Our Healing Ministry (TOM)
Dr. Wierwille discusses the greatest healing - the new birth. He also teaches on the healing wholeness of the love of God in manifestation in the believer.
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Publication Date: 07-18-1976
Pages: 6
Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades.
By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word.
In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary from which he received a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree.
Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953.
Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982).
Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word.
Our Healing Ministry
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille
SNT -- TOM
[This “Tape of the Month” begins with an introduction to the teaching by an unidentified speaker. Those introductory remarks are indicated by italics in the following paragraph.]
God bless you. The December 1986 Tape of the Month contains three wonderful teachings by Dr. Wierwille. The first is a twenty-two minute teaching entitled “Our Healing Ministry.” The second is a thirty-five minute teaching on 1 Timothy 3 and 4 from the 1970 Way Family Camp on “How to Enjoy the Bible.” The third is a twenty-five minute teaching from the closing of the Way Family Camp on “How to Enjoy the Bible.”
The greatest healing I know is spiritual, and it's the new birth. And it's spiritual, but the spiritual is so dynamic that it affects the physical. And it's basically in believing. Because those people of the Old Testament who could not be born again, still if they were properly taught and they believe what they were taught, then believing that brought a lot of healing to them.
But in our day and in our time – and this is what I'm going to be teaching and setting before our men across the country and world, our women – is:
Romans 10:9-10:
9That if thou [will] shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and . . . believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; . . . with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
That, I believe, is the greatest healing.
Now, accompanying that, of course, with this birth of Christ within is speaking in tongues; where you build up that inner man, that spiritual man. And he is at work within us to will and what? do His good pleasure.[1]
You all know 3 John 2, which:
3 John 2:
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest [what?] {prosper} and be in [what?] {health} . . .
Now, that spirit of God working within us, people, has never been analyzed as to how much that does physically for us. But the word of God says that He worketh within us to will and to do his good pleasure. And one of His good pleasures must be 3 John 2, His will, right? Prosper and in what? health.
Now, it's not just to be born again; it's to be born again with the renewed mind on what are sonship rights and what we have in Christ; because you've known a lot of people that have been born again, but nothing happened to them physically. The reason it didn't happen to them physically because they never put on the mind of Christ, and what really happened to them spiritually when they were born again.
Our teaching ministry is so dynamically urgent. Just teach, teach, teach, teach.
Then, I believe that perhaps the greatest thing I know in all healing is love. Now, you know the foundation's done, but then in practice, is that love.
In 1 Corinthians Chapter 12, verse 27, it says:
1 Corinthians 12:27:
Now [you] are the body of Christ, [whether we like it or whether we don’t, we are the body; and we are] members in particular.
Not everybody is a sore thumb in it; not everybody is a pointing finger; not everybody is an eye. But every part of that body is very, very important.
1 Corinthians 12:28-31:
28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities [genos] of tongues.
29Are all apostles? . . . prophets? . . . all teachers? . . . all workers of miracles?
30Have all the [charismata] of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way [than coveting].
And that is Chapter 13, which is the greatest chapter in the Word on the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation.
You see, God so loved, according to John 3:16, that God gave His only begotten Son[2]. Now you and I are sons of God. Now we must so give that others can learn to live. For as we give, they live. If God so loved that He gave, the least that you and I can do is so love that we give.
You know, it's so easy to criticize. It's so easy to find fault. It's so easy to see wrong because that's the natural man. That's how we were born and raised. That was the environment. That's the culture we came out of.
Now we are born again. Now we are believers, being motivated by the greatness of God's Word. And we have to just drive ourselves to get over that criticism, that fault-finding, that seeing the wrong all the time. God so loved that He what? gave.
I remember Moses, I remember Abraham, I remember David; I remember a lot of others in the Old Testament that God so loved that He gave. I remember Paul; God so loved that He gave.
Boy, if we could just discipline our minds to never say anything but that which is positive and on the Word, what a day that would be . . . never to say anything except that which is good about someone. If we couldn't say anything good about anyone then we better look at ourselves, because everyone has something good that we could share.
In 1 Timothy 6:10, it says that:
1 Timothy 6:10:
. . . the love of [what?] money is the [what?] root of all [what?] evil: . . .
If the love of money is the root of all evil, then the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation must be the root of all good, by sheer logic. The love represents the world, the power, the structure. Nothing wrong with the world. There's nothing wrong with the power, and nothing wrong with the structure; except once they get money, they never get enough of it. That's why the love of it, the love of it is the root of all evil. They never get enough.
The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation will never get enough of the love of God. We can always use more. Spiritually, He has given it us all, but I haven't put it all on up here.
Just picture for a moment, just remember the healing that came when somebody really loved you with that love of Christ. Not that possessive, not that egotistical type of love, not that get something out of you type of thing called love –no, no, no. Where they just opened their heart to you, and just took you in and tenderized you with the love of God in the renewed mind. I don't know anything more healing than to be loved – than to just gather someone into your spiritual arms, so to speak; into your heart, into your mind – and just sharing your dynamic love with them the Christ that's in you, just tenderly.
You know, anybody can raise hell, but very few people who are Christian ever get to the place of really exuberating love, tenderness, kindness, forgiveness, understanding.
Think how healing it is when someone just walks up to you and takes you by the arm, and he says, “I sure love you.” A lot more healing than someone take you by the arm and say, “Well, what in the hell is the matter with you?” {laughter} Isn't it now?
You see, we've heard that negative side, that hell business and all that bad stuff, we seldom take a look how healing a place can be where there is a believer with that love. Golly! You are the greatest arm of God's healing in the world today. You heal just by loving people, by tenderizing them, by taking them in.
