RCF 170825 Lingering Service - Simon Chaffer - Healing through the written and living Word

Good morning. So the title of today's preach is healing

through the written and the living Word. Let's pray how

the Spirit will welcome you this morning. Thank you that

you hear that. Thank for lood. You are a spirit

John four twenty four. God is a spirit. And for

those people in the room, those people who are listening online,

those people to listen later. Because God is a spirit.

What he does today here you can experience where you are.

There's no boundary in the spirit. So Lord, let's yeah,

let's get this done. Amen. So there's one of those

preachers where I've got a lot of scriptures but not

a lot of words. Sometimes God gives you some words

or something to give you those scriptures and he feels

the words in when you're speaking, which is really fun sometimes.

But today we're going to look at the word of

God regarding healing, and the Lord wants to speak to

us through the word, and it give us an opportunity

to respond to the word. So we'll start a bit

of a foundation that we're moving to the scriptures. So

when Jesus died on the cross, he took our sins

in his own body. And when we repent and are

converted our sins are washed away or blotted out. First

scripture John is Acts three, verse nineteen. There's Peter speaking

to the crowd. He said, repent therefore and be converted,

that your sins may be blotted out, so that times

of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

The word repent here is the word metanoia in the Greek,

which means to turn around or go from one direction

to the direction, to change one's mind. And when we

are born again, that's what happens. We change our mind,

we go from one direction to the direction, and God

restores our souls. That's wrong thing to say. God restores

our spirit and we come into fellowship with His spirit.

But many people stop with receiving God in their spirit.

They don't stretch to what God wants, which is more

than that. God is able above to do more that

we can ask or think. Yeah, so what wants to

get over today is salvation? Is not the end is

more right? And the more we want to talk about

this morning, it is healing. So you are saved, you

are healed. Yeah, it's the same thing. So many people

come to church, go a fellowship wherever your call, where

you go and they put a ceiling on what God

can do, and we need to take the limits of God. Okay,

we need to take the limits of God. So Jesus

also paid for our healing. So we're going to walk

through the Word, and we're going to apply the Word

to our circumstances. I got a sense when I was

praying about this, this is not a one off occurrence.

There's the start of a change of a mindset and

the change of how He wants to engage with us

here in this place. In other words, he wants us

to expect healing. He wants to expect people's lives to

be changed when they come here, right, And it won't

be the work of a man. It'll be the work

of the Holy Spirit. So go on to stretch our

thinking today, right, want to stretch our thinking. So when

we're sharing Jesus, or when we're here worshiping Jesus, we

recognize there's no limit with God. So very familiar scripture

as I have fifty three four through five. Surely he

hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we

esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he

was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by

his stripes we are healed. By his stripes, we are healed.

You know, when Jesus went to the cross, he was

already dying. His back would have been cut open with

the lashes. His flesh was hanging off the back of

his body. When we see Jesus on the cross, when

you look at the back of the cross, because that's

where the wounds were, that's where the blood was running

down his back and making the pool on the floor.

And it's by his stripes that we are healed. Matthew

eight sixteen and seventeen says when evening had come, that

was at the end of the sabbath. In this instance,

they brought to him many who were demon possessed, and

he cast them out. He cast out the spirits with

his word, and healed all who were sick. That it

might be a Filldris who spoke can buy is as

the prophet, or as are the prophet saying himself took

our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. Jesus took it all

for us on the cross. That means you don't have

to live with it. He took infirmity, he took sickness.

One Peter two twenty four says, who himself bore our

sins in his own body on the tree, that we,

having died to sins, might live for righteousness. By whose

stripes you were healed, Asiah, ohk Covenant. By his stripes,

we are healed. One Peter two twenty four, New Covenant.

By his stripes, you are healed. That's a spiritual fact truth.

But we need to appropriate our healing through the written

word and the living word. In other words, God is

not trying to keep healing from us, but we need

to follow his pattern and his plan to receive it.

Psalm ninety one and verse sixteen says, with long life,

I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. The

word salvation here, I'm not going to go with the

Greek right now. I don't want to butcher that word.

His deliverance, prosperity, and victory, health welfare. God wants to

satisfied with long life health welfare. He wants to have

a mindset of recognizing that we can walk in divine

health in our lives. Yes, we're going to pray for

people to for healing here today. It's a ingreen service,

was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we're going to pray

for people who want to be prayed for. But more

than that, going to change our thinking to recognize that

we can walk in divine health. We don't have to

be sick, all right to me, we denied the circumstances,

but we know the truth. Yeah. A few weeks ago,

I hurt my leg. Hurt a very sort of strange

noise when I moved my leg, which wasn't very comfortable anyway,

I think as a miner. And Wednesday or Thursday, we

came here on this Sunday, I was walking around, not

coming to publice it. And I still a small voice

says I'm hearing your leg. Don't walk around the corridor,

staying here, And obviously, ah hear heal my leg. I

healed the muscle in my leg. I went see the

we went for some treatment. At time. The minus tream

was nothing as significant it would have been I had

got heal my leg. I say that as a example.

