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Full Coverage - Kingdom Healthcare

Anchor Faith Church

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  1. We're going to be a we're going to read Acts chapter 10 verse 38

    Acts 10:38

  2. and it says this, it says you know of Jesus of Nazareth and

  3. how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power and

  4. he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed

  5. by the devil for God was with him.

  6. Let's pray. Father, we love you, we honor

  7. you. We thank you so much for the

  8. word of God. We think it's alive and active,

  9. sharper than any 2 edged sword and Holy Spirit.

  10. We again ask and we ask not through tradition saying this

  11. often, we ask in faith because we are firmly persuaded what

  12. Jesus said about you, you will do so.

  13. We know tonight that you're in our room, that you're in our

  14. midst, that you are within the believer that you testify with

  15. it, with our spirits. We're children of God.

  16. You put it come upon us with power so that we walk in the

  17. power of the Kingdom. But the things that you do is

  18. that you're going to cause things to come to our

  19. remembrance that Jesus has said. You're going to guide us into

  20. all truth. You're going to teach us all

  21. things and you're going to disclose things to come.

  22. So we receive your ministry to renew our minds so that we

  23. release who we are in Christ and and receive all the benefits

  24. that are afforded to us. Because now we are children of

  25. God that are residents within your Kingdom that is alive and

  26. well on the earth spiritually and one day physically in Jesus

  27. name and all God's people said Amen.

  28. You know, healing is a part of the Kingdom.

  29. Healing is a part of the Kingdom.

  30. The kingdom's not just healing, but the Kingdom has healing, all

  31. right? And the king has the power to

  32. heal. He has the authority, all right.

  33. And we see here in Acts chapter 10, you know, obviously Luke is

    Acts 10 chapter mention

  34. the writer of this particular verse, but he's recounting, you

  35. know, there's there's it's this recount of, you know, Peter, I

  36. think this is at Cornelius's house, if I'm correct, you know,

  37. having a little bit of a conversation with him.

  38. And ultimately is saying, you know, how Jesus of Nazareth, how

  39. God anointed him, was he anointed with the Holy Spirit

  40. and power authority, right? And how he went about doing

  41. good. And this doing good is where we

  42. get the word philanthropy. So not only did he heal people,

  43. but he also brought a provisional resource.

  44. And provisional resource isn't just giving away finance, which

  45. he may have done that because he definitely had money, but more

  46. importantly, he brought provision.

  47. We know, through the five loaves and two fish another time with

  48. some additional fish. You know, he would do certain

  49. things to pay taxes. He was able to pull some things

  50. because that he has provision. But he all ultimately says that

  51. he healed all who are oppressed of the devil.

  52. Well, now this is an interesting little thought before we go on

  53. healing all who are oppressed of the devil.

  54. So if you're not in health, God didn't put is not is not trying

  55. to put sickness on you. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  56. Now God can withdraw himself from protection and accelerate

  57. what's happening in your body, because now that man has fallen.

  58. The body is corrupt, it is mortal, and it is breaking down.

  59. Now we can slow this process, meaning the anointing in our

  60. lives can do some regeneration. We cannot walk in more

  61. immortality. That is not possible for us.

  62. That's a glorified body we will receive.

  63. However, we can keep this body in great health with the

  64. anointing because God has anointed us as well.

  65. But if God withdrew himself in one sense because of our

  66. disobedience, well, you know, your body could receive a whole

  67. lot of stuff. Now the enemy's weapon is to

  68. bring sickness and disease. That is His weapon to bring.

  69. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when we talk about in Egypt,

  70. because you're going to I have to address this, Jesus went or

  71. the the Lord tells the Israelites after he removed them

  72. from Israel that if they walk accord his way, he will not put

  73. none of the diseases that he put on the Egyptians.

  74. Now you understand the things that happened to the Egyptians

  75. was the Lord gave them what they were believing their gods were

  76. not allowing. Well, their gods had no power.

  77. And so, you know, boils and all kinds of things that ended up

  78. taking place in their lives, you know, with the different plagues

  79. that came, those are some challenges.

  80. Now God is authorized to eliminate someone from the

  81. planet. And that's not murder.

  82. That's executing judgment. OK, Murder is when you kill

  83. someone who's innocent. Judgment is when you release

  84. someone from their body because they've been judged rightly and

  85. death is a byproduct of that judgment.

  86. Do you need to understand that? Because people say, well, the

  87. Lord doesn't come to kill still and destroy.

  88. Well, the Lord doesn't kill in the sense of murder, but the

  89. Lord can pull your spirit from your body.

  90. And an ISIS of fire are new covenant people in in Acts that

  91. when they lied to the Holy Ghost, they fell dead in church.

  92. Are you hearing me again? There's statements we make that

  93. we all the sudden then get a perception that God would never

  94. require someone to leave their skin suit.

  95. That can't happen. But it's never from injustice

  96. ever. Do you understand the

  97. difference? OK, again, because, you know, in

  98. our society we believe, you know, and I don't mind if you

  99. have this belief, you know, that we should never have any type of

  100. corporal punishment where anyone should ever die for their

  101. crimes. I don't have an issue there

  102. because they're going to go before a Court One day where

  103. they will die for their crimes and they'll be cast into the

  104. lake of fire, which is the second death that will occur.

  105. So they, if it does not happen on planet Earth, it will happen

  106. in the course of heaven. So if man chooses to prolong and

  107. say we are not going to address that at all, we're not going to

  108. make that kind of law. Although God placed those laws

  109. within the planet, even in his own nation, that if these things

  110. occurred, that these were justifiable things.

  111. Because ultimately it's better to eliminate wickedness than let

  112. it roam. All right, that's the side

  113. thought anyway. We see here that the devil,

  114. though, has this tactic of putting sickness and disease

  115. through oppression on people. Hallelu, y'all doing all right?

  116. Don't get quiet on me because I fall asleep, OK?

  117. I was up till 3:00 AM trying to take care of my family, you

  118. know, didn't sleep a whole lot. So, you know, Anna gave me a

  119. great strong cup of coffee and if I might walk down there and

  120. take another sip before I'm over, right?

  121. Because I need to preach a little bit and I'm not going to

  122. get done early just because, you know, you feel like you could go

  123. to bed. All right?

  124. So, so again, so you have to recognize when symptoms happen

  125. in your body, do not give God credit for that is what I'm

  126. saying. Now, you know, there is

  127. traditional thoughts that, you know, get picked up, you know,

  128. religiously because again, we just took some time to talk

  129. about the authority and how Jesus spoke with authority, not

  130. like the scribes. And the difference between him

  131. speaking and them is they had traditions where they have

  132. caused the word of God to become a tradition.

