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SPEAKER_01: Let's go over to Job chapter 2.
SPEAKER_01: And um we're gonna continue looking at uh this what we were looking at last week, the source of sickness.
SPEAKER_01: And uh we'll look at some of the things that we looked at last week, but uh once I start looking at things, I'm like the man said I'm like a duck on a june bug.
SPEAKER_01: We're just gonna keep going after it, amen.
SPEAKER_01: And uh because this is important, you know, I uh d depending on maybe the circle that uh you may have been raised in or maybe that you operate in currently, uh, you know, healing has a lot of uh different thoughts about it in in the the lives of people.
SPEAKER_01: I was talking to someone one time that uh I was I was just yearning for them to be healed.
SPEAKER_01: I really had a burden from the Lord on my heart about them.
SPEAKER_01: And uh I would pray for them and and give them materials and do different things.
SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, when when I would speak to them, it was like I could never get through to them because it was always this barrier of I know God can.
SPEAKER_01: And what I was trying to get them to see was God has.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But it was it was this barrier of I know God can.
SPEAKER_01: God can, God can do anything, and that's wonderful.
SPEAKER_01: Uh that's the starting place.
SPEAKER_01: You gotta believe God can.
SPEAKER_01: If you don't, right, because the Bible says that you've got to believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.
SPEAKER_01: So you have to believe that God can, but that's not enough.
SPEAKER_01: I have to believe God will, I have to believe God's able.
SPEAKER_01: And so that that's one uh thought process about it.
SPEAKER_01: Then there's obviously the extremes that they don't believe God heals today.
SPEAKER_01: Uh they believe God can, but they don't believe he does.
SPEAKER_01: All right, because all of that is done away with the apostles, and all of that went out with the book of Acts and all of those miracles, signs, and wonders, they were just there to establish the church and and to get the church going and and to draw people to the church.
SPEAKER_01: And then my mindset is so then why would God quit using those things?
SPEAKER_01: If that's how he built the church, why would he quit doing that?
SPEAKER_01: Makes no sense.
SPEAKER_01: But but people believe that.
SPEAKER_01: And then there is the other extreme, even to that, that God uses sickness and disease to teach his children lessons, and that he'll put it on you and he'll throw a cancer on you so that you can learn a good lesson.
SPEAKER_01: And you know, and if you don't learn your lesson, well then he'll just kill you with it.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I I know that's extreme, and maybe you don't hear that a lot, but it exists.
SPEAKER_01: It's in it's in the world, it's in the church world, and it's unfortunate.
SPEAKER_01: Um, but another thing that that I found a lot of is this is this just blatant, how do I want to say this?
SPEAKER_01: Just this mindset that what everybody's dealing with is because they don't have enough faith.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you just don't have faith.
SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what their problem is.
SPEAKER_01: They're just not believing God.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I never did talk to that person after they got sick to find out if that was their problem, right?
SPEAKER_01: Because it that was everybody else's problem, but when they got sick, it had to be something else.
SPEAKER_01: Couldn't be that I don't have faith.
SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the caveat to that.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, there are people that are sick because they have not exercised their faith.
SPEAKER_01: That's the reality of it.
SPEAKER_01: But not everybody is sick because they haven't exercised their faith.
SPEAKER_01: Not everybody is sick because whatever.
SPEAKER_01: So I can't tell you why everybody's sick or why everybody's not healed.
SPEAKER_01: But I can tell you how sickness came into the earth.
SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you the terrible price Jesus paid to free us from it.
SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you that it's always God's will to heal.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Sickness is the foul offspring of its father Satan and his mother sin.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let's go to Job chapter 2, and we'll look at some of these verses that we touched on last week.
SPEAKER_01: And we want to establish something because this series is growing, and we're gonna go into more uh understanding from this in the coming weeks.
SPEAKER_01: Job chapter 2, verse 3.
SPEAKER_01: And notice, and the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job?
SPEAKER_01: And I won't take a lot of time on this, but we talked about it last week, how a lot of people just uh come with the idea that God kind of hung Job out to drive, dry, and just dangled him out there in front of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Look, look here at Job, how wonderful he is.
SPEAKER_01: It's not what he did.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: The the Hebrew says, Why are you beholding Job?
SPEAKER_01: And then he goes into explaining why he said, Why?
SPEAKER_01: He said, There's none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that fears God and eschews evil, and he holds fast his integrity, though you moved me against him to destroy him without cause.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: You're enticing me.
SPEAKER_01: Now that verse right there should tell you God had nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER_01: Because he said, You're trying to move me against him, and the the understood subject is I didn't.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't move against him, even though you wanted me to.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And Satan answered the Lord and said, skin for skin, yes, all that a man has, he'll give for his life.
SPEAKER_01: So, in other words, you told me I couldn't touch him.
SPEAKER_01: You let me touch him, and then you'll see what happens.
SPEAKER_01: He'll curse you, right?
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, but save his life.
SPEAKER_01: Because he said in verse 7, verse 5, he'll curse you to your face.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord said, He's in your hand, but save his life.
SPEAKER_01: Now, again, the argument becomes, you know, well, look, God allowed it.
SPEAKER_01: And then the other argument is, but Job opened the door.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I believe Job did open the door.
SPEAKER_01: And I believe God did allow it because Job opened the door.
SPEAKER_01: The door that you open, God can't stop.
SPEAKER_01: All right?
SPEAKER_01: Now he didn't want this.
SPEAKER_01: We know he didn't want it because he didn't have any part of it.
SPEAKER_01: God didn't have any part of this.
SPEAKER_01: He had no part in making Job sick.
SPEAKER_01: So Satan, now look at verse 7.
SPEAKER_01: So Satan.
SPEAKER_01: Now you gotta say that out loud.
SPEAKER_01: Say, Satan.
SPEAKER_01: See, Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: One translation says Satan left the Lord's presence and infected Job with terrible boils.
SPEAKER_01: Another says, thus the devil went out from the Lord and struck Job with malignant sores.
SPEAKER_01: Still another says, so Satan left and caused Job to have very painful skin all over his body.
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Satan.
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
SPEAKER_01: So Job was in the dark.
SPEAKER_01: He didn't know who was doing this to him.
SPEAKER_01: Had no idea, had no knowledge of this.
SPEAKER_01: But millions of Christians who are still accusing God of making them sick have no excuse.
SPEAKER_01: Because we have the word.
SPEAKER_01: We can see this.
SPEAKER_01: If what happens is when people start dealing with this subject of, well, God allows and and God this, and you know, in in our spirit-filled circles, we're real quick to point out that, you know, most of that is in the Old Testament, and it's because there was no there was no verb in the Hebrew to translate uh, you know, in the permissive sense, and so it was translated in the causative sense.
SPEAKER_01: And and I understand that, but here's the thing: if people are taught the nature of God, the adjectives that describe God would tell you that he can't have a hand in sickness.
SPEAKER_01: Because the first thing, the first adjective is God is love.
SPEAKER_01: Then it says he's merciful, says he's kind, he's compassionate, of tender mercies.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Merciful.
SPEAKER_01: None of that describes any entity that would strike you with sickness and disease.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's nothing good about sickness and disease.
