Healing Begins When You Listen to God's Word in Faith

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go there, Luke chapter six here and be healed. Amen.

While you're turning there, I want to dis encourage you.

Sunday morning, we're going to continue talking about Yahuweh Rohe,

the Shepherd Lord, and specifically about the anointing He anoints

our head with oil. You know, it says that our

Shepherd anoints our head with oil, and I can pretty

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If you haven't signed up, I will encourage you to do.

If you're taken it before, take it again, it'll bless you. Luke,

Chapter six, verse seventeen. Actually, before we go there, I

did want to. Last week we were talking about the

power twins faith and patience and how important it is

to exercise patience or endurance, steadfastness, perseverance. I think the

word patience in our Western thinking, in our English vocabulary,

we don't really we tend to think a lot of

people tend to think of patience, well, I'm just gonna

wait and see what happens, and that's how they think

of patience. I'm just gonna wait and see what happens.

But that's not Biblical patience. Bible patience is we looked

at it, who promenade to stand under to its energetic resistance.

It's the power of endurance without complaint. It's cheerful endurance,

it's steadfastness, perseverance, endurance. Bible says to faith and patience,

faith and patience, we inherit the promise. Hebrews says we

have need of patients, says we need to run our

race with patients, fight or fight with patience, endurance, steadfastness,

and again towards the end, I mentioned that, you know

a lot of times people think that patience comes out

of trials, which is a religious tradition of men that

is unscriptural, but many people believe it. They bought into it.

It's a clever lie of the devil to get us

to somehow accept the trials as in some way instead

of resist them and fight them. And I just touched

on that. I did want to just add a couple

things before move on. If you didn't get here, we

weren't here and didn't hear that message, I'd encourage you

to get it in the bookstore, listen to it online.

The power to win faith and patience because when it

comes to healing, the force of patience and during steadfastness

is so critical. You're there on Luke six, hold your place,

or go to Romans fifteen. Romans fifteen, and we'll look

at this first. In the King James, and then in

the NIV brings it out. Well, there's many other translations.

That's the subtle change there that don't quite get in

the NIV. But I said that patience, of spiritual force

of patience doesn't come from trials. It comes from the

Word of God, from the Spirit of God, from God himself. Now,

the religious thinking is, well, trials produce patients, and there's

no scripture that says that, the scripture that people have

twisted to say that, But when you really examine what

it's saying, it's not saying that. And I wanted to

just highlight a couple of scriptures before we get into

tonight's lesson to buttress what I said last week that

patience comes from the Word of God. Look at Romans fifteen,

verse four. For whatever things were written in earlier times

or four time, were written for our learning that we

through patience and comfort of the scriptures. Notice that through

patients of the scriptures. If word patients is a word,

who pominatee through patients of the scriptures. Notice it doesn't

say that we through the patients that comes from trials

or the patients from trials. It doesn't say that says

patients of the scriptures might have hope. Look at it

in the NIV. We'll put that up on the screen

because it brings it out in a little clearer from the

King James Romans fifteen to four. The NIV for everything

that was written in the past was written to teach us. Notice,

so that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures,

the endurance, the patience, the steadfastness, the perseverance of the scriptures,

not of trials of the scriptures, we might have hope.

Then if you look at the next version and keep

it up an NIV verse five, May the God who

gives endurance, who promenade patience, steadfastness, perseverance, God gives it,

not trials. I mean again, if trials produced patience, endurance, steadfastness,

we should be praying for more trials. By want me

to pray to to have more trials, Stand up and

I'll pray with you right now. You have more trials. Again,

if trials produced steadfast and endurance, nobody would have need

of patience because anybody's had plenty of trials. Nowhere the

scriptures are that we told pray for trials so you

might have more patience no patience comes patience steadfastened and

comes from scriptures from the God of patience, the God

who gives endurance and encouragement, give your spirit of unity.

And on it goes Revelations three ten. As a matter

of fact, the word of God is referred to as

the Word of his patience, the word of his patience.

Now let's look at one more James, Chapter one. This

is a scripture that gets mangled by religious tradition many times,

and I don't have the adequate time to elaborate on it.

