WEBVTT 00:00:03.847 --> 00:00:07.014 We have been walking through our Encounter series. 00:00:07.014 --> 00:00:08.566 It's been such a great time. 00:00:08.566 --> 00:00:12.330 We've been talking about, you know, just how the Holy Spirit moves in our lives. 00:00:12.330 --> 00:00:17.492 We've been talking about how he speaks to us and how he speaks to us for others. 00:00:17.492 --> 00:00:21.070 We even went through talking about, you know, the gift of tongues. 00:00:21.070 --> 00:00:39.081 We've talked about the proper use of the gifts and prophecy and things like that, and today we're going to be talking about the gift of healing and it's so exciting to talk about because I've seen a lot of healings and I wanted to share with some of those with you this morning. 00:00:39.121 --> 00:00:43.347 I got to see my first healing when I was 16 years old. 00:00:43.347 --> 00:00:51.810 Many of you may not know that my mom had a brain aneurysm bust and spent months in the hospital when I was 16 years old. 00:00:51.810 --> 00:00:56.270 She had two open brain surgeries and a full like cut the skull open the whole nine yards. 00:00:56.270 --> 00:00:59.942 But before the second one I told the doctor. 00:00:59.942 --> 00:01:04.724 I said you need to go back and you need to retest because I really believe that my mom is healed. 00:01:04.724 --> 00:01:09.629 And, of course, how doctors do, it's just a 16-year-old boy, he doesn't know anything. 00:01:09.629 --> 00:01:13.331 And so they went into the surgery. 00:01:13.331 --> 00:01:14.653 They cut her skull open. 00:01:14.653 --> 00:01:20.596 They dug around for four hours and closed her back up and come out to me and said I wish I would have listened to you. 00:01:20.596 --> 00:01:28.584 There was no aneurysm, we could have not have had that surgery, but God healed her and it was an amazing thing to see. 00:01:28.584 --> 00:01:30.608 So I already knew it then. 00:01:31.290 --> 00:01:34.486 And then, a few years later, I was at Trinity at the old building over here. 00:01:34.486 --> 00:01:36.933 Our pastor was Steve Fado. 00:01:36.933 --> 00:01:40.908 We would have seen different miracles, but this was a really cool one. 00:01:40.908 --> 00:01:46.986 I was up front praying with Pastor Steve and somebody came up to him and said someone just died in the back. 00:01:46.986 --> 00:01:51.081 There's a nurse that just verified that she's been dead for a few minutes. 00:01:51.081 --> 00:01:53.989 And he said not in my church, she's not. 00:01:53.989 --> 00:02:05.492 And we all ran to the back and I remember seeing the little nurse that she was like had the lady's head in her lap and she's, you know, checking her pulse and um, and she was dead. 00:02:05.492 --> 00:02:24.008 And Steve started praying, for a number of us gathered around, lay hands on her and pray for her healing and within a few moments she took a deep breath and I got to see the nurse's face as her face just went to shock of the pulse came back after like five minutes. 00:02:24.008 --> 00:02:31.250 So by the time the ambulance got there, they just nonchalantly took her to the hospital to see what was going on, you know. 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:35.527 And so God brought her back to life, right there in front of us. 00:02:36.409 --> 00:02:44.800 There was another time where I was on a mission trip and we were standing up front, we were praying for people and this person came up in a wheelchair. 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:53.991 And we were standing up front, we were praying for people and this person came up in a wheelchair and they couldn't walk their whole life because one leg was shorter than the other, and not a little bit, but enough to where you couldn't walk. 00:02:53.991 --> 00:02:59.044 And I got to be in the presence noticing this happen as others are praying for him. 00:02:59.044 --> 00:03:02.031 His leg grew and he got up and walked. 00:03:02.031 --> 00:03:09.532 That day A couple of years ago, you guys may have remembered when I told you about my story in Tanzania. 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:16.164 I'm praying for an old, blind man with seven wives, but he got saved. 00:03:16.164 --> 00:03:24.288 He got saved and it was such a beautiful thing as he got saved and he called all his family over and he says all you need to know about this, jesus. 00:03:24.288 --> 00:03:42.286 And they all came and prayed and then they took him back to his room like, guided him back because he's blind, and all of a sudden I start hearing commotion, because I had started walking back to the van and I turned around and here's this older gentleman running straight at me, the blind man, running straight at me, and I'm like what is going on? 00:03:42.286 --> 00:03:44.883 And they said he says he sees, straight at me. 00:03:44.883 --> 00:03:45.764 And there's I'm like what is going on. 00:03:45.764 --> 00:03:48.348 They said he says he sees, he can see now, and so God saved his soul. 00:03:48.348 --> 00:03:51.014 You know, once was blind, but now I see, literally. 00:03:51.014 --> 00:04:02.709 He was once blind but now he sees such a beautiful thing, beautiful thing and uh, and so it's just amazing to see what God has done. 00:04:02.729 --> 00:04:06.921 I got another one when I was I bet this is about 13 years ago my first little guy was born. 00:04:06.921 --> 00:04:07.804 His name was Eli. 00:04:07.804 --> 00:04:14.026 We knew at a very like, we thought that the pregnancy was perfect, there was nothing there, but then he was born. 00:04:14.026 --> 00:04:25.372 He had some issues and so we spent two or three days every single week at the hospital and it came known that we were going to have to have a brain or a heart surgery and it was going to be one of many heart surgeries. 