We ended with Isaiah 53 and verses 4 through 5 where we see
here, it says surely this was actually a prophecy about Jesus
and what He was going to bring when He came.
So this was still in the Old Testament.
It says, surely He bore our griefs, our sicknesses and
disease, and carried our sorrow, mental and physical pain.
Most people believe that it was just a, you know, a spiritual
part of us that was redeemed, which is what Jesus did on the
cross. But Jesus came to completely
restore us, right? Spirit, soul and body.
The complete man that he says in First Thessalonians 523 that he
wishes that we would be what sanctified completely our
spirit, soul and body until Jesus comes, Amen, until he
comes to take us home. And so that was part of our
redemption, not just to forgive us of our sin, but to also
redeem us completely back into even our physical bodies being
able to walk in health and healing today.
Then he goes on to say, it says, yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, and the
chastisement for our peace was upon him and by His stripes.
This is why he had to take stripes on his physical body so
that we could be healed. Amen.
So that we could be healed. And you know, I wanted to talk
about just a few healings that took place.
I'm not going to read the scriptures or I'm not going to
give, you know, the reference, but I'm going to talk about
people that we know that were healed.
Even in the Old Testament, naman was healed of leprosy.
Remember that he had leprosy and he went down to the water and
dipped, Amen. And was his leprosy was gone.
Miriam was healed of leprosy. Remember, she was talking
against Moses and you know, leprosy came on her and then she
was healed from it. Also, many women back in the old
covenant, which is really important for some women I know
that are dealing with this. Many women in the Old Testament
were healed of infertility they were not able to bear, but then,
you know, God was able to heal their bodies so that they could
be fertile and be able to have children.
So you if you're struggling with that, you need to go through the
scriptures and highlight all the women that God healed and
allowed to have children that were not fertile at one time.
Amen. We also know that Elijah, right?
Elijah raised the widow's son from the dead.
So we have the raising of the dead even in the old covenant,
right Elisha? How about Elisha when he they
threw his bones in the grave and it hit someone elses dead bones?
Come on, a man was raised to life, glory to God.
I don't know if that's, I mean, you, you know, this is raising
of the dead stuff, right? What about Nebuchadnezzar?
This is very important because this shows you that he does want
to help heal you from mental illness, bipolarism.
He wants your mind to be the mind of Christ.
Amen. So there's nothing going on that
God cannot heal, and you don't always need a pill for it.
You just need his medicine, which is his word, Hallelujah.
So Nebuchadnezzar, he was insane.
He was insane. But then he was healed of that
insanity, and King Jeroboam, his hand shriveled up, shriveled up.
When he went to stretch out his hand to lay hold of one of the
individuals, his hand shriveled up, and then it was made right.
Amen. So here in the Old Testament, we
can see where God was showing His people that healing still
belonged to His people, Amen. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
It still belonged to His people. So here we see in the Old
Testament in Isaiah, well, let's read because again, Isaiah was
prophesying about Jesus at the healer that was going to come to
the earth. And we can see this now in
Matthew chapter 8. And I want to read the whole
context, Matthew chapter 8, verses 5 through 17, it says
this. Now Jesus, when he entered
Capernaum, a centurion had came to him pleading with him,
saying, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed,
dreadfully tormented. And Jesus said to him, I will
come and heal him. Say I will.
Because remember, we're here to answer those questions.
Is God, is it God's will to heal people today?
Yes. He goes ahead and lets us know
through even this Scripture, Yes, I will.
I will come and I will heal Him. Amen.
That there's more. We're going to see in a minute.
So the cherion centurion answered him and said, Lord, I'm
not worthy that you should come under my roof, but only speak
the word, and my servant will be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.
And I say to this one, go, and he goes, and to another come,
and he comes, and to my servant do this and he does it, which is
great. A great teaching on a person
that's really submitted to authority is the one that's
going to walk in the fullness of health and healing.
