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Ways of Healing - Pathway to Healing - Part Three with Pastor Marci Glisson
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Well, we are on our third week of reminding some of us of what
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belongs to us in the Kingdom of God.
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And then maybe it's just now a revelation to some that are in
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here that God wants us healed today and that that is part of
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his promise. Amen.
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That belongs to everyone who calls on His name.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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But tonight I want to talk about how we can see the healing power
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of God working and being administrated into our bodies,
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how we receive the healing power of God through Scripture, where
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we can go through Scripture and see how this was administered to
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people in the Bible. Amen.
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and see a few things in Scripture concerning.
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There's actually five ways that we can see through Scripture
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that God administers his healing to people.
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OK. And the 1st place we see here in
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James chapter 5 and verse 14 through 15, and I'm reading out
James 5 chapter mention
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of the amplified, it says is anyone among you sick?
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He must call for the elders, spiritual leaders of the church
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and they are to pray over him, anointing them with oil in the
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name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith, say the
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prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick.
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The prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick again
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another scripture that proves to us that God wants us healed
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right and and here we see the first thing we can see from the
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scripture in verse 15th is by healing can be received through
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the prayer of faith. The prayer of faith.
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And then it says this, and the Lord will raise him up, and if
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he had committed sins, he will be forgiven.
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So here we see that there was the anointing oil.
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Now let me talk about the anointing oil.
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OK? The anointing oil here is
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symbolic of the Holy Spirit in power.
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OK, the Holy Spirit in power. So some people, you know, maybe
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you've never been to a church that actually laid hands on
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people. Maybe you've gone to a chore, a
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church where they do lay hands, but they use oil.
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They're using the oil because of this scripture right here, OK?
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Does it matter whether you use the oil or not?
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No, because again, it's the symbol, symbol of this, the Holy
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Spirit and His power. OK, So you know it, it's just up
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to the individual, OK? Again, that's not something that
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has to be done that way because again, it was the symbolicness
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of the power of God, OK, and the anointing that will come upon us
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as we pray over people by the prayer of faith.
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But listen to what he says. Anointing him in the name of the
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Lord, in the name of the Lord. One thing that we need to
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recognize is that we can receive healing through US speaking the
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name of Jesus. So it's through the prayer of
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faith and us invoking, so to speak, the name of Jesus upon
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people. You see that and they will be
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healed. OK, Now look over here in Mark
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1123 and 24. Of course, I can't go back and
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give you all the scriptures that we have given you in the last
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two weeks, but I encourage you, if you've missed any of the
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healing series, you need to go back and listen to it.
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And again, this is something that actually should be a part
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of our yearly diet, right? So that we can stay in a
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position of defending off sickness and disease, right?
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So this is something through the Scriptures that we can always
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every year remind ourselves of about the healing of God.
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So Mark 1123 and 24, we know this Scripture.
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It says, for assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this
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mountain be removed and cast into the sea does not doubt in
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his heart, but believes that the things that he says will be
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done. He will have whatever he says.
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Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you
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pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
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This is where we can also see a prayer of faith, meaning I am
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going to pray by faith to receive what it is that belongs
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to me. And we're talking about
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specifically healing tonight. OK, but let's go to Acts 3.
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And I am just moving along because I have a lot to cover
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and we're going to lay hands on people tonight.
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Are you expecting so? In Acts chapter 3 it says this
Acts 3 chapter mention
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one through 10. It says Now Peter and John went
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up together to the temple about the hour of prayer, the 9th
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hour. And a certain lame man from his
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mother's womb was carried, whom laid there daily at the gate of
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the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask for alms from
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those who were entering the temple.
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Who's seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, ask for
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alms and fixing his eyes on him with John, Peter said look at
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us. So he gave them his attention,
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expecting to receive something from them.
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And then Peter said silver and gold I do not have, but what I
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do have I give to you. Here it is.
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In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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Here we see a perfect example of him invoking the name of Jesus,
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carrying the anointing to be able to bring healing to this
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man. And he looked at him and grabbed
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the right-handed, lifting him up, and immediately his feet and
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ankle bones receive strength. So he leaping up, stood and
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walked and entered the temple with them.
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Walking and leaping and praising God.
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Say, walking and leaping and praising God.
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This is what happens when you receive your healing.
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There should be. Come on, some praising of God,
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there should be some leaping and rejoicing.
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Come on, when you've just encountered, of course he's
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jumping because he had never jumped before.