00:04:25.372 --> 00:04:40.091 So we took him to Vanderbilt and in the middle of this surgery he had a heart attack and they had to put him on life support, and so we prayed all throughout that night and that next morning I held my son as he took his last breath. 00:04:40.091 --> 00:04:48.273 Now I bring that up because I've seen God do miraculous healings. 00:04:48.273 --> 00:04:53.711 But then I've been in the very room as he didn't. 00:04:55.641 --> 00:04:56.927 And the question is is why. 00:04:56.927 --> 00:05:07.584 And that's the question that most of us have when something like this happens, because some of us have been taught certain ways and we believe it's supposed to be this way or believe that way. 00:05:07.584 --> 00:05:10.211 You know, we prayed with everything we had. 00:05:10.211 --> 00:05:14.334 I couldn't have mustered up another ounce of faith that God was going to heal. 00:05:14.334 --> 00:05:19.005 I just told you every story that I'd saw before that it was no question. 00:05:19.005 --> 00:05:20.829 Could my God heal my son? 00:05:20.829 --> 00:05:22.874 There was no question. 00:05:22.874 --> 00:05:29.250 Heal my son? 00:05:29.250 --> 00:05:30.716 There was no question. 00:05:30.716 --> 00:05:31.560 But to me that day God decided not to. 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:36.646 And that's a hard thing to come to and there's a lot of directions that I could take the sermon today. 00:05:36.646 --> 00:05:37.690 But you know, I really started. 00:05:38.151 --> 00:05:51.562 We were talking about what we'd be talking about here, like six, eight weeks ago, and and Tyler told me that this was going to be my sermon, and talking about here, like six, eight weeks ago, and Tyler told me that this was going to be my sermon and I started right then studying. 00:05:51.562 --> 00:06:07.944 It was over six weeks ago, because this has been something to me that I have personally dealt with on the amazing, just incredible miracle side, but also in the he didn't answer as I wanted side, and something that I honestly wouldn't wish on the devil himself losing your child. 00:06:07.944 --> 00:06:20.100 My little boy was 10 months old, so when I think about what we were going to talk about today, I thought about something that is what most of us, like, have in our head most of the time. 00:06:20.100 --> 00:06:22.103 Listen, I was raised in a number of different denominations of churches. 00:06:22.103 --> 00:06:37.916 Listen, I was raised in a number of different denominations of churches, so I had so many forms of what I'm supposed to believe, how it's supposed to happen, what it's supposed to look like, and it wasn't until I walked through a lot of stuff that I came to what I believe today. 00:06:38.858 --> 00:06:45.406 And when I mention this next scripture, the scripture that we're going to focus on today, it's probably the scripture that's on most of our hearts and our minds. 00:06:45.406 --> 00:06:48.209 When we think about, when we talk about healing. 00:06:48.209 --> 00:06:50.511 You think about this scripture. 00:06:50.511 --> 00:06:53.795 Most of the time I actually wanted to see if that was true. 00:06:53.795 --> 00:06:58.249 So I asked a bunch of people over the last week when I said, healing, what do you think about? 00:06:58.249 --> 00:06:59.660 And they quoted this scripture. 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:08.252 So I was like, all right, this is the one that we're going to talk about Now, just as a little bit of you know context here. 00:07:08.752 --> 00:07:11.055 This scripture I'm going to read is from the prophet Isaiah. 00:07:11.055 --> 00:07:15.370 Isaiah was a prophet given by God to his people. 00:07:15.370 --> 00:07:21.612 Every single one of the prophecies that this man wrote, all of them, came true. 00:07:21.612 --> 00:07:28.730 Every single one of them, to their deepest detail, like it was absolutely true. 00:07:28.730 --> 00:07:30.927 It wasn't a well, it might be like this. 00:07:30.927 --> 00:07:38.146 No, all of the prophecies that God gave to Isaiah in the vision that he wrote in Isaiah, all of them came true. 00:07:38.146 --> 00:07:43.591 And the one that we're going to read about here was five to 600 years before Jesus was born. 00:07:45.281 --> 00:07:51.908 And so we'll move on to Isaiah 53, 4, which is where this is at Isaiah 53, 4 and 5. 00:07:51.908 --> 00:07:59.415 Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we have seen him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 00:07:59.415 --> 00:08:03.786 But he was pierced for our transgressions and he was crushed for our iniquities. 00:08:03.786 --> 00:08:06.653 Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace. 00:08:06.653 --> 00:08:09.906 And with his wounds we are healed. 00:08:09.906 --> 00:08:11.872 So let's pray about that. 00:08:11.872 --> 00:08:14.949 Lord, we just thank you so much that you give us the opportunity to be here. 00:08:14.949 --> 00:08:18.088 God, I just pray that you would use me as your puppet today. 00:08:18.088 --> 00:08:32.119 God, all I want to do is speak the words that you have, god, and I just pray that you'd touch each and every one of our hearts, lord, and prepare us, lord, for what you want to do in Jesus' name. 00:08:32.051 --> 00:08:38.048 So this scripture I found in a couple of other places in the New Testament, of course, the part there that everybody kept saying when I would come to them and say, hey, what scripture comes to mind? 00:08:38.048 --> 00:08:39.729 They say by his wounds we're healed. 