WEBVTT 00:00:00.161 --> 00:00:01.866 Come on, let's wave those Bibles around. 00:00:01.866 --> 00:00:03.326 Father, we thank you today. 00:00:03.326 --> 00:00:05.599 Let's say this after me. 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.990 Father, we thank you today for your presence. 00:00:08.990 --> 00:00:11.127 We never take it for granted. 00:00:11.127 --> 00:00:19.804 It's your word that's planted deeply in my heart, along with the Holy Ghost. 00:00:19.804 --> 00:00:28.506 The greater one lives in me, and the Word and the Spirit are putting me over in every situation. 00:00:28.506 --> 00:00:39.590 I refuse to walk through this world without the benefits of my salvation and I give you praise for each one of them in Jesus' name. 00:00:39.590 --> 00:00:41.878 Amen, praise God. 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:51.085 Let's turn our Bibles to third John, and we're gonna continue with last week's message on healing rules. 00:00:51.085 --> 00:00:57.679 And, as I told you, we've got nine rules to share with you. 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:08.483 You got nine gifts of the Spirit, you got nine fruit of the Spirit and we've got these nine rules that, if you will employ them, you'll learn them. 00:01:08.483 --> 00:01:16.769 You know word-based and Spirit operated tactics, methods and strategies. 00:01:16.769 --> 00:01:23.263 You can obtain and maintain divine health, amen. 00:01:23.263 --> 00:01:25.685 So third John 2,. 00:01:30.355 --> 00:01:41.004 Paul is writing to his disciples and he said, verse two beloved I wish, or I pray above all things. 00:01:41.004 --> 00:01:43.424 See, that's priority. 00:01:43.424 --> 00:01:50.227 If John prayed it, then he was inspired by the Holy Ghost to pray it, because it's written in the Bible. 00:01:50.227 --> 00:01:53.316 It's inspired utterance, yeah. 00:01:53.316 --> 00:02:06.019 So it's a priority with God, above all things that are best, what Prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. 00:02:06.141 --> 00:02:14.180 Now, this is the reason this message is coming forth, because our soul, or mind, will, intellect, needs to be refreshed in things. 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:25.246 We may know these things I might not really hit anything new that you haven't heard before, but get at the same token, we need to be reminded, we need to be refreshed. 00:02:25.246 --> 00:02:32.588 You know, romans 12, two said don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:02:32.588 --> 00:02:41.269 And the Holy Ghost said you know, when you say that and quote that scripture, a lot of people that just edge themselves out of the equations. 00:02:41.269 --> 00:02:47.569 Oh, I know that, I'm hearing it, I know, I really know that as well as I know my name. 00:02:47.569 --> 00:02:50.990 And so they, they don't allow themselves to be refreshed. 00:02:50.990 --> 00:02:54.407 You know, renew means refresh too. 00:02:54.407 --> 00:02:55.028 Refresh. 00:02:55.028 --> 00:02:59.483 I mean, it's not like you were hearing something for the first time, but you need to hear it again and again, and again. 00:02:59.483 --> 00:03:01.389 Because why you're under attack? 00:03:01.389 --> 00:03:03.967 Your mind is under attack daily. 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:11.647 Devil, he knows his time is short, but I heard it through the true vine phrase God. 00:03:11.647 --> 00:03:16.209 That's an inside joke and I'm not gonna go any further. 00:03:16.209 --> 00:03:17.597 All right. 00:03:17.597 --> 00:03:23.182 So let's keep reading. 00:03:23.182 --> 00:03:25.531 I pray above all things. 00:03:25.531 --> 00:03:28.496 I'll miss prospering, being healthy even as I so prosper. 00:03:28.496 --> 00:03:37.829 So I rejoice greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as you walk or you continue in the truth. 00:03:37.829 --> 00:03:43.045 It's not enough to know it, you've got to continue in it, you've got to obey it, you've got to cooperate with it. 00:03:43.045 --> 00:03:49.969 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk or continue in truth. 00:03:49.969 --> 00:03:53.109 And so that's the part about your soul prospering. 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:58.525 I mean, a lot of times people don't get their healing because their soul's not prospering. 00:03:58.525 --> 00:04:01.987 They've allowed contrary thoughts. 00:04:01.987 --> 00:04:18.120 They've had this eight track tape, this continuing thought pattern that is built up in their minds, and they have a sense, even though they know better. 