Matt Tucker - March 1

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Our Story.

Welcome to His Story, Our Story, a fresh podcast series

of interviews, testimonies, messages, and anecdotes where a range of

people from all walks of life share their journey as

they've traveled with Jesus. Here at Southland Church and Pasaden Adelaide.

Our heart and mission is to pursue the presence of

God through a Christ centered, Bible based, spirit filled church.

We disciple and equip people to make a positive difference

for the Kingdom of God and impact every area where

God places them. So sit back, grab a cup of

tea or coffee, unless, of course, you're driving where both

hands are needed on the wheel, and enjoy this episode.

We pray that you are blessed and encouraged as you

listen to his story, our story.

So I wanted to start off with a testimony. There's

my testimony. I got healed a few weeks back in

this church. So it was actually almost the Holy Spirit

that put David up here to talk about healing through communion.

So for about a month, I've been sick. I haven't preached.

Last time I was actually sick when I preached, I

actually had something wrong with my lungs. I had the

flu and I'd wake up gasping for air constantly and

of coughing, and I was you didn't even know, but

I was preaching sick. And I think Gary actually preached

on deliverance when week in January and everyone came to

the front, and me and my mofere like, yeah, we're

going to go to the front. We're going to stand

with these people to see freedom, and something aside me

is like, no, today, I'm getting my healing. I am

not going to be sick another day. And then Dave

came and prayed for me, and the power of God

hit me and he said to me, stand on the words.

So I love it. Thank you Dave. I got healed

and my lungs have been clear, which is a miracle.

So I just wanted to testify to the goodness of God.

And so I just wanted to, like, we always believe

in this house that the testimony of Jesus is the

spirit of prophecy. So I wanted to testify to you

what God done. I didn't want to hide it and

be like, yeah, I'm healed. So I wanted to glorify God.

And so this is kind of part of where I'm

going with is my message. So it helps the tide in.

So today we're I'm going to be turning to John

fourteen seven fourteen, and so I'm going to be talking

about the same works that Jesus did and greater. But

I want to give it context because I like scripture.

So we were starting the word and then we'll go

into it. Father God, we just thank you, We thank

you for all that's happened already, and we thank you

for the community. We thank you for the worship. We

thank you that you're already wanting to touch people. Thank

you that you in this church we already believe in healing.

We thank you, Father God. We just let go right now,

Holy Spirit. We just say, Holy Spirit, touch people, heal people,

deliver people, flow wherever you want to flow, just let

us know them so we can agree with you, because

we don't want to do it without you. We don't

want to run ahead of you. We just want to

walk hand in hand with you, Holy Spirit, because we

know that you are the power that resurrected Christ, that

you bring life everywhere you go, and we're believing for

that today in Jesus name. Amen. So I want to

read John fourteen. It's a very big scripture and it

talks about I'm just going to go straight of verse seven.

I'm very echoey. So it just finishes off saying I

am the way, the truth in life. I am the

way to the Father. And then we go on to

verse seven. It says, if you had known me, you

would have known the Father. Also from now on you

do know him and have seen him. And Philip says

to him, Lord, show us the Father is it not enough?

And it will be enough, Jesus said him. Have I

been with you so long that you still do not

know me? Philip, whoever have seen the whoever has seen me,

has seen the Father. How can you say, show us

the Father? Do you not believe that I am in

the Father and the Father is in me? The words

that I say to you, I do not speak of

my own authority, But the Father, who dwells the dwells

in me and does his works. Believe me that I

am in the Father and the Father is in me,

or else believe on account of the works themselves powerful scripture.

And then he goes on to say this truly, truly,

I say to you, whoever believes in me will also

do the works that I do, And greater works than

these he will do, because I am going to the Father.

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do,

that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If

you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. Amen.

When I was praying and I said, Gary asked me

to preach, and this is a scripture. And I was like, God,

where am I going with all this? God? You know

I could go so many ways with this scripture, and

it's so much in healing and miracles and science. And

I wrote a message and I deleted a message. And

I wrote a message and I deleted a message. So

this is my last message. This is the refined version,

this is the revised version, this is the last one

of them alm and I just felt like the Lord

was saying to me, and so many visions have been

coming to me, and this is what the law city.