But that's another teaching. But in verse 10 it says, when
Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, as
surely I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even
in Israel. And I say to you that many will
come from the east and the West, and sit down with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven.
Verse 12 But the sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into
outer darkness, and there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. And then Jesus said to the
centurion, Go your way, and as you have believed, so let it be
done to you. And his servant was healed that
very hour, or that same hour. Now when Jesus had come into
Peter's house, he saw his wife, his wife's mother, lying sick
with a fever. And so he touched her hand, and
the fever left her, and she arose and served them.
And when evening had come, they brought to him many who were
demon possessed, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and and
healed all who were sick. Verse 17 That it might be
fulfilled. This is where it was fulfilled
that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah,
which is what we just read the prophet saying he himself took
our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.
See that? So we're moving on over into the
New Testament or the New Covenant.
And we know that Hebrews says this is even a new and better
covenant with new and better promises.
Amen. So if we can see that he wanted
healing to happen in the old Covenant, how much more Jesus
took those stripes on his back so that we could walk in this
today. And it's going to be even more
of our redemption for us to walk in the promise of healing for
our lives. Listen, we need to know that God
just wants us healed. He just wants us healed.
He wants us healthy. He wants our minds right?
He wants our bodies physically able to carry around the glory
of God everywhere we go. Come on.
And of course, He wants our spirit redeemed and made new.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So we can see another scripture here that talks of Matthew 817
and Isaiah. We see it again in first Peter
chapter 2 and verse 24. It says this, Who himself bore
our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to
sin, might live unto righteousness.
Here it goes, by whose stripes you were healed?
When were we healed? 2000 years ago when Jesus died
on that cross, took those stripes on his back, we were
healed, we were already healed. And again, all we are doing is
those that are going to be walking into what belongs to us.
Just like any other promise in the scripture.
All we have to do is walk into it.
Amen. We're not trying to fight for it
and we're not trying to beg God for it.
We already have it. We already have it come on, and
it's already been made available to us.
We just have to believe it. Amen.
We have to believe it. We have to act upon it so that
we can walk in all the benefits that belong to us.
Let's look at Psalms. This is like any other benefit
that belongs to us, like any other promise that belongs to
us. All we have to do is walk into
it. In Psalms 1031 and five, it says
this. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, all
that is within me. Bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, Oh my soul. And forget not all of His
benefits. We know that the Kingdom of God
has benefit packages and His benefit, one of his benefit
packages, Come on, that belongs to every single one of us.
As an inheritance. Come on, as an inheritance, as
an heir, this healing belongs to us.
Amen. This is a benefit for the
Kingdom of God. It's His health care that
belongs to each and every one of us.
His healthcare system in the Kingdom of God.
Forget none of his benefits. Verse three.
Who forgives us all your iniquities?
Who heals all your diseases? Say he heals all my diseases.
Say it again. He heals all my diseases.
He heals all of my diseases. Say it like you mean it.
There is not one disease, come on, that he cannot heal.
Hallelujah. Glory to God, all of them.
All of them, Hallelujah. Who redeems your life from
destruction? Who crowns you with loving
kindness and tender mercies? Who satisfies your mouth with
good things? Just think about that.
We saw that when God created the earth.
He said it was all what? And he's still saying here, I
want to satisfy your mouth with good things.
Come on, is, is, is sickness and disease good?
It's not good. None of it.
So we have to believe that it was His will for us to walk in
some good things so that your youth is renewed like the
eagles. That every day, day by day, you
can be renewed. Spirit, soul and body.
Now we know the body is decaying, but we can fight
against it. We can fight against it.
It's up to us, right? I mean, we were just dealing
with a few things with the university that was given us
FCU, and the founder of it is 84 this year.
And she was here with us these last couple of days just getting
with it. Getting with it.
I mean, you would never even think she was 84.
Not on one medication. Old school Pentecost, full of
the Holy Ghost, loves the Holy Ghost.
