WEBVTT 00:00:00.161 --> 00:00:00.783 Praise God. 00:00:00.783 --> 00:00:04.607 Let's pick our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:04.607 --> 00:00:08.986 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here today. 00:00:08.986 --> 00:00:12.448 My heart is receptive to Bible truth. 00:00:12.448 --> 00:00:23.410 I'm renewing my mind, I'm making adjustments to my thinking, I'm lining up with your word and with your spirit. 00:00:23.410 --> 00:00:36.664 That way I won't be confused, I won't be deceived, but I'll walk in the truth of the Word of God and I'll have the blessing of God upon my life and help others to receive the same. 00:00:36.664 --> 00:00:40.587 In Jesus' name, amen, amen, praise God. 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:44.569 Let's turn in our Bibles to third John, chapter third John. 00:00:44.569 --> 00:00:47.646 There's only one chapter, third John. 00:00:47.646 --> 00:00:55.753 And then Acts, chapter 10, the Apostle John. 00:00:55.753 --> 00:00:59.942 The Apostle whom Jesus loved, didn't love the rest of them. 00:00:59.942 --> 00:01:00.545 Just John. 00:01:00.545 --> 00:01:02.685 No, I'm just joking. 00:01:02.685 --> 00:01:06.126 He might get on my case when I see him. 00:01:06.126 --> 00:01:06.629 I don't know. 00:01:06.629 --> 00:01:09.608 I'm always ragging on him about that. 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.382 Third John, chapter two, verse two beloved. 00:01:15.382 --> 00:01:16.305 Everybody shout that's me. 00:01:16.305 --> 00:01:19.087 See, he's talking to you, he's talking to the church. 00:01:19.087 --> 00:01:23.331 Beloved, I wish, or I pray above all things. 00:01:23.331 --> 00:01:24.545 Everybody shout priority. 00:01:24.545 --> 00:01:27.224 Now you know this is kind of. 00:01:27.224 --> 00:01:29.524 This is in the Bible, this is to us. 00:01:29.543 --> 00:01:35.310 And look what the Holy Spirit inspired John to write this down. 00:01:35.310 --> 00:01:52.694 And no doubt, john, you know, inspired by the Holy Ghost, to pray for the church and what was a priority, I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. 00:01:52.694 --> 00:02:11.310 For I rejoice greatly he might've been like some of us this morning, running around and dancing and everything, like we were I rejoice greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as you walk in the truth. 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:12.805 Word walk means continue. 00:02:12.805 --> 00:02:16.945 You've received it and now you didn't just let it drop, you continue in the truth. 00:02:16.945 --> 00:02:25.407 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk or continue in truth. 00:02:25.407 --> 00:02:27.281 All right. 00:02:27.281 --> 00:02:32.246 And then Acts, chapter 10, many of you could quote it. 00:02:32.246 --> 00:02:53.325 I'll quote it how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing 97.6%, 39%, heating all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. 00:02:53.325 --> 00:03:04.128 And so today I wanted to share a message entitled Healing Rules, healing Rules, and it's got two sides to the title. 00:03:04.128 --> 00:03:08.549 Healing Rules, in other words, there are rules. 00:03:08.549 --> 00:03:11.228 We could call them rules of engagement. 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.566 You know we're all in the army. 00:03:12.566 --> 00:03:16.204 I mean, you know we're in the army of God and we're at war. 00:03:16.204 --> 00:03:23.449 I was watching a little bit of Saving Private Ryan yesterday and I just noticed the little. 00:03:23.449 --> 00:03:37.650 They reduced the size of the company to just a few guys to go find Private Ryan because he'd lost three brothers in World War II and he's the fourth brother at risk and they wanted to get him back safe. 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:44.907 They didn't want this poor mother to have to go through all of her boys dying in the war, so three quarters of her sons died. 00:03:44.907 --> 00:03:48.485 We think we've got it tough. 00:03:48.485 --> 00:03:49.168 It's the veteran. 00:03:49.168 --> 00:03:53.003 We're gonna pray over the veterans in a little bit, but anyway. 00:03:53.003 --> 00:03:56.572 So that was the premise of the story. 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:59.265 But I noticed you know the loadout. 00:03:59.265 --> 00:04:01.407 You know when you're in your army you have a loadout. 00:04:01.407 --> 00:04:04.300 You've got certain weapons that you go into battle, you know. 00:04:04.300 --> 00:04:06.027 And they all differed in this same company. 