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The natural response this, this needs to you need to understand
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this, the natural response of you receiving from God is that
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you would praise him, that you would praising.
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Come on, natural response. I don't know anybody that has
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had sickness and disease in their body.
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When the doctor comes back and says you're healed that they
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don't, you know, it's a natural response.
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I just got a kink in my neck. It's a natural response to
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praise him. When you receive from him.
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That's any promise. That's any promise.
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Hallelujah, glory to God. So then they knew that it was he
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who sat at the the gate of the temple, and they were filled
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with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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So again, he was actually being an example, testifying to what
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the Lord had done in his body. Everybody saw the miracle.
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Hallelujah. But he invoked the name of
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Jesus. Amen.
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And this was Peter, right? One of the disciples.
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Now let's look at another way that we can see through
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Scripture that healing was administered here in Acts
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chapter 19, verses 11 and 12. We see it says this in verse 11.
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God was doing extraordinary and unusual miracles by the hands of
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Paul, say the hands of Paul. Everyone of you come on, got
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hands laid on your hands last week so that you could go out
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and do exactly what these disciples are doing.
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Amen. And so it says so that even
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handkerchiefs or face towels or aprons that had touched his skin
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were brought to the sick, and their disease left them and evil
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spirits came out of them. So we see here that they were
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laying hands on these aprons, these handkerchiefs, what we
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could call today just material, any type of material, because
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the healing power of God was able to flow through, Amen.
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And people were able to receive from that sickness.
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We've had. We have a testimony of here at
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our school in Washington of when Pastor Hagen or Pastor Craig was
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here and laid hands on some things, handkerchiefs.
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I think it was a T-shirt or something at Washington and for
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a child that they were saying had a brain tumor and the
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teacher, Miss Marise, I believe it was, had that shirt prayed
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over. We put that T-shirt up
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underneath his napping mat and they went back to the doctor and
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the tumor was gone. Amen.
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Hallelujah. Glory to God, right here, right
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here, Come on right now for today He's the same yesterday,
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today and forever for those who will believe, come on and invoke
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the power of God in the name of Jesus, in the prayer of faith,
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Hallelujah. Glory to God.
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Healing testimony should be flowing out of this place.
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Hallelujah. Now the next thing we see is
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to what Ernie was sharing earlier.
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All right, in Luke 7. Here we can see that the Word
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was spoken and healing was sent that very hour, and a servant
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was healed. The Word was spoken.
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We know we read this last week out of Psalms 107.
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He sent His Word and healed them.
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He sent His Word and healed them.
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Amen And you know what's so exciting is we've been getting
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calls from people that's been listening to these healing
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series and asking, hey, do you have those 101 healing
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scriptures on PDF? Could you e-mail that to me?
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Could you? People are receiving?
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Amen Come on, they're receiving. So Luke 7, one through 10 says
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this. Now when he concluded all of his
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sayings in hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum
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verse 2, and a certain centurion servant who was dear to him was
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sick and ready to die. So when he heard about Jesus,
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say he heard about Jesus. Do you know how many people need
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to hear about Jesus? They need to hear about Jesus.
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And again, reminding you of what Brother Hagin said, that healing
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is the dinner bell to salvation. And actually, I found out it
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actually didn't originate with him.
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It originated from a guy named Richard.
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I don't know how to pronounce Rainey.
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Maybe you know, you know him, Christopher.
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OK, Anyway, from back in the 1930s or something and, and any
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training or tranny or something like that, Richard tranny or
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something. And he's the actual one that
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Brother Hagen quoted that from. And so again, listen, people
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need to hear that God is the healer.
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And it will draw them into the Kingdom of God.
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It will draw them. Come on, we need to keep the
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bell ringing. Give me that bell.
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There's a bell down there. This was for kissing, but now
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we're going to use it for healing.
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Come on, Come on. For the dinner bell, the healing
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power of God going across Saint Augustine come on, that will
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draw people into the Kingdom of God glory to God, Pastor says I
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get crazy up here, but I guess I learned from the best so so.
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Praise the Lord, all right? What verse was I on?
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Does anybody following along? Verse 3?
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So when he heard about Jesus, he sent the elders of the Jews to
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him, pleading with him to come and heal his servant.
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And when they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly,
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saying that one for whom he should do this was was
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deserving, for he loves our nation and has built us a
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synagogue. And then Jesus went with them,
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and when he was already not far from the house to centurion,
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sent back his friends to him, saying, Lord, don't even trouble
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yourself. I'm not even worthy that you
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should enter under my roof. Therefore I did not even think
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myself worthy to come to you. But just what?