SPEAKER_01: Even what we describe as a little cold.
SPEAKER_01: How many would raise your hand and say you want to deal with a little cold every day for the rest of your life?
SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely no one.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, it's not a big problem, it's just my allergies.
SPEAKER_01: You want them 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of your life.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, absolutely not.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We don't want that.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's nothing enjoyable about any of it.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the Bible says, and we'll read it in a minute, that God came to give us abundant life.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus came to give us abundant life.
SPEAKER_01: And so if he came to give us abundant life, the Amplified Bible says, life to the full until it overflows, then how, if that was his purpose for coming, then how could it be that God would give us anything that would detract from that abundant overflowing life?
SPEAKER_01: See, I've got to stay focused on the source of sickness to effectively stand against it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: It is because the curse is in the earth.
SPEAKER_01: It is because of these things.
SPEAKER_01: And we've got to understand who is the one that initiated the breakdown between Adam and God that allowed that curse into the earth.
SPEAKER_01: I know we blame Adam, and it was Adam's action that did it, but we ought to be mad at the guy that deceived Adam and Eve.
SPEAKER_01: Although the Bible says Adam wasn't deceived, but Eve was deceived.
SPEAKER_01: Adam went along with it.
SPEAKER_01: But we we ought to be, that's who we ought to focus our ire against.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Job was in the dark.
SPEAKER_01: We have the word.
SPEAKER_01: We have to go to the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: So if the Bible says God did it, why would anybody say God did it, or says Satan did it, why would anybody say God did it?
SPEAKER_01: Why would any minister stand behind the pulpit and say, look what God allowed, look what God did to Job when the Bible says Satan did it?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you a large part of that is because somebody sometime, somewhere in the annals of history, was looking for a reason why something happened, and instead of going to the word and just being honest about it, the preacher said, Well, we don't understand why these things happened.
SPEAKER_01: God must have a purpose in it somewhere.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what preacher that was and when it happened, right?
SPEAKER_01: But that's how it started.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible has the amazing ability to bring itself to pass if you'll believe it.
SPEAKER_01: And that's why you cannot start questioning the things that that occur because when I do, I'm gonna find something that will agree with what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01: I've got to stick with what the word says.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I've got to stick with what the word says.
SPEAKER_01: God makes alive.
SPEAKER_01: So that means he has no purpose in death.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: 1 Corinthians tells us that death is what?
SPEAKER_01: An enemy.
SPEAKER_01: If death is God's enemy, how could God ever use death?
SPEAKER_01: He's siding up with the enemy?
SPEAKER_01: Buddying up with the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: You know, even in our natural world, you buddy up with the enemy, you're brought up on charges, you can be put in prison for life, you can be executed because you sided with the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: If God sides with the enemy of death, if God sides with the enemy of sickness, then God is none of the adjectives that we just talked about that describe him.
SPEAKER_01: And if he is none of those adjectives, he is a liar, not worthy to be followed, and we can't believe anything he says.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: See, I've got to make that decision.
SPEAKER_01: Either I can follow him or I cannot.
SPEAKER_01: If he will do something contrary to his nature and contrary to what he said he is, I can't follow him.
SPEAKER_01: Cannot follow him.
SPEAKER_01: But Pastor, that's strong.
SPEAKER_01: I know, but it's truth.
SPEAKER_01: You you right?
SPEAKER_01: That's why the Bible says you've got to make a choice.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Psalm 41 and 8.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: This will help you, especially in those moments.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, it's it's in those moments when you're facing a challenge, and maybe it's something that's uh a bit ongoing, or maybe it's something that it's getting better, but it just it's like it's just not moving on out.
SPEAKER_01: If you're not careful, listen, when the Bible, the Bible calls the devil the accuser of the brethren.
SPEAKER_01: And I know that people teach all of this, you know, banana ball doctrine, you know, about how the devil has uh uh access to God and he's accusing you to God.
SPEAKER_01: That's utterly impossible.
SPEAKER_01: It cannot be.
SPEAKER_01: That the devil would defile the heavenly holy temple.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says those utensils of worship were purged with the blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Who does the devil accuse people to?
SPEAKER_01: You.
SPEAKER_01: He's the accuser of the brethren.
SPEAKER_01: He comes and accuses you.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't accuse you to God, he doesn't have access to God.
SPEAKER_01: He's been cast out of heaven, he can't go back.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: And so when you start questioning, he comes to accuse you.
SPEAKER_01: Your questions give him a door to accuse you.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know why this has happened.
SPEAKER_01: I can tell you why, because there's sin in your life.
SPEAKER_01: That's the accuser of the brethren.
SPEAKER_01: I can tell you why.
SPEAKER_01: Because this, I can tell you why, because that, well, here's the reason, right?
SPEAKER_01: And it will ultimately get to the place that God doesn't love you and God doesn't want to heal you.
SPEAKER_01: That's his ultimate goal, is to get you to believe that God doesn't care about you enough to heal you.
SPEAKER_01: That's what he wanted to get, that's what he wanted to get to Job.
SPEAKER_01: And even though Job blatantly said God did that to him, he said God did it because he didn't know any different, right?
SPEAKER_01: But he wouldn't quit following God, he wouldn't quit loving God, he wouldn't quit respecting God.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that.
SPEAKER_01: He wouldn't stop.
SPEAKER_01: When his wife came and came to him on the ash heap of his life, when he was scraping those boils with a piece of pottery, she said, You ought to just go ahead and curse God and die.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, That's foolish talk.
SPEAKER_01: Am I gonna receive good at his hand?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I didn't have anything when I came in the world.
SPEAKER_01: I'll have nothing when I go out.
SPEAKER_01: Blessed be the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Now that wasn't right.
SPEAKER_01: God did not give and then take away.
SPEAKER_01: But notice Job's heart.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna turn on him.
SPEAKER_01: The devil wants you to turn on God.
SPEAKER_01: Once a person turns on God, it's done.
SPEAKER_01: There's no hope.
SPEAKER_01: They can't be healed because God's the healer.
SPEAKER_01: And so, even though it seems like it may be something that's dragging on, right?
SPEAKER_01: Don't start entering into all of those questions.
SPEAKER_01: Why is this taking so long?
SPEAKER_01: Why is it this?
SPEAKER_01: Why is it that?
SPEAKER_01: You just keep rejoicing that you're the healed of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You keep rejoicing that you're the redeemed of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And what am I redeemed from?
SPEAKER_01: The curse of the law, the curse of sin, the curse of sickness, the curse of poverty.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says, what are the redeemed, those that know they're redeemed, what do they do?
SPEAKER_01: They say it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm the redeemed of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah! Psalm 41 and verse 8 says, An evil disease, say they cleaveth fast unto him, and now that he lieth, he will not rise up anymore.
SPEAKER_01: Jung's literal translation says, A thing of belial, an affliction from the abandoned one, is poured out upon him.
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you just look at that from the King James, evil disease.
SPEAKER_01: Is God involved with anything evil?
SPEAKER_01: Well then is disease evil?
SPEAKER_01: It is.
