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There's great
emotion in the air.

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The organist is playing
a sentimental hymn.

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People are looking upward,
waving their arms with tears

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streaming down their cheeks.

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A blind man is escorted onto
the stage by an attendant.

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The popular evangelist asks
him how long he has been blind

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and does he believe
Jesus will heal him.

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He answers from birth,
and yes, I believe.

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The Evangelist then hits the
poor man on the forehead

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while loudly commanding,
"Be healed!"

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He falls backward in some kind
of trance into the arms of an

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attendant, and when he
awakes, he blinks a few times

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and shouts, "I can see!

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I can see!

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Thank you, Jesus!"

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And the crowd erupts in
cries of "Praise the Lord!"

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Thinking people wonder,
"Was this real?" Or, "Was it

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a show contrived by
well-rehearsed actors?"

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This is an important question,
as there is a reason to

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believe these supposed
healings are, more often than

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not, deceptions played
out on ignorant people.

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However, the Bible proclaims
that God does supernaturally

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heal, and we read of Jesus
healing all manner of

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sickness and infirmities.

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Were these real, or was Jesus
the first to exploit gullible

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people seeking relief
from desperate physical

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circumstances? I'll
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this Tomorrow's World program,

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deeper into this subject

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Does God heal today gives
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from serious afflictions.

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A warm Welcome
to all of you

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from all of us here
at Tomorrow's World

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On today's program I'll address
the subject of divine healing.

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Is it for real?

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Can you experience it?

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Are there requirements to obtain
it and if so, what are they?

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And what does it mean
if I go to God and I'm

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not divinely healed?

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There are good reasons for
asking these questions.

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Frankly, dear friends,
so-called "faith healers"

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have a checkered reputation,
and many have been

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exposed as frauds.

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I first heard this subject
at an early age from

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a Sunday school teacher
who spoke of one of the

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most famous faith healers
of the last century.

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He reportedly healed the
blind, the deaf, the crippled.

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There were even reports
of raising the dead.

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And as a young teenager,
this was comforting.

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If some terrible
sickness came upon me,

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I would go to one of his tent
meetings and all would be okay.

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But at some point he forsook
his charismatic past

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to go more mainstream, and he
claimed that God spoke to him

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to build a research center
to find a cure for cancer.

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I remember wondering at the
time, if he could heal by simply

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laying hands on people,
why would he turn to

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painful radiation,
chemotherapy, and surgery?

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But by that time I was older and
wiser and I knew the answer.

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The 20th century saw
more than its share of

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traveling faith healers.

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They would come into town, set
up a tent, hand out flyers,

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and post on billboards.

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Desperate people would flock
to hear the preacher to get

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in line to be made whole.

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But somehow, the truly
needy locals never made it

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to the front of the line.

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Now does this mean that there
is no God and that He does not

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intervene for those who know

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Know Him and sincerely
trust in Him.

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Dear friends, God does exist and
you can prove it for yourself.

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Scientists have learned over
the last 75 years that precise

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laws govern the universe and
also they've discovered just

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how complex life truly is.

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Biologists know that it is
mathematically impossible for

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life to spontaneously occur,
but many refuse to accept

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God as the cause for life.

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The Apostle Paul called out
skeptics such as these, who

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should know better, in Romans
1, beginning in verses

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18 and going through 20.

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Long before
Paul, an ancient

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king proclaimed,

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That has never been truer than
it is today for anyone who

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honestly looks into the marvels
of life

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Therefore, if God created
life, does He not have the

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power to fix what is broken?

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And if the Bible is the Word of
God and Jesus is our Savior,

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as many of us believe, then
we must accept that God does

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intervene in the lives of people
and heals them supernaturally.

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For, as we read in
Matthew 4, verse 23,

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But did divine healing
end with Jesus' ministry?

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You may be thinking, "That
was then, and that was Jesus.

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What about today
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In the next portion
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This is important as the
question most of us have

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is, "Will God heal me?"