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Say the Word? Just say the word, and my
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servant will be healed. And of course, we know the rest
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of the story. Come on.
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He was healed the moment he spoke the word that the guy at
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his house was healed. Come on, Through the Speaking of
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the Word and invoking the power of God through declaring that
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his body would be made whole, that he would be made, that he
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would be healed. Amen.
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Hallelujah. Glory to God, glory to God.
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And of course this, this, the rest of the Scripture is just
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amazing because again, Jesus said, I've not found such what
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great faith. So it was faith in the authority
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that Jesus carried. Hallelujah, glory to God.
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So just speak the Word only. And this is what Ernie was doing
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in his body, just speaking the Word and being in the prayer of
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agreement and the prayer of faith.
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Come on that this cancer cannot be in his body.
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Hallelujah. He resisted it.
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Whether it was there or whether it was gone, it's not in his
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body. Who cares, right?
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Proverbs 3 and 8 says this. Speaking of the word.
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It will be health to your body marrow, your nerves, your
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sewings, your muscles, and all of your inner parts.
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This is the word he was actually talking about the commandments
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and refreshment. Physical well-being to your
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bones. To your bones all the way.
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Say all the way to my bones. Cancer cannot live in my bones.
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Come on, this is what you got to say because he said it, it
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belongs to you. Hallelujah.
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Look at Proverbs 4. Proverbs 4/23/22 says this again
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about us. If my son will pay attention to
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my what and be willing to learn. Open your ears to my sayings.
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Do not let them escape your sight.
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Keep them in the center of your heart, for they will be what
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life to those who find them, and they will be what health and
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healing to all of your flesh. You reading the Word of God,
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getting the Word into the center of your heart, listening to the
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Word, obeying the Word, will bring healing all by itself to
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your body. That's why you can go to your
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next reunion and look 20 years younger than everybody else.
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Amen. Glory to God because it's health
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and it's healing naturally to your body.
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As you receive it, pay attention to it, obey it, do it, activate
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it, Amen. Then your body can be healed.
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Through the word literally it says healing and health to all
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your flesh. It literally this is when you
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look it up in the Hebrew, literally concretely a medicine.
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This is where we get that that the word is like medicine.
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It is literally, concretely when you look it up in the Hebrew
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medicine. So every time you read the word,
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it is medicine to your body. But let me tell you something,
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it's not member. We're talking about the whole
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man here. He says to your flesh, it can be
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medicine to your flesh. Remember First Thessalonians 523
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He wants you what completely healed spirit, soul, and body?
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Come on, spirit, soul and body. He wants your flesh healed and
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whole. He wants your mind sharp, full
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of the mind of Christ, not being tormented.
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Come on, by all kinds of tormenting thoughts.
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He wants you healed. He wants you whole, completely
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whole. Your physical body literally
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means a medicine. So This is why we ask people,
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are you taking your medicine every day?
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Because man should not live by what?
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But by what? So are you taking your medicine
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everyday? Are you believing that when I'm
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reading it, health and healing is coming to my body?
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Come on, in every area that I need healing, Glory to God.
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It also means this word literally means deliverance.
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It means a cure, a healing, a remedy.
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This is the remedy of what you need.
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Whatever's going on in your life, it's the remedy.
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You don't need a special concoction, come on.
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Or a cocktail, what they call them when you got 30 different
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pills you're having to take. Come on, know what you need.
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The remedy is right here in the word of God that will bring
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complete health and healing in every area of your life.
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Hallelujah, every area remedy, it's for everything.
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Come on. It also means sound, which goes
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back to that mind realm. You can have a what sound mind,
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a sound mind, Hallelujah. And it also means wholesome.
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So again, wholesome. Everything he wants made whole.
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Everything, everything. And every time we sit up
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underneath the word of God, we're receiving in our medicine
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for these areas in our life. And you know, sometimes some
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medicines take longer than others, but we want it now.
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Now God can heal now. But some of it is going to take
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time, especially when it comes to your mind, because that's a
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constant renewal that's having to take place every day.
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Renewing of your mind, renewing of your mind, renewing of your
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mind to the word of God. Because it's so easy to start
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slipping back and thinking like you used to think and thinking
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like the world or taking on a new world thought, right?
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So that's why we need it daily. That's why we need it daily,
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Amen. Because it's the washing of the
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watering of the word, Hallelujah.