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:22.499 They know better but yet they don't really. 00:04:22.499 --> 00:04:24.718 It's not anchored that they're worthy. 00:04:24.718 --> 00:04:27.399 They've been made worthy by the blood. 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:28.517 It's not you. 00:04:28.517 --> 00:04:32.338 You don't get deserves, I don't deserve he, no, we don't deserve anything. 00:04:32.338 --> 00:04:33.620 We deserve to go to hell. 00:04:33.620 --> 00:04:35.980 Okay, let's settle that right now. 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:42.269 Everybody in this room, everybody in the sound of my voice, deserves to go to hell, but we're not going to hell. 00:04:42.269 --> 00:04:46.853 You deserve to be sick, but Jesus has already healed us. 00:04:46.853 --> 00:04:54.951 You deserve to go broke, but Jesus was made poor that you can be rich having abundant supply. 00:04:54.951 --> 00:04:57.168 All right. 00:04:57.168 --> 00:04:59.259 Now let's turn over to Acts 10, 38. 00:04:59.259 --> 00:05:15.286 And I'll just quote it because I know it how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. 00:05:15.286 --> 00:05:21.026 That ought to be let you know that sickness is oppression of the devil. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.822 Infirmity, the word infirmity there means frilty of mind. 00:05:25.822 --> 00:05:31.567 And our body, listen, alzheimer's is not just, it's not a foregone conclusion. 00:05:31.567 --> 00:05:36.365 Just because you get to be 80 years old, you don't have to have Alzheimer's. 00:05:36.365 --> 00:05:41.045 That's a frilty of the mind. 00:05:41.045 --> 00:05:52.687 You know, in the Bible, the patriarchs I mean, you know sometimes they would, you know they would have a dim of vision, you know their eyes would grow dim. 00:05:52.687 --> 00:05:57.305 Well, they lived in a desert, they had sand storms, they had stuff and attacked their eyeballs. 00:05:57.305 --> 00:06:07.367 So when you get to be 150, please forgive somebody for having cataracts, but you know they weren't out of their minds. 00:06:07.367 --> 00:06:13.783 They knew where they were, they knew what they were doing, they knew how to lay their hands on their kids and bless them. 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:23.932 I don't know who this is for, but don't give into that, don't give into frilty of any sort of the mind and our body. 00:06:23.932 --> 00:06:27.923 That's infirmity comes from the devil, it's oppression. 00:06:27.923 --> 00:06:33.130 We heal all who were oppressed of the devil. 00:06:33.130 --> 00:06:45.225 Listen to what oppressed means harassed, lorded over by the devil, under the tyranny of the devil, in the devil's clutches. 00:06:45.225 --> 00:06:54.261 Now, see, you know, we have this idea of deliverance, like, yes, I'm delivered out of the world, I'm no longer going to hell, okay. 00:06:54.261 --> 00:06:55.386 But there's more than that. 00:06:55.386 --> 00:06:59.221 It's also your health, it's also your mind. 00:06:59.221 --> 00:07:02.228 Amen. 00:07:02.228 --> 00:07:11.867 That's why we're going over this, this ground, because I want to get it so down into you that you will rise above it and put him under your feet. 00:07:11.867 --> 00:07:18.735 So these rule healing rules, and it's got two sides to it. 00:07:18.735 --> 00:07:24.446 You know, to build your faith, healing rules and see their rules of engagement, so to speak. 00:07:24.565 --> 00:07:32.312 I, like soldiers, have rules of engagement and when they can pick up their weapon and fire it and when they can't, it seems like the cops can't ever. 00:07:32.312 --> 00:07:34.788 If they fire their weapon, they're almost fired. 00:07:34.788 --> 00:07:37.115 That's stupid. 00:07:37.115 --> 00:07:43.927 Our cops ought to be able to fire their weapons and not fill out a hundred pages of reports. 00:07:43.927 --> 00:07:54.593 There needs to be fear of our cops, this old business of being your best friend and going in the neighborhood and that's not working. 00:07:54.593 --> 00:07:55.036 They don't. 00:07:55.036 --> 00:07:56.401 They spit in your face. 00:07:56.401 --> 00:07:58.887 They need to be afraid. 00:07:58.887 --> 00:08:05.213 Just just make me the dictator for about six months and I'll get it straight. 00:08:05.213 --> 00:08:07.326 No, I'm not running for anything. 00:08:07.326 --> 00:08:12.709 All right, that's probably never going to happen, I'm just dreaming. 00:08:15.158 --> 00:08:17.788 But back when it was, I know there was abuse, but you know what? 00:08:17.788 --> 00:08:21.548 There was a lot less crime, less murder. 