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Taking The Church Outside The Walls
The Rock Family Worship Center
Waiting to Walking
In this episode we explore the profound difference between waiting for healing and walking in healing that's already been provided through the finished work of Christ. By examining the story of the man at the pool of Bethesda, we reveal how shifting your mindset and language can transform your experience of God's promises.
• Healing is not something we're waiting to receive—it's something already accomplished that we need to recognize and walk in
• The man at Bethesda waited 38 years looking for external solutions when his healing required only faith and obedience
• Religion has conditioned us to beg for what's already ours instead of receiving it as sons and daughters
• Understanding our identity as partakers of the divine nature transforms how we approach healing
• The kingdom of God isn't a distant hope but a present reality we can experience now
• Changing our language from "getting healed" to "I am healed" aligns our confession with God's truth
• Healing isn't just physical—it applies to every area of life including emotions, finances, and relationships
Jesus did not die on the cross and go through everything that he went through so that we can keep living in a place that he never called us to be in. It's time to change our thinking and change our language.
It's not always easy. Listen. Some people live with things for a long time and it becomes a part of who they are sometimes, and we're going to show you today that that's not who you are. Jesus did not die on this cross and go through everything that he went through so that we can keep living in a place that he never called us to be in. So we want to change some things this morning. So I don't know how it's going to go. You just have to bear with us and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:But I did have something specific that was on my heart. We talked about it last Wednesday night and it's really been heavy on my heart. I didn't know at the time that we was going to do this, but then, the more that I started reading and studying, this kind of come to me and God spoke that to me. He said y'all come together. He said bring it together. And he said I'm telling you, if you allow it to. He said it's going to be a transformational day in the kingdom. Not a transformational day for the rock or not a transformational day for cutting edge, but a transformational day in the kingdom. And that's what we want. So what we brought this thing together. But it's not about me up here speaking, it's not about him up here speaking. It's about what are you going to allow God to do in your life that he's already done, but what are you going to receive? What are you going to receive today?
Speaker 1:So I had this one passage that I started reading through and I want to share a little bit of it with you and just to kind of build your faith up and show you some things. So I want to share with you about one of the most I believe it was one of the most powerful stories healing stories in the Bible. It's the story that not only shows us the incredible power of Jesus' ability to heal, but it also reveals a profound truth, and that's what we need to grab on to. We need to grab on to some truth. We grab on the words that pastors have been preaching all the time and I'm going to tell you I even say it about myself I've preached a lot of words and then later on in the last year or so, I've realized you know, that wasn't even biblical, that was not even in the Bible. Now I heard somebody say it and it preached real good, it sounded real good, but when I went back and started studying in the Bible, I found out it wasn't even biblical. We want to preach the truth of God's Word. Okay. So not only is this a good story in the Bible to read, but it's also a truth that can touch every single person that's in this room today.
Speaker 1:We've got to change two things We've got to change our thinking and we've got to change our language, and that's something that God spoke to me. He said we've got to shift the way that we speak. The language, the church language, the religious language that we're so used to, is not always going to cut it. I said one time and some people looked at me like I was crazy when I said it. I said but don't let the Bible keep you bound, don't let the Bible keep you bound. And some of them looked and said wait a minute. Now he's blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, against the Word of God. No, but see, when you read this Bible and you read it out of context and you read it with misinterpretations in it, you do not find the truth in it. I can't stand on something that is not the truth. So we've got to make sure that we're reading this thing the right way.
Speaker 1:So if you have a need this morning, let me go ahead and clear this up for you, because I'm building this thing up to the end, because I'm telling you somebody's going to walk out of here healed. Today I done told Cindy she's got to have some stuff done to her back and I done told her I said, count surgery out, we're not having surgery, okay. And I done told her I said, count surgery out, we're not having surgery. Okay, it's healed. So let me just build this up a little bit and tell you what we're not going to do today. We're not going to try to convince God to move. We're not going to try to convince Him to move. We're not going to try to pray a miracle down from heaven. Not going to do it. We're not even going to try to pray a miracle down from heaven. Not going to do it. We're not even going to pray for you to be healed. What we are going to do is we're going to stand with you and decree from a place of healing that's already here, that's already on the inside of you, that's already there but has not yet manifested. We're going to stand with you and we're going to help pull everything that God put on the inside of you and help pull it out, because you are walking away. This is so crazy. We're walking around every day, hurting but healed, hurting but healed, broke but prosperous, sad but full of joy. Can we change our language and change the way we see things? So if you have a need this morning, it's going to change. But it's not just going to change because you walked into this building. It's not just going to change because you want it to. It just going to change because you want it to. It's going to change because your mindset shifted and your language shifted.
Speaker 1:So let me remind you about this story of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Everybody knows this story Very popular story, very good story. But what I want to share with you this morning is his journey, his journey from waiting on healing, waiting for healing, to walking in healing, waiting on healing, and then he was walking in healing. This is not just a good Bible story. You've got to hear this. This is for every single person in here, to give you some truth this morning that you can grab on to and say I'm not going to walk out of here the same way today.
Speaker 1:Something will shift today, before we jump into this story and you know this is in John, chapter 5. Most times we just we read verse 1 through verse 9. And that's kind of the crux of the story. I want to do something a little bit different today. I want to skip to the very end. I want to start at the end, and I want to do that because I want to provide you with a little bit of context that I think is going to bring some understanding in why we are here today, why we've come together today, why we both feel like this is really important to do and how this can impact your life today. So I'm going to skip to the end of it and we're going to start at the end.
Speaker 1:We're going to look at the healing, but first we're going to look at what happened after the healing. So if you go with me to John, chapter 5, we're going to skip all the way to verse 14 and look at what Jesus said. He said Afterward, jesus found him in the temple and said to him See, you have been made well, got to catch that part. You have been made well, got to catch that part. You have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.
