Physician Humor.........or is it?
by Unleavened Bread Ministries - Roots of Modern Medicine
Think about this:
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST . . . ONE DOCTOR!
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Man's Methods and God’s Glory
But God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to naught the things that are: that no flesh should glory before God (1 Cor.1:27-29).
God’s methods will always be considered foolish, weak, base and despised by the world and the worldly church. I inherited from my father a chronic weakness in nasal, sinus, and inner ear infections. By the time I came to the Lord, my eardrums had burst many times because of these infections. I dreaded this because it was very painful. My hearing was impaired due to scars on my eardrums. Also, like my father, I carried nasal spray with me almost year round to open up my sinuses. This had destroyed the lining in my nose, which made the problem worse. Because of this, I started using saltwater as a nasal spray, which did not work as good. Penicillin became useless and vitamin C too. Shortly after I came to the Lord I discovered that I did not have to seek healing any more because 2000 years ago I was healed by Jesus’ stripes. I threw my nasal spray and my vitamin C away by faith. My nose and sinuses have not stopped up since, even when I have had a cold. I have had no more burst eardrums either. This testimony has been given to many who also came to faith and were healed. At the end of all of my works to save myself by mans methods, God gave me faith to see His works. God’s method was faith in Him combined with my own weakness. He said, “my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor.12:9). Faith is foolish, weak, and base to the world but it brings God’s power.
Before I knew the Lord, I applied for a job at Exxon. Their physical showed that I had hearing loss from scarred eardrums and a non-functional heart murmur, which I had from childhood. They almost did not hire me. A few years later after I discovered the Lord and His method, they called me in for another physical. There was no sign of hearing loss or heart murmur. My poor attendance record caused by sickness also made a complete turn around. Worldly methods failed me, but faith in the promises brought the most awesome deliverance. Glory to God!
Recently, I watched a report on antibacterial soaps on the national news. They reported that the net effect was that they were not wiping out bacteria, but making it resistant. What did penicillin do but make antibiotic resistant bacteria for which there is no medical cure on the horizon. Poisons on the crops to try to destroy the curse go into the water supply and cause a multitude of diseases. Read your toothpaste tube; fluoride is a deadly poison. The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 284 July 26, 2000 reports that doctors are the third leading cause of death in the US causing 250,000 deaths every year from iatrogenic causes! Iatrogenic is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment. If this is what their organization admits, what is the truth? The numbers are much higher. If, as some believe, this is God’s preferred method of healing today, He is surely making a lot of mistakes. I have a good doctor friend named John Farmer, who prefers not to use drugs. He has told me how he prays for patients who will believe, with results. The problem is that most are not interested in deliverance from their curse if it takes repentance and faith so he does what he can.
My mother took a drug for years. One day she was reading an article by Reader’s Digest on the side effects of medicines. The side effect of the drug she was on was breast cancer and glaucoma, and she had them both. That was a terrible trade. My father’s favorite doctor told him after an examination, “One thing I am sure of, you are not going to die of a heart attack. You have the heart of a much younger man.” About a month later, he had a serious heart attack. I became convinced it was because of a drug he was taking to put oxygen into his blood because he lost a lung to smoking. Two close friends took a drug that had a side effect of damaging their kidneys. Their doctors admitted this in both cases. Man shifts the curse around and some times multiplies it, but he cannot deliver by his own efforts. If he could, then Jesus’ death was for naught. I believe it is God’s purpose that we understand that there is no permanent deliverance from the curse except God’s deliverance through Jesus Christ. The world’s deliverance is a deception, because, ultimately, their gods fail them. God wants us to see through that.
We have been told that God now uses modern methods for delivering us from the curse. God’s method is always free. It is salvation by grace, which is the unmerited, unpaid for, favor of God. Neither Jesus nor His disciples charged anything for healing, deliverance, or any other form of salvation. The world’s method always costs. The poor often go untreated until they die. In God’s kingdom, all are treated on condition of faith. God desires to use the same method He used in Scripture, the word of faith, because it is the only one that does not give glory to man. For instance, if a Christian receives a recovery from some disease while under the care of doctors and medicine, everyone wants to know what the medicine was or who the doctor was. God will not share His glory with another. I am not condemning those who use doctors or medicine. I am offering the good news that Jesus has already healed you almost 2000 years ago. All we have to do is read the New Testament once to find out that God did not use the methods of man. In the coming wilderness we will need to understand this.
