1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,200 Well, we are continuing our series Christ is all. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,360 We revealed a couple weeks ago that that is our theme for 2026. 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,400 Christ is all from Colossians 3 verse 11. 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,200 And so in the first week we took time to really break down that 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,960 verse and why we find unity in Christ because Christ is all. 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,800 And then we asked ourselves last week, well, if Christ is all, 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,640 then what does that mean to me? And then we went through all of 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,280 that text from Colossians 3 verses 1 all the way to verse 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,280 #11 we found those three different vistas kind of getting 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,520 to the peak of Christ is all, and realized that there's some 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:57,880 things that we need to put in action. 18 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,840 For instance, the fact that Christ is our life. 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,840 And why wouldn't He be all? If he is our life and if we are 20 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,760 saved, he ought to be our life. He ought to be our everything. 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,320 Everything in our life ought to flow from the fact that we 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,880 belong to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ belongs to us. 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,400 Philippians 310 That I may know Him, the power of his 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,480 resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings being made 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,560 conformable unto His death. You know when something is your 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,440 all, you want to know more about it because that's the way it 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,320 ought to be. If something is truly your all, 28 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:32,600 you want to know as much about it as you possibly can. 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,000 Back in 2020 when I needed a hobby and well, we all needed a 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,840 hobby back in 2020 because we couldn't go anywhere for a 31 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,840 while. I remember one day I got the 32 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,680 newspaper and for those who are young enough, that's this thing 33 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,120 that you open up and it's got stories and pictures and all 34 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,640 kinds of stuff in it. And I had a newspaper and I was 35 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,200 just so bored that day that I decided I was going to do the 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,320 crossword puzzle that was inside of it. 37 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,080 And that took me down a rabbit hole that I wasn't expecting 38 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,360 over the next few years. And I'm here even today. 39 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,200 But I started to realize that it has its own language, its own 40 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,520 way of being able to understand the clues and all that stuff. 41 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,440 So I started reading blogs about crossword puzzles. 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,199 You know, there are blogs about crossword puzzles. 43 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,120 Yeah. I'm weird enough and nerdy 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,560 enough to find those. I bought a book I'm on how to do 45 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,680 the New York Times crossword puzzle, all of those different 46 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,360 things. And I wanted to learn as much 47 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,640 about as I can. And today I can do a large size 48 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,480 crossword puzzle with some effort, but I can do it. 49 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,160 And it's because I wanted to do it. 50 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,360 I enjoyed doing it. I want to learn as much about it 51 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,600 as possible. Last summer, I had the 52 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,200 opportunity to captain a pontoon boat. 53 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,920 That's right. I captain. 54 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,920 You say what? I just drove it. 55 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,480 That's all I did. It just sounds better when you 56 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,120 say captain, but, you know, getting out in the water. 57 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,320 And I realize if I'm taking someone else's pontoon boat on 58 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,320 the water, I probably ought to know as much about it as I can. 59 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,360 And so I didn't realize how many YouTube videos there were online 60 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,760 to be able to take care of how to deal with it and how to do 61 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,400 all the different things and even tying knots because, you 62 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,760 know, it's one thing to take it out and bring it in. 63 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,040 It's another thing to find out the next day it's in the middle 64 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,520 of the lake because you didn't tie it up right. 65 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,400 And so it was my all. I was checking out YouTube 66 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,160 videos. I was actually on the dock tying 67 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,040 the knot, watching a YouTube video at the same time to make 68 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,360 sure I was doing it right. But you know, those are some 69 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,360 what trivial things that I'm talking about. 70 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,840 But I can go back to when I would say which was December 71 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,160 2nd, 1998 if you want to fill that in, which most of you 72 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,080 already know that date for all these years. 73 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,280 But December 2nd, 1998, all of a sudden, I had known about Jesus 74 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,760 Christ before because I grew up as a Lutheran, but all of a 75 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,360 sudden I knew. Jesus Christ, you. 76 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,360 Understand what I'm saying? You understand the differences. 77 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Morning. I didn't just know about him. 78 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,440 Now I knew him and salvation. All of a sudden I wanted to know 79 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,840 as much about him as possible because it felt like everything 80 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,480 was new. I read my Bible before I'd read 81 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,080 my Bible. If I read my Bible, it just 82 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,040 seems so far away and it seems so distant. 83 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,480 It just seemed like it was something meant for someone 84 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:53,600 else. And now all of a sudden it all 85 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,360 applied to me and I wanted to go through the Bible and I want to 86 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,240 study the Bible. And I have notebooks back from 87 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,920 when I'm 17 and 18 years old of where I was writing things down 88 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,080 about my Bible reading because it was like. 89 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,920 I needed to know. Because, well, Christ was 90 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,480 becoming all in my life and I wanted to know more about him. 91 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,400 You know, if Christ is all and Christ is our life, then we need 92 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,959 to learn more about who Christ is. 93 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,399 And So what I want us to do, and I mentioned this the last few 94 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:21,480 weeks, is we're going to go through the New Testament and 95 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,000 look at the different attributes that we find of Jesus Christ. 96 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,360 The very first one that we see is in Matthew chapter #4 we're 97 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,120 not going chronologically through the Bible, but rather 98 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,560 going through the Gospels and then into the book of Acts and 99 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,360 the Epistles to learn more about who Jesus Christ is. 100 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,480 And this morning we're going to look at the fact that Christ is 101 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,800 healer. If Christ is old, then Christ is 102 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,440 healer. So would you stand please, for 103 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,720 the reading of God's Word? Where Matthew chapter 4 where 104 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:55,440 verse #17 then we're skip down to verse #23 and the Word says 105 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,520 this. From that time Jesus began to 106 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,080 preach and to say repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 107 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,040 By the way, that word repent still a good one today, Amen. 108 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,080 Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 109 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,400 Verse 23 And Jesus went all about about all Galilee rather 110 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,720 teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the 111 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,240 Kingdom and healing, there's that word healing all manner of 112 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,680 sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 113 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,720 And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they brought unto him 114 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,520 all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and 115 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,120 torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those 116 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,760 which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy. 117 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,720 And he healed them. And there followed him great 118 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,080 multitudes of people from Galilee and from Decapolis, from 119 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,560 Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan. 120 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,400 And I really want us to focus in on verse #23 here at first, 121 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,120 where it says, And Jesus went all about Galilee, teaching in 122 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,400 their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and 123 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,520 healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among 124 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,320 the people. And really, we could look at 125 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,680 three different words that characterize Jesus in this 126 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,480 verse, teaching, preaching and healing. 