The Power of Sonship: Who You Are in Him | Mark Brazee | World Outreach Church

Hallelujah. So anyway, we'll uh I'm

going to start out kind of sort of where

we were uh Sunday morning and um you

know, we we talked about from Sunday

morning, we we kind of launched out into

um the power of sunship.

And uh if there's anything the church

world really we need to get a good

handle on, it's that's who we are. Who I

am in him, who he is in me. I'm grateful

for that. I don't know about you, I

didn't know that for a long time. I knew

I saved. I knew I was going to heaven. I

knew who he was. I just didn't know who

I was. And when that started getting on

the inside of me, started changing

everything. But we'll go back through

there. We'll start here and then we're

going to go, I don't know, three or four

different directions. But if we go back

here to John chapter 1

John 1 · chapter mention

and uh we'll start what? Verse Let's

let's start out with verse uh um let's

go to verse 10.

The Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 10

John 1:10

talking about Jesus that he was in the

world and the world was made by him and

the world knew him not.

He came unto his own and his own

received him not. Think about that. The

price he paid to redeem us and he showed

up here and nobody even paid any

attention to him. Came to his own and

his own received him not. But now verse

12 where it starts getting really good.

But as many as received him

came to his own, his own received him

not. But to as many as received him, to

them gave he the power, the ability, the

dominion, the authority. To him, to them

gave he the power to become the sons of

God. To as many as believed on his name.

So he came to his own, his own received

him not. But to as many as received him,

to them gave he the power, the authority

to become the sons of God. That verse

right there, it's changed everything.

Okay. He brought us into his family. You

know, you stop and think about it.

Jesus,

John 3:16, for God so loved the world.

John 3:16

That's a verse. Everybody knows that.

Okay? Should For God so loved the world,

he gave his only begotten son that

whosoever believeth on him should not

perish but have everlasting life. So, we

see that John chapter 3:1 16 uh you know

that whosoever believes on him should

not perish but have everlasting life. We

see that there. And uh he paid that

price for us. So he uh

it starts out for God so loved the

world, he gave us his only begotten son.

You know, you go back through there and

we talked about it Sunday morning if you

were here. We talked about it at one

particular point. If you go back through

there, um you've got over in Luke the 3

chapter, you've got around verse, I

don't know, 23, 24, something like that.

You've got really you've got about 4,000

years of of genealogies. This one was

the son of this one. Who is the son of

this one? Who's the I I don't go through

all that. Number one, it take too long.

Number two, I can't pronounce half of

them anyway. But

when you go back through there, you've

got all the genealogies from everything

goes and it it ends up at the very end

of the third chapter of the book of Luke

says, "Who was the son of Adam?"

Who was the son of God? Here's

something. Think about that. God God had

one son, Adam. That was his son. That

was great except Adam blew it. God said,

you know, whatever you do, there's two

trees in the midst of the garden.

There's the tree of life. Eat of that

all you want. There's another tree of

knowledge of good and evil. Do not eat

of that because in the day that you do,

you'll surely die. Die didn't mean he'll

stop breathing. Die meant he'd separate

himself from the King of Kings. So, he

told him not to do that. And of course,

you know, I mean, you can figure out

which one, you know, human nature set in

before human nature had much chance to

get used to it. And next thing you know,

God told them to stay away from do not

eat of that tree. And of course, you

know, they're they're over there

checking out to see why that crazy

snake's talking to them. And next thing

you know, they're eating of the tree of

uh knowledge of good and evil. And when

they did, you know, of course, God shows

up later on. He said, "Where are you?"

We said, "We hid ourselves." He said,

"How do you know you hid yourself?" And

of course they had to understand then

that God said, "You ate of the tree. You

did what I told you not to do." So we go

back through there

and uh

so God had one son, Adam, and Adam gave

up that sunship.

Okay? And so for the next 4,000 years of

humanity, roughly 4,000 best we can

tell, you've got humanity going through

4,000 years all the way from Adam's fall

to the Gospels. When you get over there

into the third chapter of the book of

Luke where where it talks about Jesus

how he was baptized and the river came

up out of the water praying the heavens

opened the the spirit of God descended

in bodily form like a dove came upon him

remained upon him and a voice came out

of heaven said thou art my beloved son

in thee I am well pleased. God went

imagine that God who started this whole

thing out started with a son. the son

traded everything in. When he did that,

all of a sudden, God's got no sons. He's

got friends. You know, Adam, uh, Abraham

was called a friend. You know, Moses,

God looked spent some time with him like

face to face as a friend. Uh, you've got

God with a couple friends out of masses

of humanity. And you've got you've got

um

masses of of uh uh masses of basically

uh f a couple friends, but you know,

just just a few um uh

you know, what's the term I'm looking

for? He had he a lot of folks that that

worked for him, a lot of people that

hang out with him. He just didn't have

any sons. Didn't have any family

members. Okay. And so we go back through

there and you've got God with 4,000

years with no sons and all of a sudden

Jesus shows up and the Bible said, "For

God so loved the world, he gave his only

begotten son." And so we look at this

and the first thing God does was he

gives us his son. Number two, he shows

us his son. He has a son walk and talk

and act and think and do the works of a

son. Did everything a son would do.

Okay? And and showed us a son. I like we

we had the chance, brother uh Dr. TL

Osbor, you know, before he checked out

and went over to the other side. We were

we were talking with him at one

particular point and uh he said he was

talking to Daisy, his wife at one

particular point and said uh she said,

"Daisy," now think about this. Here's

Daisy, his wife, talking to TL Osborne,

the leading frontier evangelist on

planet Earth. Okay? And she says, "Tiel,

why did Jesus come?" Well, you know,

that's kind of a loaded question. When

you ask TL Osborne why Jesus came,

you're you're about in for a six or

eight hour message in there. Why did

Jesus come? He said, 'Well, he came to

seek and save that which is lost. Yeah.