Because there's already people, you know, there's already people moving

and healing in this church. And he said to me,

it's like you're going to pour kerosene on the fire

that's already going. You're not trying to light a fire.

You're pouring oil on it. You're saying, burn hotter, burn fire.

Let us break out in every person in this church

in saying that, I want to tell a story. And

it goes back to it must have been twenty fifteen.

I was in India. I just finished Bible College twenty fourteen, fifteen,

and we had this thing every Friday. We called it prayer.

It was actually just an outreach, but we called it

prayer because of the Hindu extremism and you can't just

go out there. We're going to reach everybody for Jesus,

so you have to say certain words. It was just

me preaching the gospel literally and where they're preaching the

gospel and what I put because I got to run

the whole meeting. It was the first time I got

to do every little bit. I had my worship team,

but I made them tell a testimony every single time

I preached. And we will sing so many crazy miracles,

we'll sing healings, We'll sing people get saved. We'll cramming

about one hundred people, probably in a small room. It's sweaty.

It was just you know God's moving when you can

cram a whole bunch of people in a humid, sweaty

room and they want to hear you preach. So therefore

God was doing something. And in the midst of all this,

this one week, this one Friday, this girl, this twelve

year old girl, gets up and testifies. And if you

don't understand, I'm sitting there on the side not completely

understanding because they're speaking in Hindi, so I'm waiting for

the translator to come tell me what's going on. They're

all cheering, and then I cheer afterwards, because it's like

this delayed cheer for me, so almost like I'm a

little slow. It's like that is actually just me not understanding.

This girl gets up and tells this story of how

she got to pray for a mum who had dengue fever.

So if you don't understand, in the dengue fever is

like a death sentence. It's almost like, especially being in Islam,

especially being poor, especially being with the demographic that we're

ministering into of India, she was pretty much going to die,

and this little girl prayed for her, just laid his

hands on her and prayed. You know what happened to

me When I got the translation, I was like, where'd

she learned that? Where did she learned to do that?

I'm like, I went to Bible College. I'm thinking I've

done all this study. I pray for all these other people,

all these people got healed, and the Holy Spirit goes,

what do you say every single week when you get up?

You quote Mark sixteen to everyone? And these signs shall

follow those who believe you, shall cast out devils, You

shall speak in other tongues, you shall lay your hands

and tell them. Because I was trying not because in India,

when you start to see miracles, you start to see

people get saved, you God start to use you, you get

in this there's this line of danger that they'll start

to worship you, because then you can just become another Guru,

another God, another one. And so I had to keep puting.

I kept putting this scripture and to protect myself. But

God goes every time you're saying that you actually swung

a seed into this girl, that she one day she goes,

I'm a believer, I have hands, I can lay my

hands on the sick. And so therefore she took the

simple faith of the Gospel, the simple scriptures, and just

went I'm going to lay my hands. And then her

mom fully recovered. She believed and did the works that

Jesus did, So that simple. If you knew who she was,

you wouldn't even know her name. She's from a part

of Delhi most of you wouldn't even heart. She's part

of a place that no one's even seen. She's considered uneducated,

untouchableun but God sees her. God used her. So I

just want to say that you're all qualified, right, God

uses the unqualified. The scripture that came to me because

I use God. You know, you know what I mean,

Like God rebuked me in that moment, God humbled me

in that moment. It is just like, you know what

I mean, because I've seen all these people getting healed

all the time. And then God's like, I can use it.

I can use anyone, Matt. I'm not a respect of persons.

I honor my word above my name. I will use

whoever's available, I'll use. And I'll sit and there going, Okay, God,

I'm just like, go low, go low, Amen. So I

want to and then I'm going to just keep reading

on this. This is also done through the Apostles, so

Acts chapter five, twelve sixteen. He says, now many signs

and wonders were regularly done among the people by the

hands of the Apostles, and they were all together in

songs porticle, and none of the rest dared join them,

but the people held them in highest thing. And more ever,

believers were added to the Lord, multitudes, both men and women.

So they carried out the sick into the streets, lay

them on cots and mats, that as Peter came, at

least this shadow might follow them, and the people also

gathered from towns and around jurism bring the sick and

those afflicted with unclean spirits, that they were all healed.