00:04:06.027 --> 00:04:07.204 I mean, the CEO had a. 00:04:07.204 --> 00:04:16.185 He's a lieutenant and he had a Thompson's 50 caliber submachine gun or 45 caliber, I guess it is. 00:04:16.185 --> 00:04:18.285 And then you had a. 00:04:18.526 --> 00:04:19.107 One guy had a. 00:04:19.107 --> 00:04:29.250 He was a Pentecostal boy, he was a sniper and the sniper rifle is designed for a right handed but he's left handed, you know. 00:04:29.250 --> 00:04:34.788 So he had to do a little jig there whenever he's aiming, because he's aiming, you know. 00:04:34.788 --> 00:04:36.807 But it's kind of awkward for him. 00:04:36.807 --> 00:04:44.170 And then the sergeant was, he had, you know, a Browning automatic and the rest of the boys had carbons. 00:04:44.170 --> 00:04:45.605 I mean, they had, they had. 00:04:45.605 --> 00:04:49.329 See, my job is to make sure you're loaded out for battle. 00:04:49.329 --> 00:04:51.007 I wanna give you your armor. 00:04:51.007 --> 00:04:54.463 I wanna make sure you've got the ammo and the weaponry you need. 00:04:54.463 --> 00:04:56.771 Amen. 00:04:56.771 --> 00:05:10.908 So healing rules, in other words, there are methods and strategies and tactics that we can use to obtain and then to maintain our health. 00:05:10.908 --> 00:05:17.569 I mean, our health is being attacked in every side. 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:26.805 And then and then the devil took over our medical care in this country and replaced it with a bunch of nut jobs that don't go by science. 00:05:26.805 --> 00:05:29.684 Are y'all with me now? 00:05:29.684 --> 00:05:32.064 We've had the doctors come in. 00:05:32.064 --> 00:05:42.165 You know, and show you medic, you know, scientifically, it's not just you know, it's not just pastor, I'm not a medical doctor, but we had the medical doctors come and tell you some of these things. 00:05:42.165 --> 00:05:42.641 I hope you. 00:05:42.641 --> 00:05:44.987 Maybe we need to do it again. 00:05:44.987 --> 00:05:47.466 They're trying to bring COVID back. 00:05:47.466 --> 00:05:52.805 So they learned that they could control the whole country with COVID, so they wanna bring it back. 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:59.805 It irritates me every time I go out and I see these young kids like 18, 19, 20 years old wearing a stupid mask. 00:05:59.805 --> 00:06:00.963 I just wanna slap them. 00:06:00.963 --> 00:06:02.865 Why don't you move to Cuba? 00:06:02.865 --> 00:06:05.644 Why don't you move where they'll tell you every little thing to do? 00:06:05.644 --> 00:06:11.723 Don't you understand what these men and women did on the battlefield? 00:06:11.723 --> 00:06:16.264 Well, jesus went to the battlefield and he shed his blood. 00:06:16.264 --> 00:06:20.925 Glory to God, and I'm not gonna let somebody else take my rights from me. 00:06:23.339 --> 00:06:39.007 Healing rules see, there's strategies, there's methods, and that you can learn and employ the proper rules to obtain and then to maintain your health. 00:06:39.007 --> 00:06:43.620 And then the other side of that title Healing Rules. 00:06:43.620 --> 00:06:49.187 Healing is designed to rule over you, not sickness and disease. 00:06:49.187 --> 00:07:01.411 Sickness and disease, pain, infirmity, which in the Bible, when you see the word infirmity, it means frailty of mind and our body. 00:07:01.411 --> 00:07:08.406 You know that will try to rule over you, but no healing rules over us. 00:07:08.406 --> 00:07:20.399 And so it's gonna take me three weeks today and two more Sundays to give you nine modalities, nine of these rules, if you will. 00:07:21.290 --> 00:07:23.497 Somebody said I'm not much of a rule follower. 00:07:23.497 --> 00:07:28.576 Well then, you're ready to fail then I didn't make this up. 00:07:28.576 --> 00:07:30.432 I'm preaching right out of the God's word. 00:07:30.432 --> 00:07:32.439 And this is our owner's manual here. 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:33.031 And guess what? 00:07:33.031 --> 00:07:37.016 We're not the owner, he is, he's the owner of our bodies. 00:07:37.016 --> 00:07:42.774 If Jesus is Lord, he has something to say about our health because he paid for it. 00:07:42.774 --> 00:07:50.235 Can you imagine you buy something expensive for your child and they just throw it in the corner and don't ever even look at it? 00:07:50.235 --> 00:07:53.355 And that's kind of the way. 00:07:53.355 --> 00:07:53.636 I mean. 00:07:53.636 --> 00:07:59.541 This health that Jesus purchased for us came at a great cost to him. 00:07:59.541 --> 00:08:02.434 You couldn't get any higher. 00:08:02.434 --> 00:08:02.997 Amen. 00:08:02.997 --> 00:08:04.653 So there are nine. 00:08:04.653 --> 00:08:14.223 I'm gonna give you three each Sunday, just like nine gifts of the Spirit, nine fruits of the Spirit, nine rules of healing healing rules. 00:08:14.223 --> 00:08:15.776 Are y'all on board now with me? 00:08:15.776 --> 00:08:18.415 Amen, praise God. 00:08:19.569 --> 00:08:23.922 And so, and it said here, our soul. 00:08:23.922 --> 00:08:29.949 You know, I wish or I pray above all things, you prosper of being health, as your soul prospered. 