Speaker 1:This verse right here has been twisted and turned and messed up and preached the wrong way and caused people to just feel horrible about themselves because of the way that it's been taught, because he looked at him and he healed him. He said you've been made well, go and sin no more. This phrase has often been misinterpreted as a threat, almost A threat of punishment You've done this and if you go back out and you do something else, then God's going to cause this. Listen, my God, don't cause things like that to happen. God, don't put things on us. He's not sitting there rubbing his hands together and saying who can I kill with a heart attack today? Who can I cause to have a car accident today? Who can I do this other thing to? He's not doing that. That is not the God that you worship, but sadly, it's the God that we teach Every day in many churches. That's the God that we teach.
Speaker 1:But if we take a deeper look at this verse right here verse 14 and we look at the Greek meaning of it, because we've got to understand, where did it come from? Why does it say this? So, if we look at the Greek meaning of it, because we've got to understand. Where did it come from? Why does it say this? So if we look at the Greek meaning especially from the finished work perspective, you can look at it. Listen, you can stand here and look at this work from a futurist perspective and one day, somewhere in the by and by, I'm going to get this One day. No, we're looking at it from a finished work perspective, because there's a difference in seeing it as finished, as complete and done, than seeing it one day off in the future somewhere. This thing reveals something much more powerful if we look at it from that perspective.
Speaker 1:And the first thing I want to mention right here Because he talked about sin no more One of the big misinterpretations, I think, that's been pushed out there and it's still pushed out there today Is apparently this man must have done something really, really bad, because he was laying there for 38 years and he had this on his body and he couldn't walk and he couldn't move, and so something had to happen, because Jesus told him I'm going to heal you, I've healed you, but sin no more. So some people automatically try to say well, he must have sinned in the first place, he healed him and now he's saying sin no more. That's not what it's saying. Because when we look at that word sin, we've got to understand it.
Speaker 1:I've told our church all the time, if we're talking finished work and I'm telling you, a lot of people at other churches do not totally comprehend what we're saying when we say finished work, they think, oh, everything's done and they're just sitting back doing nothing and they're just doing whatever they want to do, living however they want to live, and they're not doing whatever they want to do, living however they want to live, and they're not worried about sin at all. I want to say you're exactly right, you are exactly right. We're not worried about sin because we are dead to sin. It's no longer controlling my life. But then I realized, when we first started teaching this, I said I realized I didn't say it out loud because people get mad, but I want to sit there say you don't even know what sin is. So I started telling our church if you can really talk to somebody and help them understand in context what sin is, it makes the world a different.
Speaker 1:So if we had to put it in steps, I would say help somebody understand the true understanding and meaning of what it's talking about when it's talking about sin, because we put it on behaviors. You go out and you drink a beer. You go out and you, you do this or do that. It's always a behavioral thing that we're looking at. You did something, therefore you sinned against god. It's not talking about behaviors. We're looking at the word. You know the harmatia. We're looking at it from a standpoint of a distorted image, you seeing yourself in a way that God never intended you to look at yourself, because that's not who you are anymore. And if we can realize everything was finished, I begin to see myself from a different perspective. So when we see sin in the right kind of way, it's a game changer, because Jesus was never punishing this guy, he was never threatening to punish him. He was inviting this man to walk in a new reality.
Speaker 1:Can I put something on you? Can I give you something here that you've never had before? And when I give it to you, I'm going to make you well, but you cannot go back to seeing yourself the way you used to Sin no more, lest anything worse come upon you. This has always kind of got me right here, because I was like you know, the man sat beside a pool for 38 years, and every day that he tries to get up and get in the pool, somebody beats him to it for 38 years. Can that get any worse? So what does he mean? Lest something more or something worse come upon you, the worst thing that could come upon him is the fact that he moves back in to seeing himself from that religious prism, the way that they looked at him, the way that he looked at himself as a nobody, as a nothing. You can have everything in the world, but if your mindset is turned in the wrong direction and you're seeing yourself from a messed up perspective, I don't care how much money you got. Hey, rich people commit suicide all the time Because they got everything they want in the natural, but they don't have any idea who they are. They have no idea. So he was telling him. He said you're no longer a man of brokenness. I've made you whole. Now don't allow your mind to go back to where I never intended it to go. I never intended on you to look at yourself in that way. The distorted image that you had is gone. You've been made well. So let me start right here, just a second, and say a couple of things, and then we're going to turn it over and just see how this goes. Let's start from the beginning real quick.
Speaker 1:In John, chapter 5. I'm not going to read it. You guys know this story. I'll just kind of paraphrase it because of time.
Speaker 1:We're introduced to a man in John 5 who's been laying at the pool beside this pool for 38 years. That's a long time, 38 years of waiting, of hoping and wishing for something. He sat by the pool, a place where people believed that an angel would come down and an angel would stir the water. And the first one that stepped into the pool after the angel stirred the water would be made whole, would be made, would be healed. But the man had no one to help him. He couldn't get down there. I don't know why he didn't just stand and sit right beside it, but for whatever reason, he could never get down there. Okay, his situation was hopeless. I'm just kind of getting your mindset set on something right here.
Speaker 1:I want you to picture this guy. I want you to picture watching this guy lay up there for 38 years and every time the water was stirred. I don't know what he done, but I'm sure something leapt in him. He said I got to get down there and people's just stepping over him, probably kicking him, probably pushing him down, and for 38 years I'm sure something went through his mind and he said I'll never get there. He said hope, I'm going to live with this the rest of my life.
Speaker 1:The man had nobody to help him. He had nobody there that was going to. It's been 38 years. Nobody carried him to the water. He's been laying there. His situation was not going to get any better. It was going to stay the same. Every time the waters were stirred, others beat him to the pool. He was stuck.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing he was stuck in a cycle of waiting for a miracle, yet always falling short. Anybody else been there? You're waiting for a miracle, but it seems like you always get right to the edge of the water and then something happens. Does it sound familiar? Because it should to all of us, either with us or we know somebody. We're close to somebody who's been waiting for something to change in their life, waiting for a healing, waiting for breakthrough, waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right person to come along, much like this man.
Speaker 1:We sometimes focus on external things. If I can get to the right church, if I can get under the right pastor If I can get surrounded with the right people, and it never seems to happen. Because I find something wrong with that pastor, I find something wrong with that church, I find something wrong with those people. There's always something that keeps me from getting there. When I'm looking at it from an external standpoint, we wait for something to change outside of us, not realizing that the power is on the inside. We've had it the whole time. That's what gets me about this guy.
