Different But Same - Kingdom Healthcare

So we are on Wednesday night, we're taking some time to go

through Scripture concerning the healthcare system of the

Kingdom. All right.

And again, you know, it's very important for us to understand

the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom in his royal offspring.

And so when we're talking about subjects, those subjects are

contained within God's Kingdom, OK?

Because in all kingdoms there is a healthcare system and God has

the best healthcare ever. Can I get an Amen?

I mean he has the best healthcare ever.

It's better than Botox. Plastic surgery.

Come on. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

I mean, eventually he's going to give you a glorified body that

will never grow old. There's no indication you'll get

calories when you eat. That's going to cause you to

enlarge in places that you weren't enlarged at other times,

right? You're going to be healthy,

strong, never dying. Isn't that amazing?

And so God's Healthcare is amazing, but he's doing stuff

for us on the earth today. So would you stand for the

reading of the word as we open with our key text, Acts chapter

Acts 10:38

10, verse 38, it says, you know, of Jesus of Nazareth.

How? God anointed him with the Holy

Spirit and with power and how he went about doing good and

healing. How many?

Come on, how many? All who were oppressed by the

devil, for God was with him. Can I get an Amen?

You can be seated so we see here.

That God is the healer and he desires us to walk in.

Healing the enemy in his bag brings sickness and disease.

He can't oppress. He can bring sickness.

There are actual spirit spirits that are called spirits of

infirmity and they can do things to the body that your natural

medicine is not going to be able to remove.

All right. And so not every symptom you

have is from an evil spirit, OK? Because we are in a body that

has is not in its original design as God created it.

Because when God created man in his image and it is likeness,

he's told him to have dominion and this man would.

Live forever, because God said literally, unless until you eat

of the fruit right that day, that you eat of the fruit of the

tree of the knowledge. Of good and evil, you will

surely die so if. Adam had never eaten the fruit.

His body never would have decayed.

Now sin brings death and when he ate the fruit transgression

through his transgression sin enter the world, his body

released the nature of God. His spirit became dead to God

and then his body became a casualty and his mind, his soul

realm all right. He now lived by the his soul,

but he could not connect to God in the spirit.

God is spirit and we must worship him in spirit and truth.

The man after the fall, his spirit is dead to God.

He cannot worship him. He can only contact God through

his soul or try to reach him. But you can't worship him that

way. And then his body now is going

to enter into decay because he said dust you came, dust you'll

return now. It happened to take Adam 903

years before. He left his skin suit at that

time, and his body then without his spirit separated from God,

and his soul, when it exited him, went back into.

Broke down into dust, OK. And so obviously our bodies are

not, we do not have immortality today, but God can quicken our

mortal body in his Kingdom through his healthcare because

of the blood of Jesus. And last week, you know, I'm

just going to throw one verse out here to you, Luke chapter

Luke 10:9

10, verse 9. I didn't give it to the guys.

I got this on the front row just to remind you.

He said heal those who are in it who are sick and say to them the

Kingdom of God has come near you last.

Week we showed that anytime Jesus was healing, he was

referencing this is. Of the Kingdom of God.

So the Kingdom of God and healing go hand in hand.

In essence, he's saying, in my Kingdom you can be healthy.

In my Kingdom, I'll heal you of all your sickness and disease.

In my Kingdom I want you made whole.

And that's not a new covenant principle because when Israel

left Egypt walked through the Red Sea and, and we're on the

other side, it said not one feeble person was among them.

So they had a supernatural healing as they crossed through

the Red Sea on dry ground and got to the other side, a nation

that were slaves, a nation that had been previously whipped by

the taskmasters, and there was not a feeble one among them.

So God's nation has the greatest healthcare there is.

And we are a holy nation. And his healthcare supersedes

the healthcare of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and we can name a

lot of other ones, you know, but it's a waste of my time to do

that. And I don't care what country

you're from. No country can match the

healthcare of the Kingdom of God.

Now, that doesn't mean you can't use natural healthcare, No

problem. Just don't put that first in

your thinking. Seek the King first.

Seek his way because we already know he heals all and it's

important for us to raise our faith to what God is saying

because you understand faith comes by.

So it's very important. There's many of you that have

heard ministering, ministry and ministering on the subject of

healing. And a lot of times you can kind

of get kind of comfortable in your seat and say, Oh yeah, I

know that well, you can know a thing and not be in faith with a

thing. You can know a thing and be

functioning very natural and. Not asking God.

You can know a thing and not be in faith.

Faith comes by not having heard, because if you've heard and you

haven't heard in a while, then you may not have faith

concerning that subject. You have to hear again in order

to stir faith back up. Because you know, when symptoms

come to my body, I go back to the Word to stir up faith for

healing, not just say, well, I know I'm healed.

Knowing doesn't get it done. The Jesus said this, he said, I

think it's in Jane. Even the death the the demons

know Christ is Lord and tremble, but it does them no good because

they cannot be redeemed. So your knowledge of something

doesn't produce the result of it unless it's exercised with.

Faith or by faith? Faith is a firm persuasion that

what God has just said about something, it will come to pass

in your body. Period.

OK, so the Kingdom of God has a track record of 100% when the

word is on the person. Now, I don't know about you, but

there's a lot of times doctors will come and say, well, there's

a lot of reports out there that the percentage of these

procedures have this and have this.

