The Laying On of Hands
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He said, “Well, they’re no worse.”
“Well, what if you pray for them and they die?”
He said, “Well, the cemetery is full of people that the doctors tried to help.”
Just because doctors have tried to help a lot of people and they died doesn’t mean that it’s wrong
to try to help people get healed. So we’re saying, “Yes, stay with it. Men and women, doctors,
nurses, stay with it. It’s right.”
I’ll tell you a little secret: If the Lord tarries His coming, none of us are making it out of here
alive. If the Lord tarries His coming just a little bit, you’re not going to live down here 300 years.
Your dog is going to die, your parrot, your goldfish, your flowers, and you—and there is nothing
to fear. But the devil has no right to rob from us the days that we’re supposed to have down here.
God has given us long life. He bought it, and He paid for it. He bought our healing, He paid for
it. We have a right to it, so it is honorable to stand and hold fast to the Word of God, no matter
what you see or feel, or what someone else sees or feels. You hold fast to it.
I don’t care how broke you are and how low you’re living, you need to be saying, “I’m rich. He’s
made me rich.” And you say, “I don’t care what it looks like.” For the next three months, six
months, or six years, you keep saying it, and you keep believing it.
We’ve already decided this is true. We know it before we see anything or feel anything. It is true.
Look at these verses.
This is what we read about in Luke, but this is Mark’s account. Mark 1:41 says, “And Jesus,
moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou
clean.”
Mark 5:23 says, “And besought him [Jesus] greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point
of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.”
In verse 27, the woman with the issue of blood pressed behind and touched His garment. She
said, in verse 28, “If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.” Then, in verse 30, He “turned
him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?” In verse 31, He said, “Who touched
me?” Something was happening through the touch.
In Mark 7:32, it says, “And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his
speech; and they beseech him to,” do what? “put his hand upon him.” Why?
You might say, “Well, who
wouldn’t
want Jesus the Son of God to put His hand on you?” But
they didn’t know He was the Son of God. They didn’t see Him that way. Most of them saw Him
as a prophet, at best. But, why would they want Him to put His hand on them?
Do you remember what the Bible tells us Jesus preached? We have reason to believe He did this
numerous times. He took the book of the prophet Isaiah, and He found the place where it was
