WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.903 Before you sit down, reach down and pick up your bibles and wave them around. 00:00:03.903 --> 00:00:07.139 Wave them up here like this, and live stream audience. 00:00:07.139 --> 00:00:08.807 We're glad you could join us today. 00:00:08.807 --> 00:00:10.339 Wave your bibles around. 00:00:10.339 --> 00:00:22.588 Let's say this together as a heavenly Father, there's no place I'd rather be than where the Word of God is preached and the Holy Ghost is free to move. 00:00:22.588 --> 00:00:26.469 The Word and the Spirit are working together in my life. 00:00:26.469 --> 00:00:29.949 They're changing me from the inside out. 00:00:29.949 --> 00:00:46.640 I hardly resemble the person I used to be because you take me higher and higher, you strengthen me greater and greater, and I give you all the praise for it in Jesus' name. 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.326 Hey, bed, you can be seated. 00:00:48.326 --> 00:00:51.304 Thank you, worship team, beautiful job. 00:00:51.304 --> 00:00:54.100 Praise God. 00:00:54.219 --> 00:01:06.394 Let's turn in our bibles today to the book of Luke, chapter 13, and also Acts, the 10th chapter. 00:01:06.394 --> 00:01:16.625 We'll start with Luke first, praise God, luke 13,. 00:01:16.625 --> 00:01:25.695 Start reading with verse 11 and then get your finger over there by Acts, chapter 10. 00:01:25.695 --> 00:01:34.871 All right, verse 11, and behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity 18 years. 00:01:34.871 --> 00:01:39.099 You might be battling something in your body. 00:01:39.099 --> 00:01:40.959 It's been hanging around a long time. 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:49.036 This woman's 18 years, and was bowed together and could in no wise lift up herself. 00:01:49.036 --> 00:01:52.808 I saw somebody like that not long ago. 00:01:52.808 --> 00:01:54.706 They were in a restaurant. 00:01:54.706 --> 00:01:57.968 Poor soul, I mean, she couldn't look you in the eye. 00:01:57.968 --> 00:01:59.626 All she could do was study your feet. 00:01:59.626 --> 00:02:04.105 She was bent over all the way down, looking straight down at the ground. 00:02:04.105 --> 00:02:14.550 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said unto her woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:24.311 And he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:50.628 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day and said unto the people there are six days in which men ought to work and them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day. 00:02:50.628 --> 00:02:56.225 Well, she'd been coming for 18 years and hadn't gotten squat. 00:02:56.225 --> 00:03:04.526 That's the way a lot of places are. 00:03:04.526 --> 00:03:08.425 You know, they come and they come, and they stay the same for 18 years. 00:03:08.425 --> 00:03:17.727 And the Lord then answered him and said thou hypocrite, don't you love it when people talk? 00:03:17.727 --> 00:03:19.070 I just love it. 00:03:19.070 --> 00:03:21.228 I mean, you know he just told him how it was. 00:03:21.228 --> 00:03:24.770 You hypocrite, you hypocrite. 00:03:24.770 --> 00:03:31.649 Does not each one of you, on the Sabbath, lose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering? 00:03:31.649 --> 00:03:41.491 And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, flow these 18 years be loosed from this bond. 00:03:41.491 --> 00:03:47.048 On the Sabbath day, and when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed. 00:03:47.048 --> 00:03:51.745 I wish some people in this country would get ashamed when they get reviewed. 00:03:51.745 --> 00:04:02.088 They seem to be shameless and all the people rejoice for all the glorious things that were done by him. 00:04:02.088 --> 00:04:04.530 Woo, hallelujah. 00:04:04.530 --> 00:04:23.425 And then in Acts, chapter 10, verse 38, and Paul is preaching and he said verse 38, how God anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy ghost and power. 00:04:23.425 --> 00:04:26.716 Who went about doing bad? 00:04:26.716 --> 00:04:40.911 Who went about doing good and healing 49%, healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. 00:04:42.225 --> 00:04:52.464 And so today I want to kind of follow up from last Sunday morning on the subject of healing and today specifically the source of sickness. 00:04:52.464 --> 00:04:54.752 Some people don't understand the source. 00:04:54.752 --> 00:04:57.524 I know what most of you are thinking. 00:04:57.524 --> 00:04:59.053 Well, I've heard this before, pastor. 00:04:59.053 --> 00:05:00.884 I know the devil is the one behind it. 00:05:00.884 --> 00:05:05.434 Well, you know a lot of people don't know that and they come in here and they've never heard it before. 00:05:05.434 --> 00:05:11.463 So let's have mercy on them and so a fresh seed into their spirit so that can grow into healing. 