He came to destroy the works of the

devil. Yeah. Okay. He came to show us

the father. Yeah. He came to show us a

son. Yeah. He said, "I think this is a

loaded question. I think you got an

answer I'm not getting yet." She said,

he said, "What is what did Jesus come to

do? He came to do all those things.

came to show us the father. Came to

demonstrate us, son. But she said, "He

came to show us the son, but he also

came to show us us."

And I remember when he told us that, it

was kind of like it went off like

fireworks. I thought, "Yeah, I get what

you're saying. Jesus came to show us the

father. He came to show us a son, but he

also came to show us us because he was

Jesus was going to make us sons and

daughters of the living God." And so

anyway, so we came into the family of

God. We came in as sons and daughters

and um uh all of a sudden everything

started changing. We became a child of

almighty God. Jesus disciples, excuse

me, the devils

didn't really have any clue. Some of

them cried out and said, you know, we

know you're the son of God. What have

you come to torment us before the time?

The devil seemed to understand who he

was. Just nobody else did. Finally, he

Jesus asked Peter said, "Uh, who do uh

who who do people say I am?" Peter said,

"Well, you know, some say you're Jer uh

Jeremiah, John the Baptist, you know,

one of one of the prophets." Yeah. And

then he says, "Okay, let's take it a

step further. Who do you say I am?" This

is getting down to business now. Who do

you say I am? Peter says, "What? Well,

you're the Christ, the Son of the living

God." Jesus said, "Blessed art thou,

Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has

not revealed this unto thee, but my

father which is in heaven, and unto you

I'll give the keys of the kingdom of

heaven." We know where it goes from

there.

But uh in that particular context, he

said uh Peter got it. You know, it's

Jesus said, "Flesh and blood didn't give

this to you. You got this from heaven."

He said, "Thou art the Christ, the son

of the living God." He got it. Now,

think about that. I'm sure he went back

to all the other guys. He went back to

the boys, okay? Said, "I want you to

know who we're with. I got it today.

This is not just a local prophet. This

is not just one of the prophets. This is

not like, you know, like uh Elijah,

Elisha, Jeremiah, John. This is this is

the son of God. I know. I heard it from

heaven. He told me I'm right."

>> Okay. So, he got that. And so now all

these guys, all the disciples, Jesus'

team, they all knew who they were with.

They suddenly had an understanding.

We're not just with a prophet. We're

with Jesus, the son of the living God.

And so I'm sure that changed everything.

And so they said, "We're we're walking

with him. We're talking with him. He's

teaching us. We're learning from him.

He's he's distributing everything he

knows to us. He's giving. He's we got

three and a half years. He's going to

deposit in us everything he's got. We

are with the son of the living God. This

is great. And uh we're going to spend

our life learning from Jesus, the son of

God. That's great until we get to the

11th chapter of Luke's gospel.

And the disciples said, "Jesus, teach us

to pray." As John also taught his

disciples. And he said, "Okay, that's

not a problem. I'll teach you to pray."

And all of a sudden, everything

everything changed again. They had just

gotten used to the fact that they're

with the son of God. And all of a

sudden, Jesus says, "When you pray, say

this, first two words in what we call

the Lord's prayer, our father."

Changed everything there. They just

figured out there with Jesus. And we

knew who his father was. But all of a

sudden, Jesus said, "When you pray, say

this, our father, which art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,

thy gave him what we call the Lord's

prayer." So, so suddenly now the Jesus

is going to take the rest of the time

he's got on planet earth and he's going

to start training his disciples to walk

as sons, talk as sons, live the life of

sons, do the works of sons. And that's

really what Jesus began to to uh to

teach them.

If you go back to John the 14th chapter

verse 12, Jesus said talking to his

disciples, he said, "Verily, verily, I

say unto you, he that he that believeth

on me, he that believeth on me, the

works that I do shall he do also, and

greater works than these shall he do

because of going unto my father." What's

he doing? He's starting to raise them

up. He's starting to train him up.

Verily, verily, when he uses two

verileies, you know, he wants you to

listen. Verily, verily, I say unto you,

he that believeth on me, the works that

I do shall he do also, and greater

works, not just greater works, the

works. I remember, you know, when I

first started walking with God, uh got

my life right number of years ago now.

And uh you know, you you we'd start

talking about some of these things and

and people start talking about, you

know, well, we you know, the the doing

the greater works and the greater works.

And one I finally said to one, I said,

"Well, my Bible said that it's not just

the greater works. I need to be doing

the works he did and greater works than

these because he went to the father. I

need to be doing what he did." Jesus

raised up a a uh a kingdom of sons and

daughters. That's what he's done for us.

He's raised us up. Here we are 2,000

years down the road, and it's time for

us to step into that. You know, if you

go back through, we won't take time this

evening, but if you go to um

the eth chapter of the book of Romans,

it says in there later on in the

chapter, it says, "All of creation,

all of creation." There's a lot of

different interpretations of this, but I

think it's the Philips translation said,

"All of all of creation is standing on

its tiptoes waiting to see the sons of

God come into their own." Didn't just

wait. Didn't say they're just waiting to

see a son of God. They're waiting to see

the sons of God come into their own. God

has paid the price to bring us into his

family. God's paid the price to make us

sons and daughters of the living God.