  133. And you can pick up traditions within churches, well meaning.

  134. And you know what even sounds kind of good?

  135. Because it definitely will help people cope with what's going

  136. on. However, that doesn't mean it's

  137. accurate. And don't ever feel condemned if

  138. you get sick. We're in the earth.

  139. There can be challenges that show up.

  140. Symptoms can happen. You just need to know who you

  141. are and what authority you have to address those.

  142. I mean, again, Jesus said in this life you'll have trials and

  143. tribulation. He never said you'll go through

  144. life once you're born again, no problems.

  145. You'll live at perfect peace. You will never have an issue

  146. ever. No, he said you're going to have

  147. problems, but be of good cheer. He gave his answers.

  148. You see, I'm saying he's like, be of good cheer.

  149. This is how you handle it. When you get into these issues,

  150. look to me, I'll give you the deliverance.

  151. So God is always just given the way to come out.

  152. So when we enter into certain things that we realize this is

  153. not the will of God, then we must at that place say, OK,

  154. Lord, what does your word say so that I can get myself in victory

  155. because I'm not going to stay in a place that is not ordained by

  156. you, OK. So when symptoms hit your body,

  157. you know, do not give God credit for those begin to say, OK Lord,

  158. how do I overcome this because we will see in the next few

  159. weeks on Wednesday night that healing is just a part of the

  160. Kingdom and and God wants us healed.

  161. Are you hearing what I'm saying now?

  162. Why is this important? Because listen, let's just think

  163. for a moment, how many people right now that are currently

  164. have left this life and gone into heaven?

  165. Those that are born again, they've they've left their skin

  166. suit, their spirit man has left and they are currently resigned

  167. in heaven as Paul said, to be absent from the body.

  168. I'll be what present with the Lord.

  169. Where is the Lord presently at? He's at the right hand of the

  170. Father. Where in heaven.

  171. So those people who have preceded us in death, meaning

  172. separating from their body, they no longer are on the planet.

  173. Their spirit and soul is gone. They are in heaven because they

  174. are born of God of all those that are in heaven from the one

  175. that just passed away right now somewhere in the planet, they

  176. just passed away because I don't know what the percentage is.

  177. If there's like ever so many seconds, someone's dying in the

  178. planet for that person who just left, right, just left, OK, all

  179. the way to Adam and and I'm just taking to the first, you know,

  180. one that was born of those who are of God and in covenant,

  181. because not everybody's in heaven.

  182. But the ones that are, how many of them need healing?

  183. How many of them are going before the throne of God and

  184. saying, you know, I woke up today with a sore throat.

  185. You know, the trees up here, the pollen's horrible and my

  186. allergies are crazy, Lord, you know, and I see the blood on the

  187. mercy seat up here. And so I need some healing.

  188. Come on, how many are walking and getting healing in heaven

  189. right now? So then healing is not for

  190. heaven. Healing then must be something

  191. that is designed for the earth. So what that should do to our

  192. our mindset is that if I get sick, heaven is not the release

  193. of that. God doesn't want me to get into

  194. heaven to be healthy. That's it.

  195. Now you got to think different because again, traditionally

  196. it's like, well, it's just what I've had.

  197. And so I'm just dealing with it, but one day I won't.

  198. And if the enemy can convince you never to try to apply any

  199. authority or seek God for something to be healed.

  200. And again, I'm not talking about things that are natural.

  201. Meaning, you know, your ligaments can naturally.

  202. I mean, my ligaments are not what they were when I was 20,

  203. but I can still squat down, OK? I can still go all the way to

  204. the ground and get back up because I am active enough to do

  205. that. I could pull some people up here

  206. right now and you can't do this right?

  207. But this here is not like it was when I was 20 still.

  208. And there's things I do naturally, plus being in faith

  209. to allow me to do this at 56, OK.

  210. And I'm going to be able to do it at 66768696.

  211. I'll take 106, I'll take 116. I mean, I, I'll take it all.

  212. I mean, I, I don't, I want to be active.

  213. Hallelujah. Now, that doesn't mean that it

  214. may be different because I don't have a glorified body.

  215. However, I have a covenant and that covenant keeps me healthy

  216. and in health to fulfill the plan and purpose of God.

  217. I'll be honest with you, I much rather die through being

  218. martyred then leave the planet through sickness.

  219. The preferred method for me is just, I'm done.

  220. Can I just be honest? That's the preferred method for

  221. me. I mean, the preferred method for

  222. me is that I've changed in the moment of a twinkling of an eye.

  223. That's my #1 and that's what I'm banking on and that's what I'm

  224. believing for, OK? Because somebody's got to fly.

  225. Second greatest is I'm done. I lay down and I leave and there

  226. was no health issues that caused that.

  227. Third would be I would die for my faith.

  228. This is my and this is my order based upon what I know in

  229. Scripture that this is what I want.

  230. This is what I desire because in the Kingdom healing is for me.

  231. See, our spirits are not healed because you hear this a lot

  232. traditionally. Well, you know He healed your

  233. spirit. God does not heal your spirit.

  234. No one has a healed spirit. Man, wait a minute now I was, I

  235. was lost in my sin. I was dead in my transgression.

  236. And then God saved me just right.

  237. He resurrected a new spirit in you.

  238. He did not heal the old one. He evicted the old one, and he

  239. put a new one on the end. He resurrected the one He spoke

  240. over Adam in the garden. Let you have dominion.

  241. Let you be like me. And when you're born again,

  242. you're like God. You're in Christ.

  243. Your spirit man is alive like Jesus.

  244. In that spirit. You're not Jesus, but you're in

  245. the nature of God again, and that doesn't come from healing.

  246. That comes from being dead to yourself and being raised to the

  247. newness of life. You're a whole new species.

  248. The Bible calls you a new creature, not a remodeled

  249. creature, a healed creature, a restored creature, but a a new

  250. one. So healing is not for your

  251. spirit, but healing is for your soul and for your body because

  252. God will touch your mind. God will heal you of bad

  253. thoughts. He will heal you of of things

  254. that cause. Again, they say the number one

  255. contributor to physical sickness is stress.

  256. Stress is a mental area. Well, God will give us perfect

  257. peace where we can cast all of our care, which would be your

  258. stress on the Lord because He cares for you.

  259. You understand God has the ability to eliminate stress in

  260. your life. He, he won't stop stress from

  261. coming, but he can eliminate it once it comes.

  262. You can release the stress and when you release the stress,

  263. then guess what else you're doing?

  264. You're helping your physical body.

  265. Now I would submit to you this, and I know it has been proven

  266. out scientifically. Not only do you need to read the

  267. word for the renewing of your mind and to be able to get Peace

  268. of Mind, but you do need to have some activity to release stress

  269. as well. Stress is not just a mental

  270. thing 'cause stress will get into your body and the way to

  271. get it out of your body is to exert yourself physically.

