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miraculous happens even as the word has been
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In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. In Jesus' mighty
name, we pray. All right, great. So it's good
to be in church this morning and it's good to
have us in church. Last week, Wednesday, we were
encouraged to listen to the previous track so
that we can be able to follow in this teaching
because this teaching is actually in series and
we've been taking this teaching from, I think,
August. Right. And this is October. So we are
continuing in this teaching today. Now, the title
of this is The Gifts of Healing. So for me, they
are saying this should be the subtitle. Please
don't just put the things of the spirit or what
you're putting. Please. This should be the subtitle.
The Gifts. S in the Gifts of Healing. The Gifts
of Healing. Now let's go to Acts. Chapter 4,
Acts chapter 10. I said every time we would teach,
we would read the scripture, and then we would
begin teaching. It's to prepare our minds and
our hearts to receive what the Bible is going
to teach. What we are going to explain from the
scriptures today. Acts chapter 10, verse 44.
Acts chapter 10, verse 40. Just open your Bibles
and I want us to read it together. I want us
to read it together. Acts chapter 10, verse 40.
For everybody, if we are ready, I want us to
read it together. It's also on the screen. Can
we read it together? One, two, go. While Peter
was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit
fell upon all those who heard the word. Can you
read it again? While Peter was still speaking
these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those
who heard the word. One more time. While Peter
was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit
fell upon all those who heard the word. Father,
we thank you because there's manifestation of
your power, even as we teach in the name of Jesus.
So the title of this teaching is the gifts of
healing. Because the last time we talk about
faith, right? We talk about the gift of faith.
That the gift of faith, right, is something that
you can stand in gap and receive for someone.
So someone is sick, someone is stressed, someone
is going through challenges. You can receive
on behalf of someone. So you can believe for
someone. There are many people that have believed
something for us. And later in our life, we received
them. Right? So you can believe someone can stand
in the place of prayer for you and they can believe
that you receive healing, you receive different
things, you receive what you are expecting from
God. So at those times, your own faith might
be failing, right? Your faith, there are circumstances
that might make you not to be able to exercise
faith. But someone can receive by believing on
your behalf that this thing will happen, right?
And we see that now today, we want to focus on
one of those things that can be received. And
one of those things is healing. Healing is one
of those things that can be received and is a
gift. So it can be administered. Healing can
be administered. Healing can be received. Healing
can be received. Now, while I was preparing this
study, right, I had to actually, first of all,
go through several understanding of healing,
right? The goal today is to fill us with overwhelming
evidence that healing is something that takes
place among the believers. They can receive it
and they can minister it. So the goal today is
to show us from the scripture or the goal of
this teaching is to show us from the scripture
that, Healing is something that takes place among
the believers. They can minister it and they
can receive it. So like we've taught that because
we all have the spirit of God, all that is found
in the spirit of God can be exercised by the
believer. All that is found in the spirit of
God can be exercised by the believer. And the
gift of healing is one of those things. And here
we see it's under the gifts, right? Under the
spiritual gifts. Now, one of the things that
we see is that some people said healing, there's
no more healing. In fact, while they counter
many gifts of the spirits, right? Many things
of the spirit, for example, speaking in tongues,
prophesying, word of wisdom, word of knowledge,
right? Healing is one of the ones that got the
hits the most, right? Healing God. Why did they
say healing God hits the most? The reason is
because when they pray for people, they have
another mindset that this person might not be
healed and God might want this person to die.
So by that, right, the administration of healing
to people is weakened. So they're not able to
administer healing. So they'll say, oh, if it
is God's will, let this person die. God's will?
Regarding healing in the Bible, it's clear. Are
we together? So we are going to see it today,
God's will regarding it. If God really desire
people to be healed, and we see it consistently.
Now, so some people pray that people should,
you know, God's will should be done, but God's
will is healing when it comes to healing people.
Now, the first thing we are going to do this
morning, is to check the Old Testament text.