Speaker 1:He laid here for 38 years. I wonder what he felt like after he was healed and he finally realized you know, I've had this for 38 years, but I've had the power to change it in me for 38 years as well. Can you imagine the depression he probably went through? I mean, really, he had it the whole time. That's like living in poverty and you're not knowing. Somebody put a million dollars in your account and you're living in poverty every day because you didn't know it was there. You didn't know you had access to it. So watch this right here In John 5, verse 6.
Speaker 1:Look at what Jesus shows up right here and look what happened Afterward. Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition a long time. Jesus knew this and I love the way it puts that part in there. It goes ahead and tells you that part Jesus knew. He said to him do you want to be made well? Could you imagine being in this condition and battling this for 38 years and going through the pain and the struggle and the disappointment and then this dude you don't even know who he is he walks up to you and say do you want to be made well? I mean, when I first read this years ago I said what a stupid question. I didn't call jesus stupid. I said the question was kind of dumb because you know your man's and I guarantee you the man thought that really, you see me here, you know my condition, you and I guarantee you, the man thought that Really, you see me here, you know my condition and you're going to ask me that question Do I want to be made well? Of course I do. He walks up to this man that's been in the same spot for nearly four decades and he asked this question. It was simple, but it was very, very profound.
Speaker 1:Now, jesus knew the man's condition. The verse tells us he didn't need to ask this question, but he had to. And that's where I think a lot of us are here today. The situation that we find ourselves in the healing is there. Nobody's got to come in and ask you do you want to be healed, do you want to be made well? But see, jesus didn't have to either. But he did it because he wasn't looking at the pool. He wasn't looking at the problem the man had. He was looking at his heart. He was looking and saying I need to ask this question because I need to see where he's at, because he won't be. Will he receive what I'm about to give? So I'm going to ask you the same thing today Do you want to be made well? Because you can say yes, but are you ready to receive it? Are you ready to actually walk it out?
Speaker 1:Jesus wanted to shift this man's focus from waiting on some event like the stirring of the pool. That's what he was focused on Waiting for the waters to be stirred, to recognize that the healing power of God was present in the person of Jesus, the man standing in front of you. You no longer have to think about the pool, because what would the man say? You can read it on your own. He said do you want to be made well? He said there's nobody to take me to the pool. His mind automatically went out here and Jesus was like I can picture Him saying no, no, no, no. That's not what I'm asking you. I ain't asking about the pool, I ain't asking about all that. I'm saying do you want to be made well?
Speaker 1:The first time, if I ask that question to you today, your mindset automatically goes to your problem and you start thinking about how big it is. You start thinking about how long you've dealt with it. You start thinking about everything that you're going to have to go through, whether it's surgery or whether it's medication or whether it's whatever. You start thinking about those things and what it does is it traps me in a cycle of thinking. It'll never happen, Just like the man here, I don't have anybody to take me there. And Jesus said I'm not focused on that, I'm focused on do you want to be made well?
Speaker 1:This question wasn't just for this man. It's for every single one of us today. It's for all of us. Do you want to be made well? It's a question of desire and faith and just a willingness to step into the present reality of what's already been accomplished Once. You can wait and you can keep going through it, or you can choose today I'm going to leave it behind and there's people right now thinking I choose to receive it, but my body still hurts. I want to receive it, I want to be made well, but I know that every time I move, my back hurts or my knee hurts or I've got a heart issue or something's going on. Can you change your thinking, instead of focusing on what you're going through, to focusing on what he went through, because what he went through satisfied everything that we need to receive healing. It's done, it's complete. Don't wait for something external to happen. Embrace the reality of what has already been done.
Speaker 2:There is an awakening taking place across here, all throughout creation. There's an awakening, and the awakening do I need to talk about it? The awakening that's taking place is challenging to what we've already been taught for all of generations. I'm telling you, when you hear people talk about religion and I'm going somewhere with this, because your healing is based on your understanding of identity If you have a problem understanding who you are as sons and daughters of God, you'll never be able to tap into that which is yours because of what he already done and because of who he already done and because of who you are. And so what's happening in the body of Christ today is that there is an awakening to grace, where people are beginning to understand who they are as sons and daughters of God. Why? Because we have been duped by religion. We have been promised so much by religion, only to be given something that's less than what the word talks about.
Speaker 2:Jesus did not come to bring a religion. He did not come to bring a religion. What's the first thing he said in Matthew 3 when he come on to the scene? He said repent. Why? Well, the kingdom is at hand. If you look up the word at hand, it means the kingdom is here right now. The kingdom is not a million miles beyond Pluto, it is here and it is now.
Speaker 2:The kingdom the Bible said does not consist of meat and drink things that you can see, taste and touch but it's righteousness, peace, joy, the Holy Ghost. You know what consists of the kingdom, what the kingdom consists of? Good news. That's what the word gospel means. It literally means good news. Is it good news that you're sick? Is it good news that you're struggling? Is it good news that you're struggling, trying to figure out how I'm going to pay the light bill this week? Is it good news that when I'm walking through seasons of depression and worry and fear, it is not good news? Therefore, it is not of the kingdom. He said it's by desire to give you something.
Speaker 2:Me and Ronnie, I'm going to say something and you might get rubbed the wrong way, but I'm speaking under my apostolic authority, so if it rubs you the wrong way, take it and grow from it. Me and Ronnie were speaking a while ago before service about a pump, what they're going through with their pump. If I have to come in here and get pumped up by my worship to see God move, something's going on on here today. Hear what I'm saying. I know that if I come in here and I don't feel the music today, if I come in here and I don't feel like dancing a little bit today, if I don't have to perform for my Father to do something for me, you see, we've been taught by religion a DIY gospel, which is a do-it-yourself gospel, which tells us that if I'm good enough, my father will bless me. If I sing good enough, and if I sing loud enough, he's going to bless me. If I live good enough, he's going to bless me. But if I slip up, oh man, here comes that penal substitutionary theory which says that God's going to judge me. Do you understand what I'm talking about? I'm going back to what Pastor Brian said. It's a finished work. Religion keeps us working for something that's already ours. Man. The kingdom says it's yours already, enjoy it. We're working our butts off trying to hope God is with us.