I never got to that all healed yet, but I'm

blieming for it. So what's happening is in this scripture.

This actually flows on from earlier in Act chapter five

where you see Sapphira and Annis drop dead. So we

got to see that in scripture. Is this procession in scripture.

It's not just like one moment we always read. We

can take scripture and go that's a good moment. But

this is what's happening is they've had the outpouring. Peter's

already preached, They've had people get saved, and then God

brings holiness into the moment Clean's house, two people light

of the Holy Spirit. Boom, they dropped dead, and then

more miracles break out. They've already received persecution, they've already

received all told shut up, don't preach in Jesus name.

They just keep going. But the thing is what's happening

is because just like Jesus when he was on the

earth before he was resurrected and lent to the Father,

he says, people came and touch jesus garment. At least

we can touch his garment, right, we know that scripture

of the woman with the issue of blood. But then

later on, if you read Mark, he says, other people

heard of that testimony and said I'll try it too,

And that's what's happening here. They can't get Peter to

prey from him, so at least at least maybe his

shadow might touch him. It's still in that same works.

It's still doing what Jesus already did. They haven't crossed over.

There is a moment in as you keep reading the

scriptures that they do cross over into other miracles. And

I will get there, or worry, we're just getting you

the build up. Don't want to get you too excited

too early. We've got to lay the foundations of the word.

And we'll also come to when he's in one Corinthians

one five Paul to them. In the second chapter of Corinthians,

he says, and when I came to you, brothers, did

I not come proclaiming to you the testimy of God

with a lofty speech or wisdom? For I decided to

know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified

and when I was with you with weakness and in

fear and trembling, my speech and my message was not

plausible words or wisdom, but a demonstration of the spirit

and power, so that your faith might not rest in

the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

So Paul saying he didn't come with this amazing preach.

If you read Acts, the Greeks called him, what is

this babbler? We read all the books and go, oh,

my god, Paul's this amazing guy. But then they're calling

him a babbla when he's in Athens. And so when

he's in Crimss saying I didn't come to you with

elegant words. I came to you with your demonstration of

the Kingdom of God. He came with power. Because if

we read the Word says that his word is power

and life to all who believe it. I don't have

this separation of the spirit and word. I have this

overlapping thing because without the word, I don't have the spirit.

Without the spirit, I don't have the word. I have

both because we need both. If you want to see miracles,

you have to have both. Because he says, I sent

my word and I healed you and delivered you in

Someone seven, verse twenty, and we read an app We

read an account of these miracles with Paul and Acts

nineteen eleven, and it says, I'll give it this, read this,

and I'll go back a little bit, because there's a

lot going on in this scripture too. If you always

read the book Scriptures, you find that miracles happen with

the phone of the word. You follow the word, you

follow it, and then these miracles break loose. So Acts nineteen

he says, and God was doing extra warning miracles by

the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons

that touched his skin were carried away to the sick

and the diseases left them and evil spirits came out

of them. I could leave it there, but others more.

I remember, Gary, we have to be led by the

spirit when we're praying for people, because not every sickness

is demonic, and not every demonic is sickness, and not

every demon every time someone manifested them. Sometimes it's other

things going on, and so you have to hear the

Holy Spirit. It always comes back to that intimacy without intimacy,

if it doesn't flow, because as you read John, when

I read the first scripture, he says, if you knew

who I was, you hadn't seen the Father. It's always

this intimacy. It's always out of a heart of yieldedness

to him. And I'll explain it. As we read the

scripture and verse three, as I just thought, the spirits

came out. Then some itinerant Jewish exodus undertook, invoking the

name of the Lord Jesus over whoever. The those who

had evil spirit, saying, I adjurl you by Jesus, whom

Paul spoke of the seven Sons, sons of the Jewish

high priest named Skiba, were doing this. But the evil

spirit answered them, saying, Jesus, I know Paul, I recognize,

but who are you. And the man who was with

the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them,

overpowered them. So they fled out of the house, naked

and wounded. And this became known among all the residents

of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, and fear fell upon

them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted.

