WEBVTT 00:00:01.002 --> 00:00:02.728 Let's reach down and pick up our Bibles. 00:00:02.728 --> 00:00:08.891 Please, before we're seated, let's stand up and let's get our Bibles and wave them around. 00:00:08.891 --> 00:00:12.666 Livestream on is get your Bibles out and move along with us. 00:00:12.666 --> 00:00:14.711 Thank you, worship team, beautiful job. 00:00:14.711 --> 00:00:17.987 Hallelujah, don't you appreciate our worship team? 00:00:17.987 --> 00:00:20.687 They just lead us in such a. 00:00:20.687 --> 00:00:22.170 They set the table for us. 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:24.836 Amen, we've got a table, we've got a banqueting table. 00:00:24.836 --> 00:00:32.630 Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I am grateful today For all the ways that you've given me victory. 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:40.393 Jesus said in the world I'd have anguish and trouble, but he told me to be of good courage. 00:00:40.393 --> 00:00:45.551 I've overcome the world and, lord, you've caused me to overcome. 00:00:45.551 --> 00:00:48.709 I have the greater one living on the inside. 00:00:48.709 --> 00:01:01.094 I'm not afraid of any situation, but I can laugh at seeming impossibilities because I have the word and the spirit in Jesus name. 00:01:01.094 --> 00:01:03.000 Amen, you can be seated. 00:01:03.219 --> 00:01:14.305 Let's turn in our Bibles to John, chapter 14, and also the next chapter, acts, chapter three, and let's get into the word together. 00:01:14.305 --> 00:01:21.894 And John 14, verse 12. 00:01:21.894 --> 00:01:23.000 Jesus is speaking to the disciples. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:28.236 They're a little bit sad because Jesus is telling them he's going away. 00:01:28.236 --> 00:01:29.000 It's better that I go away. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.668 If I don't go away, the Holy Ghost won't come. 00:01:31.668 --> 00:01:44.000 And they didn't know much about the Holy Ghost, they didn't know much about the covenant, even though they were covenant people, old covenant, and even at this time they're old covenant. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.850 The new covenant had been wrought yet, because he hadn't gone to the cross yet. 00:01:47.850 --> 00:01:56.926 So, john 14, verse 12, he says to them and to us verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, everybody shout that's me. 00:01:56.926 --> 00:02:06.706 He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do. 00:02:06.706 --> 00:02:06.786 Why? 00:02:06.786 --> 00:02:20.842 Because I go unto my Father, and whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 00:02:20.842 --> 00:02:31.612 If you shall ask anything in my name, if you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:02:31.612 --> 00:02:35.884 That's really in the Bible, in red. 00:02:35.884 --> 00:02:38.942 Jesus said it All right. 00:02:39.021 --> 00:02:50.811 And then, as we turn over here to Acts, chapter three, verse 16, and this is on the occasion of a lame man at the gate, beautiful received his healing. 00:02:50.811 --> 00:02:53.688 He went walking and leaping and praising God. 00:02:53.688 --> 00:02:55.145 Everybody knew who it was. 00:02:55.145 --> 00:03:06.729 He was an approved beggar, approved by the Sanhedrin, so that Jewish people, in order to obey the law, they had to give alms, that's money, to the poor. 00:03:06.729 --> 00:03:11.939 He was qualified to meet that qualification. 00:03:11.939 --> 00:03:18.854 If they gave to this man, then they fulfill that obligation they had under the law. 00:03:18.854 --> 00:03:20.545 And he was healed. 00:03:20.545 --> 00:03:33.296 And it says here on the occasion, there's 5,000 men, that means at least 20,000 people gathered there wondering what in the world happened. 00:03:33.296 --> 00:03:47.770 Peter's telling them, he starts preaching at the occasion of this healing and he says to them and his name, that is the name of Jesus, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom you see and know. 00:03:47.770 --> 00:03:57.835 Yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 00:03:59.262 --> 00:04:04.293 So my message today is entitled Faith Makes a Demand. 00:04:04.293 --> 00:04:10.973 The word asked there in John 14 is really not supplication. 00:04:10.973 --> 00:04:13.000 You could say that's a great prayer. 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.851 I've heard Brother Hagin say this is one of the greatest prayer scriptures, and it is. 00:04:17.851 --> 00:04:20.067 But it's more than prayer. 00:04:20.067 --> 00:04:25.872 I said it's more than prayer because the word asked doesn't mean beg. 00:04:25.872 --> 00:04:28.970 It doesn't mean the way that we think of ask. 00:04:28.970 --> 00:04:30.903 It really means in the Greek. 