00:08:21.548 --> 00:08:27.774 People weren't coming up to the window of your car and shooting you and dragging you out and stealing your car. 00:08:27.774 --> 00:08:28.447 It used to be. 00:08:28.447 --> 00:08:30.504 They'd carjack you and let you live A lot of times. 00:08:30.504 --> 00:08:31.490 Now they just kill you. 00:08:31.490 --> 00:08:37.557 These people, these people out there, now they, they have no fear of consequences. 00:08:37.557 --> 00:08:41.692 That's dangerous for our nation, all right. 00:08:41.751 --> 00:08:54.212 So these, these healing rules of engagement Say there's tactics, there's, there's methods and strategies to obtain. 00:08:54.212 --> 00:08:57.450 I want to say that again to obtain and maintain. 00:08:57.450 --> 00:08:58.636 It's one thing. 00:08:58.636 --> 00:09:06.111 To obtain your healing, it's another thing to maintain, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 00:09:06.111 --> 00:09:08.889 It's better to walk in health than to have to need healing all the time. 00:09:08.889 --> 00:09:17.730 These rules of engagement will help you maintain your divine health, because it's priority with God that you have that. 00:09:17.730 --> 00:09:30.871 So we need to have a refreshing in our thinking, get our mind and our thought life lined up with what God thinks about healing and what God thinks about infirmity, all right. 00:09:30.871 --> 00:09:39.110 And then the other idea of this healing rules is that healing should dominate you, healing should health should dominate your being. 00:09:39.110 --> 00:09:47.053 Healing rules Burger King says you rule, but no healing rules. 00:09:47.053 --> 00:09:52.085 Amen, praise God, you don't watch television, so you hadn't seen the Burger King commercial. 00:09:52.085 --> 00:09:54.274 All right. 00:09:54.836 --> 00:09:56.524 So last week we gave you the first three. 00:09:56.524 --> 00:09:57.835 There's nine of them, first three. 00:09:57.835 --> 00:09:58.964 The next three are here today. 00:09:58.964 --> 00:10:04.235 The last week we talked about number one the church is set against all infirmity. 00:10:04.235 --> 00:10:05.460 Why do I need to know that? 00:10:05.460 --> 00:10:15.687 Because, let there be no doubt, it's God's will for everyone to be healed Every Muslim, every Hindu, every atheist, every person on the planet. 00:10:16.190 --> 00:10:20.774 Jesus paid a price for their healing and they can be healed without getting saved. 00:10:20.774 --> 00:10:21.498 Did you know that? 00:10:21.498 --> 00:10:28.155 Yes, we've got to open up the gates and we've got to bring healing to people that'll never get saved if they don't get healed? 00:10:28.155 --> 00:10:46.717 Yes, that, uh, that horrible, godless uh tennis, uh soccer player Rapano that disrespects the flag and disrespects America, and while she's uh playing soccer for the America's team, why don't you resign from America's team if America's so bad? 00:10:46.717 --> 00:10:47.962 Amen. 00:10:48.062 --> 00:10:49.433 And I just saw a headline. 00:10:49.433 --> 00:10:56.528 I don't really know exactly what it means, but she got injured and she said that the fact that I got injured is proof that there's no god. 00:10:56.528 --> 00:10:57.928 Well, you know what? 00:10:57.928 --> 00:11:02.256 I just love to go up to her and say would you like me to lay hands on you and Jesus thing and get you healed? 00:11:02.256 --> 00:11:05.162 I'd love the opportunity. 00:11:05.162 --> 00:11:08.032 I'm not mad at her, she's just stupid, that's all. 00:11:08.032 --> 00:11:09.344 She doesn't know what she doesn't know. 00:11:09.344 --> 00:11:10.270 She doesn't know god. 00:11:10.270 --> 00:11:12.888 You know, when you don't know god, you don't know squat. 00:11:12.888 --> 00:11:17.325 You don't have any idea what you're all about. 00:11:17.325 --> 00:11:18.549 That's a. 00:11:18.549 --> 00:11:23.769 It's a shame to to be in America and not know god how and. 00:11:23.769 --> 00:11:27.892 But there's a lot of them and we're importing more of them every day they're coming across the border. 00:11:27.892 --> 00:11:32.095 But listen, everyone of them can get healed because god wants them. 00:11:32.095 --> 00:11:32.485 He'll see. 00:11:32.485 --> 00:11:35.014 The church is set against sickness and disease. 00:11:35.014 --> 00:11:35.746 Now, you know that. 00:11:35.746 --> 00:11:38.565 You know I like what, uh, raymond T Richie, a fan. 00:11:38.565 --> 00:11:39.908 You know a wonderful pastor. 00:11:39.908 --> 00:11:45.485 You know evangelistic temple, great assembly of god church, here for many years here in Houston. 