Ministry of Healing

Chapter 3 – 8 Summary
Chapter 3 – With Nature and With
God
• The Savior's life on earth was a life of communion with
nature and with God. In this communion, He revealed to
us the secret of a life of power.
• The childhood of Jesus, spent in poverty, had been
uncorrupted by the artificial habits of a corrupt age.
Working at the carpenter's bench, bearing the burdens of
home life, learning the lessons of obedience and toil, He
found recreation amidst the scenes of nature,
gathering knowledge as He sought to understand nature's
mysteries.
Chapter 3
• He studied the word of God, and His hours of greatest
happiness were found when He could turn aside from the
scene of His labours to go into the fields, to meditate in
the quiet valleys, to hold communion with God on the
mountainside or amid the trees of the forest.
• The early morning often found Him in some secluded
place, meditating, searching the Scriptures, or
praying. With the voice of singing He welcomed the
morning light.
• In nature, the mind would be uplifted and the heart would
find rest.
Chapter 4 – The Touch of Faith
• “If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole.”
Matthew 9:21. It was a poor woman who spoke these words
—a woman who for twelve years had suffered from a
disease that made her life a burden. She had spent all
her means upon physicians and remedies, only to be
pronounced incurable. But as she heard of the Great
Healer, her hopes revived.
• The grateful woman desired to express her thanks to the
Mighty Healer, who had done more for her in one touch
than the physicians had done in twelve long years; but she
dared not. With a grateful heart, she tried to withdraw from
the crowd. Suddenly Jesus stopped, and looking round He
asked, “Who touched Me?”
Chapter 4 – The Touch of Faith
• Looking toward the woman, Christ insisted on knowing who
had touched Him. Finding concealment vain, she came
forward trembling, and cast herself at His feet. With
grateful tears she told Him, before all the people, why she
had touched His garment, and how she had been
immediately healed.
• She feared that her act in touching His garment had been
one of presumption; but no word of censure came from
Christ's lips. He spoke only words of approval. They came
from a heart of love, filled with sympathy for human woe.
“Daughter,” He said gently, “be of good comfort: thy
faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.” Verse 48. How
cheering were these words to her. Now no fear that she had
given offense embittered her joy.
Chapter 4 – The Touch of Faith
• Circumstances may separate friends; the restless waters of
the wide sea may roll between us and them. But no
circumstances, no distance, can separate us from the
Saviour. Wherever we may be, He is at our right hand, to
support, maintain, uphold, and cheer. Greater than the love
of a mother for her child is Christ's love for His redeemed. It
is our privilege to rest in His love, to say, “I will trust Him;
for He gave His life for me.” MH 72.2
• Human love may change, but Christ's love knows no
change. When we cry to Him for help, His hand is stretched
out to save us.
Chapter 5 – Healing of the Soul
• Many of those who came to Christ for help had brought
disease upon themselves, yet He did not refuse to heal
them. And when virtue from Him entered into these souls,
they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of their
spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies.
• Among these was the paralytic at Capernaum. Like the
leper, this paralytic had lost all hope of recovery. His
disease was the result of a sinful life, and his sufferings
were embittered by remorse. In vain he had appealed to
the Pharisees and doctors for relief; they pronounced him
incurable, they denounced him as a sinner and
declared that he would die under the wrath of God.
Chapter 5 – Healing of the Soul
• Again and again the bearers of the paralytic tried to push their
way through the crowd, but in vain. The sick man looked about
him in unutterable anguish. How could he relinquish hope when
the longed-for help was so near? At his suggestion his friends
bore him to the top of the house and, breaking up the roof, let
him down at the feet of Jesus.
• When he repented of his sins and believed in the power of Jesus
to make him whole, the mercy of the Saviour had blessed his
heart. Jesus had watched the first glimmer of faith grow into a
conviction that He was the sinner's only helper, and had seen it
grow stronger with every effort to come into His presence. It was
Christ who had drawn the sufferer to Himself. Now, in words that
fell like music on the listener's ear, the Saviour said, “Son, be of
good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”
Chapter 5 – Healing of the Soul
• The paralytic found in Christ healing for both the soul and
the body. He needed health of soul before he could
appreciate health of body. Before the physical malady
could be healed, Christ must bring relief to the mind,
and cleanse the soul from sin. This lesson should not be
overlooked. There are today thousands suffering from
physical disease who, like the paralytic, are longing for the
message, “Thy sins are forgiven.” The burden of sin, with
its unrest and unsatisfied desires, is the foundation of their
maladies. They can find no relief until they come to the
Healer of the soul. The peace which He alone can impart
would restore vigor to the mind and health to the body.
Chapter 6 – Saved to Serve
• It is morning on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus and His disciples
have come to shore after a tempestuous night on the
water, and the light of the rising sun touches sea and land
as with the benediction of peace. But as they step upon the
beach they are greeted with a sight more terrible than the
storm-tossed sea.
• From some hiding place among the tombs two madmen
rush upon them as if to tear them in pieces. Hanging about
these men are parts of chains which they have broken in
escaping from confinement. Their flesh is torn and
bleeding, their eyes glare out from their long and matted
hair, the very likeness of humanity seems to have been
blotted out. They look more like wild beasts than like men.
Chapter 6 – Saved to Serve
• With authority He bids the unclean spirits come out of them.
The unfortunate men realize that One is near who can save
them from the tormenting demons. They fall at the Saviour's
feet to entreat His mercy; but when their lips are opened,
the demons speak through them, crying, “What have we to
do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God? art Thou come hither
to torment us?” Matthew 8:29.
• The evil spirits are forced to release their victims, and a
wonderful change comes over the demoniacs. Light shines
into their minds. Their eyes beam with intelligence. The
countenances so long deformed into the image of Satan
become suddenly mild, the bloodstained hands are quiet,
and the men lift their voices in praise to God.