I'm going to touch on it just maybe we'll get

into it. We probably will get into this when we

look at roadblocks the healing in one of the future

healing sessions healing school sessions. But just notice James, Chapter one,

verse two. I'm in the king, James, my brethren, count

it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations or

test trials. In fact, my Bible updates certain phrases, and

it's got count it all joy when you fall into

various trials. Knowing this that the trying or the testing

of your faith worketh patients. But let patients have a

perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire wanting nothing. Now,

here's how tradition reads this. Verse two, here's how the

traditions of men read it, My brethren, it is a

joy when God leads you into temptations, tests and trials.

It is a joy when God allows and brings temptations,

tests and trials into your life. It doesn't say that

James wasn't a masochist. He didn't say, oh, it's just

it's such a joy to have temptations, tests and trials.

But that's how tradition reads it, and it is a joy.

In fact, they tell you, oh, just rejoice when the

devil's beating over the head and you're going through all

kinds of hard times, just rejoice. And it's not a joy.

You're laying in a hospital sick, that's not a joy.

You just survived the car accident, Well you can be

happy you survived it, but it's not a joy to

be in one and on and on. It doesn't say

it is a It says count it a joy. The

word count is a Greek word which means to lead

before the mind, or to consider or to esteem. It

says it's It doesn't say it is a joy, but

for the sake of the force of praise and joy.

Consider it a joy. Say no, I'm going to rejoice

in this. I'm going to praise God for the victory

in this. Say it's in the ear of sickness or disease,

that's not the joy. But consider it a joy. Begin

to say, Lord, I praise you for my healing. I

thank you by your stripes. I'm healed. I'm considering this

a joy that I can come through this trial victorious.

I can overcome it. And notice it doesn't say when

God puts it on you were God allows it into

your life for some sovereign, unknown reason. When you fall,

when you fall, not God leads you when you fall,

when you fall in the diverse temptation, tests and trials,

go ahead and get the force of joy working, because

the joy of the Lord is your strength, and the

word temptations also means tests and trials Verse three. Knowing this,

we can counted a joy. Knowing this that the trying

of your faith worketh patience. Now, notice what it does

not say the trying of your faith produces patience. Now,

if you've got translation that says that it's wrong, I've

studied it out into Greek. That word worketh does not

mean produce. If it does, we got a major problem

because in Philippians two twelve, the same Greek word translated

worketh is rendered work out your own salvation with fear

and trembling, work out your own salvation with fear. And

so if the word worketh here means you know what

that's saying, produce your own salvation, we got a problem

now because we're saved by grace, not through works, say

by faith. So if that word works means produced, and

it says produce your the same word and Flippings two twelve,

it would have to say produce your own salvation. No,

it's translated properly there it says worked out. What this

is saying, knowing that the trying of your faith works

out patience. When we go through trials, test temptations, it

works out the patience that has been worked in by

the scriptures and the God of patience. Assuming we've done

our work, assuming we've gotten into the word of God,

assuming we've spent time with God and he's we've allowed

him to work patience who prominade into us, then we

encounter a trial, and that spiritual force of patience endurance

head fastness, perseverance rises up and it goes to work.

Now what happens when it goes to work? Verse four?

But let patience have her perfect work. Let it go

ahead and work. And what will be the end result

is you let at endurance, steadfastness, perseverance, at who Pomenae

have her perfect work. You will be perfect and entire,

wanting nothing? Whoa wanting nothing? It'll get you out of

the trial. How do I know that? Because if the

patience and the faith won't get you out of the trial,

you'd still be wanting something. You'd be wanting out of

the trial. But you're wanting nothing now because patience and

endurance Pomenae has had her perfect work. And now you

are perfect and entire. You've come through the trial victoriously,

faith and patience inherited the promise, and you want nothing.

Glory to God, hallelujah. Now I've never seen this before

until this week. I was doing some is in my

morning devotions and I was doing some reading and this

just dropped into me and I thought, oh, there's more

light on that passage. Notice if the trials were the

ones that were good for us, like people say, oh,

the trials are good. I mean, I've read authors of

best selling books say it. I've heard them say it

on Christian television. It's everywhere almost that the trials somehow

are good for us. We don't fully understand. But God

brings it into our life, or God allows it, or

God has some unknown sovereign purpose because he's perfecting us

and producing character in us through the trials. No, that's

what the Word does, that's what the Spirit does. God

doesn't need the devil. The trials come, Jesus told us.

He said, the devil comes to steal the Word of God,

and trials and tribulation and pressure arises for the Word's sake.