00:11:46.087 --> 00:11:48.605 A lot of people say brother Osteen kind of took up his mantle. 00:11:48.605 --> 00:11:53.928 But he, he had a healing ministry and he would say this he's about healing. 00:11:53.928 --> 00:11:55.586 He said healing is God's dinner bell. 00:11:55.586 --> 00:11:57.871 What's a dinner bell? 00:11:57.871 --> 00:12:00.206 Well, you know, you ask the cowboys on the road. 00:12:00.206 --> 00:12:06.976 You know, when they heard the chuck wagon and heard the bell ring, they knew that, uh, mess is is right there. 00:12:06.976 --> 00:12:10.907 They got beans and they got cornbread, or they got biscuits or whatever else. 00:12:10.907 --> 00:12:17.807 They had, maybe at night, every now and then one of those cows that sacrifice itself and they'd have some meat. 00:12:17.807 --> 00:12:21.135 Praise god. 00:12:21.135 --> 00:12:25.509 And so, you know, when god rings the dinner bell, what does it mean? 00:12:25.509 --> 00:12:29.168 He said, yeah, come on, I, I can heal you, but I want to save you. 00:12:29.168 --> 00:12:32.476 I'm, I'm available, hallelujah. 00:12:32.476 --> 00:12:35.660 So the church is set against all infirmity. 00:12:35.721 --> 00:12:38.649 Number two healing is included in our covenant. 00:12:38.649 --> 00:12:40.533 It belongs to us. 00:12:40.533 --> 00:12:46.384 And, uh, a lot of people just they they don't have that settled in their heart. 00:12:46.384 --> 00:12:53.480 And so when, when symptoms arise, when they get a bad report from the doctor, the test says this, the test says that. 00:12:53.480 --> 00:13:00.702 Then they begin to think along the lines of well, maybe God's tested with, maybe God's trying to teach me a lesson. 00:13:00.702 --> 00:13:08.427 See that they might have heard that from some you know person, some religious person or some preacher that doesn't know the word. 00:13:08.427 --> 00:13:09.513 No, that's not true. 00:13:09.513 --> 00:13:14.451 Healing comes with the covenant just as much as forgiveness of sin. 00:13:14.451 --> 00:13:20.567 And then, um, a divine healing. 00:13:20.567 --> 00:13:24.613 The last one, uh, number three, divine healing is all is spiritual. 00:13:24.613 --> 00:13:28.216 You know, when you go to the doctor, that's all natural, amen. 00:13:28.235 --> 00:13:31.289 The doctor is going to tell you what his five senses tell him. 00:13:31.289 --> 00:13:36.450 Every test that you undergo involves the five senses. 00:13:36.450 --> 00:13:41.177 There's nothing supernatural about a CT scan, a cat scan, a pet scan. 00:13:41.177 --> 00:13:43.246 There's nothing supernatural about an x-ray. 00:13:43.246 --> 00:13:46.456 There's nothing supernatural about a diagnosis. 00:13:46.456 --> 00:13:54.902 There's nothing supernatural about somebody's opinion of how long you're got to live, what stage you're in. 00:13:54.902 --> 00:13:58.739 That's just sense knowledge, that's the five senses. 00:13:58.798 --> 00:14:02.130 But oh, healing is supernatural. 00:14:02.130 --> 00:14:06.043 It's beyond natural and it's spiritual. 00:14:06.043 --> 00:14:09.094 And it starts on the inside. 00:14:09.094 --> 00:14:15.990 It starts down in your spirit first, and when you receive your healing, it's down in your spirit. 00:14:15.990 --> 00:14:22.948 It takes a while, usually takes a while, for the symptoms to be affected by what you believe and what you speak. 00:14:22.948 --> 00:14:37.614 From time to time there are instant healings, but I think sometimes it does more harm than good for most people to see that, because I mean, if you get the idea that everything is just like that with God, you're gonna be disappointed. 00:14:37.614 --> 00:14:43.591 So that's why I teach you faith, because faith works over time. 00:14:43.591 --> 00:14:48.113 Faith is seed time and harvest amen. 00:14:48.113 --> 00:14:50.207 So those three. 00:14:50.207 --> 00:14:54.710 Now today we've got more healing rules, and so we'll start with number four. 00:14:54.710 --> 00:14:56.315 Are y'all ready? 00:14:58.065 --> 00:15:00.393 Your faith is vital to your health. 00:15:00.393 --> 00:15:03.908 Everybody say my faith. 00:15:03.908 --> 00:15:10.789 Say not my faith and not somebody else's faith, and not Sister Bucket's mouth, bucket Mouth's faith and not your prayer partner's faith. 00:15:10.789 --> 00:15:15.153 Your faith, your faith is very vital to your health. 00:15:15.153 --> 00:15:32.494 You know, when you read the gospels where Jesus is ministering, there are 19 different recorded miracles that Jesus performed in the gospels and of course it looks like more, but some of them are repeated. 