00:08:29.949 --> 00:08:39.702 That tells me that our soul, which is our mind, will and intellect, is directly involved in whether we walk in health or not. 00:08:39.702 --> 00:08:44.875 We have to constantly have our minds renewed to God's truth. 00:08:44.875 --> 00:08:45.135 Why? 00:08:45.135 --> 00:08:53.414 Because it's constantly assaulted and harassed, constantly trying people trying to talk you out of what you have. 00:08:53.414 --> 00:08:58.219 And if you do nothing, you just, you know, you tend to. 00:08:58.610 --> 00:09:05.277 You know, have you ever been in the Gulf of Mexico and out, you know, just off the beach and wait out there about chest deep. 00:09:05.277 --> 00:09:11.596 I mean, man, you know there's some heavy duty If you have certain times of the day when the tide is going out. 00:09:11.596 --> 00:09:17.029 In other words, tide goes into the shore and it's there for a while and then it starts coming back out. 00:09:17.029 --> 00:09:20.775 Well, it starts coming back out and you're out there and you try to go back to the shore. 00:09:20.775 --> 00:09:25.197 You're fighting against the tide, man, I mean it, taking all you can do. 00:09:25.197 --> 00:09:28.559 I mean I've been in a case back way years ago. 00:09:28.710 --> 00:09:30.517 Gladys and I got out there and we got in trouble. 00:09:30.517 --> 00:09:34.500 I mean, you know, we were newly married and I wasn't saved. 00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:35.312 I mean I could. 00:09:35.312 --> 00:09:38.414 I passed up a time that I could have drowned and Gladys could have drowned. 00:09:38.414 --> 00:09:44.298 We could both drown because we got caught in that tide and I believe an angel came in. 00:09:44.610 --> 00:09:45.615 I couldn't find the guy. 00:09:45.615 --> 00:09:47.636 He, I mean we were struggling. 00:09:47.636 --> 00:09:51.876 She doesn't swim, so I was lifting her up, I was bouncing off the bottom and the waves were getting. 00:09:51.876 --> 00:09:52.678 We were going out. 00:09:52.678 --> 00:09:56.613 Every time I jumped up we'd get swept out further and it got to where. 00:09:56.613 --> 00:10:02.399 You know you can't get all the way to the top and, man, I mean I'm struggling to keep her up and me up too. 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:14.615 And all of a sudden, here's this air mattress right in front of my face and some guy just shoved it right in front of me and I grabbed ahold of it and I don't know what happened to that guy. 00:10:14.615 --> 00:10:18.114 We got back and I looked around to thank him and he wasn't there. 00:10:18.114 --> 00:10:19.097 I never could find him. 00:10:19.390 --> 00:10:22.017 I believe as an angel just saved our lives out. 00:10:22.017 --> 00:10:23.741 Oh, I don't know. 00:10:23.741 --> 00:10:25.697 Well, you can be a doubter, I'm a believer. 00:10:25.697 --> 00:10:31.557 All I know is I'm here, praise God, and I could have been in hell. 00:10:31.557 --> 00:10:32.533 I would have gone to hell. 00:10:32.533 --> 00:10:34.332 That wasn't saved. 00:10:34.332 --> 00:10:36.892 Are you with me now? 00:10:36.892 --> 00:10:38.719 Healing rules? 00:10:38.719 --> 00:10:45.738 All right, so we got to renew our minds with the proper rules of engagement, if you will. 00:10:46.629 --> 00:10:49.440 That's another thing about rules of engagement. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.019 You know, I started paying attention to that during the rock war. 00:10:52.019 --> 00:10:56.000 I got aggravated at Bush and his brass. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.217 Well, they just made it hard for our guys to win. 00:10:59.217 --> 00:11:02.195 What's a rule of engagement? 00:11:02.195 --> 00:11:11.035 Well, you know, as you go out into battle and they tell you what you can and cannot do, they tell you you've got to make sure that this person and well, they don't wear uniforms. 00:11:11.035 --> 00:11:13.277 How do you know who the enemy is? 00:11:13.277 --> 00:11:14.575 They all look the same. 00:11:14.575 --> 00:11:18.519 I'm going to shoot first and ask questions later. 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.700 But no, we didn't have that in our rules of engagement. 00:11:21.700 --> 00:11:24.873 I never will forget. 00:11:24.873 --> 00:11:33.595 One time on I think it was Bargroom they had a rule that our soldiers, when they came in off and came back to the base, had to disarm themselves. 00:11:33.595 --> 00:11:36.317 They had to run around the base with no weapon. 00:11:36.317 --> 00:11:47.715 And yet you've got Afghan nationals that you're training over there and they're armed and some of them were crumb balls and they murdered our guys. 00:11:47.715 --> 00:11:51.658 Rules of engagement, you know, man, just made me so mad. 00:11:51.658 --> 00:11:54.476 Thank God, our rules of engagement. 00:11:54.850 --> 00:11:57.097 We don't have to have mercy on infirmity. 