Right? The Old Testament text. If God desire
people to be healed. Were people healed in the
Old Testament? Right? Because one of the arguments
is also that this healing stopped when John the
Baptist died. So they argue that, you know, all
those things we call the things of the Spirit,
all the things we call prophecy, these things
ended the moment the last apostle, which was
John, The moment the last apostle died, it all
ended. The problem with that is because they've
not been able to check that even before the disciples,
was God healing people? He was, right? So we'll
see it from the scriptures. So if God was healing
people before the disciples, when the disciples
healed before resurrection, and they healed after
resurrection, then today, healing should still
be taking place, right? So it means that they've
not paid attention to those scriptures. So we're
going to open the scriptures today to show that
God desire people to be healed, right? And he
ministers that through every believer that has
the spirit of God. Now, you know, in this church,
that's one of our emphasis is that we train you
to be a minister. Because the Bible says he has
set them in the church. The prophet, the apostles,
the evangelists, the teachers, the pastors. Ephesians
4 .11. For the equipping of who? The saints.
So this morning is another equipping for you
so that you can understand how healing takes
place. That healing still takes place today.
Hallelujah. Alright, so let's start. The way
I'm going to teach it, I'm going to teach it
in... kind of sections we have a b c so you can
write so that it can guide us now the first point
where we will see healing is just write physicians
healing the first point a physicians healing
we want to take different types of healing that
the bible acknowledges in the old testament the
physicians healing second kings 9 verse 15 2
Kings 9, this is the physicians in it. Does the
Bible acknowledge, right? Does the Bible acknowledge
that there are doctors, people visit doctors?
Does the Bible acknowledge that? Does the Bible
acknowledge that there are substances that you
can use to get healed? Does the Bible acknowledge
that? That is what we are saying in this first
section. The physicians healing. Now he said,
but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover
from the wounds. which the Assyrians, the Syrians
had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazel,
king of Syria. And Jehu said, if you so mind,
right, let no one, right, leave or escape from
the city to go to Jezreel. The next one. So Jehu
drove the chariot and went to Jezreel to Joram.
for Joram was laid up there and he has the king
of Judah who had come down to Joram. Go back
to verse 15. Go back to verse 15. So he returned
to Jezreel to recover from the wounds, right?
So he was actually in this context visiting a
physician. Okay, if you read the entire context,
he was actually visiting a physician when a war
had taken place and he needed to recover from
the wounds. So this is not divine healing, right?
This one is talking about someone paying a visit,
right? For a physical treatment. Okay. So it's
someone that was paying a visit to a physician
for physical treatment. Let's go to 2 Chronicles
16, 12. 2 Chronicles 15. 16, 12, please. And
in the 39th year of the rain, Asa became diseased
in the streets and his malady was severe. Yet
in this disease, he did not seek the Lord, but
he sought who? He sought physicians. So physicians
were there, right? Physicians were there. Now,
from one of our studies and series of our studies,
we have also seen, we have also seen, because
I want to stick to the Old Testament, that oil,
is also being used, right, as a form of treatment.
As a form of treatment. So, we see that oil is
used. Now, if you can write it down, when Joseph,
right, when Joseph was told his father was sick,
one of the things they took there was oil. So,
they also used oil for embalming of someone who
has passed. Right? Joseph used that on Jacob.
So, oil has some medicinal use in the Bible.
And the Bible acknowledges these things. Let
me give you one text from the Old Testament,
from the New Testament. Just this one we'll take
from the New Testament. 1 Timothy, right? Let's
just read 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy 5, 23. And it
said, drink no longer water, but use a little
wine for your stomach's sake. and thy often infirmities,
right? He said, use a little wine, Paul talking
to Timothy, for thy often infirmities, right?
So it means that certain substance we use for
physical treatment of infirmities. Are we together?
Now, after checking the scriptures, one thing
that is clear about the Bible is that most times,
There are very few records of physical healing.
