Subject: If we ask for healing does God answer no |
Bible Note: Mitch I was gong to stay out of this but you force me in. Let us look at Job a moment. Let us look at Job 1:8 this is God speaking and he says Job is blameless and upright, a man that fears God and shuns evil. Yet right after that testimony of God we read Job lost his children and his wealth. Let us move to Job 1:22 here God through His Holy Spirit that in ALL of this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. Now we move to verse Job 2:3 God again testifies on Job's behalf saying there is none like him on earth and again repeats he is BLAMELESS and upright, a man the fears God and shuns evil and hold fast to his integrity even though Satan incites God against him TO DESTROY HIM WITHOUT CAUSE. Right after this we see Job inflicted with boils. Now look at Job 2:10 Job's wife seeing his misery says curse God and die. Here the Holy Spirit testifies that Job did not sin with his lips. Now if Job had a problem with his faith allowing fear to over take him, do you think God would have ignored it calling Job blameless? If Job was weak in faith tied up in fear would God say there is none like him on earth upright shunning evil? Would God say Satan incited Him without cause? All of these require God to be saying something different than you accuse Job of doing. The book of Job was given to us to show us how a man of God stands, perseveres and overcomes when faced with adversity and tragedy. Job is to imitated not accused Sir you have got caught up in the some the craziest teaching, it is known as Word of Faith. It is predicated on metaphysics in that through faith you speak things or situations into or out of existence. This teaching has been around in one form or another for hundreds of years and every major denomination (let me add a caveat here since every one is taking me to task today), that I can at this moment think of, has a statement/teaching/doctrine that this teaching is heretical. The most disgusting and ugliest part of this teaching is they realized for this falsehood to stand they had to malign Job which they did by attempting to say he brought this problem on to himself. Yet God Himself testified that Satan incited God not Job or anything Job said. Sir let me say you wish you had the faith of Job. EdB |