00:04:30.903 --> 00:04:43.009 It means to call for, to require or to demand your due Faith makes a demand. 00:04:44.781 --> 00:04:50.910 I can see some of you going tilt on that one Because it sounds like we're being disrespectful. 00:04:50.910 --> 00:04:52.786 Well, you know, we're not demanding of God. 00:04:52.786 --> 00:04:57.982 God's not the one holding anything back, god's not the problem. 00:04:57.982 --> 00:05:02.870 We're demanding what the devil take his hands off. 00:05:02.870 --> 00:05:05.235 We're demanding sickness to leave. 00:05:05.235 --> 00:05:08.139 We're demanding, amen, demon powers to go. 00:05:08.139 --> 00:05:12.994 We're demanding on the basis of our covenant. 00:05:12.994 --> 00:05:18.088 Are you with me now Making a demand? 00:05:18.088 --> 00:05:23.238 I'm, everybody say I'm making a demand on my covenant in the name of Jesus. 00:05:23.238 --> 00:05:25.689 See, faith makes a demand. 00:05:25.689 --> 00:05:27.833 That kind of Bible faith makes it. 00:05:27.833 --> 00:05:29.675 Man, jesus wrote this in the Bible. 00:05:29.675 --> 00:05:31.278 And what is the context? 00:05:31.278 --> 00:05:32.127 See the Context. 00:05:32.127 --> 00:05:33.173 Not even prayer really. 00:05:33.233 --> 00:05:34.338 Now, prayers important. 00:05:34.338 --> 00:05:40.521 We all believe in prayer and we know, when we play pray according to his will, that his, his word. 00:05:40.521 --> 00:05:42.226 When we pray the word, he hears us. 00:05:42.226 --> 00:05:45.473 And if he hears us, we have the petition that we ask for. 00:05:45.473 --> 00:05:46.396 But guess what? 00:05:46.396 --> 00:05:49.250 We don't have to pray for things that Jesus has already bought and paid for. 00:05:49.250 --> 00:05:50.694 We don't have to pray for healing. 00:05:50.694 --> 00:05:54.031 We don't ask God to heal. 00:05:54.031 --> 00:05:55.934 He's already done the healing. 00:05:55.934 --> 00:05:57.156 What do we do? 00:05:57.156 --> 00:06:02.992 We make a demand on that covenant For sickness to go and healing to come. 00:06:02.992 --> 00:06:06.690 We call for healing, we make a demand. 00:06:07.725 --> 00:06:20.612 So, in the context of this verse, one of the most outstanding verses in the Bible, jesus said if you ask anything in my name, I will do it Anything. 00:06:20.612 --> 00:06:24.369 So what is the context? 00:06:24.369 --> 00:06:28.458 He said the works that I do show you do also, and greater works than these show you do. 00:06:28.458 --> 00:06:38.137 He's talking not just to the Apostles in the first century AD, he's not just talking to preachers, he's not just talking to pastors, he's not just talking to men and he's talking to the church. 00:06:38.137 --> 00:06:43.004 Thank you for two old me's and three grunts. 00:06:43.004 --> 00:06:45.651 Can I have a better amen? 00:06:45.651 --> 00:06:48.077 Everybody say he's talking to me here. 00:06:48.077 --> 00:06:52.252 See, when I got a hold of this 40 some odd years ago, it changed my life. 00:06:52.252 --> 00:06:54.317 I quit looking to other people. 00:06:54.317 --> 00:06:55.088 I quit looking. 00:06:55.088 --> 00:06:58.264 I mean, thank God for other people, thank God for my believer. 00:06:58.264 --> 00:07:02.355 You know other believers and you know on all that, but I mean I'm not depending on them. 00:07:02.355 --> 00:07:09.595 He said what things you desire, if you, if you ask anything, I'll do it. 00:07:09.595 --> 00:07:18.151 I, whatever you shall ask, not mama asked, not daddy asked, not somebody else at me ask. 00:07:18.151 --> 00:07:20.456 And that word I ask is not big. 00:07:20.456 --> 00:07:22.180 That word ask is making a man. 00:07:22.180 --> 00:07:26.502 So that's exactly what I see the Apostles doing now. 00:07:26.584 --> 00:07:27.447 You know the Apostles. 00:07:27.447 --> 00:07:31.730 They don't know very much About the Holy Ghost now. 00:07:31.730 --> 00:07:35.269 They had some experience laying hands on the sick, jesus, you know. 00:07:35.269 --> 00:07:37.925 And that first started a minister and his own hometown. 00:07:37.925 --> 00:07:41.170 They would, could he, could there, do no mighty work? 00:07:41.170 --> 00:07:41.432 Why? 00:07:41.432 --> 00:07:42.533 Because of their unbelief. 00:07:42.533 --> 00:07:44.478 So he sent them Jesus. 00:07:44.478 --> 00:07:47.632 And he Responded to unbelief with teaching. 00:07:47.632 --> 00:07:52.196 He went about teaching, preaching and healing, and so he saw the need. 00:07:52.196 --> 00:07:54.048 The people Rejected him. 00:07:54.048 --> 00:07:55.555 They knew the miracles. 