So we are on Wednesday night, we're taking some time to go
through Scripture concerning the healthcare system of the
Kingdom. All right.
And again, you know, it's very important for us to understand
the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom in his royal offspring.
And so when we're talking about subjects, those subjects are
contained within God's Kingdom, OK?
Because in all kingdoms there is a healthcare system and God has
the best healthcare ever. Can I get an Amen?
I mean he has the best healthcare ever.
It's better than Botox. Plastic surgery.
Come on. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
I mean, eventually he's going to give you a glorified body that
will never grow old. There's no indication you'll get
calories when you eat. That's going to cause you to
enlarge in places that you weren't enlarged at other times,
right? You're going to be healthy,
strong, never dying. Isn't that amazing?
And so God's Healthcare is amazing, but he's doing stuff
for us on the earth today. So would you stand for the
reading of the word as we open with our key text, Acts chapter
10, verse 38, it says, you know, of Jesus of Nazareth.
How? God anointed him with the Holy
Spirit and with power and how he went about doing good and
healing. How many?
Come on, how many? All who were oppressed by the
devil, for God was with him. Can I get an Amen?
You can be seated so we see here.
That God is the healer and he desires us to walk in.
Healing the enemy in his bag brings sickness and disease.
He can't oppress. He can bring sickness.
There are actual spirit spirits that are called spirits of
infirmity and they can do things to the body that your natural
medicine is not going to be able to remove.
All right. And so not every symptom you
have is from an evil spirit, OK? Because we are in a body that
has is not in its original design as God created it.
Because when God created man in his image and it is likeness,
he's told him to have dominion and this man would.
Live forever, because God said literally, unless until you eat
of the fruit right that day, that you eat of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge. Of good and evil, you will
surely die so if. Adam had never eaten the fruit.
His body never would have decayed.
Now sin brings death and when he ate the fruit transgression
through his transgression sin enter the world, his body
released the nature of God. His spirit became dead to God
and then his body became a casualty and his mind, his soul
realm all right. He now lived by the his soul,
but he could not connect to God in the spirit.
God is spirit and we must worship him in spirit and truth.
The man after the fall, his spirit is dead to God.
He cannot worship him. He can only contact God through
his soul or try to reach him. But you can't worship him that
way. And then his body now is going
to enter into decay because he said dust you came, dust you'll
return now. It happened to take Adam 903
years before. He left his skin suit at that
time, and his body then without his spirit separated from God,
and his soul, when it exited him, went back into.
Broke down into dust, OK. And so obviously our bodies are
not, we do not have immortality today, but God can quicken our
mortal body in his Kingdom through his healthcare because
of the blood of Jesus. And last week, you know, I'm
just going to throw one verse out here to you, Luke chapter
10, verse 9. I didn't give it to the guys.
I got this on the front row just to remind you.
He said heal those who are in it who are sick and say to them the
Kingdom of God has come near you last.
Week we showed that anytime Jesus was healing, he was
referencing this is. Of the Kingdom of God.
So the Kingdom of God and healing go hand in hand.
In essence, he's saying, in my Kingdom you can be healthy.
In my Kingdom, I'll heal you of all your sickness and disease.
In my Kingdom I want you made whole.
And that's not a new covenant principle because when Israel
left Egypt walked through the Red Sea and, and we're on the
other side, it said not one feeble person was among them.
So they had a supernatural healing as they crossed through
the Red Sea on dry ground and got to the other side, a nation
that were slaves, a nation that had been previously whipped by
the taskmasters, and there was not a feeble one among them.
So God's nation has the greatest healthcare there is.
And we are a holy nation. And his healthcare supersedes
the healthcare of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and we can name a
lot of other ones, you know, but it's a waste of my time to do
that. And I don't care what country
you're from. No country can match the
healthcare of the Kingdom of God.
Now, that doesn't mean you can't use natural healthcare, No
problem. Just don't put that first in
your thinking. Seek the King first.
Seek his way because we already know he heals all and it's
important for us to raise our faith to what God is saying
because you understand faith comes by.
So it's very important. There's many of you that have
heard ministering, ministry and ministering on the subject of
healing. And a lot of times you can kind
of get kind of comfortable in your seat and say, Oh yeah, I
know that well, you can know a thing and not be in faith with a
thing. You can know a thing and be
functioning very natural and. Not asking God.
You can know a thing and not be in faith.
Faith comes by not having heard, because if you've heard and you
haven't heard in a while, then you may not have faith
concerning that subject. You have to hear again in order
to stir faith back up. Because you know, when symptoms
come to my body, I go back to the Word to stir up faith for
healing, not just say, well, I know I'm healed.
Knowing doesn't get it done. The Jesus said this, he said, I
think it's in Jane. Even the death the the demons
know Christ is Lord and tremble, but it does them no good because
they cannot be redeemed. So your knowledge of something
doesn't produce the result of it unless it's exercised with.
Faith or by faith? Faith is a firm persuasion that
what God has just said about something, it will come to pass
in your body. Period.
OK, so the Kingdom of God has a track record of 100% when the
word is on the person. Now, I don't know about you, but
there's a lot of times doctors will come and say, well, there's
a lot of reports out there that the percentage of these
procedures have this and have this.
And this is the results. We're seeing a lot of really
good in our clinical what studies that there's a lot of
really good progress with this new prescription or this new
technique or whatever. And you know, you know when
you're getting some really hot and some people, you know, when
when they've done all that they've done and there's
nothing, then they'll go into the trials and say, well, you
know, there's not, but you know, there's a low percentage, but we
could try and people. Want to be healed, people want
to be healed, but with the Lord it says he healed them all.