00:15:32.494 --> 00:15:39.133 You know, like the woman with the issue of blood is in there several times and so that's just one time, that's one occurrence. 00:15:39.133 --> 00:15:44.515 And so 19 miracles of healing, 12 of them mentioned faith. 00:15:44.515 --> 00:15:47.511 So it must be pretty important. 00:15:47.511 --> 00:15:51.528 Your faith must be pretty important to your healing and to your health. 00:15:51.528 --> 00:15:55.169 Your faith is important. 00:15:55.169 --> 00:15:57.666 What you believe, you know. 00:15:57.706 --> 00:16:00.952 When I read my Bible, I see how Jesus operated. 00:16:00.952 --> 00:16:05.996 He was always looking for faith and measuring faith. 00:16:05.996 --> 00:16:15.275 I mean when Peter jumped out of the boat and was walking on the water and then he saw the waves and the wind and he got afraid. 00:16:15.275 --> 00:16:17.010 He said oh Lord, master, saved me. 00:16:17.010 --> 00:16:26.932 And Jesus called him and walked him back to the boat, put him in the boat and said Peter, wherefore did thou doubt? 00:16:26.932 --> 00:16:28.008 Oh ye of little faith. 00:16:28.008 --> 00:16:30.866 Wherefore did thou doubt Little faith? 00:16:30.866 --> 00:16:31.610 Walked on the water. 00:16:31.610 --> 00:16:34.991 Jesus didn't clap him on the back. 00:16:34.991 --> 00:16:36.751 Man, I'm so proud of you. 00:16:36.751 --> 00:16:39.091 Here's a participation trophy. 00:16:39.091 --> 00:16:41.410 He was one out of the 12. 00:16:41.410 --> 00:16:44.812 The other 11 dead heads were sitting in the boat. 00:16:44.812 --> 00:16:46.009 They didn't risk anything. 00:16:46.009 --> 00:16:52.272 And yet Jesus was looking for faith and he didn't like what he saw. 00:16:52.272 --> 00:16:53.730 He said oh ye of little. 00:16:55.504 --> 00:17:02.929 Then, when the disciples got out there in the storm, and they all were panic stricken, thinking they were gonna sink, big old storm rose up. 00:17:02.929 --> 00:17:07.250 Jesus rebuked the wind, peace bestowed of the waves. 00:17:07.250 --> 00:17:14.914 Instantly everything settled out and he said you know why did you doubt? 00:17:14.914 --> 00:17:19.705 How is it that you have no faith, man? 00:17:19.705 --> 00:17:21.772 That's pretty bad when your faith is zero. 00:17:21.772 --> 00:17:32.551 But that's where they were right after a whole day of preaching on the so or so is the word, whole day and he had said let us pass over to the other side. 00:17:32.551 --> 00:17:35.053 He didn't say let us go out to the middle of the lake and drown. 00:17:35.053 --> 00:17:38.146 Where? 00:17:38.146 --> 00:17:40.955 How is it that you have no faith? 00:17:45.105 --> 00:17:46.791 He marveled at his own hometown. 00:17:46.791 --> 00:17:48.230 He marveled that they're unbelief. 00:17:48.230 --> 00:17:53.852 He could there do nobody work except he laid his hands on a few sick folk and healed them of minor ailments. 00:17:53.852 --> 00:17:54.105 Why? 00:17:54.105 --> 00:17:55.029 Because they're unbelief. 00:17:55.029 --> 00:17:56.752 He was measuring. 00:17:56.752 --> 00:17:58.788 He was looking, didn't find it. 00:17:58.788 --> 00:17:59.972 He marveled. 00:17:59.972 --> 00:18:07.325 And he responded by sending the disciples out by two and two to go about teaching, preaching and healing. 00:18:07.325 --> 00:18:10.114 See, jesus didn't just go walk up to people and heal them. 00:18:10.114 --> 00:18:13.105 He was teaching and preaching and healing. 00:18:13.105 --> 00:18:15.232 Teaching is the remedy for unbelief. 00:18:15.232 --> 00:18:17.011 That's why I teach most of the time. 00:18:17.011 --> 00:18:21.413 Every now and then there's a little bit of preaching and we woven into it, but what you need is teaching. 00:18:21.413 --> 00:18:23.431 Teaching will build your faith. 00:18:23.431 --> 00:18:27.494 If you'll receive it, it's vital to your health. 00:18:29.105 --> 00:18:39.729 When he came up to the Syrophoenician woman this woman is a Gentile or a demon that attacked her little daughter and she just went to Jesus and she wouldn't give up. 00:18:39.729 --> 00:18:42.452 She went to the disciples and get rid of her. 00:18:42.452 --> 00:18:43.729 She's bothering us. 00:18:43.729 --> 00:18:46.571 And Jesus didn't answer right away. 00:18:46.571 --> 00:18:49.848 He said well, it's not right for me to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. 00:18:49.848 --> 00:18:55.009 Well, that's true, lord, but even the puppies eat the crumbs off the master's table. 00:18:55.009 --> 00:18:57.547 All I need is a little crumb coming out of the side of your mouth. 