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The washing of the watering of the Word that brings healing to
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our body. So the Word will literally bring
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healing to us if we will actually believe what the Word
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has said. Why?
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Because Hebrews 12 we know, or Hebrews 4 verse 12 we know this
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scripture for what the Word of God is, living and active, full
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of power. I'm reading out of the amplified
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making it operative, energizing, and effective.
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So this medicine is effective. Guess what?
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They don't have to try another dose or another level or another
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different prescription altogether because the one they
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gave you didn't seem to gel with you or be effective in you.
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No, He's letting us know, Hallelujah, that the Word of God
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is alive. It's operative, it's energizing,
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and it is effective for everybody's healing today.
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It is sharper than any 2 edged sword, able to penetrate as far
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as the division. Here it is of the soul and the
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spirit, the completeness of a person, and all the way to both
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your joints and marrow, to the deepest parts of our nature,
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exposing and judging the very thoughts and intentions of one's
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heart. Hallelujah, glory to God.
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So He doesn't want to just bring spiritual healing to you from
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His Word. He also wants the Word to bring
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physical healing to you. Physical healing, Physical
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healing to your body. Jeremiah 112 Now Jeremiah we
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know was a prophet and we know he had a specific word for
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specific people, but he goes on to say this Jeremiah 112 It says
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then the Lord said to me, you have seen well, for I am
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actively watching over my word to fulfill it.
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See, this is a promise that belongs to us that the word of
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God is living inactive. Come on, and that God is
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actively watching over his word to perform it, to perform what?
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The miracles, the healings, come on everything we need a remedy
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for what's going on in our body when the doctors can't figure
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out what's going on. Guess who knows it all?
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My healer, Jehovah Rapha, the Great Physician.
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Because there is no one greater, There's no higher doctor in this
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world than the great Physician, Hallelujah, that knows every
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detail about your body and exactly what you need.
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If he knows every hair on your head, he knows everything that's
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going on within you and can let you know.
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Hallelujah can let you know what needs to adjust, come on, what
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you need because you may think you need healing for something
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that's going on in your body. And he realizes that's just not
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even the root of your problem. Hallelujah, glory to God.
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See, I trust Him as the great physician.
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Isaiah 5511 says this. So will my word, which goes
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forth out of my mouth. It will not return unto me,
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void, useless, or without a result, without accomplishing
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what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for
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which I sent it. So He will do what He sent His
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word to do, and guess what He sent His word to do?
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To heal you, to heal your children, to heal your body.
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Come on, He sent His word and we know who His word was.
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Who was it? Jesus.
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And we know, look how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, who
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went about what doing good and healing all who were oppressed
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of the devil. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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He's the healer. He's the healer and he still
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wants people healed today. Now, the next thing we want to
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see, and this is going to be a little bit that we're going to
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focus here, is that the number one most way that God is going
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to administer healing to us is through the laying on of hands.
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The laying on of hands. We can see the laying on of
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hands multiple, multiple places. OK.
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This is how we are able to another way receive that healing
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power. OK, it's through the healing
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power of God or the laying on of hands.
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Now, we can see in the Old Testament that people also laid
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hands on people, but it wasn't for healing In the Old
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Testament, they laid hands on people.
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And the reason why I'm saying this is because, again, some
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people may not know that laying on a hands is an elementary
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principle. It's a doctrine of the church.
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And you go to some churches and you've never seen people lay
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hands on people. So it may be a little different
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to people when they come in and think what's going on, right?
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So again, we have so many new people from so many other places
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they've met. It may have never seen people
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being having let hands laid on them.
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But this is a doctrine of the church.
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Amen, The laying out of hands. And actually we're going to see,
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because I'm going to give you just a little quickie about that
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out of Hebrews, that it is an elementary principle.
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The laying on of hands is an elementary principle that means
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this is something that you as a newborn believer into the
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Kingdom of God should be a being taught and it should be being
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applied as you recognize this is just part of the way that the
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church functions, OK. It is a fundamental doctrine of
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the Church. And so in the Old Covenant,
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though I want to talk about this, that when the people laid
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hands on people in the old covenant, it was usually for a
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blessing. You know, they would lay hands
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on them and they would bless the older children.
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They would lay, you know, they would also lay hands on those
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that were getting ready to go into a, a new leadership
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position, right? Whether it be a new king or
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someone like that. There would be a laying on of
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hands as well. So we can see this in the old
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covenant. But here let's read Hebrews 6-1
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and three. I'm not going to give you the
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old, all the old covenant scriptures, but I have 5 down
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here. But in Hebrews 6/1 through
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three, it says there, therefore leaving the discussion of
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elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection.