She said, I don't even beat around the Bush when I do the
altar care. The first thing I ask him is,
are you filled with the Holy Ghost?
Because that's what you need. Amen.
But anyway, still working the altar care, you know, still
serving the Lord, still driving down 95 by herself at 84 years
old. Come on.
Her youth has been renewed day by day.
Glory to God, glory to God. And she said I'm not going to
sit still because every one of them that sits still, they die.
She said I'm not going to sit still.
And her mom lived to what was it 9093 full of the Holy Ghost, Not
a not one pill she was taking driving up till she was a year
before she passed driving, preaching.
Come on, this is what He wants for our lives.
And see, we have to push back what the world tries to tell us.
We have to push back on it because we know what belongs to
us. We know this inheritance that we
can walk in health and healing as long as we are here on this
earth to accomplish the purposes and the plans that God has for
our life. And what a testimony.
What a testimony that she refuses to die in her 60s like
everybody else and beyond. They say by the time you're 60,
most individuals are on 10 to 15 to 20 medications.
Come on. This is not what God wants for
our lives. Hallelujah.
Actually, she said she was walking the beach, walking up
and down the beach. And because she has a condo on
the beach, she lives in Orlando, walking up and down her her her
daughter is Martha Minuzzi, you know, the singer, the worship
leader, walking up and down the beach because she's getting
ready to go to Greece and fasting and getting herself in
shape because she's got to build up her stamina.
So she's not going to hold anybody back while she's in
Greece doing all The Walking that she's getting ready to do,
still traveling and doing things on her own.
Even this one, she's going with the family, but she's been on
multiple trips on her own. She said, I'm not going to stop.
Amen. See, that's a, that's a
mentality and that's a belief in what God has promised us, Amen.
So, and you can have as much of it or as little of it as you
want, but we have to be determined if we want it, then
we're going to walk in all of it.
Amen. So we see here that this was a
benefit packaged to us in the Kingdom of God.
Now let's look at Psalms one O 7.
Psalms one O 7 and 19 and 20 says this.
And then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he
saved them out of all of their distresses.
Here it is. He sent His word and healed them
and delivered them from their destruction.
He wants us completely delivered from our distresses now.
Distresses is mental, is anxiety, is stress.
He wants us. We don't have to worry.
Come on. We don't have to be anxious
about anything because we know it's proven by doctors that it
only causes disease in our body. When the human being begins to
stress out, have anxiety, all these things, it ruins and havoc
on your body, right? But anyway, verse 20 says, and
he sent his word. He sent his word.
Who is the word? John 11 Come on, in the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. Come on.
And then in verse 14 we behold His glory, who is Jesus?
He is the manifest as presence. Come on of the Word in the flesh
that He sent. So we know the Word is living
and active, which I don't even have time to talk, baby.
We'll get into that next week. But he sent his word to heal us,
and Jesus is the word that he sent.
And in John one it says, oh, I already said that in first John
three and eight, it says this He who sins is of the devil, for
the devil has sinned from the beginning.
We talked about that in Genesis last week, says this.
For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.
Come on, listen to what he said. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
He is manifested. He sent his word and manifested
Jesus come on to destroy the works of the devil where sin and
death was able to come in, and He is the root of it all right?
Disobedience, sin, death, disease entered.
And so He sent His word. But guess what?
The word Hallelujah destroyed the works of the devil.
Hallelujah, He destroyed the works of the devil.
He already destroyed the works of the devil.
It's already done. It's already done.
Hallelujah, say it's already done.
It's already done, Hallelujah. It's already done now, Jesus,
God sent Jesus as the word into the earth to destroy the works
of the devil. And then we see that then Jesus.