  272. Because I've done seasons of ministry where things became

  273. stressful, challenges occurred and I would find myself putting

  274. on the back burner. The workout did not negate

  275. praying, did not negate pre reading the word and praying in

  276. the holy. In fact, those increased, but

  277. the physical exercise started to wane.

  278. But in my battle of trying to release stress, it was still

  279. showing up in my body. And if I had maintained my

  280. physical exercise, then it never could have taken residence in my

  281. skin suit. And I found that it was equally

  282. as important because again, Kenneth the Hagin said this

  283. concerning the gifts of the Spirit.

  284. He said we separate them for the sake of teaching, but the one

  285. that is the most powerful or the one that is the greatest is the

  286. one that's needed at the time. We as believers, because of

  287. selfish ambition, we want to know which one's the greatest,

  288. the most powerful so that we can function in it.

  289. So it really looks like we are holy and used of God more.

  290. It's really about us looking something instead of God looking

  291. something. We're just being honest.

  292. OK, so teaching is designed to layer out truths, but not to

  293. separate them to where they do not function together.

  294. And you know, one thing that we've done in a truth teaching

  295. is that we've identified that the man is a spirit, soul and

  296. body. Typically it's preached this we

  297. are spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.

  298. And we preach that it's only the Word of God that can separate

  299. the spirit and the soul of man. Why Is it because they're so

  300. intertwined? God did not make you spirit only

  301. because even in the new heaven and new earth, we will be

  302. spirit, soul and body. Because if we weren't going to

  303. be a body, why do we get a glorified 1?

  304. So what we do, unfortunately through tradition is we're like

  305. Brian, the only thing that matters is that your spirit man

  306. is alive to God. Forget about your brain.

  307. We're not going to renew your mind.

  308. It doesn't matter. We just want to, we want you to

  309. know where you're going to go when you die.

  310. And the rest of it really doesn't matter because all that

  311. matters is that you're born again.

  312. So we basically forfeit the the discipleship process of the

  313. renewing of the mind, which means we have someone born of

  314. God but lives like they're in the world.

  315. And that's what Paul called a carnal Christian that was led

  316. still by the flesh. Then you'll see many ministers

  317. it, you know, when I say that there was a time, you know, I

  318. don't really pay attention to a bunch of them anyway, but you

  319. know that they would be pretty large people, no restraint in

  320. what they ate. But you know, they're preaching

  321. that all that matters. But yet your physical body

  322. matters. And some left early because they

  323. did not judge themselves rightly according to their physical

  324. body. And some stand before the Lord,

  325. and I guarantee the Lord saying, well, I had more because I'm

  326. telling you God's not a respecter person.

  327. And he sure talked to me about my body.

  328. I remember when I was 47 years old, you know, I, I worked out,

  329. you know, I've kind of been doing that since I was, you

  330. know, in high school, really active in that, enjoyed it.

  331. Didn't realize how much it helped me in ministry, honestly,

  332. how great that was for me, for my mental acuity as well.

  333. And so, you know, so All in all, I wasn't obese at all.

  334. And so the Lord said, you need to change the way you eat.

  335. And I'm like, why? My metabolism burns this stuff.

  336. There's no problem. He says, son, you have no idea

  337. what it's doing to your insides. And what I didn't know is what

  338. was happening to my vascular system.

  339. See, God knows everything about you.

  340. You understand. That's why some people can be

  341. extremely lean. You know, they could be the

  342. model of fitness and still die of heart disease.

  343. And God knows what's going on in your veins, your DNA, your

  344. secular cellular matter, right? He knows this, and he'll talk to

  345. you. Why?

  346. Because he wants you to have long life.

  347. It's asinine. Can I use that word?

  348. It's asinine. Let's use that in our next book,

  349. Rod. It's asinine for us to come and

  350. receive healing for cancer and keep smoking.

  351. And when the Lord began to talk to me about some things that he

  352. said you need to quit ingesting this.

  353. And again, I will never preach to you what to eat.

  354. Scripture is pretty clear on that.

  355. You need to identify yourself, what your body process.

  356. My wife has phenomenal vascular system.

  357. It's amazing. I mean, her veins, I mean, it's

  358. so difficult to get her heart rate up.

  359. I mean, she's just got clean pipes, man.

  360. It's amazing. Me, man, I'm not like I can hit

  361. 188 like that. That's not great.

  362. Now I don't feel it at all. I mean, I wouldn't have known.

  363. I, I'm not gasping for air. I don't feel like I'm

  364. lightheaded. I don't see dots, nothing.

  365. But I can get there. Why?

  366. Because I do have some constriction that I'm working on

  367. to reverse. And don't you know, with natural

  368. and believing God and knowing that I have healing, I can get

  369. that thing reversed. I'm not saying that I'm going to

  370. go back to a 20 year old, but you know what?

  371. I won't stop God from doing it. I'm not using my age as an

  372. excuse. What I'm saying is, is that I

  373. want to be at the best I can be, knowing what the Spirit is

  374. telling me to do, and in obedience to that, it will

  375. change my life. OK, so our spirits were not

  376. healed when we were born again. Our spirit is resurrected and is

  377. a new creature in Christ. Again, healing is in the soul,

  378. in the body. So let's look at some scripture

  379. here because what we want to do is we want you to know in the

  380. Kingdom, our Kingdom, the Kingdom God has brought us into,

  381. there is a healthcare system where you are fully covered, you

  382. have full coverage and it is only difficult for the carnal

  383. mind to struggle with this. I had teenagers when I was in

  384. youth ministry because they lived in homes where their

  385. parents had great careers and had phenomenal 4 O1 KS and

  386. investments and great health insurance.

  387. Yet my family had no health insurance in the natural, but I

  388. already knew I was fully covered, you know, and people

  389. would stress over, you know, you need to get some coverage.

  390. What if, what if I have Jesus? I mean, there is nothing I'm

  391. going to encounter that Jesus cannot overcome.

  392. Now, I'm not saying that I would turn away from natural

  393. healthcare coverage no problem. And I've had it in my lifetime.

  394. However, the healer is on the throne.

  395. And what's crazy is I very rarely took my children to the

  396. doctor because they were always healthy.

  397. They were just healthy. They did not have a bunch of

  398. sickness, disease, broken bones, issues.

  399. It didn't happen. If something did occur, we

  400. would. And I I spent less money paying

  401. something in full than paying for health insurance that I

  402. never used and co-pays I never had to enact and prescriptions I

  403. never needed to grab because he heals now I wasn't opposed to.