00:05:11.463 --> 00:05:19.142 Amen, and besides that, what you know needs to be watered, otherwise it'll dry up and quit bringing forth fruit and you know you can have what you preach amen. 00:05:19.646 --> 00:05:24.062 And I'm determined that in these red envelopes there's a lot of folks put in there. 00:05:24.062 --> 00:05:42.185 If this is gonna be the greatest year yet, some of you are gonna have to have some healing occur in your body, some long term infirmities that have established a beachhead I talked about that Wednesday night they've established a beachhead in your body. 00:05:42.185 --> 00:05:52.141 They landed on the shores of Normandy, so to speak, and they've kind of spread into your body and you've been standing against it and standing against it. 00:05:52.141 --> 00:05:55.985 Well, I wanna help you get rid of the thing once and for all. 00:05:55.985 --> 00:06:01.278 Let's get rid of it because the word works. 00:06:01.278 --> 00:06:04.245 I know Gladys and I both we're just determined. 00:06:04.245 --> 00:06:08.464 We're not gonna accept the symptoms that we have to face. 00:06:08.464 --> 00:06:15.074 I mean, we're just both of us are going against it, standing against it, resisting it. 00:06:15.074 --> 00:06:17.213 Don't give in and give up. 00:06:17.213 --> 00:06:21.625 Anybody can give in and give up, but we've got the word. 00:06:21.625 --> 00:06:25.324 So we're supplementing the teaching on Healing Wednesdays. 00:06:25.324 --> 00:06:33.845 How many of you know, healing Wednesdays All during February and we are live streaming, but it's better if you can be here. 00:06:33.845 --> 00:06:35.781 Well, that's so long a drive. 00:06:35.781 --> 00:06:44.285 Well, it's worth it and I believe that we can have what we preach. 00:06:44.285 --> 00:06:53.271 And so, thank God, we've got a covenant, and that covenant includes healing. 00:06:54.285 --> 00:07:02.192 So last week on Sunday morning I talked about the man John, chapter five at the pool of Bethesda, how that there was faith was not mentioned. 00:07:02.192 --> 00:07:08.711 In his case, 12 out of 19 of the healing miracles mentioned in the gospels mentioned the faith of the person. 00:07:08.711 --> 00:07:12.535 So faith must be pretty important in healing. 00:07:12.535 --> 00:07:14.091 Faith and healing go together. 00:07:14.091 --> 00:07:20.952 It's not that God can't and won't heal people aside from their faith, because it does occur. 00:07:20.952 --> 00:07:33.305 It occurred in the Bible and actually we're talking about a lady here that there's no mention of her faith today, just like there wasn't any mention of the man that was. 00:07:33.827 --> 00:07:44.249 You know, he was lame, 38 years, laid there by the pool of Bethesda, and Jesus said will you be made hope, are you willing to be? 00:07:44.249 --> 00:07:44.670 Well? 00:07:44.670 --> 00:07:48.690 And he said, sir, I have no man, and I tell you we talked about that. 00:07:48.690 --> 00:07:52.334 God is not limited by a man, a meeting or a movement. 00:07:52.334 --> 00:07:54.791 I mean, god is well able. 00:07:54.791 --> 00:07:59.848 Oh, if I could have just gotten to church when pastor was laying in. 00:07:59.848 --> 00:08:02.331 You don't have listen, I believe in coming to church. 00:08:02.331 --> 00:08:03.110 You don't have to wait. 00:08:03.110 --> 00:08:07.612 I said you don't have to wait to receive your healing. 00:08:07.612 --> 00:08:12.531 You get the truth of the Word of God in you and I tell you what everything changes. 00:08:12.531 --> 00:08:22.769 So he's not limited by a man, a mover, a meeting, and then we talked about how we have to guard our hearts to keep our healing. 00:08:22.769 --> 00:08:23.708 He said go and send. 00:08:23.708 --> 00:08:24.646 No more less. 00:08:24.646 --> 00:08:26.733 The worst thing happened to you. 00:08:26.733 --> 00:08:37.019 So evidently there was some things that he was doing in his life that were opening the door for the devil to bring a beach head. 00:08:38.865 --> 00:08:45.413 And so today we're gonna talk about the source of sickness, and of course we know that that is Satan. 00:08:45.413 --> 00:08:51.673 You know, in Acts, chapter 10, jesus went about doing good, healing all who were oppressed of the devil. 00:08:51.673 --> 00:08:58.273 But I've heard people, even Christians, say well, you know this sickness. 00:08:58.273 --> 00:08:59.999 I tell you it was a blessing. 00:08:59.999 --> 00:09:04.255 In disguise, don't ever say that, but I've heard it. 00:09:04.255 --> 00:09:13.072 Oh, you know, because if I hadn't gotten this sickness, implying that God gave it to them, then I wouldn't have ABC. 00:09:13.072 --> 00:09:15.485 They make up some silly excuse. 00:09:15.485 --> 00:09:19.412 I wouldn't have seen the doctor, and he's been such a blessing in my old. 00:09:19.412 --> 00:09:19.773 Really. 00:09:19.773 --> 00:09:23.625 I met a nurse at the hospital. 