SPEAKER_01: So God can't be involved with it.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he said, I hate evil.
SPEAKER_01: So would God get involved with something he hates?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: That's why he doesn't get involved with sin, because he hates sin.
SPEAKER_01: Loves a sinner, but he sure hates sin.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because of what it does to people's lives.
SPEAKER_01: God loves every person that's dying from disease in the entire world.
SPEAKER_01: He loves them with an everlasting love.
SPEAKER_01: He hates that sickness.
SPEAKER_01: But they have to get to a point where they're going to believe that he wants to take it away from them.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We've discussed how we did not see sickness, pain, or death until after the fall of Adam, which is when the curse came upon the entire earth.
SPEAKER_01: And when Satan deceived man into giving away his rightful position and authority, then that's when we see sickness and disease and death.
SPEAKER_01: And so it came with that disobedience.
SPEAKER_01: Notice John chapter 10.
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot here.
SPEAKER_01: People say to me often, you're passionate about this.
SPEAKER_01: I am passionate about this.
SPEAKER_01: For a couple of reasons.
SPEAKER_01: I don't like seeing people sick.
SPEAKER_01: And I and I hate the devil lying about my father.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: He lies about God and people.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, the devil lies about God, and preachers stand up in the pulpit and quote the devil's lies.
SPEAKER_01: Supposed to be preaching God's word and they're preaching what the devil said.
SPEAKER_01: And I know that's strong, but every time somebody says, Well, we just don't know why God allowed that, they're blaming God.
SPEAKER_01: They're telling those people that love God, that have given their lives to God, they're telling those people that God made them sick, that God allowed it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That's like saying God turned a vicious dog loose on your little child, and we don't know why he did it, but we just his ways are past our ways, his ways are past finding out.
SPEAKER_01: We just don't know why.
SPEAKER_01: Now my child is mutilated, my child is incapacitated, they're hurt, they almost died, and I'm just supposed to accept that I don't know why he did it, but I'm gonna love him anyway.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, if you turn your vicious dog loose on one of my children, I'm not gonna love you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just not.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because you might do it to me sometime or somebody else.
SPEAKER_01: If God killed so and so with cancer, God might kill you with cancer.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I know God wouldn't do that.
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let the thought ever come in your mind that God had a point in that or a plan for that.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: John chapter 10, verse 10.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what it says.
SPEAKER_01: It says, the thief does not come but for to steal, kill, and to destroy.
SPEAKER_01: I am come that they might have life and they might have it more abundantly.
SPEAKER_01: Now that is a very familiar scripture.
SPEAKER_01: But before we look at some other translations, notice the thief or the devil is the one stealing.
SPEAKER_01: The devil is the one killing and destroying.
SPEAKER_01: So if it looks like death, theft, or destruction, the source is the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Period.
SPEAKER_01: End of discussion.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: All sickness and disease is one of these.
SPEAKER_01: Stealing, killing, or destroying.
SPEAKER_01: All sickness and disease.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And so all sickness and disease then would have to come from the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Would have to.
SPEAKER_01: One translation says the thief's only purpose in coming is to steal, kill, and destroy.
SPEAKER_01: Another says the thief approaches with malicious intent, looking to steal, slaughter, and destroy.
SPEAKER_01: That's that's that's how he is.
SPEAKER_01: That's how he's wired.
SPEAKER_01: No other purpose.
SPEAKER_01: If he has anything good to say, it's so he can do one of these three things in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So sickness, disease, death, the thief, life, and life more abundantly, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: See, we're seeing the source.
SPEAKER_01: Now, that may seem elementary, but it it answers so many questions.
SPEAKER_01: It cancels out so many questions.
SPEAKER_01: See, if I'm dealing with the source, all right, then if, and that's what Jesus did.
SPEAKER_01: We we we dealt with uh a few weeks ago, well, a number of a couple months ago, the cause and the effect.
SPEAKER_01: We know what the cause was when sin and the curse came into the earth, right?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus dealt with the cause, sin and the effect, sickness.
SPEAKER_01: Well, if I know the source, if I know the source, then I know what I have to stand against.
SPEAKER_01: Now think about this.
SPEAKER_01: Why would the devil want you to walk in something like unforgiveness?
SPEAKER_01: Because he knows that'll stop your faith from working.
SPEAKER_01: And and and what he brought into your life can keep operating.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Now, here's what I want you to see.
SPEAKER_01: So do I need do I need to to be on guard against unforgiveness?
SPEAKER_01: Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: I I do.
SPEAKER_01: But here's the thing.
SPEAKER_01: What's the key then to stopping unforgiveness?
SPEAKER_01: What's the the major issue?
SPEAKER_01: If I stop being unforgiving, I shut down the source.
SPEAKER_01: Because that's the avenue that he works through.
SPEAKER_01: If if a person goes to the doctor and they and they find cancer in a certain part of the body, they look for the source tumor.
SPEAKER_01: There's got to be a source place that it started.
SPEAKER_01: All right?
SPEAKER_01: If they find cancer in a liver, it pro it most generally did not start there.
SPEAKER_01: It spread there.
SPEAKER_01: That's why when you go to the doctor and they'll make statements like it spread to the lymph nodes.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, it started somewhere.
SPEAKER_01: Well, now think about this.
SPEAKER_01: Think about how evil this must be.
SPEAKER_01: Why would anybody want to implant a disease in your liver?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's where all the blood from your body comes.
SPEAKER_01: And without the blood coursing through your body, you can't live.
SPEAKER_01: And so when the blood comes to that liver to be cleansed and to be transported to the other parts of the body, what's it do?
SPEAKER_01: It picks up that cancer, it picks up that disease and spreads it to other parts of the body.
SPEAKER_01: Now you cannot look at something like that and say it's not ultimately wicked and vile.
SPEAKER_01: Some despicable wicked mind had to come up with that.
SPEAKER_01: So why does that despicable wicked mind want a person offended?
SPEAKER_01: Because now there's no barrier between me and the source.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_01: And so that's why it's important that the moment a thought comes up that's not right.
SPEAKER_01: I'm grabbing that, I'm snatching that, I'm not going to operate in unforgiveness for one moment.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Not out of fear, but because I realize who would want you to be unforgiving?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that right?
SPEAKER_01: Who told us to forgive?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: How many times did he say to forgive 490 times a day if I needed to?
SPEAKER_01: Now, why would he tell you to forgive 490 times a day?
SPEAKER_01: Because he knows all day, every day, the enemy is roaming about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
SPEAKER_01: And so he says, all day, every day, forgive, because all day, every day, he's looking for a way into your life.
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
SPEAKER_01: That's why he said, when you're believing God for something and it comes to you that there's something between you and somebody, go go reconcile.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Now, here, I'm not I'm not teaching on roadblocks to healing.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying, why would he want that?
SPEAKER_01: Because he's the source.
SPEAKER_01: And he knows to get the source sickness into your life, he's got to get you to open the door.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And it could be unknowing.
SPEAKER_01: It could be something I'm doing that I don't know I'm doing.
SPEAKER_01: But the point is, he's trying to slip at it because he's a thief.
SPEAKER_01: He's a thief.
