Speaker 1: Before you sit down, reach down and pick up your bibles and wave them around.
Speaker 1: Wave them up here like this, and live stream audience.
Speaker 1: We're glad you could join us today.
Speaker 1: Wave your bibles around.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The Word and the Spirit are working together in my life.
Speaker 1: They're changing me from the inside out.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Hey, bed, you can be seated.
Speaker 1: Thank you, worship team, beautiful job.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 1: Let's turn in our bibles today to the book of Luke, chapter 13, and also Acts, the 10th chapter.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Luke first, praise God, luke 13,.
Speaker 1: Start reading with verse 11 and then get your finger over there by Acts, chapter 10.
Speaker 1: All right, verse 11, and behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity 18 years.
Speaker 1: You might be battling something in your body.
Speaker 1: It's been hanging around a long time.
Speaker 1: This woman's 18 years, and was bowed together and could in no wise lift up herself.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody like that not long ago.
Speaker 1: They were in a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Poor soul, I mean, she couldn't look you in the eye.
Speaker 1: All she could do was study your feet.
Speaker 1: She was bent over all the way down, looking straight down at the ground.
Speaker 1: And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said unto her woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
Speaker 1: And he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Well, she'd been coming for 18 years and hadn't gotten squat.
Speaker 1: That's the way a lot of places are.
Speaker 1: You know, they come and they come, and they stay the same for 18 years.
Speaker 1: And the Lord then answered him and said thou hypocrite, don't you love it when people talk?
Speaker 1: I just love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know he just told him how it was.
Speaker 1: You hypocrite, you hypocrite.
Speaker 1: Does not each one of you, on the Sabbath, lose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?
Speaker 1: And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, flow these 18 years be loosed from this bond.
Speaker 1: On the Sabbath day, and when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed.
Speaker 1: I wish some people in this country would get ashamed when they get reviewed.
Speaker 1: They seem to be shameless and all the people rejoice for all the glorious things that were done by him.
Speaker 1: Woo, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Who went about doing bad?
Speaker 1: Who went about doing good and healing 49%, healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Some people don't understand the source.
Speaker 1: I know what most of you are thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, I've heard this before, pastor.
Speaker 1: I know the devil is the one behind it.
Speaker 1: Well, you know a lot of people don't know that and they come in here and they've never heard it before.
Speaker 1: So let's have mercy on them and so a fresh seed into their spirit so that can grow into healing.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And I'm determined that in these red envelopes there's a lot of folks put in there.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Well, I wanna help you get rid of the thing once and for all.
Speaker 1: Let's get rid of it because the word works.
Speaker 1: I know Gladys and I both we're just determined.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna accept the symptoms that we have to face.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just both of us are going against it, standing against it, resisting it.
Speaker 1: Don't give in and give up.
Speaker 1: Anybody can give in and give up, but we've got the word.
Speaker 1: So we're supplementing the teaching on Healing Wednesdays.
Speaker 1: How many of you know, healing Wednesdays All during February and we are live streaming, but it's better if you can be here.
Speaker 1: Well, that's so long a drive.
Speaker 1: Well, it's worth it and I believe that we can have what we preach.
Speaker 1: And so, thank God, we've got a covenant, and that covenant includes healing.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: In his case, 12 out of 19 of the healing miracles mentioned in the gospels mentioned the faith of the person.
Speaker 1: So faith must be pretty important in healing.
Speaker 1: Faith and healing go together.
Speaker 1: It's not that God can't and won't heal people aside from their faith, because it does occur.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 1: And he said, sir, I have no man, and I tell you we talked about that.
Speaker 1: God is not limited by a man, a meeting or a movement.
Speaker 1: I mean, god is well able.
Speaker 1: Oh, if I could have just gotten to church when pastor was laying in.
Speaker 1: You don't have listen, I believe in coming to church.
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait.
Speaker 1: I said you don't have to wait to receive your healing.
Speaker 1: You get the truth of the Word of God in you and I tell you what everything changes.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: He said go and send.
Speaker 1: No more less.