The devil trying to get the Word out of our life.

Mark chapter four. Notice it's the trying of your faith.

You know what's really on trial. It's not you, it's

your faith. The devil's after your faith because if he

can get your faith, he can get you. Doesn't say

you're necessarily on trial, says the trying of your faith.

The devil's trying to steal your faith. But if it

was the trials that made us perfect and entire and

got us through, what knew what this would say? Let

the trials have their perfect work. I thought, I never

saw that before. That's what it would say. If it

was the trials that were producing all the good, it

would say, go ahead, let the trials have their perfect work.

That you may be perfect entire wanting nothing. But it

doesn't say that. You see how we read stuff into

the scriptures that isn't even there. People put on these

religious glasses and these traditions of men because so many

times they've been seminary trained with just more tradition and more.

You know, we had well, we had that video series

The God who Speaks, and that guy on the video

series said that, how did he say it? He said

it took him ten years to unlearn what he learned

in four years or something like that. And I told

you I had a guy that went through seminary. He said,

I had to unlearned ninety eight percent of what they

taught me. So it doesn't say the trials have their

perfect well, says let the patients the force of who

promenade have a perfect work. You'll be perfect entire wanting nothing.

And I'll just throw in one more nugget here and

we'll move on verse five. If any of you lack wisdom.

Let him ask of God that gives to all men liberally,

and a braid'sknot, and it shall be given him, and

we're gonna have time. But it goes on to say,

make sure you're asking faith without waving. Got it? When

you ask for wisdom in a situation, you got to

believe you receive, right, Then you can't waver and say, well,

I hope he gets it. He does. I hope I

know you say I believe I received wisdom. Now this

almost seems as you read this passage, you think, what

hits like he changed horses in midstream. It's like, why

do you start talking when he's talking about patience and

going to come through trials, and all of a sudden

he start talking about wisdom. Well, what he's talking about?

This word wisdom is a Greek word sophia, and what

w Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament word says, one

of the meanings of sophia is insight into the true

nature of a thing. When you're in a trial, sometimes

you're thinking, what is going on here? How did this happen?

How did this door get opened? How do I get

out of this mess? What do I need to do.

You need Sophia, You need wisdom, and he says, if

you lack that wisdom, that insight into the true nature

of what's going on, ask of God. The little Greek says,

Ask of the giving God, who gives you all men liberally,

and a braid's notot and it shall be given you.

Sometimes when you're in a trial, or sometimes when you're

dealing with sickness or disease or financial lack or something

like that, or things just he going wrong in your life,

instead of just trying to get an instantaneous healing, will

say say God, what's going on here? How's this getting in?

How's the door opened to the enemy, what's happening here?

It's good to pray, say, Lord, is there's something in

the natural that I need to do or stop doing?

Show me, because sometimes God can heal somebody just keep

doing the very thing that got him in that mess

in the first place. Like the classic illustration I give

the guy that smokes cigarettes and he's got a lung problem,

and he says, Oh, God, heal my lungs. If God

were to heal his lungs and he kept smoking, he'd

still have the problem. So we need wisdom, Sophia to

know what's going on sometimes. And if you don't get

anything when you ask, don't fret or fuss or try

and dig something up. Say Lord, I'm just trusting you

to show me if I'm missing it somewhere. I need

to know something Other than that, I'm just going to

keep standing. I'm going to keep believing. Don't get under condemnation.

Don't let the devil beach you over the head like, oh,

you must got some terrible sin in your life, and

you'll know it if you do. Don't try and manufacture something,

all right, So that's just about patience. Go back to

Luke's six. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming

Luke chapter six here and be healed. Hallelujah. We didn't

even start to read that, did well? Okay, that's good

Luke six seventeen. And he came down with them. 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 and Jerusalem, and from the

seacoast of Tire and Sidon. Now, notice a great multitude.

How many is a multitude? While scripture indicates a multitude

is about a thousand or more. How much would a

great multitude be. There's a lot of people, And notice

this great multitude came to hear him and to be

healed of their diseases. They came to hear and be healed,

To hear and be healed. Circle that or underline that

phrase here and be healed, Here and be healed. That's

the theme for tonight, the message title tonight, and the

theme for these next eight sessions of healing school. Here

and be healed. It's not some clever phrase that I

made up. It's right out of the word here and

be healed. Here and be healed. They came to hear

and be healed of their diseases, and they verse eighteen,

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.