And this is the results. We're seeing a lot of really

good in our clinical what studies that there's a lot of

really good progress with this new prescription or this new

technique or whatever. And you know, you know when

you're getting some really hot and some people, you know, when

when they've done all that they've done and there's

nothing, then they'll go into the trials and say, well, you

know, there's not, but you know, there's a low percentage, but we

could try and people. Want to be healed, people want

to be healed, but with the Lord it says he healed them all.

Hallelujah, he healed them all. Now the first thinking when you

say this is people say, well what about don't let your faith

go there? O rain, stand up.

O Rain is a human being that has a mind and a heart and God knows

his heart. Now if he has symptoms in his

body, God knows because God is not mocked.

God knows your heart. He knows if you're firmly

persuaded, if you're in doubt, if you have no faith, little

faith, great faith, He knows if you're wavering.

And we'll give a list probably in a couple weeks on the

hindrances of healing. And he knows this now, oh Rain

and I, He can tell me everything that I hear in the Bible, but on

the inside. So even though he's telling me,

I still am not in a place within his heart to know that I know

now love believes the best. I'm like, oh, Rain Man, he's in

faith, he's believing, he's healed, that God's got him

healed. He's standing strong now again,

I can say that I can rally with him.

I can encourage him, but the reality is he is the.

Only one Hallelujah with God that knows.

And that is a big deal. Iranian be seated.

That is a big deal. Same thing.

Oh, Rankin touch and agree with me that I have healing touch and

agree with me, lay hand, all kinds of stuff.

And he is firmly persuaded it is exactly as God said.

But he doesn't know what I know about me, the feelings I'm

having, the pain I'm going through, the thoughts I'm having

to cast down. And I can say it.

This is why it's better for believers to be honest.

Just be. Honest be honest and say I'm

struggling. I have some doubt.

You understand when I go into a hospital, when someone's got

into that kind of place and you go into a hospital, if they're

watching the TV, that can be a challenge because when you're in

a life and death situation, why are you putting anything else?

In Why are we doing this Now? Sometimes people are watching

because they're trusting that what the doctors are doing are

going to work. But you know what?

I'm going to go to another level.

I'm going to have healing scripture.

I'm going to have that thing coming.

I want people come and speak in the scripture over me.

I remember when Reverend Randy was dealing with cancer and they

ended up without telling the family upped his morphine

because they have decided. That he's not going to make it

through the rest of the year. So they're being compassionate.

And they are helping to manage his pain.

And we show up and man, he's out.

I mean, they're what I'm saying. He's out of his mind.

You, he has no way to confess. Nothing.

And I'm like, OK, he's not involved.

I have no idea whether his spirit man is connected or not.

His wife's confessing, but by the Holy Ghost, she went down to

the pharmacy and she says do we have to give him this much and.

They're like, well, no, we don't, we can cut it in half,

she said. Yeah, I think we should do that.

They cut it in half. His mind came back, so his

confession came back. And he sits with us today.

Heal of cancer. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

He's healed because you can't let down a moment.

Can't let down a moment. I remember a testimony.

That Jim Hockaday who used to run Rhema's Prayer and Healing

School and there was a healing that they brought in a boy, he

testified about a young kid that came in and they said he was

like stiff as a board. You know, he was just straight

out stiff and they brought him in.

You kind of had to turn him sideways to get him in.

And all week long, man, they were praying, they were

preaching the healing, giving examples, getting the word,

cause faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God.

And they're believing. They're believing.

And you know what? After a week, I think it was

maybe 2 weeks. They the the child was not like

that, went to the doctor and got a report that they were healed.

But on the inside, he knew they're going to need more.

So. The older sibling was having a

birthday back home in another state, and they're like, well,

we're going to go and have a birthday party for our other

sibling. You know we're going to leave.

And he and by the Spirit said, don't go, don't bring your other

child here. Let's celebrate the birthday

here. We need you need to keep

hearing, you need to saturate yourself, you need to keep

growing in this. Thing are you?

Hearing what I'm saying, no, no, we got it, we're gone.

They left. You know what?

It hadn't transformed them. It was through the ministries,

faith and faith happening that God was showing to the family.

I do want to do this, but they didn't want to know it.

Themselves. A month later, the child was

dead. Now, was that God's will?

No, because He's already proven out.

I want them healed. But there's responsibility for

us because God's health care system is that all.

Just like He wants all to be saved, He wants all to be

healed. I said He wants all to be

healed. He does.

And so we have to rise now. Again, I mentioned this last

week and then I'm going to get into tonight.

So we can see these examples, but I mentioned last week that

oh, Hallelujah. Amen.

Well, what was I going to say now?

I'll figure it out. I'll come back to it.

It left when I saw my title. OK, turn over to John chapter 5.

John 5 · chapter mention

Glory to God. Jesus healed primarily 4 ways,

OK, by the gifts of the Spirit, by touch at his Word, and by the

faith of the individual needing healing.

All right. And so we're going to look at

some of these examples tonight where we see that God desires

that all are healed. This is what I said last week.

Thank you, Holy Spirit. Jesus did something extremely

controversial in one of the healings.

Remember, there was a paralyzed man who had four crazy friends

that brought him to a house because they wanted him to be

healed. They could not get through the

door. So they're like, we'll RIP the

roof off. Right.

I mean, that's like somebody, you know, busting through our

wall right now. You know, your first reaction is

like, have you lost your mind? Now, Jesus didn't do that.

No, she just didn't go. Have they lost their mind?

You know how mad people would be?

But you know, what did Jesus saw?

See seeing their faith. Oh my gosh.