And I'll tell you the reason. There are very
few records of physical healing in the sense
that they had to visit the physician and the
Bible described what was given and how that what
was given produced healing. There are very few
instances. And I tell you, the reason why this
is like that is because the Bible is communicating
a spiritual reality. Are we together? So the
reason why the emphasis of the scriptures is
not on using physical substance, the emphasis,
I said, because there's an acknowledgement that
the emphasis is low is because the Bible is communicating
a spiritual reality that it wants we, the believers,
to walk in. So the emphasis on using physical
substance is quite... It's like you having a
book dedicated to matters of the spirit and you
pay too much emphasis on the things of the natural,
right? So it becomes what is the main subject
of the Bible, right? You can question what's
the main subject if it's talking about all of
this. But there is overwhelming evidence of divine
healing in the Bible. Overwhelming evidence of
divine healing. Now we are done with the natural,
the physician's healing. If you also notice,
when Jesus was dying, they also used the word.
That the physician should do what? Should heal
himself. They used this word on Christ. They
said, physician, heal yourself. So, they were
assuming and saying that Christ is like their
medical doctor. Because they have seen him heal
many people. They've seen Christ heal many people.
They've seen him done a lot of miracles, but
yet they had no understanding. So by the time
they approached him to even walk him, they walk
him as if he was a medical doctor. They say,
oh, physicians, heal yourself. They use the statement.
So it means that in that society and that environment,
the Bible acknowledges how the physicians plays
a role. But the emphasis is not the physician.
The emphasis is not the physician. Now let's
look at another one. Let's look at another one.
So the gift of the Spirit, before we look at
it, just write this down. The gift of the Spirit
is not pertaining to this part, this physical
use of physician. The gift of the Spirit, the
gift that we're talking about in 1 Corinthians
12, is not pertaining to this physician's healing.
It's not pertaining to that. For every section
we will check, we will check it and see what
God is really saying. The reason is because so
that you can be able to know and how to administer
these things. Now, the second one. The second
one. Can you write? I just created these titles.
You just bear with me. Healing in quotes. Just
put healing and put in quotes. Quotation marks.
Healing. Inanimate objects. Healing inanimate
objects or things. I intentionally told you to
put that healing in quotation. There's a reason.
So you put healing inanimate things or objects.
Now in the scriptures, there are places where
the word healing was used for things, right?
It was used for things. For example, healing
inanimate things, water was healed in the Bible.
Was water healed? They used the word healed for
water. Exodus 15 verse 22 to 27. Exodus 15 verse
22 to 27. And Moses brought Israel from the Red
Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of
Sheol. And they went three days in the wilderness
and found no water. Now, when they came to Marah,
they could not drink the waters of Marah, for
they were bitter. This is not figurative, this
is literal, right? Therefore the name of the
place was called Marah. The next one. And the
people complained against Moses saying, what
shall we drink? So he cried out to the Lord and
the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into
the waters, the waters were made sweet. There
he made a statute and ordinance for them and
there he tested them. So what did Moses do here?
Moses healed the water. We did not see the word
healing here, right? We did not see the word
healing here. Let's go to 2 Kings. 2 Kings 2.
I think verse 19. If I'm correct, verse 19. Then
the men of the city said to Elisha, Please notice
the situation of this city is pleasant, as my
Lord sees, but the water is bad and the ground
is barren. And he said, Bring me a new bowl and
put a salt in it. So they brought it to him.
Then he went out to the source of the water and
cast the salt there. So we see in this context,
what was being healed was water. Just similar
to what Moses did. Similar to what Moses did.
Let me see if I have one more scripture. For
an inanimate object, the word healed is used.
1 Kings 18. Verse 30. 1 Kings 18, verse 30. Then
Elijah said to all the people, come near to me.
So all the people came near to him and he repaired
the altar of the Lord that was broken. Okay?