00:09:23.625 --> 00:09:25.250 Oh my, we've become the best. 00:09:25.250 --> 00:09:27.469 That's not how God. 00:09:27.469 --> 00:09:33.535 Sickness and disease is not Facebook for you to meet people. 00:09:33.535 --> 00:09:37.389 You might meet some folks that way, but that's not God's plan. 00:09:37.389 --> 00:09:40.489 Are you with me now? 00:09:41.985 --> 00:09:46.404 You know I had some wonderful cousins that were baptized. 00:09:46.404 --> 00:09:50.070 My uncle Herman was a Baptist deacon, just a wonderful man. 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:56.345 All my life, even when I before I was saved, I respected him because he lived a good life. 00:09:56.345 --> 00:10:19.150 He was a good man, he's always helping people and he recognized when I got saved and he was so glad I mean because him and his family had prayed for, you know, his younger brother and of course he, my dad went, you know, left the earth pretty early and left a family full of heathens as far as Uncle Herman was concerned, and he just kept praying for us. 00:10:19.150 --> 00:10:25.894 And once my dad left and it worked, but anyway he had a daughter. 00:10:25.894 --> 00:10:33.333 Later on down the road, you know, he passed, his wife passed and now they're all gone except the third generation. 00:10:33.445 --> 00:10:37.416 But I went to my cousin's wake. 00:10:37.416 --> 00:10:39.451 She had passed from cancer. 00:10:39.451 --> 00:10:50.409 Her husband had was right after that, about I don't know a month or two after that he passed Her husband of long. 00:10:50.409 --> 00:10:51.634 They had been married a long time. 00:10:51.634 --> 00:10:52.629 I grew up with these people. 00:10:52.629 --> 00:11:01.645 I knew them ever since I was a little bitty kid Bonnemerle was her name and Bonnemerle and she's her body's in the casket, you know. 00:11:01.645 --> 00:11:06.053 And I'm up there just kind of looking at her earth suit, you know, and just paying my respects. 00:11:06.966 --> 00:11:09.995 And some of the younger cousins came up. 00:11:09.995 --> 00:11:27.950 Her daughter and two sons came up to greet me and thank me for coming, and the youngest one, that I didn't know very well, says you know, one thing I'd like to say about my mother, and I tell you my mother really knew how to suffer, implying that that's a fruit of the spirit. 00:11:27.950 --> 00:11:30.856 What do you say? 00:11:30.856 --> 00:11:34.091 I mean it's like he spit in my face, because I know better than that. 00:11:34.091 --> 00:11:39.990 I mean that's like somebody talking in line about my Jesus, my healer, my savior, my Lord. 00:11:39.990 --> 00:11:47.393 But I know it's ignorance and I know God, you know, pardons him because that's all he's heard all of his life in a dead church. 00:11:47.393 --> 00:11:55.775 Oh, people need to have what we've got in this church as far as the Word of God and the Holy Ghost, amen. 00:11:57.788 --> 00:12:03.703 And so this idea that somehow sickness is good. 00:12:03.703 --> 00:12:11.893 No, jesus went about doing good and getting rid of sickness, healing all who were oppressed of the devil. 00:12:11.893 --> 00:12:15.293 And so this woman. 00:12:15.293 --> 00:12:19.671 Jesus pointed out three very distinct truths. 00:12:19.671 --> 00:12:21.672 Number one this woman ought to be loosed. 00:12:21.672 --> 00:12:26.553 Number two Satan had bound her. 00:12:26.553 --> 00:12:31.453 She ought to be loosed and Satan had bound her. 00:12:31.453 --> 00:12:32.769 Don't get that confused. 00:12:32.769 --> 00:12:36.434 I mean, my cousins thought it was all God. 00:12:36.434 --> 00:12:38.051 God does everything. 00:12:38.051 --> 00:12:42.552 In some places in Christianity they don't even know anything about the devil. 00:12:42.552 --> 00:12:44.812 They have no idea that he exists. 00:12:44.812 --> 00:12:46.049 Everything is God. 00:12:46.225 --> 00:12:49.815 God allowed, god allowed this, god allowed that. 00:12:49.815 --> 00:12:51.190 Oh, it's some high purpose. 00:12:51.190 --> 00:12:53.250 Oh, I'm gonna find out one day why. 00:12:53.250 --> 00:12:56.605 God allowed, god allowed, god allowed no. 00:12:56.605 --> 00:12:59.626 Jesus said God didn't allow, the devil did it. 00:12:59.626 --> 00:13:10.221 And so she ought to be loosed. 00:13:10.221 --> 00:13:14.918 Satan had bound her and she had a covenant right to healing. 00:13:15.490 --> 00:13:17.999 The reason she ought to be loosed is because she was what? 00:13:17.999 --> 00:13:19.635 A daughter of Abraham. 00:13:19.635 --> 00:13:24.690 So she had a covenant, she had the old covenant, even in the old covenant. 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:29.577 And then the priest said look the six days you can come and get your healing. 00:13:29.577 --> 00:13:38.033 What an empty bag of potatoes, I mean he says, sitting there saying that she could come the other six days. 00:13:38.033 --> 00:13:39.177 It's been 18 years. 