God's paid the price to bring us into

his kingdom. God's paid the price so we

could do the works he did greater works

because he went to the father. So, here

we are and we're couple thousand years

down the road and uh I don't know about

you, look, the world's a kind of a crazy

place right now. You know, um the the

question is uh are we going to are we

going to take out Iran? I don't know.

Are we going to we got all of our ships

over there? We is the world going to

come to a screeching halt. Are we going

to go into World War II? I don't know.

Don't have a clue. But I do know we're

we are we're pretty close to the end of

things for the church age. But I don't

think the church is done. I I I wouldn't

like to think that this is all there is.

is that we're just going to wrap it up

and go home say, "Well, hasn't it been

fun? We didn't get a lot of things done.

We did pretty good job." I It just looks

to me like there's something the church

world's going to have to do.

The world, excuse me, the world is

standing on their tiptoes waiting to see

the sons of God come into their own.

This been 2,000 years about time we we

just, you know, about time we got with

the program. So anyway, let's just move

on from here. We could go this many

directions of this but but the you know

the bottom line is what we're what we're

do there's a call of God on the church

world to walk the walk talk the talk

rise up and be sons be daughters of the

living God now we've talked about it

before numerous times but if you go back

through there

where uh uh Matthew's gospel chapter 4

verse 23 where it says back there Jesus

went so so if we're going to do what he

did, we got to find out what he did.

You know, it's it's one thing to say,

I'm we're going to do the works of

Jesus. What did he do? I don't know, but

I'm going to do them. No, we if we're

going to do the works he did, we got to

find out what he did. And if we're going

to find out how he what he did, we need

to find out how he did it. We said last

week, John G. Lake went to to South

Africa and uh he'd had signs and wonders

and miracles all over America, but he

said, "God sent me, took my family, sent

us to South Africa, went down to

Johannesburg and uh they started

planting churches." I think overall, I

think he started about 500 churches, but

I'm not sure. But he's got down there

and um he said God began he said he he

in the states here he showed us what he

did but he took us to South Africa where

he could take us behind the scenes and

show us how he did it. And so when I saw

that I started reading every John G Lake

book I could get my hands on. I've got

books with the covers worn off. I've got

books every kind of book. I found one

the other day. You can hardly read the

cover on the thing. It's so old. But I

went back through there because I

thought that's what God sent him to do

to South Africa was to go behind the

scenes and not just see what God did,

but see how God did it. And that's

really what the church needs. Because if

we're going to do what he did, we got to

figure out how he did it

>> best we can. Well,

that being the case, if we go back to

Matthew the uh 9th uh fourth chapter,

excuse me, fourth chapter, 23rd verse,

it said Jesus went round about their

cities and villages, teaching in their

synagogues, preaching the gospel of the

kingdom and healing every manner of

sickness and every manner of disease

among the people. The way Jesus did

everything was teaching, preaching, and

healing. Teaching, preaching, and

healing. There's no shortcut to that.

follow the ministry of Jesus through

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And there

were times he'd just walk up and deliver

a miracle to somebody. But as a general

rule, Jesus started everything out by

teaching, preaching, healing, teaching,

preaching, healing. Teaching, preaching,

healing. If that's how he did it, and if

the church is going to do the works

Jesus did, what should we be doing?

Teaching, preaching, healing, teaching,

preaching, healing. And you find the

ministry of Jesus when he was in uh in

uh Mark's gospel uh I believe it's the

sixth chapter uh went to his own

hometown and the Bible said there he

could do no mighty works. Mark chapter 6

Mark 6 · chapter mention

verse5 I think it was there he could do

no mighty works he laid his hands upon a

few sick folk a few folks with minor

ailments and healed them. Okay. Went to

imagine that. Went to his own hometown.

Boy, if you're going to have miracles

you want them in your own hometown. went

to his own hometown and said there

didn't say he wouldn't said he couldn't.

There he could do no mighty work say he

laid his hands upon a few sick folk and

healed them. Got a few folks healed of,

you know, of colds, flu, and and uh uh

hangails. He's got he he got some people

healed of some minor things,

but said he went to his own hometown.

there he could do no mighty works. Save

he laid his hands upon a few sick folk

and healed them and marveled because of

their unbelief and went round about

their cities and villages teaching. See,

when things didn't work, Jesus knew if

things weren't working, it wasn't just

because it just wasn't going to work.

Jesus knew if people weren't getting

what he had, it's because they hadn't

heard what he was saying. So what'd he

do? He went back and he began to travel

around. Teach, preach, heal. teach,

preach, heal, teach, preach, heal,

teach, preach, heal. Uh Luke's gospel,

fifth chapter. He was in the house uh

teaching. Place was filled with scribes,

Pharisees, doctors of the law. And it

says the power of the Lord was, this is

the best part, said the power of the

Lord. Luke chapter 5, it's verse 17, I

Luke 5 · chapter mention

think, says, "And the power of the Lord

was

>> present to heal them." No, not just

present to heal. said it was present to

heal them. It was God's will to heal

them or the power would not have been

there to heal them. Okay? So there Jesus

is he's teaching. We know that it says

he's in there teaching. He's teaching in

the power of the Lord's present to heal

them and none of them are getting

healed.

So what do you do? Shake the dust off

his feet and say, "I'm done with this

place. I'll never come back. I will

never come back and do another meeting

here again in my life." No. What do you

do when people aren't getting the

results? He's anointed with the Holy

Ghost and power. Nobody's taken

advantage of that. Nobody's being

healed, no miracles taking place. Power

of the Lord's it. Well, maybe God just

didn't want him healed. Well, that

wouldn't make any sense. God's no

respector of persons, and if nobody's

getting healed and the power of the

Lord's present to heal them, something's

going wrong somewhere. So, what'd he do?