See, we're proving a point that it was always God's will to heal
man because Jesus said in John, I only do the will of the
Father. This is important that you see
God the Father showed himself as Jehovah Rapha in the old
covenant and then he sent Jesus into the earth to destroy the
works of the devil that brought in through sickness and disease,
sin and death. And then he goes to say in John
1037 and 38, if I do not do the works of my Father, do not
believe me, but I do, though you don't believe me, believe the
works that you may know and believe that the Father is in me
and I in him. So Jesus, we know all through
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we can see time and time again all
the healings that were manifesting when people were
brought to him. Amen all.
And he's saying, if you've seen me do these works, then you know
it's because I do the will of the Father, right?
Yes, right, yes, Amen. So it's his will, it's his will.
Look at Acts chapter 10. This is great.
Again, it's the Father's will that we walk in healing.
Today we're in the New Testament, Acts 1038, who
anointed Jesus, God the Father. Look how God anointed Jesus come
on of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power who went about
doing good and healing all, say healing all.
Look at this healing all. Here he goes and shows you where
the root of the problem was. All who were what oppressed by
the devil for God was with him. So for us to say that God
doesn't want his people healed today goes completely against
scripture, completely against it.
Come on, completely against it now because God anointed Jesus
to do good with the Holy Spirit in power, we went about healing.
Let's look at Luke 418, Luke 4/18/19.
The Spirit Jesus saying the Spirit of the Lord is what upon
me, because he who's he, God has anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are
what oppressed here. It is to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord. Same God, same anointing to be
able to bring healing to the world.
He anointed him. God anointed Jesus to do this,
but we're going to see He didn't just anoint Jesus to do it.
Come on. He didn't just anoint Jesus to
do it. We're going to see later on.
Look at Matthew 8, Matthew 8. Remember, we are laying a
foundation of the Word of God so that it will be irrefutable for
you to ever think that it is God's will not to heal your
body. Remember, we are building our
case, our foundation upon the Word right, and we're going to
prove it by the Word, not disprove it by experience or
what we've seen in the world. This is important because plenty
of people, because of evidence, want to think, try to explain
healing away. But you can't do it when you
strictly look at the scripture and what he says about healing.
Matthew 8-1 and three says this. When he had come down from the
mountain, the great multitudes followed him, and behold, a
leper came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you are
willing, say willing, you can make me clean.
And then Jesus put his hand and touched him, saying, What I am
willing, Say I am willing, I am willing.
Jesus said this, I am willing what I am willing be cleansed,
and immediately his leprosy was cleansed, Hallelujah, glory to
God. So here we see that it was
completely the Father's will that we would walk in healing,
and Jesus was anointed by the Father to also demonstrate that
healing to the everyone who would believe in the earth.
All right, so we prove that he's saying I am willing to heal
people. Now let's look at Jesus.
Jesus who is our healer. Matthew 417 says this.
From that time, Jesus began to preach and say repent for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand. He's letting us know, listen,
I've just came to show you the Kingdom of God and to let you
know this is how the Kingdom works in the earth.
And I'm going to demonstrate. I'm going to demonstrate for you
and manifest for you the power of God and show you how it works
in the earth for healing. Come on.
Because if you drop on down in that same chapter to verses 23
and 25, it says this and Jesus went about all of Galilee.
This is what he was doing when He said repent for the Kingdom
of heavens at hand. He went about all of Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
Kingdom and healing all kinds of sickness, say all kinds of
sickness, all kinds of them, and all kinds of disease among the
people, say all kinds of disease, sickness and disease,
all of them. He went about healing, OK, and
then in verse 24 it says then his fame went throughout all of
us Syria and they brought to him all sick people who were
afflicted with various diseases and torments.
Remember, sickness, disease, torments are mental, all, all of
it, various diseases, sicknesses, torments, and those
who were even demon possessed epileptics and paralytics, and
he healed them. And then it says great
multitudes follow him from Galilee and Dicopolis,
Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
You see that? Now go to Matthew 935.