00:11:57.097 --> 00:11:59.437 We don't have to have mercy on sickness and pain. 00:11:59.437 --> 00:12:01.557 We don't have to have mercy on the devil. 00:12:01.557 --> 00:12:14.177 You know, if I could, I'd shoot him in the head, invite all the demons to his funeral and shoot them when they show up, but unfortunately we've got to live with them for a while longer. 00:12:14.177 --> 00:12:16.677 Okay, healing, are y'all ready? 00:12:16.677 --> 00:12:27.581 Now Everybody say I'm getting my arsenal filled up, I'm getting my weapons loaded with fresh ammo, all right, so I've got three of them today. 00:12:27.669 --> 00:12:33.116 The first one, I wanna say the church is set against all infirmity. 00:12:33.116 --> 00:12:35.553 And you are the church. 00:12:35.553 --> 00:12:46.020 See, you're a member of the body of Christ, you are a member of the church of Jesus Christ and the church is set against all infirmity. 00:12:46.020 --> 00:12:48.077 And, as I mentioned, the word infirmity means what? 00:12:48.077 --> 00:12:50.859 The feebleness of mind and our body. 00:12:50.859 --> 00:12:53.154 Well, where do you get that? 00:12:53.154 --> 00:12:59.777 Well, acts 10, 38, how Jesus of Nathus went about doing good and healing all. 00:12:59.777 --> 00:13:07.136 He didn't just heal some, he healed all who were oppressed of the devil. 00:13:07.136 --> 00:13:12.042 So sickness is, by definition, oppression of the devil. 00:13:12.042 --> 00:13:15.118 Sickness comes from the devil. 00:13:15.118 --> 00:13:24.798 Jesus was not yet the head of the church but, as our example later on, when the church was born, this is what Jesus did when he was on the earth. 00:13:24.798 --> 00:13:27.639 And Jesus is doing the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:13:29.210 --> 00:13:32.339 The church is lined up against sickness and disease. 00:13:32.339 --> 00:13:37.937 Well, you know, pastor, that seems kind of obvious. 00:13:37.937 --> 00:13:46.998 Well, you know, after 40 years of ministering to people, I mean, I've seen people that have all kind of weird things thinking about wrong, thinking about healing. 00:13:46.998 --> 00:13:50.056 They somehow get themselves excluded. 00:13:50.056 --> 00:13:52.315 No, you're included. 00:13:53.950 --> 00:13:58.456 So and then it says in third John two the truth of God's word. 00:13:58.456 --> 00:14:07.614 This John said I just rejoiced greatly that I heard about your truth, that you're walking, and what truth, the truth that they're prospering and that they're in health. 00:14:07.614 --> 00:14:10.456 You mean you're a prosperity preacher? 00:14:10.456 --> 00:14:12.136 Well, yeah, are you a poverty preacher? 00:14:12.136 --> 00:14:19.876 I mean, I believe what the Bible said it was the top of the list for John to pray first of all for prosperity and healing. 00:14:19.876 --> 00:14:22.573 Isn't that amazing? 00:14:22.573 --> 00:14:24.937 You wouldn't know it by some people's attitude. 00:14:24.937 --> 00:14:33.096 They think somehow it's holy to be poor, it's holy to live hand to mouth, holy to just barely get along boulevard at the counter of lacklain? 00:14:33.096 --> 00:14:37.000 Ooh, I'm really praising God with my life. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:44.080 No, come on, get lined up with the word Thank God for healing. 00:14:45.529 --> 00:14:51.477 And so Jesus went about healing all and well, yeah, pastor, but that was Jesus. 00:14:51.477 --> 00:14:59.018 Well, yeah, but he didn't heal as the son of God, he healed as a man in order to God. 00:14:59.018 --> 00:15:01.096 And, by the way, the healing was from God. 00:15:01.096 --> 00:15:03.035 God anointed him. 00:15:03.035 --> 00:15:07.041 So all healing is not a person, it's from God. 00:15:07.041 --> 00:15:12.119 Yeah, the anointing, the healing power of God. 00:15:12.119 --> 00:15:14.457 This is the 2023, the year of God's power. 00:15:14.457 --> 00:15:19.092 This is another way of talking about the power of healing, god's healing power. 00:15:19.092 --> 00:15:25.076 I almost unnamed it that, but I want you to see the fact that all the healing comes from God. 00:15:25.076 --> 00:15:29.774 All right, are y'all with me now? 00:15:29.774 --> 00:15:38.535 So God's priority is health, soundness of mind and body, not feebleness, soundness. 00:15:39.990 --> 00:15:46.077 I mean, you know, when the children of Israel, they had healing in their covenant, which basically point number two. 00:15:46.077 --> 00:15:47.414 Healing is in the new covenant. 00:15:47.414 --> 00:15:49.394 Healing is part of our covenant. 00:15:49.394 --> 00:15:54.178 Healing was part of their covenant because Jesus went about and healed all in that old covenant. 00:15:54.178 --> 00:15:57.980 He went, he was healing in the old covenant, in Acts 10, 38. 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:02.974 That's talking about when Jesus on the earth, when Jesus was on the earth, there weren't but two groups of people. 