Hallelujah, he healed them all. Now the first thinking when you
say this is people say, well what about don't let your faith
go there? O rain, stand up.
O Rain is a human being that has a mind and a heart and God knows
his heart. Now if he has symptoms in his
body, God knows because God is not mocked.
God knows your heart. He knows if you're firmly
persuaded, if you're in doubt, if you have no faith, little
faith, great faith, He knows if you're wavering.
And we'll give a list probably in a couple weeks on the
hindrances of healing. And he knows this now, oh Rain
and I, He can tell me everything that I hear in the Bible, but on
the inside. So even though he's telling me,
I still am not in a place within his heart to know that I know
now love believes the best. I'm like, oh, Rain Man, he's in
faith, he's believing, he's healed, that God's got him
healed. He's standing strong now again,
I can say that I can rally with him.
I can encourage him, but the reality is he is the.
Only one Hallelujah with God that knows.
And that is a big deal. Iranian be seated.
That is a big deal. Same thing.
Oh, Rankin touch and agree with me that I have healing touch and
agree with me, lay hand, all kinds of stuff.
And he is firmly persuaded it is exactly as God said.
But he doesn't know what I know about me, the feelings I'm
having, the pain I'm going through, the thoughts I'm having
to cast down. And I can say it.
This is why it's better for believers to be honest.
Just be. Honest be honest and say I'm
struggling. I have some doubt.
You understand when I go into a hospital, when someone's got
into that kind of place and you go into a hospital, if they're
watching the TV, that can be a challenge because when you're in
a life and death situation, why are you putting anything else?
In Why are we doing this Now? Sometimes people are watching
because they're trusting that what the doctors are doing are
going to work. But you know what?
I'm going to go to another level.
I'm going to have healing scripture.
I'm going to have that thing coming.
I want people come and speak in the scripture over me.
I remember when Reverend Randy was dealing with cancer and they
ended up without telling the family upped his morphine
because they have decided. That he's not going to make it
through the rest of the year. So they're being compassionate.
And they are helping to manage his pain.
And we show up and man, he's out.
I mean, they're what I'm saying. He's out of his mind.
You, he has no way to confess. Nothing.
And I'm like, OK, he's not involved.
I have no idea whether his spirit man is connected or not.
His wife's confessing, but by the Holy Ghost, she went down to
the pharmacy and she says do we have to give him this much and.
They're like, well, no, we don't, we can cut it in half,
she said. Yeah, I think we should do that.
They cut it in half. His mind came back, so his
confession came back. And he sits with us today.
Heal of cancer. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
He's healed because you can't let down a moment.
Can't let down a moment. I remember a testimony.
That Jim Hockaday who used to run Rhema's Prayer and Healing
School and there was a healing that they brought in a boy, he
testified about a young kid that came in and they said he was
like stiff as a board. You know, he was just straight
out stiff and they brought him in.
You kind of had to turn him sideways to get him in.
And all week long, man, they were praying, they were
preaching the healing, giving examples, getting the word,
cause faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God.
And they're believing. They're believing.
And you know what? After a week, I think it was
maybe 2 weeks. They the the child was not like
that, went to the doctor and got a report that they were healed.
But on the inside, he knew they're going to need more.
So. The older sibling was having a
birthday back home in another state, and they're like, well,
we're going to go and have a birthday party for our other
sibling. You know we're going to leave.
And he and by the Spirit said, don't go, don't bring your other
child here. Let's celebrate the birthday
here. We need you need to keep
hearing, you need to saturate yourself, you need to keep
growing in this. Thing are you?
Hearing what I'm saying, no, no, we got it, we're gone.
They left. You know what?
It hadn't transformed them. It was through the ministries,
faith and faith happening that God was showing to the family.
I do want to do this, but they didn't want to know it.
Themselves. A month later, the child was
dead. Now, was that God's will?
No, because He's already proven out.
I want them healed. But there's responsibility for
us because God's health care system is that all.
Just like He wants all to be saved, He wants all to be
healed. I said He wants all to be
healed. He does.
And so we have to rise now. Again, I mentioned this last
week and then I'm going to get into tonight.
So we can see these examples, but I mentioned last week that
oh, Hallelujah. Amen.
Well, what was I going to say now?
I'll figure it out. I'll come back to it.
It left when I saw my title. OK, turn over to John chapter 5.
Glory to God. Jesus healed primarily 4 ways,
OK, by the gifts of the Spirit, by touch at his Word, and by the
faith of the individual needing healing.
All right. And so we're going to look at
some of these examples tonight where we see that God desires
that all are healed. This is what I said last week.
Thank you, Holy Spirit. Jesus did something extremely
controversial in one of the healings.
Remember, there was a paralyzed man who had four crazy friends
that brought him to a house because they wanted him to be
healed. They could not get through the
door. So they're like, we'll RIP the
roof off. Right.
I mean, that's like somebody, you know, busting through our
wall right now. You know, your first reaction is
like, have you lost your mind? Now, Jesus didn't do that.
No, she just didn't go. Have they lost their mind?
You know how mad people would be?
But you know, what did Jesus saw?
See seeing their faith. Oh my gosh.
Seeing their faith, like look at the tenacity of this group right
here. They are not going to be
satisfied until something occurs.