You know, I wasn't I wasn't necessary. I was believing

with the word of God by his stripes. I'm healed,

and I released my faith to believe I was healed

and God healed me, and that there's a followed his pattern. Yeah,

Sam I undred and seven, verse twenty said he sent

his word and healed them. He sends his word. One

job in the beginning was the word. The word was God.

The word was with God. God did nothing without the word. Jesus,

the written word and living word. Jesus brought healing to

the people. The written word brings healing. Yeah, Jesus is

here now, I know because I brought in with me.

He lives with me. But God's word does not return

to him void, and it will accomplish that actually pleases

and prospering the thing whereunto he sends it. So we

need the word in our lives to see some healing.

You got pray it for healing, didn't you for what

was it? Malaria? Yeah? You didn't go up there and

just go maybe, did you? Yeah? What did you do?

I just ask God? Here here my body, take away

the pain, take away the suffering. Just do what you

can do.

Don't sit down. Sorry? How long ago? Was that? Years ago?

And you're still healed? Yes? Absolutely, you sit down. God's

healing lasts. It's not like some products. Slap this and

you'll be okay. Oh sorry, Apply this and you'll be okay.

God's healing lasts. I wasn't planning to do that. I'm

not sure what I'm planning to, but they go. But

God's healing lasts. That was about malaria when Dave was

working in Papi in Guinea. So the thirty five years later,

he's still healed. That. When God does something, it's permanent. Yeah,

but Dave believed and Dave received. And what God did

for Dave, you can do for you, and he can

do for me. Because he's no respect of persons. I

haven't seen super Christian running around here anywhere. You know.

We're all people, are we? You know? So they have

believed and they have received the weather God recalls that

Jesus healed them. Adverse, that recause that Jesus made them whole. Yeah, Matthew,

fifteen thirty. Then great Multitus came to him, having with

them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and

they laid them down at Jesus' feet and he healed them.

So the same power that's in Jesus is in you

and me. The same power that's in Jesus is in

you and it's in me. That means that if you

apply your faith, you can believe. He looke for forte

when the sun was setting. All those who had any

that were sick with various diseases brought them to him,

and he'd lay them. He laid his hands on every

one of them and healed them Mark three thirty four.

And he said to her daughter, your faith has made

you well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.

He has made you well. He is the Greek word souso,

which means to do well or be made whole. Jesus

wants to make as whole mind, body, soul, spirit. Yeah,

he wants to make us whole, all right, but we

need to recognize that, we need to believe that, we

need to receive that. Okay, So the lady with issue

of blood, which is the scripture this is referring to,

was made whole. So if you've got a need this

morning where you're online, you're listening later in the room,

God can make your whole, but you need to meet

his conditions. You need to believe, and you need to receive. Yeah.

I remember a story. I heard a story in account

of a guy who was praying for some people in

a line and he got to this one guy and

he said, okay, what do you want to pray for

you for? And the guy just listed out his problems,

and then the preacher bout said yes, but God says,

by his stripes you're healed. And the guy says yes,

but he goes no, God's work says And this conversation

went on about three or four times, and then three

said you need to listen to me, and they started

poking the guy in the chest, and I said, the

word of God says, by his stripes, you're healed if

you agree with me, and you will agree with the

word of God, and don't talk about your circumstances. You're

going to get healed. What you want to do. So

the guy was quiet, and then the penny dropped and

he said, yes, by the God says, by his strikes,

I am healed. Sometimes you look at the bigness of

our circumstances rather than the bigness of our God. Okay,

doesn't mean we deny the but the word of God

says it. When the guy agreed that the guy prayed

of him, and the guy was healed. It's just an

example of how our mind can try and override what

the word of God says. Okay, Mark ten fifty one

to fifty two. So Jesus answered and said to him,

what do you want me to do? The blind man

said to him rabone, that I may receive my sight.

And Jesus said to him, go your way. Your faith

has made you well. And immediately he received his sight.

That made you well is the word. So who was

made whole? So that was blind Bartimeus, who was no

longer blind. Acts ten thirty eight, a very familiar scripture.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost,

our holy spirit, and with power, who went about doing

good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil,

for God was with him. The word for healing here

is the Greek word hey oh my, which means to heal,

to make whole. So what the Lord's trying to impress

on us is he wants to heal us, and he

wants to make us whole. All right. He wants us

to change our perspective about what we think we have

a conversation about anything, and we have a viewpoint. We

have a standpoint, whether it's politics, the environment, football, we

have a view. But God wants to see from his perspective.

All right, when we're born again from one from the

Kingdom of Dart since the Kingdom of Light, our spirit changes.