00:07:55.555 --> 00:07:56.581 That didn't matter to them. 00:07:56.581 --> 00:07:57.464 They were offended to him. 00:07:57.464 --> 00:07:59.084 They didn't believe he was the Messiah. 00:07:59.084 --> 00:08:00.089 So what did he do? 00:08:00.089 --> 00:08:07.803 He sent his 12 out by two and two and he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. 00:08:07.803 --> 00:08:13.136 And they came back and said Jesus, even the demons are subject to unto us. 00:08:13.136 --> 00:08:16.031 And I named, so they knew a little bit about that. 00:08:16.091 --> 00:08:16.915 And then the 70. 00:08:16.915 --> 00:08:26.245 He sent the 70 out later on and and said you know, you know, just going out there and don't be afraid. 00:08:26.245 --> 00:08:30.286 You know, don't take a coat, don't take any money, just go. 00:08:30.286 --> 00:08:36.589 And if a town doesn't receive you, shake the, shake the dust off your feet and leave, don't just keep. 00:08:36.589 --> 00:08:42.068 You know, casting your pearls before swine, you know, sometimes we just need to. 00:08:42.068 --> 00:08:44.374 You know, move on to the rye harvest. 00:08:44.374 --> 00:08:46.466 Sometimes people are not rye harvest or quit. 00:08:46.466 --> 00:08:48.212 Quit bugging them, just keep on moving. 00:08:48.212 --> 00:09:03.457 There's plenty of people that are hungry and thirsty for what you've got, and you might not have come across them, but you'll be ready when you do, because then see, so that's exactly what the after Jesus died and and all of that rose from the dead. 00:09:03.457 --> 00:09:10.578 And Then here in Acts, chapter 3, peter and John are on their way to go pray at the hour, prayer in the temple. 00:09:11.405 --> 00:09:15.914 They're still praying with other Jewish people and probably telling them about Jesus, and all. 00:09:15.914 --> 00:09:18.947 That's the same group that said crucified, crucified. 00:09:18.947 --> 00:09:21.672 I mean, there's not a lot of friends in that group. 00:09:21.672 --> 00:09:23.966 It's funny. 00:09:23.966 --> 00:09:29.519 I mean, peter was afraid of those people before, just a few weeks before this happened, a couple of months ago. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:30.389 He's afraid of him. 00:09:30.409 --> 00:09:40.519 Now he's going out and mixing with him and on the way they see this, this man that everybody, Jesus saw that man, he's at the gate, beautiful, when Jesus was, jesus didn't do anything about it. 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:44.384 Jesus didn't heal everybody that he saw. 00:09:44.384 --> 00:09:49.924 He healed people that came to him and this man didn't have any faith to be healed. 00:09:49.924 --> 00:09:51.048 He, he. 00:09:51.048 --> 00:09:55.845 You know, peter came up to him and John and at nine o'clock in the morning says look on us. 00:09:55.845 --> 00:09:57.873 He fastened his eyes on the man. 00:09:57.873 --> 00:10:00.929 See, he was seeing the man's need. 00:10:00.929 --> 00:10:02.494 He was seeing what he really needed. 00:10:02.494 --> 00:10:03.375 He needed healing. 00:10:03.375 --> 00:10:05.866 He didn't need another Arms. 00:10:05.866 --> 00:10:08.294 He didn't need money for his tin cup. 00:10:08.294 --> 00:10:11.524 He needed to not ever have to have to be beggar. 00:10:11.524 --> 00:10:11.985 He can. 00:10:11.985 --> 00:10:13.528 He can get healed. 00:10:13.528 --> 00:10:16.793 Hey, he said, look on us. 00:10:18.197 --> 00:10:22.623 And the man looked at them, thinking he's gonna get something for the 10 cup he's holding. 00:10:22.623 --> 00:10:25.503 I don't know if he had a 10 cup, it just sounds good. 00:10:25.503 --> 00:10:28.804 But anyway, nobody has a 10 cup anymore. 00:10:28.804 --> 00:10:31.980 They've got a bushel basket that they're ready for your dollar bills. 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:39.260 But anyway, he said silver and gold, I don't have any silver and gold for you. 00:10:39.260 --> 00:10:40.063 That's not what I'm doing. 00:10:40.063 --> 00:10:41.200 I'm not giving arms here. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:47.905 He said, such as I have, give I thee In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 00:10:47.905 --> 00:10:56.586 Just in case he was confused about which Jesus it was, he specifically Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 00:10:56.586 --> 00:10:58.541 Rise up and walk. 00:10:59.495 --> 00:11:00.399 Notice he didn't pray. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:04.423 He didn't say let's brother, I feel so sorry for you. 00:11:04.423 --> 00:11:06.561 Come on, let me pray for you. 00:11:06.561 --> 00:11:09.024 Oh Lord, give him the serenity prayer. 