00:16:02.974 --> 00:16:04.597 There were the Jews and everybody else. 00:16:04.597 --> 00:16:10.176 Everybody else didn't have healing, but Jesus healed him anyway. 00:16:10.176 --> 00:16:16.160 I mean, remember the centurion servant. 00:16:16.160 --> 00:16:21.754 The centurion was a Roman centurion, he was not Jewish and yet he came to Jesus and Jesus healed his servant. 00:16:23.269 --> 00:16:24.876 And how about the syrophoenician woman? 00:16:24.876 --> 00:16:27.932 I mean she didn't have a covenant with God, she was a Gentile. 00:16:27.932 --> 00:16:33.998 And she came crying to the to, you know, looking after Jesus, and then they she couldn't get him. 00:16:33.998 --> 00:16:36.832 So she got the disciples and they said leave us alone. 00:16:36.832 --> 00:16:38.980 Why was she crying? 00:16:38.980 --> 00:16:42.320 Cause her daughter was grievously tormented by a demon. 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:47.220 And when she came to Jesus and she said Jesus, help me. 00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:49.798 Oh, my daughter's grievously vexed. 00:16:51.230 --> 00:16:52.836 And it said healing is the children's bread. 00:16:52.836 --> 00:17:00.577 It's not right to take the children's bread and cast it under the dogs, god, most people I know would have been offended. 00:17:00.577 --> 00:17:05.821 I mean, some people might have even tried to slap his face. 00:17:05.821 --> 00:17:17.990 And she said truth, lord, you right, you be right, but you know, even the little puppies eat the crumbs off the master's table. 00:17:17.990 --> 00:17:21.808 In other words, she's saying this she said you ain't gonna miss what you do. 00:17:21.808 --> 00:17:24.549 For me it's just like a crumb falling out of the corner of your mouth. 00:17:24.549 --> 00:17:26.750 That's all I need to get the devil out of my daughter. 00:17:26.750 --> 00:17:29.979 He said old woman, great is thy faith. 00:17:29.979 --> 00:17:32.670 She was a Gentile. 00:17:33.311 --> 00:17:42.109 See, jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, and so healing is in our covenant. 00:17:42.109 --> 00:17:46.817 If we had, you know Hebrews 8-6, our covenant is better than theirs. 00:17:46.817 --> 00:17:49.150 We have a better covenant found upon better promises. 00:17:49.150 --> 00:17:51.839 Well, if it doesn't include healing, then it's not better. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.049 I hear people say oh, healing passed away. 00:17:56.049 --> 00:17:57.375 Are you nuts? 00:17:57.375 --> 00:18:01.017 Really, did Jesus pass away? 00:18:01.017 --> 00:18:03.038 He died, but he rose. 00:18:04.613 --> 00:18:08.049 The Bible says in Hebrews he's the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:18:08.049 --> 00:18:12.541 Why would he do away with healing where so many people are sick? 00:18:12.541 --> 00:18:35.799 So in 1 Peter 2-24, peter's writing, you know, to the church he said who is on self, bear our sins and his own body on the tree, that we, being dead sin, should live under righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed. 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:45.679 So in that verse he makes an equivalent of the sacrifice that Jesus paid on the cross for sin. 00:18:45.679 --> 00:18:49.809 That same sacrifice got rid of sickness. 00:18:49.809 --> 00:18:57.829 I said that same sacrifice got rid of sickness. 00:18:57.829 --> 00:19:06.367 So we've got this wonderful healing covenant. 00:19:07.250 --> 00:19:27.739 I think about Matthew, chapter eight, jesus, it said when the evening was come there in verse 16, when the evening was come, they brought unto Jesus many who were possessed with demons, and he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all who were sick. 00:19:27.739 --> 00:19:37.160 So that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying himself bear our sicknesses and took our infirmities. 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:43.378 See 1 Peter 2-24 is quoting Matthew 817, which is quoting Isaiah 53. 00:19:43.378 --> 00:19:47.535 You see the same sacrifice on the cross that took care of our sin. 00:19:47.535 --> 00:19:50.397 How many of you are highly you don't. 00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:54.938 If you come to this church, you know not to walk around in condemnation and guilt. 00:19:54.938 --> 00:19:57.395 When you miss the mark, what do you do? 00:19:57.395 --> 00:19:58.634 Well, you go right to the Lord. 00:19:58.634 --> 00:20:00.694 You don't run from Him, you go right to the Lord's Lord. 00:20:00.694 --> 00:20:03.271 I missed it, I'm sorry, forgive me, lord. 00:20:03.271 --> 00:20:04.698 And what happens? 