Sunday, July 14, 2013

There is a Doctor in the House!

Does the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) still heal people today?

During my last year of high school I developed a serious illness in my intestines.  I would be going about my business when suddenly it would feel as if a clawed hand grabbed my guts and then squeezed and twisted them.

I had no health insurance and it cost me a week's wages just to see a doctor so I usually just kept working while I was sick until I recovered.   However, this condition did not get any better but only got worse.  Eventually, it got so bad that I had to go see a doctor.

The doctor said that I had "gastroenteritis". This was a catch all diagnosis that doctors gave for an infection of the gastrointestinal tract when they did not know what the specific issue was.  He gave me some medicine that caused me to spend a lot of time in the bathroom but did nothing to relieve my symptoms.  After a while I saved up enough money to go to a gastroenterologist with similar results.  This occurred several times until one of the specialists told me that medical science did not know exactly what was causing the excruciating pain in my intestines and there was no known way to cure it.  He advised me to not eat anything that contained oil or spice.  I was a college student and foods that were greasy or spicy made up half of my diet!  (Sugar probably made up the other half.)

I was desperate enough to try this.  So I started avoiding pretty much all foods that were either greasy or spicy in the least.  It was good bye to pizza, tacos, fried chicken and pretty much everything else except plain dry meats like roast beef or unseasoned chicken breast and plain carbohydrates like bread and plain noodles.  It did seem to help a little but it did not really cure me.  After a couple of years of this I still continued to have episodes.

I did not want to live this way the rest of my life but I was out of options.  I had spent all that I had on physicians and had suffered many things at their hands but I had only grown worse.  I needed there to be a doctor in the house that could actually cure me.

Then one day, my cousin invited me to go a meeting with him in Tulsa.  I asked if it was at a church and he assured me that it was not.  So I consented to go with him.

I had surrendered everything to the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) by this point but I wanted nothing to do with churches.  The churches that most people attended in Northwest Arkansas did not really believe the Book of Truth (The Bible) and offered no real hope for overcoming any of my numerous issues.  I had read about healing in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka New Testament) and I asked several of the ministers in my area if it was true.  Some said that those stories of healing were "spiritual" and that the Man of Truth did not really heal anyone physically.  Others said that the Man of Truth and the Apostles of Truth really did heal people back then but all of that died out with the last Apostle.  I got conflicting and confusing answers but they all had a common theme:  Healing was not for people today despite what the Renewed Covenant plainly seemed to say.  They were certain that there was not a Doctor in the House.

When I arrived at the meeting it was not in a church as my cousin had promised.  It was in what seemed to be a former warehouse of some sort.  There was a stage that had been assembled there with a band on it.  There were television cameras pointed at the preacher.  We sat in folding chairs instead of pews.  It certainly was not like any kind of church that I had ever seen.

The preacher began preaching that day on the subject what the Book of Truth said about healing.  He went over all of the verses from the Renewed Covenant that I had read and said that these verses meant exactly what they said.  I felt hope for the first time in years because he said that there was a Doctor in the House!

As he continued to expound upon the Word of Truth faith began to rise up in me.  Then he gave an invitation for anyone that was sick to come to the front to be healed.  He explained that He would lay hand on people and that through the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaKodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) the Man of Truth, the Doctor, would operate on them.  He also explained that some people might fall down when he touched them.  I was ready to meet the Doctor but I was determined to not fall down when I was up there.  I jump up out of my chair and ran to preacher because there was a Doctor in the House!

He laid hands on my head, barely touching me, and immediately I started falling backwards.  I  tried with everything in my being to not fall down but to no avail.  I was stiff as a board and had no power to do anything but fall.  When I got up I knew I was well!  There was a Doctor in the House!

I was so confident that there had been a Doctor in the House that after the meeting I went to Pizza Hut, ordered the largest size they had of my favorite pizza and ate the entire thing by myself!  If anyone else had any doubts that I had been healed that erased them because this would have sent me to the hospital or the morgue if I had not been healed.  I have never had any of these symptoms return in almost thirty years because there was a Doctor in the House!