Speaker 2:Do you ever see when Jesus come in Matthew 3, what we just spoke about? Jesus come onto the scene and John was there and John says in John's gospel he says whoa, behold the Lamb of God. Then all of a sudden, you see the Father speaks out from heaven. This is my beloved Son, whom I will. Jesus had yet to raise me. Jesus had yet to raise him. Jesus had yet to do any of the miracles that we was reading about, but the Father was pleased in him. Why was the Father pleased in Jesus, apart from any works that he ever done? Why? Because he was a son. John tells us and people challenge me all the time on this but Jesus was the Son of God. No, you're a son of God, and people challenge me all the time on this. Jesus was the Son of God. No, you're a son of God. John 1 says as many as believed to them gave he power to become sons of God. We are some God. 2 Peter 1, 4 says this, and this is the verse I want to give. He says that we've been given exceeding great and precious promise, that by these promises we've been given exceeding great and precious promises, that by these promises we have been made partakers of the divine Of course, god. But it don't take me much to figure out what that verse means.
Speaker 2:I'm a partaker of the divine nature. A partaker is the Greek word koinos, koinonia, and what it literally means. It means that I'm a sharer in the divine nature. When you look up the word divine, it's the word theos, where we get the name God from, and then when you go and look up the word nature, it's a physis, and what it means is that I am in a lineal descendant to the Father. Let me put it this way I'm in the family. I'm in the family. I'm a partaker, a shepherd. I have God's DNA in me. I'm a partaker of the shepherd. I have God's DNA in me. I'm a son of God.
Speaker 2:Do you know that you and I are as much a son of God as Jesus himself is as much a son of God? Oh, I felt that then. Do you know that he loves you the same way he loves Jesus? Do you know Jesus never had to perform to get him to do something for him? Why? Because he was a son. Do you know? We work ourselves to death trying to get God to do something for us, and all that is is what we've been brainwashed with for so many years, the religious stuff that says you've got to work, work, work so he'll be pleased with you.
Speaker 2:And if you mess up, what does the scripture say? That we or Jesus is the express image of the Father. Jesus is the express image of the Father. If you want to know, if you want to know what God looks like, what has ever seen God and lived? Here? We have. We've seen Jesus.
Speaker 2:Jesus said when you've seen me, you've seen the Father. I do what. I've seen the Father. Do I say what I heard the Father say? Jesus said when you've seen me, you've seen the Father. I'm trying to get out. I want to catch this because it's so important to walking in the healing.
Speaker 2:I don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with worship. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pressing in. I love it. But I'm saying my life changed once I caught the revelation that what I needed wasn't given to me by what I did. What I needed was given to me by the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. Everything was given then and it comes down to this Do you remember when they were on the road to Emmaus and those two disciples were walking and they didn't know that was Jesus walking with them on there? And then later on, after he left, they said my Lord, that was the Lord. They said. Didn't we realize that our heart was burning while he was talking, they perceived, they called a revelation and an understanding of who he was.
Speaker 2:Do you know that most cases we don't receive the fullness of the things we're believing for because we've not caught it, we've not perceived it, we've not understood that it is already ours. If you are sons and daughters of God who bear the divine nature, you should not be sick, because the Bible said healing is the children's bread. We've prayed about it, we've begged for it and we've asked God for this and this, and I'll be the first to tell you. But once prayed about it, we've begged for it and we've asked God for this and this and I'll be the first to tell you. But once we catch it, once we begin to understand that in our heart, then that thing will manifest and our life will never be the same Again. It was never God's plan that any one of us be sick. Still, not God's plan. We'd be sick. But why are we still sick? You know that's what repentance is. It's a change of our mindset.
Speaker 2:It's the goodness of God, the Bible says, that causes a man to repent, not hellfire preaching. You're going to burn in hell for all of eternity because of the mistakes you made. You're going to hell, brother, turn or burn. And we've heard that nonsense. For how many generations people still struggle and we've missed that verse. He said it's the goodness of God that causes a man to repent. You understand how good he is. You understand he loves me even in my mistakes. That causes a man to repent. You understand how good he is. You understand he loves me even in my mistakes. He loves me even in my failure, where a man will put their foot on my neck and say you're no good, my father picks you up and says you're no good.
Speaker 2:When we catch the goodness of God, it causes our mindset to shift. We step into a place of embracing the fullness of God. It's not enough just to understand that we have life, but there's a place where we cross over into that place of abundant life, where we walk in the fullness of the kingdom, where we walk in a place where sickness and disease can't touch us, where we walk into a place and y'all probably going to challenge me here, but we walk into a place where Paul calls it immortality, where we get to a place where death can no longer touch us. See, the Bible tells us, if you want to get technical, in Hebrews 2, verse 14,. The Bible tells us that Jesus came and destroyed death, and destroyed him who had the power of death.
Speaker 2:We run around fighting the devil. In most cases it ain't a devil we're fighting. It's a religious demon that we're fighting and struggling with. I'm going to say this and I'm going to pass it back to Pastor Brian. Let him just flow where he wants to go with it. It's like we're worrying about demons.
Speaker 2:I'm a prophet and I know I did more. I see things. Things show up and we fight things. We've had things that's projected into our house, crazy stuff. I could tell you that you'd make me think I was a nut. But we got to a place to where I understood who I am. There ain't no joker that come from the pits of hell or anywhere else got any more authority than I do. Why? Because the greater one lives on the inside of me. And once I got to a place that I didn't worry about demons and devils anymore, guess what? Them jokers just flat disappeared. I had to go cast no devils out and run this one off of my property and that one there. Why? Because I understood who I was and they knew who I was. Man. Your identity matters. Your revelation, your understanding who you are matters. You are part of the divine nature, partaker of the divine nature.