Now, you may not agree with what they're doing, they may be wrong, you may have to show them a little scripture; but you can do that lovingly too. God is our Father. We are His children. If God so loved, we are His children, then we love.
There is no other way of bringing great healing. Now, I'm not just speaking spiritually, I'm speaking physically – physical healing. Because that love does something to people that makes their blood flow better. I don't know. Muscles function better. I don't know what happens in the physical body, I just know it happens. It warms them inside. They say that worry gives you ulcers because it does something to your bloodstream that eats out your stomach or your intestines, so you’ve got ulcers. Well, if that poison in the bloodstream is from worry, think of the sweetness of love in there. Then love would be healing. Love would tenderize. Love would bring that blood to flow better.
You know, when you lose your temper, and you really jump up and down and raise hell, just think how, how sick you feel on the inside. How your old heart pumps like crazy and you get red in the face – just the opposite of what love does. It will settle that heart down and it'll beat normally and nicely. I doubt if any of us have ever taken a look at the healing wholeness of love, really.
And when you spell it all out from God's Word . . . the Word says, how can we say we love God if we do not love our what? {brother}.[3] God so loved that He gave.[4] You can just look up verse after verse of scripture on love. Every one of them you will see is contributing toward making you and me physically whole. Nothing is as healing as that love.
I looked up a few verses of scripture that I thought I wanted to share with you also in Proverbs, Chapter 12, verse 17:
Proverbs 12:17-18:
17He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
18[verse 18] There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is [what?] {health}.
So, there are two ways of going; one is the love way, the other is the opposite. Speaketh like the piercing of a what? sword. You know, raising hell, loud voice, yelling at each other or at someone is like the piercing of a what? {sword}. It cuts. It injures. But the tongue of the wise, the tongue of the wise – not piercing but love – speaketh truth, showeth forth wisdom; that brings health.
In Chapter 16, verse 24:
Proverbs 16:24:
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the [what?] {bones}.
Pleasant words . . . pleasant words come from the heart of love. And the heart of love is the heart that has been tenderized with the love of God in the renewed mind; where we put on the mind of Christ, and we speak, and we walk with that mind, and with that love.
It says also in Proverbs that death and life are in the power of the tongue.[5] Death and life are in the power of the tongue. All sickness is death in whole or in part. All healing is deliverance in whole or in part as needed. Death and life are in the tongue. So, the life that's there must be the life of the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation.
In the thirteenth chapter of Proverbs, verse 17:
Proverbs 13:17:
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is [what?] health.
Faithful ambassadors holding forth God's Word bring health.
One of the reasons we don't minister here every Sunday night – well, first of all the place been too crowded many times, but that's just an excuse really. Never too crowded if you really want to. But you see, I'm just so convinced that this place has the love of God here and the accuracy of the Word, and I just am so convinced that we speak with that love of God, that the healing has to come. You've got to build people's believing on the Word.
See, always I've been fearful that if we did too much ministering and healing, then people get the idea, well, V.P. is the healer. That's not what I want. I want the Word; the Word in this ministry, see. Sure, I could minister healing every night but that's not the greatness of what I believe in. I believe it's wonderful from time to time for me to minister, but I think the greatest ministry is the ministry of the Word. It’s that Word that liveth and abideth what? {forever}. It's that Word that brings healing. And people have to get confidence in the Word and not in a man.
See it? They got to get confidence in God and His Word. Now, the man is only a vessel. That's fine . . . needed . . . but boy, the Word, The Word! A faithful ambassador brings health by teaching the Word and by loving people.
You see, in spite of the shortcomings of all of us, we still have the greatest amount of love radiating of any peoples any place in the world. There is no greater love being made known in the world than through this ministry today, any place. And, as ambassadors holding forth the love of God, it will bring health to people. And it's that Word you want to promote.
You don't go forth and talk about how great The Way Ministry is. Nothing great about The Way Ministry; it’s the Word that's great. The Way Ministry just happens to fit in that Word occasionally. You talk the Word! A man says something, read him the Word! Don't tell him The Way Ministry stands for this or for that; tell him what the Word says. The Way Ministry will do all right, as long as you teach the Word, and I teach it, right? It's the Word.
In Isaiah 58, listen to this – verse 7:
Isaiah 58:7-8:
7[It is] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, [you know, talking about the fast] and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou [covers] him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8Then [then if you do, then] shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; [and] the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
“Then shall thy light break forth [in] the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily.” When? “When thou seest the naked, that thou [shalt] cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
Do you know what that means? Sometimes men are prone to help somebody else, but they won't help their own kids. They're sweet on everybody else's woman except their own wife; sweet on everybody else's man except their own husband; sweet on helping the poor heathen in India and not the next-door neighbor. Want to send a missionary to India – huh, ha – when they ought to be “missionaring” next door, see. That's what that verse means.
Looked at it again . . . see it again myself:
Isaiah 58:7b-8a:
7b . . . when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own [what?] flesh?
8aThen shall thy light break forth . . . [then] health shall spring forth speedily: . . .
Isaiah 58:9a:
Then [verse 9] shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; . . . and he shall say, Here I am.
If we get things in proper order with the new birth, the manifestations, speaking in tongues, studying to show ourselves approved by putting on the mind of Christ, rightly dividing it – and then just have that love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation – the healing, physical healing is fantastic among a group of believers. Fantastic, because it's built on the Word. And the Word delivers; the Word heals.
[1]Philippians 2:13 KJV - 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
[2] John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
[3][3] 1 John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
[4] John 3:16
[5] Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.