He repaired what? The altar of the Lord that
was broken. Now that word repair is the word
rapha. It's the same word that was translated
to heal. He said, and he did what? He repaired
the altar of the Lord. That word is still the
word Raphael, right? Was used. So the actions,
right? The actions of Elijah when it comes to
the altar of the Lord. So healing, repaired,
was used. Now, in this context, okay? Having
understood the gift of the spirit. And as we
proceed, we will see what took place here. Okay,
are we together? What took place here is the
working of miracles, not the gift of healing.
Please write it down. That what took place in
all this context, apart from the one that Elisha
was physically repairing the temple, what took
place here is the working of miracles is not
healing. And I'll tell you why. So this is also
not related to the gift of healing, but we see
the word used in the scriptures. We are coming
to the one where the Bible talks about healing.
Now, something can be happening in your environment,
right? You have heard testimony of people, they
wanted to hold a service, okay? And they brought
an engine that was working, maybe an engine like
this. And the mixer was working all along. But
all of a sudden, they came to relocate it to
a place where they needed to do evangelism and
nothing was working again. And you'll hear people
say, they just went and they lay hands and they
prayed on it and it started working again. Now,
this is working of miracles. You know why? Because
healing, in terms of the gift of healing, takes
place, right, on the vessel that God can inhabit.
So the gift of healing works on the verse. So
it does not work. We don't call that healing
because that is the working of a miracle because
God does not work there. He cannot inhabit an
engine, but he can inhabit horse. So why do we
call the one that happens to us healing? Because
the purpose, I'm going to take this back again.
The purpose of healing is to show the gospel.
When it comes to man. So when it comes to man,
God's purpose of providing this possibility of
divine healing is that when we heal people, we
can show them the message of Christ. Or that
we ourselves, when we are healed, we are able
to go and preach. So again, like I said, circumstances
around you, situations around you, right? Things
might be happening and you can speak. You can
touch them, right? You can look at them and,
you know, say something in the spirit and that
natural circumstance can come to obedience of
what you have said. That is not healing. That
is the workings of miracles, which we are going
to teach. Okay? That is the workings of miracles.
Now, when Jesus rebuked the wind, was Jesus healing
the wind? Together, when Jesus rebuked the wind,
was he healing the wind? Okay, that's an inanimate
object that was being spoken to, right? And the
wind respected. So when we deal with those circumstances
and things, it's actually you're working miracles
because you are changing something in the natural
to obedience. But the word was used for these.
It is because. So why was it used? It is because
it is to show that something has been restored.
So healing was used for water, for altar, for
example, altar. It was used to show that something
has been restored. Something has been made whole.
Something has been made complete. Something has
been put in a state where it can function well
for man. That's it. It has been shown, it has
been used to show that now the water can be drank,
can be taken, right? We can take the water. We
can also say that the altar, then worship can
take place there, right? So it is that the natural
circumstances around us, we put them on that
subjection through the power of God. When we
do that, that is working of miracles. So this
is just part of it. So all of this is not healing,
but the word was used to show that they have
been made complete. Now, the main one we want
to talk about. The main one. Healing in the context
of salvation. Healing in the context. This should
be the C. Right? This should be our C. This should
be C. Healing in the context of salvation. So
you can write that the gift of healing, the gift
of healing, right? The gift of healing is expressed
in the context of salvation because it was given.
The gift of healing is expressed in the context
of salvation because it was given. by the Spirit
of Christ. Right? It's expressed in the context
of salvation because it was given by the Spirit
of Christ. Now, before we talk about the resurrection,
right? Before we talk about the resurrection,
we're going to come to that later. Let's begin
again to peek from the Old Testament to see if
people were healed or what healing was talked
about. Now, let's see. 2 Chronicles 7, verse
14. 2 Chronicles 7, verse 14. The first scripture
is for this text. If my people who are called
by my name will humble themselves and pray and
seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear them from heaven. I will forgive
their sin and I will heal their land. Now, it's
talking about a spiritual state. Over people.