He knew if they're not getting healed,

the power it isn't. Well, there just not

enough power. No, there's plenty of

power. Power of the Lord is present to

heal them and none of them are getting

healed. So, what does he do? He knows

his ministry, the way it works. See, if

the church gets hold of this, we want to

go meeting to meeting to meeting and lay

hands on everybody until they get

friction burns on their forehead. That's

just not going to work. You might get a

few people healed that way, but what

happens is a lot of times we're trying

to take a shortcut, get somebody healed

without doing things the way Jesus did

it. How did Jesus do it? He went round

about, Matthew 4:23, went round about

Matthew 4:23

their cities and villages, teaching in

their synagogues, preaching the gospel

of the kingdom, and healing every manner

of sickness and every manner of disease

among the people. He went about

teaching, preaching, healing. And just

in case that doesn't register, go to

Matthew the 9th chapter, 35th verse says

the same thing. God said it twice in

Matthew's gospel said Jesus uh went

round about their cities and villages

teaching in their synagogues, preaching

the gospel. He just he he repeats this

teaching in their synagogues, preaching

the gospel of the kingdom, and

healing every manner of sickness and

every manner of disease amongst people.

And then it goes a little ways from

there. Talks about praying that he'd,

you know, he'd thrust labors into his

harvest and so on. But again, Matthew

Matthew 4:23

4:23, Matthew 9:35, both places he said

Matthew 9:35

the the ministry of Jesus, the now there

were other things he did. We understand

that. But the primary way he he

ministered to humanity once the Holy

Ghost came on him, the anointing of God

came on, the anointing he left behind

when he came to earth came on him when

he was baptized in the river Jordan came

back on him and at that point he went

round about their cities and villages

teaching, preaching, healing, teaching,

preaching, healing. You know, that's

really it doesn't take a rocket

scientist to figure that out. If that's

how Jesus got results in his earthly

ministry. And then John 14:12, verily,

John 14:12

verily,

I say unto you that he that believeth on

me, the works that I do shall he do

also, and greater works than these shy

do because I go unto my father. If we're

if we're going to do what Jesus did,

we're probably going to have to do it

the way he did it.

You know, he didn't say, "This is great,

but I'm going to I'm I'm going to give

you a a short course." Okay? This takes

a lot of work. Teach, preach, heal. I'm

going to cut off a couple of these

things and just tell you just run

around. You know, you can go over to the

cathedrals over in uh Italy and

different places in Europe and you can

find these you can find these pictures

of Jesus. Uh oh, he's he's um anemic.

He's he's really skinny. He's anemic. He

doesn't look good at all. He's tiptoeing

down the pathway and he's just he's just

kind of reaching out. healing this one

and then he's healing that one and and

this that just makes it look like that's

how he did everything but that's not how

he did everything.

He went around about their cities and

villages

>> teaching in their synagogues preaching

the gospel of the kingdom healing every

When did the healing take place?

>> After the teaching and pre When did the

teaching and preaching take place?

before the he you're a step ahead of me.

Couple steps. Isn't that the I mean

that's what it says. When did the

healing take place? After teaching and

preaching. When did the he when did the

teaching and preaching take place?

Before the healing. You know, like I

said, it doesn't take a rocket scientist

to figure that one out. If that's the

way it worked for Jesus. And he told the

church that the works that he do did we

do we we should do also and greater

works than these shall he do we do

because he went to the father. then we

ought to get the same results.

>> Okay? You know, I mean, most people if

you say, you know, we I want to go so so

and so's meeting, I'll tell you he's

doing the works of Jesus. Well, is he

just teaching the Bible? Well, no, he

you know, he's no I that's okay, but I'm

going where they're doing the works of

you know, ever stop and think about it.

If you want to find where you somebody's

doing the works of Jesus, the first

thing you want to find out is they're

teaching andor preaching and healing.

>> Okay? No, I know. Don't misunderstand

me. There are places I've read um

a number of William Brandon books. I've

read AA Allen books. I've read Jack Co

books. I've read Katherryn Kman books.

I've read all this. And and you know,

and most of these ministries because of

the way they were used in the healing

the great healing revival 1947 and 1958.

because of the way they were used in

that particular

uh movement. A lot of them were getting

results without a lot of teaching and

preaching. In fact, some of the teaching

and preaching is a little scary when you

did find it.

I'll just that's enough said about that.

But anyway, anyway, you go back through

there and uh as a general rule, you will

find some times when there are people,

William Brandham, man, he'd just get up

there and uh he he'd just stand up

there. Said he'd look like a scared

rabbit. Said he'd look he'd stand up,

you know, behind the pulpit said he'd

just stand there and look around, look

like he was just afraid to do anything.

And he said until, from what I've read,

until the angel showed up that worked

with him in the healing revival, an

angel worked with him and began to work

with him in the healings and would tell

him people being healed and all of a

sudden he just he's like a like remember

the old uh comic books when when Clark

Kent went into the phone booth. Some of

you are looking at me really funny.

Clark who?

Anyway, Clark Kent. He'd go into the

phone booth. He's just this normal

looking guy, you know, porn room

glasses, nice suit, all that. Goes into

the into the phone booth. He comes out

and he's got a he's got a red, white,

and blue cape and he's he's he's

Superman and all. Yeah, I I get all

that. And that's what he would come out

and and u

you know, and and there were people in

the healing revival that man, they just

step up in the pulpit. William Brandham

as well as I think there were 70some

that I knew of I'd read about that

operated in the uh gifts of healings

particularly working in miracles and

special faith particularly gifts of

healings um and they got great results

you know but but as a general rule as a

general rule God would have people teach

and or preach or both and then the

healing would take place.