Speaker 1: The worst thing happened to you.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And so today we're gonna talk about the source of sickness, and of course we know that that is Satan.
Speaker 1: You know, in Acts, chapter 10, jesus went about doing good, healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
Speaker 1: But I've heard people, even Christians, say well, you know this sickness.
Speaker 1: I tell you it was a blessing.
Speaker 1: In disguise, don't ever say that, but I've heard it.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, because if I hadn't gotten this sickness, implying that God gave it to them, then I wouldn't have ABC.
Speaker 1: They make up some silly excuse.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have seen the doctor, and he's been such a blessing in my old.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 1: I met a nurse at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Oh my, we've become the best.
Speaker 1: That's not how God.
Speaker 1: Sickness and disease is not Facebook for you to meet people.
Speaker 1: You might meet some folks that way, but that's not God's plan.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: You know I had some wonderful cousins that were baptized.
Speaker 1: My uncle Herman was a Baptist deacon, just a wonderful man.
Speaker 1: All my life, even when I before I was saved, I respected him because he lived a good life.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And once my dad left and it worked, but anyway he had a daughter.
Speaker 1: Later on down the road, you know, he passed, his wife passed and now they're all gone except the third generation.
Speaker 1: But I went to my cousin's wake.
Speaker 1: She had passed from cancer.
Speaker 1: Her husband had was right after that, about I don't know a month or two after that he passed Her husband of long.
Speaker 1: They had been married a long time.
Speaker 1: I grew up with these people.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And I'm up there just kind of looking at her earth suit, you know, and just paying my respects.
Speaker 1: And some of the younger cousins came up.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: What do you say?
Speaker 1: I mean it's like he spit in my face, because I know better than that.
Speaker 1: I mean that's like somebody talking in line about my Jesus, my healer, my savior, my Lord.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Oh, people need to have what we've got in this church as far as the Word of God and the Holy Ghost, amen.
Speaker 1: And so this idea that somehow sickness is good.
Speaker 1: No, jesus went about doing good and getting rid of sickness, healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
Speaker 1: And so this woman.
Speaker 1: Jesus pointed out three very distinct truths.
Speaker 1: Number one this woman ought to be loosed.
Speaker 1: Number two Satan had bound her.
Speaker 1: She ought to be loosed and Satan had bound her.
Speaker 1: Don't get that confused.
Speaker 1: I mean, my cousins thought it was all God.
Speaker 1: God does everything.
Speaker 1: In some places in Christianity they don't even know anything about the devil.
Speaker 1: They have no idea that he exists.
Speaker 1: Everything is God.
Speaker 1: God allowed, god allowed this, god allowed that.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's some high purpose.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna find out one day why.
Speaker 1: God allowed, god allowed, god allowed no.
Speaker 1: Jesus said God didn't allow, the devil did it.
Speaker 1: And so she ought to be loosed.
Speaker 1: Satan had bound her and she had a covenant right to healing.
Speaker 1: The reason she ought to be loosed is because she was what?
Speaker 1: A daughter of Abraham.
Speaker 1: So she had a covenant, she had the old covenant, even in the old covenant.
Speaker 1: And then the priest said look the six days you can come and get your healing.
Speaker 1: What an empty bag of potatoes, I mean he says, sitting there saying that she could come the other six days.
Speaker 1: It's been 18 years.
Speaker 1: When do you plan on praying for the sick?
Speaker 1: Have you ever prayed for the sick?
Speaker 1: No, never had.
Speaker 1: Well, let's all pray for Sister Jones.
Speaker 1: She's sick, you know, at home.
Speaker 1: Let's y'all remember Sister Jones this week in prayer.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, if it be thy will, heal Sister Jones.
Speaker 1: And what they don't say is if it's not your will to heal Sister Jones, go ahead and kill her.
Speaker 1: Why don't you say the other half of that statement?
Speaker 1: Because the implication is that God's in charge and that he's got some holy purpose behind this whole thing.
Speaker 1: No, jesus said it's the devil and we ought to be loosed.
Speaker 1: Because we have a covenant.
Speaker 1: How many of you know we've got a better covenant?
Speaker 1: Hebrews eight, six we've got a better covenant.
