Heading For Healing 39: T.L. Osborn's "The Message That Works" (For Salvation And Healing) Is The Message Of The BIBLE, The Message of W.M. Branham, J.G. Lake, Dowie, Etc.

My apologies for my being so slow to catch on. I did not know that the whole of William Marrion Branham's teachings were called "The Message" by his followers. I have only been interested in Branham's teaching that all sickness, illness and disease are the result of Satan's destructive work in the Garden of Eden--the lie that we are separate from God, and because of Jesus Christ's sinless life and work on the cross we are FULLY REDEEMED FROM Satan's work, and thus we now may be completely forgiven, saved, and healed IN God, and He IN us.

That is really a pretty short message, isn't it? Satan caused sin, sin destroyed our relationship with God, which ruination opened us to corruption; God as Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for us, paying the FULL price of our punishment, won the reward of us--the right to forgive, adopt, restore us to Himself, and heal us. This is THE message of the Bible, and is all that Branham's Message is about: ALL SATAN'S CLAIM OVER US IS GONE, DESTROYED, AND WE ARE, IF WE BELIEVE, BACK TO THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAD WITH GOD IN THE GARDEN: "You in Me, and I in them."

Jesus Christ came to set man free from sin and death and the pains of hell. And He DID. 

I knew that Daisy and T.L. Osborn had heard this message preached by William Branham in Portland, Oregon, before the beginning of their successful evangelistic crusades. This message of God's love and Satan's defeat allowing our freedom, success, and healing was the inspiration for their healing ministry. So I should not have been surprised to find that the message in T.L.'s book The Message That Works is indeed the same message they heard from Branham in Portland, that God loves us, Satan is defeated, and Jesus is Lord; thus we can be saved and healed.

The story of the Gospel is all about this transition or flip from our being under Satan's control to being completely free of him in God. The four-hundred-and-ninety-year Season of Grace culminates in this freedom -- Daniel 9:24. I wondered if other healing ministries had the same basis and inspiration. I remember stories about Smith Wigglesworth striking and abusing the ill who came to him for healing. "I am not striking them; I am striking the Devil who gave them the illness," he said.

I have a copy of God's Generals: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed by Roberts Liardon (1996, Whitaker House). Page 173: "In utter hopelessness, Lake threw his Bible against the fireplace mantle and it fell to the floor opened to Acts chapter 10. As he walked over to pick it up, his eyes drifted to verse 38: '...God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the DEVIL, for God was with Him.'

"Those words ripped through his thoughts. 'OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL!' That meant that God wasn't the author of Jennie's sickness, or of any sickness! And if Lake was a son of God through Jesus Christ, then God was with him, just as He was with Jesus! Now he was convinced it was the devil who had cause Jennie's illness."

Page 25, regarding John Alexander Dowie: "Then I prayed for some message.... Then the words of the Holy Ghost inspired in Acts 10:38, stood before me all radiant with light, revealing Satan as the Defiler, and Christ as the Healer. My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing...I said, 'God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how 'tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same.'"

T.L. Osborn heard the message from William Branham, then SAW the message when Jesus walked into his bedroom. The Glorious One was triumphant!! IS (!!) triumphant. His victory is full, whole, and complete. We are forgiven...IF WE BELIEVE. Mark 11:24, "Believe ye receive, and ye will HAVE."