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so much for your love and your support
over the past week i announced eight
days ago that
i have received this diagnosis nabil
koreshi and i were very close friends
we knew each other for several years we
would see each other at conferences and
we were part of a larger group of
christian apologists that would get
together and
talk about the defense of the faith and
talk about theology and
we developed a very good friendship just
a few weeks or so after the last time
that i was with nabil
personally we found out that he had been
diagnosed with stage four
cancer the diagnosis was stage four
stomach cancer it was considered
inoperable it was also considered
certainly fatal the statistics say that
four percent of people with this
diagnosis survive
i realized very quickly that if i were
going to
live i would need more or less a miracle
one of the things that the word of faith
movement is against
is suffering and god's will is anything
but
suffering i refuse to create a theology
that allows for sickness
it's always god's will to heal everybody
so the question i want to
answer right now then is is it god's
will for everyone to be healed
this provides beyond my dear love for
nabil
and and hope for him personally an
interesting case study
and does this actually work and if it
doesn't
why doesn't it work first of all we have
to
affirm the truth that god can
and does heal people in response to
prayers
at the same time it is impossible
for christians to be formed into the
image of christ
without undergoing some kind of
suffering i began to get sicker
so i went in for some blood work and my
doctor called and
said he thought it might be cancer but
they suggested that it
it could be a form of t cell lymphoma or
leukemia
i know when i was diagnosed with
terminal brain cancer
in 2009 there were these two camps that
were the loudest
and to be honest with you neither was
really comforting the first camp was
kind of that
and if you just have faith and believe
that god will heal you he will heal you
and and man if you if you don't you know
you need to put people around you that
have faith and can encourage that faith
in you
and then and i just thought man how
exhausting to put all that on me
and then there was this other kind of
nonchalant well just praying god's will
for your life
and and then i'm going whoa but doesn't
the word of god tell you and james
to pray that i might be healed as i pray
that i might be healed
i had a brain tumor i was in my frontal
sinus
and it was pushing into my frontal lobe
i was having vision problems and
things like that and so we moved quickly
to a specialist to have that taken out
and they ended up having to use both of
my nostrils
and resection part of my skull but they
were able to get it out that way
it's not wrong to desire miracles it's
not wrong to desire miraculous
deliverance from sickness
and i believe those things still happen
today
the problem comes when you believe that
those things are normative
and that every christian should expect
that to happen and if it doesn't happen
it's a lack of faith on the part of the
believer
that's unbiblical jesus did have
compassion for people he was
moved with love and empathy to heal
people
but that healing in jesus own words was
intended to glorify god
and when you get to the end of john in
chapter 20 he very explicitly states the
purpose of his gospel
which is that so you may believe
in the book of mark it is a good place
to start in mark
uh one he's at the home of simon and
andrew
and simon's mother-in-law has a fever
and so he of course heals her and that
evening
the whole city was gathered at the door
and you know what
he healed a lot of people and then he
got up
early the next morning and went to a
desolate place to just like
have a quiet time with the father after
all of that
and then he comes back and it's like
everyone's gearing up again and lining
up again hey where's that guy who healed
everybody
everyone is looking for you he said to
them let us go
somewhere else in the towns nearby so
that i may preach
there also for that is what
i came for and so he leaves and and he
doesn't heal
all of those people and that doesn't
mean that he's evil or wrong or mean or
terrible it's it's that he came
to bring the word and to help people
know to repent and believe because
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