00:11:09.024 --> 00:11:17.798 Give him, help him to be able to deal with this terrible 38 years he's been laying, he's been dealing with it. 00:11:17.798 --> 00:11:18.721 38 years. 00:11:18.721 --> 00:11:19.644 We find out later. 00:11:20.975 --> 00:11:23.019 No, he didn't pray a prayer, he made a. 00:11:23.019 --> 00:11:24.341 What I made, a demand. 00:11:24.341 --> 00:11:34.421 I said he made a demand, just like what we read there in John, chapter 14, just a few weeks before this occurrence, they were encouraged. 00:11:34.421 --> 00:11:42.399 He said if you ask, if you make a demand in my name when you're out there doing the works that I've done, I'm telling you I will do it. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:44.765 I don't change. 00:11:44.765 --> 00:11:46.522 I'm not gonna change when I go to heaven. 00:11:46.522 --> 00:11:48.903 I'm the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:11:48.903 --> 00:11:53.345 And he is that Jesus through the church. 00:11:53.345 --> 00:11:56.541 That's why you hear me say this all the time God's not gonna heal our land. 00:11:56.541 --> 00:12:03.359 That's a stupid prayer for people that don't know their Bible, and I get so irritated. 00:12:03.359 --> 00:12:11.043 Everywhere I look they're still praying that old covenant prayer that is so inferior to what we have. 00:12:11.043 --> 00:12:14.020 We're in the new covenant. 00:12:14.020 --> 00:12:15.642 Why don't you read your Bible? 00:12:15.835 --> 00:12:17.019 We have authority. 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:20.803 We have that name, oh, the name of Jesus. 00:12:20.803 --> 00:12:25.842 We have it yet plumbed the greatness and the power that's in that name. 00:12:25.842 --> 00:12:28.660 And we have carte blanche. 00:12:28.660 --> 00:12:30.982 We have power of attorney. 00:12:32.235 --> 00:12:37.721 Power of attorney, you know, when you've got power of attorney, you've got total control over somebody's life. 00:12:37.721 --> 00:12:41.937 You know, bless their little heart Sometimes. 00:12:41.937 --> 00:12:51.881 You know folks that are a little elderly, they get a little ahead of God and ahead of their self and they give their kids power of attorney over there and they're still in their right mind. 00:12:51.881 --> 00:12:56.740 All of a sudden, their kids run all their business, and sometimes not to their advantage. 00:12:56.740 --> 00:13:01.080 Next thing they know their house is sold and all the money's divvied up. 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.519 You think I'm kidding. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:11.062 I'm telling you right now, this is a cruel world out there and you better not just give anybody the power of attorney over your affairs. 00:13:11.375 --> 00:13:13.523 But that's exactly what Jesus did. 00:13:13.523 --> 00:13:21.557 He gave the church the power of attorney to walk in His name and do the things he does Greater works. 00:13:21.557 --> 00:13:22.802 He said greater works. 00:13:22.802 --> 00:13:26.503 Woo, come on, let's lift our hands right now. 00:13:26.503 --> 00:13:34.722 And so you know, when he told that man, he said in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:13:34.722 --> 00:13:35.817 Can you imagine? 00:13:35.817 --> 00:13:37.120 Did he do it? 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.340 Just with a little weeny voice, you know just a little old. 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:44.600 Oh, you know, sure it'd be nice if it's not too much trouble. 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:48.621 Why don't you just wiggle a little toe and see if anything happens? 00:13:48.621 --> 00:13:54.721 No, he said in the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 00:13:54.721 --> 00:13:58.715 And he didn't move fast enough. 00:13:58.715 --> 00:14:01.905 So Peter yanked Him by the arm and pulled Him up there. 00:14:01.905 --> 00:14:06.982 Yeah, doesn't sound like that guy had very much faith. 00:14:06.982 --> 00:14:11.043 You know he couldn't run. 00:14:11.043 --> 00:14:13.761 He might've wanted to run but he couldn't run. 00:14:13.761 --> 00:14:15.341 You know he couldn't run the other way. 00:14:15.341 --> 00:14:16.900 He's got his captive audience. 00:14:16.900 --> 00:14:24.140 Peter lifted Him up and immediately strength came into His ankle bones. 00:14:27.743 --> 00:14:37.296 I tell you, sometimes we can get people healed strictly on our own faith when we know what the name of Jesus has, when we know in our knower, down in our inside, see God. 00:14:37.296 --> 00:14:42.860 Peter had enough sense to know that this was a divine appointment and that God wanted to do something for that man. 00:14:42.860 --> 00:14:48.941 And so that man went, walking and leaping and praising God into the temple. 