  404. I remember one time my oldest son got into some poison sumac

  405. when we were in Oklahoma. Yeah, yes, Christopher, we were

  406. had took some teenage boys out and did a camp over and they,

  407. you know, played this game where they were hiding all night long.

  408. And then we're on the bus coming back and his face looks like

  409. he's sunburned, although this happened at night.

  410. So like, wow, he's looking kind of red and got home and man, his

  411. head started to swell. Yeah, I mean, it's swelled like

  412. a basketball. And so I'm looking at him.

  413. But I have a king. I said, Lord, do I need to take

  414. him right now? You know, because number one,

  415. you don't want their throats to close up and then they

  416. suffocate, right? I mean, naturally as a parent,

  417. you're going to like take care of your children.

  418. But I have someone who knows and he says not necessary.

  419. And I'm praying for his healing because now it's in a system and

  420. it needs to run a course to a degree.

  421. You know, unless the gifts get involved and I lay hands on and

  422. poof is gone and that can happen, I have no problem with

  423. that. Should the Lord want that right

  424. through the gifts and so I stayed up all night.

  425. He stayed in a chair. I mean, he looks so bad guys

  426. that I'd never took a picture. You know, sometimes in

  427. hindsight, like maybe I should have and we could have laughed

  428. about it now, but it I mean, it looked that I'm like, I don't

  429. even know if we want to remember this.

  430. And so, you know, it did go down some that night.

  431. I did take him to a person in the church that was a nurse and

  432. they said, you know, steroid shot take care of this week.

  433. There's no problem, Just come into the office.

  434. So I bring him in. I mean, bro, he looks so sad.

  435. He's in that. He's in that elevator, his

  436. head's down. I mean, it's like, and he's

  437. really thin, you know, And so his head's down and people walk

  438. in like, you know, if they're just kind of shocked at his and

  439. the, and the girl who knew my son and went to church with us,

  440. when he walked in the office, I mean, she took a double take,

  441. but gave him a steroid shot. And within two days gone.

  442. I never stressed because I had peace and I knew he's already

  443. fully covered. And you know what, the amount of

  444. money to pay for steroids, I didn't care because the Lord's

  445. going to provide anyway. And he did that day that it

  446. didn't end up costing us anything.

  447. So again, you know well, people want the security on man's

  448. paper, but I've got God's paper, all those digital copy here that

  449. tells me he heals and it's a part of his Kingdom.

  450. And I have more confidence in that than any doctor I go to.

  451. In fact, when I go to doctors today and my prayer is they

  452. diagnosed correctly because they call it a practice for a reason,

  453. right? Well, that didn't work.

  454. Let's try this. Let me just go to the one who

  455. knows what's going to work. Let's go there.

  456. All right, Matthew chapter 4, verse 23 and 24.

    Matthew 4:23

  457. I am not preaching. Never go to a doctor.

  458. I'm not preaching. You shouldn't have your own

  459. natural health cover. I am not preaching any of that.

  460. I'm preaching that you're fully covered in the Kingdom and it

  461. should be the one you go to 1st. Smith Wigglesworth said this, a

  462. man of faith, you know, back in the late 1800s, of which it was

  463. attributed to him and his ministry.

  464. There was multiple healings. And this man was not an educated

  465. man. In fact, he was a plumber that

  466. got born again because his wife was an example before him.

  467. And he only read one book, the Bible, because he was actually

  468. illiterate and it's the only book he could read.

  469. If he jumped over to a paper, for whatever reason, he couldn't

  470. read it. He was a little, but he could do

  471. the Word. God revealed the word to him,

  472. and it's attributed to his ministry that 23 people were

  473. raised from the dead. Now, he didn't raise them.

  474. God raised them through the gifts, but yet it was

  475. attributed. And one particular account, a

  476. man was dead. He picked him up and threw him

  477. against the wall and he fell back in the same position he was

  478. when he picked him up. And he did it again, and he did

  479. it again, and then he did it and He's alive.

  480. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Well, he heard something and he

  481. didn't let those actions. Well, you understand, people in

  482. the in the hospitals bring people back, but some don't,

  483. right? All right, But our Lord can.

  484. He is the resurrection in the life people.

  485. Hallelujah. I mean, if anyone could bring

  486. somebody back, it's the Lord. In fact, he kind of laughs about

  487. it when you think otherwise, right?

  488. OK, Matthew 423 and 24 says this.

  489. Jesus was going through all Galilee teaching in their

  490. synagogues. He went to church and

  491. proclaiming the gospel of the what Kingdom and healing every

  492. kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

  493. So there's no sickness, even the incurable ones that he did not

  494. heal say Amen. There's diseases and sicknesses.

  495. We understand a flu is not cancer, One's a sickness, 1's a

  496. disease. But guess what God can do to

  497. both heal them both. Verse 24 the news about him

  498. spread through all Syria and they brought to him all who were

  499. I'll those suffering with various diseases pains demoniacs

  500. because the devil uses sickness and disease to oppress people

  501. and he'll keep spirits attached to people.

  502. So you understand sometimes doctors are at a disadvantage.

  503. In fact, a lot of times doctors will be at a disadvantage

  504. because they're treating a symptom that actually has a

  505. spirit attached to it. Jesus did this with a woman bent

  506. over right. You know, we have some

  507. chiropractors that you know are in our church.

  508. And again, if, if they were not born of God and had spiritual

  509. discernment, someone come and bend over, they're going to do

  510. natural things to try to help straighten their spine.

  511. But the Lord doesn't tell the woman, doesn't speak to her and

  512. say you're back, straighten. He said he rebuked a spirit of

  513. infirmity that was on her and caused her to be bound over to

  514. where she walked like this. So what we may be calling

  515. scoliosis today, Come on, every case may not be scoliosis.

  516. OK, I know that this can make it sound like you're meddling

  517. because you're like, who are you?

  518. You're not a medical professional.

  519. I am a theological professional. If you go to a doctor, because

  520. he's a medical professional, well, I am a professional in the

  521. studying of God and God heals them all.

  522. He heals them all. So I'll never take a testimony

  523. of a non healing over that. God can heal.

  524. I'm not going to let that infiltrate my mind period.

  525. And for me, I'm just always trying to raise myself to the

  526. level of what's obvious in Scripture and that is the

  527. Kingdom has me fully covered. All right, So epileptics,

  528. paralytics, and he what, what did he do?

  529. Go back to verse 24. He healed them.

  530. I said he healed them no problem.

  531. We know the one that you know, they ripped the roof off, laid,

  532. put the friend down in there that was paralyzed.

  533. Get up, take up your mat, walk. And he was healed that day.

  534. No additional rehabilitation, no more, you know, in home health

  535. care. He was healed that day.