00:08:39.729 --> 00:08:42.091 And so that was you know. 00:08:42.091 --> 00:08:44.191 Then I'm like, all right, which one are you talking about? 00:08:44.191 --> 00:08:48.452 You know, because in second Peter he said it, and in Matthew he mentioned it too. 00:08:48.452 --> 00:08:51.075 So which one are they talking about? 00:08:51.075 --> 00:08:54.735 And it brings up two schools of thought in this scripture. 00:08:54.735 --> 00:08:58.677 Now, I was taught both of them by at different points in my life. 00:08:58.677 --> 00:09:12.121 All right, in the first school of thought is in first, uh or 24. 00:09:12.142 --> 00:09:13.946 He said he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin. 00:09:13.946 --> 00:09:15.870 Remember that word and live to righteousness. 00:09:15.870 --> 00:09:19.062 By his wounds you have been healed. 00:09:19.062 --> 00:09:29.090 So I had to look at the context of this, because this is one that even just this week, when I was talking to somebody, they said by his wounds you have been healed. 00:09:29.090 --> 00:09:36.990 And so I looked at the context of what Peter was saying and in the entire writing here Peter is clear. 00:09:36.990 --> 00:09:38.706 He's talking about sin. 00:09:39.941 --> 00:09:57.269 The whole entire section is on us being separated from God, needing a savior, and Peter is clearly in every way in this letter talking about how, by his wounds we have been healed, we've been given the opportunity for salvation. 00:09:57.269 --> 00:10:00.005 He has healed our eternal souls. 00:10:00.005 --> 00:10:05.164 Have it's done so concerning that section. 00:10:05.164 --> 00:10:10.750 So it led me down this whole long road and you can some of you in this room, I talked to you this. 00:10:10.750 --> 00:10:13.279 I actually had lunch with a couple of people. 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:14.442 Multiple times. 00:10:14.442 --> 00:10:22.285 I talked to Neil and Tyler and Mark, because just there you know this was six weeks ago that I like studying this context. 00:10:22.285 --> 00:10:24.029 I'm like, wait, what is going on? 00:10:24.029 --> 00:10:34.607 Everything I thought and had I've been taught all these years, and then I just had to continue my study through it because right after that, like we. 00:10:34.989 --> 00:10:44.773 I start talking to somebody and he mentions in Matthew, chapter eight, and now in Matthew, matthew's fixing to write this. 00:10:44.773 --> 00:10:50.890 He says, uh, this was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, that he took our illness and bore our disease. 00:10:50.890 --> 00:11:03.875 Now in Matthew, matthew is clearly speaking of healing, because he's talking about all the healings that Jesus has been doing, and he said that all of this was done to fulfill the scripture in Isaiah. 00:11:03.875 --> 00:11:07.764 So now Peter and Matthew are both going back to Isaiah's scripture. 00:11:07.764 --> 00:11:10.169 So here we are. 00:11:10.169 --> 00:11:10.812 We see this. 00:11:10.812 --> 00:11:16.143 Yes, the scripture that in the New Testament is talking about healing. 00:11:17.283 --> 00:11:37.672 So the two schools of thought that I have personally like wrestled with through the years is one is I was taught that by his stripes we have been healed, and so today, if I'm sick which I have been this weekend, thank God I'm actually talking to you because I've had a sinus infection, but I have already been healed. 00:11:37.672 --> 00:11:39.562 So what I'm feeling is nonsense. 00:11:39.562 --> 00:11:44.793 I'm not actually sick at all and I just need to claim my healing because I have been healed. 00:11:44.793 --> 00:11:52.923 Okay, well, that didn't work, for my son did it, because he has been healed, but I prayed and prayed and prayed and he didn't. 00:11:52.923 --> 00:11:55.517 So then whose fault is it? 00:11:55.517 --> 00:11:58.788 It must have been mine, because he was an innocent child. 00:11:58.788 --> 00:12:04.542 So if he's not healed, it was my own fault that I didn't pray enough. 00:12:04.542 --> 00:12:14.038 So see how dangerous that form of thinking can be. 00:12:14.038 --> 00:12:25.409 So then there's the other side that says that we are healed, but it's in God's timing, and so today I want to lead us in that direction, because that's what I feel like God has revealed to me. 00:12:26.350 --> 00:12:29.075 Years ago, there was when I lost my little boy. 00:12:29.075 --> 00:12:30.235 I was really mad at God. 00:12:30.235 --> 00:12:43.221 I was screaming and yelling at him, as you could expect, and I remember like when, at this moment, I was like crying out my wife's crying all the time, like I just didn't know what to do. 00:12:43.221 --> 00:12:45.206 We couldn't even go home because we couldn't be in the house. 00:12:45.206 --> 00:12:48.081 We sold our car even because I couldn't look in the back seat and not see him. 00:12:48.081 --> 00:12:51.466 So here we are and I'm like just mad all the time. 00:12:51.466 --> 00:13:05.212 Like God, you said that we have the ability to have healing here, you know, and I was in the thought process of have been healed, like it was a guarantee, like I have the right to have it. 00:13:05.212 --> 00:13:07.534 And so, god, why didn't you? 00:13:07.534 --> 00:13:15.106 And I felt like the Lord said, and like one of those moments in your life where you really hear a voice. 