He Sent His Word and Healed Them
This article "He Sent His Word and Healed Them" was taken from the Heart Magazine, August/September 1987. HE SENT HIS WORD AND HEALED THEM Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille HEART Magazine – August/September 1987, Volume 11, No. 3 – pages 3 and 7 It says in God’s Word that God sent His Word and healed people. For many years I didn’t understand what that meant: “God sent His Word and healed people.” Then, as I got deeper and deeper in the working of the Bible, I began to see that literally God’s Word is healing. When we put on His Word in our minds, when we absorb it, when we begin to live it, we receive the greatest healing I know. Yet, on a greater plane, what does it profit a person to be healthy a lifetime and still lose his soul in the end because he was not born again? Jesus came that all of us might have complete wholeness. “Salvation” and “wholeness” come from one Greek root, sōzō, thus salvation means wholeness and wholeness means salvation. When Jesus Christ cleansed the ten lepers, he sent them to the Temple to show themselves to the priests so that the priests could acknowledge, according to the law, that they had been healed. After going to the priest for a clean bill of health, only one returned and gave Jesus Christ credit and thanks. Jesus said that leper was made whole. All ten were healed, but only one was made whole. So there is a lot more to living than just physical health and well-being. Jesus Christ came that we might have life to the fullest. I know that by his death on the cross, by his shed blood, we have both our remission and forgiveness of sins. Also, by his stripes we were healed. Therefore, the potential for wholeness physically and spiritually is available in Christ Jesus. Now the thing we as informed believers do – and I see this thing happening or beginning to happen in our community and our country – is to help the spiritual temperature of believing God’s Word rise. As we hold forth God’s Word and the believers receive that Word and put on t
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Topic: health, healing, deliverance, Heart Magazine Format: pdf Publication Date: 08-1987 Pages: 5 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He studied at the University of Chicago a