  536. I'm not against any of the other stuff.

  537. I'm just saying in the Kingdom, the expectation is I can be made

  538. whole. This is what I like about Keith

  539. Dunkle. You know, when he got the issue,

  540. you know, with his foot, he was proclaimed I am going to walk

  541. again. That's right, I'm a walk.

  542. And you know, he never would take a thought process that I'm

  543. going to be stuck in a wheelchair and I'm never going

  544. to walk again because him and his mom and family already knew

  545. what the scripture has said. And for them, at the end of the

  546. day, we going to do everything we're supposed to do secondary

  547. to what we already believe. Keith will not stay like this.

  548. That was their first thought. He will not stay like this.

  549. So Lord, whatever you want us to do, he'll do.

  550. You will do because he will not stay like this.

  551. He will walk and he walks. Say Amen.

  552. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  553. He's the healer. I drive now too.

  554. You drive now, too. Come on.

  555. See what I'm saying? Now that's good news.

  556. Now, what kind of critic would say, yeah, but you still.

  557. I mean, seriously, the guy was in a wheelchair.

  558. Couldn't do Jack. Nearly died.

  559. Yeah, nearly died and now he's back to driving.

  560. I mean, let's give God glory. Hallelujah.

  561. Let's definitely don't become religion, a religious skeptic or

  562. Pharisee to say, well, until I see it like this, oh,

  563. Hallelujah, I'll just be quiet. Hallelujah.

  564. I mean, seriously, God's at work here, people, and we're going to

  565. give God glory. Amen.

  566. Amen. Luke Chapter 9 verse 11 says

    Luke 9:11

  567. this. But the crowds were aware of

  568. this and followed him and welcoming them.

  569. He began speaking to them about the Kingdom of God and curing

  570. those who had need of healing. Notice in both of these

  571. passages, the Kingdom of God is being ministered.

  572. He's preaching about the Kingdom of God and the demonstration

  573. that the Kingdom of God he preaches about.

  574. He heals people. He heals people, He preaches

  575. Kingdom and guess what happens in the Kingdom?

  576. You're healed. This is just part of our

  577. benefits. Hallelujah.

  578. And listen, this is not solely a new covenant reality.

  579. This is not solely a new covenant reality.

  580. Look at this in Acts. In Acts, the writers obviously

  581. recounting which I believe Paul speaking here concerning the

  582. exodus of the people of Israel in Acts chapter 13 verse 17, it

    Acts 13:17

  583. says the God of this people Israel chose our fathers and

  584. made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt.

  585. And with an uplifted arm, He led them out from it.

  586. Did he lead them out man? He delivered them right and he

  587. delivered them from being slaves.

  588. They multiplied greatly. Then they were oppressed and

  589. then God showed up and ended up, you know, dismantling that

  590. government and then LED them out.

  591. But Psalms 10537 tells us how he brought them out.

  592. It says this. Then he brought them out with

  593. silver and gold. Why?

  594. Because look how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, who went

  595. around doing good. He brought provision for them.

  596. In essence, all the time they worked as slaves, they were paid

  597. in that generation. Are you hearing me?

  598. They brought out that wealth. Secondly, it goes on and says

  599. and among his tribes there was not one who stumbled.

  600. Now that's think about this. They have been we come in on

  601. this account when Moses shows up and goes to Pharaoh and says the

  602. Lord says God says let my people go.

  603. And Pharaoh's like, who in the world is your God?

  604. I mean, we got gods here. We have gods we worship.

  605. They're they're the real gods. I don't know who your God is,

  606. right? God said let my people go.

  607. So they didn't come out worship him.

  608. I don't know you God. The minute he leaves the room,

  609. what does he say? He says you make it harder on

  610. the people. So that what this guy's telling

  611. that nation that are our slaves make his words seem like they're

  612. lies. So what's the next day?

  613. The next day, they don't bring straw anymore.

  614. But they tell the leaders of Israel that they've made over

  615. their own people to make sure they have so many bricks.

  616. You need to have this many bricks.

  617. Where? Where's the straw?

  618. You have to get it yourself. But we will not reduce the

  619. quota. And if you do not do it, we're

  620. going to Stripes are showing up on you.

  621. And they were beaten. So you understand.

  622. This nation was physically abusing, but yet they came out

  623. strong. I said they came out strong.

  624. Why? Because when God, when they go

  625. through the Red Sea, when they get to the others, when they're

  626. coming out now they and it's not even the Red Sea.

  627. I'm telling you, when they're coming out, they have the

  628. ability to carry wealth loaded up, and not just silver and

  629. gold, but all kinds of fine material.

  630. And they're able to go and walk, have the physical stamina to get

  631. to the Red Sea, go through the Red Sea, get to the other side.

  632. What's God saying? My nation is a nation of healed

  633. people. Because if you're my people, I

  634. want you whole. And wholeness is spirit, soul,

  635. and body. This is why First Thessalonians

  636. says that our spirit, soul, and body remain blameless.

  637. Amen. So please, as you age, I'm

  638. aging. As you age, do not settle for

  639. certain things. Just like you would go to a

  640. doctor and follow a prescription, stay in the word,

  641. do that prescription. Make sure that's the first thing

  642. you're because the word does good like a medicine and it will

  643. actually heal you. It won't mask symptoms like a

  644. lot of prescription drugs do. They mask, they're not curing

  645. the they're masking the pain. They give you pain.

  646. What's it called? Management.

  647. What's pain management? Well, my back was hurting, but

  648. I've taken this. I don't feel anything.

  649. But your back's not healed, and actually, you could be doing

  650. more damage because you're picking stuff up you shouldn't

  651. pick up, and you can't feel that you shouldn't pick it up.

  652. I mean, pain is actually a mechanism to say, hey, stop,

  653. you're going to hurt yourself. You're doing that the wrong way,

  654. right? I didn't design you to pick it

  655. up that way. Don't do that.

  656. Right? So not every ailment is

  657. sickness. Oh, that kind of hurts.

  658. That's a warning. God saying, hey, I didn't build

  659. you that way. Amen.

  660. Now soreness of muscle to build muscle, that is a pain you want,

  661. right? But you know, not to the point

  662. that you've destroyed your muscle and now it's not even

  663. effective. But there is a pain that you do

  664. want. OK, and that just build

  665. something else. All right, let's go on Matthew

    Matthew 10:7–9

  666. chapter 10 verse 7 to 9 says this and as you go so again now

  667. Jesus is telling people we know that Jesus we've already seen a

  668. 2 scripture. Let everything be confirmed by

  669. two or three witness and I just gave you a couple.

  670. I could have given you more, but we see every time Jesus talks

  671. about the Kingdom, he's healing people.