00:13:15.106 --> 00:13:19.476 I heard a whisper in my ear it was my right ear and he said I did heal him. 00:13:19.476 --> 00:13:35.813 That's the four words that helped carry me along to where I'm at today, 13 years later, and I remember I shared that with my wife, that word with my wife, and it was at that moment that we started to understand the peace that surpasses all understanding. 00:13:35.813 --> 00:13:46.417 It was that word that I got from the Lord that really helped us to start putting things back together and trying to live again without our little boy. 00:13:46.417 --> 00:13:46.517 Amen. 00:13:46.517 --> 00:13:55.090 So the scriptures that we read and that we're looking at, both Matthew and Peter are both quoting back to Isaiah. 00:13:55.090 --> 00:13:56.745 So that's where we're going back to. 00:13:56.745 --> 00:13:59.567 All right, we're moving back to that place. 00:14:01.201 --> 00:14:06.048 There's a number of times, if we are talking about the New Testament, not everyone in the New Testament got healed. 00:14:06.048 --> 00:14:07.927 I heard a couple of people talk to me about that. 00:14:07.927 --> 00:14:18.414 Not everybody did, and we see one written down by Paul when he's writing to Timothy in his second letter in chapter 4, verse 20. 00:14:18.414 --> 00:14:23.011 And he says that he left Trophimus in Miletus ill. 00:14:23.011 --> 00:14:29.669 He left him ill there, and do I think for a moment that Peter didn't pray for him to get healing. 00:14:29.669 --> 00:14:35.927 No, he absolutely got healed, like I mean that he did go pray for them. 00:14:35.927 --> 00:14:42.671 I'm sorry, he absolutely would pray for them to get healed, but for some reason Trophimus didn't get healed. 00:14:42.671 --> 00:14:49.585 And so he's telling Timothy hey, trophimus is still sick, he's there in Miletus, continue to pray for him. 00:14:53.899 --> 00:15:13.774 So just so you guys hear me today because I know that it can go back and forth here that I'm not in any way saying that healing does not come from the blood of Jesus on the cross, because I fully believe that the ability to have healing through the Holy Spirit is done only through Jesus when he died and rose from the grave. 00:15:13.774 --> 00:15:15.626 That's the only way it happens. 00:15:15.626 --> 00:15:22.005 Now, if I say something today that might get you a little off, and well, derek, I don't agree with that. 00:15:22.005 --> 00:15:24.407 Let's do this in a really mature way. 00:15:24.407 --> 00:15:31.988 Don't leave the church, come talk to me, send a letter to Tyler at TCCKnoxcom. 00:15:31.988 --> 00:15:37.188 He'll rebuke me or he'll stand up. 00:15:37.188 --> 00:15:40.787 But no, it's true. 00:15:40.787 --> 00:15:45.211 So it brought me to this revelation that I had years ago. 00:15:45.211 --> 00:15:49.530 When I heard those four words, I did heal him. 00:15:49.530 --> 00:15:58.645 I really, when I was praying into this over the last number of weeks, I felt like the Lord expanded the revelation that I got way back then, and that's what I want to share with you today. 00:15:59.061 --> 00:16:10.072 It's super simple, but we really need to hear it, and it's this when we interpret the word of God, we have to look at it through the person's eyes who wrote it. 00:16:10.072 --> 00:16:12.493 Okay, it's the perspective. 00:16:12.493 --> 00:16:26.107 That's what matters when we're reading any scripture and when you're interpreting the word of God and you're reading it, you have to look at, like if we're looking at Matthew, we have to look at what Matthew's going through, what the world around him might've looked like. 00:16:26.107 --> 00:16:27.451 Was he, you know? 00:16:27.451 --> 00:16:31.996 Did he just go through something that really put him in a bad fog in his head? 00:16:31.996 --> 00:16:32.840 Did he go through something? 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:34.186 Is he in a really happy time? 00:16:34.186 --> 00:16:36.407 What's it look like around him? 00:16:36.407 --> 00:16:38.246 Is there real war around him? 00:16:38.246 --> 00:16:39.404 Is it really messed up? 00:16:39.404 --> 00:16:41.846 All these things add to. 00:16:41.846 --> 00:16:43.331 Okay, this is what he said. 00:16:43.331 --> 00:16:44.745 This is probably what he was feeling. 00:16:44.745 --> 00:16:47.149 Now, how do I apply that to my life? 00:16:47.149 --> 00:16:48.860 We all agree with that, right? 00:16:48.860 --> 00:16:52.464 Well, it's the same thing we do throughout the entire scripture. 00:16:53.303 --> 00:16:56.687 And again now we're talking back to Isaiah 53. 00:16:56.687 --> 00:17:04.373 Isaiah 53 is written down words from God himself, from a vision. 00:17:04.373 --> 00:17:10.117 So now we have to look at this scripture, the perspective of who is saying it. 00:17:10.117 --> 00:17:11.161 God said it. 00:17:11.161 --> 00:17:13.249 So when Matthew said something, he's in time. 00:17:13.249 --> 00:17:17.330 When Peter said something, all of his perspectives are in time. 00:17:17.330 --> 00:17:20.630 When Paul said something, everything is in time. 00:17:20.630 --> 00:17:23.489 Guys, time was only made for us in this universe. 00:17:23.489 --> 00:17:24.781 God doesn't. 00:17:24.781 --> 00:17:37.212 He doesn't live in that and, honestly, if we truly believe that we are sons and daughters of the most high God, who adopted us through the salvation given through Jesus Christ, we are eternal beings. 00:17:37.212 --> 00:17:43.653 So all of these answers and promises in the Word of God are eternal promises. 00:17:43.653 --> 00:17:53.575 So when we look at this, we can't take this Word that God gave and try to put that into our timing. 