Right? He's talking about a spiritual state over
people. And healing is used to communicate the
deliverance of God. Okay? He's talking about
the spiritual state of the people. And healing
is used to communicate the deliverance of God.
We're going to come to that that refers to physical
healing. So this one we see that he's talking
about their spiritual state. Their land. Now,
this land is not land. It's not literal here.
It doesn't mean the floor or the ground, but
it's talking about the people will be healed.
It means they will be restored back to the place
of worship. Now let's see Isaiah 1 verse 1 to
6. Isaiah 1 verse 1 to 6. And the vision of Isaiah,
the son of Amos, which is so concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. Hear,
O heavens, and give hear, O earths. For the Lord
has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows
its owner, and the donkey its master's scribe.
But Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Alas, sinful nations, the people laden with iniquity,
a broad of evildoers, children who are corruptors,
they are forsaking the Lord. They have provoked
to hunger. The Holy One of Israel, they have
turned away. They have turned away backward.
Why should you be shrinking again? You will revolt
more and more. The whole earth is sick and the
heart faints. From the soul of the foot, even
to the head, there is no soundness in it. but
wounds and bruises, right? Putrefying sores.
They have not been closed or bound or suited
with what? Ornaments. Again, you see ornaments,
right? Used for expression of physical healing.
Now, what is Isaiah saying here? We need to understand
what Isaiah is saying here. Isaiah, okay? Isaiah
is using a people that have been taken captives,
right? And the states, they find themselves in
sickness. to preach a spiritual reality to them.
So again, I say, Isaiah found the people, his
people, right? In captivity and they were actually
sick. They were actually had their shorts, right?
They were in another country, right? They were
taking exile. So when Isaiah wanted to communicate
with them, he used their natural circumstances
to communicate a similar thing. in their spiritual
states. So in the book of Isaiah, you have to
pay attention very well, right? To know when
he's doing this particular style of writing.
So Isaiah told us that they are wounded and he's
using that wound to communicate that. So he's
using their physical sickness to communicate
God's salvation. That is why later in that chapter,
he says, come, let us what? Let us resume together.
Right? And he began to talk about if your sins.
Right? But what did he use to communicate sin?
The bruise, the sores, the sickness. So sin,
right, is communicated as sickness. It's communicated
as sickness. And the solution to it is the preaching
of the gospel. Are we together? The solution
to that sickness is the preaching of the gospel.
Let's add more scriptures to where sin has been
used, where sickness has been used to communicate
sin. Right? Let's add scriptures there. Jeremiah
3 verse 22. Jeremiah 3 verse 22. Return you backsliding
children. I will heal your backsliding. Indeed,
we do come to you. for you are the Lord who are
God. So backsliding, another way of people who
are not believing, healing for backsliding, right?
People who are drawing away. So backsliding,
talking about people who reject God. Another
scriptures, Jeremiah 17, verse 14. I know someone
might be asking, is it only sin that God heals?
No, we are just starting from here. God heals
the physical sickness too, because that's where
we are going actually. That's where we are going.
But we need to know, we need to lay this foundation
so that when we are talking about the physical
healing, you don't see it as a show. You don't
see it as what we are doing just to, it's just
there. You will know the reason, the purpose
behind God giving the believer the ability to
heal. You will know. So as we see, first primarily,
the emphasis. It's taught here as sickness, sin.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save
me, and I shall be saved. For you are my what?
My praise. Right? So the prophet is really emphasizing
it and using it, you know, reiterating what he
said. Heal me, I will be healed. Save me. So
within that context, we also see healing and
salvation. Healing and salvation. You can put
all this other... and you can read them later.