Speaker 2:You're royal. Think about that, man. The blood of the Father runs through the DNA of God Almighty. It's on the inside of you. Jesus was never sick a day in his life. We're the same bloodline. Somebody going to catch this in a little bit. Somebody going to catch this and you're going to walk out of here and your body's healed. You're going to walk out of here, man. I even see something right now. I see a lower right side on the lower back. Walk out of here and I even see something right now. I see a lower right side on the lower back. I see bones and stuff shifting in somebody's background. I can see that in the spirit. Right now, Before you leave here, there's an adjustment taking place in the spirit where you're going to see things line up in your body, Probably because somebody's about to catch it.
Speaker 1:I'm glad that rain started. As soon as that rain started, I heard God say you cannot let them out early so they might get wet. So that means we've got to. God is good. Now I want to come back. Like I said, I didn't know how this was going to go, but I don't want to start a story and not pull all the truth out of it, so I was looking back at it while I go. You know, and I want you to think about the command that Jesus gave, the very, very simple command that Jesus gave. He said rise, take up your bed and walk. It's as simple as that. He said rise, take up your bed and walk. It's as simple as that. He said Rise, take up your bed and walk. He didn't tell him to stand over here and wait for the water to stir, and as soon as it starts stirring, I'm going to help you down there. He didn't tell him to go, get somebody else to get him a partner that can help drag him to the water. He didn't tell him to do anything else. He said rise, take up your bed and walk. It's amazing sometimes how we try to get so I'm guilty so technical with our healing prayers. I mean we do some crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:I've told the story many times about the little girl over in Thailand. I ain't going to go into the whole story, but I remember it taught me something because I prayed. I was praying stuff that I'd heard people pray. I was copying people's prayers. Why? Because I wanted to see this little girl walk. She'd been paralyzed for years and finally, when it never happened, she kept falling and kept falling and kept falling. And I, finally, when it never happened, she kept falling and kept falling and kept falling and I walked off and I said god, if I look dumb, you look dumb because you said I had the authority. I didn't do this, you said it. You said you've given me the authority to lay hands on the sick and to see them recover.
Speaker 1:And I went back and I picked this little girl up and, instead of praying an eloquent prayer that was just full of, I said do you you want to walk? And the interpreter said yes. I said walk, walk, one word, man. I done prayed 15 prayers over this girl and she kept falling. And I'm talking about using Bible language and I was getting it was good prayers. And then all of a sudden, I look at her and I say walk, and she starts walking. Sudden, I look at her and I say walk, and she starts walking.
Speaker 1:I look at this story right here and I see what Jesus said Rise, take up your bed and walk. And immediately the man was healed. Here's the point the man didn't have to wait for the right moment. The man didn't have to wait for somebody to come help him out. He didn't have to wait for the right moment. The man didn't have to wait for somebody to come help him out. He didn't have to wait for the water to be stirred. All he had to do was receive what Jesus said and walk. That was it.
Speaker 1:Jesus spoke the healing into existence and in that moment a man's life was transformed, totally changed. He was no longer bound by his physical condition, which he had been bound by. He'd been sitting in a pool for 38 years. I don't know how old the man was, so he's had this probably a lot longer, but he'd been at the pool for 38 years. He was no longer bound by that physical condition. He was no longer waiting for healing. He was now walking in. I don't think he was walking in, I think he was running. You've been laying there for 38 years trying to get to a pool and a man walks up and says take up your bed and go, you're going to run out of there. Yeah, I mean, this man had just received something, simply because of a simple command.
Speaker 1:Just like this guy, we have a decision to make today. There's probably not a person in here that ain't dealing with something. We ain't got to compare war stories and say my back's worse than your back. Listen, it don't matter how minor it is or how major it is. A minor thing can affect somebody's life in the same way that something major can. So we don't have to compare. But I'm telling you, I think every person in this room is probably dealing with something, and it ain't always physical. Might be mental, might be emotional, some different things we're going through. But, just like this guy, you have a decision today to make. I think it's time we change our mindset, we change our language and we begin to step into something.
Speaker 1:You can keep waiting. You can keep waiting, you can keep hoping, you can keep praying that God will move one day. Listen, I'm not against prayer. Sometimes people take what we say the wrong way and they pull out of it what they want to hear out of it. Okay, I'm not saying prayer is bad.
Speaker 1:What I used to do wasn't prayer. What I used to do was beg. And what a lot of people in the churches today do is they come to the altar and they beg God to give them something, and I picture God sitting there saying you already have it. What more can I do? How can I give you something? The most frustrating place to be is to have access to something but not know it. That's frustrating. He's already given it to us, so we're no longer waiting and hoping and praying for these things to happen. We're not hoping God will move one day somewhere up there when I get there.
Speaker 1:Listen, I need this healing now. I don't need it in heaven. I don't need to need this healing now. I don't need it in heaven. I don't need to be blessed in heaven. I don't need prosperity. I don't need joy. I don't need peace when I get there. Yeah, but he died on the cross to forgive us of our sins. No, he died much more than that. He was forgiving sin before he went to the cross. So it wasn't just about sin. That was part of it, but we got to realize it was so much more to what he went to the cross for. It included healing.
Speaker 1:The church message is going to keep you waiting. It's going to keep you waiting. Waiting to be raptured, waiting on the second coming, waiting to enter heaven, walk through the pearly gate, waiting to see if my name is written down in the Lamb's book of life. All these things you're going to have to wait Because why it's going to happen in the future. You don't have no choice but to wait. You force yourself to wait Because why it's going to happen in the future. You don't have no choice but to wait. You force yourself to wait. You have no other option. Can I tell you, as kingdom ambassadors, you have an option. You don't have to wait anymore. You are entitled people.
Speaker 1:I preached this message on that one time Because there's so much people talking about entitlement. You're entitled. You're entitled. You're entitled to speak prosperity now. You're entitled to speak healing over your life right now. Him climbing on a cross entitled you to certain things and we've got to take advantage of those things. We don't have to wait on all these things that the church teaches today the rapture and the second coming and everything. We don't have to wait on these things for it to happen. We can grab on to the kingdom message. What's the kingdom message? It's healing, restoration and breakthrough in every single area of your life. It's available right now.