Seeing their faith, like look at the tenacity of this group right

here. They are not going to be

satisfied until something occurs.

They didn't say, oh, it's too crowded, let's go home.

Oh, this is going to be too long to wait on this stuff.

I mean, man, you know, in most churches right now, if you, if

we go more than 30 minutes, you know, we're clocking out and

going. So when that's you're like God,

you're going to heal me in 5 minutes or I'm out.

The audacity of the demands we make on the Creator.

But these guys were tenacious. They didn't pack him up and say,

well, maybe we can get him next week.

We'll try to figure out where he's at.

No, they're like, you getting this today.

I don't know whose house this is, but whatever.

We'll put a new roof on, I don't care.

We're going to RIP this thing off.

So they RIP the roof off, lower him down.

Jesus seeing their faith, he says.

Something blasphemous? Blasphemous.

Can. Is that right?

That was considered blasphemy. To the religious it was not, but

to them it was. He gets down, sees this

paralyzed guy, and he says your sins are forgiven.

Wow. And man, the religious in the

room which they were taking up, they were occupying a place in

the room that honestly, they shouldn't have showed up.

And these guys could have gotten to the front door and wouldn't

RIP the roof off anyway, you know, because they weren't there

to be in favor of Jesus. They were there to find

something wrong, right? Let me catch and record.

Let me see if they say something wrong.

I can post it on Instagram. OK, so anyway Jesus said your

sins forgiven then. By the Holy.

Ghost knowing their thoughts, he said.

Why do you say to yourself? Why do you say to yourself?

Then he goes on. He says to let you know I have

authority to heal and to save. But he said it this way first,

he said, which is easier. Now no one in this room.

If at the end I gave an opportunity for someone to be

born again and if they still a rain, please stand up again be

an example of rain's not saved. Here he is come down to the

front. He wants to be prayed for.

And then all of a sudden, Raphael, who's on altar tonight,

comes down and he's because with O Rain and you're looking at

this and he's praying with him, right?

And he does the prayer. And what will we all say about

this person? When O Rain goes back to a seat,

you can go back to your seat. What we do be like, wow, he's

born again. Would we?

Doubt that would would Raphael. Say now I don't know when it's

going to happen. Could be next week when that

spirit gets inside you, you know and then the Holy Ghost shows up

and bears witness. Would your spirit, your children

or God. It could be a week from now,

month from now could be 3 years. Man, all you know is that you

asked so just. Hang out and wait and honestly

if it's not his will anyway, you're going to go to hell so

don't worry about it. Now we would never say this and

Jesus says which is but yet we treat healing like.

It's a big deal. I have, I have prostate cancer.

I need the best specialist and the Lord's like.

Who's better than me? Who's better than my blood?

Who's better than the stripes I put on my back for this?

Who's better? Who can give you a better

diagnosis than healed? But yet we act like it's

complicated. Well if we think it's

complicated then really that's a lack of faith or little faith

which means you need more because you can't get the whole

thing to come in. But we would never say this

about someone being saved. So we need to change our

thinking and say man, if symptom hits my body is easier is as it

was for me to be born again is as easy it is for the Lord to

heal my body. Hallelujah.

Now I'm not talking about things where he'll renew you.

I understand all of us are getting older.

I'm getting older, right? I may not be just like I was

when I was 25, but you understand I'm still healthy,

whole and can move. Function run fulfill my purpose

OK and so. We need to understand that, but

things that. Start to hinder you from

accomplishing your purpose. Well, I was sick.

I couldn't even come to church today.

People go to work sick, but they won't come to church sick.

Well, you know, I didn't want anybody to catch it.

Well, you go to work and let people catch it, in fact.

You go to the doctor and you let them catch it.

The nurses, I'm sick. We go to the doctor when we are

and you have no care for them. I mean, obviously I'm being I'm

joking, but. Here is the healing house.

I mean you. Should come and say lay hands on

me. I'm going to the doctor Monday

potentially if it's necessary. But I came to the House of the

Lord first. Lay hands on me because the

Bible says lay hands on the sick and they shall recover and I'm

going to recover. I'm going to believe God.

I'm going to stand and I'm not. Negating that if you need to go

Monday, go Monday. But the reality is, don't negate

the House of the Lord. And the power of one another

touching and agreeing. Don't do it.

Hallelujah. Now again, if you just can't

even get out, I get that no problem I understand that and

I'm not condemning you if you stayed home, no issue here.

I'm just saying make sure your thinking is as you would hear.

How much more? To do to come into this place.

I don't quarantine my wife when I'm sick.

I'm like you better get up in here help me out right.

You know I'm making a demand on her helping me out right and I

help her if she and which we are we're very rarely now my wife

really doesn't have tolerance for sickness at all zero and if

I call for a little too much she like you could get them going to

the couch. I mean, I'm not going to listen

to this. Like, thank you for your

patience and long-suffering right now.

I get it because I would rub your back while you're coughing.

But that's OK. I'll go to the couch.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

I bring you a glass of what? No, I'm kidding.

She'll do. You need some water.

You need some water, apparently. Thank you.

Thank. You she'll preach here and fix

it later. Hallelujah, she's in December,

all right. He healed by the gifts of the

Spirit. Look at this in John chapter 2

John 2:9

verse 9 it says now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a

pool which is called in Hebrew peseta.

I've been to this. Pool, because it perplexed me,

having five porticoes. OK, in these lay a multitude.