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That word also means let us go on to maturity.
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We're going from elementary into high school, so to speak.
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We're leaving the elementary principles and we're to go on
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into maturity beyond these things.
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So let us go on into maturity or perfection.
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It says not laying again, the foundation of repentance from
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dead works, right faith towards God, the doctrine of baptism and
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of laying on of hands. You see this, this was an
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elementary principle that every believer in the church age would
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have encountered because we saw the church age obviously
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encounter it as well in the book of Acts.
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That's all they did. And then we know Jesus did it in
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He laid hands on people and they
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received their healing he laid hands on people and they
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received their healing and of the resurrection of the dead.
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So here an eternal judgment. These are like 6 doctrines of
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the church repentance faith towards God baptism, right,
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which is water baptism, but not only that baptism, but how about
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the baptism and the Holy Spirit right with the evidence of
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speaking in tongues. Then we see the laying on of
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hands. This is a fundamental doctrine,
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the resurrection of the dead that means that we believe
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they're going to we're and arise be in heaven, right, come back
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down to the earth and then eternal judgment that there is a
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judgment day coming for those who have not called on the name
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of the Lord. You see that.
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So these are fundamental principles or doctrines of the
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church. So if we're not seeing these
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this demonstrated in churches, you might could ask yourself, am
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I just in an elementary school? Just a thought.
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So let's look at a bunch of scriptures in the New Testament
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that we see we're laying on of hands took place.
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OK, now everybody doing good again.
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I am just wanting to lay a great foundation that again we are
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going to prove that it is God's will to heal through scripture,
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not disprove it from experience. First Timothy chapter 4 and
1 Timothy 4 chapter mention
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verses 13 through 14. Remember now I talked about in
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the Old Testament that they would lay hands on transfer of
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leadership or administer blessings upon those, and here
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we see that and a perfect example of this it says in verse
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13. Until I come to vote yourselves
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to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and
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teaching sound doctrine of God's Word, do not neglect the
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spiritual gift within you, that special endowment which was
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intentionally bestowed on you by the Holy Spirit through the
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prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands on you
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at ordination. So here we see someone being an
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elder, laying hands on someone just like they did in the old
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covenant to walk into what it is that they were called to walk
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into through leadership. Timothy obviously was a pastor,
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right? So it was a type of them
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ordaining them into the ministry.
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OK, Second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 6, it says that is why I
2 Timothy 1 chapter mention
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remind you to fan the flame, the gracious gift of God, that inner
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fire, that special endowment which was in you through the
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laying on of hands with those of the elders.
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Right here again, you're seeing that scripture at your
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ordination. Acts 13, Acts 13, two and three,
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this is awesome. It says this, as they ministered
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to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Now separate me,
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Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them, And
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then having fasted and prayed what they do, they laid their
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hands on them and sent them out for the work of ministry.
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You see that. So another way, we're seeing how
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this laying on of hands is activated in the New Testament.
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Now Acts 19, Acts 19, I'm showing this one because we're
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seeing the laying on of hands, I believe, for the baptism of the
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Holy Spirit. Acts 19, one through 7, it says
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this. And it happened when Apollos was
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at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper
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regions, came to Ephesus and finding some of the disciples,
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he said to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you
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believed? So they had said to him, We have
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not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.
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Here it is. Look verse 3.
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And he said to them, and to whom then were you baptized?
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And so they said into John, John's baptism, This is the
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baptism that you're receiving once you get born again.
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Here you can see the two different baptisms, which we
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said was also an elementary principle, water baptism and the
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baptism in the Holy Spirit. Right.
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And then he goes on to say, then Paul said, John indeed baptized
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you. Here it is with the baptism of
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repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him
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who would come after him, that is, on Christ.
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And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the
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Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands
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on them, say, laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon
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them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied Now the
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man, now the men were about 12 in all.
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So here you see a perfect example of what we talked about
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actually out of Hebrews, right? And we see the difference
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between the two. And you know, it's good that
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we're refreshing ourselves with this because again, some people
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probably are not even filled with the spirit in here with the
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evidence of speaking in tongues. And guess what?
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God wants it for you. And it is an elementary
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principle. It's for all who will believe.