127 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,920 But I would submit to you that the first two, teaching and 128 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,520 preaching is what he did. Healing is who he was. 129 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,320 And you say, well, the teaching and preaching isn't important. 130 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,640 Oh man, it's vitally important. And we're going to see how they 131 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,360 all go together here this morning in just a minute. 132 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,720 But this morning I want us to look at the fact that Christ is 133 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,960 all that means. Christ is healer. 134 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,400 And so why don't you be seated and we'll pray and ask the Lord 135 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,680 to bless this morning. Heavenly Father, we do thank you 136 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,040 and certainly that. There are the distractions of 137 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,800 the day that are before us. We think of that which is to 138 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,440 come with the storm that even is commencing as we speak. 139 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,680 And I do pray that you would just be with us. 140 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,720 Help us to lock in these next few moments to learn that what 141 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,520 you have for. Us from your word, thank you 142 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,200 again for this time, this place where we can meet together and 143 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,480 we ask it all in Jesus name, Amen. 144 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:49,880 Now Jesus began his earthly ministry by being baptized by 145 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,760 John the Baptist. And by the way, just to throw 146 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,680 this in here this morning, there are some who would call him John 147 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,240 the Baptizer. The name is John the Baptist. 148 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:00,480 Amen. You say, are we Baptist because 149 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,120 we follow John the Baptist? No, we're Baptist because we 150 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,640 follow the word of God and we follow Jesus Christ. 151 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,680 But John's name was Baptist, it wasn't Baptizer. 152 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,440 And it our Bible says that he was the Baptist. 153 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,200 And so he was baptized by John the Baptist then immediately was 154 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,400 tempted in the wilderness 440 days. 155 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,320 And when John was imprisoned a short time after that Jesus 156 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,480 began his earthly ministry, taking kind of the idea of what 157 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,000 John had said before where in John 3 verse 30, he said he must 158 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,040 being Jesus, he must increase and I must decrease. 159 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,520 And this was the process as John's ministry started to wane 160 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,400 and diminish, particularly as he was put in prison by the way, 161 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,080 just for preaching the word of God straight and true. 162 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:46,160 Here is Jesus as his ministry is increasing as it was supposed to 163 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,920 be. And so we we get to this place 164 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,000 here in Matthew chapter #4 where Jesus is beginning his earthly 165 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,200 ministry. And I will tell you that He is 166 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,640 very, very popular at this time there. 167 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,160 There are times in his ministry where he's not so popular, 168 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,200 especially as we get near the end of his ministry when they 169 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,880 turn upon him and the establishment turns upon him. 170 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,200 But here, very early on, I will tell you, people love to hear 171 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,600 and to see Jesus Christ. That verse #25 says they're 172 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,160 followed from Him. Great multitudes of people from 173 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,320 Galilee, from Decapolis, from Jerusalem, from Judea, and from 174 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,720 beyond Jordan. And so as Jesus is ministering 175 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,640 in Galilee, which is that northern area of Israel that's 176 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,840 filled with the common folk, if you will, this is where Jesus 177 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,840 himself would have been from in Nazareth. 178 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,280 That is, he's going around Galilee and just preaching and 179 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,320 teaching. And then as we find out as well 180 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,640 healing that as he's doing this, people are coming from far and 181 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,840 wide from inside of Israel and even from the other side of 182 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,200 Jordan. And everybody wants to hear and 183 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,720 everybody wants to see Jesus Christ. 184 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,080 Now why was Jesus so popular? I just alluded to this a moment 185 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,480 ago. Why was Jesus so popular? 186 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,080 Well, it was His teaching and preaching to 1 extent certainly, 187 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,960 because in Matthew Chapter 7 verses #28 and 29 it said after 188 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,040 he preached the Sermon on the Mount, it said the people were 189 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,320 astonished at His doctrine, for He taught them as one having 190 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,320 authority and not as the scribes. 191 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,520 When the people heard Jesus teach and they heard Jesus 192 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,360 preach, they saw something different in Him from the 193 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,320 Pharisees. Why? 194 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,040 Because He had had authority from God compared to the 195 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,040 Pharisees who really had the authority within themselves, 196 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,480 because they thought that they were the highest authority. 197 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,280 Oh sure, they made reference to God and talk to God and prayed 198 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,680 to God, but I'll tell you this, they love themselves a whole lot 199 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,840 more than they loved God. And so the authority of the 200 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,440 Pharisees lied within the Pharisees themselves. 201 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,440 When Jesus spoke, He spoke with true authority because He is the 202 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,080 living Word, because He is God. So people were coming to hear 203 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,320 the teaching and the preaching. But I'll be honest with you, 204 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,840 what people were really coming for was the show. 205 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,800 What people were really coming for was the healing. 206 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,160 It says it verse 23. It says in Jesus went about all 207 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,680 Galilee teaching in the synagogues and preaching the 208 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:59,040 gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness 209 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,800 and all manner disease among the people. 210 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,080 And what kind of disease was He healing? 211 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,280 Well, He healed all manner of sickness and disease. 212 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,360 He healed physical disease. He healed mental illness. 213 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,520 He healed demon possession. This is all mentioned here in 214 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,040 verse #24 and people are literally bringing their sick 215 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,640 relatives. They're bringing their sick 216 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,320 loved ones. They're bringing their sick 217 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,040 friends. In fact, we'll see later on that 218 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,440 that some were so impassionate or rather passionate about 219 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,040 bringing someone to Jesus, they lifted a whole roof off a house 220 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,560 and lowered a man inside just so he could be healed by Jesus 221 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:33,200 Christ. No, no, people were coming to 222 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,240 hear the teaching. No doubt people were coming to 223 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,480 hear the preaching. But can I tell you why there 224 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,960 were such great crowds at the beginning is because they wanted 225 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,960 to be able to be a part of this healing ministry. 