00:17:54.760 --> 00:18:00.627 And then what God gave me was this picture Isaiah and Malachi both heard God. 00:18:00.627 --> 00:18:06.151 When God said I'm going to send Jesus and he's going to look like this and he's going to be wearing these clothes. 00:18:06.151 --> 00:18:07.471 He's going to be over here in this building. 00:18:07.471 --> 00:18:08.339 He's going to be found over there. 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:12.946 I mean literally detailed instructions of where he was going to be found. 00:18:12.946 --> 00:18:16.051 Okay, when he did that. 00:18:16.051 --> 00:18:18.740 God's perspective, we're reading it in his perspective. 00:18:18.740 --> 00:18:21.970 All right, isaiah, malachi, jesus is coming like this. 00:18:21.970 --> 00:18:26.307 It's going to look like this Boom, jesus was born, died, risen and he's back on his right hand. 00:18:26.307 --> 00:18:27.731 That's God's perspective. 00:18:27.731 --> 00:18:30.443 Now back to our perspective. 00:18:30.443 --> 00:18:34.982 Hey, isaiah Malachi, he's going to be born like this this bam wait 600 years. 00:18:34.982 --> 00:18:40.090 And we miss that today. 00:18:40.090 --> 00:18:41.772 But God said it. 00:18:41.792 --> 00:18:44.602 God promised yes, we're eternal beings. 00:18:44.602 --> 00:18:46.306 We're not in this timeframe. 00:18:46.306 --> 00:18:49.613 He doesn't speak in this timeframe. 00:18:49.613 --> 00:18:51.423 He speaks in an eternal timeframe. 00:18:51.423 --> 00:18:54.363 It would be great if he spoken within a lifetime. 00:18:54.363 --> 00:18:55.625 Jesus came, but it wasn't. 00:18:55.625 --> 00:18:57.169 It was 600 years. 00:18:57.169 --> 00:19:04.132 And what about the fact that Jesus, when he said I'm coming back, like, well, that'd have been great to be one lifetime. 00:19:04.132 --> 00:19:09.686 We're here at 2000 years, but we live eternally. 00:19:09.686 --> 00:19:12.411 Right, we're just here for a short time. 00:19:12.411 --> 00:19:16.020 So that's how we have to put all of this. 00:19:17.285 --> 00:19:19.371 And that was for me for many years. 00:19:19.371 --> 00:19:26.019 I struggled with that before, even before I lost my son, like when I'd, you know, be praying for somebody and they wouldn't be healed. 00:19:26.019 --> 00:19:27.383 But why? 00:19:27.383 --> 00:19:28.566 Why wouldn't you be healed? 00:19:28.566 --> 00:19:30.852 Like this is a, this is a promise, you know in this. 00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:32.315 Why, why wouldn't you be healed? 00:19:32.315 --> 00:19:34.079 Like this is a, this is a promise, you know in this. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:38.861 But then it. 00:19:38.861 --> 00:19:39.763 That was the incredible thing for me. 00:19:39.763 --> 00:19:41.248 I did heal him because I know that all of God's promises are true. 00:19:41.248 --> 00:19:41.930 They're yes and they're amen. 00:19:42.310 --> 00:19:48.906 So the question today is why we haven't been healed yet, because we're going to be. 00:19:48.906 --> 00:19:52.634 Every single person in this room is going to be healed. 00:19:52.634 --> 00:19:58.727 If you're going through something today, there is power in the name of Jesus Christ and you're just not healed yet. 00:19:58.727 --> 00:20:01.183 Now we don't know when. 00:20:01.183 --> 00:20:02.930 That yet is right. 00:20:02.930 --> 00:20:07.887 That yet could be here in 20 minutes when we have you guys come up and pray for healing. 00:20:07.887 --> 00:20:12.140 It could be next week, it could be next year, it could be next year. 00:20:12.140 --> 00:20:19.145 It could be like my son when he continued his eternal life and he was completely healed. 00:20:19.145 --> 00:20:25.105 There's the promise Healing is possible and we believe that. 00:20:28.001 --> 00:20:36.873 So today I did look and I'm studying a lot in the scripture here and I found some reasons in the New Testament of why we might not be healed yet. 00:20:36.873 --> 00:20:49.567 As I said, it's always a yet, okay, and now I'm not saying again this is a big disclaimer here out of these seven things I'm talking about, you're not guaranteed, if you're sick today that one of the things that you're dealing with is in here. 00:20:49.567 --> 00:20:59.259 Okay, it might just be as I'm going to talk about on the seventh one, it's God's sovereignty. 00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:05.628 But there are some things in the Word of God that does point out why we may have not yet got our healing or why we're fixing to have our healing. 00:21:05.628 --> 00:21:09.048 So we're going to start out with number one, which is faith. 00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:17.153 Now, again, you've got to be really careful with faith, because we don't want to say that we can have enough of it to get you healed. 00:21:17.153 --> 00:21:22.705 What that's doing is putting faith in faith instead of faith in the one who gives it. 00:21:22.705 --> 00:21:28.383 So we have to be really careful at how much we put on faith. 00:21:28.383 --> 00:21:32.111 But faith is very important because faith glorifies God. 00:21:32.111 --> 00:21:37.528 Faith points us away from ourself and from all that we think we can do. 00:21:37.528 --> 00:21:40.361 To him, faith turns us away from our own power. 00:21:40.361 --> 00:21:44.588 To him, faith says, lord, I'm nothing, but you are everything. 00:21:44.588 --> 00:21:49.565 Says I entrust in you everything and I cling to you alone. 00:21:49.565 --> 00:21:52.912 It's saying that I have confidence in you alone. 