So what are we looking for now? God's

raised up an army in the days we're

living in. We're already here. He

changed the world with 120 in the upper

room. Think what he could do today with

a with the group in this the room

tonight. If we just got hold of the fact

if we'll teach and preach, he'll do the

healing part. I want a shortcut. Well,

we all like a shortcut. I I' I'd love to

get it working in any way it will. But

the way it's going to work is what Jesus

said there. So, uh anyway, um let's just

take a few minutes to go a little bit

different direction here.

Uh let's go back to uh Luke the 13th

chapter.

Luke the 13th chapter

and I uh I got the the brilliant idea

years ago to start studying through

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And you

know some of the gospels have you know

if you do parallel you know some of them

had the same miracle might you know

might you know address it from a little

different angle but I just made a

decision I'm going to go back through

there and see what um

I'm going to see what the miracles were

like like in Jesus ministry. You know we

got I think there's 27 or 28 major

miracles in the ministry of Jesus.

Healing miracles so to speak. There are

other ones, you know, when he multiplied

the loaves and fishes and so on, but the

healing miracles, I think there's maybe

27 or 28, and I spent probably a couple

years just

studying those miracles. I wanted to

know, I mean, I got over to uh uh Mark's

gospel, of course, a good place to

start. Uh Mark's gospel chapter 1 verse

40. Leper came to him said, "Lord, if

you will, you can make me clean." Jesus

said, "Of course I will. Be thou clean."

Okay? and it said uh reached out and put

his hand touched him but it said as soon

as he spoke the leprosy departed from

the guy the man he's cleansed he

uh leprosy didn't leave his body when

Jesus touched him leprosy left his body

when Jesus spoke

Mark one you can look it up yourself

Mark chapter 1 verse 40 as soon as soon

Mark 1:40

as g Jesus said the man said Lord if you

will you can make me clean Jesus said I

will one translation he said of course I

will and he reached out put forth his

hand and touched him and as soon as he

had spoken by he said be thou clean and

as soon as he had spoken immediately the

leprosy departed from him and he's

cleansed leprosy didn't go when Jesus

touched him leprosy went when Jesus said

something he had to clear up the

question the man said I know you can I

just don't know if you will Jesus said

of course I will when he cleared up the

question the healing power flow flowed

and and the guy got healed of leprosy so

anyway I started studying through these

and

spent a few years going through just

over and over and over and over. I

wanted to know what Jesus did. I wanted

to know how he did it. I wanted to know

what it looked like. I wanted to know

how he worked with the Holy Ghost.

People say, "Well, Jesus got great

results because he was the son of God."

I like that. But I'll tell you what,

that kind of throws the pressure on us

because if Jesus got great results

because he was the son of God, then

where does that leave you and me?

You're looking at me funny. If Jesus got

great results because he was the son of

God, what did he make you and me to be?

To as many as believed on him, to them

gave he the power to become the sons of

God. He made his sons. If it if it only

if the healings and miracles only worked

for Jesus because he was a son, then you

and I ought to be getting miracles every

day

>> because he p he gave us the word. He

gave us the Holy Ghost. We've got the

same power. we should be getting the

same works that that that Jesus got. We

should be getting that. So, um anyway,

so I I've spent uh in fact, we've got a

somewhere somewhere in our um website,

we've got a

I think it's called Hear and Be Healed.

I think we have 87 87 messages on the

subject of healing.

Good, excuse me, a good share of those

came out of uh studying those subjects.

I found a book um on uh basically a a

guy from late 1800s, early 1900s and

he'd done that. I just I studied through

that, spent hours studying through. If

we'll go back through and see what Jesus

did, find out how he did it, then the

church will be getting the same results

because he equipped us, he empowered us,

he filled us, okay? He called us, and he

sent us. So anyway, going back where we

at, we're in Luke the 13th chapter.

I'm going to just land on this. Well, I

we were we've been on this a couple

different weeks and it just seems like

we keep coming back here. I'm not real

sure why, but to come back here. Um, how

did how did Jesus get results? Well,

again here in in Luke chapter 13:10

said, "And he was he" meaning Jesus was

what was he doing? Chapter chapter 13

verse what? 10. He was doing what? He

was healing the sick, raising the dead,

casting out devils. No. What was he

doing?

>> What was he doing?

>> What was he doing? Teaching. How How did

his ministry work? He went about round

about their cities and villages,

teaching in their synagogues, preaching

the gospel of the kingdom, healing every

manner of sickness and every manner of

disease among the people. Teach, preach,

heal. So, we look at the ministry of

Jesus. Not every time. There were times

when somebody just got a freebie. You

remember back there in John's gospel of

what verse 5 I think it is chapter 5

Isaiah 5 · chapter mention

when he went to uh the pool of Bethesda

man been sick 38 years Jesus walked up

there knew he'd been a long time in that

case walked up to him and said is it

your will to be healed he said well he

said uh I I I'd like to but I can't I'm

too slow somebody always gets to the

water ahead of me I'll never be able to

get healed Jesus said well get up and

walk anyway

got up walked up got up rolled up his

bed and walked way whole. Jesus

disappeared. The guy didn't know who

Jesus was. He didn't walk and say, "I'm

Jesus the son of God. I've come to

heal." No, he just said, "Is it your

will to be healed?"

John's fifth chapter. Is it your will to

be healed? He said, "Well, I I can't.

I'm too slow. Somebody always gets there

ahead of me." Well, get up and walk

anyway.

Got up, rolled up his bed, walked away

whole. Next day, he sees some of the

religious leaders and they said, "What

are you what are you doing? You're

carrying the your bed on the Sabbath.