Speaker 1: I said we've got a better covenant than the daughter of Abraham.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because we're the daughters and sons of God.
Speaker 1: We have the Holy Ghost living on the inside.
Speaker 1: That woman didn't have no Holy Ghost living on the inside of her.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us and quickens our mortal flesh.
Speaker 1: Mortal means death, doomed.
Speaker 1: You know, at some time we're gonna live long enough to finally.
Speaker 1: I think it should be at least in the nineties or a hundred.
Speaker 1: Brother Jim, he agreed with me.
Speaker 1: He keeps on trucking right on down the road.
Speaker 1: Brother Jim, brother Lonnie, they just keep on going.
Speaker 1: Brother Lonnie said he went to a reunion of his old college, oklahoma City University, and he said I was the oldest one there.
Speaker 1: I said yeah, you're the ones who got all the revelation of long life.
Speaker 1: Doctor told him he couldn't live very long.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, if I were you I wouldn't get married.
Speaker 1: You may not live very long, told it.
Speaker 1: You know, betty, you're married a guy that has a short life.
Speaker 1: Look, look how many years ago that was.
Speaker 1: They got married when I was born.
Speaker 1: That's how long they've been married.
Speaker 1: They missed the prognosis, brother Lonnie.
Speaker 1: They missed the prognosis.
Speaker 1: God had a different idea and so so religion is standing there and religion says no, you can't.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And really, he's not talking about the devil, if you'll read it very carefully in the context.
Speaker 1: He's talking about religion.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the attitude that that priest had.
Speaker 1: You see, he's not talking about why.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: It says he said all who came before me were thieves and robbers.
Speaker 1: The thief cometh not but for the steal, kill and destroy.
Speaker 1: So he wasn't talking about the devil, he was talking about religion, dead religion.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: They have everything formulated on theories.
Speaker 1: They have their theory of God, they have their theory of why this happened and their theory.
Speaker 1: I'm not up here preaching theories, I'm here preaching the truth Theories.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I mean, what good is it to hear somebody's theory when you've got the truth?
Speaker 1: You've got the words of Jesus right here.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I'm just putting my stock in this right here yeah, so religion said no, it's the wrong day.
Speaker 1: You should have been here six other six days.
Speaker 1: This is the wrong day to get healed.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said yes, healing is good, I'm gonna do it anytime.
Speaker 1: I see somebody oppressed, I'm gonna get them for any time they day or night, sabbath day, whatever.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever see that old it's called?
Speaker 1: It was one of the first spaghetti Westerns because it was filmed entirely in Italy.
Speaker 1: Called it a spaghetti Western.
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood's, our first big movie.
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Speaker 1: So you have the good, which is healing, you have the bad, which is religion, and you have ugly, which is the devil.
Speaker 1: The good, the bad.
Speaker 1: I wanna pick the good.
Speaker 1: Every time I mean I want the good, everybody say I'm choosing the good.
Speaker 1: Now you know the old covenant.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So one of the major ways that you can get off as a Christian is just talk wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're designed to have what we say.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of being that God created when he created you.
Speaker 1: He created one just like Himself that was able to speak into existence their lives.
Speaker 1: So if you look at your life and you don't like it.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be persuaded that that's the truth.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And then we say speaking and believing open the door to the supernatural.
Speaker 1: See, some people just quit before they get to that place.
Speaker 1: Now the hand is right on the doorknob.
Speaker 1: And then they quit speaking right because they quit thinking right.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And so that basic idea of blessing Israel still lives to this day.
Speaker 1: One of the great things that's happened in this country is as we have been blessing Israel of late.
Speaker 1: A little interruption when that peace plan got introduced, but it went nowhere and it probably will still go nowhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean they don't know the Bible like we do.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I just pray for mercy.
Speaker 1: And so it hasn't hurt us, because nobody's accepted it, except Israel, I mean in that.
Speaker 1: And Yahweh said yes to it, but he's the only one in the Middle East that said yes.
Speaker 1: All the rest of them said no.
Speaker 1: And we know God does not want to part the land.
Speaker 1: It's all Israel's land, every bit of it.