00:18:57.547 --> 00:19:04.332 And I mean he said old woman, great is thy faith, go home, your devil's gone out of your door, oh hallelujah. 00:19:04.332 --> 00:19:06.769 And she's a Gentile. 00:19:06.769 --> 00:19:10.772 And there's another Gentile that got congratulated. 00:19:10.772 --> 00:19:12.108 I mean, think about that. 00:19:12.565 --> 00:19:14.894 The 12 said how is it that you have no faith? 00:19:14.894 --> 00:19:16.269 Here's a Gentile, that old woman. 00:19:16.269 --> 00:19:17.153 Great is thy faith. 00:19:17.153 --> 00:19:27.412 And here's another situation where the Roman centurion asked Jesus to heal it Just speak the word. 00:19:27.412 --> 00:19:30.852 You don't have to come to my house, just speak the word only, and my servant will be healed. 00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:40.271 His servant had the policy grievously afflicted and Jesus marveled. 00:19:40.271 --> 00:19:44.114 He said I have not found so great a faith. 00:19:44.114 --> 00:19:45.109 No, not in Israel. 00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:51.631 Man, that makes those Jewish people mad that somebody is beating their time. 00:19:51.631 --> 00:19:53.170 See, it's just simple. 00:19:53.170 --> 00:19:56.315 You believe what he says and you act on it. 00:19:56.315 --> 00:19:57.470 You act as if it's true. 00:19:57.470 --> 00:20:05.417 So God has given us the means to build our faith, and that's his word. 00:20:08.065 --> 00:20:10.313 Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 00:20:10.313 --> 00:20:11.769 Hearing means understanding. 00:20:11.769 --> 00:20:21.509 You have to hear something over and over before you finally grasp it, and it goes from this brain tissue, drops down into your spirit. 00:20:21.509 --> 00:20:25.194 That's where it can be used, your spirit. 00:20:25.194 --> 00:20:31.029 In Mark 11, 23 and 24, Jesus said you can have what you say. 00:20:31.029 --> 00:20:33.789 I didn't say it, he said it. 00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:38.230 Who shall ever say unto this mountain or speak unto this mountain? 00:20:38.230 --> 00:20:40.192 Speak what words to the mountain? 00:20:40.192 --> 00:20:43.574 Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea. 00:20:43.574 --> 00:20:45.412 He even said what to speak. 00:20:45.412 --> 00:20:52.993 He didn't say you know, keep standing there in my way forever, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea. 00:20:52.993 --> 00:20:54.592 What would happen if it was cast into the sea? 00:20:54.592 --> 00:20:55.268 It wouldn't come back. 00:20:55.268 --> 00:20:58.992 The sea would swallow it up and dissolve it. 00:20:58.992 --> 00:20:59.847 That's what would happen. 00:20:59.847 --> 00:21:01.867 Wouldn't come back. 00:21:01.867 --> 00:21:06.788 Speak to your mountain properly, in faith, and it won't come back. 00:21:06.788 --> 00:21:16.151 It shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith Now, that's the Greek word Lego. 00:21:16.664 --> 00:21:19.890 It's not the first one was Epo, middle one is Lego. 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:22.994 Well, lego means having a systematic discourse. 00:21:22.994 --> 00:21:25.010 In other words, you've got to say it more than once. 00:21:25.010 --> 00:21:31.471 You've got to say it and keep on saying it, even while it looks like it hasn't moved. 00:21:31.471 --> 00:21:36.385 See again, we think we expect everything to happen instantly. 00:21:36.385 --> 00:21:44.012 Well, no, instantly happens rarely, and so faith is designed to as a seed. 00:21:44.012 --> 00:21:45.951 Your faith is as a seed. 00:21:45.951 --> 00:21:50.493 It has to be planted, and so that's why you keep on saying it's a systematic. 00:21:50.625 --> 00:21:52.150 Everybody say systematic discourse. 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:54.771 See, what are you saying all the time? 00:21:54.771 --> 00:22:03.351 Are you speaking pain, weakness, sickness, infirmity Is that what's coming out of your mouth? 00:22:03.351 --> 00:22:05.692 Or are you commiserating with everybody that comes along? 00:22:05.692 --> 00:22:09.273 Oh, I tell you, I'm feeling my age today, man. 00:22:09.273 --> 00:22:10.849 My sacrilege is really. 00:22:10.849 --> 00:22:12.355 See, that's just the world. 00:22:12.355 --> 00:22:15.535 That's the way the world has conversation. 00:22:15.535 --> 00:22:19.488 They have a conversation about all the things that are wrong with them. 00:22:19.488 --> 00:22:21.028 That's not what we do. 00:22:21.028 --> 00:22:23.849 Well, I don't want to lie. 00:22:23.849 --> 00:22:30.156 Well, you're going to have to get this straight, see, because you call the thing that be not as though it were, just like God does, right. 