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 divine expression of this redemption plan, and we can clearly see that healing for the body is placed upon an equality with healing for the soul. Both are obtained upon the same grounds, obedience and faith.

Q. Can a person possess salvation without healing?

A. Yes, he may. While both are obtained by faith, yet they may not both be obtained by the same act of faith. Jesus will be to us just what our faith takes him for.

Q. Did Jesus heal everybody?

A. Yes; all who came to him in faith. Read Matt. 4.23-24 and Matt. 12-15.

Q. But they did not seem to have faith, did they?

A. Yes. If you read the references just mentioned, you will notice the people “came to him” for healing, and “followed him.” At Nazareth, his own town, where he had been brought up, he could do no great work among them, because of their unbelief. At Capernaum, where some of the most remarkable healings were wrought, the people were a believing people. Out of nineteen of the most prominent individual cases of healing in the ministry of Christ and the apostles, there are twelve of these where their faith is spoken of. The rest are mentioned sufficiently plain to show that faith brought the healing in every case.

Q. Did not Jesus heal arbitrarily, for the sole purpose of establishing his divinity?

A. No. He healed according to the law of redemption, and because-of his great compassion to suffering humanity. Matt. 14.14.

Q. Did not healing cease when Jesus finished his earthly ministry?

A. No. It was more wonderfully manifested in the ministry of the apostles, after the day of Pentecost. Acts 5.12-16; 3.1-16; 14,8-10; 9.17, 18; 8.6-8; 19.11, 12; 14.19, 20; 9.33-35; 36.42; 20.8-12; 28.3-6,8. This proves clearly that divine healing is a redemption blessing for the entire Holy Spirit dispensation.

Q. But we are taught that it was only for the beginning of the gospel dispensation. How about that?

A. The Bible does not teach any such doctrine.

Q. But it does teach that “when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” I. Cor. 13.10. How about this?