You can't do that." He said, "I can't

help it." But the guy that healed me

told me to do it.

Well, who told you to do it? I don't

know who it was. Some guy told me to get

up and walk, so I did. I have no clue

who it was. It wasn't Well, he saw

Jesus. So, he had this great uncction to

get healed in his body. He didn't know

who told him to get up and walk. Jesus

shows up after that and enlightens him

as far as who he's just had the

encounter with. And he said, "Go thy

way." Isn't it interesting? We read

these articles. We read these mira

miracles. Isn't it interesting Jesus

said there? He said, "Go your way and

sin no more, lest the worst thing come

upon you." Well, we don't know. I have

no idea what that guy's lifestyle was

like, but apparently something about his

lifestyle was what opened the door for

this sickness to get into his life. And

Jesus said, "Go thy way." Got him

healed.

Isn't it interesting? He got him healed

before he got him forgiven. Got him

healed before he got him enlightened on,

you know, go thy way and sin. sin no

more lest the worst thing come upon

thee. You know again we can learn things

from the ministry of Jesus. He just

always followed the leading of the Holy

Ghost. All right. So

so anyway going back through here

uh Jesus is teaching verse uh 10 he was

teaching in one of the synagogues on the

Sabbath. This is the this is the primary

method of Jesus ministry. Okay. Well, I

don't want to go to so and so's meeting.

All I do is teach.

Well, go get some of that. Isn't that

really what uh Proverbs 4:20 said, "My

Proverbs 4:20

son, attend to my words. Incline thine

ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart

from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst

of thine heart. For they my words are

life unto those that find them health,

healing, and medicine to all their

flesh." He told us way back there. Okay.

Proverbs chapter 4:20,

you know, the word of God, keep it going

in your ears, keep it going in your

eyes, keep it working in your heart.

It's life to you. It's health, healing,

medicine to

>> all your flesh. Like we've said before,

it's one pill that'll cure whatever ails

you. It's a gospel. But

never mind. Now,

but verse 10, he was teaching in one of

the synagogues on the Sabbath, and

behold, there was a woman. I'm going to

just hit a few high points and we'll

just pick this up at another point

another time. And behold, there was a

woman that had a spirit of infirmity 18

years, was bowed over together, could in

no wise lift up herself. That's verse

11. There was a woman. Behold, there was

a woman. He's teaching in the synagogue.

And behold, he's teaching. What's he

doing? He's teaching. So if he's

teaching, the power of the Lord's

present to heal. He's teaching in the

synagogue. And behold, there's a woman

that has a spirit of infirmity for she's

had 18 years. Do you know 18 years is a

long time to be sick?

>> She's been sick for 18 years. She's been

bowed over together with a spirit of

infirmity. Okay, that's a that's a a

devil that has kept her infirm. I've met

people over the years, you meet people

every now and then, somebody that just

seems like no matter what they get

healed of, something immediately comes

back right after it. I've seen people,

you know, they're just they've they've

gotten them uh overcome with a spirit of

infirmity. Somebody's got a deaf and

dumb spirit that's going to man itself

manifest itself that way. Okay. Some

have some have an unclean spirit that's

going to manifest itself that way. Okay.

Somebody that has a what it says right

here. Um she's had a spirit of

infirmity, then infirmity is going to

keep showing up in her body. Well, here

it did. And she's been sick for 18

years.

Okay? Not just sick. She's not been able

to stand up for 18 years. Think about

that.

Think about that. Bowed over together,

could in no wise lift up herself for 18

years. You've heard me tell before. I

think we did a few weeks ago about a man

we we saw in the meeting we were at in

Munich, Germany.

Man came in there. Don't know where he

came from. Don't know how he found the

meeting. No, we never found anything out

about it. Just in the middle of the

service. Brother Ed Defrain's

ministering. We're on the front row.

Pastor Janet and myself, we're on the

front row. Brother Ed's ministering.

We're at uh John and Mariana Angelina's

church for disgobins. We're there in

Munich and and all of a sudden this guy

comes down the center aisle here and

he's bowed over together can in no wise

lift up himself. Found out later it

wasn't 18 years. He'd been that way 40

years

came on him when he was a a uh uh in in

a prisoner war camp in Siberia during

World War II. He was in Hitler's army,

was taken captive by the Soviets and put

into a prisoner war camp. Was in there

hauling wood to the barracks until the

end of World War II, which I gather it

was probably at that time close to a 30

to 40 year time. And when by the time

they shut that camp down, when he came

out, he'd been carrying wood on his back

through the cold winters of Siberia. And

by the time they got him out of there,

he couldn't stand up straight. He was

bowed over together. I've seen what that

looks like. This guy's coming down the

center aisle. He can't stand up. He's

trying to see where he's going, but he's

bowed over together and he's just

looking up sideways so he can see where

to turn. He comes up to the front and

I've said it before. I won't go back

into it, but he stands there and all of

a sudden, all of a sudden, his body

starts to straighten up and it gets

straighter and straighter and

straighter. Ed didn't pray for him,

didn't lay hands on him, didn't minister

to him. He just said, "All of a sudden,

this guy starts straightening up like

that." And within a matter of two, three

minutes maximum, this guy's just as

straight as you and me, standing

straight. He's been bowed over together

for probably close to 40 years. Now,

suddenly, suddenly, he's standing up

straight. He turns around, he walks

away. Never saw the guy again. Don't

know where he came from. Don't know

anything about him. But we did find out

that he'd been in a prison or war camp

in Siberia during World War II. Okay.

But but here here's the case here. This

woman's been sick for 18 years,

bowed over it together, can in no wise

lift up herself. All right. She can't

stand up. Jesus, what's he doing? He's

teaching. I like the fact while he's

teaching, he's looking.