Speaker 1:Right now, when we say kingdom here, kingdom now, some people relate that it messes with them. We say heaven here, heaven now. It messes with them Because they just can't understand why are you living in a place that I'm trying to get to and one day, when I die, I'm going to get there? Listen, that inheritance is not heaven. You don't get an inheritance of heaven when you die. You get an inheritance when the one who leaves it dies. What good is an inheritance when you're dead? Nothing. We have received something because Jesus died on the cross and we have inherited all these things and we have access to them right now. We don't have to wait for the right moment. We don't have to wait for the right person or wait for the right church or the right opportunity or the right healing evangelist to come along. Listen, I've been just as guilty as anybody else.
Speaker 1:We used to chase evangelists. We used to travel everywhere. When we heard there was an evangelist, a prophet, somewhere, we would get in our cars, we'd load up 15 people in a van and we would take off. I remember loading up in my car one day. I had a little old Mustang. Then I let the top down and I took off to Florida and I spent three or four days sleeping in the car. Just why? Because I was chasing what was going on in Florida at the time and I wasn't coming back until I received something. And now I look back and think about all that gas, money and stuff that I wasted when I already had what I was chasing was already mine and I drove all the way down to Florida to try to get it.
Speaker 1:We do some dumb stuff and when we step into kingdom it enlightens us and then we start seeing the dumb stuff. Why? Because we got wisdom now and we start seeing things we never seen before. So we don't have to wait on all that stuff. Jesus has already made everything available to us through His death, burial and resurrection. It is finished, it's complete, it's a done deal. Whatever other word you want to put on it, it's done. The kingdom of God is not some distant hope. We're going to keep saying that over and over. It's a present reality, it's here, it's now. God's promises are available to you this very moment Today. Well, it's raining outside. Good, maybe you're blown. Well, you usually start aching when it rains. Maybe it'll start aching so we can heal you of it. You know everybody says, oh, when it starts raining, this joint starts. Good, maybe that's why God sent the rain, because it wasn't supposed to rain until like 2 o'clock. God's promises are available. We'll pass it off one more time and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 2:Hallelujah, hallelujah. But all that in mind, this gospel of the kingdom of God, it really is. Y'all remember most of the kingdom of God. It really is. Y'all remember most of it. Some of you remember, back in 2012, grace Day, over at First Community, you know and Watson and them was there there was a lot of seeds imparted to the kingdom of God. I mean, I'd already been understanding some kingdom principles and at that point thought I was walking in some kingdom, until that brother come and showed me how mixed up I was and um, but I'm talking about thought you're gonna be talking off camera can you hear me now?
Speaker 2:I wonder why I didn't see me. No more um, but again, you know, and I'm not gonna be for you long.
Speaker 1:I'm, I just.
Speaker 2:I, I feel something. I wonder why they didn't see me no more. But again, you know and I'm not going to be very long I feel something brewing in the atmosphere. I feel something brewing in the atmosphere, somebody is about to receive something and it's up to us. I mean, it's literally a place of knowing. That's literally what it is.
Speaker 2:See, the Bible tells us us. First of all, do you know that you have never been separated, nor will you ever be separated from the father? The bible tells us that we were alienated from the life of god. We're in our minds, in our minds, and if we shift our mindset and have a transformation to where I get to the place that I know that, no matter if I'm walking in this thing or not, it is mine. This is what Christ done for me. It was a finished work, it was a done deal, it is complete. Nothing can change it. I may not be walking there yet, but I've got to get to the place where perception tells me this is yours. You are not supposed to be sick. You are not supposed to be fearful and not supposed to be worried. You are not supposed to live a life of poverty, a life of lack, a life of without. We are not supposed to be broken down, busted and disgusted, but we are supposed to have the best that the kingdom of God has. And if I'm not walking in that something's wrong, and it's not him. He's already done it. It's a done deal.
Speaker 2:I've been to places over the years that I've seen I could tell you crazy stuff. I've seen God move metal rods out of people's backbones. That was there and wasn't there when we got through praying. I've seen a dead puppy come back to life because my kids was heartbroken because their puppy was dead and we raised the puppy back to life after seven sneezes. I've seen crazy stuff. Yet sometimes when my wife is battling something in her body, it drives me crazy because I cannot see the healing manifest. And when I see other people that are close to me going through things, it drives me crazy because I say, god, that is what we are supposed to be walking in.
Speaker 2:And then the spirit of God spoke to me one day and I said why can't I see the ones that I love find deliverance and find healing? And the Spirit of God says continue believing God, don't play the radio y'all. He said keep believing, keep speaking. See, it's not faith just because I can see it. What makes it faith is that I can't see it.
Speaker 2:Faith is seeing with my heart what my eyes can't yet see. Faith is believing the report of the Lord. Faith is calling those things that be not as though they already are. You see, I understand what the Word says and my life may not line up just yet, but even though my life is not lined up, I'm going to continue to speak what thus saith the Lord.
Speaker 2:You see, the Bible says that when you begin to speak the Word of God, heaven will back you up. If you decree a thing, it will be established. You know what I mean. That means God backs it up If you decree something. See, you were created in the image and the likeness of God. Death and life is in the power of your tongue. And your father stepped out and looked at darkness on the balcony of heaven some 6,000 years ago and he said let there be. And then the Bible tells us in Hebrews that God framed the world with the words of his mouth. He says you were created in his image and likeness. Death and life is in the power of your tongue. You are a creative being. You are a prophetic person, an apostolic person, just like your father, and you have the ability to create what you speak in your life.
Speaker 2:But often times, as Pastor Brian said, we're speaking the wrong language. We've got to speak the language of heaven, and I'm not talking about praying in tongues. I'm talking about speaking words that line up with what the scripture says, and speaking them and believing them within context. That Bible you're holding. Thank God for the scripture. That ain't the word. The Bible says this that the word Jesus was the word. The word was with God and the word was God. And I don't believe they had a written book sitting beside the throne room in heaven. That book is not the Word of God. The Word is the one that that book is pointing to. Can I tell you how about I go there? Can I tell you, oftentimes we, when you hear me, if you even see anything I post you hear me say context matters, context matters.
