If you think that Pharisees only existed in the time of Christ, guess again! As then, there are religionists today who do not want to see you healed. I have heard people who will try to talk you out of your healing after you get it! These people do not believe in healing and the fact that you got healed threatens them. You have something they don't have. They are jealous. I have had my own healings attributed to Satan by some who hate the gospel of healing. They actually claimed that Satan did it to get me to believe and teach bad doctrine. (According to them, God sickens and Satan heals. How's that for a perversion?)

Jesus said that you must beware of the teaching of these people. "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees...Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." -- Matthew 16:6, 12.


How can you spot a Pharisee? See what they were like in Scripture. They were Bible experts who knew the letter of the Law but not the spirit of it. They got upset when people got healed. They tried to discourage people from going to Jesus for healing. They complained about healings happening on the Sabbath day. They said that Satan was doing the works. They didn't care about world evangelism and interfered with those who did care. They had no concern for the lost and were upset that Jesus would minister to people that they thought were low-down. They nit-picked everything Jesus and his disciples did and looked for ways to trip them up. They gave men dead religious formalism, not life. Above all, they were threatened and jealous of the success that the real Christians had. And so it is today.


What do you do about them? You avoid them. You don't go to the churches they run, even if Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa always did, and even if your family has "that" kind of religious background. Stay away from party-poopers who mock divine healing and aren't glad you got healed. Don't waste your time and money on a church that has no vision to see lost people born again, either. Don't go to a church that has a form of godliness but no power.


2 Timothy 3:5:

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

You will find that some of the bitterest opponents of healing are people who once believed in it but then stopped when someone they knew failed to receive his healing. Some of these people will stop at nothing to try to talk you out of believing God for your healing. Their bitterness usually shows itself plainly in their words. Don't hang around such people. If you do, not only their unbelief but also their bitterness can get off on you. (Scripture talks about many being defiled from one root of bitterness.) Find people who have experienced healing through faith in Christ and hang around them instead!

Go somewhere where the new birth is preached, where Jesus is preached as being the Healer -- the same yesterday, today and forever! To continue to go to a lousy church, even while reading good healing literature, will hinder you from getting and staying healed. Beware of the leaven of modern-day Pharisees!