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As we read in the previous
portion of this program, part

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of Jesus' ministry was
that of healing the sick.

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But it did not stop
with our Savior.

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He sent out twelve disciples
with authority to preach the

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good news of the kingdom of
God and to heal the sick.

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Notice it in Luke
the ninth chapter.

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Many are aware of this, but do
you realize that Jesus gave

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this power and authority
to seventy others?

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We read of that in Luke the 10th
chapter, beginning in verse 1.

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So what about now?

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Does Christ give that authority
to His servants today?

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Can you therefore be healed?

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Here's a great commission
given by Christ to all who

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genuinely believe in His name.

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Mark the 16th chapter.

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A clarification is needed on
this passage as some think

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it means something entirely
different from what was meant.

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Jesus was not promoting the
misguided practice of snake

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handling or drinking poison.

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We read in 2 Kings
4 and verses 38-41,

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We also read of the
Apostle Paul shipwrecked

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on the island of Malta.

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The natives of the island
started a large fire to warm

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their wet and weary visitors.

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And Paul helped gather some
fuel for the fire and was

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bitten by a poisonous snake.

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Notice in Acts 28, verses 3-5.

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Any objective reader realizes
that in both cases these were

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not examples of showing off
one's faith in a religious

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service, but accidents
for which God intervened.

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Jesus' command in
Mark 16 to heal the

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sick was obviously for his
servants down through the ages.

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me? This is why we are offering
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that apply to you and give
you five keys you need

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to understand God's
supernatural healing.

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Just because there are religious
fraudsters doesn't mean that

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Before the break I said we'll
look at five keys that you need

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need to understand
about divine healing.

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Do you realize that the Bible
gives clear instructions of

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what to do when you are sick?

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Write down this passage
and look it up for

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yourself in your own Bible.

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James 5, verses 14 and 15.

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Is anyone among you sick?

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Let him call for the elders
of the church, and let them

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pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the

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name of the Lord.

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And the prayer of faith
will save the sick, and

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the Lord will raise him up.

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So our first key to understand
God's healing is to obey the

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instructions found in
James 5, verses 14 and 15.

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Now, this is not
the whole story.

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It's important to know where
God is working, as he is not

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working in everyone who claims
to be one of his servants.

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This is a large subject
in itself, but I

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encourage you to read and
meditate on 2 Corinthians

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chapter 11.

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2 Corinthians 11.

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There is much contained in the
instructions given by James

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in the 5th chapter and this
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But for now, key number one is,
obey the instructions given

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in James 5, verses 14 and 15.

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Two blind men came to
Jesus requesting to

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receive their sight.

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And Jesus put this
straightforward

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question before them.

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Matthew 9, beginning
in verse 28.

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And Jesus said to them,

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Therefore, key number two
is the importance of faith.

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It may come as a surprise,
but even Jesus was limited

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to what He could do where
there was no faith.

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We learn this from His visit
to His hometown in Nazareth,

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found in Mark the sixth chapter,
beginning in verse five.

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The author of Hebrews, whom we
believe based on the evidence

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was Paul, had this to say
about the importance of faith.

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You can read it in
chapter 11 and verse 6.

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But without faith it is
impossible to please him.

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For he who comes to God must
believe that he is, and that

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he is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek him.

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And this brings me to
our third key, the

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importance of obedience.

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It's difficult for us to
imagine, but not everyone was

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happy when people were healed.

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God worked remarkable miracles
through the early apostles as

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we read in Acts 5, beginning
in verse 16.

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This was not the
end of the story.

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God sent an angel to
supernaturally release them and

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commanded them to go right
back to the temple complex

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in the morning and teach
the words of life.

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This of course landed them
once again in the hot

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seat before the council.

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And when the high priest
strongly rebuked them

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for preaching in the
name of Jesus, the

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apostles boldly responded

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I want to share with you two
more keys regarding healing.

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But what if you follow the
instructions in James 5 and you

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go to God in faith and obedience
and you're not healed

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I'll answer that in the last
portion of this program.

