. The failure of the City of Faith was a financial issue, brought about by the failure of Oral Roberts to count the cost of its operation, but claiming that God told him that it would be successful. Near the end of its existence, Oral Roberts made his famous appeal for $8 million dollars, claiming that if he did not obtain the money by a specific date, God was going to call him home. God told Oral Roberts that the money was supposed to be used to send medical missionaries throughout the world, which the City of Faith had not done, but the money raised was used in order to keep the City of Faith operational for a little longer time instead. When the City of Faith finally closed down, Oral Roberts had to come up with an explanation as to why his project had failed, and far from blaming himself, he laid the blame squarely on God, claiming a revelation from God as his excuse: "I had you build the City of Faith large enough to capture the imagination of the entire world, about the merging of My healing streams of prayer and medicine. I did not want this revelation localized in Tulsa, however, and the time has come when I want this concept of merging My healing streams to be known to all people and to go into all future generations."Richard Roberts has never dealt with the issue of the false prophecies that his father has attributed to God and Jesus Christ, by which They are said to claim one thing, but in reality the outcome is something quite different, making Them to be liars. Such was the case with the City of Faith and the merging of the healing streams of medicine and prayer, which never happened. Eventually, when it is claimed that miracles should occur in the lives of Christians on a daily basis, the definition of a miracle is trivialized to the point where virtually everything becomes a miracle. Such is the case when Richard Roberts asserts that both medical treatment and prayer both result in a miracle. Such is the case when he says that "Jesus put His stamp of approval on medical science," and "God approved of prayer for healing," the implication being that both are miracles within themselves, "As you seek the healing you need, focus on and give the glory to God, the Source of each and every healing miracle!." He uses as his examples the laying on of hands by the apostle Paul and the medical healing practiced by Luke, and he equates the cure, in both instances, to be a miracle, "I put my faith in god, who is the Source of both." I don't believe that on his television program he has ever told a person to take an aspirin and watch their miracle healing happen, but he has said to pray, have faith and give their "Seed Faith" offering and to call him when their miracle happens. If Richard Roberts is receiving the message from God about the miracles being performed, it should not be a difficult issue to state the manner in which they are being accomplished; either medicine or prayer. The reality is, that the Scripture is clear that God works through miracles of special intervention, but there is no instance in Scripture where it can be found that God worked a miracle using medical science. A person can give their "Seed Faith" offering in order to secure their miracle, but in Richard Roberts' theology, not giving enough money (your "best" seed) or not exercising enough faith will cause the miracle to fail, so God will not perform his work whether it be a direct intervention by His hand or the aspirin that will not do its job. |
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