That's Jesus, our healer, healing of all kinds. Notice in

verse seventeen, they came to be healed of their diseases.

Verse eighteen, those that were vexed with unclean spirits, So

that could be demonic oppression of any sort, or mental oppression.

Healing of all kinds, And it says verse nineteen, the

whole multitude sought to touch him. So who knows what

was in that whole multitude that they were dealing with,

And they were all healed. Healing of all kinds starts

with hearing. It starts with hearing. Now, most folk they

want to bypass the hearing and just go right to

the healing. Sometimes you don't need to be seeking the healing,

you need to be seeking the hearing. Why do I

say that Romans ten seventeen. What's it say? Faith comes

by hearing? How are we healed by faith? Remember? Jesus

said to the woman with the issue blood, woman, your faith,

not my faith, not my power, not my virtue. Woman,

your faith. Yes, virtue had gone out of Jesus. But

he didn't say, oh, it is my great virtue. Woman,

at your healed? He said, no, woman, it's your faith

that has made you whole. He said to the blind man,

according to your faith, be it unto you. Faith is

the substance of things hoped for. Jesus said, whatever you believe,

you shall receive. All things are possible to those who believe.

Why do we need to hear? Because faith Romans ten

seventeen comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.

Proverbs four twenty to twenty two. If we don't look

at tonight, we'll look at it next week, It says,

my son, my daughter, attend to my word. Incline your

ears to my sayings. Let them not depart from before

thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

For they my words are life to those who find

them in health Hebrew word healing, medicine, remedy, and cure

rapha to all their flesh. Now, everybody wants to get

to the healing of all their flesh. But prior to that,

it says, attend to his words. Incline your ears to

his sayings, that they're not depart from before your eyes.

Keep them in the midst of your heart. Here and

be healed. Here and be healed. Now, what's Psalm one o.

Seven twenty say he sent his word and it healed them?

How did the word heal them? Because faith comes by

hearing the word of God. Now, if we harken back,

hold your placer and go to Exodus fifteen. If we

harken back to the beginning of the healing covenant, this

great revelation of yahweh Rapha, which we've talked about in

teaching on the Names of God on Sunday mornings. But

we go back to this healing covenant that God established

not only with the children of Israel, but with you

and I as yahweh Rapha or jehovah Rafa. The Lord

your healer, the Lord your physician, the Lord your doctor.

Is what it literally means, the word rapha, the he

your healer, your physician, your doctor. If we harken back

to that, Notice what so many people just gloss right

over it in order to get to the latter part

of verse twenty six. I am the Lord of healthy.

You know, everybody just like pretty much glosses over everything

that comes before that. Just I want to get to

the part I am the Lord that heals me. Oh, yes,

Lord heal me. But notice is the Exodus fifteen twenty six,

and He and God said, if say if say it again,

if say it again, if you gotta circle that in

your bible, if you will diligence, hearken, say diligently, hearken, diligently,

hearken if you will diligently hearken to the voice here

and be healed. If you will diligently hearken to the

voice of the Lord your God Yahweh Elohem, and will

do that which is right in his sight, and will

give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes.

I will put or Hebrew, I will allow none of

these diseases upon thee which I brought upon the Egyptians.

He brought them upon the Egyptians. They weren't his children,

they were his enemies, and it was judgment upon them.

But God's not doing that the children, he says, which

I've permitted to come upon the Egyptians and judgment for

I am Yahweh Rafa, the Lord that healeth thee He says,

I am your healer, I am your physician, I'm your doctor.

And he said, you will discover that and realize that

if if I don't like the if I don't want

there to be any responsibility on my part. I just

want God to do it. I don't want to have

to do anything. If if you will diligently hearken to

the voice of the Lord your God, and will do

that which is right in his sight. One way you

could look at this is one great promise and covenant

and two great conditions, hearing and doing, hearing and doing,

hearing and doing. Now we're going to break it down

a little bit more, but you'll notice it says, diligently

hearken and do and then give ear and keep. Those

could both fall under that same category. Hear and do,

here and do. He said, if you hear and do,

I will be yahweh rafa to you. That rhymes I'm

a poet and didn't know it. My feet are longfellows.

