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He HEAIETH THEIR DISEASES.
Mark /, 29- 45-March 10.

HE HEALETH THEIR DISEASES.
Mark i. 29- 45-March 10.
! himself took ctr indrmities and bore
/ our SickneSSeS. Matthew vii. Il
| Today's study follows closely the one
a waek aga. When Jesus left the Ca
pelnadm synagogue tie went To ST.
Peters home There St Peters mothec-
/ in-law lay sick OF fever. II was the
work OF but Il moment for the Savior 10
take her by the hand and to raise her
up TO health. Meantime the fame of
i! Jesus had spread and by evening there
| were crowds importuning His healing
! words and touch. And lie healed many
! that were sick of divers diseases, and
east out many demons, and sunered not
| the demons to speak, because they knew
Him.
Nothing is more attractive to the ha-
| man mind than the miraculous power
Of healing disease No one enjoys dis
| ease and suffering. People would be glad
| to be healed of disease. even If they
| were assured that the cures were per-
formed by the power of Satan himself.
1t should not surprise US today that
many false doctrines wholly out of har-
| monv with Gods Word, commend them
selves TO the poor, grooming creation ny
ments. without medicine. and theoreti-
eally BY the power and favor Of God,
and supposedly in proof of the doctrines
advocated by the healers.
Gifts OF Early Church Were to Pass
Away.
But since these healers hold various
| and antasoaistic doctrines, it is mani
fest that ali are not of God, if any of
them are To our understanding, tie
Bible teaches that no miraculous heal
ing at the present time Is authorized by
Gods y ord. ~. Paul declared by IN
SEPARATION that the gifts granted to the
early Church. and exercised by Jesus
and the Apostles and those to whom the
personally communicated them. would
pass away We believe that they did pass
aUay-that they gave place to the next
I ana higher manifestation of Divine ia
vor namely. the fruits of the Holy
Spirit-meekness, gentleness, long suffer-
ing and loVe-as evidences of Gods IA
/ vor and of membership in the Church of
the First-born The miracles which
Jesus and the Apostles wrought We're
merely with a view to the establishment
I of the early church. Nowhere is 1t in
+ tirnated that it was the Divine will that
/ all people should be healed of disease
during this Age.
t The general healing of disease VIII
doubtless be a prominent feature of the
work of Messiah's glorious Kingdom,
after it's establishment. Not only Will
the ailments of the mesh be lifted, but
restitution processes will so on step by
step, lifting humanity out of sin, dis
ease and imperfection, up to full and ao-
solute perfection, except in the case of
| those who wilfuliy and deliberately OPP
pose the Divine arrangement, and who.
in due time, will be cut off from life IN
the Second Death. All the remainder
will ultimately reach the glorious con-
dition OF perfection mentioned in the
Scriptures, where there will be no more
signing, no more crying, no more dying,
because all the former things of sin and
death will have passed away; because
He that stitch upon the Throne will
make all things new Revelation xxi,
4, 5.
i Satin an Angel of Light.
! St Paul intimated that Satan and his
messengers, the fallen angels, would seek
to transform themselves so as to appear
"as angels of light that they might ex-
ercise the greater influence over hui
mainly and that thereby they might in
culcate the more successfully false doc
trines, subversive of true faith in God
and His Word. we believe that the
Apostles words. We believe that the
able in our day, and that many conscien-
tious and good people are being deceived
and that miraculous headings are part Of
the Adversarys bait. 1t would not %
appropriate for US to enumerate here
the different doctrines which we beiiev'
are thus baited. We content ourselves
by giving the Scriptural reason for eX
pecting no miraculous healings from Coz
at the present time.
II is quite true that under the Law
Covenant which God made with israe
He agreed that sickness would be pen
atty for violation of the Law, an
health a reward for the obedient. I'll
statement of the Prophet, who heaietl
! all thy Diseases was applicable physi
, cally to the Israelites under the Lay
Covenant 1t has also a spiritual appli
| cation to the Church, the New Creation
But the healing of the New Creatur
and the healing of his flesh are differen
things. fhe New Creatures soul sick
ness and heart troubles are all cured D
the Good Physician-even though nj
flesh may suffer pain and go down int
death. We are to remember that tn
. condition upon which we are begotten
the Holy Spirit to be new creatures wa
a full surrender of the flesh and its IL
|, terests, as living sacrifices, holy an
,, acceptable, which is our reasonable SCI
vice-Romans xii, l.
1 Nor is this any change from the Lord
dealings with the Church from the yer
beginnng-So far as the records show
all or nearly all, who were healed D
Jesus and the Apostles, were SINNERS.
Surely there is no record of a single -
stance in which any of the Apostles Wer
J, healed of any disease. Although 81
!, Paul healed many sick,-yet when Epa
phroditus was sick and nigh unit
DEATH we have no mention of any al
y tamnt to miraculously recover him.