"Healing isn't for today; that was just for the apostles' time."
How it sounds in your head: Your youth pastor said sign gifts ceased when the Bible was completed. Healing was to validate the apostles, not for random high schoolers in 2025. Sounds scholarly.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
-- Hebrews 13:8Source: Cessationist theology stripping modern believers of covenant promises and making Jesus' nature TIME-LIMITED instead of eternal.
Explains why not everyone gets healed and removes pressure to believe for miracles. Lets you off the hook for contending and makes intellectual sense in a naturalistic worldview.
NOT an apostle, just a deacon—yet multitudes with paralysis and lameness were HEALED through him. Healing wasn't limited to the Twelve; it flowed through ANY believer filled with the Spirit.
I REFUSE the lie that healing expired with the apostles. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus Christ is the SAME yesterday, today, and forever—Hebrews 13:8. He didn't heal because of a TIMEFRAME; He healed because of His NATURE, and His nature doesn't change. Philip was a DEACON and healed multitudes—healing flows through BELIEVERS, not just apostles. IT IS WRITTEN that these signs follow those who BELIEVE—Mark 16:17-18—I BELIEVE, therefore signs follow ME. I am Abraham's seed, blessed with EVERY spiritual blessing in Christ. The BARAK blessing covered Jacob the DECEIVER for LIFE, not just a season. My covenant is BETTER and ETERNAL. Sickness, you have no timestamp argument. JESUS IS ALIVE and HE IS THE HEALER. Now means NOW.
Your Father didn't heal in the first century and then retire from the healing business—He's the same Father running toward you TODAY with the same power that raised Lazarus. The expiration date theology is man-made; His nature is eternal.