Are people really being healed at these services? Some I have watched on YouTube look demonic and the people looked possessed more than anything. I like to listen to sermons on the radio, but one preacher just goes on with these stories about all these people he has healed from sickness, paralyzation, etc. Can someone give me some scriptural evidence that this is a spiritual gift? Thanks!
In the Old Testament Leviticus 13 anyone who had skin disease was considered ceremonially unclean and was quarantined for further observation. vs 11
What is leprosy? A skin disease.
Matthew 8 speaks of a man with leprosy who walks up to Jesus falls on his knees in worship and says "Lord, if you want to you can heal me." Jesus replies "I do, Be healed!"
I believe that is Jesus s heart when it comes to sickness and disease.
A thought for sickness is sick people can't and won't preach if they are sick.
1 Peter 2:24 says by His stripes we are healed. Is it talking about the spiritual or physical healing?
Take a look a Isaiah 53:4
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
If you take a look at John 9:2 (as well as other places) you learn sickness comes from our sin. Why is why Isaiah 53:5 says
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
You see the beating he went through was for our sins and because he took a beat for our sins he took our sickness and diseases. But how do we know that it was physical and not the spiritual?
Matthew 8:17
This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,
“He took our sicknesses
and removed our diseases.”
At this moment he took upon his body our sickness and diseases. As well as shows that 1 Peter 2:24 speaks of his stripes because he was beaten for our healing.
Hebrews 9:28
so also Christ died once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.
He came to take away our sins and in doing this took a whip to his back (John 19:1) In doing this we were healed for good.
There are multiple cases of Jesus using healing.
The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. 1 Corinthians 12:9-10 states it as a gift of the holy spirit
so most certainly