Here and do here and do here and do. Now,

notice he says, if you diligently hearken to the voice

of the Lord your God. No God wants us healed.

Healing is his will, Healing is his desire for his children.

Think about he's put healing in the body. You cut

your finger, even without exercising any faith, it heals. Why

is that he's put healing in the body. Your body

heals itself. I was ministering to somebody on the phone,

praying with them this week, and they said they got

disinfection and it's eaten away some of their jaw. And

they said, but the doctors say, God, you are something else.

The doctors say the jaw will actually re regenerate itself

and grow back out. They said about six months it'll

come back out. The Lord, you're amazing. But God wants

us healed. It's his will, it's his desire, and we

do things to hinder that, spiritually and naturally. Spiritually, doubt, fear, unbelief,

wrong confession, these kind of things. Naturally, not taking care

of ourselves, not getting enough rest, enough sleep, enough exercise,

enough fresh air, not eating right, putting junk in our bodies.

We do all these things to hinder the healing that

God wants us to walk in. You can argue with it,

you can debate about it, you can pooh pooh it,

you can mock me, you can say I'm off the wall,

but I'm standing on fact and you're standing on fiction

on wishing, because there's no truth to what you're thinking.

If you don't believe what I just said. Whatever man sows,

that's how he also reap. Don't be deceived. God is

not mocked. Whatever we sow, we reap. God has put

healing in the body. He's given us an amazing immune system,

and it should function a peak efficiency where it constantly

drives away sickness and disease. Why doesn't it because we

do things to hinder our immune system. Now, maybe you

know some people you know it just thero'ugh, no fault

of their own. They were born with it or something

like that, and thank God there is healing for that.

Don't get under condemnation. Just try and encourage us to

receive all that God has for us. Nothing is impossible

with God. Think about it, Nothing is impossible with God. Well,

somebody says, well, I just believe if God wants me healed,

I'll be healed. If God wants it, it'll just happen.

Why did Jesus then tell us to pray thy will

be done if his will is being done automatically. Why

would we need to pray your will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. If it's being done automatically,

that's a we're wasting our prayers praying that. No, it's

not being done automatically. Satan is the god of this world.

We're in a fallen world. So let's look at this

a little closer. Notice, he says diligently, hearken to the

voice of the Lord your God. This word diligently hearken

is actually two. It's actually a Hebrew word repeated twice.

It's like, remember that will keep him in perfect peace,

Shalom shalom. And the only way they could translate it

is how do you translate shalom shalom well perfect peace?

And this diligently hearken is one Hebrew word shama, which

means to hear, repeated twice, so it's if you will

shama shamah. This a word that's found about one thousand

and sixty times in the New Old Testament shmaha here,

and it means, according to Hebrew dictionaries, we'll have it

on the screen here. It means to you here intelligently,

with the implication of attention and obedience. See it's not

just hearing it goes in one ear and out the other.

It's hearing intelligently with attention and obedience. In the Hebrew thought,

if you don't obey, you didn it here, just like

a parent's thought if your kids don't obey, they did

it here. Kurt. If you say to Mason to go

do something, and then an hour later you say, well,

you never did that, did you hear me say oh yeah,

I heard your dad. No, you didn't hear me, because

you still didn't take the trash out. You didn't hear

me or heard your dad. No, you did it. If

you'd have heard me, you'd have done it. And that's

in the Hebrew mindset. If you don't obey, you haven't heard.

And how many times people hear don't obey, which is

why the New Testament tells us time and again be

doers of the word and not hearers only. In other words,

make sure you hear with the understanding attention obedience. In

the Hebrew, they would say, one way to say it

would be listening, listen, listening, listen. The Theological word Book

of the Old Testament says this about smah. The basic

idea is that of perceiving a message to hear involving

effective hearing. Notice that effective hearing. You know there's a

difference between hearing and effective hearing. And Jesus says, if

you will effectively hear, I'll be your healer. I'll be

your yahweh rafha hear and be healed. The Greek word

translated here that he looked at where they hear and

be healed. It's it's in the Greek translation Old Testament.

They use it to translate the word shmah. It's effective

hearing and they hurt. Now we're gonna see tonight and

in the weeks to come, we're timing again in the

New Testament. They came and they heard and were healed.

We tend to think that, you know, the crowd just

kind of showed up and Jesus starts saying, heal, heal, heal,

he'll be He'll be healed, and just kind of people

just kind of walked up and hey, Jesus, ooh, I'm healed.

