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enjoy this week's message. Praise the Lord. Hey,
thank you. You may be seated. Amen. Thank you,
Lord. Well, as Pastor said, you know there's
a sensitivity to God in this room. And you can
keep that switch on at the same time. Hear the
things from the Word of God that will actually
trigger the presence of the Lord to just heal
you right while you're in your seat. It's amazing
how that works. Don't overanalyze. Don't overthink.
I'm going to give you some things today that
possibly you've not thought of before. You say,
what's the benefit of that? Well, that you're
going to have to rethink something instead of
thinking, well, you already know what he's saying.
And while you're rethinking, your heart will
get excited. And you'll think, wow, that's really
good. In the moment, wow, that's really good.
There's an anointing. And there's a release.
We bypass so much of where our faith. triggers
the anointing. Now that's because we live in
a world that has nothing to do with what we're
doing in this church. And I know this is going
to be harsh that we would say, I love the Lord
with all my heart. Well, you love the Lord with
all your heart to the small degree that you give
him your heart. And I do too. Because we're learning
how to keep ourselves connected to him at all
times. Because the typical mentality of Christianity,
there's a lot of definitions there. I mean, there's
men that fought in a Christian war that had a
Christian flag, but probably didn't know Jesus
as Lord and Savior. Do you know the greatest
amount of churches that will call themselves
Christian don't even preach a gospel message
where people get saved? You do know that, right?
And those of us who are saved have for so long
been rewarded for coming. You don't get a reward
for coming. Do you know how many stars have been
handed out for perfect attendance? Do you know
how many people think they own a chair because
they've given tithes for 20 years? That has nothing
to do with you getting an answer to a prayer.
It's your divine connection to him and how alive
that is. So in a sense, when we hear 1 Thessalonians
5, verse 17, pray without ceasing, well, that
doesn't mean you're on your knees all day long.
Prayer is interaction. Prayer is fellowship.
Prayer is communion. I like the word interaction
because now we are interacting together. It's
not a monologue. It's a dialogue. Prayer is fellowship.
So you can do that without ceasing, and there's
ways you can do it. And we've actually, I'm not
just trying to sell a book. Listen, I wish somebody
else's name was on this because then I could
really promote it. But people that have taken
the simple things that we've shared here about
connecting with God and have become over excessive
with it have constant testimonies every single
week of God encounters. From the smallest of
things to the most amazing things. Now, a real
church, And I believe this is one. And I'm not,
you know, the inspector that God is using to
figure out which one is and which one isn't.
But my idea of a real church is the people are
experiencing God throughout the week with such
degree that when they come to the church and
the pastor says that anybody have a testimony,
every hand goes up and they go up in the manner
that remember when you didn't know 15 of the
questions. And you had your head down because
you didn't want the teacher to see your eyes
because you thought if I don't see her, she doesn't
see me. And then all of a sudden she asks ones
that you know and then you're on your tiptoes
to do what? To get her to respond to you because
you actually know that one? Real church to me
would be the pastor, who's got a testimony? And
everybody's got a hand up because they're constantly
experiencing him and he's become real to them.
Now, you will never, burn out with that kind
of Christianity. You will never get bored with
that kind of Christianity. It will be new every
day and every morning as though you had just
experienced him for the first time. Praise the
Lord. Amen. Think that might work for you? Okay.
Amen. Amen. I felt led that he needed that. Turn
your Bibles. I'm going fast this morning. Exodus
and chapter 15. Before I do, I want to wake you
up with a couple of thoughts. If I live in my
house with my wife, And my kids know that it's
our house. Now that they're grown, they come
to visit. If I pay a water bill at my house and
it has my name on it and my address. If I pay
taxes. If I pay insurance to my house. God knows.
If I ever questioned if it's my house, I just
ask Amazon. And they will tell me, we come here
every day, that's your house. Then how hard do
I have to work at knowing that it's my house?
If he died on the cross, if he arose the third
day, if he sent the Holy Spirit. If I've been
born of the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, hear
Him, listen to Him, walk with Him, and talk with
Him, then how hard do I have to work at getting
an answer to a prayer? See, it's amazing how
we enforce ourselves upon this world, but we
lay down like a welcome mat when it comes to
the things of the Spirit. I mean, if you've got
a little boy and you say, Sonny, I want you to
sit in that chair. He don't want to sit in that
chair. Oh, well, if he don't want to sit in that
chair, I guess he ain't going to sit in that
chair. Oh, yes, he is going to sit in that chair.
He's going to sit in that chair. Bless the Lord,
oh my soul. He will sit in that chair and he
will enjoy that chair and he will become a part
of that chair. And he will be a good boy. Because
at his age, I tell him what to do. So how come
you can't tell the devil what to do? You go out
to eat and you order a steak and somehow or another,
the order gets messed up and you get salmon.
