We're going to be a we're going to read Acts chapter 10 verse 38
and it says this, it says you know of Jesus of Nazareth and
how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power and
he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed
by the devil for God was with him.
Let's pray. Father, we love you, we honor
you. We thank you so much for the
word of God. We think it's alive and active,
sharper than any 2 edged sword and Holy Spirit.
We again ask and we ask not through tradition saying this
often, we ask in faith because we are firmly persuaded what
Jesus said about you, you will do so.
We know tonight that you're in our room, that you're in our
midst, that you are within the believer that you testify with
it, with our spirits. We're children of God.
You put it come upon us with power so that we walk in the
power of the Kingdom. But the things that you do is
that you're going to cause things to come to our
remembrance that Jesus has said. You're going to guide us into
all truth. You're going to teach us all
things and you're going to disclose things to come.
So we receive your ministry to renew our minds so that we
release who we are in Christ and and receive all the benefits
that are afforded to us. Because now we are children of
God that are residents within your Kingdom that is alive and
well on the earth spiritually and one day physically in Jesus
name and all God's people said Amen.
You know, healing is a part of the Kingdom.
Healing is a part of the Kingdom.
The kingdom's not just healing, but the Kingdom has healing, all
right? And the king has the power to
heal. He has the authority, all right.
And we see here in Acts chapter 10, you know, obviously Luke is
the writer of this particular verse, but he's recounting, you
know, there's there's it's this recount of, you know, Peter, I
think this is at Cornelius's house, if I'm correct, you know,
having a little bit of a conversation with him.
And ultimately is saying, you know, how Jesus of Nazareth, how
God anointed him, was he anointed with the Holy Spirit
and power authority, right? And how he went about doing
good. And this doing good is where we
get the word philanthropy. So not only did he heal people,
but he also brought a provisional resource.
And provisional resource isn't just giving away finance, which
he may have done that because he definitely had money, but more
importantly, he brought provision.
We know, through the five loaves and two fish another time with
some additional fish. You know, he would do certain
things to pay taxes. He was able to pull some things
because that he has provision. But he all ultimately says that
he healed all who are oppressed of the devil.
Well, now this is an interesting little thought before we go on
healing all who are oppressed of the devil.
So if you're not in health, God didn't put is not is not trying
to put sickness on you. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Now God can withdraw himself from protection and accelerate
what's happening in your body, because now that man has fallen.
The body is corrupt, it is mortal, and it is breaking down.
Now we can slow this process, meaning the anointing in our
lives can do some regeneration. We cannot walk in more
immortality. That is not possible for us.
That's a glorified body we will receive.
However, we can keep this body in great health with the
anointing because God has anointed us as well.
But if God withdrew himself in one sense because of our
disobedience, well, you know, your body could receive a whole
lot of stuff. Now the enemy's weapon is to
bring sickness and disease. That is His weapon to bring.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when we talk about in Egypt,
because you're going to I have to address this, Jesus went or
the the Lord tells the Israelites after he removed them
from Israel that if they walk accord his way, he will not put
none of the diseases that he put on the Egyptians.
Now you understand the things that happened to the Egyptians
was the Lord gave them what they were believing their gods were
not allowing. Well, their gods had no power.
And so, you know, boils and all kinds of things that ended up
taking place in their lives, you know, with the different plagues
that came, those are some challenges.
Now God is authorized to eliminate someone from the
planet. And that's not murder.
That's executing judgment. OK, Murder is when you kill
someone who's innocent. Judgment is when you release
someone from their body because they've been judged rightly and
death is a byproduct of that judgment.
Do you need to understand that? Because people say, well, the
Lord doesn't come to kill still and destroy.
Well, the Lord doesn't kill in the sense of murder, but the
Lord can pull your spirit from your body.
And an ISIS of fire are new covenant people in in Acts that
when they lied to the Holy Ghost, they fell dead in church.
Are you hearing me again? There's statements we make that
we all the sudden then get a perception that God would never
require someone to leave their skin suit.
That can't happen. But it's never from injustice
ever. Do you understand the
difference? OK, again, because, you know, in
our society we believe, you know, and I don't mind if you
have this belief, you know, that we should never have any type of
corporal punishment where anyone should ever die for their
crimes. I don't have an issue there
because they're going to go before a Court One day where
they will die for their crimes and they'll be cast into the
lake of fire, which is the second death that will occur.
So they, if it does not happen on planet Earth, it will happen
in the course of heaven. So if man chooses to prolong and
say we are not going to address that at all, we're not going to
make that kind of law. Although God placed those laws
within the planet, even in his own nation, that if these things
occurred, that these were justifiable things.
Because ultimately it's better to eliminate wickedness than let
it roam. All right, that's the side
thought anyway. We see here that the devil,
though, has this tactic of putting sickness and disease
through oppression on people. Hallelu, y'all doing all right?
Don't get quiet on me because I fall asleep, OK?
I was up till 3:00 AM trying to take care of my family, you
know, didn't sleep a whole lot. So, you know, Anna gave me a
great strong cup of coffee and if I might walk down there and
take another sip before I'm over, right?
Because I need to preach a little bit and I'm not going to
get done early just because, you know, you feel like you could go
to bed. All right?
So, so again, so you have to recognize when symptoms happen
in your body, do not give God credit for that is what I'm
saying. Now, you know, there is
traditional thoughts that, you know, get picked up, you know,
religiously because again, we just took some time to talk
about the authority and how Jesus spoke with authority, not
like the scribes. And the difference between him
speaking and them is they had traditions where they have
caused the word of God to become a tradition.
And you can pick up traditions within churches, well meaning.
And you know what even sounds kind of good?
