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The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts

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    The Gift of Miraculous Healing

    Among spiritual gifts, divine healing occupies an honored place. In the Adventist Church it is highly regarded, as it is with many other religious folks. Healing by prayer and faith is one of the sweetest and most comforting gifts that the Lord has imparted to His people. In our literature much information concerning this gift is given, and our papers record many instances in which the Lord healed in answer to prayer. And we know more of this is yet to come.FSG 18.1

    But when we look about us for the gift of healing in modern Christendom, we meet confusion and counterfeits. There are earnest Christians here and there who believe in and practice the prayer of faith that heals the sick. We have met some of these humble disciples of Jesus. But there is too much noisy boasting of so-called divine healing, which certainly is not of the Lord. Some of this, even among Protestants, is simply rank fanaticism.FSG 18.2

    But the most and the worst of this counterfeit faith healing is to be seen among Catholics, where tens of thousands are today deceived by its false claims of miraculous healing. Anyone who has visited these places has seen on the walls, the crutches, canes, and other castoffs of the healed. These Roman pretensions to wonders were prominent in Europe after World War 1, and it is evident that there is to be another epidemic of them after the second World War.FSG 18.3

    If we read the popular Catholic literature today we find in the Roman church a spurious gift of healing—really a gross superstition. They have certain “holy places,” such as Lourdes, in France, where some saint, or more commonly Mary, is said to have appeared perhaps to a poor peasant or shepherd and promised healing and other miracles. Tens of thousands of people resort to these places and spend millions of dollars to be healed. This fraud has been growing, especially of late, right here in America. However, earnest Christians discern between the true healing as set forth in the Scriptures and many of the extravagant teachings concerning healing in our time among those who profess to be Christians and even others whose ideas of religion are more in harmony with the philosophy of India than with the teachings of the Bible.FSG 18.4

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