00:14:48.941 --> 00:14:56.100 I mean, and all those people, all those Jews which just a few weeks before had been saying crucify Him, crucify Him. 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:57.418 They're out there. 00:14:57.418 --> 00:14:58.878 And Peter said what are you looking at? 00:14:58.878 --> 00:15:00.383 What you looking at? 00:15:00.383 --> 00:15:08.599 As though, by our own holiness and our own power, this man stands before you. 00:15:08.599 --> 00:15:18.803 Be it known unto you that, in the name of Jesus, christ of Nazareth, let's go back to Acts 3 and see all what he preached. 00:15:18.803 --> 00:15:20.698 I mean, you know he kind of man. 00:15:20.739 --> 00:15:21.399 He lit them up. 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:26.197 Peter saw it. 00:15:26.197 --> 00:15:38.543 He answered, said to the people, you men of Israel, why marvel at this Verse 12, and why look you so earnestly on us as though, by our own power or holiness, we had made this man to walk the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob? 00:15:38.543 --> 00:15:40.676 See, that's the God that they see. 00:15:40.676 --> 00:15:45.745 They don't know the father of the Lord, jesus Christ, so he had to talk to them in the terms that they're used to. 00:15:45.745 --> 00:15:58.140 The God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his son Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 00:15:58.140 --> 00:16:09.828 I just want to let you know you messed up, but you denied the Holy One and the just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. 00:16:09.828 --> 00:16:09.929 Boy. 00:16:09.929 --> 00:16:11.674 He's rubbing their nose in it, isn't it? 00:16:11.674 --> 00:16:13.561 I mean, he's not exactly being kind. 00:16:14.591 --> 00:16:17.739 I'm a little bit tired of these people that want to apologize for Jesus. 00:16:17.739 --> 00:16:19.302 They want to apologize for us. 00:16:19.302 --> 00:16:21.941 They want to apologize at how bold we are. 00:16:21.941 --> 00:16:23.707 You know they're just a there's there. 00:16:23.707 --> 00:16:25.813 You know we need to calm down a little bit. 00:16:25.813 --> 00:16:26.697 It's not be talking. 00:16:26.697 --> 00:16:27.499 Well, I don't know. 00:16:27.538 --> 00:16:37.783 Peter was pretty bad Some salt and vinegar with his preaching and kill the Prince of life whom God had raised from the dead, aware of. 00:16:37.783 --> 00:16:38.604 We are witnesses. 00:16:38.604 --> 00:16:45.900 Now, you know, the blood libel is an anti-semitic trope and it it survives. 00:16:45.900 --> 00:16:52.302 People take this word and and that's Technically true but Jesus didn't, didn't give them that power over him. 00:16:52.302 --> 00:16:54.470 He said no man can take my life. 00:16:54.470 --> 00:16:56.275 I lay it down of myself. 00:16:56.275 --> 00:17:00.528 So they didn't kill Jesus, they are not guilty of his blood. 00:17:00.548 --> 00:17:09.765 And that's what people who want to justify anti-semitism, that's how they get people revved up in anger against the Jewish people. 00:17:09.765 --> 00:17:11.509 They call them Christ killers. 00:17:11.509 --> 00:17:16.361 They say they're guilty of the blood of Jesus and that they deserve everything they're getting. 00:17:16.361 --> 00:17:17.522 Well, that's not true. 00:17:17.522 --> 00:17:25.586 Jesus laid down his life on his own, but in the context of this preaching he's, what is he doing? 00:17:25.586 --> 00:17:29.759 He's pricking them, he's, he's getting them to realize that they've made a mistake. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.726 This is their Messiah and this is proof. 00:17:31.726 --> 00:17:34.112 This man walking is proof. 00:17:34.112 --> 00:17:37.075 Are y'all with me now? 00:17:37.075 --> 00:17:44.463 And his name, through faith in his name, had made this man strong, whom you see and know. 00:17:44.463 --> 00:17:54.636 Yeah, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 00:17:54.817 --> 00:17:58.390 You know, we ought not settle for anything less than perfect soundness. 00:17:58.390 --> 00:18:03.521 We ought to not let settle for anything less than total provision. 00:18:03.521 --> 00:18:07.356 Just barely get along Boulevard. 00:18:07.356 --> 00:18:11.678 We put up with it, just barely able to pay the bills, just barely able to get along. 00:18:11.678 --> 00:18:13.663 No, god wants us to have abundance. 00:18:13.663 --> 00:18:16.844 God wants us to have perfect soundness in our bodies. 00:18:16.844 --> 00:18:21.980 He doesn't want us walking around, limpin around, hurting all the time, barely able to move. 00:18:21.980 --> 00:18:31.415 I Tell you, I'm standing for perfect soundness in my body, perfect soundness, and glad this is body. 00:18:31.415 --> 00:18:33.721 We're not giving up till we have perfect sound. 