Because it definitely will help people cope with what's going
on. However, that doesn't mean it's
accurate. And don't ever feel condemned if
you get sick. We're in the earth.
There can be challenges that show up.
Symptoms can happen. You just need to know who you
are and what authority you have to address those.
I mean, again, Jesus said in this life you'll have trials and
tribulation. He never said you'll go through
life once you're born again, no problems.
You'll live at perfect peace. You will never have an issue
ever. No, he said you're going to have
problems, but be of good cheer. He gave his answers.
You see, I'm saying he's like, be of good cheer.
This is how you handle it. When you get into these issues,
look to me, I'll give you the deliverance.
So God is always just given the way to come out.
So when we enter into certain things that we realize this is
not the will of God, then we must at that place say, OK,
Lord, what does your word say so that I can get myself in victory
because I'm not going to stay in a place that is not ordained by
you, OK. So when symptoms hit your body,
you know, do not give God credit for those begin to say, OK Lord,
how do I overcome this because we will see in the next few
weeks on Wednesday night that healing is just a part of the
Kingdom and and God wants us healed.
Are you hearing what I'm saying now?
Why is this important? Because listen, let's just think
for a moment, how many people right now that are currently
have left this life and gone into heaven?
Those that are born again, they've they've left their skin
suit, their spirit man has left and they are currently resigned
in heaven as Paul said, to be absent from the body.
I'll be what present with the Lord.
Where is the Lord presently at? He's at the right hand of the
Father. Where in heaven.
So those people who have preceded us in death, meaning
separating from their body, they no longer are on the planet.
Their spirit and soul is gone. They are in heaven because they
are born of God of all those that are in heaven from the one
that just passed away right now somewhere in the planet, they
just passed away because I don't know what the percentage is.
If there's like ever so many seconds, someone's dying in the
planet for that person who just left, right, just left, OK, all
the way to Adam and and I'm just taking to the first, you know,
one that was born of those who are of God and in covenant,
because not everybody's in heaven.
But the ones that are, how many of them need healing?
How many of them are going before the throne of God and
saying, you know, I woke up today with a sore throat.
You know, the trees up here, the pollen's horrible and my
allergies are crazy, Lord, you know, and I see the blood on the
mercy seat up here. And so I need some healing.
Come on, how many are walking and getting healing in heaven
right now? So then healing is not for
heaven. Healing then must be something
that is designed for the earth. So what that should do to our
our mindset is that if I get sick, heaven is not the release
of that. God doesn't want me to get into
heaven to be healthy. That's it.
Now you got to think different because again, traditionally
it's like, well, it's just what I've had.
And so I'm just dealing with it, but one day I won't.
And if the enemy can convince you never to try to apply any
authority or seek God for something to be healed.
And again, I'm not talking about things that are natural.
Meaning, you know, your ligaments can naturally.
I mean, my ligaments are not what they were when I was 20,
but I can still squat down, OK? I can still go all the way to
the ground and get back up because I am active enough to do
that. I could pull some people up here
right now and you can't do this right?
But this here is not like it was when I was 20 still.
And there's things I do naturally, plus being in faith
to allow me to do this at 56, OK.
And I'm going to be able to do it at 66768696.
I'll take 106, I'll take 116. I mean, I, I'll take it all.
I mean, I, I don't, I want to be active.
Hallelujah. Now, that doesn't mean that it
may be different because I don't have a glorified body.
However, I have a covenant and that covenant keeps me healthy
and in health to fulfill the plan and purpose of God.
I'll be honest with you, I much rather die through being
martyred then leave the planet through sickness.
The preferred method for me is just, I'm done.
Can I just be honest? That's the preferred method for
me. I mean, the preferred method for
me is that I've changed in the moment of a twinkling of an eye.
That's my #1 and that's what I'm banking on and that's what I'm
believing for, OK? Because somebody's got to fly.
Second greatest is I'm done. I lay down and I leave and there
was no health issues that caused that.
Third would be I would die for my faith.
This is my and this is my order based upon what I know in
Scripture that this is what I want.
This is what I desire because in the Kingdom healing is for me.
See, our spirits are not healed because you hear this a lot
traditionally. Well, you know He healed your
spirit. God does not heal your spirit.
No one has a healed spirit. Man, wait a minute now I was, I
was lost in my sin. I was dead in my transgression.
And then God saved me just right.
He resurrected a new spirit in you.
He did not heal the old one. He evicted the old one, and he
put a new one on the end. He resurrected the one He spoke
over Adam in the garden. Let you have dominion.
Let you be like me. And when you're born again,
you're like God. You're in Christ.
Your spirit man is alive like Jesus.
In that spirit. You're not Jesus, but you're in
the nature of God again, and that doesn't come from healing.
That comes from being dead to yourself and being raised to the
newness of life. You're a whole new species.
The Bible calls you a new creature, not a remodeled
creature, a healed creature, a restored creature, but a a new
one. So healing is not for your
spirit, but healing is for your soul and for your body because
God will touch your mind. God will heal you of bad
thoughts. He will heal you of of things
that cause. Again, they say the number one
contributor to physical sickness is stress.
Stress is a mental area. Well, God will give us perfect
peace where we can cast all of our care, which would be your
stress on the Lord because He cares for you.
You understand God has the ability to eliminate stress in
your life. He, he won't stop stress from
coming, but he can eliminate it once it comes.
You can release the stress and when you release the stress,
then guess what else you're doing?
You're helping your physical body.
Now I would submit to you this, and I know it has been proven
out scientifically. Not only do you need to read the
word for the renewing of your mind and to be able to get Peace
of Mind, but you do need to have some activity to release stress
as well. Stress is not just a mental
thing 'cause stress will get into your body and the way to
get it out of your body is to exert yourself physically.
Because I've done seasons of ministry where things became
stressful, challenges occurred and I would find myself putting
on the back burner. The workout did not negate
praying, did not negate pre reading the word and praying in
the holy. In fact, those increased, but
the physical exercise started to wane.
But in my battle of trying to release stress, it was still
showing up in my body. And if I had maintained my
physical exercise, then it never could have taken residence in my
skin suit. And I found that it was equally
as important because again, Kenneth the Hagin said this
concerning the gifts of the Spirit.
He said we separate them for the sake of teaching, but the one
that is the most powerful or the one that is the greatest is the
one that's needed at the time. We as believers, because of
selfish ambition, we want to know which one's the greatest,
the most powerful so that we can function in it.
So it really looks like we are holy and used of God more.
It's really about us looking something instead of God looking
something. We're just being honest.
OK, so teaching is designed to layer out truths, but not to
separate them to where they do not function together.
And you know, one thing that we've done in a truth teaching
is that we've identified that the man is a spirit, soul and
body. Typically it's preached this we
are spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.
And we preach that it's only the Word of God that can separate
the spirit and the soul of man. Why Is it because they're so
intertwined? God did not make you spirit only
because even in the new heaven and new earth, we will be
spirit, soul and body. Because if we weren't going to
be a body, why do we get a glorified 1?
So what we do, unfortunately through tradition is we're like
Brian, the only thing that matters is that your spirit man
is alive to God. Forget about your brain.
We're not going to renew your mind.
It doesn't matter. We just want to, we want you to
know where you're going to go when you die.
And the rest of it really doesn't matter because all that
matters is that you're born again.
So we basically forfeit the the discipleship process of the
renewing of the mind, which means we have someone born of
God but lives like they're in the world.
And that's what Paul called a carnal Christian that was led
still by the flesh. Then you'll see many ministers
it, you know, when I say that there was a time, you know, I
don't really pay attention to a bunch of them anyway, but you
know that they would be pretty large people, no restraint in
what they ate. But you know, they're preaching
that all that matters. But yet your physical body
matters. And some left early because they
did not judge themselves rightly according to their physical
body. And some stand before the Lord,
and I guarantee the Lord saying, well, I had more because I'm
telling you God's not a respecter person.
And he sure talked to me about my body.
I remember when I was 47 years old, you know, I, I worked out,
you know, I've kind of been doing that since I was, you
know, in high school, really active in that, enjoyed it.
Didn't realize how much it helped me in ministry, honestly,
how great that was for me, for my mental acuity as well.
And so, you know, so All in all, I wasn't obese at all.
And so the Lord said, you need to change the way you eat.
And I'm like, why? My metabolism burns this stuff.
There's no problem. He says, son, you have no idea
what it's doing to your insides. And what I didn't know is what
was happening to my vascular system.
See, God knows everything about you.
You understand. That's why some people can be
extremely lean. You know, they could be the
model of fitness and still die of heart disease.
And God knows what's going on in your veins, your DNA, your
secular cellular matter, right? He knows this, and he'll talk to
you. Why?
Because he wants you to have long life.
It's asinine. Can I use that word?
It's asinine. Let's use that in our next book,
Rod. It's asinine for us to come and
receive healing for cancer and keep smoking.
And when the Lord began to talk to me about some things that he
said you need to quit ingesting this.
And again, I will never preach to you what to eat.
Scripture is pretty clear on that.
You need to identify yourself, what your body process.
My wife has phenomenal vascular system.
It's amazing. I mean, her veins, I mean, it's
so difficult to get her heart rate up.
I mean, she's just got clean pipes, man.
It's amazing. Me, man, I'm not like I can hit
188 like that. That's not great.
Now I don't feel it at all. I mean, I wouldn't have known.
I, I'm not gasping for air. I don't feel like I'm
lightheaded. I don't see dots, nothing.
But I can get there. Why?
Because I do have some constriction that I'm working on
to reverse. And don't you know, with natural
and believing God and knowing that I have healing, I can get
that thing reversed. I'm not saying that I'm going to
go back to a 20 year old, but you know what?
I won't stop God from doing it. I'm not using my age as an
excuse. What I'm saying is, is that I
want to be at the best I can be, knowing what the Spirit is
telling me to do, and in obedience to that, it will
change my life. OK, so our spirits were not
healed when we were born again. Our spirit is resurrected and is
a new creature in Christ. Again, healing is in the soul,
in the body. So let's look at some scripture
here because what we want to do is we want you to know in the
Kingdom, our Kingdom, the Kingdom God has brought us into,
there is a healthcare system where you are fully covered, you
have full coverage and it is only difficult for the carnal
mind to struggle with this. I had teenagers when I was in
youth ministry because they lived in homes where their
parents had great careers and had phenomenal 4 O1 KS and
investments and great health insurance.
Yet my family had no health insurance in the natural, but I
already knew I was fully covered, you know, and people
would stress over, you know, you need to get some coverage.
What if, what if I have Jesus? I mean, there is nothing I'm
going to encounter that Jesus cannot overcome.
Now, I'm not saying that I would turn away from natural
healthcare coverage no problem. And I've had it in my lifetime.
However, the healer is on the throne.
And what's crazy is I very rarely took my children to the
doctor because they were always healthy.
They were just healthy. They did not have a bunch of
sickness, disease, broken bones, issues.
It didn't happen. If something did occur, we
would. And I I spent less money paying
something in full than paying for health insurance that I
never used and co-pays I never had to enact and prescriptions I
never needed to grab because he heals now I wasn't opposed to.
I remember one time my oldest son got into some poison sumac
when we were in Oklahoma. Yeah, yes, Christopher, we were
had took some teenage boys out and did a camp over and they,
you know, played this game where they were hiding all night long.
And then we're on the bus coming back and his face looks like
he's sunburned, although this happened at night.
So like, wow, he's looking kind of red and got home and man, his
head started to swell. Yeah, I mean, it's swelled like
a basketball. And so I'm looking at him.
But I have a king. I said, Lord, do I need to take
him right now? You know, because number one,
you don't want their throats to close up and then they
suffocate, right? I mean, naturally as a parent,
you're going to like take care of your children.
But I have someone who knows and he says not necessary.
And I'm praying for his healing because now it's in a system and
it needs to run a course to a degree.
You know, unless the gifts get involved and I lay hands on and
poof is gone and that can happen, I have no problem with
that. Should the Lord want that right
through the gifts and so I stayed up all night.
He stayed in a chair. I mean, he looks so bad guys
that I'd never took a picture. You know, sometimes in
hindsight, like maybe I should have and we could have laughed
about it now, but it I mean, it looked that I'm like, I don't
even know if we want to remember this.
And so, you know, it did go down some that night.
I did take him to a person in the church that was a nurse and
they said, you know, steroid shot take care of this week.
There's no problem, Just come into the office.
So I bring him in. I mean, bro, he looks so sad.
He's in that. He's in that elevator, his
head's down. I mean, it's like, and he's
really thin, you know, And so his head's down and people walk
in like, you know, if they're just kind of shocked at his and
the, and the girl who knew my son and went to church with us,
when he walked in the office, I mean, she took a double take,
but gave him a steroid shot. And within two days gone.
I never stressed because I had peace and I knew he's already
fully covered. And you know what, the amount of
money to pay for steroids, I didn't care because the Lord's
going to provide anyway. And he did that day that it
didn't end up costing us anything.
So again, you know well, people want the security on man's
paper, but I've got God's paper, all those digital copy here that
tells me he heals and it's a part of his Kingdom.
And I have more confidence in that than any doctor I go to.
In fact, when I go to doctors today and my prayer is they
diagnosed correctly because they call it a practice for a reason,
right? Well, that didn't work.
Let's try this. Let me just go to the one who
knows what's going to work. Let's go there.
All right, Matthew chapter 4, verse 23 and 24.
I am not preaching. Never go to a doctor.
I'm not preaching. You shouldn't have your own
natural health cover. I am not preaching any of that.
I'm preaching that you're fully covered in the Kingdom and it
should be the one you go to 1st. Smith Wigglesworth said this, a
man of faith, you know, back in the late 1800s, of which it was
attributed to him and his ministry.
There was multiple healings. And this man was not an educated
man. In fact, he was a plumber that
got born again because his wife was an example before him.
And he only read one book, the Bible, because he was actually
illiterate and it's the only book he could read.
If he jumped over to a paper, for whatever reason, he couldn't
read it. He was a little, but he could do
the Word. God revealed the word to him,
and it's attributed to his ministry that 23 people were
raised from the dead. Now, he didn't raise them.
God raised them through the gifts, but yet it was
attributed. And one particular account, a
man was dead. He picked him up and threw him
against the wall and he fell back in the same position he was
when he picked him up. And he did it again, and he did
it again, and then he did it and He's alive.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Well, he heard something and he
didn't let those actions. Well, you understand, people in
the in the hospitals bring people back, but some don't,
right? All right, But our Lord can.
He is the resurrection in the life people.
Hallelujah. I mean, if anyone could bring
somebody back, it's the Lord. In fact, he kind of laughs about
it when you think otherwise, right?
OK, Matthew 423 and 24 says this.
Jesus was going through all Galilee teaching in their
synagogues. He went to church and
proclaiming the gospel of the what Kingdom and healing every
kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.
So there's no sickness, even the incurable ones that he did not
heal say Amen. There's diseases and sicknesses.
We understand a flu is not cancer, One's a sickness, 1's a
disease. But guess what God can do to
both heal them both. Verse 24 the news about him
spread through all Syria and they brought to him all who were
I'll those suffering with various diseases pains demoniacs
because the devil uses sickness and disease to oppress people
and he'll keep spirits attached to people.
So you understand sometimes doctors are at a disadvantage.
In fact, a lot of times doctors will be at a disadvantage
because they're treating a symptom that actually has a
spirit attached to it. Jesus did this with a woman bent
over right. You know, we have some
chiropractors that you know are in our church.
And again, if, if they were not born of God and had spiritual
discernment, someone come and bend over, they're going to do
natural things to try to help straighten their spine.
But the Lord doesn't tell the woman, doesn't speak to her and
say you're back, straighten. He said he rebuked a spirit of
infirmity that was on her and caused her to be bound over to
where she walked like this. So what we may be calling
scoliosis today, Come on, every case may not be scoliosis.
OK, I know that this can make it sound like you're meddling
because you're like, who are you?
You're not a medical professional.
I am a theological professional. If you go to a doctor, because
he's a medical professional, well, I am a professional in the
studying of God and God heals them all.
He heals them all. So I'll never take a testimony
of a non healing over that. God can heal.
I'm not going to let that infiltrate my mind period.
And for me, I'm just always trying to raise myself to the
level of what's obvious in Scripture and that is the
Kingdom has me fully covered. All right, So epileptics,
paralytics, and he what, what did he do?
Go back to verse 24. He healed them.
I said he healed them no problem.
We know the one that you know, they ripped the roof off, laid,
put the friend down in there that was paralyzed.
Get up, take up your mat, walk. And he was healed that day.
No additional rehabilitation, no more, you know, in home health
care. He was healed that day.
I'm not against any of the other stuff.
I'm just saying in the Kingdom, the expectation is I can be made
whole. This is what I like about Keith
Dunkle. You know, when he got the issue,
you know, with his foot, he was proclaimed I am going to walk
again. That's right, I'm a walk.
And you know, he never would take a thought process that I'm
going to be stuck in a wheelchair and I'm never going
to walk again because him and his mom and family already knew
what the scripture has said. And for them, at the end of the
day, we going to do everything we're supposed to do secondary
to what we already believe. Keith will not stay like this.
That was their first thought. He will not stay like this.
So Lord, whatever you want us to do, he'll do.
You will do because he will not stay like this.
He will walk and he walks. Say Amen.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
He's the healer. I drive now too.
You drive now, too. Come on.
See what I'm saying? Now that's good news.
Now, what kind of critic would say, yeah, but you still.
I mean, seriously, the guy was in a wheelchair.
Couldn't do Jack. Nearly died.
Yeah, nearly died and now he's back to driving.
I mean, let's give God glory. Hallelujah.
Let's definitely don't become religion, a religious skeptic or
Pharisee to say, well, until I see it like this, oh,
Hallelujah, I'll just be quiet. Hallelujah.
I mean, seriously, God's at work here, people, and we're going to
give God glory. Amen.
Luke Chapter 9 verse 11 says
this. But the crowds were aware of
this and followed him and welcoming them.
He began speaking to them about the Kingdom of God and curing
those who had need of healing. Notice in both of these
passages, the Kingdom of God is being ministered.
He's preaching about the Kingdom of God and the demonstration
that the Kingdom of God he preaches about.
He heals people. He heals people, He preaches
Kingdom and guess what happens in the Kingdom?
You're healed. This is just part of our
benefits. Hallelujah.
And listen, this is not solely a new covenant reality.
This is not solely a new covenant reality.
Look at this in Acts. In Acts, the writers obviously
recounting which I believe Paul speaking here concerning the
exodus of the people of Israel in Acts chapter 13 verse 17, it
says the God of this people Israel chose our fathers and
made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt.
And with an uplifted arm, He led them out from it.
Did he lead them out man? He delivered them right and he
delivered them from being slaves.
They multiplied greatly. Then they were oppressed and
then God showed up and ended up, you know, dismantling that
government and then LED them out.
But Psalms 10537 tells us how he brought them out.
It says this. Then he brought them out with
silver and gold. Why?
Because look how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, who went
around doing good. He brought provision for them.
In essence, all the time they worked as slaves, they were paid
in that generation. Are you hearing me?
They brought out that wealth. Secondly, it goes on and says
and among his tribes there was not one who stumbled.
Now that's think about this. They have been we come in on
this account when Moses shows up and goes to Pharaoh and says the
Lord says God says let my people go.
And Pharaoh's like, who in the world is your God?
I mean, we got gods here. We have gods we worship.
They're they're the real gods. I don't know who your God is,
right? God said let my people go.
So they didn't come out worship him.
I don't know you God. The minute he leaves the room,
what does he say? He says you make it harder on
the people. So that what this guy's telling
that nation that are our slaves make his words seem like they're
lies. So what's the next day?
The next day, they don't bring straw anymore.
But they tell the leaders of Israel that they've made over
their own people to make sure they have so many bricks.
You need to have this many bricks.
Where? Where's the straw?
You have to get it yourself. But we will not reduce the
quota. And if you do not do it, we're
going to Stripes are showing up on you.
And they were beaten. So you understand.
This nation was physically abusing, but yet they came out
strong. I said they came out strong.
Why? Because when God, when they go
through the Red Sea, when they get to the others, when they're
coming out now they and it's not even the Red Sea.
I'm telling you, when they're coming out, they have the
ability to carry wealth loaded up, and not just silver and
gold, but all kinds of fine material.
And they're able to go and walk, have the physical stamina to get
to the Red Sea, go through the Red Sea, get to the other side.
What's God saying? My nation is a nation of healed
people. Because if you're my people, I
want you whole. And wholeness is spirit, soul,
and body. This is why First Thessalonians
says that our spirit, soul, and body remain blameless.
Amen. So please, as you age, I'm
aging. As you age, do not settle for
certain things. Just like you would go to a
doctor and follow a prescription, stay in the word,
do that prescription. Make sure that's the first thing
you're because the word does good like a medicine and it will
actually heal you. It won't mask symptoms like a
lot of prescription drugs do. They mask, they're not curing
the they're masking the pain. They give you pain.
What's it called? Management.
What's pain management? Well, my back was hurting, but
I've taken this. I don't feel anything.
But your back's not healed, and actually, you could be doing
more damage because you're picking stuff up you shouldn't
pick up, and you can't feel that you shouldn't pick it up.
I mean, pain is actually a mechanism to say, hey, stop,
you're going to hurt yourself. You're doing that the wrong way,
right? I didn't design you to pick it
up that way. Don't do that.
Right? So not every ailment is
sickness. Oh, that kind of hurts.
That's a warning. God saying, hey, I didn't build
you that way. Amen.
Now soreness of muscle to build muscle, that is a pain you want,
right? But you know, not to the point
that you've destroyed your muscle and now it's not even
effective. But there is a pain that you do
want. OK, and that just build
something else. All right, let's go on Matthew
chapter 10 verse 7 to 9 says this and as you go so again now
Jesus is telling people we know that Jesus we've already seen a
2 scripture. Let everything be confirmed by
two or three witness and I just gave you a couple.
I could have given you more, but we see every time Jesus talks
about the Kingdom, he's healing people.
So he's he is clearly communicating if back in the old
covenant I've demonstrated because he said this to his
nation. If you'll just obey what I said,
if you do what I do in this dispensation, the man, you're
going to be a healthy nation. You're all your livestock is
going to be fruitful. You're going to be fruitful as
husband and wife. You're going to be able to
multiply. Everything you put the hand to
is going to prosper. I mean, it's going to be awesome
because of my nation. Health and healing is just what
we have. Provision is just there that
comes with me. I'm the king of the Kingdom and
that's what my Kingdom looks like.
And it's not just for me. It's for all citizens, all those
that are my people. He has no problem Sherry Jesus
then in the new covenant as he's inaugurating coming to
inaugurate the new covenant again is is communicating.
Listen, when the Kingdom is present, the benefits of the
Kingdom are manifesting and what we don't want to do is become
religiously tradition that we accept just knowing where we're
going to go and we die. But we want every benefit that
comes with the Kingdom. Now this Kingdom having healing
was so important that not only did God perform it, Jesus
himself, but the disciples were able to do it as well, right?
Look what it says again in Matthew 10, seven and nine.
It says as you go preach saying the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Then he goes on and says, heal
the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out
demons. Freely you receive, freely give.
Now look at verse 9 and I put 9 on.
I could have stopped today but I put 9 intentionally because when
I saw nine, I'm like, I'm going to say that.
Do not acquire gold or silver or copper for your money belt.
The natural healthcare system requires you to pay for it.
The Kingdom healthcare system says you don't even have to
there. No money exchange is required.
Hallelujah. So when you hear someone say,
now the Lord wants to hear you, if you'll give this amount, that
is false teaching. That's a false teacher, false
prophet, a false apostle. That's a hireling, not a pastor.
OK, that's error because God is not requiring gold, silver,
copper, anything to financially support you because you
administered healing to somebody.
Amen. Wouldn't it be awesome you'd
walk into a place and they just took care of you and never sent
a bill? Come on, say Amen.
Yeah, well, you can make a transaction from heaven.
Glory to God. I said you can make a
transaction from heaven. This is why I seek first the
Kingdom, because again, even if I'm in a situation I can first
go to the King of Canada, whatever he says, I'm going to
do whatever he says. Because if he tells me to go to
doctor because something's going on in my body that needs to be
removed or I need to gain access to more knowledge so that I can
speak against it by faith or get the word on it, then I'm going
to do that no problem. However, I'm always going to the
King of Kings first because he's already paid the price.
He's already paid the price. So when you go to the Kingdom
hospital, so to speak, no co-pays the insurance is the
stripes on the back of Jesus. Because think about it, stripes
on his physical body did not save you.
That's right, it's the blood and that blood was poured on a mercy
seat in heaven. It's the shedding of blood that
is the remission of sin. It's the stripes on the back
that is the paid in full coverage for your health
insurance while you're on the earth.
Hallelujah to fulfill the will of God.
Hallelujah. So someone says, well, do you
have insurance? You bet I got the best insurance
ever fully covered, no co-pays, zero out of pocket expense for
me. I mean really the only out of
pocket expense that I have is the currency I carry in the
Kingdom called faith. All I have to do is release
faith and it causes it to happen.
Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. Aren't you glad you're healed?
Aren't you glad it's more than just where you're going to go
when you die? Look at Luke Chapter 9 verse one
to two. It says this.
And he called the 12 together and gave them power and
authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.
There's nowhere that you'll ever find Jesus saying to an
individual, I've given you power so that you can put cancer on
somebody so I can teach them something.
And the crazy thing about that kind of traditional thinking,
well, you know, the Lord put this on me because he need to
get my attention, right? God does not use sickness and
disease as an attention getter. You're not going to find that
scripture. OK, but they say that, you know,
so he put it on me because he's trying to teach me something.
Well, there should be two follow up questions.
The first one is, have you learned?
Right? Should be your first follow up
question. Then maybe this one is we'll
have you gone to the doctor. Yes.
And you say why? Because if he's trying to teach
you something, why are you trying to be disobedient by
getting it off you until you learn that's just what we call
critical thinking. But a lot of times, you know,
because the, you know, if we don't watch out, the body of
Christ is just hearing what the minister says without actually
studying the word for themselves.
And basically they want you to depend on what they say.
And then they try to preach in a way that identifies with how you
feel. Not really what is good to grow
you, right? Because when it's good to grow
you, then you have to determine, man, what I think about this may
not be correct. And we've already said this too,
just to put you in remembrance that that Paul told Timothy, he
said, I need you to rebuke, correct and instruct 2/3 means
you're going to have to change something.
That's right. Which means when you come to
church, 2/3 of the message should make you go I may be
wrong. And that's not condemnation,
that's growing you. A rebuke is not to offend you.
A rebuke is to release a thought in you that is hindering the
power of God to work in your life.
Correcting you is trying to help you perform at your peak
performance because if you keep doing it this way, you're going
to have what you have. My, my, my wife, I mean, my
mother in And he says, you're picking your head up.
Now, I've played golf enough now to know that I still don't know
when my head's coming up other than the trajectory of the ball
yet I do not know it happened until the ball goes low.
It's like it's the byproduct of topping the ball because and
there's nothing about me that I've like, I picked up my I'm
like, I feel like I'm staring at this ball.
I'm not lifting up my head. I mean, you feel that way and
you know, she's like, that's why I don't play with him because
what I do wrong, he goes, you don't want to know you're
picking your head up. No, I'm not.
Well, yeah, you are right, Seth. Yes, you are what I do.
You picked your head up. You know you're I didn't pick my
head up, bro. Apparently, a millimeter is a
lot people in golf, Right. OK.
The point is, is that sometimes instruction or correction comes
in, you're like, I'm not doing. Yeah, you are.
Yes. And that's not to condemn you.
It's to correct something so that you become more consistent
at being victorious because if you do not correct, you'll
always do. I mean, some golfers have a
slice. They don't correct it.
They just adjust their body and hit the same way.
They're not, they're doing it wrong all the time, but I'm
going to slice this way. So you're hit going toward the
parking lot so you can get in the fairway.
Because you know what? They're unwilling to change
their form and admit or say, you know what, I can learn from
somebody. And when you're learning from
someone I know, Seth showed me a couple things that I'm like, OK,
that feels weird, you know, because that wasn't what felt
natural. But what was natural had
horrible results. People.
I did, honestly, I thought I was never going to be able to play
because it never got off the ground.
I didn't matter what club I used.
I'm like, I don't even know why the Lord spoke to me about this.
This is ridiculous. I mean, I went with Kenny one
multiple times and he was showing me stuff and I'm like,
this poor guy's probably like this guy's hopeless.
I mean, it was horrible. I'm like, if you can't get it
off the ground, I mean, this far is not good.
But eventually found where I could get it and it took some
time, but we got there because I'm like, what am I doing wrong?
I embrace the correction because I wanted a different results and
what we have to do is we have to say, you know what have I lived
my whole life accepting something about symptoms that
maybe I need to correct so I can get a different result.
Luke chapter 10 verse 9 says this and it says again, the
disciples he said and heal those in it who are sick and say to
them, the Kingdom of God has come near to you.
Now I love this scripture because this scripture is
clearly Jesus communicating to disciples.
Healing of a person's physical body is a result that the
Kingdom of God is here. The Kingdom wants you healthy.
He doesn't want us, and God wants it so much that he's going
to give us a whole new body. It's going to be amazing what
God wants to do, what he's doing in the earth.
Now, let me address this one thought process in closing.
The number one thing that that attacks anyone's mind when you
minister on the healthcare system of the Kingdom and
demonstrates emphatically they got healed.
All that He dealt with, all that he dealt with that in our
society, they were like, well, you know, people don't always
get healed. So maybe it's not always God's
will, right? Well, let me throw out another
idea. Is it God's will?
So again, that thinking is this, because you see someone who
doesn't get or receive healing that loves God.
And I'm not saying they don't love God.
I'm not saying they're not born of God, but they do not receive
healing, right? Because we see this and they go
on to be with the Lord because of a sickness, a disease that
God didn't want to do that. So that becomes now this belief
system, God can heal. We know that we have no problem.
We know he's a healer. However, there are times, you
know, he may not be willing to do that.
And he's God, His ways are higher than our ways.
His thoughts. You know, I'm going to throw
some other scriptures to support this tradition, right?
And then it becomes an accepted fact.
But let me ask this question. Do you know anybody who you know
that they're in hell? You know, based upon their life
and when they died, you'd be hard pressed unless something
really happened. It's some moment that you didn't
know. All indication is you would it
would you're you're hoping to be shocked, but the evidence of
their life is that they're separated from God forever.
They never accepted Jesus. Now does God want everyone saved
and we'll quote that scripture. God desires that none would
perish, but that all would come to repentance, but not everyone
does that doesn't change God's will.
Is that all he wants? Because all whoever called on
his name, what happens to them, they're saved.
That's right. And he doesn't say now for you.
No, no, bro. You see this list?
I got on you, bro. I mean, this is crazy.
And there's no way I'm forgiving this, trusting that you're going
to really do right. That's not God.
God's like the bloods here. Doesn't matter.
I've paid it all. It is on you my desire.
We would never go say no Lord, do you want to save me?
Is it your will to save me? We would never pray with someone
will be brown and say the Lord I pray for my brother here.
I don't know if it's your will for them to be saved today.
I hope it is. I want it to be.
We would never do that but yet we do it with healing and notice
healing is the thing that Jesus broke through something with the
religious that infuriated them and it was through the paralyzed
guy. He comes down and Jesus says
your sins are forgiven. Bro.
The religious in the room were like this guy's a blasphemer.
Only God can forgive sin, he said.
Which is easier? Which is easier, to forgive this
man a sin or to heal him? To let you know I have
authority. We'll never pray with someone at
an altar now, Lord, if it's your will for them to be saved today,
Lord, I pray it's your will. Not sure.
We would never do that with salvation.
Why do we do it with healing? No, what we do is we're like, I
need you to understand God loves you.
He's he has paid the price for you.
His blood is on the mercy seat for you.
He has already done everything to save you.
You just only have to believe and receive and Jesus said which
is easier and the person that doesn't become saved, why?
I've done too much. No, he couldn't and they
convinced themselves that they don't deserve.
A lot of times in healing we convince ourselves it's not a
priority, it's not important to God.
He's got more important things to do than deal with.
I'll I'll deal with it. It's my burden to bear.
And Jesus said, well then why did I take the stripes?
Because for every drop of blood on the mercy seat that doesn't
get applied to the one who's cast into the lake of fire, the
blood still there. And for everyone who doesn't
receive healing, lost or saved, the stripes are still there.
Let's pray. Father, we love you, we honor
you, we thank you. You're the King of kings and the
Lord of Lords. We thank you, Lord, that the
healing is for us today. Just like salvation, which is
easier. And we know it's easy.
It's easy for a person to be born again.
All they have to do is call on the name of the Lord and they
will be saved. They'll become a new creature in
Christ Jesus. The old will pass away and
behold, all things will become new.