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It's for every believer. It's it's actually for babes in
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Christ. You don't have to be mature to
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be able to receive it. The minute you get born again,
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you can also get filled with the Spirit and the evidence of that
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will be that you will pray and speak in other tongues.
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Amen. Hallelujah, glory to God.
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And there's people that need it because it will absolutely
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change your life. It is the more it is what you're
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missing. It is what you need.
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Acts 6, one through 7. Now in those days, the number of
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the disciples here it is because This is why we laid hands on
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everyone last week. Now in those days when the
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number of the disciples were multiplying, there arose a
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complaint against the Hebrews of the Hellenistic Jews, right,
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because the widows were being neglected in the daily
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distribution. And then the 12 summoned the
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multitude of the disciples, and said, It is not desirable that
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we should leave the Word and serve tables.
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Therefore, brethren, seek out among you seven men of good
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rapport, full of the Holy Spirit.
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Look at this. They had to be full of the Holy
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Spirit as well, and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this
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business. But we will give ourselves
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continually to prayer and the ministry of the Word and the
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saying, please, the whole multitude.
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And so of course, they chose Steven, a man full of faith and
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the Holy Spirit. I love Steven as well, and
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Philip. You know, and all these people,
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and Nicholas, a proselyte from Antioch, whom they set before
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the apostles. And when they had prayed, what
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did they do? Laid their hands on them.
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And then the word of God spread and the number of disciples
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multiplied greatly in Jerusalem. And a great many of the priests
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were obedient to the faith. You see that they laid their
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hands on them. Now, I know you're saying when
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are we going to see where they laid their hands on the sit?
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OK, we're getting there. But I want to say this, that
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there are over 31 incidences in the New Testament where the
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apostles in Jesus laid their hands on individuals to receive
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their healing, OK. And we can see that it was
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either also he laid his member, he laid his hands on the little
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children that came to him, and he what?
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He blessed them just like we see how He blessed how they blessed
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in the Old Covenant. He laid His hands on them for
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healing. We see the Scripture where He
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laid his hands on them for receiving the Holy Spirit.
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And then we also see again they laid their hands on them to
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separate them into leadership or position of the ministry.
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You see that. So we read all of those
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Scriptures to prove that out, that we can see that in the New
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Testament as well, and the works that Jesus and the disciples
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did. Now look at Mark 6, Mark 6,
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We're going to see where Jesus himself, right?
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So in Mark 6, chapters one through 6, it says this.
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Then he went out from there and came to his own country, and his
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disciples followed him was the Sabbath had come, and he began
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to teach in the synagogues. And many hearing him, were
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astonished, saying, where did this man get these things?
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And that what wisdom is this which is given to him, that such
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mighty works were performed by His hands?
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Is this not the Carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of
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James and Judas Simon? And are they not his sisters?
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Here is with us. So they were offended at him.
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And but Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor,
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except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his
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own house. Now He couldn't do no mighty
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work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people.
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One scripture where we see he laid his hands on a few sick
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people and hid them, healed them, and he marveled because of
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their unbelief. And then he went about the
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villages right teaching. Luke 4:40 through 41 when the
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sun was setting, and all those who had any that were sick,
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where with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid
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his hands on every one of them and healed them.
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And demons also came out of many crying out and saying, You are
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the Christ, the Son of God. And He rebuking them did not
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allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ,
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Amen. So we see clearly that He wants
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to administer healing through the laying on of hands, Amen.
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And the healing power of God can flow.
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And you know you can receive. You just have to be in a
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position of faith. You then, you know, have to say
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I am going to receive the healing power of God in my body
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through them laying hands on me. Amen.
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That's where you can be in faith because not everybody will just
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simply believe the word that God can heal them.
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So this is another way that healing can be administered is
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so that they can be in a position of agreement as well
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with someone again that can believe God for him.
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Pray and also out of first Corinthians chapter 12, if the
1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention
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Lord's willing, a working of a great, you know, miracle and
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faith could be a gift of the spirit in operation as well.
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You see that and so we have to be in a position that we receive
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when we come up. We're just not going through a
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motion of, oh, they're just like, no, this isn't a blessing.
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It's not a blessing. I'm not just laying my hands on
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you and saying bless you, bless you, bless you.
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No, there is got to be faith in activation for the power of God
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to flow. Amen.
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For the power of God to flow. And it's easier when someone's
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in agreement with you, unless there is a gift of healing,
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right? And that's supernatural.
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That's beyond my faith and beyond your faith.
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It's God's faith flowing and working through us.