How many? A multitude of those who were

sick, blind, lame, and withered, wanting or waiting for the

moving of the waters, for an Angel of the Lord went down at

certain times just OK Seasons into the pool, stir the water,

and whoever first got in was made whole.

Verse 5. A man was there who had been ill

for how many years? Come on, how many when Jesus saw

him lying there? OK, and knew that he had already

been there a long time, so now he's got that by the Holy Ghost.

So word of knowledge is how he knows that in that particular

condition. He said, do you wish to get well

now look what the man answers him.

He says, Sir, I have no man to put me in the.

Pool. When the water is stirred up,

while I'm coming, someone else steps in before me, Jesus said

to him. So he had no faith in Jesus,

didn't even know who Jesus was. He's just looking for naturally

what has occurred year after. Year the Angel stirred the first

one in sealed and I have no one to put me in now.

I've been to the pool of Bethesda because in my mind I'm

like man, just go lay beside the thing when it hits.

Roll in man, what's the problem? Roll in like a pool.

Roll in man. How hard is that?

Like put your foot down in there or something.

I mean, but it's not built that way.

It's different. And it is definitely difficult

to get down to and you do need to travel to get there.

You're not going to be able to lay right by it.

So if so, he ends up saying to him, you know, he said I have no

one to go and Jesus said him get up, pick up your pallet and

walk. No faith on the part of this

man. This is the gifts of the Spirit

called the gifts of healing are functioning.

The gift of faith is functioning by Jesus.

I don't know if there's a work in a miracle here, honestly.

Although if he's been lying sick for 38 years, I'm not sure what

that condition was. Was it debilitating in the sense

that, I mean, obviously he couldn't walk very well, so you

would think, you know, something had to happen with his muscles

and whether work in a miracle had to take place, do not know.

But definitely the gifts of healing, gift of face in

operation. And it said immediately the man

became well, he picked up his pallet and began to walk.

And it was the Sabbath on that day.

So how quick did the man get healed?

Come on, how quick, How quick? Again, it's not like hey, we'll

see if that happens in a month. Now, only reason I say this is

because you should desire immediates.

Now again, we breakdown word healing.

It means to be on the mend. And I'm going to show an example

is as they went. So there's no condemnation if

you're getting it as you went, but you should be believing for

quicker than later because what happens is if you settle or

allow it to be a part of your belief system, you know, it

could take a month and then guess what?

The enemy will accommodate that. So you want to say, well, let me

see how quick and then you raise yourself and say it's got to be

and you get to a place where you're making a demand on it

coming quicker according to how the scripture.

Reveals it. Then you settling for something

later. That's all I'm saying.

Now, obviously title is different, but same because

we're going to see that the same results take place.

They were healed, but it was different how it occurred.

And this is where most people miss it with the healing is that

you read us an account and you decide I want it that way.

Well, you don't get to pick the way he's the way.

You don't get to pick the way. He's the way because I have no

problem if the Lord says I want you to go to this doctor,

because the Lord may want to show that doctor something that

he's doing. But I'm not going to a.

Doctor, maybe the Lord wants you to go to testify that he is the

healer to someone who just said God can't heal today and he

wants to put in front of their face a case he cannot explain

but have to say I'd have to say. It's a miracle.

So we don't need to get prideful in how we want it done.

We just know it will happen according to what he says.

Period. So the gifts of the Spirit.

Obviously in operation will heal Luke chapter 13 verse 10 and 13

Luke 13:10

says this and he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the

Sabbath and there was a woman. Who was 18 years, who was there,

who for 18 years had had a sickness.

Look at this now caused by spirit.

Now the man with the 38 year disease wasn't directly affected

by spirit. He just said you're here, get up

and walk and at that. Word by the gifts.

Because there was no faith involved on the part of the man,

it came strictly from God. He was immediately healed.

In this case, Jesus is teaching in church and he notices a lady,

but he doesn't just notice her, he perceives by the gifts for 18

years she has a sickness called by the Spirit.

She was bent double and could not straighten up at all, so she

must have looked something like this.

Now you have to be at a sea into the spirit realm to know a

spirit is attached to that. He had a discerning of spirits,

so he did. He knows this is not something

that I need to go to Doctor Fatigue and you know, and Doctor

Maggie and take her to the chiropractor and let's work some

things out because you understand.

Could it be that not everyone with muscular sclerosis is just

a natural issue? Now you're not going to know

this unless you are from a different place of a different

nature that has a a spirit that that was in the beginning, the

Holy Spirit who knows all things man, when you have him function

as a believer, then it gives you insight glory to God.

And so by the Spirit, he knew that there was a spirit.

So when Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, woman,

you are free from your sickness. So he didn't say you're healed,

He says you're free in essence. He rebuked that spirit of

infirmity that had her bound. He made it get off her.

The minute it got off her, the sickness went with it.

Oh glory to God. And he laid hands on her, and

immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.

Hallelujah. What is sad about these two

particular accounts is the religious were mad at the

healings. Now, do you want to know if

you're religious or not? Do you get mad when someone's

healed and you're not? Because if you do, you could be

acting religious and that's why your healing is being hindered.

I mean, it's not like the religious Pharisees do not have

the writings of the prophets and know that the prophets healed

raise the dead. Even they have the writings and

you know, they rejoiced about Elijah's healings and

resurrections and Elijah's healings and resurrections and,

and other prophets that healed people.

You know, they rejoice. But now here's even if you don't

believe he's the Son of God, why are you not rejoicing that you

have a prophet among you that's healing people?

