A Christian myth: the supernatural is "not for today."

"What we read in the Gospels and Acts is not for today." That is a myth being bandied around some of today's churches. "Divine healing, casting out of demons and supernatural events ceased 2.000 years ago" some say - and even preach. Often it is merely denominational tradition, which contradicts the Bible. Other churches who purport to believe in the miraculous in their "list of beliefs" do no more than give sermons on it; they don't really expect it to happen. Yet the Bible is clear.

Hebrews 13:8 says "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." It gives the lie to the "not for today" myth. The verse says clearly what Jesus did then He will do now - for those who have heart faith.

It would take only one person miraculously healed, one demon cast out, one person raised from the dead in the last 2,000 years to prove it was not only for "back then." Since Hebrews 13:8 was written, many miraculous and supernatural events have been recorded. Many have experienced Jesus in action, doing what He did back then. Not only will Jesus do the supernatural today(now) but forever (tomorrow and all following days) until He returns.

Without supernatural works, Jesus had only words, and He knew words alone would not back up His claims of representing God.

He told and expected the disciples and apostles to do the supernatural, as He did. In Mark 16 it was the last thing He said before ascending. How foolish to disregard what He said. Nothing has changed in this 21st century. People today are still sick, bound by demonic oppression, afflicted. God expects believers to do something about it.

T. L. Osborn and his wife Daisy did something. They spent more than thirty years holding meetings before huge crowds in India, Africa, and many other countries. They saw the same miraculous healing results as Jesus, the disciples and apostles. T. L. began the meetings because as a very young missionary in India he would show his Bible and say it was the truth. Those he spoke to pulled out their holy book and said that was the truth. So the Osborns realized if such people were to trust in Jesus they had to receive more than words. The Osborns were instruments for God, and the result was a twentieth-century re-enactment of the Book of Acts. The blind saw, the deaf heard, the cripples walked.

Supernatural events are rarely seen in the western world, because church congregations are not taught to expect them. Not only that, the faith of many is mainly in the medical profession. It's common for a church today to refer a sick person to a doctor instead of healing the sick (as Jesus said to do). How can one expect to receive the supernatural when there is no belief in and expectation of it? So we have a situation where the misled produce more misled.

How arrogant of churches today to think their methods are better than those of Jesus!

The devil is laughing now because the church is limping along on half-power. To deny the power of God is to fit the words of 2 Timothy 3:5: "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." Take away the super from the word supernatural and you have only "natural" left. Christianity in the main has become"just another religion" - no different to all the rest. Thank God for those who are different, but it's time for the Christian church generally to abandon its human tradition, conferences, seminars, and endless talkfests, and begin to minister as Jesus did.