226 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,480 They thought there was something here that they hadn't seen 227 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,960 before. And everybody wants to see 228 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,680 Jesus, to see him heal the masses. 229 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,360 Jesus was the healer, bringing health to those who are under 230 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,720 great physical and mental distress. 231 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,800 Now I think we need to just take a moment and park here and 232 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,040 mention just a few things before we get too far in our message 233 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,400 this morning. There are great many groups 234 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,800 today that fly under the banner of Christianity that will tell 235 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,080 you that. Outward healings, understand 236 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,680 what I'm saying, by outward healings like we see manifested 237 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:18,240 here in Matthew chapter 4 and other places as well, that 238 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,640 outward healings are still part of the ministry of the church, 239 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,280 that the church should be healing in the same way and in 240 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,720 the same method as was found all of those years ago. 241 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,360 And many of them will point to passages like Mark chapter 16 242 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,280 verses 17 and 18, where it says, and these signs shall follow 243 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,440 them that believe in my name shall they cast out devils? 244 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:41,160 They shall speak with new tongues. 245 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,680 They shall, I'll take up serpents and if they drink any 246 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:45,200 deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. 247 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,440 They shall lay hands on the sink, the sick and they shall 248 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,880 recover. And so people will point to that 249 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,360 and say the church should still be a part of this healing 250 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,240 ministry, this outward healing ministry today and that this is 251 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,360 a manifestation of something that should still be done in the 252 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,840 church today. Now, interestingly enough, I 253 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,200 find that these groups often cherry pick what they find from 254 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,600 chapter 16, verse 17 and 18. They don't claim all the gifts, 255 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,600 just claim a few of them they don't claim. 256 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,840 Most of them the handling of snakes. 257 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,800 Now there are places and I want to get into that, but there are 258 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,080 places in Appalachia and other places where there are snake 259 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:21,760 handling churches. And you know what? 260 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,520 A lot of those people die. You know why? 261 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,240 Because the only good snakes and dead snake, all gods people said 262 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,280 all right, good, all right, if you like animal rights and 263 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,080 stuff, my right Trump's the animal's right when it comes to 264 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,200 snakes, all right. But you know, another one that 265 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,640 none of them claim drinking poison. 266 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,920 I've never seen a church service, even in the snake 267 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,040 handling churches where they'll say, all right, now, brother 268 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,480 Jim's going to get up here. Sorry, Jim. 269 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,120 All right, Brother Jim. Soon as it came out, I was like, 270 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,840 we got some of those. All right, bro, Jim's going to 271 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,520 get up and he's going to drink a bottle of Drano for us and we'll 272 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,240 see God's manifestation this morning. 273 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,360 Nobody claims that. Jim Jones. 274 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,440 Yeah, Jim Jones. There you go. 275 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:01,640 All right. That's the one we're looking 276 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,160 for, actually. All right, that worked. 277 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:03,840 All right. Thanks, Jim. 278 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,920 We're kind of collaborating on the sermon as we go. 279 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,840 Not the way we normally do it, but it's a snow day. 280 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:08,800 Things are a little bit different. 281 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,440 What I'm saying is nobody claims them all because even in the 282 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,800 minds of those groups, they have an understanding that these are 283 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,440 the outward manifestations of what God is doing today. 284 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,280 Those TV charlatans that get up, never go to the hospital and 285 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,280 heal anybody. They'll wave their jackets. 286 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,240 A Benny Hinn, a Jesse Duplantis, a Kenneth Copeland will wave 287 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,680 their jackets or wave their hands or everything but wave a 288 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:38,360 magic wand and say that people are being healed. 289 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,640 But they never go and clear out the asylums. 290 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,760 They never go and clear out the hospitals. 291 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,440 But it's always done in such a way that people have a surge of 292 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,040 adrenaline that people have this surge of of good feelings, but 293 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,960 afterwards are left all the worse from what these people do. 294 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,640 There's the Word of Faith and prosperity ordered groups that 295 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,800 preach and emphasize healing as part of Christ's atonement, 296 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,240 meaning this that if you aren't part of that type of healing 297 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,960 process, then you may not have assurance that you're actually 298 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,800 saved. These are difficult things, but 299 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,880 yet you say, pastor, what we just read in Mark is actually 300 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,920 there, There was actually healings that took place in the 301 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,240 book of Acts and of course the Gospels with Jesus. 302 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,640 But the church churches, individual churches, these local 303 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,920 churches, we see ministries of healing that that do happen at 304 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:30,320 times. What happened? 305 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,880 And my answer would be that if you go to 1st Corinthians 13, 306 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,080 don't turn there. First Corinthians 13 verse 10, 307 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,680 we see when that which is perfect has come, that which is 308 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,160 in part is done away. These gifts were to authenticate 309 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,520 both the message and the messenger. 310 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,400 These gifts were used to authenticate the message and the 311 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,080 messenger. Can I give you an example? 312 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Sure, thank you. All right, in Acts chapter #28 313 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:57,320 Paul is on the beach at Malta, and he puts his hand into a pile 314 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,560 of sticks and onto him latches a snake. 315 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,240 See. Nothing good. 316 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,840 Paul Snakes shakes off the snake, throws it in a fire. 317 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:09,480 There you go, Paul. All right. 318 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,320 He shakes it off and everybody's watching and they say this guy's 319 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,680 going to die, he's done something wrong and he doesn't 320 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,560 die. And they said he's a God. 321 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,880 Isn't it amazing how the pendulum shifts from one side to 322 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,440 the other? But what was it? 323 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,920 It was an authentication that this man, when he preached and 324 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,080 he did preach Jesus Christ, he said I'm not a God. 325 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,360 Let me tell you about God. It was an authentication of His 326 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,800 ministry and of His message. Do you know what authentication 327 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,320 you need today of the ministry and of the message? 328 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,760 It doesn't come from me drinking something that's poisonous. 