It's because they're threatened by.

They're he's healing on the day that they've traditionally taken

the wrong way, interpreted the wrong thing.

Jesus said he, my father's the Lord of the Sabbath man, but the

gifts man, when they're moving, they'll happen.

And you don't even have to be connected now with the man of 38

years. Jesus finds him later and says

to him, because when he finds out who it is, because you know,

the Pharisees called him and said, why are you carrying your

mat? Well, IA guy told me to do it's

the Sabbath. You're not supposed to work so

well. All I know is I've been sick for

38 years. This man came to me to take up

my mat. I am completely healed.

You're going to argue with that guy because I'm glad I'm healed

right now. What's his name?

Don't know his name. So he's carrying this thing.

Jesus finds me, say hey, I'm Jesus by the way.

And here's the thing, he said go send no more, so nothing worse

will come on you. So here's the thing.

You can be healed by God and then a time frame can leave and

something worse can happen and people convince themselves that

God's doing it when it can be their lifestyle bringing it on.

Jesus lets them know, I want you in this state.

If you keep sinning, come on, you can be in a different state

that I don't want and I don't I can't control.

See healing when you're healed doesn't mean you'll never be

sick or attacked again. The best way to avoid is to live

righteous. But if a symptom comes, then you

have an advocate with your Father, you have scripture, you

can get in faith, you can stand believe and it can come off.

However, if you do not and you go back to your way of living or

how you cause some people want to be healed just to live their

own life. Could could Jesus?

Could he have at the pool healed?

Everyone that day he sure could have and people said but he

didn't. But it's not because healing is

not for them. I don't know the circumstances

of their life and neither do you.

So quit blaming God for keeping people sick, because people keep

themselves sick sometimes, just like a lost person keeps

themselves lost, not because God wants them lost, but they choose

to never bow to the knee of. Jesus.

And God's not keeping them in that state.

Today is the day of salvation. So which is easier for them to

be born again today or to be healed today?

Say Amen anyway, all right by touch.

Matthew chapter 8 verses one to three says this.

Matthew 8 · chapter mention

When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed

him and a leper came to him and bowed down before him and said,

Lord, if you're willing you can make me clean.

Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I am

willing be cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was

cleansed. When was it cleansed?

Come on, when was it? I mean, I've given you 3 cases.

I don't care what is 38 years of an issue.

I don't care if it's 18 years of an issue.

That is Spirit is attached to it.

And I don't care if you have an incurable disease at the time,

which was leprosy. Immediately all three of them

changed. Now you've got to understand it

is against the law of Moses that came down from the Father to be

touching leprosy. Lepers are to run around and say

unclean, unclean, and if you touch one, then you're unclean

for the rest of the day and you've got to do a whole

ceremonial bath. Jesus did not do a bath.

Come on. And since he did not do a bath,

you have to conclude then stand up, Thaddeus, hold your hand out

since, and it's because it's like we got leprosy on it.

You have to conclude then that when Jesus touched, leprosy

moved away from that skin, so he actually touched healed skin

that then spread through the rest of his body.

You have to conclude that because Jesus never sinned, he

never violated. He fulfilled the law.

So you have to conclude when he it was already pushing away from

the power of God and the touch of that power.

And we know when you touch Jesus.

Power. Yes, Hallelujah is present.

Thank you, Thaddeus. Are you hearing me?

So touch the man. Something's going to happen.

Look at Matthew chapter 8, verse 14 and 15.

Matthew 8:14

When Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his mother-in-law

lying sick in a bed with a fever.

He touched her. Hand and the fever left her and

then what does she do? She got up and waited on him.

I like that Jesus like I'm kind of hungry.

Well my you know my mom would make something but she's not

feeling good. Well, we got to get her up out

of here to get some food. Come on, let's go.

Let's go eat. Oh, yeah, I feel great.

Now let let me make you something.

Jesus. She didn't go.

Oh, I was tired. No, he she was healed.

What I love about this, He touched her.

It was a fever. You know what we do as believers

sometimes? Well, my throat's but you know.

I'm not going to bother the Lord.

It's really nothing. Jesus doesn't even want you to

have a fever. Don't let any sickness that

tries to attack your body act like you're well.

I don't want to. You understand the false

humility that believers get into.

Well, you know I don't. I don't.

Bother the Lord with that, I'll just take an aspirin.

It's really nothing. I'll just take this on him.

Bothering. The Lord's like, yeah, bother.

Really. I mean, it's like these stripes

were for no purpose. You know, I can almost imagine

Jesus saying I don't want one stripe to go to waste because,

you know, he doesn't want one drop of his blood to go to

waste. But Hell's mouth opens wide.

A lot of wasted blood. I said a lot of wasted blood

because there's a lot that are going to be cast into the lake

of fire, which is a second death.

And the blood was more than enough to keep them out.

There are a lot that are going into the grave early through

sickness and. Disease, a lot of wasted

stripes, wasted lashes. That healing was paid.

It's in the Kingdom. I said it's in the Kingdom.

Oh, Hallelujah, Mark chapter 5 verse 25 to 34 says a woman who

Mark 5:25–34

had a hemorrhage for 12 years, had endured much at the hands of

many physicians and has spent all that she had and was not

helped at all, but rather grow, had grown worse after healing.

After hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him

and touched his cloak for she thought one translation she was

saying to herself, if I just touch his garment, I will get

healed immediately. When immediately the flow of her

blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed

of her affliction. Immediately Jesus, perceiving in

Himself that power proceeded from Him, had gone forth, turned

around in the crowd, said, Who touched my garments?

His disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing in on

you, and you say, Who touched me?

Like really? I mean, everybody's touching

you, Jesus. But Jesus said he looked around

at seeing the woman around to see the woman who had done this.

But the woman. Fairy and trembling.

Aware of what had happened, came, fell down before him, told

him the whole truth, and he said to her daughter, your faith has

made you well. Go in peace and be healed of

your affliction. Jesus touched you.

You'll be healed. You touched Jesus.

If you're in. Faith you'll be healed because

many were touching and no powers moving.

That's what it's like in church sometimes.

Many can be present but not touching touching God, but not

moving God, not pulling power. Well, you know church wasn't

that great today. Well, you were present.

You were touching the. Pew or the sea?

But were you really in faith? Did you come to receive, to

touch God? Because when you come to touch

God, power is going to come. You could have power manifest

every service. Hallelujah.

The only thing that stops it is your faith.

Not my preaching, Not my wife's preaching.

Not anybody else's preaching. Not the band, not the soul.

Not a greeter, not the parking lot.

No Usher. It's you and you.

Alone, nothing stop you but you. She touched him.

Power left him. Ma'am, when you touched God by

faith and she physically touched him just as him because she knew

I'm going to be so weak. I'll be lucky if I can even

stand by the time I get to the guy.

I just want to touch something that's touching him.

She grabs the edge of his cloak. Power stops him dead in his

track and he was on assignment to go heal a girl and now she

has disrupted this house. Call the audacity.

The Lord says you're healed. Another way is by is at his

word. Matthew chapter 8 verse 5 and 10

Matthew 8:5

says this. And when Jesus entered

caperteum, a centurion came to him imploring him and saying,

Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully

tormented. Jesus said to him, I'll come and

heal him. But the centurion says, Lord,

I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof, but just say the

word, and my servant will be healed.

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under

me. And I say to this one, go, and

he goes into this one, come. And he comes into my slave.

Do this, and he does it. And when Jesus heard this, he

marveled. When's the last time you made

Jesus marvel? Think about that for a moment.

Don't you want to wake up one day and say you were marveling,

weren't you? Right, marvelled and said to

those who are following, Truly. I said to you, I have not found

such great faith with anyone in Israel.

In the nation that I have a covenant with the covenant, I I

don't have this with covenant people.

I mean, this is a gentile. This one is outside the nation

and knows how it works, knows how it works.

He doesn't have to see me because in this account it it

says, because it's kind of like that power of attorney deal.

He's authorized servants to go on his behalf to talk to Jesus.

He's not personally present himself.

He has sent a servant and they're like, you're worthy.

He's worthy to come. He's built synagogues.

He's done some pretty awesome things.

He, you know, he gives to us and he loves our nation.

And and then when he sees him at a distance, he sends more.

So tell him. Not even worthy come under my

house, go see what he was in the old covenant right And you know,

so he definitely the sin of his life was definitely being

exposed by the glory and righteousness of Jesus.

But he's like, just speak the word only.

I don't need you to get in the house.

I don't need you to touch. And you know, we're like, like

Lord, I need you to do this. And we make and demand you need

to do this. You need to show up.

You need to do this. And the Lord's like, all you

need is my words spoken people, why don't you marvel me today

that when you go across Scripture like Lord man in my

spirit, this word just leaped off to pay.

That's your word for me. Let it be done according to your

word. And then Jesus might be rocking

on his seat, sitting at the right hand of Father.

Say woo. I had a marvel today, Father.

I had a marvel today. I'm marveled by that.

I mean, could it be that Jesus saying, man, I'm not seeing such

great? I mean, I don't want Jesus

saying I've not seen such great faith, not in any of our.

Churches, come on. Because, you know, churches run

to the natural so fast in every. Aspect of life.

Run to natural counselors when they're having issues.

Run to natural doctors. Run the natural banks, I mean

run the natural so fast have no. Thought What's the word of my

king? Say now say that's not us.

Come on, say that's not us. Say like you mean to people.

Say that's not us, that's not me.

We will believe. God at his word.

Just turn your cell phone to believe God at His word because

God is not a respecter person. Sam, he'll do it for you.

Right now he doesn't care. You see what I'm saying?

He doesn't care. What I'm saying is he's not a

respecter. He's just looking for somebody

to say, speak the word only. Then verse 13 it said, Jesus

said to the centurion, go, it shall be done for you as you

have believed. And the servant was healed that

very moment. Now the he says it to his

servants who went back and by the time they got back the

servant was already healed. And then they deliberated

another account gave and said, now when did this happen?

They're like man, He said it here and it goes man, and that's

the minute. That's the exact time that his

whole life changed that the symptoms left.

Amen, Hallelujah, add a word. Look what psalms one O 720 says.

This is so powerful. It says.

He sent his and. Healed them and delivered them

from their destructions. I'm telling you, all you need is

the Word. I do not need Jesus Christ to

show up. I do not need an Angel to show

up. I do not need God the Father to

show up. I just need His infallible word

revealed by the Spirit to show up and then I will release it in

the name of Jesus and it shall come to pass.

That's all we need now. I would not say, oh, an angel's

here, please leave. I would not make an Angel go.

I would never tell Jesus. Bro, I don't know why you're

here. You should just go on back to I

would never do that. I'd be on my face and thankful

for the. Encounter.

However, it's not necessary. All that's necessary is His

word, and His word is the most powerful.