SPEAKER_01: I've said this before.
SPEAKER_01: The thief doesn't ever really come to the doorbell and ring the doorbell and say, hello, I'm the thief.
SPEAKER_01: I'm here to steal, kill, and destroy.
SPEAKER_01: Most of that thievery, when's it going on?
SPEAKER_01: Most of it.
SPEAKER_01: When everybody's what?
SPEAKER_01: Asleep, right?
SPEAKER_01: Unaware.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That's why the Bible says, you know, that's why let those of us that are in the light live like we're in the light.
SPEAKER_01: We're not going to act, we're right.
SPEAKER_01: It says, those that are in the dark sleep.
SPEAKER_01: We're in the light.
SPEAKER_01: We know who's trying to make us sick.
SPEAKER_01: We know who's trying to bring disease into our lives.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Quit you.
SPEAKER_01: So many people have to quit taking responsibility for what the devil did.
SPEAKER_01: Because people will come to me and say, I've searched my heart and I just can't find anything.
SPEAKER_01: Then, my brother or sister, there's nothing there.
SPEAKER_01: If you're being honest.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: How many have ever been there?
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you don't want to raise your hand, you don't have to.
SPEAKER_01: How many have ever been dealing with something and the thought came about what did you do?
SPEAKER_01: Where have you missed it?
SPEAKER_01: Anybody?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: And what'd you do?
SPEAKER_01: You searched your heart.
SPEAKER_01: And if you found something, you got rid of it.
SPEAKER_01: But then you got to a place eventually you can only get rid of so many things.
SPEAKER_01: You got eventually to the place that there's nothing there.
SPEAKER_01: Well, then who's still telling you there is?
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he's the source.
SPEAKER_01: And he knows as long as you're looking.
SPEAKER_01: Now watch, as long as you're looking and thinking you did it and something's wrong with you, you're holding the door open.
SPEAKER_01: Because I haven't closed my heart off to him.
SPEAKER_01: Because every time he comes and says something, well, then I'm looking, then I'm searching.
SPEAKER_01: I'm opening my heart up.
SPEAKER_01: I'm searching.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: I've searched my heart, Mr.
SPEAKER_01: Devil.
SPEAKER_01: I am clean before the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I stand forgiven for everything I may have done in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: There's no unforgiveness, there's no animosity, there's no offense.
SPEAKER_01: I am forgiven.
SPEAKER_01: And if I did sin, I repented and God forgave it.
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's probably something you don't remember.
SPEAKER_01: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
SPEAKER_01: That won't work.
SPEAKER_01: That won't work because when I got born again with my eternal salvation, there were a lot of things that I did that I didn't remember.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you, but when I got saved, there were some sins I know I'd committed I didn't remember.
SPEAKER_01: There were some I didn't want to remember.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But he forgave me.
SPEAKER_01: He forgave me.
SPEAKER_01: And and and if he will forgive me of things I knew I did, how can he hold things against me that I don't remember?
SPEAKER_01: Even under the old covenant, he said, there is a sacrifice for ignorance.
SPEAKER_01: If you did it ignorantly, offer this sacrifice.
SPEAKER_01: Well, Jesus, the Bible says, was the one sacrifice for all time, covered every sacrifice that God required in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: Every one of them, he covered it.
SPEAKER_01: So he covered that sin of ignorance.
SPEAKER_01: He covered that sacrifice of ignorance.
SPEAKER_01: So even if I don't remember I did it, the blood's got it, the blood covered it, the blood removed it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm okay.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna let the devil keep me sick by consistently looking for something that's just not there.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: It's just not there.
SPEAKER_01: See, that was Job's whole argument.
SPEAKER_01: That was his whole issue throughout the 42 chapters of Job.
SPEAKER_01: I don't understand.
SPEAKER_01: And what did his miserable comforters come and say?
SPEAKER_01: Well, it has to be you, Job.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're right.
SPEAKER_01: You're doing all this wrong, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_01: And Job would say, but wait a minute, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_01: If I've done that, I've tried to walk right, and then his other comforter will come, I know.
SPEAKER_01: They were all blaming Job.
SPEAKER_01: Job's trying to figure this out.
SPEAKER_01: I haven't done what you say I've done, and yet his hand's against me.
SPEAKER_01: And that's why he said, I wish there was an intercessor, I wish there was a go-between.
SPEAKER_01: I wish there was somebody that could lay my hand on me, lay his hand on me, and lay his hand on him and bring us together.
SPEAKER_01: I don't understand.
SPEAKER_01: I've been reconciled to God by Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: I've been made holy, I've been made righteous, I've been made right in his sight.
SPEAKER_01: The reason this is so important is that's the attack of the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Where are you missing it?
SPEAKER_01: Where are you this?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, you responded to that person the other day, and you got aggravated in traffic, and you did this, and you did that.
SPEAKER_01: And you may have.
SPEAKER_01: But what do you do?
SPEAKER_01: If you need to repent, you repent.
SPEAKER_01: But here's what you don't do: you don't let a liar bring up your past.
SPEAKER_01: You don't let somebody who is nothing in the sense of his authority and his standing.
SPEAKER_01: He lost everything, every standing he ever had.
SPEAKER_01: He lost it.
SPEAKER_01: It was taken away from him.
SPEAKER_01: God cast him down so hard to the earth that many theologians believe that's where the earth got its tilt from.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that's true, but boy, it sounds good.
SPEAKER_01: I'll go with it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: And then he comes to accuse you.
SPEAKER_01: To you.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what I've learned.
SPEAKER_01: You can't let him talk.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's there's there's this satanic cunning that if there's listen, if there's any guilt in you, if there's any shame in you, if there's any condemnation in you, his words will make perfect sense.
SPEAKER_01: Ah, that's it, yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_01: And the moment you say that's it, you know what you do?
SPEAKER_01: You give up.
SPEAKER_01: Yep, that's it.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I brought it on myself.
SPEAKER_01: No, wait a minute, wait a minute, listen.
SPEAKER_01: If that was it, what can you do?
SPEAKER_01: You can repent, and it's done.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But why do you see people walking around like this?
SPEAKER_01: What'd I do?
SPEAKER_01: Where did I miss it?
SPEAKER_01: What'd I do?
SPEAKER_01: They're like Job sitting on the ash heap of his life, scraping the boils.
SPEAKER_01: What'd I do?
SPEAKER_01: Where'd I miss it?
SPEAKER_01: What'd I do?
SPEAKER_01: And the devil's right there saying, Yeah, this and this and this and this and this.
SPEAKER_01: And they're listening.
SPEAKER_01: When Paul said in in the book of 2 Corinthians, he said, You need to forgive, right?
SPEAKER_01: You need to forgive because we're not ignorant of his devices.
SPEAKER_01: We know how he operates.
SPEAKER_01: Well, how does he operate?
SPEAKER_01: Still, kill, and destroy.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't care how he does it.
SPEAKER_01: That's just what he wants to do.
SPEAKER_01: Am I helping you at all?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, I am come that they might have life and have it with all of its advantages.
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01: One translation says, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_01: More and better.
SPEAKER_01: That's what he came to do.