Again, we're just talking about Jesus here and what he did and
how he demonstrated that the Kingdom of heaven was at hand,
says Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages,
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
Kingdom, and healing every sickness and disease among the
people. Matthew 1414 and Jesus went out,
He saw a great multitude and He was moved with compassion for
them. Look at here now we're seeing a
side of Jesus. We were moved.
He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick
because He is a loving, compassionate, merciful Father.
Amen. And he wants us whole and healed
completely. Come on.
Now we see here in demonstration there's so many scriptures we
could talk about. Like I said, in Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John, there was like over 60 something healings that
took place, whether it be healings, whether it also was
raising of the dead. But we see all through these
chapters that He demonstrated that healing power everywhere He
went. But we can see in these last few
scriptures that it wasn't just about him.
He also now commissioned His disciples, his apostles, to go
out and to do the same thing, to go out and to do the same thing.
OK, and let's look at a couple of these scriptures.
In Matthew chapter 10 and verse one, it says this.
And when he had called his 12 disciples to him, He gave them
power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all
kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases.
You see that? So here he's sending out his 12
disciples and he wants them to do exactly as he does and gave
them the authority to go out and to do it everywhere they went.
And Luke 91 and two says this. Then he called the 12 disciples
together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to
cure diseases. And he sent them out to preach
the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
And we know one way the Kingdom of God is demonstrated is that
we can see sickness and disease cured and healed off of people's
bodies. Hallelujah.
And He expects us to walk in that exactly as He did.
But not only did the 12 disciples do it, and I think or
the apostles do it, it's important to you to know because
many people said, well, it died out with the apostles.
But here we see that he sent out not just his apostles, He sent
out now 70 disciples, 70 disciples to do the same thing.
Look at this in what was that scripture?
Here it is in Luke, Luke 10, one through 9.
Do you have that on the? I didn't have it typed up.
Anyway, you can see here that he said exactly the same thing to
the 70 disciples, that he sent them out to heal the sick.
And he said this, that the Kingdom of God is nigh unto you.
So even with the disciples, when they went out, he wanted to
demonstrate that the Kingdom of God is right here.
So let's Rita said, after these things the Lord appointed 70
others also, and sent them two by two before his face into
every city and place where he himself was about to go, and
said to them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are
few. Therefore pray to the Lord of
the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest.
Go your way. Behold, I send you out as lambs.
And then he goes on to say, You know, da da, da da da, where is
verse? What is that verse 9?
What about 10? Heal the sick There it is.
See it, Heal the sick there and say the Kingdom of God has come
near you. You see that?
So he also sent out these 70 disciples and told them to do
the same thing. So it didn't stop with the 12
apostles is what I'm saying. It didn't stop.
Then he sent out more to go do the same thing.
But what's so awesome about this is that we see now here in Mark
16, Mark 16, it says this. And he said to them, verse 15
through 18, go into all the world, preach the gospel to
every creature, and he who believes and is baptized will be
saved. Are people still being saved
today? Are people still being baptized
today? And then he goes on to say, but
he who does not believe will be condemned, and these signs will
follow those who believe. See that those who believe.
Now these signs are going to follow those who believe.
Who are those who believe? Those that were saved and those
that were baptized. So if people are still being
saved, still being baptized, and they're in a place of a
believer, now, he's saying, now those who believe in my name,
they will cast out demons, They will speak with new tongues,
they will take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly
thing, it will by no means harm them or hurt them.
And they will lay hands on the sick and will recover.
Hallelujah, they will recover. They will recover.
So every believer now in the church, in the Church age and we
can see in the book of Acts, they turn the world upside down
because those that were in the book of Acts, what were they
doing? They were doing the exact same
thing that they were obviously seen.
All the 70 disciples, everybody doing Paul did it.
They were all laying hands on people.
People were being healed. So much so we know that even
with Paul, that when people would pass by his shadow, would
pass by sick people, they were healed from his shadow.