329 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,720 It doesn't come from a snake. It doesn't come from a healing 330 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,840 that I can perform here from this platform this morning. 331 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,800 The only authentication of the message and the messenger that 332 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,040 you need is when that which is perfect, the Word of God, has 333 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:54,920 come. That which is in part is done 334 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,000 away. The Word of God is what 335 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,160 authenticates the message this morning, not something that I do 336 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,200 up here to try to stir up the crowd. 337 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,840 So what is Jesus doing here? He is healing because there is 338 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,520 teaching and preaching that is taking place. 339 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,240 And this healing is doing what? It is authenticating the 340 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,320 messenger and the message. It is showing the people. 341 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,640 The Jews, by the way, love to sign First Corinthians 122. 342 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,520 The Jews require a sign in the Greeks after wisdom. 343 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,960 It is showing the Jews listen to this man and listen to this 344 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,080 message and that's why the healing took place. 345 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,800 So when we say Jesus's healer is my first priority this morning 346 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,960 to tell you that Jesus will heal you of all your diseases, your 347 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,760 ailments and other maladies, is this my priority to tell you 348 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:43,360 this? Morning. 349 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,560 It isn't. You know why? 350 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,200 Because I can't guarantee that it's a lot of people dealing 351 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,480 with a lot of illness, a lot of sickness, some short term, some 352 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,120 long term. God and his graciousness and 353 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,200 mercy and His wisdom heal some and not others. 354 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,520 Does that mean he loves some and not others? 355 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,240 I'd ask you, do you think that he didn't love Paul? 356 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,520 Because Paul had a thorn in the flesh, Second Corinthians 357 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,680 chapter 12 tells us. And Paul sought the Lord thrice 358 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,280 in prayer, the Bible says. And that wasn't just that he 359 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,440 dipped his head and prayed about taking this pain away as he was 360 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,480 praying for his meal. I believe it was 3 extended 361 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,440 seasons of prayer in his life. And the Lord didn't take it 362 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,400 away. You say, well what did the what 363 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,400 did the Lord give him? Grace. 364 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,960 My grace is sufficient for thee, the word of God says. 365 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,040 God gave him something much greater. 366 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,040 Because, he says, because of the multitude of revelations that I 367 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,160 had received, the Lord knew that I could be. 368 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,440 Boastful or proud. And so He's given me these 369 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,680 things to be able to keep me humble, but then gave me grace 370 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,680 to be able to handle that what I dealt with. 371 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,200 So I can't tell you this morning that God is going to heal you of 372 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,120 that which you are suffering from because you're a Christian. 373 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,360 But this is what I can tell you this morning. 374 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,960 And this is one thing that I can assure you of this morning. 375 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:12,160 Jesus can and will heal you from one thing in particular. 376 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,600 And it was really what he was most concerned about here in 377 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,240 Matthew chapter 4. And it's not the ailments of the 378 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,000 body, it's the ailment of sin that afflicts every single one 379 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,760 of us. This is what we need healing 380 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,640 from. This is what is truly afflicting 381 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,720 us. Isaiah 64, verse 6. 382 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,400 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all of our 383 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,200 righteousnesses are as filthy rags. 384 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,680 We do fade as a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, have 385 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,160 taken us away. Listen, we're here one day and 386 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,680 we're gone the next. The leaf that is there and is 387 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,320 flourishing one day is gone the next. 388 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,760 We see it every fall around here, and people travel from 389 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,920 miles and miles around to see our leaves die. 390 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,640 That's what they do. And we do it too. 391 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,520 So I'm not saying everyone else shouldn't do it. 392 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,200 But what I'm saying is this. I'm saying they die and they're 393 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,160 gone. And this is our life. 394 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,040 And we have to take care of the real issue, which is our 395 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,240 righteousness is not righteousness before a righteous 396 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,240 God. And that's why Jesus is healer. 397 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,160 That's why he did physical healings, because it was to be 398 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,240 able to bring people to understand the teaching and the 399 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,520 preaching that they're sinners who needed a Savior. 400 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:18,680 We'll look more at that in a second. 401 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:24,920 It would be like someone who has cancer and a rash going to the 402 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,240 doctor. And the doctor said this, you 403 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,400 need some treatment. And he's expecting the doctor's 404 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,960 going to say, you know, start chemotherapy or to start 405 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,600 radiation, he says. I have some cream for your rash. 406 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,360 I hope you have a good day. We'd say, well, what about the, 407 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,440 the cancer? I can't help you with that. 408 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,720 I just, you know, that rash doesn't look so good. 409 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,000 I'll give you some some topical cream for that. 410 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:49,120 It's that doctor is crazy. Well, that's what happened. 411 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,520 That's what would have happened if Jesus had just healed the 412 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,080 body and not been the healer of the soul. 413 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,160 Because all of those people who were healed in verse #24 without 414 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,560 Jesus preaching and teaching the message would still have died in 415 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,720 their sins and gone straight to hell. 416 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:11,200 I'm not saying that what they had was equivalent to a rash, 417 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,320 but what I'm saying is that in comparison, the healing of the 418 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,400 body is much lower than the healing of the soul, because the 419 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,200 body is temporary, but you will have a life after this life. 420 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,560 And the question is this, where will you spend eternity? 421 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,960 And that's what Jesus was concerned about. 422 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,760 Jesus was concerned with the state of their bodies, but he 423 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,360 was far more concerned with the state of their soul. 424 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,080 And the text bears this out. Where did we start? 425 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,480 We started in verse #17 and it says this repent for the Kingdom 426 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,000 of God is at hand. To repent means what? 427 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,200 A change of mind that leads to a change of direction. 428 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,760 He's giving the message, which by the way was the message of 429 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,840 John the Baptist, and the message was this repent for the 430 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,080 Kingdom of God over the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 431 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,040 Isaiah 55 verses 6 and seven explain repentance when it says, 432 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,520 seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he 433 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,000 is near. Let the wicked forsake their 434 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,920 ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return 435 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,800 unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, 436 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,760 for he will abundantly pardon. Repent is to forsake the old way 437 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,160 and to cling to the new way. It is a change of mind that 438 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,440 leads to a change of direction that we are to repent of our 439 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,440 sins. Listen, your sins aren't helping 440 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,280 you. Let me just say that again. 