00:21:52.912 --> 00:21:59.690 As you see, it's constant pointing toward God and it has nothing to do with me. 00:21:59.690 --> 00:22:03.560 I only believe in the God who can. 00:22:03.560 --> 00:22:07.868 So we can't put too much on faith. 00:22:07.929 --> 00:22:14.530 And as well, they just and Tyler talked about it a while back where he was at a church and the lady died. 00:22:14.530 --> 00:22:23.821 And next week the dude got up and said yeah, if sister so-and-so would have just had more faith, I'm surprised you didn't punch him. 00:22:23.821 --> 00:22:29.789 Oh, oh, he was like eight or nine years old, five years old, wow. 00:22:29.789 --> 00:22:38.709 And so if you come to me at any time and say you just didn't have enough faith for your son, I'm going to have to repent to the elders because I'm going to punch you. 00:22:38.709 --> 00:22:45.766 Maybe you'll punch me first. 00:22:45.766 --> 00:22:49.101 Sam Storm said a really good thing and I'm going to put it up here. 00:22:49.101 --> 00:22:49.320 He says so. 00:22:49.320 --> 00:22:51.102 Sam Storms said a really good thing and I'm going to put it up here. 00:22:51.321 --> 00:22:58.467 He says Faith is not a weapon by which we demand things from God or put Him in subjection to us. 00:22:58.467 --> 00:23:01.349 Faith is an act of self-denial. 00:23:01.349 --> 00:23:07.894 Faith is a renunciation of one's ability to do anything in a confession that God can do everything. 00:23:07.894 --> 00:23:22.323 Faith derives its power not from the spiritual energy of the person who believes, but from the supernatural efficiency of the person who is believed. 00:23:22.323 --> 00:23:22.403 God. 00:23:22.403 --> 00:23:25.107 It is not faith's act but the object that accounts for the miraculous. 00:23:25.107 --> 00:23:26.990 It is God and God alone. 00:23:26.990 --> 00:23:30.586 Healing can only come from God and God alone. 00:23:30.605 --> 00:23:33.782 If you get a healing today, it's not going to be because you had a lot of faith. 00:23:33.782 --> 00:23:37.769 Now we must have faith that God can heal. 00:23:37.769 --> 00:23:51.260 And so if you come and pray doubting in your heart yes, that's what the scripture is talking about we can't come and ask for a healing to happen but then have doubt in our heart, like I'm going to come up and pray for you. 00:23:51.260 --> 00:23:56.349 You know God, yeah, yeah, I know that sometimes maybe you can heal to. 00:23:56.349 --> 00:23:58.473 You know we have to come. 00:23:58.473 --> 00:24:06.403 God, I know that you have the power to heal. 00:24:06.403 --> 00:24:08.387 I pray that you heal right now and we pray in faith until something happens. 00:24:08.387 --> 00:24:08.949 The whole word. 00:24:08.949 --> 00:24:10.512 I don't know if you've heard the acronym push. 00:24:10.512 --> 00:24:13.261 The whole word. 00:24:13.261 --> 00:24:21.529 I don't know if you've heard the acronym push pray until something happens, and that something might happen today and it might happen in eternity, but you don't stop praying until something happens. 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:36.180 The next thing that can stand in the way of your healing, of why you're not healed yet, of your healing, of why you're not healed yet Sin. 00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:51.920 Sometimes healing doesn't come because of a presence of sin in our life where we've not had confession and repentance, and we see this in James, chapter 5, which we'll be reading again here in a few moments, but it clearly instructs us to confess our sins one to another that we might be healed. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:54.143 Confess our sins one to another that we might be healed. 00:24:54.143 --> 00:25:14.432 Now, remember I'm not saying that one of these is absolutely landing on you that's not always the case but if right now and I was praying about this just a few moments ago if right now something popped in your head and you're needing healing, but you just remembered something that may be the Holy Spirit revealing to you, deal with this, get this dealt with. 00:25:15.955 --> 00:25:25.967 If you've not made something right with somebody, you're holding a grudge towards somebody, you're upset, you're not forgiving Right now, as I'm saying that, you've got a thought in your head. 00:25:25.967 --> 00:25:44.507 If you do deal with it Because I have personally found that when I'm thinking about this and something pops in my brain, it didn't pop in there for nothing it's because I haven't dealt with it and I need to go repent, and sometimes that means that you're going to have to go to someone and repent. 00:25:44.507 --> 00:25:49.983 You know something that I realized with a certain sin that I'd been dealing with for many years. 00:25:49.983 --> 00:26:01.047 I had been asking God to forgive me many, many times, but I never went back to the first time and dealt with it Like that sin that began it all. 00:26:01.047 --> 00:26:12.746 I never went there, and so that might mean, yeah, you've asked God to forgive you a bunch of times for doing that to somebody, but you haven't went to the person, the one that you offended, the one that you hurt. 00:26:12.746 --> 00:26:16.979 You need to go and talk to them and it might happen today. 00:26:16.979 --> 00:26:21.290 Maybe they're in this room and you can deal with that, and we're going to give a time for that in just a little bit. 00:26:21.290 --> 00:26:24.084 But sin can hold us back. 00:26:24.084 --> 00:26:27.372 That might be a reason why we're not healed yet. 00:26:29.259 --> 00:26:30.943 Another one is do you want it? 00:26:30.943 --> 00:26:33.931 Do you want it? 00:26:33.931 --> 00:26:34.792 Now, this one sounds weird. 