You know, no timing he is says they heard and

were healed. They took the time to hear and be healed.

Why was that? Because faith comes by hearing the word

of God. In Acts chapter fourteen, I believe it is

Paul was preaching the word and there was a man

there who had been lame from his mother's birth. He

had never walked, and now he's a grown man. And

Paul was preaching the word, and it says and he

perceiving that he had faith to be healed. Where did

he get the faith to be healed? Because Paul was

preaching the word and hearing procedes healing. And Paul said,

and Nyas, I said to you, take up your bed

and walk, get up. You're healed. And Anya's did it

here and be healed. Now. Most folks want to skip

the hearing. They just want to be healed. Most people,

you know, they just want to get forget the hearing.

Just heal me, just heal me. I heard Keith Moore

who used to work at Rama Healing School in Tulsa,

and they have healing school every day, and he was

one of the healing ministers, and he gave an illustration.

He said, this be prior to after the at afternoon

session between meetings. Basically, this couple came to him from

out of town and they said, brother Moore, would you

pray for us? Pray for my husband more specifically, he's

been diagnosed with a terminal disease. He's been given only

months to live. We'd like you to pray with him

and pray, lay your hands on him, anoint him with

oil so he could be healed. And so he said

he began to talk to them and just by talking

to him and listen what they had said, he said,

I proceed I knew they had no he had no

faith to be healed, and if I were to lay

hands on him and anoint him with oil, all that

would do was produce more discouragement and disappointment in him.

You know, we do that something we actually think about

doing injustice to people, to pray for him before they're ready,

before they have really any faith to be healed, because well,

go ahead, yeah, just go ahead, pray for me. And

then they boy pray for me. They don't get here

on anything. Well, they get discourage and they think it

doesn't work. I told the story before. I've had a

Full Gospel Businessman's Fellowship International dinner one time, and there

was a guy there in a wheelchair and the Full

Gospel Businessman. Back then, during the charismatic renewal, they would

pray for a fence post. And I saw this. I'm

standing off to the side and its like the Lord

gave me inside. And I'm just watching this and there's

this guy in a wheelchair, and this guy comes up

to him and says, hey, brother, can we pray for you?

He goes, well, okay, and I say, hey, guys, come

on over here. In about six guys surround they started

praying binding and loosing and casting out, casting in and

let go brother, hold on, brother, and all kinds of

things going on. I'm standing there watching this, and God says,

all they're doing is producing more unbelief and discouragement in him.

He's had this same experience many times before. He's got

no faith to be healed. He's just hoping something will happen,

trying to get it on everybody else's coattails. And I

was like, WHOA. What they needed, somebody needed is take

that man aside and say, hey, I'm going to teach

you the Word of God. We're going to get into

the scriptures and see what the Bible says about healing

so you can have faith to be healed. But most

people don't want to do that. So back to my story,

Brother Moore said to this couple, well, he was talking

to him and they could tell the guy had no

faith to be healed. He said, hey, the next session

of healing school begins in about an hour. Can you

come to that? And they go, oh, no, we got

a shopping trip planned. And he said, you nearly need

to come to this session to hear the word. They go,

oh no, we've been planning this shopping trip for a

long time, and we're just going to do that, he said.

Never heard from him again. The guy probably died because

people don't understand the importance of hearing. They just want

to skip that and go to be healed without any faith.

Most people don't understand the importance of diligently HARKing to

the word of God so he can be yahweh rafa

for them. Now, you know, if they did, if people

fully understood the importance of hearing, there going to be

an empty seat in here tonight. There's all kinds of

sick folk out there, but people don't want to take

the time to hear. Now, I can pretty much guarantee

you if it started getting noised about the cripples were walking,

blind eyes were being opened, that her being raised up,

we couldn't We'd have to bring in more chairs. You

couldn't get enough people in here. But you say, oh,

somebody's teaching on healing and building faith for healing. I

gotta go shopping. Brother Moore talked about another time he

ministered to a person under the same circumstances. You need

to come to the session. We got one starting in

about fifteen minutes and they said, Wow, this is there

work in my garden. I can't come what happened? What

you go? I mean, I've seen it over the years.