Speaker 1: We ought to not be involved, but anyway.
Speaker 1: So then it was like that.
Speaker 1: So there was blessing and cursing.
Speaker 1: Really, when did the curse really happen?
Speaker 1: The curse was there the minute Adam fell.
Speaker 1: He said you're gonna bring forth by the sweat of your brow, you're gonna bring forth crops out of this cursed.
Speaker 1: The ground is cursed.
Speaker 1: So the curse was there from the word go, I mean from the time that sometimes we think the curse happened in.
Speaker 1: God is in charge of the curse, no, the church.
Speaker 1: The curse comes from being on the wrong side of God's will.
Speaker 1: It's automatic.
Speaker 1: It's not like God is sitting in heaven saying, oh, they cursed Israel, I'm gonna curse them.
Speaker 1: No, god doesn't ever do that.
Speaker 1: God doesn't curse anything.
Speaker 1: It's all set, it's set in motion, it's automatic.
Speaker 1: So what's blessing, blessing, is when God puts His hand up and restrains the curse from affecting you.
Speaker 1: And that was going on a long time before the law came around, and basically that's what he did to protect Abraham.
Speaker 1: I remember Abraham the Pharaoh took a notice and Sarah and took her into the harem and everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, god had to keep His hand of cursing away from Pharaoh because he knew Abraham.
Speaker 1: It lied Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: Let's think right about blessing and cursing.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So it's a land covenant.
Speaker 1: It's still there, it's still in effect.
Speaker 1: And then, 430 years later, you had Moses came along and between then and there, you had Adam.
Speaker 1: Adam lived to be what?
Speaker 1: 900 plus years old, 960 something years old.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: All he could see was violence and evil continually, day and night.
Speaker 1: So he said I'm gonna start over Noah.
Speaker 1: You're the only righteous one.
Speaker 1: And he saved Noah and his family and two of every living thing right the ark.
Speaker 1: Well, noah lived at 960.
Speaker 1: So how could that be?
Speaker 1: How is it that those people lived so long and then it started going down?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Tira only lived 205 years.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, lifespan started shrinking.
Speaker 1: And then, when you got to Abraham, noah only lived to 175.
Speaker 1: You got to Moses, he lived to be 100 and whatever you know, and so forth, it started going down, down, down.
Speaker 1: So basically, it took a while for the curse to come into effect.
Speaker 1: Eventually it took the devil almost 2,000 years to bring sickness and disease into the earth.
Speaker 1: It was so blessed originally that the blessing was in the DNA of every human being early on and it just finally kept.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It took the devil 2,000 years to bring sickness and disease of any degree on people.
Speaker 1: We think the devil is so powerful.
Speaker 1: He's really weak.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: I'm talking about blessings and cursings and these Old Testament people.
Speaker 1: They were blessed through their covenant with God.
Speaker 1: God would shield them from the effects of the curse.
Speaker 1: Really, curses came in line with the fall.
Speaker 1: Essentially, they're just built into the earth.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: All you've got to do is just keep doing.
Speaker 1: You know stuff outside of the Holy Ghost, outside of the Word, and you will fail automatically.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: No, you follow this book.
Speaker 1: You'll have success.
Speaker 1: It's the way out.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 1: So God's blessing is God holding back the curse?
Speaker 1: I want you to see that.
Speaker 1: So when Moses brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, there were those 10 curses that came on Egypt.
Speaker 1: Well, all of those curses came as a result of their going against Genesis, chapter 12.
Speaker 1: They started cursing Israel and it took a while for those curses to come into being, about 400 years.
Speaker 1: But they finally filled a cup.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The writer of the Bible had to put it down the way he understood it.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: That's what happened on 9-11.
Speaker 1: God didn't send the bombers into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Oh, you look back at those.
Speaker 1: All the way back.
Speaker 1: I mean, even Reagan had bad relations with Israel.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Are you getting anything out of this now?
Speaker 1: So the curses of Egypt came from Genesis 12.
Speaker 1: So then they went through the Red Sea, they got over in the wilderness and God began to talk to Moses.