441 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,800 Your sins aren't helping you. Say who are you to talk about my 442 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,520 sin? My sins don't help me. 443 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,920 There's pleasure in sin, the Bible says, but it's only for a 444 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,760 season. And whatever pleasure that we 445 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,040 can find in sin is far outstripped by the fact that it 446 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:49,760 ruins anything that we have of abundance and peace and joy and 447 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,080 this life, not even to mention the life to come. 448 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,040 And so the message says, repent. Why? 449 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,720 The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 450 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,920 There's a time of reckoning. So I've got all the time in the 451 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,200 world, Pastor, you don't know that you have till the end of 452 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,520 this day. You say that. 453 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,680 What kind of talk is that? It's realistic talk. 454 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,720 We don't know what we have. We don't know how long we have. 455 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,280 Repent. The Kingdom of heaven is at 456 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,800 hand. There's a time of reckoning. 457 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,480 There was an agnostic. Farmer, who wrote to the editor 458 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,840 of his local newspaper, who was a Christian, He said In defiance 459 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,280 of your God, I plowed my fields this year on Sunday. 460 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,080 I fertilized them on Sunday. I planted them on Sunday. 461 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,560 I cultivated them on Sunday. I reaped them on Sunday. 462 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,840 This October I had the biggest crop I've ever had. 463 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,360 How do you explain that with your God? 464 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,920 The atheist wrote to the newspaper. 465 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,440 The editor replied, this and this alone. 466 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:52,200 God does not always settle his accounts in October, he says, 467 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,720 where's my reckoning? Where is it? 468 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,200 And the editor says, well, the reckoning may not be now. 469 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,920 But there is a reckoning. Be sure when the Bible says 470 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,680 repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, that you must make a 471 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,920 decision before it's everlastingly too late. 472 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,320 If you haven't made that decision by this morning, if 473 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,680 you're watching this morning and you don't know where you'll 474 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,960 spend eternity, there is no other decision that you can make 475 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,880 that will save your soul other than accepting Jesus Christ as 476 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,720 your Savior only. He can save you from your sins. 477 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,000 I am the way, the truth, and the life. 478 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,400 No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 479 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,600 The most exclusive and inclusive message you'll ever find. 480 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,680 It's exclusive because it's only Jesus. 481 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,600 It's inclusive because it's for all people. 482 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,280 This is what Jesus was preaching. 483 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,080 And verse #23 not just verse #17 but verse 23 tells us He was 484 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,840 teaching and He was preaching. Sure, He was healing. 485 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,280 Healing was for the body, but teaching was for the mind. 486 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,280 And preaching is for the heart. Which all brings true healing, 487 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,080 which comes to the soul. Oh yes, Jesus was healing people 488 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,840 physically, but it wasn't so that he could heal the world 489 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,720 physically and go back to the Father. 490 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,360 It was healing people physically so they would hear the teaching 491 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,600 and the preaching and realize that real healing needed to come 492 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,120 to their souls. Jesus wasn't a healer who 493 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,920 preached and taught. He was a teacher and preacher 494 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,920 who healed. No, it's an important 495 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,160 distinction. He wasn't a healer who happened 496 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,040 to teach and preach. He was a teacher and a preacher 497 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:28,040 who healed to be able to make manifest his preaching and his 498 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,080 teaching. Luke 8 rather Luke 4 verses 18 499 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,880 and 19. Jesus sat at the synagogue in 500 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,800 Nazareth and says, it reads from the Old Testament. 501 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,360 It says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has 502 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:42,120 anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 503 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,360 He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach 504 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:48,160 deliverance in the captives, the recovering of the site to the 505 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,760 blind, to set at liberty them that are brewed to preach the 506 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,240 acceptable year of the Lord. What did he say of himself to 507 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,280 his own people in Nazareth? I'm really here to be able to 508 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,160 help the issues of the soul. Really the only thing that he 509 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,240 talks about physicality there is the recovering of the sight to 510 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,280 the blind. And honestly, you could look at 511 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,400 that and he made the blind to see, not just physically but 512 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,720 spiritually. Jesus is the healer who wants to 513 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,640 heal your soul today. Would you turn just a few 514 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,320 chapters away to Matthew Chapter 9? 515 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,880 We won't go back to our text this morning, Matthew Chapter 9, 516 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:30,240 verse #10 because Jesus spoke about this very issue again in a 517 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,360 way that I think will help illuminate this for us this 518 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:36,840 morning. EW, Chapter 9, verse 10 says, 519 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,840 and it came to pass that Jesus sat at meat in the house. 520 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,680 Behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with 521 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,680 Him and his disciples. Just a reminder, when it says 522 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,280 publicans, it's talking about the tax collectors here. 523 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,240 So tax collectors and sinners, boy, that's a group right there, 524 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,320 isn't it? So April 15th on the way, folks. 525 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,400 Just want to mention that. All right. 526 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,080 Tithe reports are available in the back. 527 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,480 OK. Verse #11 And when the Pharisees 528 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,760 saw it, they said unto the disciples, Why Edith, your 529 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,920 master with publicans and sinners? 530 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,360 Now look what he says. But when Jesus heard that, he 531 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,480 said unto them, They that behold need not a physician, but they 532 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,560 that are sick. Now is he talking about physical 533 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,880 sickness? Is he talking about COVID-19? 534 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,080 Is he talking about cerebral palsy? 535 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,320 Is he talking about cancer? No, he's not talking about any 536 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,560 of those things when it says they that need that are sick. 537 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,560 Look at so he says in verse 13, But go ye and learn what that 538 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,600 meaneth. I will have mercy and not 539 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,920 sacrifice. It's a verse from Hosea chapter 540 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,080 6 verse 6. I will have mercy and not 541 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,920 sacrifice, for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners 542 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,280 to repentance. So when he's talking about 543 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,200 illness, he's not talking about illness of the body, he's 544 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,760 talking about illness of the soul, sickness that comes from 545 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,080 the sin that does so easily beset, A sickness that comes 546 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,800 from sin that the Bible says all have sinned and come short of 547 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,600 the glory of God. He says I have come to be able 548 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,040 to give. Can we put it this way? 549 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,320 The healing prescription, which is only found through the blood 550 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,000 of Jesus Christ. He came to heal through the 551 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,680 precious blood that was found in his veins that flowed freely 552 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,520 there on Mount Calvary. That is the prescription and the 553 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,560 only prescription to heal a soul. 554 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,320 But he says I've not come to the Pharisees. 