Well, it's okay. I'm sure they're busy. You know,
salmon's good. I know I'm paying a lot more for
the steak, but the salmon's okay. This looks
good. I won't say, don't say anything. Don't
say anything. What? No, I'm a New Yorker. We
talk before we even think. And I can sure as
bet you that I can make someone do whatever I
need to do if I can use my horn. Because we learn
at an early age how to make that horn. In your
car, say a lot of things. I can tell you to go
back to bed and start all over because you ain't
doing a good job driving. I can tell you that.
Amen. And it's not a toot. There's a manipulation
of that horn. I can make it say something. Amen.
And I'm working on that. That's a weak spot in
my life. I'll go for that horn. And he's like,
no, don't you do it. I know I'm not supposed
to, but I'll do it anyhow. Just because she said
don't, you know. I'm working on all these things.
But no, I wouldn't have any problem. I'll say,
ma 'am, I don't know how things got messed up,
but did you remember that I actually ordered
a steak? You did. Well, would you mind going
ahead and getting it? No, we can't do that. Yes,
you can. In fact, if you can't do it, I'll go
back and talk to the manager because I'm not
paying for a steak and I got a salmon. But I
know you can do it. Wouldn't you at least get
your steak? How come we won't get our healing?
I want you to think for a moment. You have the
skill set to walk in divine health, to walk in
the purity of the spirit, to enjoy the voice
of God and live with him. You have the skill
set. You actually don't need to develop it. You
have the skill set. We just need to stir that
up in you. So I want to bring you to a couple
passages here because this is going to be very
interesting to see what your response is going
to be. Amen. Exodus chapter 15. Now you know
where we are, the children of Israel, gloriously
have been brought out of Egypt. Amen. And they've
been marching through the wilderness, you know,
complaining one day after the next, complaining,
complaining, complaining. But God's grace is
leading them out. The law didn't start until
they demanded that they were able to actually
make their own way and they didn't need Yahweh.
They didn't need the Lord. And then the law came.
But before they demanded that they do it their
own way. You know what I mean? This calf just
jumped out of the fire. You liar. You liar. I
watched you put that thing together. Amen. So
God's just blessing them even with all their
complaining. They come through the Red Sea and
now we pick up on their journey to get some water
because, you know, it's desert. And it says right
here, so Moses brought Israel, this is verse
22, from the Red Sea. Then they went out to the
wilderness of Shur and they went three days into
the wilderness and found no water. Now when they
came to Merah, Merah, Merah, they could not drink
the waters for they were bitter. Therefore the
name of the place was called Merah or bitterness.
And the people complained. Well, that's just
kind of normal. They complained again against
Moses saying, what shall we drink? So we cried
out to the Lord. The Lord showed him a tree.
Of course, this is symbolic. The tree is the
cross. The waters are humanity. When he cast
it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.
There he made a statue. Isn't this interesting?
There he made a statue and an ordinance for them.
And there he tested them, saying, If you diligently
heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what
is right in his sight, give ear to his commandments
and keep his statutes, I will put none of the
diseases. That's a little bit odd right there
because the word put means permit. God's not
in the putting of any disease on anybody because
God doesn't have disease to put on somebody.
Huh? Jesus was anointed of the Holy Ghost and
power who went about doing good and healing all
who were oppressed of the... There you go. Amen.
Oral Roberts years ago got in trouble because
he said God's a good God and the devil's a bad
devil. Can you think of that? That people actually
hated him for that because he made a distinction.
Today, erasers are being handed out to our kids
at the local schools so that they can erase every
line that seems to, in some way, impinge upon
their idea of what makes them feel good. And
that's why we're losing the generation, because
what is is what is, and what's not is what's
not. And we've got to have clear lines of definition.
Well, that makes me feel bad. You need to so
that you can make a better choice. I'm not going
to give you a pink ribbon. Pink ribbons don't
exist. We only have a blue one and a red one
and then maybe a white or yellow one. First,
second, and third. And if you don't get on the
team, then you can make a decision whether you
want to work harder. Because if you make a better
choice, then you'll have a better outcome. Well,
that doesn't make people feel good. That's the
idea. Find something that you can do where you
enjoy it and excel. I was just looking at some
of you and I'm thinking, wow. Praise the Lord.
So he cried out to the Lord. The Lord showed
him a tree. When he cast it into the waters,
the waters were made sweet. He makes this ordinance.
And he says, I will permit none of the diseases
upon you which I have brought upon the Egyptians,
for I am the Lord who heals you, Jehovah Rapha.
Now, just get this with me for a second. When
the word Jehovah is used to describe a part of
God's character and his desire to help humanity,
the word Jehovah is used because that word right
there shows you that he's going to put on a demonstration.
The self -existent one who now reveals himself,
reveal, manifest, shows you. God's showing up.
God doesn't play, listen closely, hide and go
seek. If he did, we'd never find him. Right?
No. God plays show and tell. Hey, hey, hey. And
we go, oh, oh my Lord. You're amazing. Did you
see that? We'll tell somebody else to see. Now
God's doing exactly what he wants. We're telling
other people about it. And the more we tell people
about it, the more it goes, the Lord will tap
you on the shoulder and go, hey, look at this.