00:20:04.698 --> 00:20:12.156 He's faithful and just to forgive you your sin, cleans you of all unrighteousness, and then you put that behind you and you don't let the devil harass you with that. 00:20:12.156 --> 00:20:15.438 Oh, you did such, and so Well, I did it, but I confessed it. 00:20:15.438 --> 00:20:16.574 It's over, it's under the bud. 00:20:16.574 --> 00:20:17.135 Get out of here. 00:20:17.135 --> 00:20:20.096 You hold your head up and keep walking on. 00:20:20.096 --> 00:20:24.894 You don't go into a depression just because you missed the mark, just because you sinned. 00:20:24.894 --> 00:20:29.096 Well, we need to develop the same way about our covenant with healing. 00:20:29.096 --> 00:20:34.817 Are you with me now Talking about these healing rules? 00:20:34.817 --> 00:20:42.818 I like Luke, chapter five and verse 24, jesus you know. 00:20:42.930 --> 00:20:45.775 Remember he was in the house with a whole bunch of people. 00:20:45.775 --> 00:20:49.234 It was so crowded in there you couldn't get in the door. 00:20:49.234 --> 00:20:56.934 It was crowded Full of Pharisees, sadducees, wooden Seas and couldn't see Doctors of the law. 00:20:56.934 --> 00:21:04.557 And so outside comes this these four crazy guys with a guy on a stretcher. 00:21:04.557 --> 00:21:05.555 That's got the palsy. 00:21:05.555 --> 00:21:07.155 The palsy is paralysis. 00:21:07.155 --> 00:21:10.740 It's a disease for which there is no cure. 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:15.915 People with a palsy die, that's it Terminal, just a matter of time. 00:21:16.999 --> 00:21:19.194 But they heard of Jesus and they knew where Jesus was. 00:21:19.194 --> 00:21:19.932 They came up. 00:21:19.932 --> 00:21:26.634 They couldn't get in the house, so they pulled Him up on the roof, broke a hole in the roof. 00:21:26.634 --> 00:21:41.154 Jesus is standing there and here comes two by six falling down on the ground Sheet, rock, falling down, dust, concrete I don't know what they had on the roof, but anyway they broke a hole in it and lowered this guy down. 00:21:41.154 --> 00:21:44.651 Had to be a pretty big hole, man. 00:21:44.651 --> 00:21:45.775 That's a gaping hole. 00:21:45.775 --> 00:21:51.855 They lowered him down in there and the Bible says and when Jesus saw their faith. 00:21:51.855 --> 00:21:56.915 Now, faith is a spiritual thing but it has evidences. 00:21:56.915 --> 00:22:03.720 Our actions and so their actions spoke faith, faith, faith. 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:08.298 He had faith that stay on that stretcher while they're getting Him up on the roof. 00:22:08.298 --> 00:22:11.231 They had faith that break the hole in the roof and all of that. 00:22:11.231 --> 00:22:12.234 I mean it was amazing. 00:22:13.569 --> 00:22:21.936 And Jesus looked at that man when he saw they had faith and he said he said, son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 00:22:21.936 --> 00:22:30.500 Well, that got all of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Doctors of Laws their nose out of joint. 00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:31.934 They did not like that. 00:22:31.934 --> 00:22:33.854 Who can forgive sins? 00:22:33.854 --> 00:22:35.278 But God alone? 00:22:35.278 --> 00:22:36.693 How dare he? 00:22:36.693 --> 00:22:37.477 What is he? 00:22:37.477 --> 00:22:39.195 Who does he think he is? 00:22:39.195 --> 00:22:42.077 They didn't say it out loud, they were thinking it and he knew it. 00:22:42.077 --> 00:22:44.614 Oh, was that a fendue? 00:22:46.911 --> 00:22:49.298 What's so hard about forgiving sins. 00:22:49.298 --> 00:22:57.492 What if I'm able to just tell Him to rise, take up His bed and walk, so that you can know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins? 00:22:57.492 --> 00:23:01.096 I say unto thee arise, take up your bed and go back to your house. 00:23:01.096 --> 00:23:06.275 See, it's no different. 00:23:06.275 --> 00:23:08.577 See, he put the equivalents there. 00:23:08.577 --> 00:23:12.000 It's no different than getting forgiven and getting healed. 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.877 Jesus is the one that pointed it out. 00:23:15.877 --> 00:23:17.494 You know, are you with me now? 00:23:18.289 --> 00:23:32.415 We should get so highly developed in the healing rules that we don't let it stay on us, that we resist it as soon as we know that there's anything going on. 00:23:32.415 --> 00:23:33.452 And not only that. 00:23:33.452 --> 00:23:35.898 We ought to maintain our health. 00:23:35.898 --> 00:23:37.413 You know, it's one thing. 00:23:37.413 --> 00:23:39.575 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 00:23:39.575 --> 00:23:47.917 What if we are more minded to praise God about our health and speak over our health every day? 00:23:47.917 --> 00:23:52.440 I mean, how many illnesses could we pass up? 00:23:52.440 --> 00:24:05.557 How many pains would never show up, how many symptoms would never be able to attach themselves to us if we were always filled with our covenant blessing of healing? 