00:26:34.792 --> 00:26:36.165 Right, of course I want my healing. 00:26:36.165 --> 00:26:39.489 Yeah, but not everybody does. 00:26:39.489 --> 00:26:44.451 See, jesus asked the paralyzed man in John 5, 6, do you want to be healed? 00:26:44.451 --> 00:26:56.988 What might look really weird is that, honestly, some people either might be paralyzed by the fact that they've just not been healed and so they've just given up completely. 00:26:56.988 --> 00:26:59.407 I heard somebody praying about that this morning. 00:26:59.407 --> 00:27:06.846 Sometimes it's just the fact that they've prayed and then they like just given up completely and it's been years since they've really prayed about it. 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:09.463 I'll tell you a little bit of my own testimony here. 00:27:09.463 --> 00:27:20.028 I've actually been praying for people in the past for long periods of time and realized that they don't want to be healed, and what I mean by that is they're scared of healing. 00:27:20.028 --> 00:27:24.431 If they get healed really healed they'll have to go back to work. 00:27:24.431 --> 00:27:27.704 I'm not meaning that in a bad way. 00:27:27.704 --> 00:27:28.367 That's scary. 00:27:28.367 --> 00:27:38.564 Think about this If you've lived 10, 15 years in some big sickness and it took you years to get where you're at right now, if you were to be completely healed right now, your whole life would change again. 00:27:38.564 --> 00:27:39.807 That's abrupt. 00:27:39.807 --> 00:27:42.432 That's not any condemnation toward anybody. 00:27:42.432 --> 00:27:46.167 That's scary, but that's real faith that we'd have to have. 00:27:46.167 --> 00:28:01.328 So if you got healed so that does happen Some people and again I've seen this in a few cases they really enjoy the dependency on other people and they love the special attention, and so they've come to me and asked me to pray for them. 00:28:01.328 --> 00:28:07.530 But yeah, you can see they really don't want it because they really enjoy what they receive from it. 00:28:07.530 --> 00:28:11.269 So that might be a reason why we're not healed yet. 00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:17.272 Now remember, I'm not saying that if you're sick, any of these seven are absolutely going to line up with you. 00:28:17.272 --> 00:28:25.800 They might not, but if I'm speaking one and it hits you today, we want to pray for those so that you can receive your healing. 00:28:25.800 --> 00:28:29.509 Along with that one is are we asking? 00:28:29.509 --> 00:28:32.665 You know, as I said just a minute ago, you get so tired of asking that you stop. 00:28:32.665 --> 00:28:37.771 Maybe you prayed for healing a few times and then you've just kind of given up on it completely. 00:28:37.771 --> 00:28:40.969 But we have to continue asking. 00:28:40.969 --> 00:28:45.351 Some people are not healed because they have a lack of asking and asking God. 00:28:45.351 --> 00:28:56.497 But a lot of times healing comes from continual prayer, long time of prayer, fasting prayer, much of it. 00:28:56.497 --> 00:28:59.281 That's why I said pray until something happens. 00:28:59.281 --> 00:29:04.271 Never stop praying, Fast over it. 00:29:04.271 --> 00:29:06.015 Ask others to pray with you. 00:29:06.015 --> 00:29:11.388 Never stop asking because you're just not healed yet. 00:29:11.388 --> 00:29:16.948 You're going to be, you're going to be healed and we pray that it's right now. 00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:22.971 Another one, number five is there an unclean spirit? 00:29:22.971 --> 00:29:27.442 Some people are not healed because of demonic oppression. 00:29:27.442 --> 00:29:33.413 We see that in Luke 13 with the woman with the disabling spirit. 00:29:33.413 --> 00:29:45.280 She had that for 18 years and Jesus said Satan had bound her and he set her free and she stood up for the first time in 18 years. 00:29:45.280 --> 00:29:51.290 So it could be that someone has the spirit of infirmity. 00:29:51.290 --> 00:29:54.315 It is a real thing and we do have that. 00:29:54.315 --> 00:29:56.446 So when you're praying for somebody for healing. 00:29:56.446 --> 00:30:00.101 You have to constantly ask God and really be discerning in these God. 00:30:00.101 --> 00:30:12.778 Is there something here that we need to cast off, because they've allowed that to be on them or they don't even know it's there and they've not told it to go away through the power of the name of Jesus? 00:30:14.962 --> 00:30:23.259 Number six this is one that's really hit me hard over the last little bit, and it is are we stewarding our temple properly? 00:30:23.259 --> 00:30:28.480 This is the temple of the Holy Spirit, right? 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:36.678 And I'm only here on earth because God gave me this body to dwell in until this time's over with, and it is my responsibility to steward it. 00:30:36.678 --> 00:30:46.190 Well, you know, most of you know I'm all about stewarding all of God's possessions that he gave us, all the way down to a toothpick in your closet, I don't know Like. 00:30:46.190 --> 00:30:47.592 Your lawnmower belongs to God. 00:30:47.592 --> 00:30:48.752 Your car belongs to God. 00:30:48.752 --> 00:30:49.634 All of it belongs to God. 00:30:49.634 --> 00:30:50.815 If you have it, he gave it to you. 00:30:50.815 --> 00:30:51.615 So steward it right. 00:30:51.615 --> 00:30:54.098 It's a 50-year-old lawnmower, I don't care. 00:30:54.098 --> 00:30:56.321 Make sure it's still working, because it's what God gave you. 00:30:56.321 --> 00:30:56.981 Use it right. 