And we go, oh my goodness. See, throughout all
the eons that we are in heaven, God's going to
put on another show, show, show, another show
of his loving kindness in Christ toward us in
Christ Jesus. And he's never going to run out.
We're always going to be so blessed that I'm
not even going to wear socks in heaven. Because
they just keep getting blown away. You know what
I mean? Blow my socks off. There they go again.
Why wear them? Right? God just is amazing. And
that he's amazing. He certainly can't outdo.
He did it. He outdid yesterday already. And it's
only seven o 'clock in the morning. What a day.
Now this is who God is. He's always wanting to
show you. Jehovah Rapha. So he's showing or demonstrating
that he is their healer. Let me ask you a question
here. What did he heal? Because he didn't heal
anybody. Huh? What did he heal? The water. He
demonstrated he's the healer and they'll never
have to have disease. And he healed the water
and didn't heal the people. Hmm. How come he
didn't heal the people? Because they weren't
sick. We sometimes forget Psalm 105, 37. He also
brought them out with silver and gold and there
were none feeble among his tribes. What came
before them being brought out and there were
none feeble among their tribes? The blood that
was required to go over the door and down the
sides. And the death angel passed through. And
when he saw the blood, he passed on by. Do you
know why he passed on by? It wasn't just because
he saw the blood. The blood and the glory work
together. Can't have one without the other. The
blood and the glory. See, the blood made the
way for the glory to come in. When that death
angel walked, he was looking at somebody else
looking at him and he walked right by because
who was looking at him was the glory, the Holy
Ghost. Now think about this. One night sleeping
with the Holy Ghost and they all came out perfectly
healed. One night. Come on, they've been working
in their minds. They're bent over, arthritis.
There's tumors. There's gross. There's blindness.
There's deafness. There's hands can't move. Legs
can't move. Maybe there's been amputations. One
night with the Holy Ghost being invited to sleep
with them. And then all of a sudden, you know,
Ned, he goes, well, honey, it's going to be really
good. And he goes, whoa. Whoa, did you see that?
And she said, yeah, I can actually see you. and
they all came out healed. And then the strangest
thing happened also is God was upon them to the
degree that they became money magnets. And Pharaoh
did the dumbest thing he's ever done. But when
the glory's in operation, the devil does really
dumb things. And Pharaoh said, give them all
your gold. What? Give them all your, are you
sure? Give them all your gold. And so everybody
that was Egyptian just came and gave them gold.
And they came out healthy enough to drag it through
the wilderness. And the reason why Pharaoh came
after him is because for a few days he was eating
on paper plates. And he said. Where's my gold
plates? And his chief, you know, said, well,
you told us to give it to. I would never. I didn't
tell. Yes, you did. You made a decree. Here it
is. And there's your ring right there. Give them
all your gold. Why would I do that? So Pharaoh
comes after him. If you listen to the theologians,
it wasn't really a big miracle going through
the Red Sea because they found a place where
they really crossed, which was only two feet
deep. And that's a greater miracle because Pharaoh's
whole army drowned in two feet of water. You
can't make this stuff up, folks. It's a whole
lot better to just say, Lord, that's actually
true, than to try to use your brain to figure
this out. Now, this is amazing what happened
here because the water and the condition that
it was in would have made them sick. Because
they weren't sick, which represents redemption,
the healing covenant is about keeping you in
divine health by making sure that there's nothing
that can come against you that would ever make
you sick. Now, this is important because I either
have the football or I'm trying to get the football.
And the church is always trying to get the football
that doesn't seem to be in the right. But if
you have the football, you can do whatever you
need to say, devil, look at you. You can't touch
me. Because you've got it. But we're always trying
to get it. And if you're always trying to get
what he released and gave you, then to the degree
you try harder, you actually tell him that he
didn't do what he did. I'm probably 42 or something.
Standing in the bedroom with my wife and all
of a sudden my bowels perforated, heard a snap
on the inside of my body. Pain like I've never
had before and I was pretty good with pain. Boom,
I hit the floor. She's looking at me on the floor.
Something serious has just happened. My lightning
brain went real fast and said, can't go to the
doctor because they don't have insurance and
they're going to take all our money. And then
I rethought that and thought, we don't have really
much to take, but they'll still take it. And
then my brain looked at her and she's always
been very, very beautiful and still is. And I
looked at her and said, well, if I die right
now, somebody for sure is going to marry her
and that's going to bring me back. So it's better
that I stay. And so I said to her, get me up
in the bed. I'm not dying. And then for two weeks,
I did everything. Because see, default, default.
I did everything I preached against. I'm trying
to figure out where did I miss it? How could
this have happened? Who did I offend? Did I not
walk in love? Called people up, would you forgive
me? They're like, forgive you for what? I'm doing
all these things because see, it has to be something
that I did. Because I accepted the problem, now
I'm trying to get out of it. Isn't that interesting?