Isaiah 6 verse 1. You can put Isaiah 6 verse
1. Let's see. Put Isaiah 6 verse 1. Come and
let us return to the Lord for He has torn, but
He will heal us. He is striking. He will bind
us all. Right? Isaiah 14 verse 4. Sorry, I'm
reading them fast so that we can get to a particular
place. Isaiah 14 verse 4. I will heal their backsliding,
the same thing. I will love them freely, which
is the point of salvation. My anger has turned
away from him, right? For my anger has turned
away from him. Now, the last text that we will
see, just write it down, Isaiah 53 verse 1 to
5. We will study it extensively because that
text is one that we use. that he had bought our
sorrows, he had bought our griefs, right? By
his stripes, we are healed, right? So that one
also is in the context of salvation, but does
not negate that God heals us physically. Do we
get it? Isaiah 53 verse 25. So the problem is
when we lay emphasis on one against the other,
or we accept one against the other. So most people
will say this thing, this gift of healing has
ended. They emphasize on every part where healing
has taken place as salvation. But truly, God
does heal the physical body. So you can write
this part now, divine healing, right? Divine
healing. Divine healing. divine healing. So we've
started from physicians healing, we've gotten
to inanimate, we are in healing and the context
of salvation. Now we're talking about divine
healing, right? Is there divine healing? Despite
these things being communicated as, despite sickness
being used to communicate sin, is there divine
healing? Yes, there is. And in the New Testament,
that's not the first place where we see it. So
there's divine healing. So you can rise. Divine
healing is a sign of God's salvation from sin.
Divine healing. It's a sign of God's salvation
from sin. It is a sign of God's salvation from
sin. When we heal, Through the supernatural power
of God, when we heal through the supernatural
power of God, we communicate the resurrection
of Christ. When we heal through the supernatural
power of God, we communicate the resurrection
of Christ. Now let's check. some Old Testament
scriptures and see if healing took place there.
Right? If healing took place. Healing of the
body. We mean divine healing now. Not using it
figuratively, but divine healing. So there's
what we call the law of first mention in the
scriptures. So when we are studying the scriptures,
when we are paying attention to the Bible, there's
what we call the law of first mention, which
means that where was healing first discussed?
Right? Who first healed, for example? Who first
healed? Who first healed someone? Where was healing
first discussed? So, of course, you know, we
talk about a lot of things mentioned. Our first
book is what? Genesis. Our first book is Genesis.
So let's go to Genesis 20. Genesis 20, verse
7 and 17. So now, therefore, restore the man's
wife, for he is a prophet. Please hold on to
this part that says he's a prophet, because he's
going to help us explain verse 17. He is a prophet
and he will do what? Pray. And you shall what?
Leave. But if you do not restore her, know that
you shall die and all who are yours. Right? Now
go to verse 17. Let's go to verse 17. So Abraham
did what? He prayed to God. And God what? Healed
Abimelech, his wife, his female servants, then
the poor children. Now, so he's talking about
Abraham. right? Praying for Abimelech, a king,
and he was healed. So it means that there were
infirmities on him, on his family members, and
all of that, right? And what did Abraham do?
Abraham prayed and he was healed. So from the
scriptures, at least by this record, we see that
Abraham himself healed someone. He prayed and
he was healed. Hallelujah. Abraham prayed and
someone was healed. Numbers 21, verse 9. The
next person, usual, right? Moses. Numbers 21,
verse 9. And Moses made a brozen serpent and
put it on a pole, and so it was, if a serpent
had beaten anyone, when he looked at the brozen
serpent, he lived. Right? He lived. So, it means
that Moses was also administering healing. In
this context, who administered the healing? Moses.
So he said, okay, for you people to be healed,
he raised the top. Was that figurative? No. In
that day, they had to look. If you don't look,
the person would die, right? So they needed to
look. So all of them looked, right? All of them,
although in John, right? This was later used
to communicate what? Salvation again. So when
we see divine healing, salvation is always around
it. It was physical here. People who had sinned,
they were beaten by a literal snake. And Moses
healed them by administering healing. But it
was just to communicate salvation when John came.
So we see divine healing here. Another scripture
is Numbers 12, verse 3. Numbers 12, verse 3.
This one is a context where it will be men, right?