Speaker 1: He said now, moses and Exodus.
Speaker 1: You know he revealed himself as Jehovah Rafa, exodus 15.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord that he lived in.
Speaker 1: And then, in Exodus 23, he said I'll bless your bread and water and take sickness out of the midst of you.
Speaker 1: He said I'll put none of the diseases that I put on Egypt.
Speaker 1: Look there again, see.
Speaker 1: We've got to look at that verse.
Speaker 1: That makes you think.
Speaker 1: A lot of Christians think well, god puts the, says it right here in the book.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And I had a preacher standing here one time trying to convince us that there's no such thing as a permissive sense.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So I better not pray, I better just go ahead and curl up and die.
Speaker 1: That's not God.
Speaker 1: You've got to get this straight.
Speaker 1: You've got to know and believe correctly, got to think correctly.
Speaker 1: If you don't, you're going to miss out on the blessing.
Speaker 1: So God revealed himself as Jehovah Rafa.
Speaker 1: Jehovah is the covenant name for healing.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Speaker 1: Why how could he heal you if he's the one that makes you sick?
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: The very name implies what the truth is.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now, pastor?
Speaker 1: You're saying I'm mad.
Speaker 1: I am mad.
Speaker 1: I'm mad at religion.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, god told Moses.
Speaker 1: He said you know, I set before you this day life and death, blessing and cursing.
Speaker 1: Therefore, choose life that both you and your seed can live.
Speaker 1: I mean, god wants you to live.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to die of cancer.
Speaker 1: He's made provision.
Speaker 1: I said he's made provision, but it's your choice.
Speaker 1: It's your choice.
Speaker 1: Everybody say I'm choosing life.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 1: So this is all Old Testament and we've got a better covenant found upon better promise.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: We've got more access to his healing than they did.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: I mean they had to go through all these religious rules and all this.
Speaker 1: You know and kill an animal and you know sin, offering, trespass, offering, peace offering, thank, offering all these offering.
Speaker 1: I mean just day and night, and you had to contend with people that were dead from the neck up.
Speaker 1: It didn't know.
Speaker 1: They're coming at like they should.
Speaker 1: Thank God, we live in the New Testament.
Speaker 1: So three truths about the curse of sickness, and it is a curse.
Speaker 1: Number one Galatians 313 says Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Speaker 1: He hath redeemed us past tense.
Speaker 1: We've been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: We've been redeemed.
Speaker 1: What is the curse of the law?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And that's again, that's old covenant.
Speaker 1: We've been redeemed from the curse.
Speaker 1: They had the curse.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: All these curses are going to overtake you and they're going to consume you until until you are off of the land.
Speaker 1: You're going to lose your inheritance.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 1: That's what the curse says, and we got redeemed from that.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And when I find it, I look it here.
Speaker 1: Devil, you're trying to put this on me and I've been redeemed from it.
Speaker 1: But if I can't find it, then I go to that verse.
Speaker 1: It says well, and everything is not listed.
Speaker 1: Well, aids didn't listed in there because they didn't know about AIDS back then.
Speaker 1: And you know what?
Speaker 1: I don't have AIDS, but you know what?
Speaker 1: If I did, I'd be able to be exempt from it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're inventing new diseases all the time, every time you turn around.
Speaker 1: So Christ redeemed us from the curse.
Speaker 1: The power and the penalty of sin has been canceled.
Speaker 1: People are saying, well, you know, I'm paid for my sins of my patent.
Speaker 1: No, you need to get saved, because if you're paying the for the sins of your past life, you just need to get saved and get under the blessing and canceled the power and penalty of sickness.
Speaker 1: Isn't that?
Speaker 1: The curse of the law is the power and penalty of sickness to come against you because of wrongdoing that you've done.
Speaker 1: Hey, guess what I've done wrong, but I don't have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: All I have to do is confess it and instantly I'm forgiven and cleansed and there's no record of my having ever having sin, much less have to worry about getting sick just because I slipped up and did something I shouldn't have done.
Speaker 1: Don't let the devil tell you you've got some deadly disease just because you slipped up last week.
Speaker 1: If you get it under the blood, it's gone, baby, it's gone.
