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© 1973, 2000 by R. V. Bosworth Published by Fleming H. Revell a division of Baker Book House Company P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bosworth, Fred Francis, 1877-1958. Christ the healer. p. cm. Reprint of the 9th ed., with a new foreword and final chapter. ISBN 0-8007-5739-4 1. Faith-cure. I. Title. BT732.5.B67 1974 252 73-17492 Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture is taken from the King James Version of the Bible. For current information about all releases from Baker Book House, visit our web site: http://www.bakerbooks.com C ONTENTS Foreword to the 2000 Edition 7 Foreword to the 1973 Edition 11 Author's Preface 13 Sermon 1 To Those Needing Healing 15 Sermon 2 Did Jesus Redeem Us from Our Diseases When He Atoned for Our Sins? 23 Sermon 3 Is Healing for All? 47 Sermon 4 The Lord's Compassion 67 Sermon 5 How to Appropriate the Redemptive and Covenant Blessing of Bodily Healing 83 Sermon 6 Appropriating Faith 105 Sermon 7 How to Receive Healing from Christ 111 Sermon 8 How to Have Your Prayers Answered 125 Sermon 9 The Faith That Takes 129 Sermon 10 Our Confession 135 Sermon 11 Fullness of God's Life The Secret of Victory 145 Sermon 12 God's Garden 151 Sermon 13 Why Some Fail to Receive Healing from Christ 159 Sermon 14 Paul’s Thorn 183 Thirty-one Questions 199 Testimonies 205 The Ultimate Triumph by Bob Bosworth 231 F. F. Bosworth F 2000 E OREWORD TO THE DITION Christ the Healer, first published by my late father, F. F. Bosworth, in 1924, has been in continual print for seventy-six years. The book has been the living pioneer classic and textbook on the subject of God's compassion and longing to heal all who are sick. It lives because of the current flood of testimonies from those spiritually feeding directly on my father's ministry through the book. Other vast multitudes are benefiting through the ministry of countless preachers around the world who are proclaiming the same truth that they have learned through these teachings. It seems to be in order to explain the need to revise, expand, and publish another edition of such a successful classic. My father said in his preface, "In this book we have tried to use the vocabulary that common people understand...." In his day, this goal was accomplished, as evidenced by the stream of testimonies that flooded his ministry office from those converted and healed. Dad's passion was to communicate transforming truth, transferable concepts that would surge forward and spread from one believer to another. He longed to see God's Word grow, creating a domino effect and bringing true revival. Although the truths published in the early editions never changed, language, writing styles, and vocabulary have become more direct. The first messages were made up of long sentences with many compound phrases making comprehension difficult. 7 CHRIST THE HEALER Many of the newer messages in the eighth edition were presented in a more modern and easy-to-understand way. The older messages were left as they were, and to the younger generations, these became more difficult to understand. In presenting this limited revision, I have sought to enhance truth without changing it. Long sentences have been broken down and the concepts have been checked for clarity. I have been very careful to maintain the integrity of truth as stated in the old text. At the time the original book was published, my dad was experiencing much ministry pressure, and he felt strongly the necessity to publish printed truth for the masses. Never having developed writing skills, he merely gathered his most important sermons and put them in a logical sequence. His book became a compilation of sermons. The sermons were written in the same style as he preached. Proof-texts and references were kept to a minimum. Many quotations of the Word were from translations and helpful paraphrases unavailable today. He had a habit of using quotation marks to emphasize a truth, not always a quotation. Because of the necessity in ministry to recap previous truths, there is a certain repetition and overlapping in the sermons presented. I have not revised or edited these. Little has been written concerning the life and ministry of F. F. Bosworth and his brother, Bert, as it relates to Christ the Healer and their healing ministry. Dad and B. B. were dedicated evangelists. To them, the saving of souls was paramount, and every other consideration, including the healing of the body, was secondary. Early in Dad's ministry, he discovered that the healing side of the Gospel had been given to the Church as its greatest evangelizing agency. This discovery continued to guide him through more than fifty years of ministry. This guiding light eventually took him to Africa at the age of seventy-five where he had his most successful ministry. Christ the Healer has been expanded to briefly cover Dad's testimony of healing and successful ministry after the age of seventy-five. 8 FOREWORD TO THE 2000 EDITION In the preface to this book, F. F. Bosworth expressed his earnest prayer that many thousands would learn to make the promises of God's Word work in their lives. With this thought in mind, we present the new revised and expanded edition of Christ the Healer. Bob Bosworth 9