Why would you open the door and let someone in
if you have the ability to keep it closed? I'm
over in Nigeria. I check in at this Hilton. I
walk up to my room, go into my room, and within
five minutes, a prostitute's at my door, knocking
on the door, say, hey, I want to come in. I want
to come in. And I said, get out of here. She
said, I want to come in. I said, go. Never opened
the door. And all of a sudden, she left. I marched
right downstairs, got the manager. I said, who
told her my room? owed her my room number. That
so ticked me off. One of you making money off
of her as she sleeps around with people. It's
better just not to open the door. need to see
what she looked like to tell her to leave. I'm
just saying in the world, we're smart. But the
moment we step into a building that's called
a church, we go, duh. And we lose all sense of
just being us. Sorry. I know I'm messing with
you. But we're not seeing things like he wants
us to see them. Come on, I got another one. I
can't stay here. I got another one. I gotta go
a little further. Come on over now to Deuteronomy
chapter 28. You're gonna love this one. Because
you know, Jesus became a curse for us. Curses
everyone that hangs upon the tree that the blessings
of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ.
And we preach about the blessings of Abraham.
Praise the Lord that I am healed because I've
got the blessings of Abraham. Amen. But I want
to show you something here too. I want to end
in your mindset right here this morning that
in any way, shape or form, you're the problem.
Because if you're not the problem and there's
nothing between you and God, you can come get
your healing and you can walk into the rest of
your life. You gotta figure, if this thing's
difficult in any way, shape, or form, the devil's
got his hand in this thing. Messing this up,
twisting our brains, making us think something
that it's not so that it becomes a difficult
scenario. Remember I talked to you about finding
God? Some people say, I never heard God's voice.
Yes, you have. Well, not that I know. I said,
the only reason why you talk like that is because
you got the volume of what you've been listening
to so high that you're not hearing that he's
actually been talking to you. Well, I'd like
to really feel the presence of God. Well, then
stop feeling the presence of what you feel that
makes you feel what you feel. See, it's pulling
back from this world that immediately catapults
you to Christ. What he did, he really did. If
we're not experiencing it, it's because we're
overshadowed. There's a verse of scripture in
the Passion Translation of Romans chapter 1,
verses 18, 19, and then through the rest of the
verses, it says, the wickedness of humanity deliberately
smothers the truth to keep you from acknowledging
the truth about God. Now, truth means reality.
Aletheia, reality. So the wickedness of humanity
deliberately smothers what's real So that you
don't acknowledge what's real. Because the moment
you acknowledge what's real. You empower it in
your life. To overcome and manifest itself. And
the devil does not want you manifesting the power
of truth. Because then that shows his lie. So
deliberately the world is set up to smother.
To hide what's real. So that you continue to
walk in an illusion. Which is a misrepresentation
of reality. So the question, you've heard Tony
use this question too. I use it a lot. What's
reality? Because maybe it's not what you think
it is. Amen. And to actually walk in it and experience
it, you're going to have to do that by faith.
In other words, when you take your first step,
it is not going to look good. It is not going
to look like it's going to work. You're going
to look like you're going under. You're going
to look like you die. But you know what? You
bet the farm on Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
That's just an exciting life to me. That gets
my juices going. Where can I go ahead and step
out where it looks like I'm going under? Dare
to live or die. Well, real quickly, in that testimony,
two weeks of doing all that religious stuff,
my body whittled down from where it is right
now to about 130 pounds. Couldn't look at myself
in the mirror. Didn't have any muscle left on
my body. Eyes sunk back into my head. Looked
a little jaundiced. It was pretty sad, pretty
pathetic. So I canceled all my meetings except
one. I didn't know that I didn't cancel it. And
here it is Thursday. Friday's coming. And then
Saturday, I'm going to Sacramento to preach Sunday
morning, twice in the morning, Sunday night,
Monday morning, Monday night, Tuesday morning,
Tuesday night, fly to Milwaukee, do a Wednesday
night service, then fly back home on Thursday.
And I'm like 130 pounds. So three o 'clock in
the morning, Friday morning, I went out into
a chair and I sat there and I said, Lord, I want
to apologize and ask you to forgive me for one
thing. I've been making it look like you didn't
do what you actually said you did. I said, so
from this moment, you and I don't have to talk
about healing when I'm already healed. Why would
I talk to you about it? Thank you very much.
And now I'm going to make myself a milkshake
because Erin was, you know, doing all she could,
you know, in this earthly realm with all this
kind of stuff she was feeding me. And there was
this kind of like greenish, you know, porridge
type stuff or whatever. At least that looked
that way to me. And it was disgusting. And even
at one moment I said, here, you take, I'm not
taking that. So at three o 'clock in the morning,
I made myself a chocolate milkshake and just
drank it. And I said, oh, this is so good. It's
so wonderful to be healthy. Woke up the next
morning, did not feel any better. Saturday comes,
I got myself ready. Aaron had to help me get
my luggage into the car and my golf clubs into
the car and get them out. And I left holding
them. I couldn't walk straight. And I walked
into the airport like this, like an old man at
about 40 years of age, 42 years of age. When
the pastor saw me, he looked at me and said,
oh, dear God, what happened? Because he knew
I was an athlete. And he said, I told him what
happened. He said, I'll be preaching for you.
You just take a rest here. This is a vacation.
