Now, we have two remaining episodes this week, both devoted to physical healing on Friday.

We'll talk about healing ministries today.

Should we trust them or not?

And if we don't, if we avoid them, are we doing so because we think such a ministry

is fraudulent or are we doing it because we are stopped by our own unbelief?

Great question.

But first up today, we talk about the timing of healing.

And will God heal us of our pain in this life?

And why did Christ seem to heal so few in his earthly ministry?

At least it appears that way.

To these questions, come the following excerpts from John Pepper's sermon titled Christ

in Cancer.

This is a sermon he preached very early in his pastry already by then, Pastor John was

only at it for about a month in his pastry, and he was well acquainted already with death

in cancer and sickness.

I'll begin with his testimony.

Before I entered college, I scarcely gave any thought to cancer and internal illness in

general.

Then I went away to school at Wheaton and two of my very close acquaintances died before

they were 22, one of leukemia and one of cancer of olympic glands.

Then I went to Fuller Seminary and within one year watched my systematic professor Jim

Morgan shriveled up and died of cancer of the intestines, he was 36.

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