00:22:30.156 --> 00:22:33.554 So everybody say systematic discourse. 00:22:33.554 --> 00:22:36.671 Yes, I mean, it's all day long. 00:22:37.165 --> 00:22:41.036 You don't wait till you're sick to have this discourse. 00:22:41.036 --> 00:22:55.796 Now, certainly, when you are sick and when you have a bad report and you have symptoms that are afflicting you and you're feeling them in your body, and especially if it's starting to alter your schedule. 00:22:55.796 --> 00:23:04.094 You got something so serious that you can't go to work, or you can't play with the grandkids, or you can't whatever, whatever it's. 00:23:04.094 --> 00:23:07.034 But listen, hey, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. 00:23:07.034 --> 00:23:08.230 Your hair's on fire. 00:23:08.230 --> 00:23:13.492 Check up on your confession, check up on what your systematic discourse has been. 00:23:13.492 --> 00:23:14.869 You'll probably find out. 00:23:14.869 --> 00:23:19.269 You hadn't really been saying very much, so crank it up. 00:23:19.269 --> 00:23:23.471 Amen, oh, thank God, by the stripes of Jesus. 00:23:23.570 --> 00:23:27.210 I was, hallelujah, I've got the mind of Christ. 00:23:27.210 --> 00:23:30.789 Praise God, I've locked myself out of my house three times the last two weeks. 00:23:30.789 --> 00:23:31.567 I'll just confess. 00:23:31.567 --> 00:23:33.651 I mean that is the dumbest thing. 00:23:33.651 --> 00:23:35.791 One time I had nothing. 00:23:35.791 --> 00:23:38.648 I had no phone, I had no keys. 00:23:38.648 --> 00:23:39.528 It's Sunday morning. 00:23:49.184 --> 00:23:54.511 And then I went across the street, you know, and I tried to call one of the guys. 00:23:54.511 --> 00:23:56.932 I called Jade and the answer is he's up here. 00:23:56.932 --> 00:24:00.451 And finally I remember, oh, I got a watch. 00:24:00.451 --> 00:24:02.009 I've got a Dick Tracy watch. 00:24:02.009 --> 00:24:11.631 Y'all are too young to know what, who Dick Tracy is, but I grew up on Dick Tracy comic books and he had a watch that was a phone and he's, you know, had a phone. 00:24:11.631 --> 00:24:12.647 So that's what? 00:24:12.647 --> 00:24:13.731 Apple watch is a phone. 00:24:13.731 --> 00:24:15.451 And I was able to text. 00:24:15.451 --> 00:24:21.269 And I got James, came into the cavalry and came to my house and it didn't say anything. 00:24:21.269 --> 00:24:22.132 Smart Alec either. 00:24:22.132 --> 00:24:28.670 He was real sweet and I really had to get on. 00:24:28.924 --> 00:24:30.470 I've got the mind of Christ, you know. 00:24:30.470 --> 00:24:31.132 I've got to get that. 00:24:31.132 --> 00:24:32.194 I've got the mind of Christ. 00:24:32.194 --> 00:24:34.411 I will not leave my keys inside that. 00:24:34.411 --> 00:24:38.053 Maybe I need to wear them around my neck, I don't know. 00:24:42.444 --> 00:24:43.490 Are you getting anything out of this? 00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:48.373 All right, number five out of nine. 00:24:48.373 --> 00:24:50.810 Three last week, three this week. 00:24:50.810 --> 00:24:57.795 Number five if you receive your healing through the gifts of the spirit or through someone else's faith, that happens. 00:24:57.795 --> 00:25:03.730 You know God is so willing to heal you, he'll move heaven and earth. 00:25:03.730 --> 00:25:15.247 But if you receive your healing through the gifts of the Spirit or through someone else's faith, then you must develop your own faith to keep that healing. 00:25:15.247 --> 00:25:18.380 Why do I say that? 00:25:18.380 --> 00:25:20.380 See, I've heard all kind of stupid things. 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:22.674 Well, when God heals you, it's permanent. 00:25:22.674 --> 00:25:23.380 Well, you're a doofus. 00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:27.227 You don't know what you're talking about, because Jesus didn't say that. 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:33.694 Jesus said when the unclean spirit Luke I've got it written down here, luke 11, 24,. 00:25:33.694 --> 00:25:42.138 He was talking about how the devil operates and we know that, whether directly or indirectly, the devil and demon powers are behind all infirmity. 00:25:42.138 --> 00:25:48.373 Amen, whether it is a demon or whether it's just, that's where it comes from. 00:25:48.373 --> 00:25:50.527 It doesn't have to be a demon. 