The fact that I was healed is undeniable.  However, the real question is what does the Book of Truth say about there being a Doctor in the House.

The first thing to know is that this preacher did not heal me when he laid hands on me.  It was no different than when Abraham prayed for the people of Abimelech and then the Father of Truth healed them (Genesis 20:17).  The Father of Truth is the one that heals people (Exodus 15:26).  He is the one that heals the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) to keep them out of the grave when they are as good as dead (Psalm 30:1-3).  He is the one that heals the Children of Truth of all of their diseases (Psalm 103:2-4).  The same One who saves people from their sins is the One who heals people (Jeremiah 17:14).

The Father of Truth sent His Word to heal those that are sick (Psalm 107:20). The Man of Truth is the living Word of the Father of Truth (John 1:1-3).  The Word became a man (John 1:14).  The Word was sent to carry out the will of the Father of Truth (John 5:30).

The Father of Truth said that the same Man of Truth who would be wounded to take away our sins would also be whipped to take away our sickness (Isaiah 53:5).  The Man of Truth would come with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2). (That is to say the corners of his prayer garment. [The corner of a tallit (prayer garment) is called a "kanaph" in Hebrews, literally a "wing".])

When the Man of Truth came he healed all manners of disease like a Doctor (Matthew 4:23).  Everywhere that the Man of Truth preached the Gospel people were healed (Matthew 9:35).  This Doctor mostly healed people where the Children of Truth gathered to worship on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9-12).  The Doctor continued his healing ministry even though it upset the religious professionals (Matthew 12:13-15).   The Doctor healed the blind and lame in the House of the Father of Truth (Matthew 21:14).  There was a Doctor in the House!

No case was too hard for the Man of Truth for he even healed those that were missing body parts (Matthew 15:30).  No case was too hopeless for this Doctor for he even dared to touch those that disease had made untouchable (Mark 1:40-42). This Doctor healed those that other doctors could not help when they took hold of the wings of his garment (Luke 8:43-48).  This Doctor healed anyone that had faith in his ability (Luke 17:15-19). This Doctor continued healing anyone in need right up to the end of his practice (Luke 22:50-53).  There was a Doctor in the House!

The Man of Truth commissioned interns to bring healing to others in the same way as himself (Matthew 10:1).  These original interns only extended their practice to the people of Israel (Matthew 10:5-8).  New interns were trained to carry on his work of healing after the Doctor returned to the Father of Truth (Acts 14:8-10).  Later the practice of his interns was extended to the Gentiles (Acts 28:7-9).  There was still a Doctor in the House!

The Man of Truth has commissioned the Children of Truth as new interns in this current age as surely has he has commissioned them to bring people into the House of Truth (Mark 16:17-18).  When these interns lay hands on the sick the Doctor is the one that heals the sick (Acts 4:10). This Doctor healed all kinds of people that the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) had oppressed with sickness because He was anointed with the Spirit of Truth (Acts 10:38).  His interns heal people by the same Spirit of Truth as the Doctor (1 Corinthians 12:9).  The Father of Truth has placed interns among the Children of Truth to continue on the healing work of the Doctor  (1 Corinthians 12:28).  There should always be some interns among the Children of Truth (1 Corinthians 12:30).  As long as the Children of Truth carry on his work there is a Doctor in the House!

When the Man of Truth begins his reign on the Earth he will heal the wounded (Isaiah 30:26).  When the Father of Truth replaces this universe with a new one healing will still be provided for all eternity (Revelation 22:2).  There will still be a Doctor in the House!

The Man of Truth has not ceased to bring healing to people (Hebrews 13:8).  The Man of Truth paid for your healing with the stripes from being whipped as surely has he paid for your salvation from sin with his death (1 Peter 2:24).  The Man of Truth heals people because he came to destroy every work of the Father of Lies (1 John 3:8).  There is a Doctor in the House!

Of course your body being healed of every disease is of no real value if you lose your soul because you never came into the House of Truth (Mark 8:36).  You need to come into the House of Truth to know the healer more than you need to be healed (Matthew 7:23).  You need to come into the House of Truth by following the Doctor's orders because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth.

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