00:13:39.250 --> 00:13:41.157 When do you plan on praying for the sick? 00:13:41.157 --> 00:13:43.576 Have you ever prayed for the sick? 00:13:43.576 --> 00:13:46.018 No, never had. 00:13:46.018 --> 00:13:49.198 Well, let's all pray for Sister Jones. 00:13:49.198 --> 00:13:51.097 She's sick, you know, at home. 00:13:51.097 --> 00:13:55.301 Let's y'all remember Sister Jones this week in prayer. 00:13:55.301 --> 00:13:59.479 Oh Lord, if it be thy will, heal Sister Jones. 00:13:59.479 --> 00:14:06.258 And what they don't say is if it's not your will to heal Sister Jones, go ahead and kill her. 00:14:06.258 --> 00:14:09.698 Why don't you say the other half of that statement? 00:14:09.698 --> 00:14:17.442 Because the implication is that God's in charge and that he's got some holy purpose behind this whole thing. 00:14:17.529 --> 00:14:24.254 No, jesus said it's the devil and we ought to be loosed. 00:14:24.254 --> 00:14:25.938 Because we have a covenant. 00:14:25.938 --> 00:14:28.597 How many of you know we've got a better covenant? 00:14:28.597 --> 00:14:31.258 Hebrews eight, six we've got a better covenant. 00:14:31.258 --> 00:14:36.015 I said we've got a better covenant than the daughter of Abraham. 00:14:36.015 --> 00:14:36.270 Why? 00:14:36.270 --> 00:14:39.448 Because we're the daughters and sons of God. 00:14:39.448 --> 00:14:41.639 We have the Holy Ghost living on the inside. 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.534 That woman didn't have no Holy Ghost living on the inside of her. 00:14:44.534 --> 00:14:52.297 In fact, the Bible says the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us and quickens our mortal flesh. 00:14:52.297 --> 00:14:54.676 Mortal means death, doomed. 00:14:54.676 --> 00:14:57.893 You know, at some time we're gonna live long enough to finally. 00:14:57.893 --> 00:15:00.995 I think it should be at least in the nineties or a hundred. 00:15:00.995 --> 00:15:04.409 Brother Jim, he agreed with me. 00:15:04.409 --> 00:15:07.099 He keeps on trucking right on down the road. 00:15:07.099 --> 00:15:10.099 Brother Jim, brother Lonnie, they just keep on going. 00:15:13.149 --> 00:15:18.942 Brother Lonnie said he went to a reunion of his old college, oklahoma City University, and he said I was the oldest one there. 00:15:18.942 --> 00:15:22.096 I said yeah, you're the ones who got all the revelation of long life. 00:15:22.096 --> 00:15:24.876 Doctor told him he couldn't live very long. 00:15:24.876 --> 00:15:27.018 Don't worry, if I were you I wouldn't get married. 00:15:27.018 --> 00:15:29.932 You may not live very long, told it. 00:15:29.932 --> 00:15:33.556 You know, betty, you're married a guy that has a short life. 00:15:33.556 --> 00:15:36.197 Look, look how many years ago that was. 00:15:36.197 --> 00:15:38.796 They got married when I was born. 00:15:38.796 --> 00:15:40.975 That's how long they've been married. 00:15:40.975 --> 00:15:47.043 They missed the prognosis, brother Lonnie. 00:15:47.043 --> 00:15:48.355 They missed the prognosis. 00:15:49.549 --> 00:15:59.578 God had a different idea and so so religion is standing there and religion says no, you can't. 00:15:59.578 --> 00:16:14.854 That's what religion see, jesus, when he said in John, chapter 10, verse 10, he said the thief cometh not but for the steal, the kill and destroy it, but I am come that you might have life and have more abundantly. 00:16:14.854 --> 00:16:20.577 And really, he's not talking about the devil, if you'll read it very carefully in the context. 00:16:20.577 --> 00:16:23.456 He's talking about religion. 00:16:23.456 --> 00:16:27.240 He's talking about the attitude that that priest had. 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.456 You see, he's not talking about why. 00:16:30.456 --> 00:16:30.957 What do you mean? 00:16:30.957 --> 00:16:35.216 It says he said all who came before me were thieves and robbers. 00:16:35.216 --> 00:16:39.330 The thief cometh not but for the steal, kill and destroy. 00:16:39.330 --> 00:16:43.359 So he wasn't talking about the devil, he was talking about religion, dead religion. 00:16:45.029 --> 00:16:58.917 Dead religion doesn't want anything for you, really, the devil's behind all religion, because religion is just man's vain attempt to reach God through their own wits and through their own methods. 00:16:58.917 --> 00:17:03.758 They have everything formulated on theories. 00:17:03.758 --> 00:17:10.173 They have their theory of God, they have their theory of why this happened and their theory. 00:17:10.173 --> 00:17:15.595 I'm not up here preaching theories, I'm here preaching the truth Theories. 00:17:15.595 --> 00:17:24.378 I like what Brother Hagin used to say about theories A theory is nothing but a supposition that's based on ignorance of the subject under discussion. 00:17:32.569 --> 00:17:36.255 I mean, what good is it to hear somebody's theory when you've got the truth? 