Speaker 2:There is a lot of stuff that was lost in translation from the Scriptures. Go dig and study the Greek. Go dig and study the Hebrew. Go dig and study the Word of God, the original translations, and you'll see that a lot of things were mistranslated, that a lot of things don't carry the same meaning that they did in the original Hebrew or Greek. What I'm saying is this Don't ever put that book above the man. He is the word God told me.
Speaker 2:Long ago I was riding a dirt road and the Spirit of God spoke to me. He said don't ever get trapped between the cover of Genesis and Revelation. I said how do you get trapped between Genesis and Revelation? He said because you've got to understand this book for the purpose of pointing us to the living Word. The written Word was for the purpose of pointing you to and bringing you into a relationship with the living word. Look at all them apostles you read about in Acts Matthew, mark, luke and John. They were just starting to write the Bible.
Speaker 2:In the 61st or 60 AD, or 180, rather, they didn't have no Bible. They walked with him, they talked with him, they heard with him, they talked with him, they heard from him, and the Bible tells us what. As Jesus was or is. So are you in the earth? That don't take rocket science. Elon Musk can understand that. One too.
Speaker 2:As Christ is, it's in the present tense when you look it up, as Christ is right now, where is he Seated? At the right hand of the Father in heavenly places. It says and then the Bible tells us that we are seated together with him in heavenly places. As Christ is, so are you in the earth. The Bible tells us that all principalities and powers were under his feet. If you're seated together with Christ in heavenly places, principalities and powers were under his feet. If you're seated together with Christ in heavenly places, principalities and powers are under your feet.
Speaker 2:Sickness did not bother Jesus. Sickness should not bother you. Worry did not defeat Jesus. It should not defeat you. In fact, the Bible said Jesus took principalities and powers and he made a spectacle of them. He made an open show of them and he defeated them one and all. So when we're battling something, we're being lied to, we're being deceived and we're being told that we're in less than who the Father says we are. Why? Because sons don't get sick? Why Because sons don't get broke? Why Because sons don't worry and get frustrated. Sons rise above every circumstance and every situation and sons represent the kingdom and get frustrated. Sons rise above every circumstance and every situation and sons represent the kingdom and the Father will. When they see me, they see my Father. I don't care what you heard about me when you see me, you see my Daddy, you know what I cannot be convinced. Otherwise, I don't care what nobody says, because it don't matter what nobody says.
Speaker 2:I know what my father said and that's all. And so get to that place, y'all. I want you to catch this Pray. Whatever Understand that healing's already done. You need it when we start to pray.
Speaker 2:Don't come up here with a beggar and a server. I can't stand it, brother, I'm just a good servant of God. No, you're not. You're a son of God who serves. So come up here with the mindset that I'm a son and you come up here and say, daddy, I a son. And you come up here and say, daddy, I want to thank you for what you already done. I thank you for this healing in my back, or this healing in my knees, or this healing in my marriage, this healing in my family, whatever you have.
Speaker 2:If you come up here and you don't beg sons, don't beg sons come and say thank you, daddy, for what you provided for me. And I decree and declare, as a prophet of God this morning, that bodies will be made whole. I decree over this house that mindsets will be transformed. I decree and declare that ankles will be made whole, that diseases will be washed away. I decree and declare over you that the kingdom of God will manifest in your body, in your mindset in your marriage, your finances, your home. Things are about to turn and shift. You will walk away from here different than what you walked in, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1:He really got into the last question I was going to ask, but I'm going to ask it anyway, just so you can hear it again how do I receive this? How do I receive this healing whether it's healing, whether it's breakthrough, whether it's just peace I need in my life how do I receive this? The answer is real simple Faith and obedience. And I'm using this man at the pool of Bethesda as an example. What did he do? He had faith and he had obedience. Some people would say well, how can you say this man had faith? This man laid there for 38 years and he couldn't get to the pool and he stayed there. The man had faith and the man at the pool believed that Jesus could heal him. When Jesus asked him, he said do you want to be made well? He believed that Jesus could heal him. When Jesus asked him, he said do you want to be made? Well? He believed that something in him shifted and he believed it. He didn't know how Jesus would heal him. He didn't know what way that he would go about it, but when Jesus spoke, he believed, he took him at his word. Can you take him at his word today? The other way was obedient. Just talking about it, I won't go back into it. But he said take up your bed and walk. He would not have been healed that day had he laid there and said well, I'll do it tomorrow. He had to obey the command that Jesus gave him. So he had faith. And he command that Jesus gave him. So he had faith and he was obedient to what he said.
Speaker 1:I believe that everybody in this room, if I asked a question I'm not going to ask it but if I said how many of you are saved, probably every hand, hopefully in this building would go up. And I'm talking about based on the way we, the church, teaches salvation, most churches, I believe everyone in this building would put their hand up. But we have to look, and we have to go back and look at the Greek. You know, when you look at the word sozo and you start breaking that down. See, jesus didn't die on the cross just to forgive sin. We said that a while ago. He was forgiven sin. Before he went to the cross he would pray with somebody. He'd say go forth, your sin has been forgiven. Cross hadn't even got here yet, but he was forgiven sin. So there's got to be more to it and I think we've got to open our mind up just a little bit and be willing to question.
Speaker 1:Some people used to tell me you't question God. And I believed them. I thought I was doing wrong by questioning God. But there was something always in me that when I heard somebody speak, it just didn't line up with what I was thinking. So I would get in the Word and I would start reading and I would start studying and all of a sudden I would start questioning.
Speaker 1:And that's when people say, well, you don't question God. I say why. I want to be a detective, I want to figure out if God's Word says this. But my life is this and I got in trouble one time for saying this. But I'll say it again Either God lied or he didn't.