555 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,120 He says I've not come to you because you've got all the 556 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,120 answers. You don't need me. 557 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,040 So I've come to the sinners and the publicans because they're 558 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,440 the ones that will listen to the message. 559 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,120 They're the ones that will listen to the fact that they 560 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,160 that they're in the wrong. And usually they're the ones 561 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,440 that will admit they're a Sinner. 562 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,000 So like, when I talk to people about salvation, often times I 563 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,080 get to the place where I have to tell people they're a Sinner. 564 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,200 And, you know, I don't find many people pushed back against that. 565 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,160 The ones that say I don't sin, they're the ones I'm really 566 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,080 worried about. Well, no, I don't, I don't 567 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,440 really sin. It's like, could I ask your 568 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,120 wife, Sir, because she might feel differently? 569 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,920 Could I ask your kids? Could I ask your parents? 570 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,760 I mean, you see what I'm saying? Oh, we we know we're sinners, 571 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,080 but those Pharisees had no idea they were even sick. 572 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,240 He says I can't heal. Someone doesn't even know 573 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,040 they're sick, he said. But the Pharisees and the 574 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,120 publicans, they're coming to me because they realize they need 575 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:14,840 me. They need. 576 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,760 And this is the healing that he's talking about, this type of 577 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,320 healing. But you know, interestingly 578 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,600 enough, from that place. From that point on, Jesus in 579 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,560 Matthew Chapter 9 will continue to heal. 580 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,680 Later on, he physically heals a girl who was dead and then came 581 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,560 back to life. There was a woman with an 582 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,840 incurable blood flow. There were two blind men. 583 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,680 There was a demon possessed man. That all happens in this chapter 584 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,520 after Jesus says what's about to happen. 585 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,720 So sure, he continues to heal physically. 586 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,680 But if you go through, you find in verse #22 here's this woman 587 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,840 of the issue of blood. It says in the middle of that 588 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,520 verse, daughter, be of good comfort. 589 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,040 Thy faith had made thee whole. It's still about faith in 590 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,240 regards to that woman, that that girl who was alive. 591 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,760 Verse #26 the fame of him went abroad into all that were in the 592 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,080 land that the word spread of who Jesus was. 593 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,120 Verse #29 Those blind men, it says, according to your faith, 594 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,440 be it unto you. Verse #33 The devil was cast 595 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,360 out. They said it was never so seen 596 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240 in Israel. And all of this took place. 597 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,520 But it all brought them, all of these healings brought them to a 598 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,760 place where it said in verse #35 And Jesus went about all the 599 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,120 cities and villages doing what? Teaching in the synagogues and 600 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,960 preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every 601 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,000 sickness and every disease among the people. 602 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,760 What did all those physical healings do? 603 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,600 It all went back to what he said at the beginning of the chapter. 604 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,080 I'm trying to heal the soul and not just the body. 605 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,520 And it's what he manifested at the end of the chapter that he 606 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,400 was trying to teach and preach the message of true healing for 607 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:58,120 the soul and not the body. So why did Jesus heal? 608 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,600 Why did He do it? I can give you 3 reasons very 609 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,920 quickly. The first was it was His 610 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,440 authentication. It was authentication. 611 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,280 Remember the Jews required a sign. 612 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,000 John 2 verse 11. It says this beginning of 613 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,200 miracles to Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His 614 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,920 glory and His disciples believed on him. 615 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,880 It was an authentication that Jesus was who He said He was. 616 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,560 The people who were truly paying attention, the people who really 617 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,920 understood what the message was about understood. 618 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,240 This is authenticating who Jesus was and the people that just 619 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,840 wanted the healings, the people that just wanted the free food 620 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,200 or anything like that. Once they got to the message, a 621 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,480 lot of them went away. Everybody loved him when he's 622 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,120 giving away free food, but who doesn't love someone giving away 623 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:42,800 free food? Amen. 624 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,560 But once they got to the message, a lot of them didn't 625 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,040 like him anymore. You get to John 6 verse 66, 626 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,560 which was ironic in its numbering where it says that 627 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,000 many fall away and followed him no longer. 628 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,280 Why? Because I didn't get to the 629 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,080 place where they believed that he was the authentic Messiah. 630 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,720 They didn't want to, but everything he was doing was 631 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,800 about authentication. It was also to show his 632 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,920 authority. His authority was both over sin 633 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,600 and death, and he showed that in what he did in his miracles. 634 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,040 Mark, Mark 2, verses 9 through 11. 635 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,920 He asked whether it's easier to say to the sick of the palsy, 636 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,640 thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say arise and take up thy bed 637 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,320 and walk. Remember that man who is lowered 638 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,280 into the house. This is what it's Speaking of 639 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,960 here, but that ye may know. That the Son of man has power on 640 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,440 earth to forgive sins. He said to the sick of the 641 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,520 palsy, I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed, and go thy 642 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,400 way into thine house. He says I will do this 643 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,440 physically, so you know what I can can do for you spiritually. 644 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,760 Amen. John 11 verses 25 and 26. 645 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,000 Remember John 11 is where his friend Lazarus had died. 646 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,720 And he said I am the resurrection of the life, he the 647 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,040 believeth in me. Though he were dead, yet shall 648 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,440 he live. And whosoever liveth and 649 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,000 believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 650 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:09,440 It also showed his great agape love look at verse #36. 651 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,000 We just read verse 35. He was teaching and preaching 652 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,240 verse 36 when he saw the multitudes he was moved with. 653 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,840 Compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered 654 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,400 abroad as sheep, having no shepherd. 