And so many of those who now believers came confessing

their diverging, their practices. A number of those who had

practiced magic arts brought their books together, burned them in

the sight of all, and they counted the value of

them and found that it was fifty thousand pieces of silver.

And so the word of the Lord continue to increase

and prevail mightily. I love that last bit. After all

that the word of God prevailed mightily. See what you're

seeing is, they said, Jesus, who that guy knows? They

weren't surrendered to him. He wasn't their master, he wasn't

their lord. So they had no authority. They're coming in

authority of another king to tell that kingdom get out,

But they had no authority because they didn't have relationship

with him. So when you come against this, you have

to be surrendered. When you're doing deliverance, that's scriptually always

comes to me as it says, submit under God, resist

the devil, and he shall flee. There's a process in

seeing freedom, even doing spiritual warfare. Sorry and adding, because

I'm hearing the Holy Spirit said tell that story now.

So I tell a story when in twenty sixteen, and

it was we're doing a camp. So the long story

I was a short trip. It was only like I

came back. It just was there for twelve days, and

it was God did so much in those twelve days.

And they were sending me in the camp, a medical camp,

out to this place. And they said before because they

already knew, they already seen because I did a meeting

and I preached the same scripture that they've preached on

out of Aazaia fifty three and it was awesome and

God moved and they said to me, brother, it's okay,

I know you heal the sick, but when we go

there where we're going in this school, you won't see

anyone healed. They don't like it there. We went there early.

They said no. I said, okay, why am I coming there?

You know what I mean? Like in my heart, I'm

just like I fine, I'll get the I just got

in the back of the van and did what I

do and so I just prayed in the spirit. I

just prayed and prayed and prayed. I don't know how

long it took us to get there. It's probably three

hours by the time we got there. I walk in

and I surrendered us God. I don't know what this is.

I don't want I don't want to waste my time.

I don't want to waste their time. I'm praying and

I'm walking in. As soon as i'm walking in, this

statue of a God was right there, and the spirit

behind it started talking to me, is screaming at me,

You're not going to see anything today. You've wasted your time,

and I just kept praying. I was like, Lord, I

surrendered to you. Lord. If there's anything in common with

me with that spirit, deal with me now. And then

an angel came and then we broke that spirit, and

that day we saw so many people healed, even to

the point where the Muslim doctors and nurses were asking

for healing. Because the spiritual warfare is always about people.

And so therefore, just like this, if you they if

I came in the name that I didn't know, if

I didn't know who Jesus was, that thing would just

tell me to shut up and I'll just have to submit.

But because I surrendered, it's always that going low that

we see the miracles, that we see the God move

through you. And that's what I want to tell you.

God wants to use you. That's why he says those

who believe it's not very simple qualification. It's not like

this over complicated thing. I feel like sometimes we try

to overcomplicate the things of God, but God wants to

simplify it. Because I loved Grace's testimony because I just

had a childlike prayer, a simple prayer, and the person

got healed. God uses childlife faith so that we try

and get up here. And God's just like, just just

be where you're at. I'll use you where you're at.

God wants to use you where you're at. He doesn't

want to use you trying to make it up here.

And then once I make it up here, then God

can use me. He came low on the cross to

bring us up. We don't have to bring ourselves up.

That's what grace is. If we had to bring ourselves up,

I wouldn't be here because I wouldn't get up here

on myself. I need his grace, I need his love,

I need his forgiveness. That's why the Cross is so powerful.

That's why I enjoyed that communion so much. It's that

we have to push in. Like Dave was saying, I

want to talk about a man in my last got

a little bit. It's a man named John G. Lake.

He was a missionary to South Africa. I don't know

if you've heard of him. He was around that nineteen

o eight to nineteen thirteen. So he went to Africa

just to help and bury some of these dead people.

They were having the Beyondic plague and it was affecting

the whole nation, and they had to suit up, and

this guy wasn't suiting up. He was just walking out

there picking them up and pulling. And then they started

noticing one day they said, well, how come you're not

getting sick. We're all getting sick. And then this is

the scripture. This is his I'll read verse one and

then on verse two, but verse two is what he

actually said. Therefore, in this is a Romans chat day.

I didn't write it down for some reason. Therefore that

now there's no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus for

the law of the spirit of life. In Christ, Jesus

made me free from the law of sin and death.