00:17:36.255 --> 00:17:38.577 You've got the words of Jesus right here. 00:17:38.577 --> 00:17:45.336 You've got Paul, who had a revelation, who was able to speak to us what the Holy Ghost showed him when he went to heaven. 00:17:45.336 --> 00:17:52.938 I'm telling you I'm just putting my stock in this right here yeah, so religion said no, it's the wrong day. 00:17:52.938 --> 00:17:54.876 You should have been here six other six days. 00:17:54.876 --> 00:17:56.797 This is the wrong day to get healed. 00:17:56.797 --> 00:18:02.234 And Jesus said yes, healing is good, I'm gonna do it anytime. 00:18:02.234 --> 00:18:09.179 I see somebody oppressed, I'm gonna get them for any time they day or night, sabbath day, whatever. 00:18:09.179 --> 00:18:15.694 And so I got to laughing about this because I said well, you know, it's kind of like the movie the good, the bad and the ugly. 00:18:15.890 --> 00:18:17.355 Anybody ever see that old it's called? 00:18:17.355 --> 00:18:21.536 It was one of the first spaghetti Westerns because it was filmed entirely in Italy. 00:18:21.536 --> 00:18:23.515 Called it a spaghetti Western. 00:18:23.515 --> 00:18:25.736 Clint Eastwood's, our first big movie. 00:18:25.736 --> 00:18:28.375 Clint Eastwood, the good, the bad and the ugly. 00:18:28.490 --> 00:18:35.193 So you have the good, which is healing, you have the bad, which is religion, and you have ugly, which is the devil. 00:18:35.193 --> 00:18:37.981 The good, the bad. 00:18:37.981 --> 00:18:39.314 I wanna pick the good. 00:18:39.314 --> 00:18:43.296 Every time I mean I want the good, everybody say I'm choosing the good. 00:18:43.296 --> 00:18:46.195 Now you know the old covenant. 00:18:46.195 --> 00:18:56.536 I wanna touch on this because you know bad thinking will lead to bad speaking, and whatever you speak out of your mouth you're broadcasting into your spirit. 00:18:57.250 --> 00:19:01.477 So one of the major ways that you can get off as a Christian is just talk wrong. 00:19:01.477 --> 00:19:04.817 I mean, we're designed to have what we say. 00:19:04.817 --> 00:19:09.512 That's the kind of being that God created when he created you. 00:19:09.512 --> 00:19:16.040 He created one just like Himself that was able to speak into existence their lives. 00:19:16.040 --> 00:19:21.520 So if you look at your life and you don't like it. 00:19:21.520 --> 00:19:28.192 Change what you're thinking so that you can change what you're saying, because what you're saying is eventually gonna go down in your spirit. 00:19:28.192 --> 00:19:30.653 You're gonna be persuaded that that's the truth. 00:19:30.653 --> 00:19:38.694 I mean, you can talk yourself into faith by just speaking the Word, even before you even really believe it's really true for you. 00:19:38.694 --> 00:19:46.858 If you'll just speak it anyway, eventually you'll get to the place where you know what the light turns on and you believe it now. 00:19:46.858 --> 00:19:52.636 And then we say speaking and believing open the door to the supernatural. 00:19:52.636 --> 00:19:56.660 See, some people just quit before they get to that place. 00:19:56.660 --> 00:20:00.256 Now the hand is right on the doorknob. 00:20:00.256 --> 00:20:02.894 And then they quit speaking right because they quit thinking right. 00:20:04.452 --> 00:20:23.730 So the old covenant, when you looked at Genesis, chapter 12, you know, god told Abram you know, get up and leave your father and mother's house and go to a place I'll show you, I'll make a great nation of you, and whoever blesses you I will bless, whoever curses you I will curse. 00:20:23.730 --> 00:20:32.029 And so that basic idea of blessing Israel still lives to this day. 00:20:32.029 --> 00:20:39.009 One of the great things that's happened in this country is as we have been blessing Israel of late. 00:20:39.009 --> 00:20:46.349 A little interruption when that peace plan got introduced, but it went nowhere and it probably will still go nowhere. 00:20:46.349 --> 00:20:48.500 I mean, you know. 00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:51.335 I mean they don't know the Bible like we do. 00:20:51.335 --> 00:21:00.470 So, god, I just pray whenever our president or his administration go off in the weeds and do something that I know is not really what they ought to be messing with. 00:21:00.470 --> 00:21:01.874 I just pray for mercy. 00:21:01.874 --> 00:21:08.767 And so it hasn't hurt us, because nobody's accepted it, except Israel, I mean in that. 00:21:08.767 --> 00:21:12.279 And Yahweh said yes to it, but he's the only one in the Middle East that said yes. 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:13.484 All the rest of them said no. 00:21:13.484 --> 00:21:16.846 And we know God does not want to part the land. 00:21:16.846 --> 00:21:20.048 It's all Israel's land, every bit of it. 00:21:20.048 --> 00:21:25.905 We ought to not be involved, but anyway. 