SPEAKER_01: Another says, I have come so they might have life.
SPEAKER_01: I want them to have it in the fullest possible way.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Another says, I am come that the sheep may have life and abundance of all good things.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, there's simply not a clearer contrast in the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: The devil brings death and destruction.
SPEAKER_01: The father brings life and life more abundantly.
SPEAKER_01: Just there's there's no clearer contrast.
SPEAKER_01: What is something stealing from you?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said it's the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Don't get confused.
SPEAKER_01: Do not allow yourself to get confused.
SPEAKER_01: That's that's not if it's if it's stealing, killing, and destroying, God has nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER_01: I've got to recognize that.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Acts chapter 10.
SPEAKER_01: I know we looked at some of these last week, but there's more here.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Because that the the enemy is always pointing to something else.
SPEAKER_01: And I know this can sound oversimplified, but he's always saying that, that, that, that, and it's him, him, him, him.
SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of people aren't fighting the devil, they're fighting their own selves.
SPEAKER_01: They're taking all the blame on themselves.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I some number of years ago, Liliana and I were, we were coming home from I had picked her up at school, and we'd stopped on uh Maumeel Boulevard, uh, right there at the intersection where the bank is, and and there's uh another business over here.
SPEAKER_01: And uh there was a guy behind us that had had uh knee surgery, and he was he was he was back driving, but he had had knee surgery.
SPEAKER_01: There was a lady in front of us, and uh the light turned green and she didn't move.
SPEAKER_01: And I just saw the light turn green, and so I hit the accelerator.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I saw she wasn't moving, so I hit the brakes.
SPEAKER_01: Well, he saw me move and didn't see her stop, and he ran into me.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: And when he ran into me, it bumped me into her.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Well, she just took off because I I don't I don't know why.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, when we looked at her car, there was very little damage.
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, my point is she just took off, and then I guess it must have hit her that I hit her.
SPEAKER_01: Well, we pulled over in the bank parking lot, and the officer came and and and this guy, uh to his credit, I mean, you know, to his credit, he took 100% of the blame, right?
SPEAKER_01: But here's the point the lady came back and she jumped out of her car and she's blaming me.
SPEAKER_01: You hit me.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, well, I knew that if I had hit her, it was because I got hit.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't I didn't hit her on purpose, right?
SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the point.
SPEAKER_01: I never felt bad about that because it wasn't my fault.
SPEAKER_01: He took the blame, 100% of the blame.
SPEAKER_01: And he when she said that, he goes, I'll take hers too, I'll cover hers.
SPEAKER_01: And he did.
SPEAKER_01: And that that it was great.
SPEAKER_01: Here's my point.
SPEAKER_01: See, that's how the enemy comes.
SPEAKER_01: You're caught in the middle, right?
SPEAKER_01: And he initiates the action and then wants you to take the blame.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't do it.
SPEAKER_01: If there's something, if there was a door I opened, I'll repent, but I didn't do this.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody gets up in a morning in one morning and goes, boy, I just want to be sick with lung disease today.
SPEAKER_01: I just I I desire that.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody does that that I know of.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But when you're here, because the the enemy's job is his desire, I should say, is to get you to turn on God.
SPEAKER_01: Because once you turn on God, you got no hope.
SPEAKER_01: And he knows you've got no hope.
SPEAKER_01: And now he'll just, as Brother Hagin used to say, hold high carnival in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: But now, now why is this so important?
SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of people are fighting themselves, blaming themselves, looking for reasons, dealing with guilt.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there are people right now that you know and I know, they're good Christian people, and they are so full of guilt because they're sick.
SPEAKER_01: How could you be guilty about something an enemy threw on you?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I opened the door.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you closed it.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I hope so.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, that's guilt.
SPEAKER_01: Those kind of words, that's guilt.
SPEAKER_01: I hope I've got rid of all of it.
SPEAKER_01: That's guilt.
SPEAKER_01: That's not the spirit, that's guilt.
SPEAKER_01: How do you know you got rid of all of it?
SPEAKER_01: Because I repented.
SPEAKER_01: Well, how do you how are you sure it's gone?
SPEAKER_01: Because he said, if I'll confess it, he's faithful and just to forgive it and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
SPEAKER_01: Not some, all of it.
SPEAKER_01: So if anything that you can come up with is unrighteous or not right, when you repent, it's all taken.
SPEAKER_01: It's all done.
SPEAKER_01: It's all forgiven.
SPEAKER_01: But when I hold that, when I hold that, well, you know, after all I've done, I used to have a friend of mine, good man of God.
SPEAKER_01: If I said his name, you'd know him.
SPEAKER_01: He was internationally known.
SPEAKER_01: And uh good friend of mine.
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, he would go to meetings and and and have, I mean, I saw, I don't know how many different people pray for him.
SPEAKER_01: Gloria Copeland prayed for him.
SPEAKER_01: All these other men and women of God that I have great faith in prayed for him.
SPEAKER_01: You know what his response always was?
SPEAKER_01: His mindset always was?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I just did so much to my body before I got saved.
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't have anything to do with anything.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you did, but you're a new creature.
SPEAKER_01: He'll restore you.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Now, he passed away with that mindset.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not criticizing him.
SPEAKER_01: Souls are in heaven today because of him.
SPEAKER_01: He's happy to be there, but he went too early.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he kept.
SPEAKER_01: Holding on to what he had done.
SPEAKER_01: Remember, I told you the story about the lady that got a Christian lady, well known, well known gospel singer, got cancer of the lungs, and when people would want to pray for her, she'd say, No, I did this to myself.
SPEAKER_01: Well, what does that have to do with anything?
SPEAKER_01: Any of the problems that we got into because of wrongdoing, we did to ourselves, but God forgave us.
SPEAKER_01: Aren't you glad?
SPEAKER_01: I say, Aren't you glad?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I've known, listen, I've I've known people personally that got born again.
SPEAKER_01: I knew a guy, I'm thinking of a guy right now in the Kansas location.
SPEAKER_01: He got born again, and he had been born again a good while and went to the doctor because he was having fatigue and these different things.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, there are two different kinds of hepatitis, and you'll have to help me, hepatitis C and B.
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
SPEAKER_01: Now I think it's C that is like they say almost uncurable, right?
SPEAKER_01: And he had hepatitis C from because he had used drugs and intravenous drugs when he was out in the world, right?
SPEAKER_01: But he came and he knew he had brought it on himself.
SPEAKER_01: And he didn't come and say, I need to, I need to repent and I need to do this.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Pastor, I need you to pray for me because he said, I'm redeemed from the curse of the law.
SPEAKER_01: He's talking about himself like what he is: a believer, a new creature in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: I'm redeemed from the curse of the law.
SPEAKER_01: Christ has redeemed me, and I'm gonna ask you to pray for me and come into an agreement that I'm healed in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: You know God healed him.
SPEAKER_01: I just saw him not too long ago, and he's in perfect health.
SPEAKER_01: He's the same guy that God replaced the cartilage in his knees.
SPEAKER_01: God healed that guy of hepatitis, no cartilage in his knees, and a heart problem.
SPEAKER_01: And put his marriage back together.