He's not just wasting time there. While

he's teaching people to put faith into

him, he's looking to see where it works.

Okay, you go back there 14th chapter of

uh the book of acts verse 7 Paul and his

company were in area of lister I believe

it was excuse me and in uh said there

they preached the gospel there they

preached the gospel and there sat a

certain man at Lististra impotent in his

feet being a from his mother's

womb and never had walked when Paul saw

him and perceived he had faith to be

healed

didn't lay hands hands on him. Didn't

cast the devil out of him. Didn't take

authority over spirit of infirmity. He

just looked down. He'd been preaching

the gospel. The guy heard the gospel.

Teach, preach, heal. Teach, preach. The

guy heard the gospel. Paul perceived the

man had faith to be healed. And he said

with a loud voice, "Stand up right on

thy feet."

Didn't raise him up. Didn't pick him up.

Didn't pull him up. He just yelled.

Scared him up.

>> Scared him.

>> Stand up right on thy feet. when he did,

he leaped and walked and he was

perfectly well. Never taken a step in

his life, crippled from his mother's

womb. Okay. But what somebody took time

to teach and preach and when they did

that, the guy got it. The guy got it. So

anyway,

anyway, I'm going to find a place to

unhook here and we'll just pick up

another time. But if you go back through

this guy, uh, this this this woman uh

spirit of infirmity to 18 years. Okay.

Uh, you know, there there's the devils

are real things. People say, "Oh, maybe

it's the devil." Well, it doesn't matter

if it's a sickness, a disease, an

infirmity, or a devil. Doesn't make any

difference. One's just as easy to fix as

the other one. It's no big deal there.

But anyway, here's this woman, spirit of

infirmity, 18 years, bowed over

together, can in no wise lift up

herself. Jesus Jesus saw her and he and

he called her to him.

Called her to him. Isn't that what it

says there?

bowed together. Verse 12 says that when

Jesus saw her, he called her to him.

I wondered about that at one time. I

thought, what, you know, why did Jesus I

don't know how big the place was, but

why did Jesus call her to him? Why

didn't he go back to where she was? He's

the healthy one. She's the one that's

bowed over together for 18 years. Why

didn't he go back and deliver healing to

her? She's been in the meeting. She's

been hearing the word. She's been It's

working. He's teaching, preaching, and

healing. She's been hearing. But the

Bible said he saw her and he called her.

Why did he call her to him? Because

faith always acts.

If it does, if faith does what it can

do, it's faith. But if that's all it

does, it's not going to do anything.

Faith does what it can do and then

attempts to do what it cannot do. That's

where we sometimes in the church world,

we miss it. We we we we try to do what

we can do. We we stop there. Jesus

called her to him. She didn't say, "I

can't come up there. I I I got a back

problem. I you come back here and pray."

No, she he called her to him and she

headed up there.

We were in a meeting in uh

St. Elmo, Illinois years ago. That's a

little town, at least it was then, doing

a meeting at Assembly of God Church, St.

Elmo, Illinois. And the place is packed.

People are coming from all over that

area. And um uh I can still remember

there was a people were getting healed

of all kinds of things all over the

auditorium. And right over about

twothirds of the way back in this

section, here's a lady over there. And

uh she came I saw her come in. She came

in with with bedroom slippers on. And

she moved really slow. You could tell

she was in a lot of pain. She came in

there and uh power of God came in there

and I knew the power of God was on her

and she just standing there and I looked

over there. I can still see the like you

know I don't know what she looked like

but I can still see about where this

lady was. I looked over there and I said

ma'am I said do something

do something. She just kind of looked at

me and so finally I could I could see

her kind of her head coming on coming

and next thing you know power of God hit

her and she started going up and down.

She went, she got instantly totally

healed by the power of God.

>> It didn't work until she started doing

something.

>> Why did Jesus have this woman come to

him? Because he just put the word into

her by teaching. And if she's going to

get something from the teaching of the

word, she's going to have to do

something. And I think that's where we

run into problems at times. We want God

to do everything. He'll put the word in

us, but we're going to have to do

something with that word.

>> Oh, we could go on and on with that.

seen all kinds of things. We've seen a

lot of people healed of all kinds of

things. But usually usually people are

going to have to do something. We were

in u

I'll finish with this. We were in in

liberates Czechos was Czechoslovakia

then. It was right after the Berlin Wall

came down and and in the the countries

the Eastern European countries were

opening up and and Pastor Janet and I

were over and there was another couple

that was with us in this particular

meeting and we we went to this meeting.

We thought we were going to a church

service to teach faith to the

Christians. We got there and the the

pastor, he says, through an a real weak

interpreter.

He said, "Uh, do you do you do gospel

meetings?" I said, "Well, of course we

do gospel meetings." Well, I didn't know

he meant gospel meetings. Not just

gospel meetings, but gospel meetings.

Took us out there. We're out on this

platform. It's cold. It's so cold out

there. It's really cold and we're out

there in this I don't know there's

maybe,500.

I have no idea how many people are out

there. We just I I I I used the

interpreter best I could. I said, "Let's

go to uh Mark chapter 5. I think it's

Mark 5 · chapter mention

where we went." And he starts in Genesis

going a page at a time. I thought,

"Maybe we are really in trouble." I

said, "Never mind. Just follow me." And

I have no idea what he said. I have no

idea where he went. But we just kind of

shotguned around through a few

scriptures and then prayed a prayer and

almost every hand in the place went up.

I don't know, maybe 800,000 people. I

have no idea. This is right after the

Berlin Wall came down. These people

hadn't heard any gospel in 50 years.