00:21:25.905 --> 00:21:27.380 So then it was like that. 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:28.859 So there was blessing and cursing. 00:21:28.859 --> 00:21:31.608 Really, when did the curse really happen? 00:21:31.608 --> 00:21:36.050 The curse was there the minute Adam fell. 00:21:36.050 --> 00:21:44.689 He said you're gonna bring forth by the sweat of your brow, you're gonna bring forth crops out of this cursed. 00:21:44.689 --> 00:21:46.423 The ground is cursed. 00:21:46.423 --> 00:21:55.465 So the curse was there from the word go, I mean from the time that sometimes we think the curse happened in. 00:21:55.526 --> 00:21:58.223 God is in charge of the curse, no, the church. 00:21:58.223 --> 00:22:01.885 The curse comes from being on the wrong side of God's will. 00:22:01.885 --> 00:22:03.584 It's automatic. 00:22:03.584 --> 00:22:09.910 It's not like God is sitting in heaven saying, oh, they cursed Israel, I'm gonna curse them. 00:22:09.910 --> 00:22:11.125 No, god doesn't ever do that. 00:22:11.125 --> 00:22:12.285 God doesn't curse anything. 00:22:12.285 --> 00:22:16.643 It's all set, it's set in motion, it's automatic. 00:22:16.643 --> 00:22:23.387 So what's blessing, blessing, is when God puts His hand up and restrains the curse from affecting you. 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:34.631 And that was going on a long time before the law came around, and basically that's what he did to protect Abraham. 00:22:34.631 --> 00:22:42.090 I remember Abraham the Pharaoh took a notice and Sarah and took her into the harem and everything. 00:22:42.090 --> 00:22:48.664 I mean, god had to keep His hand of cursing away from Pharaoh because he knew Abraham. 00:22:48.664 --> 00:22:52.044 It lied Are y'all with me now? 00:22:52.044 --> 00:22:55.387 Let's think right about blessing and cursing. 00:22:55.387 --> 00:23:06.285 And so then, in Genesis 15, god cut the covenant finally with Abraham, and he cut the covenant and said I'm gonna give you this land. 00:23:06.285 --> 00:23:08.444 So it's a land covenant. 00:23:08.444 --> 00:23:10.526 It's still there, it's still in effect. 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:23.010 And then, 430 years later, you had Moses came along and between then and there, you had Adam. 00:23:23.010 --> 00:23:24.243 Adam lived to be what? 00:23:24.243 --> 00:23:27.144 900 plus years old, 960 something years old. 00:23:27.144 --> 00:23:37.583 Methuselah lived a long time, in fact, we go all the way to Noah, when God was upset with the rest of the world and sent the flood to consume them because they were so evil. 00:23:37.583 --> 00:23:41.989 All he could see was violence and evil continually, day and night. 00:23:41.989 --> 00:23:43.560 So he said I'm gonna start over Noah. 00:23:43.560 --> 00:23:44.925 You're the only righteous one. 00:23:44.925 --> 00:23:50.020 And he saved Noah and his family and two of every living thing right the ark. 00:23:50.020 --> 00:23:56.028 Well, noah lived at 960. 00:23:56.028 --> 00:23:58.394 So how could that be? 00:23:58.394 --> 00:24:02.684 How is it that those people lived so long and then it started going down? 00:24:02.684 --> 00:24:11.650 Then, later on, after you know, after a little while after Noah, you know, you had some successive generations till you got to Tira, who was the father of Abraham. 00:24:11.650 --> 00:24:13.806 Tira only lived 205 years. 00:24:13.806 --> 00:24:17.608 Suddenly, lifespan started shrinking. 00:24:17.608 --> 00:24:22.366 And then, when you got to Abraham, noah only lived to 175. 00:24:22.366 --> 00:24:28.818 You got to Moses, he lived to be 100 and whatever you know, and so forth, it started going down, down, down. 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:34.565 So basically, it took a while for the curse to come into effect. 00:24:34.565 --> 00:24:42.249 Eventually it took the devil almost 2,000 years to bring sickness and disease into the earth. 00:24:42.249 --> 00:24:51.444 It was so blessed originally that the blessing was in the DNA of every human being early on and it just finally kept. 00:24:51.444 --> 00:24:58.902 The further they got away from that day, the further they got away, and plus the fact that people didn't serve God the way they should, and that's. 00:24:58.902 --> 00:25:04.170 It took the devil 2,000 years to bring sickness and disease of any degree on people. 00:25:04.170 --> 00:25:05.984 We think the devil is so powerful. 00:25:05.984 --> 00:25:06.948 He's really weak. 00:25:06.948 --> 00:25:09.403 Are y'all with me now? 00:25:09.403 --> 00:25:15.385 I'm talking about blessings and cursings and these Old Testament people. 00:25:15.385 --> 00:25:19.249 They were blessed through their covenant with God. 00:25:19.249 --> 00:25:24.150 God would shield them from the effects of the curse. 00:25:29.579 --> 00:25:31.605 Really, curses came in line with the fall. 00:25:31.605 --> 00:25:34.445 Essentially, they're just built into the earth. 