SPEAKER_01: All three of the all four of the things that he destroyed, God gave them all back to him.
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: This is so important.
SPEAKER_01: Well, Pastor, I have a responsibility.
SPEAKER_01: You have a responsibility to lean on Jesus Christ as your righteousness and the forgiver of your sins.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And the one that made you holy.
SPEAKER_01: This is too important.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 10, verse 34.
SPEAKER_01: Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth, I perceive God is no respecter of persons.
SPEAKER_01: In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him.
SPEAKER_01: Now, what does that have to do with healing?
SPEAKER_01: In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted.
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
SPEAKER_01: So it doesn't matter what you've done, where you're from, what you did, you're accepted.
SPEAKER_01: When you ask him into your life, you're accepted.
SPEAKER_01: Well, God didn't just accept you and say, Well, look, I know you're dealing with this disease and this sickness, and isn't it good you got saved now because you're not going to live much longer?
SPEAKER_01: No, he said, You got saved, you became righteous, you're mine, now I'll heal you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And he went on and said, the word which God, which God sent unto the children or the sons of Israel, preaching peace.
SPEAKER_01: Now notice, what did Jesus come preaching?
SPEAKER_01: Peace.
SPEAKER_01: And then it says, He is the Lord of all.
SPEAKER_01: That word peace is reconciliation.
SPEAKER_01: All right?
SPEAKER_01: That word peace is to be reconciled to God.
SPEAKER_01: It's not the word sozo or soteria in the Greek.
SPEAKER_01: It's a word that reflects reconciliation.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus came preaching being reconciled to God.
SPEAKER_01: God's not angry.
SPEAKER_01: The message that the angels delivered over the shepherd field in the book of Luke.
SPEAKER_01: They came and what did they say?
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
SPEAKER_01: God's peace, God's goodwill toward men.
SPEAKER_01: That's what Jesus came preaching.
SPEAKER_01: If God has goodwill towards us, if there's peace between us and God, why would God allow?
SPEAKER_01: Why would God put sickness on us if there's peace between us?
SPEAKER_01: Seemed like you'd do that to an enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Well, who is our enemy?
SPEAKER_01: Who is our adversary?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: So if God's not our enemy, and he's not, we're not an enemy of God.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in the book of Ephesians that you were an enemy of God, that you were a stranger from the covenants of promise.
SPEAKER_01: It said, but God be thanked.
SPEAKER_01: You've believed from the heart the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, and you've been reconciled to God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So we know we have an adversary, we know we have an enemy.
SPEAKER_01: If something's going on that an enemy would do, who do we need to blame?
SPEAKER_01: The enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Well, God's not our enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Now, listen, that means you don't blame yourself.
SPEAKER_01: You got to get rid of that.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I knew better.
SPEAKER_01: And all of us did a lot of things we knew better.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, if you've been married any length of time, there's been times that you've been in a discussion and you've opened your mouth and you went, oh my Lord, I should not have said that.
SPEAKER_01: I knew better.
SPEAKER_01: At least I have.
SPEAKER_01: I knew better.
SPEAKER_01: And then if you got a real good friend, he'll say, Then why'd you say it?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But I I knew better, but God forgave what I did, even though I knew better.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So peace and safety, reconciliation is what he came preaching.
SPEAKER_01: And then notice that word I say, you know that was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism that John preached.
SPEAKER_01: Here it is, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good.
SPEAKER_01: Now think about this.
SPEAKER_01: The ministry of Jesus is God's will for all people for all time.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, cannot change, does not lie, cannot lie.
SPEAKER_01: If he were in the earth, this is what he would be doing today.
SPEAKER_01: So think about this.
SPEAKER_01: He went about doing good.
SPEAKER_01: Now think about this for one moment.
SPEAKER_01: What good can come out of one sickness?
SPEAKER_01: Zero.
SPEAKER_01: No good.
SPEAKER_01: I've had people say, well, good things do come out of sickness.
SPEAKER_01: You know, that guy turned to God in his sickness.
SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe he did, but God didn't use the sickness.
SPEAKER_01: It worked for his good.
SPEAKER_01: But God wasn't the one working it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, we're talking about what he does.
SPEAKER_01: He went about and is still going about doing good.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, and healing.
SPEAKER_01: You can't go about healing and making sick.
SPEAKER_01: Because the only thing that can go with good is healing.
SPEAKER_01: Sick can't go with good.
SPEAKER_01: How would it sound?
SPEAKER_01: He went about doing good, making folks sick.
SPEAKER_01: That wouldn't sound very good.
SPEAKER_01: And healing all that were oppressed, oh, here it is, of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Now again, that's a n that's a that's a that's a familiar scripture.
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, we know that's what Jesus did.
SPEAKER_01: But look at it.
SPEAKER_01: God anointed Jesus for what purpose?
SPEAKER_01: To do good and heal all that were oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: For God was with him.
SPEAKER_01: So we see all three members of the Trinity brought into this doing good and healing.
SPEAKER_01: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: They were all working together to what?
SPEAKER_01: Do good and heal.
SPEAKER_01: All that were oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: So what are the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost doing today?
SPEAKER_01: Working good and healing all that are oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: I like that it uses that word of.
SPEAKER_01: All that were oppressed of the devil because it denotes the channel.
SPEAKER_01: It denotes the source.
SPEAKER_01: That's the preposition of.
SPEAKER_01: It denotes something where something came from.
SPEAKER_01: All of these people that were healed, their oppression came from the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Can't be any other way.
SPEAKER_01: Look at John chapter 9.
SPEAKER_01: I gotta hurry here.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, Pastor, people disagree.
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't change anything.
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't change anything.
SPEAKER_01: Disagree all you want, it doesn't change anything.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the greatest day of my life is when I quit caring what people thought.
SPEAKER_01: That's irrelevant to me.
SPEAKER_01: That's what you call dying to yourself.
SPEAKER_01: The only reason why people care what people think is because they're full of themselves.
SPEAKER_01: It just don't matter.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, Jesus delivered me from the fear of death.
SPEAKER_01: How can I be afraid of people?
SPEAKER_01: I'm not even afraid of death.
SPEAKER_01: If you're not afraid of death, how can you be afraid of people?
SPEAKER_01: This is what he did.
SPEAKER_01: So that settles it.
SPEAKER_01: The devil is the oppressor.
SPEAKER_01: In John chapter 9, verse 30.
SPEAKER_01: No, excuse me, verse 1.
SPEAKER_01: Then we'll go to verse 30 in a moment.
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus passed by, he saw a blind man, blind from his birth, and his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned this man or his parents?
SPEAKER_01: That he was born blind.
SPEAKER_01: What are they looking for?
SPEAKER_01: A source, a reason.
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said, Neither has this man sinned nor his parents.
SPEAKER_01: Now, so here we have an answer.
SPEAKER_01: So it wasn't him or his parents that caused this.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Notice what he said.
SPEAKER_01: But that the works of God should be made manifest in him or revealed in him.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's what religion does.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what, and I don't like to use that term, here's what unknowing people do.
