The Gospel of Healing

It is A. B. Simpson's careful statement of the scriptural foundation for divine healing. He sets out the biblical basis for trusting Christ as Healer, answers popular objections, and gives practical direction to those who would seek healing by faith. The book closes with testimony, including Simpson's own account of the healing that changed the course of his life and ministry.

Albert Benjamin Simpson was a Canadian-born preacher of the later nineteenth century, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and a leading voice for the deeper Christian life. Divine healing was one of the four folds of his 'fourfold gospel' — Christ as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King — and this book is his fullest treatment of that theme.

That healing of the body is part of the gospel provision — that Christ, who bore our sicknesses as well as our sins, still heals in answer to faith. Simpson roots healing in Christ's atoning work and in the promises of Scripture, presenting it not as a novelty but as a neglected part of the whole gospel, to be received by faith and by trusting Christ himself as Healer.

Simpson's own healing. He had been broken in health, and came to a settled conviction from Scripture that Christ was his Healer; trusting him, he experienced a restoration that transformed his life and enabled his tireless later ministry. That firsthand experience gives the book its earnestness — he writes not as a theorist but as one who had proved the truth he teaches.

The common ones: that the age of miracles has passed, that sickness may be God's will for the believer, that healing belongs only to the atonement's spiritual benefits, and that trusting God for healing means despising medicine or presuming on God. Simpson takes these up in turn, seeking to answer them from Scripture and to guide readers into a sober, faith-filled trust in Christ as Healer.

Simpson writes soberly rather than sensationally, tying healing to faith in Christ and submission to God's will, not to mere claiming or the despising of all means. He gives practical direction meant to guard against presumption, urging that healing be sought in dependence on Christ and in a right spiritual condition, as part of a whole life of trust.

Anyone wanting to understand the biblical case for divine healing as Simpson and the deeper-life movement taught it, and any believer weighing what it means to trust Christ as Healer. It remains a foundational text for that tradition, valued both for its scriptural argument and for the personal testimony of healing that stands behind it.

At the beginning, with Simpson's scriptural foundation for healing, before the answers to objections and the practical directions, ending with the testimonies. The book is ordered as an argument leading to application, so it rewards being read in sequence, letting the biblical case be laid before the practical counsel and the accounts of healing.