00:18:33.721 --> 00:18:37.699 And I say we have it, I say it's ours. 00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:41.413 Right today Got a call. 00:18:41.413 --> 00:18:43.078 Those things that be not as though they were. 00:18:43.078 --> 00:18:48.713 And so so the Pharisees. 00:18:48.773 --> 00:18:50.700 Let's turn over to Acts 4, 16. 00:18:50.700 --> 00:19:04.152 And you know that caused a fewer I mean five thousand people out there, 20,000 people, and and they got saved listening to this preaching the motor. 00:19:04.152 --> 00:19:09.896 And so you know, the Jews, they're, they're upset, they don't know what, they're jealous, they don't know what to do there. 00:19:09.896 --> 00:19:17.461 They this, these men are accusing them Of killing Jesus and all of that. 00:19:17.461 --> 00:19:18.404 They're kind of a little bit. 00:19:18.404 --> 00:19:20.169 You know they're getting a little worried. 00:19:20.169 --> 00:19:21.595 Now they're not in the majority. 00:19:21.615 --> 00:19:40.491 It looked like that, looked like something's happening there, and and they said in verse 16 Acts 4 16 say Verse 15, but when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying what shall we do to these men For that? 00:19:40.491 --> 00:19:48.404 Indeed, a notable miracle has been done by them, as a manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 00:19:48.404 --> 00:19:50.996 Everybody shout notable miracle. 00:19:50.996 --> 00:19:58.163 See, that's what happens when the church starts making demands in the name of Jesus, notable miracles start happening. 00:19:58.163 --> 00:20:01.555 You know, we pray for revival. 00:20:01.555 --> 00:20:02.999 What's fine, pray for revival? 00:20:02.999 --> 00:20:07.256 But it's going to take people Understanding what they've got in the new covenant. 00:20:07.256 --> 00:20:16.278 It's going to take people that are tired of seeing folks sitting on the side of the road, crippled and Lame, and do something about it. 00:20:16.278 --> 00:20:21.142 Allow your heart to have compassion on people that are sick. 00:20:21.142 --> 00:20:23.994 Are y'all with me now? 00:20:23.994 --> 00:20:29.673 What are we gonna do about these men? 00:20:29.914 --> 00:20:37.602 There's a notable miracle, see, they gave the definition of a Notable, notable miracle, one that is widely known and cannot be denied. 00:20:37.602 --> 00:20:41.056 Whoo, you know, let me tell you something. 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:43.122 That's the substance of revival right there. 00:20:43.122 --> 00:20:56.413 When you start getting people that everybody knows their condition and you get them healed, or you get them blessed, or you get them changed, you get them saved, when everybody knew there were no Reprobate. 00:20:56.413 --> 00:21:00.421 Then I tell you right now that's a substance of revival, right there. 00:21:00.421 --> 00:21:05.976 Glory to God, Widely known and undeniable. 00:21:05.976 --> 00:21:10.190 You know, brother oral Roberts prophesied just about that same thing about this church. 00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:12.675 He said you're gonna see miracles in your church, john. 00:21:12.675 --> 00:21:15.563 He said you're gonna see miracles that'll startle people. 00:21:15.563 --> 00:21:23.394 What's startled Kind of sounds like Revival, that it. 00:21:23.394 --> 00:21:28.461 It kind of sounds like when they get the paddles out and pump up, put them on your chest, you go. 00:21:31.492 --> 00:21:34.632 I've had that happen to me, but I was asleep both times so I didn't know. 00:21:34.632 --> 00:21:35.314 I didn't know. 00:21:35.314 --> 00:21:38.902 But I came up out of that bed last time in August and they put the paddles on me. 00:21:38.902 --> 00:21:41.916 They didn't do it to to revive me like that. 00:21:41.916 --> 00:21:47.076 They did it to change my heart rhythm from Atrial flutter to sinus rhythm. 00:21:47.076 --> 00:21:52.130 So they gave me a shock, same same shock as you get when you resuscitate someone. 00:21:52.130 --> 00:21:56.190 And the heart doctor had been over my bed, was holding me down. 00:21:56.190 --> 00:22:00.279 He didn't want me to hurt myself and I almost knocked him and mocked him over. 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:01.321 The nurse couldn't believe it. 00:22:01.321 --> 00:22:04.800 I mean, when they put the paddles to me, I come up out of that bed and he couldn't hold me. 00:22:04.800 --> 00:22:08.597 He's a little guy and he needed to be a bigger guy. 00:22:08.597 --> 00:22:09.500 I told me down. 00:22:09.500 --> 00:22:13.075 Well, I'm telling you, people are getting startled. 