They didn't say, oh, it's too crowded, let's go home.
Oh, this is going to be too long to wait on this stuff.
I mean, man, you know, in most churches right now, if you, if
we go more than 30 minutes, you know, we're clocking out and
going. So when that's you're like God,
you're going to heal me in 5 minutes or I'm out.
The audacity of the demands we make on the Creator.
But these guys were tenacious. They didn't pack him up and say,
well, maybe we can get him next week.
We'll try to figure out where he's at.
No, they're like, you getting this today.
I don't know whose house this is, but whatever.
We'll put a new roof on, I don't care.
We're going to RIP this thing off.
So they RIP the roof off, lower him down.
Jesus seeing their faith, he says.
Something blasphemous? Blasphemous.
Can. Is that right?
That was considered blasphemy. To the religious it was not, but
to them it was. He gets down, sees this
paralyzed guy, and he says your sins are forgiven.
Wow. And man, the religious in the
room which they were taking up, they were occupying a place in
the room that honestly, they shouldn't have showed up.
And these guys could have gotten to the front door and wouldn't
RIP the roof off anyway, you know, because they weren't there
to be in favor of Jesus. They were there to find
something wrong, right? Let me catch and record.
Let me see if they say something wrong.
I can post it on Instagram. OK, so anyway Jesus said your
sins forgiven then. By the Holy.
Ghost knowing their thoughts, he said.
Why do you say to yourself? Why do you say to yourself?
Then he goes on. He says to let you know I have
authority to heal and to save. But he said it this way first,
he said, which is easier. Now no one in this room.
If at the end I gave an opportunity for someone to be
born again and if they still a rain, please stand up again be
an example of rain's not saved. Here he is come down to the
front. He wants to be prayed for.
And then all of a sudden, Raphael, who's on altar tonight,
comes down and he's because with O Rain and you're looking at
this and he's praying with him, right?
And he does the prayer. And what will we all say about
this person? When O Rain goes back to a seat,
you can go back to your seat. What we do be like, wow, he's
born again. Would we?
Doubt that would would Raphael. Say now I don't know when it's
going to happen. Could be next week when that
spirit gets inside you, you know and then the Holy Ghost shows up
and bears witness. Would your spirit, your children
or God. It could be a week from now,
month from now could be 3 years. Man, all you know is that you
asked so just. Hang out and wait and honestly
if it's not his will anyway, you're going to go to hell so
don't worry about it. Now we would never say this and
Jesus says which is but yet we treat healing like.
It's a big deal. I have, I have prostate cancer.
I need the best specialist and the Lord's like.
Who's better than me? Who's better than my blood?
Who's better than the stripes I put on my back for this?
Who's better? Who can give you a better
diagnosis than healed? But yet we act like it's
complicated. Well if we think it's
complicated then really that's a lack of faith or little faith
which means you need more because you can't get the whole
thing to come in. But we would never say this
about someone being saved. So we need to change our
thinking and say man, if symptom hits my body is easier is as it
was for me to be born again is as easy it is for the Lord to
heal my body. Hallelujah.
Now I'm not talking about things where he'll renew you.
I understand all of us are getting older.
I'm getting older, right? I may not be just like I was
when I was 25, but you understand I'm still healthy,
whole and can move. Function run fulfill my purpose
OK and so. We need to understand that, but
things that. Start to hinder you from
accomplishing your purpose. Well, I was sick.
I couldn't even come to church today.
People go to work sick, but they won't come to church sick.
Well, you know, I didn't want anybody to catch it.
Well, you go to work and let people catch it, in fact.
You go to the doctor and you let them catch it.
The nurses, I'm sick. We go to the doctor when we are
and you have no care for them. I mean, obviously I'm being I'm
joking, but. Here is the healing house.
I mean you. Should come and say lay hands on
me. I'm going to the doctor Monday
potentially if it's necessary. But I came to the House of the
Lord first. Lay hands on me because the
Bible says lay hands on the sick and they shall recover and I'm
going to recover. I'm going to believe God.
I'm going to stand and I'm not. Negating that if you need to go
Monday, go Monday. But the reality is, don't negate
the House of the Lord. And the power of one another
touching and agreeing. Don't do it.
Hallelujah. Now again, if you just can't
even get out, I get that no problem I understand that and
I'm not condemning you if you stayed home, no issue here.
I'm just saying make sure your thinking is as you would hear.
How much more? To do to come into this place.
I don't quarantine my wife when I'm sick.
I'm like you better get up in here help me out right.
You know I'm making a demand on her helping me out right and I
help her if she and which we are we're very rarely now my wife
really doesn't have tolerance for sickness at all zero and if
I call for a little too much she like you could get them going to
the couch. I mean, I'm not going to listen
to this. Like, thank you for your
patience and long-suffering right now.
I get it because I would rub your back while you're coughing.
But that's OK. I'll go to the couch.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I bring you a glass of what? No, I'm kidding.
She'll do. You need some water.
You need some water, apparently. Thank you.
Thank. You she'll preach here and fix
it later. Hallelujah, she's in December,
all right. He healed by the gifts of the
Spirit. Look at this in John chapter 2
verse 9 it says now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a
pool which is called in Hebrew peseta.
I've been to this. Pool, because it perplexed me,
having five porticoes. OK, in these lay a multitude.