Speaker 1: It's fine to find out where the open door is, but don't go to great lengths, just close them.
Speaker 1: You see, redemption is all about substitution and identification.
Speaker 1: Jesus identified Himself with us and with our sin.
Speaker 1: He was made to be sin for us.
Speaker 1: He took and carried our sicknesses and our pains.
Speaker 1: He fully identified with the human condition so that we could be free.
Speaker 1: So we can identify with the risen Savior.
Speaker 1: He's our substitute.
Speaker 1: We deserve to hang on the cross, but he was our substitute.
Speaker 1: We deserve to have these sicknesses on us because we've sinned, but he took them.
Speaker 1: He's our substitute, so we can be His substitute now, because he's up in heaven and we're down here on earth and we're the substitute of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
Speaker 1: We're the only Jesus some people are gonna ever see.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Everybody say substitution and identification.
Speaker 1: All right, and so that's the legal fact.
Speaker 1: Ephesians 1, 3, number two we who are in Christ are already blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: In Christ I like what one version says we're already blessed with all the spiritual blessings that heaven itself enjoys.
Speaker 1: That covers quite a bit, doesn't it?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine anybody having the flu in heaven?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine anybody?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 1: No, nobody's got any problems in heaven.
Speaker 1: Nobody needs a knee replacement in heaven.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 1: It says we are already blessed.
Speaker 1: We have blessed us.
Speaker 1: Who hath blessed us?
Speaker 1: So the blood of Christ changed our status from sinner to righteous.
Speaker 1: Isn't that right.
Speaker 1: We're no longer sinners saved by grace.
Speaker 1: Remember that we got that settled, didn't we?
Speaker 1: Brother Cruz was here and he went off on that real, real strong.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just makes him really mad to hear people that are in church so well, I'm just a sinner saved by grace.
Speaker 1: No, you're not.
Speaker 1: You were a sinner.
Speaker 1: Now you're a saint, you're righteous of God and Christ.
Speaker 1: You changed your status.
Speaker 1: You changed your status from sick to well, from poor to rich.
Speaker 1: Your status has been changed already.
Speaker 1: You're not trying to get it.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get it someday.
Speaker 1: You don't attain to it.
Speaker 1: No, jesus attained to it, gave it to us, delivered it to us.
Speaker 1: All we've got to do is what Receive it, Receive it.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Pastor, I've heard this before.
Speaker 1: We'll then receive this water for your seed.
Speaker 1: Then, yes, I'm watering your seed, I'm watering your land.
Speaker 1: It's just getting flooded with life-giving water.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine a plant?
Speaker 1: I mean, it looked good last year.
Speaker 1: I wonder why it wilted.
Speaker 1: You never watered it an entire year.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna look like?
Speaker 1: No, you gotta water the seed, you gotta have a plant.
Speaker 1: All right, the last one is communion.
Speaker 1: Let's look at 1 Corinthians 11.
Speaker 1: Are you anything out of this.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'm determined that we're gonna have the greatest year yet, which includes all of the things you wrote down in these red envelopes concerning your health.
Speaker 1: In 1 Corinthians 11, paul is talking to the church about communion, and he received that revelation, identical to what they had at the Last Supper, because he went to heaven and Jesus showed it to him.
Speaker 1: He wasn't there at the Last Supper, but he received the same revelation In verse 27,.
Speaker 1: Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily or in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
Speaker 1: So let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup, for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation or judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body For this cause, for the cause that he just got through sayin'.
Speaker 1: In other words, people who had better be right fighters.
Speaker 1: You know they're right fighters.
Speaker 1: Well, you know me and so and so we had an argument.
Speaker 1: You know I'm right, they just.
Speaker 1: You know I'm fed up.
Speaker 1: Well, you better get that straight in your heart, because you've got this grudge against this person because you disagree.
Speaker 1: It's okay to disagree, but just be agreeable to agree to disagree.
Speaker 1: Don't have anger with it, don't have strife with it, don't ride them off because of it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes agreement has to be reached over a period of time, but through discussion and communication and when people in church just say, ah, you got my seat, that's my seat, that's my parking place, you laugh.