Speaker 1:And he says in His Word he says I'm not a man that I should lie. If I don't believe he lied, then I have to come to the realization that somewhere I'm missing it. It's okay to say somewhere we're missing it because we're not walking in these promises. So you look at that word, sozo, and you look it up. It means saved. We knew that Salvation Healed, delivered and made whole. Saved, healed, delivered and made whole. This would bother some people here, but I'm going to say it Salvation and healing cannot be separated. If you're saved, you're healed. Oh, so he's saying I'm not saved, no, I'm saying you're healed too. If you're saved, saying you're healed too. If you're saved, you are healed.
Speaker 1:We don't have no problem with saying I'm saved, but these two go together. I can say I'm saved, but I can't say I'm healed. But yet they go together. Why? Why do we have such a problem believing it? Because we have all these other stuff that we teach us. Come up to the altar, get down, say this prayer, repeat after me. We'll put some oil on you, you'll get baptized. We've got a whole process of salvation that we go through. Even though the Bible don't say none of it, we go through it anyway because it makes us feel good, it makes us feel more saved. So we go through that process when the Bible actually says anybody who believes shall be saved and confess Confession is what Homiligeo Say the same thing.
Speaker 1:Oh my body's aching today.
Speaker 1:That ain't the same thing, god said.
Speaker 1:I just don't think I'll ever get over this. That ain't what God said. So there's where the shift in the mindset has to come. The repentance has to come. Why? Because I've got to shift what I'm saying to line up with what he already said. As I shift that and I begin to keep saying it confession, confessing the same thing as he said. Now I begin to walk this thing out. I'm just walking along and all of a sudden and this happens, this is so crazy. My back was hurting when I went to bed last night and I started just confessing. I woke up this morning and jumped right out of bed. When I'm preaching up here, my back don't hurt a bit. I could flip off this stage if I was a little younger.
Speaker 1:Y'all watch me in faith. Can we believe what we can't see? Yet Again, he said it a while ago it don't take faith to believe in something I can see. It takes absolutely no faith to believe in something I can see, but it's substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. That's not even a hard teaching. That's just reading the Word. But we mess that Scripture all up too. We say so much that the Bible never said why can't we just get back to the simplicity of the Word in context, studying it out, so you can't separate these out as part of the finished work?
Speaker 1:When he finished the work and he said it is done, it is complete, it is finished he meant that it was finished. As far as what you needed for salvation, it was finished. As what you needed for healing, it was finished. What you needed for redemption Everything you need was finished. Either God was sufficient or he fell short. Jesus, god was sufficient or he fell short. Jesus, he was sufficient or he fell short. I don't believe he fell short. So therefore, I've got to look and say I'm going to receive every part of the finished work. What he did on the cross was either good enough or it wasn't. I think it's time that we've got to be.
Speaker 1:And I'm telling you, christians will get mad at you. They will call you all kind of stuff. You are going against the Word. You're this, you're that. I'm the same thing. I don't care anymore. I don't care what they say anymore. I don't care if they agree with what I'm saying. Just like we're entitled to everything, they're entitled to be wrong, and they are on a lot of things, and I don't mean that arrogantly, I'm just saying the word is not being interpreted correctly and they're teaching other people this and then that person's teaching somebody else this and it starts this cycle of misinformation and misinterpretation. And I think there's got to be a couple of people because that's probably about all there are in this county that's willing to stand up and say no, we're going to teach the truth. If you don't like it, so be it, don't come.
Speaker 1:I've said it before and I meant this, and I'm not saying this in a negative way we're hoping we bought land, we're hoping to get a new building started out there. We will never have 150, 200 people in that building, not because I don't have faith, but that many people ain't going to believe what we're teaching right now. Good job, and that's good. I'm glad, because that's the point we want to get to. We want more people understanding what we're saying. We're not going against the Bible. We're actually teaching Bible in context, and it's been read so much out of context that it seems crazy. Think about that. It seems crazy when we actually read it for what it said. It shouldn't be like that.
Speaker 1:So you can begin walking in these promises of God right now, today, you can. Whatever is going on in your body, in your mind, in your whatever, in your family, in your finances. We're not just talking about physical healing. We're talking about healing in areas, every area of your life. Some people may need it in their finances, where their body's great, but they need some help there, whatever area it is.
Speaker 1:He did the work, he finished the work. Can you receive it today and can you hold on to it? If you walk out of here and it still aches a little bit, can you say no, no, no. I received that today and continue in the midst of the pain, in the midst of the discomfort, in the midst of everything? Can you continue to confess?
Speaker 1:Confession is not getting over here next to a priest and tell him everything I've done wrong. Confession is saying what God has said. Can I continue to confess even when I don't feel it? Feelings are liars. Feelings will lie to you. They will make you feel something, and you do feel it, but it does not line up with the Word of God. So which one are you going to believe If you choose? Today, I'm telling you God spoke that Word and he said today will be a transformational day in the kingdom. It's transformational when we grab on to it, not for my church or their church, but for the church as a whole, for the kingdom.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Can you imagine people getting healed, receiving healing? I have to catch myself all the time. Through getting healed, we're already healed. See how we have to change that language around. We have to catch ourselves and say, no, I'm not getting healed. One day Jesus ain't coming back to do it again. I'm already healed. We have to catch ourselves. We have to change the thinking. We change the thinking. We change the language. We change the language. We change the way we walk. We change the way we walk. Now, not only am I made whole, but everybody who comes around me.
Speaker 1:When we walk into a room, you are a change agent. You walk into the room and you don't bring darkness. Until you walk into darkness and you bring light, you walk into a situation that's just chaotic and you only have to open your mouth. Your presence brings peace. That's the change agent. That's kingdom. That's not just speaking kingdom, that is being part of the kingdom as an ambassador and as we begin to walk out in this community, things just shift. Simply.
Speaker 1:I had somebody actually get mad because I said it like this one time and they didn't understand it. But this is the way I mean it that when we walk into a room, everything has to shift around to make room for the anointing that just walked in. That's not arrogance, that's knowing who I am. And when I walk into it I fully expect things to shift, because I've just walked in the room, you've just walked in the room, you've just walked in the room. I've seen it happen so many times. But that's the mindset we've got to have. We don't cower down and say, oh, I'm just an old sinner saved by grace, I'm just a. That's crazy, don't line up with the Word of God. Let's line up with the Word of God.