How many? A multitude of those who were
sick, blind, lame, and withered, wanting or waiting for the
moving of the waters, for an Angel of the Lord went down at
certain times just OK Seasons into the pool, stir the water,
and whoever first got in was made whole.
Verse 5. A man was there who had been ill
for how many years? Come on, how many when Jesus saw
him lying there? OK, and knew that he had already
been there a long time, so now he's got that by the Holy Ghost.
So word of knowledge is how he knows that in that particular
condition. He said, do you wish to get well
now look what the man answers him.
He says, Sir, I have no man to put me in the.
Pool. When the water is stirred up,
while I'm coming, someone else steps in before me, Jesus said
to him. So he had no faith in Jesus,
didn't even know who Jesus was. He's just looking for naturally
what has occurred year after. Year the Angel stirred the first
one in sealed and I have no one to put me in now.
I've been to the pool of Bethesda because in my mind I'm
like man, just go lay beside the thing when it hits.
Roll in man, what's the problem? Roll in like a pool.
Roll in man. How hard is that?
Like put your foot down in there or something.
I mean, but it's not built that way.
It's different. And it is definitely difficult
to get down to and you do need to travel to get there.
You're not going to be able to lay right by it.
So if so, he ends up saying to him, you know, he said I have no
one to go and Jesus said him get up, pick up your pallet and
walk. No faith on the part of this
man. This is the gifts of the Spirit
called the gifts of healing are functioning.
The gift of faith is functioning by Jesus.
I don't know if there's a work in a miracle here, honestly.
Although if he's been lying sick for 38 years, I'm not sure what
that condition was. Was it debilitating in the sense
that, I mean, obviously he couldn't walk very well, so you
would think, you know, something had to happen with his muscles
and whether work in a miracle had to take place, do not know.
But definitely the gifts of healing, gift of face in
operation. And it said immediately the man
became well, he picked up his pallet and began to walk.
And it was the Sabbath on that day.
So how quick did the man get healed?
Come on, how quick, How quick? Again, it's not like hey, we'll
see if that happens in a month. Now, only reason I say this is
because you should desire immediates.
Now again, we breakdown word healing.
It means to be on the mend. And I'm going to show an example
is as they went. So there's no condemnation if
you're getting it as you went, but you should be believing for
quicker than later because what happens is if you settle or
allow it to be a part of your belief system, you know, it
could take a month and then guess what?
The enemy will accommodate that. So you want to say, well, let me
see how quick and then you raise yourself and say it's got to be
and you get to a place where you're making a demand on it
coming quicker according to how the scripture.
Reveals it. Then you settling for something
later. That's all I'm saying.
Now, obviously title is different, but same because
we're going to see that the same results take place.
They were healed, but it was different how it occurred.
And this is where most people miss it with the healing is that
you read us an account and you decide I want it that way.
Well, you don't get to pick the way he's the way.
You don't get to pick the way. He's the way because I have no
problem if the Lord says I want you to go to this doctor,
because the Lord may want to show that doctor something that
he's doing. But I'm not going to a.
Doctor, maybe the Lord wants you to go to testify that he is the
healer to someone who just said God can't heal today and he
wants to put in front of their face a case he cannot explain
but have to say I'd have to say. It's a miracle.
So we don't need to get prideful in how we want it done.
We just know it will happen according to what he says.
Period. So the gifts of the Spirit.
Obviously in operation will heal Luke chapter 13 verse 10 and 13
says this and he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the
Sabbath and there was a woman. Who was 18 years, who was there,
who for 18 years had had a sickness.
Look at this now caused by spirit.
Now the man with the 38 year disease wasn't directly affected
by spirit. He just said you're here, get up
and walk and at that. Word by the gifts.
Because there was no faith involved on the part of the man,
it came strictly from God. He was immediately healed.
In this case, Jesus is teaching in church and he notices a lady,
but he doesn't just notice her, he perceives by the gifts for 18
years she has a sickness called by the Spirit.
She was bent double and could not straighten up at all, so she
must have looked something like this.
Now you have to be at a sea into the spirit realm to know a
spirit is attached to that. He had a discerning of spirits,
so he did. He knows this is not something
that I need to go to Doctor Fatigue and you know, and Doctor
Maggie and take her to the chiropractor and let's work some
things out because you understand.
Could it be that not everyone with muscular sclerosis is just
a natural issue? Now you're not going to know
this unless you are from a different place of a different
nature that has a a spirit that that was in the beginning, the
Holy Spirit who knows all things man, when you have him function
as a believer, then it gives you insight glory to God.
And so by the Spirit, he knew that there was a spirit.
So when Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, woman,
you are free from your sickness. So he didn't say you're healed,
He says you're free in essence. He rebuked that spirit of
infirmity that had her bound. He made it get off her.
The minute it got off her, the sickness went with it.
Oh glory to God. And he laid hands on her, and
immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.
Hallelujah. What is sad about these two
particular accounts is the religious were mad at the
healings. Now, do you want to know if
you're religious or not? Do you get mad when someone's
healed and you're not? Because if you do, you could be
acting religious and that's why your healing is being hindered.
I mean, it's not like the religious Pharisees do not have
the writings of the prophets and know that the prophets healed
raise the dead. Even they have the writings and
you know, they rejoiced about Elijah's healings and
resurrections and Elijah's healings and resurrections and,
and other prophets that healed people.
You know, they rejoice. But now here's even if you don't
believe he's the Son of God, why are you not rejoicing that you
have a prophet among you that's healing people?
It's because they're threatened by.