Thing, period. And the last one that we're

touching on is by their faith, aren't you glad you can be

healed? Aren't you glad in the Kingdom,

the healthcare system is 100% made whole?

Now again, you say, well, why is it?

Well, I can tell you a whole lot of stuff.

Why? Why?

Why? I can tell you a whole lot, and

most of it is a lack of hearing. A lack of hearing.

Listen, you cannot smoke cigarettes or marijuana and ask

the Lord to heal you of lung cancer and continue to smoke

because you're putting in that which is damaging your body.

Well, can't. Couldn't God do it?

God could heal your lungs, but you're immediately destroying

them again. And God is not mocked.

In my lung so I can smoke marijuana a little bit longer,

right? You know, heal my liver and then

I'm going to continue to drink alcohol.

I have cirrhosis of the liver, but I sure love to drink.

So Lord, just heal me because I'm going to continue.

That's foolishness. So you have to be a listener.

You remember you, you know, I've given you this testimony.

I, you know, have never technically been overweight and

always small, you know, stay pretty active my whole life.

I, you know, have carried a little more body fat than I

should, but at the end of the day, you know, still healthy

and, you know, my metabolism was still running pretty good.

And so, but I'll never forget I was 47 because I remember how

old I was. I was 47.

The Lord says, told me two things.

He said #1 change your workout. You need to quit working out and

trying to do heavy stuff. You need to train yourself for

endurance #2 you need to change your diet.

I said what? Well, I don't have a problem.

He says, son, you have no idea what it's doing to your insides.

Because he knew that my vascular system wasn't responding well to

the processed food. And when I did a blood test,

which actually I think it was 42, it was 40, it was 40 that he

told me that 47. I did a blood test with a

nutritionist and. They said, yeah, you got the

early stage of heart disease. What said yeah, but I can tell

it's probably turned. I said, well, I changed my diet

when I was 40. He said, yeah, Then it's been on

the men because what I see isn't for the last.

I mean, this is stuff you've been doing since your 20s.

I was a youth pastor. We ate the worst food ever, the

worst food ever with teenagers. The worst.

Please quit with the Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

People got us. You got to stop it, Chris.

Chris, you're going to stop it, bro.

We need you to be an athlete. That comes off the juice, bro.

All right, OK. All right.

Water. You're in training water.

OK. And.

I'm not here. I'm here to make you healthy.

OK. The point is, is if I had not

changed it and had a heart attack, it would not have been a

God. Problem.

Well, he loves. God and follow.

How come he had I if I would have not listened?

I didn't judge myself according to what the King was warning me.

But I obeyed him, and I'm glad I did.

Hallelujah. Say Amen.

Now again, what he told me is not what he told you.

So I'm I would never tell you you have to eat this way.

I can, I'm never going to do that.

My wife has a phenomenal vascular system and she ate most

of the stuff I ate and yet it did not affect her vascular

system. In fact, we work out my heart

rate gets crazy. Hers is like nothing.

I'm like, you need to do some burpees or something to get your

heart rate up, woman. Because I'm sweating over here.

I feel like my heart's pounding out of my chest.

She's like, what's next? What's next?

Let me may. I just want to, I just get

motivated like a drill Sergeant. I just want to her to beat her

face a few times to get her life.

But it's just like. OK, what's next?

What's next? I mean, I'm needing to rest

because my heart's actually in my pocket right now.

I don't even know what's happening.

But she has a great vascular system, great vascular system.

OK, OK, Mark, Tim by their faith.

And they came to Jericho and he was leaving Jericho and his

disciples, a large crowd blind, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus,

the son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.

And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarite Nazarene who

began, he began to cry out, say Jesus, son of David, have mercy

on me. Many were sternly telling him to

be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more.

Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stopped and said, call

him here. So they called the blind man

saying to him, take her, stand up, he's calling you, throwing

aside his coat, cloak. He stood up and came to Jesus

and answering him, Jesus said, what do you want me to do?

And the blind man said to him, Teacher, that's what that word

means. I regained, I want to regain my

sight. And Jesus said to him, go, your

faith has made you whole. Immediately he regained his

sight and began following him on the road.

Now when did he regain it? OK, now here's a couple things

about this thing #1 the man had faith because verse 50 said he

threw aside his his cloak. He's throwing it aside because

that is what he uses to be able to beg.

And he knows that I'm going to Jesus and I won't be a beggar

anymore. I'm going to see.

So he's in faith and Jesus acknowledges he's in faith.

Now here's the crazy thing that you almost like, why does Jesus

ask? He says, what do you want me to

do? Just because someone has

something physically a health challenge, let's say it that

way. Has a health challenge does not

mean they want that health challenge changed.

I remember in this sanctuary this is challenging.

So This is why we need to talk about healing.

In this sanctuary. There was a young lady, she came

down with a walking stick. So it was obvious to everybody

that this girl cannot see. Well, she is considered Legally

Blonde, and she comes down and gets on the line to be healed.

Now, I'm just going to be honest with you.

I know what all you thinking. You're thinking, OK, She's come

to get healed. She wants to see.

So I got in front of her and did the Jesus.

What do you want? And she says, you know, I was

diagnosed with muscular sclerosis.

Yeah, and I want to be healed of that.

Amen. That's what she wanted.

Laid hands on her. I know she was healed of that,

but she went back to her seat with a stick.

Now, you know what everybody will say.

Oh, I guess the Lord's not. She didn't ask for it, Right.