I've been in full time ministry about forty years, and

over that time, I've gone into hospitals a lot to

minister to people. Nine times out of ten, if not

nine point eight times out of ten. You go in

to see somebody. Sometimes they're a death's door and what's

going on? They're watching the boob tube? No faith in that,

no hearing in that. I've ministered to people before and

they're I mean serious conditions. I say, here, I'll give

you some healing messages on CD or give you some

books on healing, and then I follow up on them

a week later, ten days later. How you doing? No?

Not too good, brother, Tim. You know I'm still struggling.

I don't see anything better. I know you prayed, but

it's just not any better. Well did you read the

books I gave you? Well? No, I hadn't gotten around

to it. Well have you listened to the messages? No?

And in the background I can hear the stupid television

going time and time and time again. Sometimes I call somebody.

It's very sick, and it's like I can't even hear

what they're saying because it's televisions. Also, I'm going to

visit people in their house. I'm trying to minis healing. Finally,

I say, can we turn that off? It's like, ah,

this addiction to television watching General Hospital is not going

to get you healed, and as the stomach turns, it's

not going to do it. Hear and be healed. If

thou wilt diligently hearken, look to it again Etuy fifteen

twenty six. If you diligently hearken, Well, let's keep that

definition up. Know what there it is if you diligently hearken. Now,

let's hurry o back to that definition. If you diligently hearken.

Schmash Shama, the theological word Book of the Old Testament,

says the basic guy of the hear is that of

perceiving a message to hear, involving effective hearing. Listen, to

pay attention, to understand, hear critically obey. Obey, That says

is to give attention, be attentive. Do people give attention

to the word of God? Are they attentive to the

word of God. Do they read it, do they study it?

Do they memorize healing scripture? Why does God tell us

to diligently hearken to the word because most folks aren't

doing it. That's why he has to tell us that.

Why does he say, in proverb, for my son, my daughter,

attend to my word and climb your ear to my saying,

because most folk aren't doing it. Why does he say

keep it in the midst of your heart because most

people don't do it. But when we do it, he said,

my words will be health and healing and medicine to

all your faith. He said, when we do it, I'll

reveal myself as yahweh Rafael to you, your physician, your healer,

your doctor. Well, can't we just skip everything prior to that,

all of verse twenty six and just get right down

to yahweh Rafha. Just do it, Lords, I can go

back to watching television. Heal me of this incurable disease

so I don't have to go to the hospital, pay

all those medical bills, and I can go back to

watching television. Just do it, Lord, Just I mean people

come to me of frequently. Pie, do you just would

you pray for me? Would you annoint me? Well, if

you do, you know what scriptures are standing on. Huh,

No faith to be healed. Heybody just want some miracle.

They just want it automatically, without taking the time to

build faith. W Vine says the word schma means says

it can be both intellectual hearing and spiritual hearing. Remember,

Jesus said he that has ears to hear, let him hear. Everybody.

He said that to had physical ears. But he said,

if you have ears here, here, here, spiritually here intelligently.

So he says, diligently, hearken to the voice of the

Lord your God, and do that which is right in

his sight. And give ear to his commandments. Back to

the Exodus fifteen twenty six. Give ear to his commandments,

give ear to his commandments. Give your ear to his commandments.

And I'll be the Lord your healer. Give ear to him.

But what do most people give ear to? Secular news,

secular music, secular television, secular music. That's what they give

ear to. They don't give ear to the Word of God.

And faith comes by hearing the word of God. Not

faith comes by hearing secular music, secular television, secular magazines,

secular news. Faith doesn't come from that. Fear comes from

that comes from the secular. Faith comes from the Word

of God. People hear all that stuff and saturate themselves

and they get in fear, like, oh, they said it's coming.

They said, it's all over. What am I going to do?

But you get into the Word of God and faith

comes in. It's like, the Lord is my shepherd. I

do not want no weapon formed against me. Shall prosper.

He's my rock, my refuge, my shield. What are you

giving ear to? Now? Think about it, all of us people,

all the time, God's people commonly ask God to give

ear to their prayers and petitions and supplications. But you know,

God also asks us to give ear to what he's saying.

Oh God, listen to what I say. Oh God, I'm praying,

I want you to hear what I'm saying. But God

also says, I want you to hear what I'm saying.