What about also in the book of Acts, we can see that people
were also healed by aprons, handkerchiefs, aprons, that
Paul, they would pray and have hands laid on them or whatever,
pray over them and then put them on sick people and they would be
what healed. They would be made whole.
So again, healing did not die out with the apostles.
It did not cease to exist. And that Jesus was the only one,
one that could actually heal. No, because then we also see
even in First Corinthians chapter 2 or 12 where he talks
about the fact that we could actually walk in gifts that were
supernatural gifts, gifts of healings, working of miracles.
Why would He also give those gifts if it wasn't for today?
You see that? So He also gave us gifts as He
would will that people could walk in, laying hands on people,
where there would be gifts of healing that would manifest
miracles that would manifest in people's lives.
Amen. So He expected for us as
believers to all be able to do the same thing that Jesus did,
and we ought to be in that same posture.
If you have seen the Father, you've seen me and reverse it.
If you see me, you ought to see the Father and the works that He
did through our lives and does through our lives.
He ought to be able to see. People ought to be able to see.
You ought to be able to go to work and lay hands on people at
work if they're running a fever or they're not feeling real good
that day. We know many people were healed
of fevers. This is nothing for God.
Come on, nothing. And we ought now we need to
start being bold about it. We need to start saying, I can
lay hands on the sick and they can recover.
Come on. I am a believer.
I am baptized and I believe that the healing power of God can
flow through my hands. Hallelujah, glory to God.
And you know what? How we're going to actually walk
these things out in our life is if we continue to meditate on
these scriptures, but not only meditate on the Word, we have to
have the revelation of the fact that God wants people healed
today. And I'm going to tell you,
people are in a mental state today.
I believe there's going to be more manifestations of some
mental healing in people's lives and torment.
In people's lives because of all this bipolar, you know, stuff
that's happening and all the in just people, you know, in their
minds because they're medicated out of their minds too.
And medication, these medications are in themselves
psychotic when you read them, can cause depression.
Can't. How can it cause depression?
It opens up the mental realm, opens up the mental realm to
demonic activity. Come on.
And so, I mean, and it's rampant today.
And you, you know, when you walk in your workplace to somebody's
always having a, you know, something going on in their
life, you, you ought to be able to recognize this person is just
tormented in their mind and, and go out and say, Lord, do you
want me to, you know, help this person, pray over them, lay
hands on them because listen, people are in need today and
we've been commissioned. And this is one way that we can
demonstrate the Kingdom of God to people and it can draw.
Remember, we say it have said it this way.
Healing is the dinner bell to salvation.
God is so good that he wants to demonstrate the healing power of
God in people's lives to be able to bring them into the Kingdom
of God so they won't be able to refute.
God did this. He's real, He's real.
But if he's not a real healer to us, if he is not Jehovah Rapha
to us, if he is not the great Physician to us, come on, then
how are we going to demonstrate the Kingdom of God to people
that really need it, that really need it, Hallelujah, That need
healing in their bodies, healing in their bodies, healing in
their mind, being tormented by fear and anxiety, tormented.
God wants for us to go out and demonstrate what the church
looked like in the book of Acts, Amen.
And you know what? Everyone of us know this, that
have been here, that God is the healer and that he expects us to
lay hands, all of us, to lay hands on the sick and see people
recover, all of us. It's not just for the preacher,
and it's not just so that we have to be drawn to one person
that can only demonstrate the healing power of God.
No, he wants every single one of his children to be able to lay
hands on the sick and see him recover.
Every one of us to be able to say sickness and disease.
You get out of this person's body in the name of Jesus.
I cast it out. Come on.
And I'm telling you, we're living in an hour that these
demonstrations are going to be that that brings people into the
Kingdom of God and the power of God because they're looking for
all kinds of answers, right? We know they're going to
psychics. We know they're where they're
going, everywhere to look for a way to be able to relieve
themselves, self help and all these things that they're doing
and nothing's working. And we have the answers and he's
commissioned us, commissioned us to do it.