00:22:13.075 --> 00:22:14.218 People are getting starts. 00:22:14.238 --> 00:22:15.800 What notable miracles will do? 00:22:15.800 --> 00:22:16.563 Hallelujah? 00:22:16.563 --> 00:22:21.890 We just haven't plumb the depths. 00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:29.635 And see, I'm going back and trying to teach you on faith again, because you know, we talked about meditating the word we talked about. 00:22:29.635 --> 00:22:33.528 You know the power of positive expectation we talked about. 00:22:33.528 --> 00:22:37.337 You know your confession bills, your supply chain. 00:22:37.337 --> 00:22:38.788 What am I doing? 00:22:38.788 --> 00:22:45.749 I want to put all these string, all these faith messages together because we need to walk by faith right now. 00:22:45.749 --> 00:22:47.913 We need to live by faith as never before. 00:22:47.913 --> 00:22:50.898 Our faith is under attack 24-7. 00:22:50.898 --> 00:22:56.796 If you don't get any, any ammunition for your gun, you're gonna go, you're gonna, you're gonna be. 00:22:56.796 --> 00:22:58.179 You don't have any ammunition. 00:22:58.179 --> 00:23:01.368 You need fresh ammo right now. 00:23:01.368 --> 00:23:04.434 You need, you need to answer these attacks of the enemies. 00:23:04.434 --> 00:23:06.259 He's attacking our finances. 00:23:06.259 --> 00:23:07.407 He's attacking our health. 00:23:07.407 --> 00:23:08.711 He's attacking our nation. 00:23:08.711 --> 00:23:11.279 He's attacking, he's attacking everywhere he can. 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:20.998 He knows his time is short, but I believe that the church is rising up and making a demand on its covenant. 00:23:20.998 --> 00:23:22.828 Glory to God. 00:23:22.828 --> 00:23:34.238 You know, smith Wigglesworth gives the testimony About a man that they call Lazarus, and Lazarus had gotten saved. 00:23:35.028 --> 00:23:36.604 He had been working in the tin mines. 00:23:36.604 --> 00:23:43.744 And oh, tin is a heavy metal, I mean, you know, like lead and those, those kind of mines. 00:23:43.744 --> 00:23:45.568 I mean you know it's bad for your health. 00:23:45.568 --> 00:23:50.138 They didn't know that back then that people would get sick and die early. 00:23:50.138 --> 00:23:59.611 Lead and tin and even gold man, all those, all those kind of heavy metals get into your system and they can really wreak havoc. 00:23:59.611 --> 00:24:00.432 And so it did. 00:24:00.432 --> 00:24:04.625 This guy got saved and what he did was he would work all day in the tin mine. 00:24:04.625 --> 00:24:14.671 Then he would leave and go and and preach all in the evening and get people saved, and he was just on fire for God and he wore himself out. 00:24:14.671 --> 00:24:19.848 He just, you know, he just didn't use wisdom, he didn't get the proper amount of rest. 00:24:19.848 --> 00:24:22.476 Of course, the big thing was he's working in tin mine. 00:24:22.476 --> 00:24:38.209 I'm sure that brought his endurance down to the point where he got tuberculosis and he had been bed-fast for seven years, still alive, but just skin and bones lay it in bed. 00:24:39.756 --> 00:24:44.116 And and here was Smith Wigglesworth was preaching in the area. 00:24:44.116 --> 00:24:51.330 He'd heard about Lazarus and the Holy Ghost said go raise Lazarus, go raise Lazarus. 00:24:51.330 --> 00:24:57.253 So he recruited some other believers, told him what he wanted to do. 00:24:57.253 --> 00:24:58.480 He said you, you have faith. 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:02.753 Yeah, oh, yeah, I said I was, come with me to Lazarus house. 00:25:02.753 --> 00:25:06.609 We're, we're gonna, we've got a Something we're gonna minister to him. 00:25:06.609 --> 00:25:23.173 So they went in, they a number of believers stood around his bed and All they did was just speak the name of Jesus, jesus, and Faith in their heart that that name is above every name. 00:25:23.173 --> 00:25:29.279 They didn't lay hands on him, they didn't pray for him, they didn't command the devil to leave him. 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:29.882 They didn't do. 00:25:29.882 --> 00:25:30.585 They didn't do anything. 00:25:30.585 --> 00:25:33.189 They just spoke the name of Jesus. 00:25:33.189 --> 00:25:40.905 They just uttered the name of Jesus, smith Wigglesworth standing there, and they're all around the bed, jesus, jesus. 00:25:41.448 --> 00:25:48.211 And after a while, I don't know how long, the power Filled in that room Got a hold of that man. 00:25:48.211 --> 00:25:56.336 He starts, you know, quivering, you know under the power of God, and and Wigglesworth said there's your healing, receive it. 00:25:56.336 --> 00:26:00.915 And the man said I've been bitter. 