655 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,400 Then sayeth he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is 656 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,840 plenteous, but the laborers are few. 657 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,280 Pray therefore the Lord the harvest, that he will send forth 658 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,400 laborers into his harvest. Was he talking about the harvest 659 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,640 of sick people that needed doctors? 660 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,800 You know, he's talking about the harvest of souls that needed to 661 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,480 be saved. He was moved with compassion. 662 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:53,480 You know, if I was God and I oversaw all of mankind, I would 663 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:58,840 be very, very annoyed most of the time because mankind annoys 664 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:05,520 me now and I'm part of mankind. But if I was perfect like he is, 665 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,120 and I would look at mankind, say. 666 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,680 Why do you keep doing that the same thing over and over and 667 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,720 over again like a baby that you keep trying to turn away? 668 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,880 Like they want to go to the light socket and they want to 669 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,400 put their fingers in and you turn them away and then they go 670 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,880 back a few minutes later and you turn them away and you turn them 671 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,440 away over and over again. And maybe heaven forbid they put 672 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,080 their fingers near it and something happens. 673 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,120 It's not so great. And guess what happens a day or 674 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,480 two later? Hey, maybe it was something 675 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,640 different will happen this time. You say what a what a baby. 676 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,440 Well. We're just babies walking in 677 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,720 adults bodies. Sometimes when it comes to sin, 678 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,400 because we know over and over and over again, don't do it and 679 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,520 we still do it when it comes to sin. 680 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,880 And if I was God, I'd say I'm done with all of you. 681 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,040 And Jesus looks at those people, some of whom may have been in 682 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,680 the crowd consenting to his death years later, that Jesus 683 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,040 would know because he knows all things. 684 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,080 And he looked at that same crowd and was moved with compassion. 685 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,920 John 11, I just mentioned Lazarus is dead. 686 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,560 It says twice that Jesus wept. But Jesus didn't weep because 687 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,760 Lazarus is dead, because Lazarus is about to be alive again. 688 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,360 He didn't weep because Lazarus stunk. 689 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,400 He knew Lazarus stunk. You know, he's, that's one of my 690 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,280 favorite verse of the Bible. They pull Lazarus out and they 691 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,760 say, but we, we can't pull him out. 692 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,880 He stinketh. Don't tell me he can't love the 693 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,520 King James. All right, He stinketh. 694 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,480 Come on, people, He wasn't crying because of that. 695 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,880 He was weeping because he saw the unbelief of a multitude of 696 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,120 people who didn't believe in his ability or his authentication 697 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,600 truly as they should. But it was his agape love, You 698 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,199 say? Why would you that term agape 699 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,480 love? Because it was the greatest, 700 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:55,400 deepest form of love, that he's not just fond of mankind. 701 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,160 He doesn't just have affection or care for mankind, but that He 702 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,440 loves you as deeply as anyone could ever love you. 703 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,600 And that's why He's Healer. And we see it here, even in the 704 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,960 teaching and preaching, His great love for ma'am. 705 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,920 So where does this bring us all to this morning? 706 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,880 What do we need to understand? Because our time is growing 707 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,360 short, I got a better look out that window than some of you do. 708 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,120 What? What does this bring us to? 709 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,400 If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you need a 710 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,280 healing within your soul that can only come through the blood 711 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,480 of Jesus Christ. You are a Sinner. 712 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,520 And I say that with no disrespect to you. 713 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,400 I say it because it's biblical and true that you're a Sinner 714 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,880 and I'm a Sinner and that our sin will send us directly to a 715 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,080 devil's hell. The Bible says that lake of fire 716 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:57,240 for all eternity, but yet Jesus came, preached, repent for the 717 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,160 Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Why? 718 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,440 Because He wants you to be saved today. 719 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,960 Realize if you were the only person ever walked the face of 720 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,840 the earth, Jesus Christ that would have died for you, He 721 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,920 would have died for you because he wants you to be saved. 722 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,160 Will you accept him as your Savior today? 723 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,200 Will you repent of your sin and call upon him to save you? 724 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,680 Isaiah 53 verse five. He was wounded for our 725 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,160 transgressions. He was bruised for our 726 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,520 iniquities. The chastisement of our peace 727 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:28,160 was upon him, and with His stripes we are healed. 728 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,680 Physical healing, spiritual healing is what it's talking 729 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,880 about. Psalm 34, verse 18. 730 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,960 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and 731 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,480 saveth, such as of a contrite spirit. 732 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:45,880 That's true healing. Friend, I would say this to you 733 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,040 if you're a believer this morning. 734 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,560 I know that sometimes physical healing is very often very high 735 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,720 on the list of things we desire. We live in a sin cursed world 736 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:00,440 that is stricken with cancer. It's stricken, stricken with 737 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,520 ailments and maladies, many of which the doctors can identify 738 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,840 but yet know nothing about. It's amazing with all of the 739 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,480 information that we have and all the knowledge that we have, how 740 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,520 helpless we are against many of these diseases. 741 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,280 Still, the doctors will say nothing. 742 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,520 They'll be glad. To collect your copay. 743 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,720 But then tell you they don't know what to do and send you on 744 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,960 your way. I just talked to a dear friend 745 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,440 of mine from Tampa. Just yesterday. 746 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,440 I had a chance to tell my wife about this who called me because 747 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:34,320 he has cancer near his jaw and had a question Mervule, and said 748 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,800 what was your surgery like? Now, I didn't have cancer for 749 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,680 those of you who don't know, but I'd have a tumor in my jaw and 750 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,280 he needed to know what the surgery be like and the recovery 751 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,720 and all those things. A man who was very instrumental 752 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,040 in my life for many years at Westgate Christian School, 753 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,320 Westgate Baptist Church. And I just hear that in my heart 754 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,120 sinks when someone tells you I have cancer, when someone tells 755 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,560 you they're sick. And it's such a difficult thing 756 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,680 for us to deal with, and it's difficult for us to deal with 757 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,880 ourselves. So you've been suffering for a 758 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,720 long time. So you've been suffering with 759 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:07,240 physical ailments. So you've been struggling with 760 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:10,200 disease. So you've been struggling with 761 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,040 things that the doctors don't. They can't even tell you what it 762 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,160 is. In fact, you're at the point 763 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,640 where you feel like maybe I'm going crazy because the doctors 764 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,360 can't find it. But I know something's wrong and 765 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,160 you're in a place where it just seems like, what am I going to 766 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,720 do? I'll give you a couple 767 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,920 admonitions here very quickly. The 1st of this don't get 768 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,760 involved in lines of theology. That teacher healing is 769 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,640 guaranteed because you believe in Christ. 