That which reverses the curse is not the day of consummation but Christ's atonement. Believe for healing rather than excuse yourself over your little faith.
Don't look to fat, balding christians to create a false theology but rather look to Jesus with faith.
Faith pleases God (Hebrews11:6) not your sicknesses! If so, he would've created adam and eve with sicknesses.
If you want to remain sick, go ahead & remain sick. But don't make it a doctrine and discourage other christians who want to be healed, by distorting Hebrews chapter 11.
Don't confuse between bodily redemption and healing by faith. This topic is on healing by faith in Christ's atonement (Isaiah 53:4; Mathew 8:17).
Remember, there are "consequences" for refusal to believe in Christ's atonement. Don't confuse those "consequences" with genuine suffering which helps to grow in faith because that confusion is trash theology.
Sovereignty works through faith. Talk of sovereignty without faith is trash.
Suffering hardship without faith Christ's atonement saves from the hardship is trash.
I knew a woman who attended a church called Glory Barn run by a guy that believed like you. His name was Hobart Freeman.
As a result of her "faith" she didn't wear glasses for about six years, so she was unable to drive during that period of time. Finally, she wised up that she was following a nut and left his church. Then she could drive again.
Hobart Freeman himself died at age 64 due to his refusal to seek medical care.
In the meantime, though, people in his church were laying out dead kids alongside live kids, expecting them to be resurrected through the transfer of life that they claimed would occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Freeman
Here's a summary of their controversies:
At a meeting of the County Board of Health on October 23, 1974, Barbara Clouse, the Health Nurse for Kosciusko County was concerned that the Glory Barn was a major health problem and it would only get worse. She detailed her concerns, saying that:
Diabetics were not taking their
insulin and pregnant women were receiving no pre-natal or post-natal care. ... They are laying dead babies and live babies next to each other on the altars and praying over them to get the live babies to bring life back to the dead ones. There was one woman in our county praying over a baby for four days before the funeral home got hold of it.
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Clouse's concerns were later supported by local hospital statistics for 1975/6, which suggested that women from the congregation who gave birth at home were over 60 times more likely to die than those who gave birth at hospital under medical supervision. Later assessment by the US Department of Health and Human Services supported this conclusion.
[36] Deaths of several women, infants and babies were reported, and the local media blamed Freeman's teachings as medical treatment had been declined or refused.
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Deaths continued to be reported to the frustration of county law enforcement officials.
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Shortly after they were publicized, the old Glory Barn burnt down in the early hours of July 4, 1980. Six people escaped from the burning two-story barn. Two youngsters, Joel and Lee, suffered burns before they were rescued from their bedrooms by their father Brendan Wahl. The boys' mother, Peggy Wahl (née Nusbaum), also claims to have been involved in their rescue, along with their daughter Penny who was not injured[
citation needed]. Fire brigades from
North Webster,
Syracuse and
Cromwell fought the blaze for some two hours until dawn, and the fire was subsequently investigated by the Noble County Police and Indiana State Fire Marshal. North Webster fire officials described the fire as of "suspicious origin".
[39] To date no culprit has been charged.
In May 1983, the
Chicago Tribune ran a story on David Gilmore whose 15-month-old son, Dustin Graham, had died five years previously from an easily treatable form of meningitis. Following church teaching, Gilmore and his wife had relied solely on prayer for their son's healing. Gilmore said he knew of twelve other children who had died under similar circumstances.
The Tribune further identified fifty-two deaths from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky which, they asserted, were attributable to church teaching. A few months later, ABC television's
Nightline reported that pregnant women following church teaching died at a rate eight times the national average and their children at three times.
Nightline further identified nineteen states and five countries where deaths had occurred which, they asserted, were attributable to church teaching.
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Eventually, Hobart Freeman was charged with aiding and abetting one of these deaths by what was described as "negligent homicide".
[41] At least ninety members of the congregation died during Freeman's ministry,
[42] which Daniel McConnell described as tragic and preventable.
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Here's the account of his death:
Death[edit]
Two weeks before this matter was to come to court, Freeman died at his Shoe Lake home of
bronchial pneumonia and
congestive heart failure complicated by an
ulcerated gangrenous leg, which in the weeks preceding had forced him to preach sitting down. He had refused all medical help,
[44] even to the removal of the bandages so his leg could be cleaned.
[45]
Previously in
Faith for Healing, Freeman had said that "To claim healing for the body and then to continue to take medicine is not following our faith with corresponding action ... When genuine faith is present, it alone will be sufficient for it will take the place of medicines and other aids."
[46]
Freeman's death was not reported for at least 13 hours due to an all-night prayer vigil for his resurrection. He was buried in a pine box with no public viewing and no graveside or memorial service.
[47] For some time afterwards, his wife, June Freeman (d. 29 January 2000), left his suit over the end of the bed, expecting him to one day walk in and have need of it.
[45] She soon came to accept his death as the will of God, and encouraged the congregation to persist in their faith.
[48]
Simple summary of the reasonable Christian approach to healing:
- Ask God in faith for healing, calling upon the elders for prayer and anointing.
- If it is God's will, he will heal you.
- If he does not, wait patiently in faith and joy, even if it is until the day of your death, because you know the LORD.
- Realize that God perfects his saints through suffering as one of the means, and being conformed to the image of Christ is the goal.
- Don't listen to lying, delusional Word of Faith teachers, most of whom are extremely ignorant and untrained and should be reading
their bible book by book, cover to cover, to see the WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD, not just the cherry picked verses of false teachers.
- Realize that in the resurrection, the mortal bodies are reclaimed, and until then all of creation, including these mortal bodies, groan
in anticipation (Romans 8)
I hesitate to tell gullible folks about the antics of false teachers like Hobart Freeman, because they are likely to research him and follow his teachings.
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