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coming when you will worship the Father neither on
this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans do not
know what you are worshiping ; we Jews do know
what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the
Jews. But a time is coming- indeed, it is already here –
when the real worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just
such worshipers.’ ”

Now, is there an element of truth in the phrase, “healing is in the
atonement”? . The answer is yes, there is an element of truth. The fact is,
if it was all a lie it would not stand up at all. Nobody would believe it.
Error has to borrow from truth in order to support itself. Error cannot
stand on its own two feet. It needs some truth to stabilize it. But the
element of truth in this statement, “healing is in the atonement”, is this.
Healing is based on the atonement; it is not in the atonement. What we
mean by that is, every good thing God has ever done is because of the
precious blood of Jesus Christ. Everything, is established on the
atonement. Every good and perfect gift that God gives is because of the
cross. I just wanted to point out that this error, “suffering is because of
sin”, is still very much with us.

But don’t worry because the arguments that these men produced before
Job did not bear any convincing weight with him. Job was not blind, and
he gives two reasons for rejecting that whole philosophy. The first reason
is in chapter 21 starting at verse 7
“Why do the wicked still live, continue on, also become very
powerful? Their descendants are established with them in their
sight, and their offspring before their eyes, their houses are safe
from fear, and the rod of God is not on them. His ox mates without
fail; His cow calves and does not abort. They send forth their little
ones like the flock, and their children skip about. They sing to the
timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the flute. They spend
their days in prosperity, and suddenly they go down to Sheol. They
say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not even desire the knowledge of
Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And
what would we gain if we entreat Him? ’Behold, their prosperity is
not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
And so Job says “I am not blind”. You say, “The wicked suffer”. I look
out my window and I see a lot of wicked men, and they are not suffering.
How come? If your philosophy is true, if God sent suffering to the

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