00:25:50.527 --> 00:26:01.380 But he said when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, that spirit goes to dry places, seeking rest and finding none. 00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:07.269 And then he will say I know what I'll do, I'll return under my house. 00:26:07.269 --> 00:26:14.269 And he goes back to that place where he was cast out and he finds it empty, swept and garnished. 00:26:15.483 --> 00:26:16.227 What does that mean? 00:26:16.227 --> 00:26:19.910 The person from which that thing left didn't do anything. 00:26:19.910 --> 00:26:25.380 They didn't have a you know, a systematic discourse. 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:27.872 Thank God, I'm delivered. 00:26:27.872 --> 00:26:29.018 Thank God, I'm healed. 00:26:29.018 --> 00:26:30.041 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:26:30.041 --> 00:26:31.747 The devil is defeated. 00:26:31.747 --> 00:26:32.930 Glory to God. 00:26:32.930 --> 00:26:37.171 See, you start speaking in other tongues and start speaking the word of God. 00:26:37.171 --> 00:26:38.664 You're not empty, swept and garnished. 00:26:38.664 --> 00:26:40.786 You've got yourself fortified. 00:26:40.786 --> 00:27:01.250 So when he does come back and he will, because why he thinks you are his house you used to be his house when you were lost and now he wants to gain back interest he's going to come knocking on your door and if he finds it empty, swept and garnished, he's going to come back and bring more, seven others more wicked than himself. 00:27:01.380 --> 00:27:03.887 That's what Jesus said, and I've seen it. 00:27:03.887 --> 00:27:05.767 I've seen it born out. 00:27:05.767 --> 00:27:08.380 I've seen it born out. 00:27:08.380 --> 00:27:10.030 You know well, pastor. 00:27:10.030 --> 00:27:11.380 You mean you've got to have an exorcist. 00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:12.986 No, I'm not saying that at all. 00:27:12.986 --> 00:27:14.924 I'm saying but sickness has to leave you. 00:27:14.924 --> 00:27:18.768 Treat sickness as an entity. 00:27:18.768 --> 00:27:21.380 That's what Jesus did. 00:27:21.380 --> 00:27:22.585 Peter's mother-in-law was laying there. 00:27:22.585 --> 00:27:27.380 She had a fever and Jesus rebuked the fever and it left. 00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:32.380 It didn't say her fever went down, it said it left. 00:27:32.380 --> 00:27:33.845 It's an entity. 00:27:33.845 --> 00:27:37.207 Are y'all getting this now? 00:27:37.207 --> 00:27:43.952 Treat this infirmity as if it is a evil entity that has to leave you. 00:27:43.952 --> 00:27:48.667 Or I should say it better, it should leave your house. 00:27:48.667 --> 00:27:52.806 It's not you, you live in your house. 00:27:53.983 --> 00:27:56.380 A few years ago I noticed some little sawdust in my stuff. 00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:59.339 It was up on top of my computer desk. 00:27:59.339 --> 00:28:01.453 It slid up against the wall of the house. 00:28:01.453 --> 00:28:04.359 There's a window behind it. 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:06.380 All that, cables and stuff. 00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:08.852 I under the desk. 00:28:08.852 --> 00:28:09.978 I said, uh-oh, what is this? 00:28:09.978 --> 00:28:10.239 I pulled. 00:28:10.239 --> 00:28:12.339 It's a lot of trouble to pull all that out. 00:28:12.339 --> 00:28:16.380 Not very much room in my study, it's kind of a small room. 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:18.218 I'm 11 by 11. 00:28:18.218 --> 00:28:20.126 Pulled it out. 00:28:21.709 --> 00:28:23.339 I mean I got termites. 00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:25.070 They're eating. 00:28:25.070 --> 00:28:27.339 They're eating the window stool. 00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:29.367 They're eating the sheet rock. 00:28:29.367 --> 00:28:31.186 I didn't know if termites ate sheet rock. 00:28:31.186 --> 00:28:32.386 They ate that sheet rock. 00:28:32.386 --> 00:28:34.380 They ate the molding. 00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:38.339 I had some uh wange coat in there and they ate some of that. 00:28:39.545 --> 00:28:40.327 Pulled it all out. 00:28:40.327 --> 00:28:45.359 Thank God they didn't eat the studs, they didn't eat any structural, it was just all cosmetic. 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.048 Got it all fixed up? 00:28:47.048 --> 00:28:48.836 Well, I didn't have termites. 00:28:48.836 --> 00:28:49.380 Well, who had the termites? 00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:51.318