THERE was nothing supernatural about the healing works which our Master, Christ Jesus, did. He healed both sickness and sin by demonstrating the Christ. On page 332 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gives this explanation of the Christ: "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual,—yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death."
Jesus said (John 14:12), "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." The life of his faithful follower, Paul, bore witness to the fact that all who believe in the Christ can heal by the Christ. By the power of Christ, Paul preached the gospel, healed the sick, cast out devils, and raised the dead. He said (Phil. 4:13), "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
We read in the nineteenth chapter of Acts that the seven sons of Sceva, who was chief of the priests and a Jew, took upon themselves to call over them who had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying (verse 13), "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth." The account continues: "The evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded."