That was what he said to the doctors, that Christ

and Him has set him free from the sin and

death because he saw sickness as a form of death.

They said, he picked up the foam our the mouth

of the people with the beyond the plate, and he said,

put it under the scope, see what happens. And as

they were inspecting, they watched it die in his hand

because he was so convinced that death had no power

over him. He's so convinced that this had nothing on

him because he had the life of the Spirit of

God in him, and you have it too, because the

Holy Spirit's in you. I'm not recommending you go do this,

but unless God leads you to do it and you're

convinced of it. Because sometimes we do things and it's

like someone else did it, I'll do it. That's not

how this works. I promise you. You have to be

here the Holy Spirit. It comes back to that knowing Him,

knowing the Father, and being led by the Spirit, because

when you step out in the spirit, the Holy Spirit

hold you because you're standing on the word of God.

I'm going to read this scripture because Guy's been reading it,

and it kind of commincides and wraps my message up

beautifully out of visions tune verse ten, for we are

his work misup, creating Christ Jesus to google good works

which God had prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

That mess I remember Gary preached that a few weeks ago,

and that really was like, yes, we should walk in them.

God's already ordained it that you should walk in good works.

But you have to choose. We have to choose day

in day out always. Are you going to back off

or you're going to step into the word? Are you

going to back off or hold onto the word? Are

you going to back off or let the Holy Spirit

use you today? And so this is that that's that

fight that we have is the fight of faith without face.

It says where it's impossible to please God. And so

it's such a powerful scriptures that I've been reading and

that we can either just leave the message or we

can step into it. I remember when I was teaching

after going to India that the children's ministry. I used

to be her youth leader. So she in buyed me

to come teach in the kids ministry and so I

just I said, Lord, I don't even know what to

teach these young kids, because just teach the Mark sixteen,

teach simple fire even more because kids believe, they're taught

to doubt, they're taught unbelief. And I just gave that

scripture and you shall lay hands on the sick, and

they for those who believe. And I just taught this,

and I taught about the girl that was twelve that

got used God healed. I said to the kids who

here believes Jesus, and they all put their hands up

because they believe. I said, who believes that Jesus is

who he says he is? And they all put their

hands up. I said, well, that qualifies you. I said,

who has hands? And they said, they all looked at

their hands. We all have hands. I said, that qualifies you.

You can go now lay your hands on the sick,

and people shall be healed. I unleashed them on the church.

I unleashed them on their parents. I've got testimonies of

parents coming up to me. Ever since you spoke, the

children are praying for us every time I get sick. Mommy, Mommy,

let's pray. Mommy, mommy, let's pray. And I'm like, come

on that. See. God doesn't like we say in this church.

There's no junior holy spirit. God respects his word. God

honors his word. It doesn't matter whether it's coming out

of a three year old's mouth or a five year

old's mouth or a eighty something year old's mouth. God's

word works, the spirit God works. In twenty twenty six

it still works. What he did years ago, he still

does today. I'll leave it with one more testimony and

then we'll get the band up. I remember that same

trip in twenty sixteen, and for some reason, I'm always

in these medical cares. Well, we're in a new location,

and wee I've seen so many miracles on that trip already,

and nothing was happening when a new location, like just

they're trying to always calm me down. You don't understand

because they're trying to keep me safe. But I'm not

light that I like to get in there. I'm like,

cause trouble kind of first, and let's cut some demons

out of people. And I was standing there and then

this guy came up and he actually wanted to prayer.

He was actually had a frame and he's walking and

I was like, oh, yes, come on, Jesus, let's do this.

And I was like praying, and he came up and

then I put my hands I could fill the bolts

in his legs and asking the translator what's happening because

he got hit by a truck. And this is me

talking about the extraordinary miracle things, and I prayed for him,

and he put his primer aside and he's able to walk.

The medal either disappeared or bent because he was able

to walk freely, and he testified on video. I've been

trying to get that video ever since. He moved freely

because God touched the metal and moved it and he

was healed. He goes, I don't know what's happening, but

somehow I'm healed. Isn't that awesome? When God does something extraordinary,

When God does something supernatural, I can't claim any credit.

I was just there and so God wants to use you.

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