We've got to work through stuff in our minds. Yeah,

our perspective, our worldview that we've built up over time.

God wants to recognize that, by Jesus stripes, we are healed,

made whole mind, body, soul, spirit. He wants us to

get into that place of understanding whether we're really bright,

I've got a really high IQ, or where we don't

know what our IQ is. It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.

Matthew eight two to three, and behold, a leper came

and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if you're willing, you can

make me clean. Then Jesus put forth his hand and

touched him, saying, I am willing be cleansed. Immediately his

leprosy was cleansed. Interesting to note leprosy can be contagious.

Jesus didn't know whether it was contagious or not, but

he acted in faith and believed noticed that person was

made whole Mark nine thirty five. And Jesus went about

all the citizen villagers, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the

Kingdom of God, and healing every sickness and every disease

among the people. Every sickness, every disease, Nothing is too

difficult for God. Behold, I am the Lord that God

above flesh. Is there anything too heart for me? As

Jeremiah thirty two, Verse twenty seven, Nothing is too heart

for God. So we have to learn not to have

our list of what we think is too hard for God.

Should just burn that list, Mark sixteen fifteen to eighteen.

Jesus speaking, go into all the world and preach the

Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized

will be saved, But he who does not believe will

be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe

in my name. They will cast out demons, they will

speak with new tongues. They will take up serpents. If

they drink any deadly, anything deadly, he will by no

means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick,

and they will recover work caught. To lay hands on

the sick and believe they will recover. You can't do

that unless you believe that God's going to be able

to heal it. D can heal you. Yeah, You've got

to come from a position of knowing. Can't be theoretical, Yeah,

can't be theoretical. You've got to know that. You know that,

you know that, you know that, you know that, you

know if you know what I mean. You've got to know.

You get to know by reading the word of God.

You get to know by applying the word of God

and seeing the results. So when you do play with

somebody in the street, or you pay somebody here or

somebody at work, you release your faith and believe. Change

five fourteen to fifteen says, is any sick, you let

him call for the others of the church and let

them pray over him, anointing him with all in the

name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will

save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.

If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Now,

it is the prayer of faith which saves the sick.

It's not the prayer of indecision. It's the prayer of faith.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of

God Hebrews eleven one, Hebrews eleven six. Without faith, it's

impossible to please God. So we need faith, right, it's

the prayer of faith. Prayer of faith will save the sick.

So if you're going to pray, you need to pray

in faith. Scripture three John one, verse two. Beloved, I

pray that you may prosper in all things and be

in health, just as your soul prospers. Beloved, I pray

that you may prosper in all things and be in health,

just as your soul prospers. That was John. That's the

word health. Gosh ah hohog hoogi hoogi iing on whogi

on who better? Is? To have sound health? That's the

Greek I just butchered it sorry, to have sound health,

to be well, to be in health, to be whole,

to be sound. Below, I pray that you may prosper.

The word prospercu she means to prosper, to do well

and be in health, even as a soul prospers. So

we need to stretch towards walking in divine health, knowing

it's God's best that we shall prosper. We prosperly can

be a blessing spiritual, physical, financially, associal, emotionally, and be

in health even as our soul prospers. So I've read

a lot of scriptures. Member faith comes by hearing and

hearing by the word of God. So we have an

opportunity today to respond to the word of God. Whether

that's in your seat or appear. I don't mind. The

choice is ours. I must have have ut did the

preach like this before? Where I stand the pan crotol

the scriptures. But you know you do what you asked

to do, don't you. God is a spirit John four

twenty four. So God is here. So whether you want

to see in your set seat and received from God,

or whether you want to come here and receive from God,

that's entirely up to you. No pressure. If you don't

received from God, no pressure, I am. It's not the

work of a man. It's the work of the Holy Spirit.

But if before we do that, the bower says, if

you believe in your heart, confess with your mouth that

Jesus Lord, you will be saved. So maybe somebody's in

this room, or maybe as something's this known line doesn't believe.

So if you believe in your heart, confess with your

mouth of Jesus. Lord, you will be saved. But you

need to turn around that meta or your peace from

the direction you're walking in and walk in the direction.

Say if that's you, turn around, give Jesus your life.

He'll do something with it. Nobody else will. Let's just

mess it up, but he'll do something with it. You know,

ask him to commend your life. Turn her out from

what you're doing and start walking Jesus a way, drop

us a WhatsApp, drop us a message on the website,

something to pick it up, or come a speed someday later.

But don't miss the opportunity. So where's it going, Emmanuel? Yeah?

You playing the keyboards, mister, thank you? M m h.

So God is a spirit, he manuals playing the keys.

But God is here. I can feel him. So if

you've got a need that's a physical need, emotional needs, personally,

come out here. We'll pray for you if you want that. Otherwise,

releash your faith and believe God for to reach out

to you like I do. As walk around the back

of that room. Early