  672. So he's he is clearly communicating if back in the old

  673. covenant I've demonstrated because he said this to his

  674. nation. If you'll just obey what I said,

  675. if you do what I do in this dispensation, the man, you're

  676. going to be a healthy nation. You're all your livestock is

  677. going to be fruitful. You're going to be fruitful as

  678. husband and wife. You're going to be able to

  679. multiply. Everything you put the hand to

  680. is going to prosper. I mean, it's going to be awesome

  681. because of my nation. Health and healing is just what

  682. we have. Provision is just there that

  683. comes with me. I'm the king of the Kingdom and

  684. that's what my Kingdom looks like.

  685. And it's not just for me. It's for all citizens, all those

  686. that are my people. He has no problem Sherry Jesus

  687. then in the new covenant as he's inaugurating coming to

  688. inaugurate the new covenant again is is communicating.

  689. Listen, when the Kingdom is present, the benefits of the

  690. Kingdom are manifesting and what we don't want to do is become

  691. religiously tradition that we accept just knowing where we're

  692. going to go and we die. But we want every benefit that

  693. comes with the Kingdom. Now this Kingdom having healing

  694. was so important that not only did God perform it, Jesus

  695. himself, but the disciples were able to do it as well, right?

  696. Look what it says again in Matthew 10, seven and nine.

  697. It says as you go preach saying the Kingdom of heaven is at

  698. hand. Then he goes on and says, heal

  699. the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out

  700. demons. Freely you receive, freely give.

  701. Now look at verse 9 and I put 9 on.

  702. I could have stopped today but I put 9 intentionally because when

  703. I saw nine, I'm like, I'm going to say that.

  704. Do not acquire gold or silver or copper for your money belt.

  705. The natural healthcare system requires you to pay for it.

  706. The Kingdom healthcare system says you don't even have to

  707. there. No money exchange is required.

  708. Hallelujah. So when you hear someone say,

  709. now the Lord wants to hear you, if you'll give this amount, that

  710. is false teaching. That's a false teacher, false

  711. prophet, a false apostle. That's a hireling, not a pastor.

  712. OK, that's error because God is not requiring gold, silver,

  713. copper, anything to financially support you because you

  714. administered healing to somebody.

  715. Amen. Wouldn't it be awesome you'd

  716. walk into a place and they just took care of you and never sent

  717. a bill? Come on, say Amen.

  718. Yeah, well, you can make a transaction from heaven.

  719. Glory to God. I said you can make a

  720. transaction from heaven. This is why I seek first the

  721. Kingdom, because again, even if I'm in a situation I can first

  722. go to the King of Canada, whatever he says, I'm going to

  723. do whatever he says. Because if he tells me to go to

  724. doctor because something's going on in my body that needs to be

  725. removed or I need to gain access to more knowledge so that I can

  726. speak against it by faith or get the word on it, then I'm going

  727. to do that no problem. However, I'm always going to the

  728. King of Kings first because he's already paid the price.

  729. He's already paid the price. So when you go to the Kingdom

  730. hospital, so to speak, no co-pays the insurance is the

  731. stripes on the back of Jesus. Because think about it, stripes

  732. on his physical body did not save you.

  733. That's right, it's the blood and that blood was poured on a mercy

  734. seat in heaven. It's the shedding of blood that

  735. is the remission of sin. It's the stripes on the back

  736. that is the paid in full coverage for your health

  737. insurance while you're on the earth.

  738. Hallelujah to fulfill the will of God.

  739. Hallelujah. So someone says, well, do you

  740. have insurance? You bet I got the best insurance

  741. ever fully covered, no co-pays, zero out of pocket expense for

  742. me. I mean really the only out of

  743. pocket expense that I have is the currency I carry in the

  744. Kingdom called faith. All I have to do is release

  745. faith and it causes it to happen.

  746. Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. Aren't you glad you're healed?

  747. Aren't you glad it's more than just where you're going to go

  748. when you die? Look at Luke Chapter 9 verse one

    Luke 9 chapter mention

  749. to two. It says this.

  750. And he called the 12 together and gave them power and

  751. authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.

  752. There's nowhere that you'll ever find Jesus saying to an

  753. individual, I've given you power so that you can put cancer on

  754. somebody so I can teach them something.

  755. And the crazy thing about that kind of traditional thinking,

  756. well, you know, the Lord put this on me because he need to

  757. get my attention, right? God does not use sickness and

  758. disease as an attention getter. You're not going to find that

  759. scripture. OK, but they say that, you know,

  760. so he put it on me because he's trying to teach me something.

  761. Well, there should be two follow up questions.

  762. The first one is, have you learned?

  763. Right? Should be your first follow up

  764. question. Then maybe this one is we'll

  765. have you gone to the doctor. Yes.

  766. And you say why? Because if he's trying to teach

  767. you something, why are you trying to be disobedient by

  768. getting it off you until you learn that's just what we call

  769. critical thinking. But a lot of times, you know,

  770. because the, you know, if we don't watch out, the body of

  771. Christ is just hearing what the minister says without actually

  772. studying the word for themselves.

  773. And basically they want you to depend on what they say.

  774. And then they try to preach in a way that identifies with how you

  775. feel. Not really what is good to grow

  776. you, right? Because when it's good to grow

  777. you, then you have to determine, man, what I think about this may

  778. not be correct. And we've already said this too,

  779. just to put you in remembrance that that Paul told Timothy, he

  780. said, I need you to rebuke, correct and instruct 2/3 means

  781. you're going to have to change something.

  782. That's right. Which means when you come to

  783. church, 2/3 of the message should make you go I may be

  784. wrong. And that's not condemnation,

  785. that's growing you. A rebuke is not to offend you.

  786. A rebuke is to release a thought in you that is hindering the

  787. power of God to work in your life.

  788. Correcting you is trying to help you perform at your peak

  789. performance because if you keep doing it this way, you're going

  790. to have what you have. My, my, my wife, I mean, my

  791. mother in And he says, you're picking your head up.

  792. Now, I've played golf enough now to know that I still don't know

  793. when my head's coming up other than the trajectory of the ball

  794. yet I do not know it happened until the ball goes low.

  795. It's like it's the byproduct of topping the ball because and

  796. there's nothing about me that I've like, I picked up my I'm

  797. like, I feel like I'm staring at this ball.

  798. I'm not lifting up my head. I mean, you feel that way and

  799. you know, she's like, that's why I don't play with him because

  800. what I do wrong, he goes, you don't want to know you're

  801. picking your head up. No, I'm not.

  802. Well, yeah, you are right, Seth. Yes, you are what I do.

  803. You picked your head up. You know you're I didn't pick my

  804. head up, bro. Apparently, a millimeter is a

  805. lot people in golf, Right. OK.

