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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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