It is a tragic shame that there are preachers who have programs on scores of radio and television stations, preaching messages generally every day of the week, but messages that are diametrically opposed to the plain truth of scripture.
David Jeremiah is one such preacher. I have heard him dozens of times and watched him on television. Many of his messages are spot on and totally in line with the scriptures, but he preached a message today that will inevitably seal the fate of countless believers, causing them to die premature deaths when they could live for decades more. His message was on, or I should say, against divine healing. He wasn’t preaching against the charlatans like Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts, men who claim God uses them to heal the sick. He was preaching against the idea that God divinely heals today by any means, not even in answer to prayer. Satan’s blinding power was quite evident in David Jeremiah’s message today. What on earth does He do with James 5, verses 14 and 15: “Is ANY sick among you (any would include desperately ill folks, believers with even terminal illnesses), let him call for the elders of the church (but don’t call for David Jeremiah), and let them pray over him…..and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP!”
Does he think Jesus was kidding when He said, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will (that would include asking to be healed when sick), and it SHALL (not might, but SHALL) be done unto you” (John 15:7).
Jesus’ words don’t abide in David Jeremiah. That’s for sure. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or more listen to this man AND BELIEVE WHAT HE SAYS. How many desperately ill believers will be turned away from believing Jesus Christ, continue in their illness AND DIE, because of this preacher’s words????
He is a smooth talker. Like I said, I have heard him dozens of times. He quotes a lot of scripture, even telling his listeners what such and such a word is in Greek or Hebrew, but he is deceived in much of what he preaches. I guarantee you his congregation rejects the instructions of James 5. None of the elders of Mr. Jeremiah’s church pray over the sick fully expecting God to heal them. Show me a congregation that omits this practice and I will show you a pastor and a congregation that embraces profound error and may well be worshiping that “other Jesus” Paul warned us about. And I’ll bet they’re preaching against Sabbath observance and ridiculing the keeping of God’s commandments.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley