Diligently Hearken to the Voice of God and Walk in His Healing

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I want to look at diligently, hearken to the voice. Diligently,

hearken to the voice. And I trust you know what

voice that is. Hallelujah. Diligently hearken to the voice. While

you're turning there, I want to encourage you if you

have had an interest in the Foundational Discipleship class. We

began at last Sunday, and week two is this Sunday,

and you could still get in. This would be the

last week. But if you call the office or even

come this Sunday, preferably call, we can get you in.

There's ten weeks that will revolutionize your life. Sunday morning,

we're going to be looking at the Shepherd's anointing, and

I think you're going to be blessed by finding out

some of these things about the Shepherd's anointing. Luke chapter six,

verse seventeen. And he Jesus came down with them and

stood in the plane, and the company of his disciples,

and a great multitude of people out of all Judea

in Jerusalem and all the sea coast of Tire and Sidon,

who came to hear him and be healed of their diseases.

They came to hear and be healed. Again, I encourage

you to circle or underline those phrases here and be healed.

They came to hear and be healed. A lot of

times people just want to be healed. They don't want

to hear. Can I just skip the hearing and go

to the healings? But healing is a vital part of hearing.

Or excuse me, well, you could kind of said it backwards.

Hearing is a vital part of healing. Healing of all

kinds starts with hearing. Because faith comes by hearing the

word of God. We have to hear that Jesus heals here,

that he has compassion here, that it's his will. Why

would we need to be healed to hear, Because again

Romans ten seventeen, faith comes by hearing. So on one

O seven twenty he sent his word and healed us,

delivered us from all destruction. So they came to hear

him and be healed of their diseases. We're going to

develop this thought tonight. And they that were vexed with

unclean spirits, and they were healed, And the whole multitude

sought to touch him, for there went virtue or power

out of him, and healed them all. Healed them all,

the multitudes. Now, when we read of the Feeding of

the five thousand, it says that there was a multitude gathered,

and Jesus taught them, and then he realized they were hungry,

and he multiplied the loaves and fishes and fed five

thousand men, including and women, and an additional women and children.

Five thousand men plus women and children. So that could

have been a crowd of ten to fifteen thousand people,

and that was termed a multitude. Verse seventeen says this

was a great multitude. If a multitude is ten to

fifteen thousand, how many would a great multitude be? It

could have been fifty thousand or more. And they sought

to touch him, and they went power out of him

and healed them all. But notice a vital part of this.

They came to hear him. They came to hear him.

Hearing is a vital part of healing. Look at verse six,

same chapter, Luke sixty six. And it came to pass,

also on another Sabbath, that he Jesus entered into the

synagogue and taught, He taught, he went, did he teach,

He taught the word, taught the will of God. And

there was a man whose right hand was paralyzed. And

the scribes and pharisees watched him whether he would on

the Sabbath day, not whether he could heal, but whether

he would heal. They knew he could, They just weren't

sure if he would on their sacred Sabbath, that they

might find an accusation against him. But he knew their

thoughts and said to the man that had the paralyzed hand,

rise up, stand forth. In the midst in verse ten,

it says he told him, stretch forth thy hand. Now again,

we tend to look at this healing, this miracle, as disjointed,

an isolated case, and had nothing to do with hearing.

We just think, well, Jesus just selected the man and said, well,

you know, stretch forth your hand be healed. We often overlooked.

At in verse six, it says he was in the

synagogue teaching so all indication is this man with a

withered hand heard him, and faith came by hearing. And

it's quite likely that Jesus, as we'll see in the

book of Acts here in a minute, perceived that he

had faith to be healed, and said, stretch forth your hand.

Faith comes by hearing the word of God. We know

Jesus went about sharing out of Isaiah. The spirit of

the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me

to preach the good news of the poor. He has

sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance

to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to

set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the

year of the Jubilee, the year where everybody goes free.

We know he preached that message and others, so it'd

be easy to sit there and hear him preaching that,

and faith come. He said to him, stretch forth your hand. Well,

let's look at that. Your place there in luke, because

we're going to come back. But go to Acts chapter fourteen.

Hold your finger there in luke, or put a piece

of paper or something in there, Acts chapter fourteen. Or

ask your neighbor to stick their finger in there for

you or something. Acts fourteen, verse seven. This is speaking

of Lystra and Iconium, and it says in there they

verse seven, and there they preached the gospel, Paul and

his company, and there sat a man in Listra, impotent

in his feet, being a cripple from So this guy's

a man. Now we don't know for sure how old

he was, but he's been crippled from birth, so he's

probably thirty forty fifty years, maybe more. It could have

been seventy years. This way, who never had walked? What

a condition, never had walked, and they didn't have all

the modern helps back then that they have now. He

never had walked. Now, notice verse nine, the same heard

marked that word, heard, the same heard Paul speak, who

he heard him preach, because it says the verse seventy

preached the gospel, preach the good news, the gospel of healing. Obviously,

because the same heard Paul speak, who steadfastly beholding him

and perceiving? Paul perceived that he, the man had been

crippled from birth, had faith to be healed. Where would

the man that's been crippled from birth get faith to

be healed? He heard Paul speak and faith. Roman's ten

seventeen comes by hearing the word of God. He heard

Paul speak, and he had faith to be healed. And

Paul said, with a loud voice, stand upright on your feet.

Paul wasn't shy about performing miracles and healings. I want

everybody to know what's going on. And he the man

crippled from birth, leaped and walked. WHOA, what a sight

that would have been. Hallylujah. I think this guy maybe

got a little pentecostal he leap and walk. I don't

think he jumped up and say, oh that's nice, thank

you Lord. You know he probably got WHOA you would

I would if you hadn't walked your whole life. He

leaped and walked. Now, notice Paul did three things. The

man did three things, and God did something. Paul preached

in verse seven, perceived in verse nine, and said in

verse ten. Paul preached the word he perceived, and he

spoke the faith command broke out what he had perceived.

The man heard the gospel verse nine, had faith verse nine,

and responded to the faith command and leaped and walked

when Paul said to him, stand upright on thy feet.

Even though the power God obviously came on him and

came into him. That man could have said, Paul, you

don't know what you're saying. I've never walked. I can't walk,

I can't stand up. You have to help me. Somebody's

got to help me. He could have done that, Paul,

what are you talking about. Don't you know I've been

crippled from my mother's womb. I can't get up. No,

he responded to the faith command, and he leaped and walked.

He did. Paul did three things. The man did three things,

and God did something made him whole. Hallelujah, Glory, glory, glory.

All right, let's go to Let's go back to Luke.

Still got your finger there right, or your neighbor's finger

or something Luke chapter eight. We're there in Luke six.

Go to Luke eight, verse forty eight. Luke eight forty eight.

Notice this is I'm cutting in here, but this is

the case of the woman with the issue of blood.

And she crawled up and touched the hem of his

garment and was healed. Remember this woman had been very sick.

She spent everything she had on many physicians and was

nothing better, but rather grew worse, she touches the hem

of his garment. Power goes into her and knows what

Jesus says eight forty eight, daughter, be of good comfort.

Your faith has made you whole. He didn't say my power,

my virtue has made you hold my divinity, or anything

like that. He said, your faith has made you whole,

and your faith will make you whole. Go in peace,

go into shalloon, Go into wholeness, go into completeness. Jesus

spoke Aramaic and Hebrew, so he would have said go

in the little Greek it reads, go into peace, or

go into shalloon. Your faith has made you whole. Go

on into wholeness, completeness, wellness, nothing broken, nothing missing, It's available.

It's part of the Covenant. Verse forty nine. While he

yet spoke, there comes one from the rule of the

synagogue's house saying to him, your daughter's dead. Trouble not

the master. Well that's a bad report, if there ever

was one. That's a word of finality, or so it

would seem. Your daughter's dead. They ain't come and say

it's not looking too good. They said she's dead. Leave

him alone, don't trouble the master. And I think it's

we modern religion or modern The response by most people

today would be, oh, well, I guess it wasn't the

lord's will. She's dead. Wasn't the lord's will. Maybe God

had some sovereign reason. Well, that's too bad. But notice

Jesus' response. But when Jesus heard it, he answered him

and said, fear not, believe only she'll be made whole.

Fear not. I mean, that's the very thing that's going

to come on somebody, right there is fear dread says

fear not. But he says, you gotta do that's the

stop the fear. But you gotta do something in the positive.

He said, believe, fear not believe only. It's not enough

to say, okay, I won't fear, I won't fear got that.

Do something on the positive. Believe only only believe, only

believe all things are possible. Only believe fear not, only

believe she'll be made well. Faith is vital in healing.

Remember the two blind men Matthew nine, twenty eight twenty nine.

Jesus said, believe you that I am able to do this,

And then they say yay, Lord, And he said, according

to your faith, be it under you not according to

my power. That's how religion tends to read it. But

it says according to your faith. Remember, in his own hometown,

Nasa said he could do their no mighty work because

of their unbelief. He could do no mighty work he

wanted to, but he could do no mighty work because

of their unbelief. Now again, if he did the miracles

and signs and wonders to as God and to prove

his divinity, he would have done it there to say

I'll show you people. I mean, you ever want to

make a good impression. It's in your hometown. But he

could do there no mighty works. He said, I do

nothing of myself. It's the Father in me who does

the works. He said, the works that I do, you

will do also down fourteen twelve. We'll do them also

down fourteen twelve to fourteen hallelujah, Because it's the Father

in us who does the works. Look at Luke nine.

Just go down a little bit further Luke nine, Verse one.

Then Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them

power and authority Dunamus and Exusia. I gave them both

over all demons and to cure diseases, demons and diseases.

They couldn't stand the power of God. Demons plural and

diseases plural. Withluiah, fear not only believe now. Notice he

gave empower and authority of all demons and the cure diseases.

And he sent them to preach and to heal. He

sent them to preach the Kingdom of God, the rule

of God. He sent them to preach the Kingdom of

God and to heal the sick. They heard and were

healed again. People think Jesus just kind of blew into

town and just start healing people indiscriminately. But time and

again he preached and they heard. Faith came by hearing,

and they were healed. That's why it's so important to

hear in order to be healed. Now we're talking specifically

about healing, but this doesn't apply only the healing. I mean,

if we want to be victorious, if we want to

be an overcomer, we need to hear. If we want

to be holy, we need to hear. If we want

to be free, if we want to be protected, prospered,

whatever the case may be, it's we need to hear

the gospel. Faith comes by hearing. God watches over his

word to perform at Jeremiah one twelve. His word is

alive and powerful, sharper than any two edged sword Hebrews

four to twelve. Man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes out of the mouth

of God. We need to hear and be healed. He

sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to

heal the sick. He didn't say, just go start healing people.

He said, preach the gospel, preach the Kingdom, and then

follow that up with healing. Look at verse six. And

they departed and went through the towns, preaching the Gospel

and healing everywhere, preaching and healing, preaching and healing, preaching

and healing. Hear and be healed. Now again, a lot

of folk they just wanted to be healed, but not

take the time to hear. I see it all the time.

Everybody wants an instantaneous miracle, and they do happen. But

it's more normal to build your faith on the word

of God and hear and be healed. Here and be healed.

But you know, many times it's at least as much,

if not more important to hear than it is to

be healed, or maybe I should say it this way.

We need to be at least as much, if not more,

interested in the healing as we are the healing. Again,

like I alluded to last week, if you announce a

meeting where there's going to be teaching on healing and

how to be healed, how to receive healing, people are

just kind of about it. Announce a meeting where there's

going to be signs and wonders and miracles, they give

five times as many people. People don't see the connection

between hearing and healing, between hearing and faith and receiving

the promises of God. Everybody just wants drive through breakthroughs.

They want to skip any of the effort on their

part and just lay hands on me so I can

go back and watch television, you know, just do it

for me. I don't have to get into the word.

I don't one to have to study healing scriptures, I don't

have to meditate them. Just can't you do your thing,

you know, anoime with oil and lay hands on me

and say shandlelah baba, and can't you just take care

of it that way? Well, we have our part to

play now. Notice they said they preached and were healed.

It's important not only what we hear, which is what

Jesus said in Mark four twenty four, right after in

Mark's account where he gave the parable of the so

or sows the seed. And if you look at that,

we taught on that some time ago on a Wednesday night,

all four of the types of soil, which are types

of people's lives, heart conditions, the hard ground, the thorny ground,

the stony ground, and the good ground. The first three

did not bring forth any fruit. Only the fourth, the

good ground, brought forth fruit. And of the good ground

the fourth ones only a third of them apparently brought

forth full fruit one hundredfold fruit because said, and some

brought in the good ground brought forth through thirty sixty

and one hundredfold. But my point is that all if

you look at that, we're not going to take time

to night. But if you look at it, all four

types of the soil of the heart, all of them

heard the word. It said, the sower sows the word.

And these are they which are on hard ground hear

the word, and then the devil comes immediately he takes

the seed that sown. Then it says, these are those

sown on thorny ground who hear the word, and then

it gets choked. And then these are those on heart

or on stony ground. They hear the word, but they

have no depth. Persecution, af fliction arises for the word's sake.

They quit, they give up. They all heard the word.

But he said, these on those on good ground heard

the word, same phrase, nothing different. I looked that into Greek.

It's the same Greek word. I say, well, maybe this

word hearing for the good ground a different word for hearing.

It's not. And he says the good ground heard the word,

but they brought forth fruit thirty sixty and one hundredfold.

And then just a few verses after that, Jesus says,

take heed what you hear, Take heed what you hear.

And then over in Luke, when Luke tells about the

sol or sowing the word, he says, take heed how

you hear Luke eight eighteen. So it's not only important

what you hear. Most of us realize that, hopefully we do.

You can't feed on a bunch of worldly, cardinal secular

stuff and fly like an eagle doesn't work. I mean,

people want to do it, but I've never seen anybody

do it successfully. Yet those that fly like eagles are

those that seek after God and hunger after the word,

read it and meditate it, and study it, and press

into God and worship and pray. So he tells us

it's not only important what we hear. Like I started

to say, most of the things, realize it's important what

we hear. But then he says, take heed, how you hear?

What you hear? If you're hearing truth, hearing the word

of God, there's obviously a certain way to hear it

that produces fruit thirty sixty and one hundred fold, Because

all four of them heard it same word, but only one.

I'm brought forth fruit. Take heed how you hear? And

and we covered this and the teaching on how to

bring forth thirty sixty and one hundredfold. When I did

a message on that, and I knew it was there,

but I'd never taken a time to put it together.

So I went to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. All

of them tell the parable of the sewer. All of

them say the good ground brought forth thirty six hundred fold,

and every one of them gives it just a little

bit of a nuance of meaning to the word hearing

that they did that. The other three types of soil

did not do. The good soil heard a certain way

that none of the others did. And Matthew gives us

a hint to it. Luke gives us a hint to it.

Mark gives us into it. John gives a hint to it.

They all add a certain meaning, and when you put

it together, it lets us know that. Here's how we

bring forth thirty sixty one hundredfold harvest on the word.

We hear the word, yes, but we have to hear

it and receive it. That's what Mark brings out. Says,

they heard the word and received it and brought forth

through thirty six and one hundredfold. Now, the word receive

in the Greek means too. You know, most people say, well,

I receive it. Any time I hear the word, I

receive it. Well do we The word receive It means

to accept, delight in and brace with obedience, to take

the word and embrace it with obedience, to delight in it.

How many people delight in the word of God that

you can think of? I mean, if everybody delight in

the word of God, there's not be an empty seat

here tonight. The word also means to acknowledge as one's own.

They heard it and received it. Receive means to acknowledge

his one's own. I think that's how fayir Greek English

lexicon defines it, to acknowledge is one's own. So they

hear it and they go, that's mine. I'm taking that

by his strikes, I was healed, he's yahweh rafa. I

acknowledge that as mayer, and I'm going to take that.

The Lord is my shepherd, the Lord is my heal.

I'm acknowledge that, not he is the shepherd or a

shepherd or your shepherd. He's my shepherd. And I shall

not want acknowledge it as your own. And you hear

the word of God. Don't think, oh, that's be nice

for the have or oh for some people. You know. No,

I acknowledge that is my own. I take it. I

cata lombano, and I seize it. I grab it, I

tackle it, I make it my own, and I'm not

letting go. It's mine. Hallelujah. You want it, you get

your own. This is mine. Oh here, I'll give you

some of mine. Do your own work. To your own study. Okay,

So Mark brings out they hear it and receive it,

and then Matthew says, they hear it and understanding what

is this saying? How does this apply in my life?

How does this work? I'm going to study this so

I can understand it. And then Luke adds another little

nuance and Luke says, they heard the word and in

an honest and good heart, possess it in an honest

and good heart. So obviously the others didn't have that attribute.

And Jesus said, to good ground, they heard the word

in an honest heart. Lord showed me. If I need

to change, I'll change. If I need to repent, I'll repent.

If I'm doing something wrong, I want to know it.

I'm not going to harden my heart. I humble myself Lord,

and I repent. If I need to repent in an

honest and a good heart, I receive this, Lord, I

receive this. And then Luke also adds, I said I

need to crack something I said. Is that Matthew, Mark,

Luke and John John doesn't give it. It's Matthew, Mark

and Luke. Because I was looking at the four things there.

But it's Luke that gives these two things. He says,

in an honest and good heart, they possess it. They

possess the word of God in an honest and good heart,

and bring forth fruit. The good ground receives the word,

they hear it, and they receive it in an honest

and good heart. They possess it in an honest and

good heart, and they bring forth fruit with who can

help me? They bring forth fruit with somebody say it, huh, nope,

patience who Pomenae? Well, we talked about two weeks ago

the power twins faith and patience. Through faith and who Pomenae,

we had the promises. You have need of patience, you

have need of who pomenae, that after you've done the

will of God, you might receive the promise. Run the

race with who pomenae. With patience, Let who pomenae have

her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire,

wanting nothing. And Jesus said in Luke, they brought forth

thirty sixty and one hundredfold by receiving the word and

exercising who pomenae, patience, steadfastness, endurance, perseverance, energetic resistance, the

power of endurance without complaint. They endured, they stood, they

did not quit, they would not give up, and they

didn't complain and murmuring gripe about it the whole time.

It was cheerful endurance. Who I got the vicar? But

I can tell you're not feeling good? How bias stripes

some heal though he's my healer. Yeah, but I heard

about Oh I just rejoice that he's my healer. I

mean some folk. You just you ask him how you're

doing waiting?

Oh?

Why did I say that? I should have known better?

Because for the next twenty minutes, you're going to get

an organ recital. This hurts. This organ hurts, and this hurts,

and this hurts, and this hurts. And it's like they

just keep rehearsing the problem. At some point we need

to shift and exercise patience, cheerful endurance without complaint, energetic resistance.

So that's how we That's why g said, be careful

how you hear Luke at eighteen? Oh again, we're not

left in the dark. Like, oh, he told me to

be careful what I hear and how I hear? But

how am I supposed to hear? We're not left in

the dark. Then if we'll just dig a little. We

find out how we're supposed to hear. We are supposed

to hear with a love and embracing and a delighting,

with obedience, acknowledging it is one's own, understanding it in

an honest and good heart, grabbing hold of it and

exercising who pomonade patients, steadfast endurance. And then he says

that kind of here will bring forth fruit with thirty,

sixty and one hundredfold results. Don't you want that? I do.

I don't want to be hard, stony or thorny ground

for the word. I want to bring forth fruit. And

I'm not satisfied with thirty. I want to move on

to the sixty and I don't want to get satisfied

or six. I want to move on to the hundredfold. Well,

how could you bring forth one hundredfold on the word?

Jesus said we could. He never lied Hebrews four two.

Look at it sometime it says the word preached did

not profit them, not being mixed with help me faith.

The word was preached, but it didn't help them because

they didn't mix faith with it. Well, that answers a

lot of question, right there, A lot of people don't

mix faith with it when the words preach, you know,

if they mix with it doubt, I don't know. I

just don't know about that. Unbelieve that can't be fear well,

that never work, and on and on. But we need

to mix faith with it we hear the word of God.

It's like, again, what is faith? Acting on what you hear,

acting on the word of God, believing it and acting

on it, acting on it before you see it, before

you feel it. Somebody's talking to me after the service recently,

I've maybe been last Wednesday or something. They said, you

know a good way that they said that they found it.

Understand faith because it can seem kind of nebulous. Sometime

they say confidence, confidence, confidence in God and what he

said and what he'll do. They mix confidence with it.

God said it all right, I had confidence in that,

and Hebrews eleven one does say in some translations, and

faith is the confidence of the things we hope for. Hallelujah.

We need to hear. We need to hear and be healed. See,

we need to be proactive in hearing. Prevention is always

better than cure. I can't think of a single time

when it's not. I mean it is. I mean you

can go down the line everything and anything. I can't

think of a single time where prevention is not better

than cure. It's better to not get sick than to

get healed. It's better to avoid car trouble than to

have car trouble. It's better to stay out of debt

than to have to get out of debt. It's better

to not backslide than to have to repent and get

right with God, and on and on. We need to

be proactive in hearing the word of God. Don't wait

till you're sick before you start studying healing and getting

into the Word of God. Stay, build up in the word.

I mean, we need to realize this. This is a

dangerous world. Truth be told. We need healing every day.

There's all kinds of stuff out there that you and

I aren't even aware of. We need healing every day

all the time. And it's better to live healed than

to get healing, or, let me say better, it's better

to be in health than to always beginning healing. A

lot of people just content if they could just get

healing all the time. Get set, get healed, get set,

get here, get set, get heal, get sick, Get here,

get sick, get heal, get set, get healed. It's a whole

lot better just than live in health. Three John two, Beloved,

I pray that you prosper and be healed. No, be

in health, be in health, Be in health, be in health.

Proverbs four twenty to twenty two. My son, attend to

my words and climb your ear to my sayings. Let

them not depart from thy eyes. Keep them in the

midst of thine heart for their life, to those who

find them in health, to all their flesh Exodus fifteen

to twenty six. I am the Lord, your physician, your healer.

Exus twenty three twenty five. I'll take sickness away from

the midst of you. Well, if sickness is taken away,

you're going to be in health. Deuteronomy seven point fifteen

says the same thing, I will remove all sickness from you.

That's a promise you want to embrace. Acknowledge as your own,

understand it, seize it, and exercise patience and bring forth

fruit on it. Hallelujah. It's good to be proactive when

it comes to hearing the word of God. People often

give the word no place, in no time. They're too busy,

so they give no time, no place for the word.

And if somebody is sick or disease, they need to

get extra doses of it. They need to double up

on it, triple up on it. We need to be proactive.

It works. You know, people don't give the word any

place and they don't get a lot of fruit. But

fortunately the opposite is true. If we give the word place,

give it first place, attend to it, it brings forth

much fruit thirty sixty one hundred and fold. God's word

is medicine. His word is alive. His word is sharper

than any two edged sword. It's alive. Hallelujah. Health is invaluable.

It is invaluable. You can't put a price on your health.

It's probably the most valuable possession we have, or one

of them. It's invaluable. So it would pay us rich

dividends to be in the word consistently regularly because his

word is medicine. I thank God, I'm walking in divine

health by and large, But there's times every now and

then where I get under attack, and man, I oh,

the thing I get out of that is like sickness

is terrible. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.

I hate it. You have no energy, you have no

desire to do anything. You feel miserable, you just want

to lay in bed. Or if you're in pain, you're

just in constant pain that affects everything you do and

you're just not yourself. But when you're feeling good, it's great.

Health is invaluable. Why would somebody not have time for

something that is medicine to all their flesh and where

they could hear and be healed. Why would they not

want to bring forth fruit? Well, they do want to

bring forth fruit, but they don't want to do what

it takes to bring forth fruit. Thirty sixty one hundredfold.

Where we at Luke nine? What six is that where

we left off? Or do we get the eleven six? Okay,

go to verse eleven Luke nine to eleven. And the people,

when they knew it, followed him, and he received them

and spoke under them of the Kingdom of God, and

healed them that had need of healing. Again, they heard

and were healed. We think it was just an indiscriminate thing. No,

he spoke to them the Kingdom of God. He preached

the Gospel, and they were healed. They heard and were healed. Hallelujah.

Can't go to Luke four, look at a few mormill

clothes Luke four and verse forty three. And he said,

under them, I must preach the Kingdom of God. See

Jesus knew what was important. He and said, I must

go heal. He said, I must preach. I must preach

the Kingdom, the rule and reign of God. I must

preach the Kingdom of God to other cities. For them

I sand, and he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

Now notice chapter five, verse one. And it came to

pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear

the word of God, not to be healed, but to

hear the word of God. That's hunger. They pressed on

him to hear the word of God. Nowadays, it seems

most people are just so apathetic and complacent and lacks

of days ago about the Word of God. In hearing it,

it's saying, well, you know, maybe maybe not some of

you were a part of it. But I remember in

the charismatic renewal Word of faith renewal in the seventies

and eighties, people are so hungry for the Word of

God because it was like a brand new, fresh revelation.

I mean we would wait in line outside auditoriums for

an hour or more just to get in there and

run and get in the front seat where you could

get under the spout where the glory came out. Now

like the church sign I saw. Now, it's like come

early so you can get a back seat. That's where

you know what a change in attitude. I mean in

that word of faith charismatic. They know people couldn't get

enough of the Word of God, and they were hauling

tape players around everywhere. I don't know how they'd manufacture

enough cassette tapes that time. I mean they were going

right and left. We were copying them, duplicating them, passing

them out. Here. Have you heard this? No, here, give

me let me have that series on here. You gotta

check this out. Okay, I'll take that. Man. We were

hungry for the Word. I'm still that way. But I

know a lot of people who were around then that

they're not, Oh, anything new, it's on TV. What's the

latest video game? What's the latest attraction at the theme park?

I need something to tickle my ears. What's the latest

fatty'sh teaching or something, or or you know what's the

latest spectacular thing going on? Said, just the word, the word,

the word. That's where the life is, that's where the path.

They pressed on him to hear the word of God

now not his verse twelve. And it came to pass

when he was in a certain city. Behold a man

full of leprosy, who's seeing Jesus fell on his face

and beside him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can

make me clean. But notice he wasn't healed. Believing that

he believed Jesus could good like a lot of people,

but he wasn't healed. He was still full of leprosy.

Even though he believed Jesus could. His problem was he

wasn't sure that he wanted to. It was right on

the money what you said at the opening. You know

he wants they say, asked Jesus, if you want to,

you can make me ho And he said I want to.

One translate said, of course I want to. He wants

us healed, he wants his curity, wants us cleansed. He

knew he could, he knew he could, he wasn't sure

if he wanted to, and Jesus put forth his hand

verse thirteen and touched him, saying I will or I

want to be clean, and immediately the leprosy departed from him.

To notice, the man asked if you will, Jesus said,

I will, if you want, I want to. When did

Jesus ever say I won't. Can anybody give me a

chapter and verse where Jesus said I won't, or somebody

come and came to him and said, if you will

you and Jesus said no, I won't, because God's trying

to teach you something, or this is for your good,

or this is working character into you. This is perfect

all that religious traditions, which is right from the devil.

Jesus never said I won't. He said I will. Now

these people, it says he say he won't. For something

to be scriptural, there must be scriptures to back it up.

They don't have scriptures to back it up, so it's

not scriptural. It's the traditions of man which make of

non effect the word of God. He never said I won't,

he said I will. Look at verse fifteen, But so

much the more went their fame abroad of him. Now

notice this, and great multitudes remember I established earlier that

in one place at least a multitude was ten to

fifteen thousand a multitude. This is a great multitude, now, notice,

and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed,

to hear and to be healed here, and be healed

here and be healed. Salvation as well, I'll say it

this way. Healing, just like sad. Salvation starts with hearing.

Faith comes by hearing. Romans ten fourteen says, how shall

they believe unless they hear? How shall they hear without

a preacher? How shall they preach unless they are sent?

Faith comes by hearing the word of God? How are

they going to believe unless they hear? They came to

hear and to be healed. Hallelujah. Oh okay, amount of time.

Let's just we're here, let's just we'll read this and

we'll take it up here next time. Verse sixteen. And

Jesus would drew himself into the wilderness and prayed. And

it came to pass on a certain day, as he

was teaching, as he was, what teaching as he was,

what teaching?

Well?

Was he teaching the word on a certain day as

he was teaching? Mayboy once a just skip the teaching,

get to the healings and the miracles and the deliverance

and the freedom and the prosperity. They don't want to

have the word, the teaching that builds the faith, that

causes faith to lay hold of the promises of God.

On a certain day, as he was teaching the where

pharisees and doctors of the Law sitting by, which would

come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem.

And notice, as he was teaching the power of the Law,

Lord was present to heal them. As he was teaching

the power, the Lord was present to heal them, and

none of them got healed. There's no indication that any

of them got healed, only the one man that they

tore open the roof and let him down on a cot.

And Jesus said, Gris verse twenty four, take up your

bed and walk. None of all these people were there,

and none of them were getting healed, and yet the

power was present to heal. Why were they not being healed?