Numbers 12. Really? Can you check Exodus 2 verse
3? Exodus 2 verse 3. Let's see. Okay, not the
scriptures, right? Switch to 2 Kings 5 verse
10. 2 Kings 5 verse 10. I'll find the scriptures.
2 Kings 5 verse 10. And Elijah sent a messenger
to him. saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven
times and your flesh shall be restored to you
and you shall be what? Clean. This is Naaman.
And this is who? Elisha administering healing.
Right? Administering healing. 2 Kings 20 verse
5. 2 Kings 20 verse 5. Return and tell Hezekiah,
the leader of the people, of my people. Thus
says the Lord, the God of your father, I have
heard your prayer and I have seen your tears
and surely I will do what? I will heal you. Right?
I will heal. And on the third day you shall go
up on the house of God. Now you can find a scripture
where Moses prayed. I think that was scriptures
I was looking. Moses prayed that Miriam be restored.
Right? So I was saying that context is the context
where if we're to be other men, right? That's
why Moses, you know, squirt me, right? Numbers.
Yes, it's in Numbers, right? Please, can you
go back to that Numbers? Let's find it. Around
that verse. Because he told Miriam that Miriam
would be healed. He prayed for her to be healed
and she was healed. Despite that, what did they
do? They rebelled against the authority of Moses.
Okay, so 13. So help me with Numbers 12 verse
13. Numbers 12. So Moses prayed for someone and
she was healed. she was healed. Now, it therefore
means that exceedingly what we see in the scriptures
is a lot of divine healing taking place. And
Moses cried out to the Lord saying, please heal
her, oh God, I pray. We knew that she did not
die on that sickness. She was restored. She was
restored. So we know that you can now write,
you can write now that the gift of healing The
gift of Hillel is for the physical body of man
to be restored. The physical body of man to be
restored. The physical body of man to be restored.
the physical body of man to be restored. So this
is what we see in the Old Testament text. Now,
what you must pay attention, okay, is that prior
to the resurrection of Jesus, okay, prior to
the resurrection of Christ, there are ways by
which this took place. So let's go to the New
Testament text. Matthew 4 verse 23. So now in
the New Testament. In the New Testament text.
Matthew 4 verse 23. Just stay on that scripture.
It said, And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching
in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing what? all kinds of sicknesses
and all kinds of diseases among the people. So
Old Testament, we see healing. Jesus coming in
the New Testament continued and also did what?
He healed. But what do we see there? We see that
it goes with what? The preaching of the gospel.
So he said, preaching the kingdom of God and
healing all kinds of diseases. Healing all kinds.
There's something I did not emphasize on when
we're talking about Abraham praying for Abimelech.
In verse 7, he said he is what? A prophet. It
means that Abraham communicated the message of
God. That was what he does. He is a prophet.
He communicates the message of God. And therefore,
he administers what? Healing. Right? He administered
healing. Good. And now we see Christ communicating
the message of God and he did what? He's administering
healing. So therefore, can we say that every
believer who walks in the office of Christ as
the prophets, as a priest, as a king, can we
say that every believer can administer healing?
Can we say that? Yes. Right? Yes. So just add
1 Peter just to connect that together. 1 Peter
2 verse 9. But you are a chosen generation, a
royal priest to the holy nation, a special people
that you may proclaim the praises of him who
has called you out of darkness into his marvelous
light. Next. Who were once not a people, but
are now the people of God, who had not obtained
mercy, but now have obtained mercy. We read the
scriptures this morning. Go back to verse 9,
please. It said, A royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a peculiar people, God's own people. One of the
ways by which we make known the praises of God
is also through healing. So that when somebody
is healed through your hands, they will give
praises to God. They will give thanks to God.
You can teach them the word of Christ. You can
explain to them what has taken place. Do we get
it? That when somebody comes to you, and you
administer, you don't say, oh, you are healed.