00:24:05.557 --> 00:24:10.395 I tell you, health is better than healing. 00:24:10.395 --> 00:24:13.892 I said health is better than healing. 00:24:13.892 --> 00:24:24.839 Praise God, are you getting anything out of this, this simple pastor. 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:25.743 I've heard this before. 00:24:25.743 --> 00:24:33.541 Well then, let it water your faith that you already know, and then let it spur you to be more actively involved in your health. 00:24:33.541 --> 00:24:40.195 All right, and then the third one. 00:24:40.195 --> 00:24:44.943 You know this thing about before I leave. 00:24:44.943 --> 00:24:45.625 Number two. 00:24:45.625 --> 00:24:49.179 It's no different than getting forgiven. 00:24:50.875 --> 00:24:55.527 Many of us came out of denominational churches, especially Southern Baptist. 00:24:55.527 --> 00:25:02.207 Southern Baptist are highly effective at talking about getting forgiven of sin. 00:25:02.207 --> 00:25:04.356 They're sin boy. 00:25:04.356 --> 00:25:06.825 I mean, you know you want to go to Baptist church. 00:25:06.825 --> 00:25:09.643 They'll tell you all the ways you can sin and how you can get out from under it. 00:25:09.643 --> 00:25:12.538 And there's lots of ways to. 00:25:12.538 --> 00:25:14.763 You know, my cousins couldn't play cards. 00:25:14.763 --> 00:25:18.821 My cousins couldn't play dominoes. 00:25:18.821 --> 00:25:19.256 They couldn't. 00:25:19.256 --> 00:25:21.662 I'm not talking about games, I'm just talking about a game. 00:25:21.662 --> 00:25:28.326 Now, catholics, we could do almost anything except you couldn't eat meat on Friday. 00:25:28.326 --> 00:25:30.660 If you eat meat on Friday, you're going to hell. 00:25:30.660 --> 00:25:35.001 Well, they ate all the meat today. 00:25:35.001 --> 00:25:37.701 They ate chicken, fried steak, all the meat on Friday. 00:25:37.701 --> 00:25:38.462 But they couldn't play. 00:25:38.462 --> 00:25:45.236 They couldn't play dominoes, they couldn't play cards Highly highly. 00:25:45.236 --> 00:25:48.144 You know they know about born again. 00:25:48.144 --> 00:25:51.401 I said they know about born again. 00:25:51.401 --> 00:25:52.859 They teach born again. 00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:56.303 They're evangelical, they're born, they teach the new birth. 00:25:56.303 --> 00:25:57.900 That's commendable, isn't it? 00:25:57.900 --> 00:26:01.496 They don't teach on healing, though, most of them. 00:26:01.496 --> 00:26:06.805 So years ago we were headed out. 00:26:07.186 --> 00:26:11.920 I was part of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International. 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:20.000 For those of you that never heard of it, but it was highly active and it's still around now, but it's not needed as much because there's churches like ours more. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:28.079 Back then, when it came in in 1953, you just had denominational churches and the charismatic renewal hadn't happened yet. 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:38.375 You had Pentecostal, you know, and all of their different, you know, very rigid doctrines that they have, and then you had Baptist and Methodist. 00:26:38.375 --> 00:26:50.502 You had all the denominational churches, and so this was an organization of businessmen that we get together, give their testimony and get people saved, get them baptized and the Holy Ghost, and it was out of the church. 00:26:50.502 --> 00:26:56.086 It was out of the church setting and just in a more fellowship type setting. 00:26:56.875 --> 00:27:17.711 So I got involved with it and we were going to Curvell, to the Mo Ranch, which is on the Waterloo Forever owned by the, I think, the Methodist on that ranch, beautiful place, and we had rented it, you know, to have our meeting, and so we had this young man that was going to ride along with us. 00:27:17.711 --> 00:27:19.036 Somebody knew I didn't really. 00:27:19.036 --> 00:27:37.527 I still don't remember how he was known, but he was an 18-year-old Baptist kid and he had cancer and it was terminal cancer, and he had just learned a few weeks before and he was going along with us on this trip. 00:27:37.527 --> 00:27:41.275 It's five, six hours out there, five or six hours back Plus. 00:27:41.275 --> 00:27:42.721 We're going to be there the whole weekend. 00:27:42.721 --> 00:27:44.359 So we started in on them. 00:27:45.715 --> 00:27:58.737 I started in on preaching to him, talking to him about these things, talking to him about how you know that Jesus, as far as Jesus is concerned, he's already healed and he would. 00:27:58.737 --> 00:28:06.980 He would listen, you know, and he said, oh, I tell you, yes, sir, brother John, I know, I know Jesus, I know he's going to heal me. 00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:09.580 I said, well, no, my point is he's already. 