I said, if you do the preaching, you'll send
me home in a six -foot pine box. Praise the Lord.
That's right. Amen. And so I did the preaching.
And the first service was a little rough. And
he came out and he said, you're a little edgy.
I said, yeah, if you felt like I felt, you'd
be a little edgy too. And some of you are saying
you were more edgy than you are right now. Well,
this edgy comes with years. When you get a certain
age, you start thinking, you know, I'm just going
to be me. Do you know what I mean? You start.
So this is a different edgy. So anyhow, I preached
the next service. I was a little nicer. That
afternoon, went home or went back to the hotel.
Aaron wasn't there at the time. Went back to
the hotel. And my body, as far as how it worked
in the bathroom, worked normal. Now, you probably
don't do something like this, glory, and run
around the room when you come out of the bathroom.
But I did. because my bowels had perforated.
And that night, I got so happy I ran around the
room. The only thing that discouraged me was
I was so slow that Grandma lapped me three times.
There she goes again. Am I going that slow? There
she goes again. Wow, I guess I am. And I went
back home 25 pounds heavier in just three days
as God began to build my body back up. But I
had to make what? The distinction between what
was real and what wasn't real. And that's when
things started working. Come on, stay with me.
All right, listen to this. This is amazing because
the first 14 verses are the blessings of Abraham.
And verse 15 through verse 61. Get this, listen
to this. Verse 15 through 61. You will be depressed
if you read those verses. Because starting in
verse 15 to 61 are the curses and the curses
are nothing but every single sickness and disease
you could ever get. And the writer goes on to
say at the very end, and if I missed anything,
well, you're going to get that too. Okay? So
I just wanted to read this for you. Start in
verse one. Now it's going to pass you diligently
obey. I'm going to read fast. The voice of the
Lord your God to observe carefully all his commands,
which I command you today, that the Lord your
God will set you on high above all nations of
the earth. And all these blessings shall come
upon you and overtake you because you obey the
voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you
be in the city. Blessed shall you be in the country.
Blessed shall you be the fruit of the body, the
produce of the ground, the increase of your herds,
the increase of your cattle, the offspring of
your flocks. Blessed shall you be in your basket,
in your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when
you come in and when you go out. The Lord shall
cause your enemy to rise against you to be defeated
before your face. They'll come against you one
way. They'll flee before you seven ways. The
Lord will command the blessing on you and your
storehouse and all to which you set your hand.
He will bless you in the land of which your Lord
has given you. The Lord will establish you as
a holy people to himself just as he swore to
you. If you keep the commandments of the Lord
your God and walk in his ways, then all the peoples
of the earth shall see that you are called by
the name of the Lord and they shall be afraid
of you. And the Lord will grant you plenty of
goods in the fruit of your body and the increase
of your livestock in the produce of the ground
and the land in which the Lord swore to your
fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you
as good treasure the heavens to give rain in
the land in the season to bless all the work
of your hand. You'll lend to many nations, but
you'll not borrow. The Lord will make you the
head, not the tail, above and only and not beneath.
And you'll heed the commandments of the Lord
your God, which I command you today in our...
careful to observe them. You shall not turn aside
from any of the words which I command you this
day to the right or to the left to go after other
gods before me. It does not mention you getting
healed. There's no blessing of healing in the
blessings. But you start verse 15 and it's nothing
but sickness. What did God heal? The water. Because
the people were already healed. Maybe God sees
something we're not seeing. Maybe these bodies
aren't as fragile as we think they are. Maybe
we've bought into a lie. Because, you know, you
think about it. Adam and Eve coming out of the
garden. There was a first pain. And if it happened
to be Eve, you know, catching her hip on a counter.
Because, you know, they hadn't cooked before.
That counter probably had edges on it. She's
trying to keep from burning the water that's
boiling, you know. I mean, they're figuring this
out. And she hits her hip. And all of a sudden
she says, ow. She limps a little bit and Adam
says, what? What'd you say? She said, I said,
ow. Why'd you say it? She said, because it hurts.
Now, Adam doesn't know what ow is and he does
not know what hurt is because he hadn't hit his
hip yet. But we know Adam's not the smartest
knife in the drawer. I mean, he is, but he isn't,
you know. So Adam is like, well, I want to know
what that feels like. So he goes over and just,
and you know, a guy ain't as good with pain as
a woman is. So he goes, ow, ow, ow, ow. She said,
I told you. She said, it hurts. And she said,
that's what I said. And all of a sudden he looks
at hers and hers is kind of purplish and kind
of bluish. Whoa. And he looks at his and his
is a little bit pinkish and a little bit yellowish.
And those are the first tattoos. There you go.