770 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:38,400 Don't get involved in lines of theology that teacher healing is 771 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,720 guaranteed because you believe in Christ. 772 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:44,080 Listen, you'll find them online, you'll find them on social 773 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,000 media, you'll find it on TikTok, you'll find in all these 774 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,320 different places. Listen, you see that on TikTok, 775 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,120 swipe left or swipe right, whatever direction is, I don't 776 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,720 know, swipe it away, swipe down, swipe up. 777 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:58,200 All right, put your put your phone in a bucket of water. 778 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,000 All right, that's probably the best thing to do. 779 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:06,360 All right, that's that's 40 year old acts like an 80 year old, 780 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,400 but that's OK. I don't know. 781 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,560 Don't be involved in that. Interestingly enough, everyone 782 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,240 someday is going to die. Does that mean at some point 783 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:21,880 your faith just lapsed to 0? Unless Jesus comes back before 784 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,280 we pass, which by the way would be OK, but we're going to go the 785 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,920 way of this world. And that our lives supposed to 786 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,000 be extended forever because as our faith grows older, that we 787 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,120 should grow larger in the faith and more understanding the faith 788 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,280 and then nothing's ever going to happen. 789 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,920 To us, it seems like it's quite the opposite. 790 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,920 Just practically speaking, it's a line of theology that does not 791 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,520 make sense. Don't get involved in it because 792 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,320 you're grasping, because you're grasping for for something. 793 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,680 Listen. Don't be involved in that. 794 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,800 But I also say this, don't get caught in lines of theology that 795 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,000 teach you that healing is guaranteed because you're 796 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,120 Christ. But don't get caught in lines of 797 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,720 thinking where you question who God is because you don't have 798 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:04,320 the healing you desire. Now, I want you to listen to me, 799 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,720 and I want you to listen to me carefully. 800 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,360 Look at me and my beady eyes here for just a moment. 801 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,960 You can zoom in if you want to. Well guys, I don't encourage 802 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:18,320 that. Whether you are healed or not of 803 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,400 that which beset your body, God is no less good. 804 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,480 Remind yourself that whether you are healed of what you are 805 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,920 dealing with or not, that God is no less good. 806 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,080 God's goodness is based on His unchanging character, not your 807 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,240 changing situation. God is good because he never 808 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:45,640 changes and every one of his attributes are good, people say. 809 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,760 I got a raise. God is good. 810 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,280 Hey, I feel better. God is good. 811 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,720 I got money in the bank. God is good by the way. 812 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:59,240 He is good in all those things. We always also good when he got 813 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:05,480 laid off, when the doctor said the tests are positive, when the 814 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,000 numbers on the online banking are red instead of black. 815 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,320 He is no less good in your life because if you're changing 816 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,080 situation. He is the unchanging God and 817 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,680 Christ is Healer does not mean that you are going to get the 818 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,160 healing you believe you deserve in this life. 819 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,880 It does mean that God is good and will heal your soul even in 820 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,320 the midst of great turmoil and difficulty within your life. 821 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,320 You can have peace and your body be broken. 822 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,040 I'll say that again. You can have peace and your body 823 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,320 be broken. You can have peace and have 824 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,320 turmoil swirling around you. Why? 825 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,520 Because our peace isn't found in our situation or in our health. 826 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,760 Our peace is found in Jesus Christ. 827 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,880 That's why He is the Healer. In fact, if he was just the 828 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,400 healer of diseases, then, well, he's not much of A savior. 829 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,160 You know, I'm not sure to be flippant about that. 830 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,560 I'm saying if that was all that he was, he wouldn't be much of A 831 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,600 savior because he would be healing the rash of the body 832 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,600 without healing the cancer of the soul. 833 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,600 He would miss the mark. But while he is very concerned 834 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:20,960 of healing of the body, he is still the healer of the soul, 835 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,720 not just through salvation, but also in our day-to-day life. 836 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:27,160 The pastor, you don't believe God can do miracles anymore? 837 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,680 Did I ever say that today? I don't believe it's the 838 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,560 church's ministry to have an outward manifestation of miracle 839 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,520 making. But God does miracles every day. 840 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,600 God's done miracles in some of your health where you don't even 841 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:43,800 understand. How you got better? 842 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,880 The doctor doesn't understand how you got better, but you know 843 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,160 that there was something on the imaging that was there before 844 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,280 and it's not there now. Amen. 845 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,280 Listen, glory goes to God for that. 846 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:56,000 That's a miracle. It's a miracle when they tell 847 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,680 you that everything's going to downsize it. 848 00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,200 All of a sudden it's not downsized and now you have. 849 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,480 More work than you thought you had before. 850 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:06,440 That's a miracle of God. It's a miracle when any of these 851 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,000 things take place. God does great miracles. 852 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,480 We have a prayer list full of miracles from 12 years that we 853 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,200 can attest to. So I'm not saying that God 854 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,520 doesn't do miracles anymore. Please don't get that from what 855 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,080 I've said this morning. But the greatest miracle of all 856 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,240 is it. A dirty, rotten, wretched Sinner 857 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:27,600 like Adam Rivero could have the blood of Jesus Christ applied to 858 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,800 his soul and can live forever in eternity with Jesus Christ and 859 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,320 be called part of God's family. If that's my testimony, that 860 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,040 needs to be your testimony. And if it is your testimony, 861 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,760 believe that that same healer will continue to bring peace 862 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,240 into your life and healing in your life, even if you don't get 863 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:51,240 the physical healing you desire. Thank you for listening to the 864 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,840 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 865 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,440 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 866 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,600 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 867 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:05,480 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 868 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,360 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 869 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,440 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.