They're he's healing on the day that they've traditionally taken
the wrong way, interpreted the wrong thing.
Jesus said he, my father's the Lord of the Sabbath man, but the
gifts man, when they're moving, they'll happen.
And you don't even have to be connected now with the man of 38
years. Jesus finds him later and says
to him, because when he finds out who it is, because you know,
the Pharisees called him and said, why are you carrying your
mat? Well, IA guy told me to do it's
the Sabbath. You're not supposed to work so
well. All I know is I've been sick for
38 years. This man came to me to take up
my mat. I am completely healed.
You're going to argue with that guy because I'm glad I'm healed
right now. What's his name?
Don't know his name. So he's carrying this thing.
Jesus finds me, say hey, I'm Jesus by the way.
And here's the thing, he said go send no more, so nothing worse
will come on you. So here's the thing.
You can be healed by God and then a time frame can leave and
something worse can happen and people convince themselves that
God's doing it when it can be their lifestyle bringing it on.
Jesus lets them know, I want you in this state.
If you keep sinning, come on, you can be in a different state
that I don't want and I don't I can't control.
See healing when you're healed doesn't mean you'll never be
sick or attacked again. The best way to avoid is to live
righteous. But if a symptom comes, then you
have an advocate with your Father, you have scripture, you
can get in faith, you can stand believe and it can come off.
However, if you do not and you go back to your way of living or
how you cause some people want to be healed just to live their
own life. Could could Jesus?
Could he have at the pool healed?
Everyone that day he sure could have and people said but he
didn't. But it's not because healing is
not for them. I don't know the circumstances
of their life and neither do you.
So quit blaming God for keeping people sick, because people keep
themselves sick sometimes, just like a lost person keeps
themselves lost, not because God wants them lost, but they choose
to never bow to the knee of. Jesus.
And God's not keeping them in that state.
Today is the day of salvation. So which is easier for them to
be born again today or to be healed today?
Say Amen anyway, all right by touch.
Matthew chapter 8 verses one to three says this.
When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed
him and a leper came to him and bowed down before him and said,
Lord, if you're willing you can make me clean.
Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I am
willing be cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was
cleansed. When was it cleansed?
Come on, when was it? I mean, I've given you 3 cases.
I don't care what is 38 years of an issue.
I don't care if it's 18 years of an issue.
That is Spirit is attached to it.
And I don't care if you have an incurable disease at the time,
which was leprosy. Immediately all three of them
changed. Now you've got to understand it
is against the law of Moses that came down from the Father to be
touching leprosy. Lepers are to run around and say
unclean, unclean, and if you touch one, then you're unclean
for the rest of the day and you've got to do a whole
ceremonial bath. Jesus did not do a bath.
Come on. And since he did not do a bath,
you have to conclude then stand up, Thaddeus, hold your hand out
since, and it's because it's like we got leprosy on it.
You have to conclude then that when Jesus touched, leprosy
moved away from that skin, so he actually touched healed skin
that then spread through the rest of his body.
You have to conclude that because Jesus never sinned, he
never violated. He fulfilled the law.
So you have to conclude when he it was already pushing away from
the power of God and the touch of that power.
And we know when you touch Jesus.
Power. Yes, Hallelujah is present.
Thank you, Thaddeus. Are you hearing me?
So touch the man. Something's going to happen.
Look at Matthew chapter 8, verse 14 and 15.
When Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his mother-in-law
lying sick in a bed with a fever.
He touched her. Hand and the fever left her and
then what does she do? She got up and waited on him.
I like that Jesus like I'm kind of hungry.
Well my you know my mom would make something but she's not
feeling good. Well, we got to get her up out
of here to get some food. Come on, let's go.
Let's go eat. Oh, yeah, I feel great.
Now let let me make you something.
Jesus. She didn't go.
Oh, I was tired. No, he she was healed.
What I love about this, He touched her.
It was a fever. You know what we do as believers
sometimes? Well, my throat's but you know.
I'm not going to bother the Lord.
It's really nothing. Jesus doesn't even want you to
have a fever. Don't let any sickness that
tries to attack your body act like you're well.
I don't want to. You understand the false
humility that believers get into.
Well, you know I don't. I don't.
Bother the Lord with that, I'll just take an aspirin.
It's really nothing. I'll just take this on him.
Bothering. The Lord's like, yeah, bother.
Really. I mean, it's like these stripes
were for no purpose. You know, I can almost imagine
Jesus saying I don't want one stripe to go to waste because,
you know, he doesn't want one drop of his blood to go to
waste. But Hell's mouth opens wide.
A lot of wasted blood. I said a lot of wasted blood
because there's a lot that are going to be cast into the lake
of fire, which is a second death.
And the blood was more than enough to keep them out.
There are a lot that are going into the grave early through
sickness and. Disease, a lot of wasted
stripes, wasted lashes. That healing was paid.
It's in the Kingdom. I said it's in the Kingdom.
Oh, Hallelujah, Mark chapter 5 verse 25 to 34 says a woman who
had a hemorrhage for 12 years, had endured much at the hands of
many physicians and has spent all that she had and was not
helped at all, but rather grow, had grown worse after healing.
After hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him
and touched his cloak for she thought one translation she was
saying to herself, if I just touch his garment, I will get
healed immediately. When immediately the flow of her
blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed
of her affliction. Immediately Jesus, perceiving in
Himself that power proceeded from Him, had gone forth, turned
around in the crowd, said, Who touched my garments?
His disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing in on
you, and you say, Who touched me?
Like really? I mean, everybody's touching
you, Jesus. But Jesus said he looked around
at seeing the woman around to see the woman who had done this.
But the woman. Fairy and trembling.
Aware of what had happened, came, fell down before him, told
him the whole truth, and he said to her daughter, your faith has
made you well. Go in peace and be healed of
your affliction. Jesus touched you.
You'll be healed. You touched Jesus.
If you're in. Faith you'll be healed because
many were touching and no powers moving.
That's what it's like in church sometimes.
Many can be present but not touching touching God, but not
moving God, not pulling power. Well, you know church wasn't
that great today. Well, you were present.
You were touching the. Pew or the sea?
But were you really in faith? Did you come to receive, to
touch God? Because when you come to touch
God, power is going to come. You could have power manifest
every service. Hallelujah.
The only thing that stops it is your faith.
Not my preaching, Not my wife's preaching.
Not anybody else's preaching. Not the band, not the soul.
Not a greeter, not the parking lot.
No Usher. It's you and you.
Alone, nothing stop you but you. She touched him.
Power left him. Ma'am, when you touched God by
faith and she physically touched him just as him because she knew
I'm going to be so weak. I'll be lucky if I can even
stand by the time I get to the guy.
I just want to touch something that's touching him.
She grabs the edge of his cloak. Power stops him dead in his
track and he was on assignment to go heal a girl and now she
has disrupted this house. Call the audacity.
The Lord says you're healed. Another way is by is at his
word. Matthew chapter 8 verse 5 and 10
says this. And when Jesus entered
caperteum, a centurion came to him imploring him and saying,
Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully
tormented. Jesus said to him, I'll come and
heal him. But the centurion says, Lord,
I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof, but just say the
word, and my servant will be healed.
For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under
me. And I say to this one, go, and
he goes into this one, come. And he comes into my slave.
Do this, and he does it. And when Jesus heard this, he
marveled. When's the last time you made
Jesus marvel? Think about that for a moment.
Don't you want to wake up one day and say you were marveling,
weren't you? Right, marvelled and said to
those who are following, Truly. I said to you, I have not found
such great faith with anyone in Israel.
In the nation that I have a covenant with the covenant, I I
don't have this with covenant people.
I mean, this is a gentile. This one is outside the nation
and knows how it works, knows how it works.
He doesn't have to see me because in this account it it
says, because it's kind of like that power of attorney deal.
He's authorized servants to go on his behalf to talk to Jesus.
He's not personally present himself.
He has sent a servant and they're like, you're worthy.
He's worthy to come. He's built synagogues.
He's done some pretty awesome things.
He, you know, he gives to us and he loves our nation.
And and then when he sees him at a distance, he sends more.
So tell him. Not even worthy come under my
house, go see what he was in the old covenant right And you know,
so he definitely the sin of his life was definitely being
exposed by the glory and righteousness of Jesus.
But he's like, just speak the word only.
I don't need you to get in the house.
I don't need you to touch. And you know, we're like, like
Lord, I need you to do this. And we make and demand you need
to do this. You need to show up.
You need to do this. And the Lord's like, all you
need is my words spoken people, why don't you marvel me today
that when you go across Scripture like Lord man in my
spirit, this word just leaped off to pay.
That's your word for me. Let it be done according to your
word. And then Jesus might be rocking
on his seat, sitting at the right hand of Father.
Say woo. I had a marvel today, Father.
I had a marvel today. I'm marveled by that.
I mean, could it be that Jesus saying, man, I'm not seeing such
great? I mean, I don't want Jesus
saying I've not seen such great faith, not in any of our.
Churches, come on. Because, you know, churches run
to the natural so fast in every. Aspect of life.
Run to natural counselors when they're having issues.
Run to natural doctors. Run the natural banks, I mean
run the natural so fast have no. Thought What's the word of my
king? Say now say that's not us.
Come on, say that's not us. Say like you mean to people.
Say that's not us, that's not me.
We will believe. God at his word.
Just turn your cell phone to believe God at His word because
God is not a respecter person. Sam, he'll do it for you.
Right now he doesn't care. You see what I'm saying?
He doesn't care. What I'm saying is he's not a
respecter. He's just looking for somebody
to say, speak the word only. Then verse 13 it said, Jesus
said to the centurion, go, it shall be done for you as you
have believed. And the servant was healed that
very moment. Now the he says it to his
servants who went back and by the time they got back the
servant was already healed. And then they deliberated
another account gave and said, now when did this happen?
They're like man, He said it here and it goes man, and that's
the minute. That's the exact time that his
whole life changed that the symptoms left.
Amen, Hallelujah, add a word. Look what psalms one O 720 says.
This is so powerful. It says.
He sent his and. Healed them and delivered them
from their destructions. I'm telling you, all you need is
the Word. I do not need Jesus Christ to
show up. I do not need an Angel to show
up. I do not need God the Father to
show up. I just need His infallible word
revealed by the Spirit to show up and then I will release it in
the name of Jesus and it shall come to pass.
That's all we need now. I would not say, oh, an angel's
here, please leave. I would not make an Angel go.
I would never tell Jesus. Bro, I don't know why you're
here. You should just go on back to I
would never do that. I'd be on my face and thankful
for the. Encounter.
However, it's not necessary. All that's necessary is His
word, and His word is the most powerful.