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Now I would be dishonest if
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goes to God is divinely
healed in this life.

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However, I do know of
many people who have

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been supernaturally
healed, some for whom

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doctors gave up hope.

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"Does God Heal Today" gives
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of us to receive it, and why
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but succumb to their ailment.

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All of us experience injury
and sickness causing

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discomfort, pain and suffering.

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A trip to a doctor often
involves jabbing, cutting and

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administering chemicals
that add more pain.

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This Tomorrow's World program
is about divine healing, and

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the question on many minds
is does God heal today, and

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if so, can I be healed?

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Now nothing that I say on this
program should be taken as

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advice not to go to a doctor.

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Most doctors are well-meaning
and knowledgeable

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about the human body,
and they can certainly

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be helpful, but they mostly deal
with the effects rather than

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the causes of our afflictions.

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And that brings me to another
key regarding God's healing.

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Number four, divine healing
involves forgiveness of sin.

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Jesus kept the Passover with
his disciples on the night

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in which he was betrayed, and
in doing so he instituted

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symbols of a new covenant.

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Those symbols of unleavened
bread and wine were part

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of the traditional Passover,
but he gave them new meaning.

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Notice it in Matthew 26,
and beginning in verse 26.

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The wine symbolized
His shed blood.

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We've all sinned and the penalty
for breaking God's law, which

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is the definition
of sin, is death.

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The life is in the blood
and Jesus' blood was shed

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to pay for our lives.

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But what is the purpose
of the broken bread?

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The prophet Isaiah reveals
this significant truth.

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Isaiah 53, verses 4 and 5.

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Surely He has borne our griefs.

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Now the original in the Hebrew
is literally sicknesses,

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and carried our sorrows.

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And again, the literal is pains.

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The pain and suffering
Jesus went through

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was for our healing, both
spiritually and physically.

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He paid the consequences
of our sins, not only

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the death penalty, but
sin's physical penalty,

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which is pain and suffering.

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There's a direct connection
between sin and disease.

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Why is this not
generally understood?

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Sexual promiscuity brings
many afflictions such as HPV,

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syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV and
AIDS just to name a few.

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Gluttony and overindulgence
in food and drink take

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a toll on our bodies.

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Smoking, vaping and the
use of recreational drugs

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lead to many known afflictions.

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Envy, uncontrolled anger and
other harmful thought patterns

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negatively affect the
mind and the body.

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And this is why James added
this comment when calling

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for the elders to
pray for our healing.

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James 5, beginning in verse
15,

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Jesus upset the
scribes of His day

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when He connected healing
of a paralyzed man

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with His authority
to forgive sin.

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Let's notice in Matthew
9, beginning in verse

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2, what it says there,

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The connection between sin and
sickness was so strong that on

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another occasion the Pharisees
assumed that any sick person or

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his parents must have sinned.

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But Jesus showed that
this is not the case.

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Notice it in John
9 and in verse 3.

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However, most afflictions
are caused by our

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sins or that of others.

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The drunk driver that plows
into you is guilty, not you.

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But more often than not, we are
the cause of our afflictions.

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And this brings me
to my fifth key.

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Number 5, The Need
for Repentance.

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Why would God heal you if you
continue to do the things

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that brought painful penalties
upon you in the first place?

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Forgiveness doesn't
require perfection,

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but it does require an
attitude of repentance,

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A sincere desire to change.

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We may not always know
specifically what we

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have done or what has
been done to us to cause

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sickness, but we ought
to repent if we do know.

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And finally, why does God not
heal everyone every time He

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goes to Him in sincere
faith and repentance?

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For the same reason that a
good parent does not give

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his child every request.

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That would not be
good for the child.

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A prime example is that
of the Apostle Paul.

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God used him as an instrument
of healing on many occasions,

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but God did not heal Paul
of some unknown affliction.

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We read of this in 2 Corinthians
12, beginning in verse 7.

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God heals according to
His will, not our own.

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