00:26:00.915 --> 00:26:14.397 Now, they didn't know that at the moment, but right after he had gotten to tuberculosis, someone had come From his church, and I know it and with oil in the name of the Lord, james, chapter 5. 00:26:14.397 --> 00:26:18.305 But he didn't receive his healing and he blamed God. 00:26:18.305 --> 00:26:21.635 He was mad at God. 00:26:21.635 --> 00:26:23.121 He said I've been bitter. 00:26:23.121 --> 00:26:23.682 Well, who was he bitter at. 00:26:23.682 --> 00:26:35.916 He didn't know that at the moment, but he'd been bitter at God, bitter that the word didn't work for him, took no responsibility for his own faith and and so he'd been bitter. 00:26:35.916 --> 00:26:42.442 He's sitting there, dying seven years laying there and Wigglesworth said what repent? 00:26:42.442 --> 00:26:51.934 And the man said Lord, I'm sorry, I believe healing is real and I receive it. 00:26:51.934 --> 00:26:54.711 And just like that he got his healing. 00:26:54.711 --> 00:26:55.988 Just like that. 00:26:55.988 --> 00:26:57.432 The name of Jesus. 00:26:59.484 --> 00:27:02.694 They made a demand on the power of God. 00:27:02.694 --> 00:27:03.729 That fell in that room. 00:27:03.729 --> 00:27:04.847 Well, guess what? 00:27:04.847 --> 00:27:11.413 Whether we feel the power, I mean the power's everywhere it's all in this room, whether we feel it or not. 00:27:11.413 --> 00:27:15.248 It's not a matter of shaking under the goosebumps or anything else. 00:27:15.248 --> 00:27:17.451 God is everywhere present. 00:27:17.451 --> 00:27:20.833 We can make a demand on the anointing. 00:27:20.833 --> 00:27:22.731 We can make a demand on the covenant. 00:27:22.731 --> 00:27:24.888 Glory to God. 00:27:24.888 --> 00:27:32.493 So when he gets up out of bed, he goes over and gets dressed, comes downstairs, starts to eat some good meal. 00:27:32.493 --> 00:27:37.453 That night he went to an open air meeting and testified of the healing power of Jesus. 00:27:37.453 --> 00:27:38.990 Come on, let's lift our hands right now. 00:27:38.990 --> 00:27:40.229 Glory to God. 00:27:40.229 --> 00:27:41.628 Seven years. 00:27:41.628 --> 00:27:47.089 I tell you we don't have to put up with what the devil's doing. 00:27:47.089 --> 00:27:50.990 We can have perfect soundness. 00:27:50.990 --> 00:27:59.616 Oh, the power of that name, his wonderful name. 00:27:59.616 --> 00:27:59.945 You know. 00:27:59.945 --> 00:28:02.866 Believers have Clark Block. 00:28:02.866 --> 00:28:07.709 As I mentioned, they have the exclusive right to use that name. 00:28:09.588 --> 00:28:18.792 In Acts, chapter 12, you know, paul had handkerchiefs or aprons laid on his, from his body, laid on sick people. 00:28:18.792 --> 00:28:23.690 There was so much demand for his ministry he couldn't go everywhere. 00:28:23.690 --> 00:28:31.294 So they took handkerchiefs or aprons from his body and took and laid them on sick people and they were healed. 00:28:31.294 --> 00:28:35.094 Laid them on people that had demons and demons left them. 00:28:35.094 --> 00:28:54.114 And there were seven sons of Sceva who were vagabond exorcists, jewish boys that God was using to cast devils out under the old covenant, and I believe that they were effective in some way that way. 00:28:54.114 --> 00:28:59.973 But they began to go around and say man, this works right over here, what he's preaching out. 00:28:59.973 --> 00:29:07.000 We're gonna preach that way In the name of the Jesus that Paul preached it. 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:14.757 So they came to a boy that was possessed with a demon and they said in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches, come out of him. 00:29:14.757 --> 00:29:24.211 And that young man in whom those demons were, he said well, you know, jesus, I know and Paul, I know, but who are you? 00:29:24.211 --> 00:29:32.632 And that man full of the devil jumped on those seven and they fled naked and wounded. 00:29:34.085 --> 00:29:34.787 Film at 11,. 00:29:34.787 --> 00:29:36.634 We're gonna see that at 11 o'clock noon. 00:29:36.634 --> 00:29:40.452 I mean, that's in the Bible. 00:29:40.452 --> 00:29:44.073 Jesus, I know, and Paul I know. 00:29:44.073 --> 00:29:54.412 Are they gonna be able to say the same thing about you, jesus, I know, paul, I know Karen, I know Dwayne, I know Debbie, I know. 00:29:54.412 --> 00:30:00.853 Are they gonna be able to say that, yeah, they're gonna be able to say that when you know that you can make a demand on your covenant? 00:30:00.853 --> 00:30:05.567 Oh, hallelujah, glory to God. 00:30:06.184 --> 00:30:08.252 They had no right to use the name of Jesus. 00:30:08.252 --> 00:30:10.310