The Word tells us verse twenty and when Jesus saw

their faith, so even though he was teaching, apparently they

weren't mixing faith with it they weren't embracing it, they

weren't grabbing hold of it. They weren't allowing faith to come.

They must have been hearing it like the stony ground,

the hard ground, the thorny ground, with unbelief or doubt

or fear, or like I just don't know about this,

and I think that's passed away. That's not for it today.

But that would never work for me. We can hear

it and it's still not do us any good. I mean,

it's sad for me or any preacher to know that

on any given ser many preachers, there's people that go

out there and didn't do them a bit of good

because they didn't. They may have heard it, but they

didn't mix faith with it, or they questioned around. I

just don't know about that. I don't think that would work.

Or they didn't even hear the minders off somewhere else.

But these people Jesus saw their faith, now says he

saw their faith. Where do they get the faith? I

believe this is what I believe. You can believe something else.

I can't prove this with the scripture, but you can't

disprove it with the scripture. So when we get to heaven.

You'll find out I'm right and you're wrong. But I

can't prove this, but I think I have good evidence

for it. I believe it says these four men they went.

I'm saying for I've always heard four, but doesn't say for.

I wonder if one of the other passages it does,

but i've always heard four. Anyway, we'll say his friends,

these men they went. It says they open up the

roof and they let him down. And Jesus saw their faith.

Whose faith? The men faith that let him down? And

the man's faith on the bed, Because that takes some faith.

I mean, if you're a paralytic, do you even take

some faith if we said, hey, we're gonna haul you

up on the roof, here tear open the roof and

let you down on some ropes. But that takes some

faith on your part. I mean, they might roll you

off the roof, then you're really in bad shape. That

takes some faith. Might fall through the roof. Oh he's dead.

Now he was paralyzed, but now he's dead. Oh, Jesus

said fear and the hat only believe. But I'll conclude this,

he saw their faith. Now here's what I'm saying I

can't definitely prove it, but I think I have strong

evidence for it. Here's what I think happened. The men

will say, the four men they were in that meeting,

they heard Jesus. They said, let's go get Simeon. Let's

go kidd him. Did you hear what I heard? Yeah?

I heard it too. The power that the spirit of

the Lord is upon him. He's anointed to preach deliverance

of the captors. He's preaching the year. Do you believe

in your freedom? Let's go get Simeon. He's down there paralyzed.

We need to get him in this meeting. And they

go and they get him, and they come back and

their seats taken. They pressed to hear the word of God.

Oh what are we gonna do? And one of the

must have an idea. I don't care. Let's go up

on the roof, tear the roof open. I've heard two

interpretative with some people say this is Peter's home, others

say it was jesus home. In one place that does

say they went to his house. Speaking of jesus house, See,

Jesus wasn't so poor, he didn't have anything. That's a

tradition of men. He had a treasure they gave to

the poor. He took care of a whole entourage of

people that traveled with him, and women helped out. We

know that, but I can imagine the talk. But he

saw their faith. I think these men were in the meeting.

They had faith, would say, whoa, let's go get Simeon.

They'd lower Simeon down. And Jesus can sense the faith

coming out of him. He says, I say, do you rise,

take up your bed and walk. And he rose, took

up his bed and walked. Jesus would have said, according

to your faith, be it unto you, unto you, Collelijah, Father,

we thank you. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word of God. And the more we feed on

the word, the more faith comes, the more faith comes,

the more confidence we have. And what you've said, and

what you've promised, and what you've told us, Lord, we

thank you that we can be here and be healed.

Lord teach us to take heed not only what we hear,

but how we hear, and that when we hear the

word of God, we would not allow ourselves to be

distracted or have wandering minds. Or wandering thoughts. But rather

we would hear it and accept it, delight in it,

and embrace it with obedience. We would acknowledge it as

our own. We would understand it in an honest and

good heart, possess it and exercise patience and bring forth

fruit thirty sixty and one hundredfold in our own lives,

and then go out and minister healing and life and

salvation to others. Hallelujah. In fact, let's make that our

prayer in that confession. Our confession is we endeavor to

bring this to a close. Say this when we close

your eyes and just say and pray this with me. Lord,

teach me what to hear and how to hear. Thank

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