00:30:56.981 --> 00:30:59.045 How many times I've said that? 00:30:59.045 --> 00:31:24.377 But when's the last time you heard Derek say I've got to steward this and I've not been doing a great with is anxiety, and I just wanted to share with you just a moment what anxiety does to your body. 00:31:24.838 --> 00:31:28.230 Anxiety causes damage to your nervous system. 00:31:28.230 --> 00:31:30.574 It causes damage to your heart. 00:31:30.574 --> 00:31:33.518 It causes damage to your digestive system. 00:31:33.518 --> 00:31:37.321 It causes damage to your heart, it causes damage to your digestive system, your immune system, your respiratory system. 00:31:37.321 --> 00:31:39.525 That's just anxiety. 00:31:39.525 --> 00:31:44.912 That's worrying about things that you can't control. 00:31:44.912 --> 00:31:46.273 Just that alone. 00:31:46.273 --> 00:31:53.482 If we just stop there, we're destroying our body because we're worried about those things that we can't control. 00:31:53.482 --> 00:32:02.355 We're tearing it up and it is throughout like all kinds of medical books. 00:32:02.355 --> 00:32:08.605 There's all kinds of things that we do to our body that leave lasting term bad effects to our body and can cause disease. 00:32:10.769 --> 00:32:16.383 So in that, like onto that, what if we're not eating things that are good for us? 00:32:16.383 --> 00:32:25.876 So when I say that, uh, maybe you're praying for god to heal high cholesterol, but you won't stop eating bacon, I'm just saying like the god. 00:32:25.876 --> 00:32:30.574 Like if you go to the doctor and the doctor says, hey, this, this, this and this is bad. 00:32:30.574 --> 00:32:38.340 I need you to stop eating this, and you're like, okay, what was bad, see you later and you don't listen to the fix, stop it. 00:32:40.191 --> 00:32:52.396 I can't tell you how many times I have seen people in my own family deal with diabetes and not stop eating cake at every 30 minutes and their blood sugar is going nuts. 00:32:52.396 --> 00:32:55.675 And they're sitting there like checking their blood sugar while they're eating the cake. 00:32:55.675 --> 00:33:01.601 And I can eat three more bites and you know, no, no, we know it's killing us. 00:33:01.601 --> 00:33:08.518 How many people who are dealing with asthmatic issues but you refuse to stop smoking? 00:33:08.518 --> 00:33:12.138 How many people are dealing with things in their gut? 00:33:12.430 --> 00:33:16.501 And it's because of overindulgence in different foods. 00:33:16.501 --> 00:33:17.535 Not all foods are bad. 00:33:17.535 --> 00:33:18.490 You know. 00:33:18.490 --> 00:33:19.496 We talk about alcohol. 00:33:19.496 --> 00:33:21.257 People talk about that one all the time, right? 00:33:21.257 --> 00:33:23.718 And overindulgence in alcohol can kill you. 00:33:23.718 --> 00:33:27.480 It'll take everything away from you, let alone kill your body. 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:28.895 It will take everything from you. 00:33:28.895 --> 00:33:32.920 But a drink every now and then is not going to hurt your body. 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.631 But it's overindulgence in these things. 00:33:35.631 --> 00:33:37.555 So it's okay to eat some chocolate. 00:33:37.555 --> 00:33:41.584 Just stop eating it every 30 minutes, right? 00:33:41.584 --> 00:33:44.693 So we're not taking care of our body. 00:33:44.693 --> 00:33:49.082 Some of us refuse to exercise. 00:33:49.082 --> 00:33:50.564 I'm right here. 00:33:50.564 --> 00:33:52.789 I'm right here, okay, I'm not. 00:33:52.789 --> 00:33:57.613 So I'm not pointing at anybody, but we refuse to exercise. 00:33:57.613 --> 00:34:05.230 What we know is bad for our body is to leave our body setting steel and vegging out on TV while eating Cheetos. 00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:17.204 It's bad for our body, which brings up my next point Cheetos are terrible, it really is the next one. 00:34:17.204 --> 00:34:23.592 So, which brings up my next point Cheetos are terrible, it really is the next one. 00:34:23.612 --> 00:34:24.396 So are we eating unknown poisons? 00:34:24.396 --> 00:34:25.440 This one's the one that's kind of got me recently. 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:26.465 You've heard a lot of it come up in the news. 00:34:26.465 --> 00:34:28.853 Kennedy's been talking about it and talking about all the things. 00:34:28.853 --> 00:34:35.512 In America that we eat every single day, that's totally legal, but in the rest of the world is completely illegal. 00:34:35.512 --> 00:34:41.471 It's considered poison in the rest of the world and yet it's in 50% of our foods. 00:34:43.273 --> 00:34:53.518 And so, like praying God, is it something I'm eating Like, is there something that I'm consuming on a daily basis that's causing me to get sick? 00:34:53.518 --> 00:34:55.822 I didn't know for years. 00:34:55.822 --> 00:35:12.346 You know, I've always been told I had ADHD and when I look back of all the things I ate when I was growing up, what was in most of those foods were red 40, yellow 6, yellow 5, blue, whatever these crazy numbers. 00:35:12.346 --> 00:35:18.740 And I realized that when I looked at my meals that I would normally eat on a daily basis because when I grew up I didn't eat good. 00:35:18.740 --> 00:35:20.293 My mom tried, but I didn't. 00:35:20.293 --> 00:35:33.583 She tried so hard, but when I saw what I was eating, red 40 is known for causing ADD in children and I had it in probably 50% of my daily food. 00:35:33.583 --> 00:35:39.626 It was in 50% of everything I ate. 00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:46.353