SPEAKER_01: Is they use that verse right there and say, so that man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him, so that people would believe on him.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the problem with that is out of this whole chapter, there's only one man that believed on Jesus because he got healed, and that was the blind man.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody else believed on him.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't heal to prove he was God's son or that he was God.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 10, 38 tells you why he heals.
SPEAKER_01: Because he was anointed to do it because people were oppressed by the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus never laid hands on anybody and said, To prove that I'm the son of God, I heal you.
SPEAKER_01: Never said that.
SPEAKER_01: Never did.
SPEAKER_01: There were people that believed on him, but as you read the four gospels, you find relatively few people that said, Because I saw this, I believe that you're the Son of God.
SPEAKER_01: Relatively few.
SPEAKER_01: There might have been more because we don't have every account.
SPEAKER_01: But there were people that you see that said, This man believed, the man at the pool of Bethesda believed because Jesus healed him.
SPEAKER_01: But because they ask him, this man, well, I'm getting ahead of myself.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 4, I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day.
SPEAKER_01: The night comes when no man can work.
SPEAKER_01: As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world.
SPEAKER_01: When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle, anointed the eyes of the blind man, said, Go to the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation sent.
SPEAKER_01: He went his way, therefore, and washed and came forth seen.
SPEAKER_01: Now, isn't it interesting that Jesus says, I must work the works of him that sent me, and he healed the man.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's what he's saying without us seeing it in verbiage in the scripture.
SPEAKER_01: They ask why?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, I gotta work the works of him that sent me.
SPEAKER_01: If he was working the works of him that sent him by healing the man, whose works was he under before he got healed?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want to make somebody blind?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want to make somebody deaf?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want somebody to walk around and nagging pain all the time?
SPEAKER_01: The devil.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want that blind person seeing?
SPEAKER_01: God.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want that deaf person hearing?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, God.
SPEAKER_01: Who would want that pain gone?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, God.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he paid the price for every sickness, every disease, every pain every person could ever experience.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Now look at verse 30.
SPEAKER_01: It says, now this is this man, and you should read all of this chapter, but this is this man answering.
SPEAKER_01: Well, we got to read verse 23, because it's important.
SPEAKER_01: They said, You need to give God the praise because this man's a sinner, and he said, whether he's a sinner or not, I don't know, but here's what I do know.
SPEAKER_01: I was blind and now I see.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I like that.
SPEAKER_01: You know, Brother Hagin would say the proof of the pudding's in the eating.
SPEAKER_01: My dad was having dinner with an atheist one time because he was traveling back from Detroit, Michigan.
SPEAKER_01: He had been there ministering, and he was traveling back and he wanted to stop and eat bre eat dinner, and so he stopped at a steakhouse.
SPEAKER_01: My dad was a big steak guy, and uh he wanted to eat a steak, and so uh he got there and it was crowded, packed out, and the the Maitre D said, uh, you know, we don't have very many tables, but there's another guy, he's here alone.
SPEAKER_01: Would you mind eating with him?
SPEAKER_01: And and my dad never met a stranger in his life, and so he said, Yeah, that's great.
SPEAKER_01: And so they started talking, and and uh they began to ask each other what they did.
SPEAKER_01: And so this guy was in business and he asked my dad, he said, What do you do?
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Well, I'm an evangelist, you know, I'm a minister of the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Oh, you're a revivalist.
SPEAKER_01: You go around doing revivals.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Well, I never heard that, but yeah, you could call it that.
SPEAKER_01: And the guy goes, I'm an atheist.
SPEAKER_01: I don't believe in God.
SPEAKER_01: I don't believe there's any such thing as a God.
SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, he didn't jump on him or anything, but he started talking to him about how he got healed.
SPEAKER_01: How he got healed in the you know, the days of the voice of healing and these different things and all that God had done for him and and changed.
SPEAKER_01: And uh the their food came and they continued to talk and they ate.
SPEAKER_01: And the guy, you know, he just he was just not thinking about it.
SPEAKER_01: And my dad said to him, he said, Look, he said, I just had one of the best steaks I've ever had.
SPEAKER_01: Just had the potato was excellent.
SPEAKER_01: He said it was wonderful.
SPEAKER_01: He said it was delicious.
SPEAKER_01: He said, for you to tell me that God is not who he said he was, is just like you telling me I did not enjoy that meal.
SPEAKER_01: He said, You're too late.
SPEAKER_01: I've already tasted and seen that the Lord is good.
SPEAKER_01: That's what this man's saying.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if he's a sinner or not.
SPEAKER_01: But here's what I do know.
SPEAKER_01: I used to be blind, and now I see.
SPEAKER_01: Just think about that.
SPEAKER_01: There are people on the sound of my voice watching online.
SPEAKER_01: God has healed you before.
SPEAKER_01: You're walking through something right now, but God has healed you before.
SPEAKER_01: Well, if he did it before, he's doing it now.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Because he hasn't changed.
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know all the answers.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know all the reasons, but here's what I do know.
SPEAKER_01: I used to be blind and now I see.
SPEAKER_01: Then verse 30, the man answered them because they're arguing with him.
SPEAKER_01: The man answered them and said, Why, herein is a marvelous thing, but you do not know from where he is, and yet he's opened my eyes.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, he's saying, You can't figure out he's from God.
SPEAKER_01: You're arguing about is he a sinner or not, and he opened my eyes.
SPEAKER_01: What's he saying?
SPEAKER_01: God's the only one that heals.
SPEAKER_01: The devil's not healing anybody.
SPEAKER_01: If Jesus is of the devil, he's saying he's not going to heal nobody.
SPEAKER_01: Huh.
SPEAKER_01: Now we know that God heareth not sinners.
SPEAKER_01: But if any man be a worshiper of God and doeth his will, he hears him.
SPEAKER_01: Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that were born blind?
SPEAKER_01: If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
SPEAKER_01: And what's the basic bottom line of this?
SPEAKER_01: This man understood healing was from God.
SPEAKER_01: And so, whether he knew it or not, by saying healing's from God, he's saying blindness is from the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus came to undo the works of the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Now, while again, that's elementary, that's that's common to us in a lot of ways, that's what I've got to keep my mind on.
SPEAKER_01: The game, and I'm closing here.
SPEAKER_01: The game is in the mind.
SPEAKER_01: And and while the mind is fighting you, the spirit's not getting the nourishment it needs.
SPEAKER_01: Because the enemy's got you focused on the wrong thing.
SPEAKER_01: Why am I sick?
SPEAKER_01: Why am I dealing with this?
SPEAKER_01: Why is this going on?
SPEAKER_01: Because he did it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This man just didn't deal with that.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Look, you can think whatever.
SPEAKER_01: Put me out of the synagogue if you want.
SPEAKER_01: I used to be blind, now I see.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not gonna agree with you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just not gonna agree with you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna say what you want me to say.
SPEAKER_01: And then you remember the woman in Luke 13 that Jesus said Satan had tied up for 18 years.
SPEAKER_01: One translation says Jesus said, shouldn't this woman who Satan is bound?
SPEAKER_01: He said, think of it, 18 years.
SPEAKER_01: He was indignant.
SPEAKER_01: You know, you don't see Jesus getting indignant a lot throughout the four gospels.