And Father, if that can happen in the Spirit, then Lord, you
can also heal our mortal bodies, and we're thankful for that.
Whatever your head bow and every eye close, no one's looking
around. If you're here today and you've
not confessed Jesus as Lord, it's easy to be saved because
Jesus has paid the price for everything that you've done
against the Kingdom of God and you're really without excuse.
Your, your, your, your personal actions, your own personal walk
separate from God is not good enough.
You must acknowledge that he's the only way, His blood's the
only atoning factor, payment factor to redeem you, and you
must fully submit to his Lordship to be born of God.
And if that's you today saying, man, I know I'm not right with
God. I want to be right with God.
I need to know I'm a child of God.
I want to be saved. And salvation is not a
destination, it's destiny. It's not about where you're
going when you die. It's about who comes and lives
on the inside of you now and what you can participate in
today. It's about becoming a child of
God now, not an exit strategy when you leave and so fast, you
today say, Pastor Earl, I don't know if I'm right with God.
I want to know. I want to receive the
forgiveness that God has. I want a new nature in me.
I want to live for God. Would you lift your hand?
Anyone at all? I'm looking around anyone at
all. Hallelujah.
Oh, Lord, thank you for your word today.
And I'm not going to lay hands on anybody today because I want
this to grow us to grow in faith.
But we're going to lay hands on people because when you know,
let me close with this thought. During the healing revivals in
the late 40s, fifties, they have big tent revivals and people
were being healed coming out of wheelchairs.
All kinds of miraculous things will happen.
There's two things God was trying to do because Kenneth the
Hagin who was a part of that said those revivals stop because
man miss what God was doing. Man began to look at the person
God was that had yielded to him and was laying hands on people
in the miraculous was happening. They were looking at the man
instead of realizing they had that ability as a St.
And I'm telling you, in these last days, God is not trying to
raise up some man or woman of God that you have to run to to
have your hand hands laid on you.
If He tells you to do it, go do it by all rights because you
obey the word of the King. However, we all have this power
in us. Those who believe will lay hands
on the sick. I believe in these last days we
have to rise as a church body and say it's in me.
But if if you can't believe healing for yourself, how will
you believe God's using you to lay hands on others?
It becomes a little more difficult.
It can be a challenge. I said it can be a challenge.
And so he was trying to instruct the church.
I've given this to the church walking healing.
But I found out that the reason so many people were being healed
because back then, unlike our society today, they did two week
meetings, three-week meetings. People were coming every night
and they were preaching on it every night, which means faith
rose. Faith comes by.
And every night they were hearing about the healing power
of God every night. Another example in the Word of
how God always healed. Another passage of Scripture,
another exhortation of Scripture and faith rose.
In fact, I found out that Kenneth the Hagin that he had in
his ministry a card that he gave to everyone that showed up in
his meetings and they they were required to have it punched five
times just to come down to be laid hands on.
See what we do when we look at it on YouTube.
We're like, oh, like the person just went down, happened to walk
in, been there 15 minutes and the power of God on the man of
God made it happen. No, he made them sit for five
services to hear. He wanted their faith to rise.
He didn't want it just depended on the gifts.
He wanted faith to rise because when faith rise, more healings
can occur. And they had to bring their car
down, Don give it to the usher to prove.
And The only exception to that rule is if he in the gifts saw
somebody and God highlighted them and he ended up doing
something. Well, that's something totally
different. Which reminds me of one time
that Pastor Hagen came in a living faith conference.
Traditionally they do the laying on of hands the last service and
they were with us first night first night my wife's ex stepdad
and his new wife showed up. The one who paid mine and my
wife's last year to go to school came to the service walked in
the building. They were crying of all that God
had done. And I remember telling them, I
said, because you planted a seed in US, so to us you got a part
to play in this harvest. Put them on the front row right
here. What we didn't know because they
didn't tell us is both of them, we're dealing with some major
health challenges. And Pastor Hagen got up and
began to pray. He says, you know, tonight I'm
going to. I normally wait till, but
tonight I believe I'm supposed to lay hands on the sick.
And when the healing line came, they were the first ones up and
got the first dose. Boom boom.
And they were both healed that night.
Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.
But that may not be every time. Sometimes God may need you to
rise in your faith, but in order to rise in your faith, you have
to acknowledge sometimes. Have I accepted a tradition
about what I think about what's going on in my body?
I mean, every time I'm in, in, in any meeting, I'm like, Lord,
what do I still need to learn about this?
What do I still need to know? Can you show me some additional
things? Is there anything I mean, I need
to throw out because I don't know everything?
I've learned a lot from you already, but I know there's
still so much more. And keep training me, keep
teaching me, keep instructing me, keep correcting me.
Rebuke me if you have to tell me you're wrong.
Quit believing it that way because I just want to do your
will. And then when you're hungry like
that, because Smith Wigglesworth me close to that story, He said
It seems to me again, multiple people healed, 23 raised from
the dead in the ministry. He believed in healing that
much, in the power of God to overcome things in physical
bodies. But he said today's advancement
of medical science is going to make it very difficult for the
believer to believe in healing from God.
And today we see that so much so that we've typically have
developed these traditions. Well, God has given the doctors
wisdom, and that's how he's doing healing today.
That's not true. Can he use a doctor?
Yes. But he has not sidelined the
laying on of hands. He's not sidelined the gifts of
the Spirit. He's not sidelined the spoken
word. He has not sidelined your faith
to medical science. He has not elevated a
professional doctor to produce his works.
Can he use them? Yes, but they are not primary.
They are a secondary source. I said They're a secondary
source that is there to supplement the primary, and that
is Jesus Christ the Healer. Amen.