Thing, period. And the last one that we're
touching on is by their faith, aren't you glad you can be
healed? Aren't you glad in the Kingdom,
the healthcare system is 100% made whole?
Now again, you say, well, why is it?
Well, I can tell you a whole lot of stuff.
Why? Why?
I can tell you a whole lot, and
most of it is a lack of hearing. A lack of hearing.
Listen, you cannot smoke cigarettes or marijuana and ask
the Lord to heal you of lung cancer and continue to smoke
because you're putting in that which is damaging your body.
Well, can't. Couldn't God do it?
God could heal your lungs, but you're immediately destroying
them again. And God is not mocked.
In my lung so I can smoke marijuana a little bit longer,
right? You know, heal my liver and then
I'm going to continue to drink alcohol.
I have cirrhosis of the liver, but I sure love to drink.
So Lord, just heal me because I'm going to continue.
That's foolishness. So you have to be a listener.
You remember you, you know, I've given you this testimony.
I, you know, have never technically been overweight and
always small, you know, stay pretty active my whole life.
I, you know, have carried a little more body fat than I
should, but at the end of the day, you know, still healthy
and, you know, my metabolism was still running pretty good.
And so, but I'll never forget I was 47 because I remember how
old I was. I was 47.
The Lord says, told me two things.
He said #1 change your workout. You need to quit working out and
trying to do heavy stuff. You need to train yourself for
endurance #2 you need to change your diet.
I said what? Well, I don't have a problem.
He says, son, you have no idea what it's doing to your insides.
Because he knew that my vascular system wasn't responding well to
the processed food. And when I did a blood test,
which actually I think it was 42, it was 40, it was 40 that he
told me that 47. I did a blood test with a
nutritionist and. They said, yeah, you got the
early stage of heart disease. What said yeah, but I can tell
it's probably turned. I said, well, I changed my diet
when I was 40. He said, yeah, Then it's been on
the men because what I see isn't for the last.
I mean, this is stuff you've been doing since your 20s.
I was a youth pastor. We ate the worst food ever, the
worst food ever with teenagers. The worst.
Please quit with the Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
People got us. You got to stop it, Chris.
Chris, you're going to stop it, bro.
We need you to be an athlete. That comes off the juice, bro.
All right, OK. All right.
Water. You're in training water.
OK. And.
I'm not here. I'm here to make you healthy.
OK. The point is, is if I had not
changed it and had a heart attack, it would not have been a
God. Problem.
Well, he loves. God and follow.
How come he had I if I would have not listened?
I didn't judge myself according to what the King was warning me.
But I obeyed him, and I'm glad I did.
Hallelujah. Say Amen.
Now again, what he told me is not what he told you.
So I'm I would never tell you you have to eat this way.
I can, I'm never going to do that.
My wife has a phenomenal vascular system and she ate most
of the stuff I ate and yet it did not affect her vascular
system. In fact, we work out my heart
rate gets crazy. Hers is like nothing.
I'm like, you need to do some burpees or something to get your
heart rate up, woman. Because I'm sweating over here.
I feel like my heart's pounding out of my chest.
She's like, what's next? What's next?
Let me may. I just want to, I just get
motivated like a drill Sergeant. I just want to her to beat her
face a few times to get her life.
But it's just like. OK, what's next?
What's next? I mean, I'm needing to rest
because my heart's actually in my pocket right now.
I don't even know what's happening.
But she has a great vascular system, great vascular system.
OK, OK, Mark, Tim by their faith.
And they came to Jericho and he was leaving Jericho and his
disciples, a large crowd blind, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus,
the son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.
And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarite Nazarene who
began, he began to cry out, say Jesus, son of David, have mercy
on me. Many were sternly telling him to
be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more.
Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stopped and said, call
him here. So they called the blind man
saying to him, take her, stand up, he's calling you, throwing
aside his coat, cloak. He stood up and came to Jesus
and answering him, Jesus said, what do you want me to do?
And the blind man said to him, Teacher, that's what that word
means. I regained, I want to regain my
sight. And Jesus said to him, go, your
faith has made you whole. Immediately he regained his
sight and began following him on the road.
Now when did he regain it? OK, now here's a couple things
about this thing #1 the man had faith because verse 50 said he
threw aside his his cloak. He's throwing it aside because
that is what he uses to be able to beg.
And he knows that I'm going to Jesus and I won't be a beggar
anymore. I'm going to see.
So he's in faith and Jesus acknowledges he's in faith.
Now here's the crazy thing that you almost like, why does Jesus
ask? He says, what do you want me to
do? Just because someone has
something physically a health challenge, let's say it that
way. Has a health challenge does not
mean they want that health challenge changed.
I remember in this sanctuary this is challenging.
So This is why we need to talk about healing.
In this sanctuary. There was a young lady, she came
down with a walking stick. So it was obvious to everybody
that this girl cannot see. Well, she is considered Legally
Blonde, and she comes down and gets on the line to be healed.
Now, I'm just going to be honest with you.
I know what all you thinking. You're thinking, OK, She's come
to get healed. She wants to see.
So I got in front of her and did the Jesus.
What do you want? And she says, you know, I was
diagnosed with muscular sclerosis.
Yeah, and I want to be healed of that.
Amen. That's what she wanted.
Laid hands on her. I know she was healed of that,
but she went back to her seat with a stick.
Now, you know what everybody will say.
Oh, I guess the Lord's not. She didn't ask for it, Right.