SPEAKER_01: But in that synagogue that day, he was so indignant that he looked at the leader of that synagogue and said, You're a hypocrite.
SPEAKER_01: You're fake.
SPEAKER_01: You don't care about anybody in this building.
SPEAKER_01: He said, think about it.
SPEAKER_01: This woman's been tied up by the devil 18 years.
SPEAKER_01: And you're upset because I healed her on the Sabbath.
SPEAKER_01: Remember what he said when he healed on the Sabbath?
SPEAKER_01: They got mad at him.
SPEAKER_01: He said, My father works on the Sabbath, so I'm gonna work on the Sabbath.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, I'm doing the author of the Sabbath's work on the Sabbath.
SPEAKER_01: The Sabbath, God implanted it.
SPEAKER_01: God instituted it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing what he wants me to do on the Sabbath.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And so confess the word and declare the word.
SPEAKER_01: Call yourself what God said you are, right?
SPEAKER_01: Because all of that is bringing you into alignment, into an understanding that God is my healer.
SPEAKER_01: And I know who brought this into my life.
SPEAKER_01: I know where it came from.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I know where it came from.
SPEAKER_01: If if if if I if if when I got born again, if God didn't put sickness on me then and put it in me then, he didn't have any to give me because he gave me everything he's got right then.
SPEAKER_01: He gave me his nature, his spirit, his life.
SPEAKER_01: And none of that came with sickness and disease.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Father God, we thank you today.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you for being our eternal, loving, heavenly Father.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you for being the eternal God that loves us with an everlasting love.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, I thank you today.
SPEAKER_01: I believe that, Father, as we've ministered, that the spiritual understanding has, Father, if not been opened, it has been reinforced, it has been shored up, it has been emboldened to take an even stronger stand against these things of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: I refuse, Father.
SPEAKER_01: I refuse.
SPEAKER_01: I refuse sickness and disease.
SPEAKER_01: We refuse it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Father, if there's some area, any area, Father, that we need to deal with, we know how good and loving kind you are.
SPEAKER_01: You'll help us see it.
SPEAKER_01: But for the moment, we Stand against the source and we say we'll not accept it.
SPEAKER_01: We'll not accept it.
SPEAKER_01: It's a plan, the plot, the desire of the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: And we resist it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We call it what it is: a plan of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: And we will not accept it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And as we walk it out, help us to understand and to walk in that knowledge and that surety that we are the healed of the Lord, that, and we're the healed of the Lord because that's all you've got is healing.
SPEAKER_01: You don't have any sickness to help us with.
SPEAKER_01: If you were to try to help us with sickness, you don't have any to give us.
SPEAKER_01: You've only got life.
SPEAKER_01: Because you said that's why Jesus came.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, you cannot say that Jesus came to do one thing and then you do another.
SPEAKER_01: Because that would make you and your son at odds with one another.
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said you were not at odds with one another.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said he only did the things that you did.
SPEAKER_01: And he only said the things that you said.
SPEAKER_01: And all she ever did, Father, was go about healing and doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: And it says you were with him doing it.
SPEAKER_01: And so if you were with Jesus healing, you can't be with the devil making people sick.
SPEAKER_01: And we believe that.
SPEAKER_01: We take that to heart.
SPEAKER_01: We trust you.
SPEAKER_01: We believe in you.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot lie.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot change.
SPEAKER_01: We believe, Father, that you have nothing to do with sickness.
SPEAKER_01: And you have nothing to do with disease.
SPEAKER_01: So you are adamantly opposed to it and you are staunchly set against it.
SPEAKER_01: And so we just choose to be on your side.
SPEAKER_01: And we're adamantly opposed to it and we're staunchly against it.
SPEAKER_01: And we believe that you're healing every person in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And we take that to heart in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, if you've got to put a new body part in it, you're going to do it.
SPEAKER_01: If you've got to replace the damaged with brand new, you're going to do it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Father, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: I've heard people say, I've heard people say that you have rooms of parts.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you do or not.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible doesn't say that.
SPEAKER_01: But here's what I know.
SPEAKER_01: I know you're a creative God.
SPEAKER_01: And I know that if you need to, if you need to create a part, you can create it.
SPEAKER_01: Because you created it in the first place.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, Father.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Father.
SPEAKER_01: Even those parts that the doctor may say, that might be worn out, or that might be this, or that might be that.
SPEAKER_01: I thank you for rejuvenating it.
SPEAKER_01: I thank you for bringing it back to life in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Because you said in your word that you give life to the dead and you call those things that be not as though they were Father God, you have not changed.
SPEAKER_01: My eternal, loving, heavenly Father that loves me with an everlasting love, your life, your mind, your desire has not changed.
SPEAKER_01: And when Abraham's body was dead and Sarah's body was dead, you gave them life.
SPEAKER_01: And they produced a child when there was no hope.
SPEAKER_01: Ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_01: So I just, sir, I just choose to be on your side.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm on the healing side.
SPEAKER_01: Now manifest yourself to these people.
SPEAKER_01: Manifest yourself in the healing realm in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: All I ask you to do is touch them.
SPEAKER_01: Heal them.
SPEAKER_01: Make them well and whole in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Continue the process that you've begun in many of them.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, that they would continue to see progress and go from one stage of victory to another stage of victory to another stage of victory until they see the report that says it's gone.
SPEAKER_01: It's not there.
SPEAKER_01: It was this way, but it's not that way anymore.
SPEAKER_01: Father, I thank you that many will wake up in the morning just knowing, knowing, knowing they're healed.
SPEAKER_01: When they put pressure on that limb, the pain will be gone.
SPEAKER_01: When they breathe in deeply, the pain will be gone.
SPEAKER_01: When they have that blood work drawn, they'll say it's not there.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, it won't surprise us because you've been doing that all along.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we thank you for it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We give you the honor and the glory and the praise.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Father, you've been so good to us.
SPEAKER_01: You've done so much for us.
SPEAKER_01: We just believe you're going to do the rest of it.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Devil, we got your number.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot keep that on a child of God in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: So, Father, any any thoughts?
SPEAKER_01: I rebuke those in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We take authority over the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: We silence his accusations in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to keep your vile words and your filthy talk off the people of God.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus, we thank you for it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Father.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, we glorify you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: We glorify you.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Father.
SPEAKER_01: Father, we just thank you for all you've done for us.
SPEAKER_01: Father, if you never did another thing for us, you've been so good to us.
SPEAKER_01: You've been so good.
SPEAKER_01: You've healed us every time.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank you, Father, for the healing power of God in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Whoa, glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Heavenly Father.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And the first thing that's going to lift is that feeling, that heaviness going in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And it shall not return.
SPEAKER_01: It shall not return.
SPEAKER_01: That heaviness comes to try to make a person think about what they may be dealing with and to get over there and get centered in on it.
SPEAKER_01: So the enemy can try to play his game.
SPEAKER_01: Now we're not gonna.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that Jesus said he was anointed to set at liberty them that were bruised.
SPEAKER_01: To preach healing, healing to those that were bruised.
SPEAKER_01: And so we receive it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.