  806. The point is, is that sometimes instruction or correction comes

  807. in, you're like, I'm not doing. Yeah, you are.

  808. Yes. And that's not to condemn you.

  809. It's to correct something so that you become more consistent

  810. at being victorious because if you do not correct, you'll

  811. always do. I mean, some golfers have a

  812. slice. They don't correct it.

  813. They just adjust their body and hit the same way.

  814. They're not, they're doing it wrong all the time, but I'm

  815. going to slice this way. So you're hit going toward the

  816. parking lot so you can get in the fairway.

  817. Because you know what? They're unwilling to change

  818. their form and admit or say, you know what, I can learn from

  819. somebody. And when you're learning from

  820. someone I know, Seth showed me a couple things that I'm like, OK,

  821. that feels weird, you know, because that wasn't what felt

  822. natural. But what was natural had

  823. horrible results. People.

  824. I did, honestly, I thought I was never going to be able to play

  825. because it never got off the ground.

  826. I didn't matter what club I used.

  827. I'm like, I don't even know why the Lord spoke to me about this.

  828. This is ridiculous. I mean, I went with Kenny one

  829. multiple times and he was showing me stuff and I'm like,

  830. this poor guy's probably like this guy's hopeless.

  831. I mean, it was horrible. I'm like, if you can't get it

  832. off the ground, I mean, this far is not good.

  833. But eventually found where I could get it and it took some

  834. time, but we got there because I'm like, what am I doing wrong?

  835. I embrace the correction because I wanted a different results and

  836. what we have to do is we have to say, you know what have I lived

  837. my whole life accepting something about symptoms that

  838. maybe I need to correct so I can get a different result.

  839. Luke chapter 10 verse 9 says this and it says again, the

    Luke 10:9

  840. disciples he said and heal those in it who are sick and say to

  841. them, the Kingdom of God has come near to you.

  842. Now I love this scripture because this scripture is

  843. clearly Jesus communicating to disciples.

  844. Healing of a person's physical body is a result that the

  845. Kingdom of God is here. The Kingdom wants you healthy.

  846. He doesn't want us, and God wants it so much that he's going

  847. to give us a whole new body. It's going to be amazing what

  848. God wants to do, what he's doing in the earth.

  849. Now, let me address this one thought process in closing.

  850. The number one thing that that attacks anyone's mind when you

  851. minister on the healthcare system of the Kingdom and

  852. demonstrates emphatically they got healed.

  853. All that He dealt with, all that he dealt with that in our

  854. society, they were like, well, you know, people don't always

  855. get healed. So maybe it's not always God's

  856. will, right? Well, let me throw out another

  857. idea. Is it God's will?

  858. So again, that thinking is this, because you see someone who

  859. doesn't get or receive healing that loves God.

  860. And I'm not saying they don't love God.

  861. I'm not saying they're not born of God, but they do not receive

  862. healing, right? Because we see this and they go

  863. on to be with the Lord because of a sickness, a disease that

  864. God didn't want to do that. So that becomes now this belief

  865. system, God can heal. We know that we have no problem.

  866. We know he's a healer. However, there are times, you

  867. know, he may not be willing to do that.

  868. And he's God, His ways are higher than our ways.

  869. His thoughts. You know, I'm going to throw

  870. some other scriptures to support this tradition, right?

  871. And then it becomes an accepted fact.

  872. But let me ask this question. Do you know anybody who you know

  873. that they're in hell? You know, based upon their life

  874. and when they died, you'd be hard pressed unless something

  875. really happened. It's some moment that you didn't

  876. know. All indication is you would it

  877. would you're you're hoping to be shocked, but the evidence of

  878. their life is that they're separated from God forever.

  879. They never accepted Jesus. Now does God want everyone saved

  880. and we'll quote that scripture. God desires that none would

  881. perish, but that all would come to repentance, but not everyone

  882. does that doesn't change God's will.

  883. Is that all he wants? Because all whoever called on

  884. his name, what happens to them, they're saved.

  885. That's right. And he doesn't say now for you.

  886. No, no, bro. You see this list?

  887. I got on you, bro. I mean, this is crazy.

  888. And there's no way I'm forgiving this, trusting that you're going

  889. to really do right. That's not God.

  890. God's like the bloods here. Doesn't matter.

  891. I've paid it all. It is on you my desire.

  892. We would never go say no Lord, do you want to save me?

  893. Is it your will to save me? We would never pray with someone

  894. will be brown and say the Lord I pray for my brother here.

  895. I don't know if it's your will for them to be saved today.

  896. I hope it is. I want it to be.

  897. We would never do that but yet we do it with healing and notice

  898. healing is the thing that Jesus broke through something with the

  899. religious that infuriated them and it was through the paralyzed

  900. guy. He comes down and Jesus says

  901. your sins are forgiven. Bro.

  902. The religious in the room were like this guy's a blasphemer.

  903. Only God can forgive sin, he said.

  904. Which is easier? Which is easier, to forgive this

  905. man a sin or to heal him? To let you know I have

  906. authority. We'll never pray with someone at

  907. an altar now, Lord, if it's your will for them to be saved today,

  908. Lord, I pray it's your will. Not sure.

  909. We would never do that with salvation.

  910. Why do we do it with healing? No, what we do is we're like, I

  911. need you to understand God loves you.

  912. He's he has paid the price for you.

  913. His blood is on the mercy seat for you.

  914. He has already done everything to save you.

  915. You just only have to believe and receive and Jesus said which

  916. is easier and the person that doesn't become saved, why?

  917. I've done too much. No, he couldn't and they

  918. convinced themselves that they don't deserve.

  919. A lot of times in healing we convince ourselves it's not a

  920. priority, it's not important to God.

  921. He's got more important things to do than deal with.

  922. I'll I'll deal with it. It's my burden to bear.

  923. And Jesus said, well then why did I take the stripes?

  924. Because for every drop of blood on the mercy seat that doesn't

  925. get applied to the one who's cast into the lake of fire, the

  926. blood still there. And for everyone who doesn't

  927. receive healing, lost or saved, the stripes are still there.

  928. Let's pray. Father, we love you, we honor

  929. you, we thank you. You're the King of kings and the

  930. Lord of Lords. We thank you, Lord, that the

  931. healing is for us today. Just like salvation, which is

  932. easier. And we know it's easy.

  933. It's easy for a person to be born again.

  934. All they have to do is call on the name of the Lord and they

  935. will be saved. They'll become a new creature in

  936. Christ Jesus. The old will pass away and

  937. behold, all things will become new.

  938. And Father, if that can happen in the Spirit, then Lord, you

  939. can also heal our mortal bodies, and we're thankful for that.