Soon God’s people will not be able to buy or sell with the world. Then all will be forced into a wilderness experience where there will be no idolatry with the gods of this world. For the people of God there will be a great lack of doctors, medicine, lawyers, bankers, psychiatrists, insurance, public assistance of all types, food, clean water, and everything else. Then we will see God's power in man’s weakness (2 Cor.12:9,10). The church’s methods of obtaining provision today are the same as the world’s methods and are therefore acceptable to it.
God has a peculiar method for ministering deliverance from the curse that costs nothing, gives no glory to man, and proves His sovereignty. (1 Cor.1:28) and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to naught the things that are: (29) that no flesh should glory before God. We see here that God chose to use something that does not exist in the physical realm in order to destroy the things that do. The “things that are not” are the promises in the Word that we do not see fulfilled. The “things that are” are the cursed things of sin, sickness, and lack, which God wants to “bring to naught.” For instance, if you are sick, that is a thing that is; but “by whose stripes ye were healed” is a thing that is not in the physical realm. God chose faith in this promise that is not in order to bring to naught the sickness. Jesus and the disciples used God’s method for dealing with the curse by “calling the things that are not, as though they were” (Rom.4:17). They just commanded it done according to the promises. They did not choose the things that are, like doctors, medicine, psychiatrists, and such to bring to naught the things that are, like sickness, torment, poverty, and such. The things that appear in this cursed realm are the things that are. (Heb.11:3) By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.
God’s method is to use the Word and not the physical things that appear, just as in the Gospels and Acts. In anointing with oil, it is obviously not the oil but the faith that heals. Oil was just a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Paul’s handkerchief did not heal; it was the power from his faith (Acts 19:12). Some might think that once Jesus used things that are when He made clay with His spit to heal a blind man in John 9:6,7. It was not smearing the clay in his eyes that healed him, but washing it out of his eyes. Clay symbolizes the Adamic nature and the things that are (Job 10:9; 33:6; Isa.29:16; 45:9) just as man was made from clay. In other words, our eyes must be cleansed of seeing through eyes of clay. We need the spiritual eyes to see the promise as done by faith. (2 Pet.1:3) seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life (Greek: zoe, “God’s life”) and godliness . . . . To have spiritual eyes, we must see that Jesus has already given us His life and blessings. We need to be cleansed of fleshly eyes that keep us from God’s blessings. The natural man (of clay) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot know them because they are spiritually judged (Greek: “examined” or “seen”) (1 Cor.2:14). By the way, the spit from Jesus mouth symbolizes that which comes out of the mouth of the Lord that gives life to man, the Word or manna (Dt.8:3; Jn.1:1-3; 6:33,51).
I once knew a preacher who said, “The reason Paul did all those miracles was because Luke the physician was with him.” Wrong! Not in one verse do we see Luke using physician skills, which could never result in a miracle. The Greek word “Iatros” falsely translated “physician” just means “healer.” “Iatros” is also used of Jesus as “healer.” Translators put their modern ideas here. “Physician” means “one who practices medicine,” which Jesus and the apostles never did. The term used for drugs or medicine in the Greek is “pharmakia” (English: pharmacy) and is translated “witchcraft” or “sorcery,” which Paul called a work of the flesh in Galatians 5:20. The nations are deceived with pharmakia (Rev.18:23). Luke was a healer in the same way Jesus and the other disciples were.
It should seem strange to these people that Jesus and his disciples did not use “the things that are” to administer healing or deliverance. If Paul's handkerchiefs had the power to heal, why could it not heal before he touched it? It only acted as a medium to carry the healing anointing to the sick by faith. I have prayed over handkerchiefs, water, or people as mediums and seen healings. A brother came into our meeting whose wife was very sick. He was very troubled and on the edge of tears about this. The brother was not yet convinced that he needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Asking the Lord in my thoughts what to do, it came to me to pray over him to impart healing power to him, which we did. Then I said, “Now brother, go lay hands on your wife, and she will be healed.” He was not convinced that healing was our right today; but he went home to lay hands on his wife. When he did, she was healed; and he came back excited. You see, it is not the medium; it is the healing power manifested through it, or in this case him, by faith. Jesus imparted authority to the disciples to heal before they received the Holy Spirit.
So how do we use God's method of “the things that are not”? By "calling the things that are not as though they were” (Rom.4:17). In other words, agree with the promise and call it done. God chooses to use “the things that are not, that he might bring to naught the things that are: that no flesh should glory before God.”(1 Cor.1:28,29). God does not desire to use man's inventions so that He only can brag. God's salvation is not by our works. It is by getting our eyes off the problem and on the promise. 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 teaches that our affliction will be temporary if “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.” When the Israelites got their eyes off the snake bite (curse) and on the serpent on the pole (Christ who became our curse [Jn.3:14]), they were healed (Num.21:4-9).