People raised their hands up everywhere.

So, so, uh, I thought, "It is so cold

here. I'm praying a mass prayer and I'm

heading for somewhere that's warm. This

is really cold out here." And I said,

'We going to just pray for everybody.'

And the pastor

got the interpreter with enough English

said, 'N no, we've advertised individual

ministry to everybody tonight. We've

told them, you come, we'll pray for

everybody in the place. I thought, he's

going to freeze us out tonight.

But uh anyway, so we did. We prayed for

people. But you know the most amazing

thing had people coming in there. They'd

never heard before. They' never heard

teaching, preaching before, but they

heard just enough. prophet got on the

inside of them and in that meeting and

and there were people coming up getting

in that there were people with crutches,

there were people with canes. There were

people with uh everything you could

think of and uh you know it was just I I

don't know how to describe it. Never had

it happen before and never had it happen

since. But I just said somebody come up

there and some there was a lady up there

with she had a cane on. She could barely

move one leg and uh and I I grabbed the

cane and I I said now walk. I thought I

can't believe I just did that. Said,

"Now walk in the name of Jesus." The

interpreter told her that and she looked

at me and and you know, I'm kind of used

to people in states going, "Well, I

can't. That's why I'm up here."

Well, I hollered that out at her and she

she believed what I said. Next thing I

know, she's got hold and she's grabbed

she's got hold of one leg and she's just

kicking it for all she's worth. She kept

kicking it, kicking it, kicking it. I

thought, "Hope she doesn't break

something."

She kept kicking it. All of all of a

sudden, just like that, power of God hit

her and she just walked away, grabbed

the cane and walked away perfectly,

totally whole. But it didn't work until

she heard something and then she acted

on it.

>> So, uh, we've gone enough long enough

for tonight. But, but Jesus, why did he

call her to him? Because he knew he'd

been teaching the word to her. Now, if

she'll act on that, believe that, and do

something with it, she'll get the

results. So, what'd he do? He call He

called her to him. said,"Woman, thou art

loose from thine infirmity."

Okay? Laid hands on her immediately.

She's made straight and glorified. It's

God. And we could go on from there.

We'll we'll pick it up another time. But

she gets she gets instantly healed in

there. God's in the healing business.

Some will be instant. Some will be a

progression. Some will take a little

time. Some won't. But I'll tell you

what, if we just give people enough word

to give them something to chew on, if

they'll do that, they'll get healed in

their bodies.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and

forever. Let's all stand to our feet.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank

you right now. Uh I just pray over this

house right now. We're not going to take

time for a healing service tonight, per

se,

but with the word going forth, the power

of the Lord's present to heal.

We don't have to wonder about it. We

don't have to hope and pray. It's true.

Jesus went about teaching, preaching,

and healing. And if we'll teach and

preach, he'll do the healing part. And

so, in the name of Jesus, I thank you.

I thank you for touching. I I thank you

for your healing virtue flowing through

bodies through in this place tonight. I

thank you for healing them from the top

of their heads to the bottoms of their

feet. I thank you, dear father. Joints

are being healed now. I thank you for

varic varicose veins are being healed. I

thank you dear father uh in the uh in

the area of the heart respiratory

system. I thank you for it in the name

of Jesus. I thank you in the nervous

system. Father I thank you right now the

healing virtue of the Lord Jesus is

flowing through this place because the

word's been taught and if folks will

believe it and get it and act on it,

it'll heal them from the top of their

heads to the soles of their feet. So we

reach out and take hold of it and we

say, "It's mine. I got it now. It's

mine. I've got it now. I'm not trying to

get it. Jesus already got it for me. I'm

not trying to get my healing. Jesus

already paid for my healing for me. He

paid the price.

>> So, I thank you for it, dear Father. We

take healing in our bodies. I thank you,

dear Lord. It's out there. It's out

there. It's out there. If we'll just

take it. We'll just take it. If we'll

just grab hold of it. Say, "It's mine. I

got it now. It's mine. I got it now. I'm

not trying to get it. Jesus got it for

me.

Hallelujah.

And we thank you for it. We receive it.

We grab it by faith. We call it done in

Jesus name. Hallelujah. I thank you for

it, dear father. And I pray for every

one of us that we'll get hold of that.

We'll get hold of that. We'll get hold

of that

really back there. What you you were

trying to get across to your people back

there in

John's gospel. If we'll get hold of

that, get hold of the power of the Lord.

This present to heal. Luke's gospel

fifth chapter, sixth chapter. Power of

the Lord, present to heal. If we'll just

teach and preach until it starts

working, and then we'll grab hold of it.

We can get it working in us. We can get

it working in everybody around us. We do

our part. You're always ready and

willing and able to do yours. So we we

thank you for it in Jesus name, Father.

Hallelujah. We thank you. We thank you.

We thank you Jesus name. Glory to God.

Well, let's lift our hands and give him

thanks.

word.

It's our father's will.

The work has been done.

I'm already healed. Come on, if you know

it, sing it. I'm already healed.

I've been made whole. Mention your name.

Mention your name. Sickness must go.

Sickness must go. Stand on your word.

Stand on your word. It's our father's

will. It's our father's will.

The work has been done.

I'm already healed. Come on, sing it out

one more time. I'm already healed.

I've been made whole.

I mention your name.

In sickness must go.

I stand on your word.

It's our father's will.

The work has been done.

I'm already healed.

The work has been done.

I'm already healed. It's good to know

the work has been done.

I'm already healed.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Amen.

So good to us. Aren't you excited?

Some people got healed tonight in the

house. Can't wait to hear those

testimonies. Amen. Amen. Well, if you

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