The devil always cheats. What, for instance, does the charismatic movement say to us? It says, ‘If you are not one of us, if you are one of those old fuddy-duddy traditionalists, you don’t have the Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit because we can speak in tongues and we can do dramatic things and heal. And we’ve got these powers and this is how the Holy Spirit works.’ These are enticing, plausible words, but they are actually wrong and they will cheat us. ‘Don’t you know that in the New Testament’, they say, ‘all people could heal. Why, on every page of the New Testament, there are healings and miracles going on and ordinary people are empowered to do them.’ ‘Oh,’ you say, ‘are they really? Well, I did not realise that.’ And this is only one of hundreds of phoney arguments. Well, it is plausible, it may throw us off balance until you think, it isn’t true, it’s a nonsense. In New Testament times everybody couldn’t heal. Why, once when the apostle Paul was at Troas and a lad fell out of a window and was taken up for dead, people did not know what to do. They were distraught. Only the apostle could have healed that lad. Only the apostles could heal. Christ gave the power to heal exclusively to his apostles. Now that does not mean that we cannot be healed by God today, but when we are healed it is by prayer to God, not by any minister or person coming and laying his hand on us and channelling the power. Christ could heal to authenticate him as the glorious Son of God and his apostles could heal, and he told them why he gave them that gift, because they were witnesses of the resurrection and the attested penmen of Holy Scripture. But these were signs given to few.