00:28:09.580 --> 00:28:18.186 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so he's raised, apart from what I'm talking about as a Christian. 00:28:18.186 --> 00:28:19.916 He's a Christian, there's no question. 00:28:19.916 --> 00:28:21.201 He's born again. 00:28:21.201 --> 00:28:22.862 He is headed to heaven when he dies. 00:28:22.974 --> 00:28:33.480 I know that sweetest kid, just really a sweet kid, but he could not grasp the idea that it was already done. 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.221 You know, you can sing the blood songs. 00:28:36.221 --> 00:28:40.605 Jesus washed my sins away and now do we sin? 00:28:40.605 --> 00:28:49.644 Yeah, we sin now, but they're washed away and we don't remember me, they're, they're how they developed in that, they're taught that, but they're not taught anything about healing. 00:28:49.644 --> 00:28:52.096 And he couldn't grab ahold of the fact and he would. 00:28:52.096 --> 00:28:54.443 You know, we would go 30 minutes an hour. 00:28:54.443 --> 00:28:56.219 I mean I'd go through the Bible with him. 00:28:56.219 --> 00:28:57.142 I said, does this the true? 00:28:57.142 --> 00:28:58.345 Oh yeah, that did. 00:28:58.345 --> 00:29:01.703 I had him read Matthew eight, 16, 17. 00:29:01.703 --> 00:29:05.765 I had him read 1 Peter, 2, 24, by whose stripes you were healed. 00:29:06.714 --> 00:29:07.276 We went back to. 00:29:07.276 --> 00:29:21.362 I mean, I taught him driving down the road I'm not driving, other guys are driving, I'm riding in the back and suburban with him, and so I never did get him to say it's done, thank God, I believe I received my healing. 00:29:21.362 --> 00:29:22.263 That's where I was headed. 00:29:22.263 --> 00:29:28.136 I was headed to where he would say I believe I received my healing, but I couldn't get him there. 00:29:28.136 --> 00:29:39.661 So we got there and then we told the the main speaker was a doctor from Florida and you know, really a great. 00:29:39.661 --> 00:29:46.787 He was a great speaker and he's a medical doctor and he heard about Chris and he spent the whole Saturday afternoon. 00:29:46.827 --> 00:29:57.337 He's supposed to speak Saturday night and he spent three hours Saturday afternoon doing everything that I had done, trying to pour into this kid and he said man, I just can't. 00:29:57.337 --> 00:29:59.761 I can't get him to grab ahold of. 00:29:59.761 --> 00:30:01.065 This is already done. 00:30:01.065 --> 00:30:09.256 See, I'm teaching the things I take for granted, but I have watched where other people couldn't get it. 00:30:09.256 --> 00:30:12.261 Why? 00:30:12.261 --> 00:30:16.653 Because they spent so many years hearing it wrong or not hearing anything. 00:30:16.653 --> 00:30:30.250 I Don't take for granted who all's out here listening to me right here this morning and who all is gonna watch this on live stream, but you know it's critical for you to understand your tenses. 00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:33.667 You can't put it off till tomorrow. 00:30:33.667 --> 00:30:35.314 Oh yeah, I know God's gonna heal me. 00:30:35.314 --> 00:30:36.660 No, he ain't. 00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:38.884 It's already done. 00:30:38.884 --> 00:30:40.950 How, why would he do something he's already done? 00:30:40.950 --> 00:30:42.593 He's already done it. 00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:43.423 That's on you. 00:30:43.423 --> 00:30:47.279 You've got to believe that, without any evidence that it's true. 00:30:47.279 --> 00:31:06.609 You've got to believe that, in the middle of the of the, of the tests that you, that they run on you, you've got to believe that, in the middle of the symptoms that you're feeling even right now, you have to believe it's a finished work, it was done at the cross and and you're not gonna rest until it becomes a fact. 00:31:06.609 --> 00:31:08.374 Are y'all with me now? 00:31:08.374 --> 00:31:13.587 Well, anyway, make a long story short. 00:31:13.627 --> 00:31:15.516 We got back and nobody made it. 00:31:15.516 --> 00:31:24.431 He had way with him and he did not receive his healing and I got a call about Four months later, three or four months later, that he was in the hospital dying. 00:31:24.431 --> 00:31:37.584 And so I went say goodbye to him and I sat by his bed, took him by the hand, lost all his hair, skin and bones, couldn't hardly talk. 00:31:37.584 --> 00:31:42.965 I said, chris, you're gonna see Jesus here pretty quick. 00:31:42.965 --> 00:31:46.096 Yeah, I believe he's gonna heal me. 00:31:46.096 --> 00:31:49.183 I Didn't differ with it. 00:31:49.183 --> 00:31:52.942 I said yeah, you know, I didn't. 00:31:52.942 --> 00:31:53.986 I didn't argue with him. 00:31:53.986 --> 00:31:55.230 I knew where he was headed. 00:31:55.230 --> 00:32:01.192