Now, I say that because that's a first. We have
so accepted the idea of pain. That now we carry
things in our pockets and purses and have them
in our medicine cabinets and stuff them in our
cars. In case we have a pain, we can take something
to mask the pain. And isn't it interesting how
much faith we have in it that we'll actually
head to a meeting while our head is pounding,
knowing that we've taken four or five of these
ibuprofen, that sooner or later before we get
to the meeting, we will feel better to be able
to function somewhat normally. But taking the
anointing and the presence of God, we seem to
have no skill set. And yet we actually do. Maybe
the reason why there's so much sickness is because
of Jacob's experiment with the sheep and the
goats. What do you mean? Well, you know, his
father -in -law was a real doozy. Can you imagine
working seven years and that beautiful bride
you're gonna look at and you take that veil off,
ah, that's his sister. That sister's a little
different. She got a mustache, you know what
I'm saying? I put my foot in my mouth so many
times. There's this, with a mustache right back
there. And they raised their hand and said, sir,
so what do you need? She said, I'm not a sir.
I'm a woman. And I thought, well, you shaved
that thing. That helped a little bit. I walked
up to this couple and I said, this is such a
wonderful couple. The guy looks at me and says,
it's my mother. I looked to the mother, you know,
because I'm working real fast to fix this. I
looked to the mother and said, wasn't that an
amazing compliment? She goes, that was very nice.
I said, thank you. You got to get yourself out
when you get yourself in. See what I'm saying?
You got to be good at both. There's no healing
in the blessing. Why? What are the conditions
to these covenants working? What are the conditions?
The sheep and the goats, thank you. Jacob, what
did he do? Well, you know, the prize animals
were the clear -coated. not the speckled and
spotted. So Jacob, without a word of the Lord
coming to him, figured something out. I can completely
change this flock. If I'll bring the spotted,
if I bring the clear -coated sheep that are the
strongest, when they're in mating, when they're
in the season to mate. Now, don't get weird with
me, okay? I'm not trying to get... weird with
you. But the idea that they're in a season of
mating, you know, like you don't mess or get
around deer when they're in the rut. Because
those bucks are not thinking straight. And if
they see you, even though you ain't going after,
you know, his honey, you see? But he looks at
you as a competitor when his mind ain't thinking
right. Because he ain't thinking with, he's not
thinking up here. I stopped. I stopped. Amen.
I just left it up here. You're not thinking here.
Now, I'm not trying to get weird here, but I'm
saying there is emotion and there is passion.
See, what you're passionate about, what you get
emotional about will move you. And if you're
being moved by Jesus, you're being moved by something
else. So you got to guard your affections. Why?
Because your affections affect all that you are.
That's the passion translation of Proverbs 4,
verse 20, 24. So he knew when to do his little
experiment, when there's a little heat, when
there's a little passion, when there's a little
bit of movement. And what did he do? He put poplar
branches in the trough so that when they're in
heat, And being mated, they're actually looking
at themselves through a reflection of being spotted
and speckled. And they gave birth to spotted
and speckled sheep. If it can work for them,
then 75 plus percent of the commercials that
you look at are about drugs reminding you that
you're sick. And this is a society that is literally
on drugs. 5 % of the world's population consuming
more than 75 % of the world's medicine. We have
already bought into the idea here in America,
I'm sick, just give me some pills. Instead of,
I refuse to accept that. There's no reason for
me to be sick. Do you know what really works
well with people? When sickness comes on and
they say something like, I don't have time for
this. Guess what? Those people don't end up being
sick. Just because they don't accept it. I don't
have time for this. I've got too much on my plate.
I can't be sick. I'm going to work anyhow. Boom,
it'll leave. But the moment you accept it, the
moment you buy into it. Jesus actually thinks
he did a good job. He actually took the infirmity,
bore the sickness, and with his stripes, you
actually are healed. But we're the ones that
believe in the sickness. Not meaning this wrong,
but you wear pink in October. Now, when I was
growing up, pink wasn't a color that a guy wore.
And if you wore it at the wrong time with the
wrong guys, boom! Now it's acceptable to wear.
How come people wear pink? How come football
players wear pink? Because we are honoring those
women who have had breast cancer. It's the wrong
way to honor them. Because the more you look
at the pink and you think of the breast cancer,
the more you now are creating more breast cancer.
If we could get everybody to wear in October
crimson red shirts and remind yourself of the
blood of Jesus that has cleansed us from all
sickness and disease, we could clear out hospitals
without even having to go to them. Listen, we've
been made in the image and likeness of God, and
it's a good thing, but it's a bad thing. Having
a shotgun ready to shoot at a deer when your
family doesn't have any food and it's 15 feet
away and you're going to kill it and you're going
to be able to eat and keep your family alive
is a good thing. But having that shotgun in the
hands of a four -year -old pointed at a two -year
-old is a bad thing. See, depending on what you
do with you being made an image that likes God,
if you point into the wrong direction, you'll
create the wrong thing. If you don't like where
you're at today, go back to checking up on what
you've been believing and what you've been speaking
because you created it yourself. We've got all
the ammo. We've got everything we need. Jesus
has already done the work, and we're still trying
to get something that he's already gotten us.
Now, I ask you again as we close this thought,
because you can tell I'm going a mile a minute
here, and I've got to close. What are the conditions
to be able to operate in this? Righteousness.