So quit assuming when you see people that they want what you

think they want or what you think they should have.

That's good. That's good because some people

have lived with stuff for so long, they don't even they don't

even have the faith to ask. And many people, someone comes

down in a wheelchair, oh, they need to get up.

They just we're going to see where when we going to see some

of them don't even want it. They're wanting their sinuses

cleared out. They're wanting their allergies

taken care of. They're wanting their sore

throat to go. They're wanting, you know, a

kidney stone to pass whatever and what you think is obvious

and Jesus teaches us what would you what would you have me do

for you? And he answered what we would

have considered obvious. I want to regain my sight.

Now this is really important too, because he said I want to

regain, which means he previously had.

Because there was another time that Jesus did not heal the

blind man the way this blind man was healed.

That blind man came, He came up and he spit on some dirt, put it

on his eyes and said now go wash it in the pool.

Anybody know why? Some of you know why could we

preached on this before? In this case, most likely this

man had something missing because man was made out of the

dust of the and so by putting clay or dirt on his eyes cause

what was not originally formed to be formed by the working of

miracles when he washed it off. Not every person that is deaf in

our church are deaf because they lost it.

Some are deaf because they do not even have the mechanism by

which to hear, which means they are not coming up here on just

the simple laying on of hands to be healed.

For some they the gifts, have to be in play for working a

miracle. And you know what?

I can't make that happen. Only God can do that.

Now you said what does God want? Yes, but you know what?

When God moves in the gifts, there are very strategic reasons

when he does those types of healings because he's ready to

do some big type of advertisement.

Because there was another man that was blind from his birth.

And the debate was did God do this?

Did his sin? Did his parents sin?

What was it? And Jesus said this is for the.

Glory of God because He's about to do something at this

particular time that is going to showcase.

The plan, purpose and power of God.

But notice. He was healed.

But most of us are not having to deal with something not formed

and we're having to wait on a gift.

The majority of us healing is ours today.

Their symptoms and the symptoms can go.

Their diseases that weren't there, but then you were

diagnosed with them, which means they weren't there at one time

and they don't have to be there another time because by his

stripes, she were healed. So quit trying to use what the

work in a miracle is in certain places to your life.

When the stripes are more than enough, say Amen anyway, all

right. So my last example is in Luke

Luke 17:12–19

chapter 17 verses 12 to 19. It says this again by their

faith. And he entered the village. 10

leprous men who stood at a distance met him, and they

raised their voices saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

And when he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourself right

to the priest. And as they were going, they

were cleansed. Now you understand some of these

examples. I'm giving a couple.

He says something out of word, right.

And out of word, things occurred again, He said something here

again, even the woman with the issue of blood, right?

She touched him, but also it was according to her faith as well,

right? So again, we're saying primarily

he's he is, we see examples of God of Christ healing through

the gifts of the Spirit by touch at his word and by their faith.

So he says, go show yourself to the priest.

And they were going and they were cleansed.

Now one of them when he saw that he had been healed, turned back,

glorifying God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face

at his feet, giving thanks to him, for he was a Samaritan.

Then Jesus said to him, were there not ten cleansed, but the

9 where are they? Was no one was no one found who

returned to give glory to God except this foreigner.

And he said to him, stand up and go.

Your faith has made you well. Hallelujah.

You know, in this account and some other accounts, you know,

again with the Pharisees getting upset about healings occurring

on the Sabbath, is that Jesus? And then with the centurion, he

said, man, I'm not seeing such great faith, not even in Israel.

Being in the church can bring a hindrance to your faith for

healing. When you are not valuing the

covenant you're in, you're creating it as common.

You're allowing your knowledge of a subject to override

activating that knowledge by faith because Jesus is like this

is a foreigner. The other nine were part of the

city but part of the covenant and they don't value what's

rightfully theirs. You understand we can be in the

church and we begin to devalue the benefits because we start to

separate from the awe and fear of the Lord.

In essence, we begin to treat. What God has given to us as an

inheritance as well. It's it's mine with no honor

that we that it's ours. We should always treat it as

with thankfulness, gratitude, honor, submission, knowing there

was a price, not like a spoiled child taking no account of the

price paid. You know most of your children

take no account of the price you're paying to put the food

that they are just easily opening a refrigerator and

snatching out and taking no thought of whether Mama needs

this last bit of milk for her coffee in the morning.

They'll suck that thing down and throw it and take no thought.

And what we want to do, we want to take our last bit of milk,

take no thought of Jesus, the plan and purpose God has for our

lives. And we see this in Scripture

that Jesus having challenges with his old covenant people

because of that attitude that those that have not, that aren't

accustomed to having those benefits afforded to them, see

great value and thankfulness to be able to walk in it well.

Let us not be us, the church. Let us not forget any of his

benefits, but be thankful for it and know that when we say the

Father in the name of Jesus. I thank you that I am healed

that at the stripes of Jesus we actually imagine what those

stripes look like on his back and know it was such a price and

that. He paid the whole balance to

this medical bill that is should been mine.

And I have no co-pay to this deal.

Faith's all I have and thankful that the Kingdom has the

greatest health care ever and that if I ever find myself under

attack or symptom shows up because I'm in a world that God

didn't originally designed this way and my body comes across

something and begins to attack it and try to get rid of through

my immune system or whatever. I'm just thankful to the Lord

that He's my healer. I can walk in that heal and I'm

going to have it and I'm not going to let one stripe go to

waste. Not one, not one stripe.

I'm thankful.