00:25:34.445 --> 00:25:42.428 I mean, if you go to Barnes and Noble, there are no books on how to fail, because failure is built into the human race. 00:25:42.428 --> 00:25:44.266 All you've got to do is just keep doing. 00:25:44.266 --> 00:25:49.346 You know stuff outside of the Holy Ghost, outside of the Word, and you will fail automatically. 00:25:49.346 --> 00:25:51.795 Are you with me now? 00:25:51.795 --> 00:25:55.005 No, you follow this book. 00:25:55.005 --> 00:25:55.907 You'll have success. 00:25:55.907 --> 00:25:58.003 It's the way out. 00:25:58.003 --> 00:26:00.020 All right. 00:26:00.060 --> 00:26:02.769 So God's blessing is God holding back the curse? 00:26:02.769 --> 00:26:03.723 I want you to see that. 00:26:03.723 --> 00:26:13.769 So when Moses brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, there were those 10 curses that came on Egypt. 00:26:13.769 --> 00:26:19.289 Well, all of those curses came as a result of their going against Genesis, chapter 12. 00:26:19.289 --> 00:26:26.871 They started cursing Israel and it took a while for those curses to come into being, about 400 years. 00:26:26.871 --> 00:26:30.164 But they finally filled a cup. 00:26:30.204 --> 00:26:38.470 And it wasn't God, I know it says that God sent this and God sent that, but that was because the Bible is progressive revelation. 00:26:38.470 --> 00:26:42.605 The writer of the Bible had to put it down the way he understood it. 00:26:42.605 --> 00:26:56.887 Now we can look back from our position after the resurrection of Christ and with the Holy Ghost living on the inside, we can rightly divide the word of truth and say that really, basically, all God did was stop holding back the curses. 00:26:56.887 --> 00:27:02.022 That's what happened on 9-11. 00:27:02.022 --> 00:27:06.784 God didn't send the bombers into the World Trade Center. 00:27:06.784 --> 00:27:20.067 His hand of protection was lifted off of our nation because we shot holes in our koopa, our covering through, our disobedience and our coming against Israel. 00:27:20.067 --> 00:27:21.098 Oh, you look back at those. 00:27:21.098 --> 00:27:22.323 All the way back. 00:27:22.323 --> 00:27:26.143 I mean, even Reagan had bad relations with Israel. 00:27:26.143 --> 00:27:40.957 And all the way through we're president up until the one we have right now, he is the best there's ever been and you can't tell me that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the blessing that's on this nation. 00:27:40.957 --> 00:27:45.778 Are you getting anything out of this now? 00:27:47.375 --> 00:27:50.203 So the curses of Egypt came from Genesis 12. 00:27:50.203 --> 00:27:56.286 So then they went through the Red Sea, they got over in the wilderness and God began to talk to Moses. 00:27:56.286 --> 00:27:57.817 He said now, moses and Exodus. 00:27:57.817 --> 00:28:03.667 You know he revealed himself as Jehovah Rafa, exodus 15. 00:28:03.667 --> 00:28:07.444 I am the Lord that he lived in. 00:28:07.444 --> 00:28:12.906 And then, in Exodus 23, he said I'll bless your bread and water and take sickness out of the midst of you. 00:28:12.906 --> 00:28:16.063 He said I'll put none of the diseases that I put on Egypt. 00:28:16.063 --> 00:28:17.194 Look there again, see. 00:28:17.194 --> 00:28:18.218 We've got to look at that verse. 00:28:18.218 --> 00:28:19.662 That makes you think. 00:28:19.682 --> 00:28:23.422 A lot of Christians think well, god puts the, says it right here in the book. 00:28:23.422 --> 00:28:30.258 You take a Baptist, god points you to that scripture and they're going to call your hand on this whole idea and they're going to try. 00:28:30.258 --> 00:28:35.243 And I had a preacher standing here one time trying to convince us that there's no such thing as a permissive sense. 00:28:35.243 --> 00:28:42.724 Well, maybe it's not in the permissive sense of where it's written, but you've got to know it by the spirit when you rightly divide the word of truth. 00:28:42.724 --> 00:28:51.080 Because if you're going to believe God puts sickness on anybody, then you can't have faith for your own ely, because you're always going to be the one. 00:28:51.080 --> 00:28:56.906 Oh, I wonder if he's put it sickness on me, on me for some reason, and I don't know what the reason is. 00:28:56.906 --> 00:29:01.901 So I better not pray, I better just go ahead and curl up and die. 00:29:01.901 --> 00:29:03.258 That's not God. 00:29:03.258 --> 00:29:05.900 You've got to get this straight. 00:29:05.900 --> 00:29:10.800 You've got to know and believe correctly, got to think correctly. 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:13.962 If you don't, you're going to miss out on the blessing. 00:29:15.174 --> 00:29:17.439 So God revealed himself as Jehovah Rafa. 00:29:17.439 --> 00:29:22.326 Jehovah is the covenant name for healing. 