So quit assuming when you see people that they want what you
think they want or what you think they should have.
That's good. That's good because some people
have lived with stuff for so long, they don't even they don't
even have the faith to ask. And many people, someone comes
down in a wheelchair, oh, they need to get up.
They just we're going to see where when we going to see some
of them don't even want it. They're wanting their sinuses
cleared out. They're wanting their allergies
taken care of. They're wanting their sore
throat to go. They're wanting, you know, a
kidney stone to pass whatever and what you think is obvious
and Jesus teaches us what would you what would you have me do
for you? And he answered what we would
have considered obvious. I want to regain my sight.
Now this is really important too, because he said I want to
regain, which means he previously had.
Because there was another time that Jesus did not heal the
blind man the way this blind man was healed.
That blind man came, He came up and he spit on some dirt, put it
on his eyes and said now go wash it in the pool.
Anybody know why? Some of you know why could we
preached on this before? In this case, most likely this
man had something missing because man was made out of the
dust of the and so by putting clay or dirt on his eyes cause
what was not originally formed to be formed by the working of
miracles when he washed it off. Not every person that is deaf in
our church are deaf because they lost it.
Some are deaf because they do not even have the mechanism by
which to hear, which means they are not coming up here on just
the simple laying on of hands to be healed.
For some they the gifts, have to be in play for working a
miracle. And you know what?
I can't make that happen. Only God can do that.
Now you said what does God want? Yes, but you know what?
When God moves in the gifts, there are very strategic reasons
when he does those types of healings because he's ready to
do some big type of advertisement.
Because there was another man that was blind from his birth.
And the debate was did God do this?
Did his sin? Did his parents sin?
What was it? And Jesus said this is for the.
Glory of God because He's about to do something at this
particular time that is going to showcase.
The plan, purpose and power of God.
But notice. He was healed.
But most of us are not having to deal with something not formed
and we're having to wait on a gift.
The majority of us healing is ours today.
Their symptoms and the symptoms can go.
Their diseases that weren't there, but then you were
diagnosed with them, which means they weren't there at one time
and they don't have to be there another time because by his
stripes, she were healed. So quit trying to use what the
work in a miracle is in certain places to your life.
When the stripes are more than enough, say Amen anyway, all
right. So my last example is in Luke
chapter 17 verses 12 to 19. It says this again by their
faith. And he entered the village. 10
leprous men who stood at a distance met him, and they
raised their voices saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
And when he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourself right
to the priest. And as they were going, they
were cleansed. Now you understand some of these
examples. I'm giving a couple.
He says something out of word, right.
And out of word, things occurred again, He said something here
again, even the woman with the issue of blood, right?
She touched him, but also it was according to her faith as well,
right? So again, we're saying primarily
he's he is, we see examples of God of Christ healing through
the gifts of the Spirit by touch at his word and by their faith.
So he says, go show yourself to the priest.
And they were going and they were cleansed.
Now one of them when he saw that he had been healed, turned back,
glorifying God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face
at his feet, giving thanks to him, for he was a Samaritan.
Then Jesus said to him, were there not ten cleansed, but the
9 where are they? Was no one was no one found who
returned to give glory to God except this foreigner.
And he said to him, stand up and go.
Your faith has made you well. Hallelujah.
You know, in this account and some other accounts, you know,
again with the Pharisees getting upset about healings occurring
on the Sabbath, is that Jesus? And then with the centurion, he
said, man, I'm not seeing such great faith, not even in Israel.
Being in the church can bring a hindrance to your faith for
healing. When you are not valuing the
covenant you're in, you're creating it as common.
You're allowing your knowledge of a subject to override
activating that knowledge by faith because Jesus is like this
is a foreigner. The other nine were part of the
city but part of the covenant and they don't value what's
rightfully theirs. You understand we can be in the
church and we begin to devalue the benefits because we start to
separate from the awe and fear of the Lord.
In essence, we begin to treat. What God has given to us as an
inheritance as well. It's it's mine with no honor
that we that it's ours. We should always treat it as
with thankfulness, gratitude, honor, submission, knowing there
was a price, not like a spoiled child taking no account of the
price paid. You know most of your children
take no account of the price you're paying to put the food
that they are just easily opening a refrigerator and
snatching out and taking no thought of whether Mama needs
this last bit of milk for her coffee in the morning.
They'll suck that thing down and throw it and take no thought.
And what we want to do, we want to take our last bit of milk,
take no thought of Jesus, the plan and purpose God has for our
lives. And we see this in Scripture
that Jesus having challenges with his old covenant people
because of that attitude that those that have not, that aren't
accustomed to having those benefits afforded to them, see
great value and thankfulness to be able to walk in it well.
Let us not be us, the church. Let us not forget any of his
benefits, but be thankful for it and know that when we say the
Father in the name of Jesus. I thank you that I am healed
that at the stripes of Jesus we actually imagine what those
stripes look like on his back and know it was such a price and
that. He paid the whole balance to
this medical bill that is should been mine.
And I have no co-pay to this deal.
Faith's all I have and thankful that the Kingdom has the
greatest health care ever and that if I ever find myself under
attack or symptom shows up because I'm in a world that God
didn't originally designed this way and my body comes across
something and begins to attack it and try to get rid of through
my immune system or whatever. I'm just thankful to the Lord
that He's my healer. I can walk in that heal and I'm
going to have it and I'm not going to let one stripe go to
waste. Not one, not one stripe.
I'm thankful.