Give ear to his commandments and notice and keep all

his statutes. Now, this is a related word to diligently

hearken shama. It's the Hebrew word shamar, and it means

to hedge about, to guard, protect, a tend to watch over,

to watch over carefully. He says, take all his commandments,

his statutes, and guard them, protect them, watch over them carefully.

It's the same Hebrew word that God told Adam and Eve.

He said, guard the garden, protect the garden, and they

didn't do it, and the devil got in, and God

saying guard your life, protect your life, so the devil

doesn't get in. Keep all his commandments. It means to

watch carefully over, to pay close attention to the theological word.

Book of the Old Testament says it means to exercise

great care over, to be careful to do or perform.

Do all my commandments, perform all my commandments, it says.

It expresses the careful attention to be paid to the

obligations of a covenant. We are in covenant with Yahweh,

God with Yahweh. Rafa wants to establish a healing covenant

with you, and he says, if you do this, I'll

do this. He said, if you diligently hearken, give your

keep and obey what I'm saying, I'll do this. I'll

be your doctor, your physician, your healer. I'll take sickness

away from the midst of you. Exodus twenty three, twenty five.

You know God said that, He said, I will take

sickness away from the midst of you. That's a promise.

It's a condition of the covenant. And people think, well,

I don't understand God must not a minute because I

don't see it, and I don't se anybody else see it.

And it's not working because we're not fulfilling the conditions

of the covenant. Hear and be healed. They came to

him to hear and be healed. He perceived he had

faith to be healed. He heard, and he perceived he

had faith to be faith comes by hearing the word

of God. My counsel to somebody had a terminal disease

would be shut yourself up in the bedroom and do

nothing but listen to the word of God on healing

and read healing literature and do nothing but healing until

you either die in there or come out healed. And

there's a high probability you'll come out here. But what

most folks do, Doctor gave me two months to live,

and they watched television the whole time, waiting to die.

Waiting to die. It means frequently, it's frequently used to

speak of personal discipline. This is the theological word book

of the Old Testament for Shamar. It's used to speak

of personal discipline and the need to take heed in

respect to one's life and actions. We don't want to

do that, take heed to my life and actions? Can

I just live spiritually sloppy and still walk in divine health? Okay,

let me wrap it up here. We'll summarize this passage.

We didn't get it all in. I wanted to show

some of the more New Testament scriptures on here and

be healed. We'll take it up from here next week.

One great promise or one great covenant, four great conditions

in this verse Hebrews Exodus fifteen twenty six, the healing

covenant yahweh rafa establishes the number one. Diligently hearken to

God's voice. Diligently hearken to God's voice. So, in other words,

hear it, attend to it, obey it. Do what God

tells you to do. Now, really, these aren't this complicated.

There are four basic things, and if we'll do them,

God says, and I'll be yahweh rafa to you. You

do these four things, and I will be the Lord

your healer. Diligently hearken to God's voice. Hear it, attend

to it, obey it. Do what God tells you to do.

Number two, do what is right. Do what is right.

He said, if you diligence hearkened the voice of the

Lord your God, and do that which is right in

his sight. Do what is right in his sight. In

other words, live holy and righteous, Be godly in your

life and conduct. Live holy and righteous, Do what is

right in his sight. Be godly in your life and conduct.

Third thing he tells us to do, give ear to

his commandments. Give ear to his commandments, or feed on

the word of God. Feed on the word of God.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every

word that comes out of the mouth of God. Who

said that, Come on, who said that man shall not

live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

out of the mouth of God. Jesus said that I

can feed on the word of God. And then the

fourth thing he says, keep all his statutes, keep all

his statue, do the word, perform the word, discipline yourself,

guard yourself, acknowledge Him as God and Lord Word, and

live free from my doolatry. Well what you're talking about.

Why do you say put idolatry in here, Because anything

we have in our life that supersedes God is number

one in our life is an idol. Anything we're putting

ahead of God, a hobby, a sport, recreation, money, a job,

a person, it's an idol. God has to be number one.

So he says, keep all his statutes, acknowledge Him as

God and Lord, and live free from my dolatary. And

then the great commandment, love love God, and love others.

Love God, love people, Love God with all your heart, soul,

mind and strength, and love others as you love yourself.

And he says, I will be to you. Yahweh rafa,

yahweh rafa, hallelujah. Hear and be healed. When people don't hear,

oftentimes they're not healed. But when they do hear, they

are healed. Faith comes by hearing the word of God.

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