00:29:22.326 --> 00:29:23.910 I am the Lord. 00:29:23.910 --> 00:29:25.960 I am the Lord that healeth thee. 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:30.123 Why how could he heal you if he's the one that makes you sick? 00:29:30.123 --> 00:29:31.640 That doesn't make any sense. 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:35.304 The very name implies what the truth is. 00:29:35.304 --> 00:29:39.798 Are y'all with me now, pastor? 00:29:39.798 --> 00:29:40.440 You're saying I'm mad. 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:41.162 I am mad. 00:29:41.162 --> 00:29:42.305 I'm mad at religion. 00:29:42.305 --> 00:29:47.839 I'm mad at people that don't want to study the Bible and find out what the truth is and preach it to their congregation. 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:55.305 This is part of waking up the church, now that you know that you can help your relatives and friends that go to these dead churches. 00:29:55.305 --> 00:29:55.685 Amen. 00:29:59.101 --> 00:30:03.290 In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, god told Moses. 00:30:03.290 --> 00:30:06.760 He said you know, I set before you this day life and death, blessing and cursing. 00:30:06.760 --> 00:30:10.664 Therefore, choose life that both you and your seed can live. 00:30:10.664 --> 00:30:12.020 I mean, god wants you to live. 00:30:12.020 --> 00:30:13.398 He doesn't want you to die of cancer. 00:30:13.398 --> 00:30:15.424 He's made provision. 00:30:15.424 --> 00:30:18.781 I said he's made provision, but it's your choice. 00:30:18.781 --> 00:30:20.866 It's your choice. 00:30:20.866 --> 00:30:22.780 Everybody say I'm choosing life. 00:30:22.780 --> 00:30:24.519 All right. 00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:29.527 So this is all Old Testament and we've got a better covenant found upon better promise. 00:30:29.527 --> 00:30:35.525 That's what I want you to see If you'll understand what the Old Testament has and realize that we've got it better. 00:30:35.525 --> 00:30:42.262 We've got more access to his healing than they did. 00:30:42.262 --> 00:30:45.709 Are you with me now? 00:30:45.709 --> 00:30:49.651 I mean they had to go through all these religious rules and all this. 00:30:49.651 --> 00:30:57.729 You know and kill an animal and you know sin, offering, trespass, offering, peace offering, thank, offering all these offering. 00:30:57.729 --> 00:31:02.846 I mean just day and night, and you had to contend with people that were dead from the neck up. 00:31:02.846 --> 00:31:03.655 It didn't know. 00:31:03.655 --> 00:31:04.618 They're coming at like they should. 00:31:04.618 --> 00:31:07.819 Thank God, we live in the New Testament. 00:31:09.414 --> 00:31:14.346 So three truths about the curse of sickness, and it is a curse. 00:31:14.346 --> 00:31:22.085 Number one Galatians 313 says Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. 00:31:22.085 --> 00:31:27.882 He hath redeemed us past tense. 00:31:27.882 --> 00:31:34.678 We've been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 00:31:34.678 --> 00:31:36.577 Are you with me now? 00:31:36.577 --> 00:31:38.578 We've been redeemed. 00:31:38.578 --> 00:31:40.999 What is the curse of the law? 00:31:41.174 --> 00:32:00.138 Go back and look at Deuteronomy 28, verses 14 through 50 something, and it's got all the curses lined up in there, verse after verse after verse, and then it says every sickness and every disease that's not listed is also the curse, and you've been redeemed from it. 00:32:00.138 --> 00:32:03.440 And that's again, that's old covenant. 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:07.660 We've been redeemed from the curse. 00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.285 They had the curse. 00:32:09.285 --> 00:32:17.471 I mean they, they, if they, if they got off track and they didn't offer the right sacrifice and if they didn't live for God, the curses started to overtake. 00:32:17.471 --> 00:32:23.817 All these curses are going to overtake you and they're going to consume you until until you are off of the land. 00:32:23.817 --> 00:32:25.142 You're going to lose your inheritance. 00:32:25.142 --> 00:32:25.836 That's what. 00:32:25.836 --> 00:32:28.617 That's what the curse says, and we got redeemed from that. 00:32:32.015 --> 00:32:37.855 So whenever the devil's trying to put something on me, I'll look it up, I'll see if I can even find it, and Deuteronomy 28. 00:32:37.855 --> 00:32:39.901 And when I find it, I look it here. 00:32:39.901 --> 00:32:43.368 Devil, you're trying to put this on me and I've been redeemed from it. 00:32:43.368 --> 00:32:45.343 But if I can't find it, then I go to that verse. 00:32:45.343 --> 00:32:47.121 It says well, and everything is not listed. 00:32:47.121 --> 00:32:52.023 Well, aids didn't listed in there because they didn't know about AIDS back then. 00:32:52.023 --> 00:32:52.845