The Healing Ministry (Pt. 2)
Why do some oppose healing? There are different reasons. The Sadducees who were the "modernists" of that day, committed themselves to a rationalism that denied the supernatural. As for the Pharisees, the case was different. They were "fundamentalists," and they opposed Christ's healing ministry because of the popular reception given to it and their own inability to duplicate it. They reasoned among themselves saying, "What do we? For this man doeth many miracles. If we let him alone, all will believe on Him (John 11:47-48). The truth was that the Pharisees were willing to believe in the miracles of the past but wanted none at present. This attitude led them on a dangerous ground of actually claiming that the healing was the work of the devil. The Lord solemnly warned them that they were guilty of blasphemy and were in fact in danger of committing the unpardonable sin (Matthew 12:31-32). The ministry of healing is one...