What? If you diligently obey every single thing
that's in there and don't vary at all, then this
will work for you. In both scenarios, righteousness
is the condition. In other words, when Abram
believed and God in the passion, it says he transferred
into Abraham's account. Faith transferred righteousness
into his account. And the promise wasn't fulfilled
by works, but it was fulfilled by the righteousness
which was transferred into the account. Now,
let me ask you a question. I'll explain this.
Does God seamlessly work with himself? It's not
a trick question. Yes. Why? There's nothing in
the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost that is contrary
to one another. There's no tainting of sin, unbelief,
skepticism, reason, or doubt that could make
a hang -up in God saying, this is what we're
going to create. Jesus comes out and speaks it
while the Holy Ghost has already been hovering
upon the face of the earth. Doing what? Preparing
the soil to manifest the moment Jesus speaks.
Come on, when Jesus spoke, the Father wasn't
saying for two or three eons, I believe, I receive,
I believe, I receive, I believe, I receive, I
believe, I receive. Because the Holy Ghost is
the agent who actually was given to us as the
first individual personality mentioned in the
scriptures. You would have thought it had been
the Father. You would have thought it had been
Jesus. Guess who it was? The Holy Ghost. And
he wasn't just mentioned, he was given a description.
He was hovering. Hovering is to brood. Brood
is to incubate. Incubate is to provide warmth
so as to bring a hatching or a manifestation.
The Holy Ghost is the manifester. And what does
he do? Well, one thing you know for sure is he's
never late. He's always early. The quarterback
doesn't throw a pass to a receiver who's standing
still. He throws a pass to someone who's already
going to the place where he's going to receive.
The touchdown. The Holy Ghost is always ahead
of you, working and manifesting. He's been in
this room when we sing, come down spirit, come
down. Yeah, he down, he down, he down, right
here. Amen. He's here. He's warming up your seat.
He's warming up the next seat. He's warming you
up in your mentality and in your thoughts. I
mean, take God out of the equation and we're
nothing. We need him in every area of life. And
the Holy Ghost is here manifesting right now
in this room. While I'm talking, I'm releasing
power. I am not preaching to you. I am ministering
to you. To minister means to dispense. My wife
grew up on a dairy farm. There's a lot of dispensing
going on on a dairy farm. Good things are dispensed.
And things you shouldn't step in are dispensed
to. And when you're in it, you know you're in
it. To dispense, we can preach a message and
just preach a message. Or we can release power
while we're saying what we're saying. What's
the difference? It's what you believe in. What
are the terms? Righteousness. He who knew no
sin, God made to be sin on your behalf that we
might become or that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Christ. Do you realize what this covenant
on this side did? It gave you every key to every
blessing without you doing a single thing. If
I'm righteous, I can't be sick. That's why there's
no need to put in the blessings, a healing. When
someone's righteous, they cease to be sick. You
say, this doesn't make sense to you. Yes, it
does. That's why Jesus said, which is easier,
to forgive the man's sin or to heal his body,
but that you may know that I am able to forgive
sin. Take up your bed and walk. In other words,
they're included in the same package. It's the
dual redemption. When I'm righteous, the Lord
goes before me to remove things so that I won't
ever have to be sick. It's the same work. Let
me ask you one more question. How did Jesus do
what Jesus did? You know, that withered hand
is probably one of the worst withered hands I've
ever seen in my life. Let's see if we can't get
that healed. No, what did he say? Stretch your
hand out. Wait a minute. He didn't say, give
me your withered hand. He said, stretch your
hand out. I got a friend. He went home to be
with the Lord. His name is Buzzy Sutherland.
Now, there's nobody in Oregon named Buzzy Sutherland.
There's no one in New York named Buzzy Sutherland.
That's got to be somewhere in the south. It's
El Dorado, Arkansas. You can't get to El Dorado,
Arkansas unless you're just lucky. He told me
one day, he said, in the ninth grade, they tried
to teach me the algebra. He said, all these X's
and Y's had numerical value. He said, I wasn't
real bright. He said, but my final exam said
X plus Y equals 49. Figure out what X and Y is.
He said, I got so happy. I took my paper, went
right up to the teacher, put it on her desk.
And I said, if I got the 49, what do I care what
X and Y is? Some of you get that a little bit
later, but anyhow, the idea is, is when you got
an answer, you can't have a problem. Figure out
the problem. I already got the answer. What are
you saying? A problem is not a problem when you
got an answer. Jesus didn't look at the people
like they had a problem. Because he'd be the
answer. So he told a blind man, go home. How
does a blind man go home? Well, the first thing
you know is, anyway, we'll do. And in the going.