  940. Whatever your head bow and every eye close, no one's looking

  941. around. If you're here today and you've

  942. not confessed Jesus as Lord, it's easy to be saved because

  943. Jesus has paid the price for everything that you've done

  944. against the Kingdom of God and you're really without excuse.

  945. Your, your, your, your personal actions, your own personal walk

  946. separate from God is not good enough.

  947. You must acknowledge that he's the only way, His blood's the

  948. only atoning factor, payment factor to redeem you, and you

  949. must fully submit to his Lordship to be born of God.

  950. And if that's you today saying, man, I know I'm not right with

  951. God. I want to be right with God.

  952. I need to know I'm a child of God.

  953. I want to be saved. And salvation is not a

  954. destination, it's destiny. It's not about where you're

  955. going when you die. It's about who comes and lives

  956. on the inside of you now and what you can participate in

  957. today. It's about becoming a child of

  958. God now, not an exit strategy when you leave and so fast, you

  959. today say, Pastor Earl, I don't know if I'm right with God.

  960. I want to know. I want to receive the

  961. forgiveness that God has. I want a new nature in me.

  962. I want to live for God. Would you lift your hand?

  963. Anyone at all? I'm looking around anyone at

  964. all. Hallelujah.

  965. Oh, Lord, thank you for your word today.

  966. And I'm not going to lay hands on anybody today because I want

  967. this to grow us to grow in faith.

  968. But we're going to lay hands on people because when you know,

  969. let me close with this thought. During the healing revivals in

  970. the late 40s, fifties, they have big tent revivals and people

  971. were being healed coming out of wheelchairs.

  972. All kinds of miraculous things will happen.

  973. There's two things God was trying to do because Kenneth the

  974. Hagin who was a part of that said those revivals stop because

  975. man miss what God was doing. Man began to look at the person

  976. God was that had yielded to him and was laying hands on people

  977. in the miraculous was happening. They were looking at the man

  978. instead of realizing they had that ability as a St.

  979. And I'm telling you, in these last days, God is not trying to

  980. raise up some man or woman of God that you have to run to to

  981. have your hand hands laid on you.

  982. If He tells you to do it, go do it by all rights because you

  983. obey the word of the King. However, we all have this power

  984. in us. Those who believe will lay hands

  985. on the sick. I believe in these last days we

  986. have to rise as a church body and say it's in me.

  987. But if if you can't believe healing for yourself, how will

  988. you believe God's using you to lay hands on others?

  989. It becomes a little more difficult.

  990. It can be a challenge. I said it can be a challenge.

  991. And so he was trying to instruct the church.

  992. I've given this to the church walking healing.

  993. But I found out that the reason so many people were being healed

  994. because back then, unlike our society today, they did two week

  995. meetings, three-week meetings. People were coming every night

  996. and they were preaching on it every night, which means faith

  997. rose. Faith comes by.

  998. And every night they were hearing about the healing power

  999. of God every night. Another example in the Word of

  1000. how God always healed. Another passage of Scripture,

  1001. another exhortation of Scripture and faith rose.

  1002. In fact, I found out that Kenneth the Hagin that he had in

  1003. his ministry a card that he gave to everyone that showed up in

  1004. his meetings and they they were required to have it punched five

  1005. times just to come down to be laid hands on.

  1006. See what we do when we look at it on YouTube.

  1007. We're like, oh, like the person just went down, happened to walk

  1008. in, been there 15 minutes and the power of God on the man of

  1009. God made it happen. No, he made them sit for five

  1010. services to hear. He wanted their faith to rise.

  1011. He didn't want it just depended on the gifts.

  1012. He wanted faith to rise because when faith rise, more healings

  1013. can occur. And they had to bring their car

  1014. down, Don give it to the usher to prove.

  1015. And The only exception to that rule is if he in the gifts saw

  1016. somebody and God highlighted them and he ended up doing

  1017. something. Well, that's something totally

  1018. different. Which reminds me of one time

  1019. that Pastor Hagen came in a living faith conference.

  1020. Traditionally they do the laying on of hands the last service and

  1021. they were with us first night first night my wife's ex stepdad

  1022. and his new wife showed up. The one who paid mine and my

  1023. wife's last year to go to school came to the service walked in

  1024. the building. They were crying of all that God

  1025. had done. And I remember telling them, I

  1026. said, because you planted a seed in US, so to us you got a part

  1027. to play in this harvest. Put them on the front row right

  1028. here. What we didn't know because they

  1029. didn't tell us is both of them, we're dealing with some major

  1030. health challenges. And Pastor Hagen got up and

  1031. began to pray. He says, you know, tonight I'm

  1032. going to. I normally wait till, but

  1033. tonight I believe I'm supposed to lay hands on the sick.

  1034. And when the healing line came, they were the first ones up and

  1035. got the first dose. Boom boom.

  1036. And they were both healed that night.

  1037. Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.

  1038. But that may not be every time. Sometimes God may need you to

  1039. rise in your faith, but in order to rise in your faith, you have

  1040. to acknowledge sometimes. Have I accepted a tradition

  1041. about what I think about what's going on in my body?

  1042. I mean, every time I'm in, in, in any meeting, I'm like, Lord,

  1043. what do I still need to learn about this?

  1044. What do I still need to know? Can you show me some additional

  1045. things? Is there anything I mean, I need

  1046. to throw out because I don't know everything?

  1047. I've learned a lot from you already, but I know there's

  1048. still so much more. And keep training me, keep

  1049. teaching me, keep instructing me, keep correcting me.

  1050. Rebuke me if you have to tell me you're wrong.

  1051. Quit believing it that way because I just want to do your

  1052. will. And then when you're hungry like

  1053. that, because Smith Wigglesworth me close to that story, He said

  1054. It seems to me again, multiple people healed, 23 raised from

  1055. the dead in the ministry. He believed in healing that

  1056. much, in the power of God to overcome things in physical

  1057. bodies. But he said today's advancement

  1058. of medical science is going to make it very difficult for the

  1059. believer to believe in healing from God.

  1060. And today we see that so much so that we've typically have

  1061. developed these traditions. Well, God has given the doctors

  1062. wisdom, and that's how he's doing healing today.

  1063. That's not true. Can he use a doctor?

  1064. Yes. But he has not sidelined the

  1065. laying on of hands. He's not sidelined the gifts of

  1066. the Spirit. He's not sidelined the spoken

  1067. word. He has not sidelined your faith

  1068. to medical science. He has not elevated a

  1069. professional doctor to produce his works.

  1070. Can he use them? Yes, but they are not primary.

  1071. They are a secondary source. I said They're a secondary

  1072. source that is there to supplement the primary, and that

  1073. is Jesus Christ the Healer. Amen.