Speaker 1: But it's happened in 25 years.
Speaker 1: About everything that can happen has happened.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: No, that's what it's talking about poor attitudes and stuff.
Speaker 1: This is before you take the body in blood, you better make sure you're discerning the Lord's body, these folks on either side of you.
Speaker 1: That's part of the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: You need to walk in love toward them.
Speaker 1: You may not totally agree with the position they've taken over some situation, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We don't always agree every little thing, but you know we can be agreeable, we can love, we can be patient, all those things.
Speaker 1: That's what it's talking about.
Speaker 1: Don't be a right fighter.
Speaker 1: I'm right, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes they're right and you're wrong.
Speaker 1: You can be right and have a wrong attitude.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen, amen For this cause.
Speaker 1: Many are weak and sickly among you.
Speaker 1: In other words, when you have that attitude, you're drinking death into yourself, you're eating.
Speaker 1: Every time you take a chomp chomp of the cracker, you're eating a little bit more death.
Speaker 1: You're shortening your lifespan For this cause.
Speaker 1: Many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep, in other words have premature death.
Speaker 1: Many sleep.
Speaker 1: But if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
Speaker 1: But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord.
Speaker 1: That just means child trained.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean made sick.
Speaker 1: It doesn't ever say that God makes you sick.
Speaker 1: It means that you've opened the door to the enemy to come and make you sick.
Speaker 1: Are you with me?
Speaker 1: God is unable, when you get like this.
Speaker 1: He's unable to put His hand up and stop it because you're walking away from the covenant.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, praise God.
Speaker 1: Galatians 3.13,.
Speaker 1: It says in here just turn over.
Speaker 1: This is worth going back to Galatians a few pages to the right.
Speaker 1: He said Christ is redeemed from the curse of the law being made a curse for us, for it's written cursed is everyone that hangs on the tree that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles.
Speaker 1: Well, I knew it.
Speaker 1: Pastors, it's might, might, he might or he might not.
Speaker 1: He's kind of what if he's in a bad mood?
Speaker 1: He might not.
Speaker 1: No, the might's on your side.
Speaker 1: The might is tied to how you're forgiving others.
Speaker 1: The might is whether you're walking in love.
Speaker 1: That's the only commandment we have.
Speaker 1: Walking in love, that's it.
Speaker 1: If you walk in love, then you won't steal from somebody.
Speaker 1: You won't steal their identity, you won't bash them on Facebook, you won't write anonymous notes and put it on their windshield.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: If you're walking in love, amen.
Speaker 1: Oh, that touched the nerve.
Speaker 1: All right, so, praise God, it's our choice.
Speaker 1: Everybody say I choose life, I choose doing things God's way.
Speaker 1: I choose having my mind updated and upgraded to the latest version, version 2020.22257.
Speaker 1: I want the latest version of God's thoughts in my mind.
Speaker 1: Amen, praise God.
Speaker 1: The curse and the source of sickness has been broken, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I said it's been broken.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's stand up together.
Speaker 1: Let's lift our hands up to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Let's say this together, this confession.
Speaker 1: You know Jesus healed a multitude with the words that he spoke and I just believe healing words can occur right here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna open the altar in a minute and give you people, those of you that need prayer, a chance to have hands laid on you.
Speaker 1: But let's all say this together Say I'm in Christ, I'm redeemed by his blood.
Speaker 1: I'm redeemed by his blood.
Speaker 1: He was cursed so I could be blessed.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed with all spiritual blessings that heaven itself enjoys.
Speaker 1: I am a healed person.
Speaker 1: I walk in health, the bondage of sickness has been broken and I am free.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get healed, I am healed.
Speaker 1: Jesus got it for me and I have received it.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, well, come on, let's praise him.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, let's praise him.
Speaker 1: Let's praise him.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord.
Speaker 1: Did you get anything out of this this morning?
Speaker 1: Amen, livestream.
Speaker 1: Did you get anything out of this?
Speaker 1: And they said yes, amen.
Speaker 1: They're filling up the Facebook page with comments.