His eyes opened up and he turned around and followed
Jesus. Jesus always treated people like they
were already well. Why? When you stand in the
presence of the answer, you can't act like there's
a problem. And guess what happened? That answer
jumped inside your skin. He's living inside your
body. One translation, Galatians 2 .20 says,
I've died and now I'm enjoying my second existence,
which is simply Jesus. using my body. If the
answer's inside my body, no wonder he doesn't
have to get you healed in a blessing. If you're
righteous, you ain't sick. No wonder he doesn't
have to try to get you healed in a covenant that
says, I am the Lord that heals you, when he's
the one, if you're righteous, that goes before
to make sure you never get sick, because you're
well. Maybe some of you right here are just a
whole lot more healed than you think. And maybe
with your connection to the Holy Spirit, your
body start changing instantly. Girl came to me,
last story I'll tell you. Girl came to me, she
was real buffed. I mean, I could tell you, she's
real strong looking, young. And I thought, this
girl must be an athlete. She says, I can't lift
my arms above my shoulders. I said, what happened?
She said, well, I'm a college softball player.
I got a scholarship. I'm ready to lose my scholarship.
I had an injury and both arms won't lift. Doctors
don't know why. I said, well, what if they could?
She said, that'd be great. I said, well, maybe
you can't. She said, no, I told you, I can't
lift them in here. I said, well, what if they
could? She said, well, that'd be great. I said,
maybe you can't. She goes, I told you I can't
lift them. I said, but what if you could? She
said, that would be great. I said, well, maybe
you can't. She said, I told you I can't. And
then she looked. She looked around and she said,
what did you do to me? And I said, really, I
didn't do much except hold you in a place long
enough for God to be able to do what he's already
done. Wow. There's healing in this air. From
now on, you can't come to Life Bible Church.
Without breathing in healing. It's in the air.
It's in the air. The very first night in prayer
before I got here, I knew that God was going
to, from that moment, impregnate the air of this
building with healing power. You say, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait. You really think that's what?
It's so possible. You know, they went and found
where John G. Lake lived in Portland, Oregon.
Two hours away. And in the house, the man had
lived there all the years since Lake sold him
that house. Only one owner. And he was still
in that house. He was an older man. And he asked
him, why are you come to this house? And they
told him it's because it was John Lake. He said,
that's right. I bought it from him. He said,
well, he was a healing minister. And they began
to tell him stories about Lake. And he then all
of a sudden woke up and he said, come to think
of it. Ever since I stepped into this home, Since
I've lived here, I've never even had a cold.
The glory got into the wood. It got into the
cloth. It got into the ceiling. It got into the
air. And that glory is inside of you. If the
children of Israel could sleep one night, one
night in the presence of God, than me, 60 years
saved. I'll slap myself. I've been sleeping with
Jesus for 60 years and I've had trouble. It's
like, wake up, one breaks out and you'd be instantly
healed. The devil's been pulling the wool over
our eyes, folks. I only got one minute left.
Lift up your hands right now. I command the blessing
of the Lord upon you this day. That as your hands
are lifted up like IVs that just drip, drip,
drip, drip through the IV into your veins, into
your body. I command the healing blessing of
God that is in Christ because you are the righteousness
of God in him. I command that blessing to flow
into your bodies right now. cancer cell and removes
every disease. There are infections in the bladders
that are being healed right now. There are hips
that are out of alignment that are being healed
right now and no, you don't need a new hip. God's
giving you that new hip right now. Father, I
thank you for the digestion in this room. intestines
that are being healed right now. You do not have
IBS. You do not have Crohn's disease. You do
not have trouble digesting. From this moment,
you are the righteousness of God in Christ and
God's power sets you free. What is reality? I
am sharing that with you right now. There are
multiple people right now. All the headaches
and those migraines, I curse them. I commend
them to come out of you and you'll not have another
one in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. There
is pain behind the eye and that disappears right
now in the name of Jesus. I see the spine from
the top of your head down to the very back of
your rear end. I see the power of God setting
your spine free. Every pain coming out of you
in the name of Jesus. There are multiple knees
right now that are being healed and touched by
the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a man with prostate
problems. I'm telling you, God. God sets you
free right now in the name of Jesus. Every tumor
and bump and lump and growth in this room, I
command you to dissolve and die right now. You
have no right to be on a righteous child of God.
Brain development. I release you from the brain
fog that causes you to doubt. I command that
spirit that wraps its hands around your mind,
hindering your ability to think. I command that
to stop. Lord, by your wonderful grace, this
room is experiencing the healer in great power
and great glory. Thank you, Lord. Thank you,
Lord. Thank you, Lord. And so give me your hands
turned up like this. In the name of the Lord,
you shall not only walk in the blessing of the
Lord and the healing virtue of Jesus Christ,
but from this moment, the healing power of God
settles in your hands. And that healing anointing
will walk with you. And you'll begin to know
because your hands will begin to burn like fire.
The presence of the Lord will come out of you
like fire. The Holy Ghost and fire, praise the
Lord, is now a part of your ministry. And you'll
minister this healing virtue and this place will
see miracles in Jesus' wonderful name. And that
is now being given to you by the word of the
Lord. Everybody lift your hands. One more moment.
Father, thank you for these people. Thank you
for the glory. Thank you for what you're sharing
to us. We are sharp. We are quick to receive.
We are open vessels. And we are the righteousness
of God in Christ. And we will not accept the
heinous work of Satan in this world when we have
been delivered and set free through the power
of that blood. In Jesus' name, somebody say amen
in this place. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,
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