Chapter 6 – Saved to Serve
• Meanwhile the demons, cast out from their human habitation, have
entered into the swine and driven them to destruction. The keepers of
the swine hurry away to publish the news, and the whole population
flock to meet Jesus. The two demoniacs have been the terror of
the country. Now these men are clothed and in their right mind,
sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to His words, and glorifying the
name of Him who has made them whole.
• The two restored demoniacs were the first missionaries whom
Christ sent to teach the gospel in the region of Decapolis. For a
short time only, these men had listened to His words. Not one sermon
from His lips had ever fallen upon their ears. They could not instruct
the people as the disciples who had been daily with Christ were able
to do. But they could tell what they knew; what they themselves had
seen, and heard, and felt of the Saviour's power. This is what
everyone can do whose heart has been touched by the grace of God.
This is the witness for which our Lord calls, and for want of which the
world is perishing.
Chapter 7 – Coworking of the Divine
and Human
• In the ministry of healing the physician is to be a co-
worker with Christ. The Saviour ministered to both the
soul and the body. The gospel which He taught was a
message of spiritual life and of physical restoration.
Deliverance from sin and the healing of disease were linked
together. The same ministry is committed to the Christian
physician. He is to unite with Christ in relieving both the
physical and spiritual needs of his fellow men. He is to be
to the sick a messenger of mercy, bringing to them a
remedy for the diseased body and for the sin-sick soul.
Chapter 7 – Coworking of the Divine
and Human
• Christ is the true head of the medical profession. The
chief Physician, He is at the side of every God-fearing
practitioner who works to relieve human suffering. While
the physician uses nature's remedies for physical disease,
he should point his patients to Him who can relieve the
maladies of both the soul and the body. That which
physicians can only aid in doing, Christ accomplishes. They
endeavor to assist nature's work of healing; Christ Himself
is the healer. The physician seeks to preserve life; Christ
imparts life.
Chapter 7 – Coworking of the Divine
and Human
• The physician should teach his patients that they are to
cooperate with God in the work of restoration. The
physician has a continually increasing realization of the fact
that disease is the result of sin. He knows that the laws
of nature, as truly as the precepts of the Decalogue, are
divine, and that only in obedience to them can health be
recovered or preserved.
• He sees many suffering as the result of hurtful practices
who might be restored to health if they would do what they
might for their own restoration. They need to be taught
that every practice which destroys the physical,
mental, or spiritual energies is sin, and that health
is to be secured through obedience to the laws that
God has established for the good of all mankind.
Chapter 7 – Coworking of the Divine
and Human
• Knowing the Lord Jesus, it is the privilege of the
Christian practitioner by prayer to invite His
presence in the sickroom. Before performing a critical
operation, let the physician ask for the aid of the Great
Physician. Let him assure the suffering one that God can
bring him safely through the ordeal, that in all times of
distress He is a sure refuge for those who trust in
Him. The physician who cannot do this loses case after
case that otherwise might have been saved. If he could
speak words that would inspire faith in the sympathizing
Savior, who feels every throb of anguish, and could present
the needs of the soul to Him in prayer, the crisis would
oftener be safely passed.
Chapter 8 – The Physician, an
Educator
• The true physician is an educator. He recognizes his responsibility,
not only to the sick who are under his direct care, but also to the
community in which he lives. He stands as a guardian of both
physical and moral health. It is his endeavor not only to teach
right methods for the treatment of the sick, but to encourage right
habits of living, and to spread a knowledge of right principles.
• Many transgress the laws of health through ignorance, and they
need instruction. But the greater number know better than they
do. They need to be impressed with the importance of making
their knowledge a guide of life. The physician has many
opportunities both of imparting a knowledge of health principles
and of showing the importance of putting them in practice. By
right instruction he can do much to correct evils that are working
untold harm.
Chapter 8 – The Physician, an
Educator
• People need to be taught that drugs do not cure disease. It is true
that they sometimes afford present relief, and the patient appears to
recover as the result of their use; this is because nature has sufficient
vital force to expel the poison and to correct the conditions that
caused the disease. Health is recovered in spite of the drug. But
in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the
disease. Often the effect of the poison seems to be overcome for a
time, but the results remain in the system and work great harm at
some later period.
• The only hope of better things is in the education of the people in
right principles. Let physicians teach the people that restorative
power is not in drugs, but in nature. Disease is an effort of nature to
free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws
of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained.
Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits
corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel
impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.
Chapter 8 – The Physician, an
Educator
• Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet,
the use of water, trust in divine power—these are the true
remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's
remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both
to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the
sick and to have a practical training that will enable one
rightly to use this knowledge.
• The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and
effort that many are not willing to give. Nature's process of
healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it
seems slow. The surrender of hurtful indulgences requires
sacrifice. But in the end it will be found that nature,
untrammeled, does her work wisely and well. Those who
persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in
health of body and health of mind.
• One of the most deplorable effects of the original apostasy was the loss
of man's power of self-control. Only as this power is regained can
there be real progress.
• When one surrenders to Christ, the mind is brought under the control
of the law; but it is the royal law, which proclaims liberty to
every captive. By becoming one with Christ, man is made free.
Subjection to the will of Christ means restoration to perfect manhood.
• The physician's example, no less than his teaching, should be a
positive power on the right side. The cause of reform calls for men
and women whose life practice is an illustration of self-control. It is our
practice of the principles we inculcate that gives them weight. The
world needs a practical demonstration of what the grace of God can do
in restoring to human beings their lost kingship, giving them mastery of
themselves. There is nothing that the world needs so much as a
knowledge of the gospel's saving power revealed in Christlike
lives.
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