You don't just heal somebody or someone comes
to you and you pray for the person and the person
comes back to you and you say, I'm healed. And
you just say, okay, go and seek a priest. There
is nothing like that. You have to preach to the
person if the person is an unbeliever. If the
person is a believer that does not understand
this thing and it took place and the person shares
the testimony, you must teach the person that
the gifts of healing is real and God does heal
people. There is divine healing. Are we together?
So, healing comes with the communication of a
message. Healing comes with what? The communication
of a message. Let's go to Hezekiah's case again.
Hezekiah's case. That should be what? Second?
King, right? Can you pick up that scripture for
Hezekiah's case? Can you check it for me? 1st
Kings or 2nd Kings? I have my scriptures here.
Alright, 2nd Kings 5. No, 2nd Kings 20 verse
5. 2nd Kings 20 verse 5. Now, in this case, okay?
In this case, let me tell you what was communicated.
What was communicated in the case of... Hezekiah
was the deliverance of Israel. So God's healing
of Hezekiah, you can write it down, that God's
healing of Hezekiah was the communication of
God's deliverance of Israel. He said on the third
day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
Now, if you continue to read this text downward,
you will see that Israel was delivered from their
enemies. Israel was delivered from the enemy
nations around them. So the healing of the King
Isaiah was actually a communication of God's
salvation to his people. The communication of
God's salvation to its people. So now, right,
to the church, to the church, to the church,
to the church, I mean today, today, right, to
the church, to we that are in church today, right,
we're going to finish on this particular note.
To the church, the gift of healing, it means
to the believer, to the church, when we heal
people, when we lay hands on people, when we
call people to come out and they are healed.
To the church. The gift of healing communicates
edification to the people. The gift of healing
communicates edification. It means it strengthens
the faith of the people. It strengthens their
body for the work of ministry. It's edification
unto them. It is strengthening to them. It is
for them to be able to function for the work
of the gospel. Let's go to Acts 10 verse 38.
Acts 10 verse 38. Acts 10 verse 38. How God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with
power, who went about doing good and healing
all who were oppressed by the devil. For God
was with him. Now, we see Jesus here. And this
was not before resurrection, right? I'm sorry,
this was before resurrection, right? This was
what? Before resurrection. We're going to explain
this on Wednesday much more because this was
before resurrection. But for the church, you
must know that it's for edification. For this
as well, is to strengthen the faith of the people
and to communicate the message. Let's see. A
few things that we can touch upon again today.
Exodus 4 verse 8. Exodus 4 verse 8. Then it will
be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the
message of the first sign, that they might believe
the message of the latter sign, right? Sign.
Now, for unbelievers who are outside the church,
okay? For unbelievers who are outside the church,
right? When you heal them, it is for a sign.
The word sign, S -I -G -H, S -I -G. And it's
for a sign. For you, healing is not a sign. Judah,
you are in the church. It is what is among the
package that came as you believe the message
of God. But for those who are outside, when we
heal, it is for a sign to a message. For you,
healing is not a sign. It is the bread of the
children. Healing was used to communicate food.
It means that it is something regular. It is
something that should be found where the children
are. It means that the children need to be always
whole. The children need to be sound. Those that
are called for the work of ministry need to be
healthy so they can do the job. So healing was
used to communicate food in that context. But
for someone that is outside, it is a sign. Right?
It is a sign because they do not understand the
power of God. So what is the power of God? Romans.
Salvation. The gospel on salvation. Salvation.
That is the power of God. So when we heal people
outside, it is that they might see the power
of God. What is the power of God? It's salvation.
It's salvation. Hallelujah. Amen. So, we see
that every believer, because we are prophets
and kings, we can walk in this. We can walk in
this. Let's go to Luke 9, verse 1. I'm just reading
these scriptures to also show that when Jesus
was on earth before he died, there was healing.
There was healing. The New Testament text. Luke
chapter 9 verse 1. Then he called his 12 disciples
and gave them power and authority over all demons
and to what? To cure diseases. So this is, they
are not medical doctors. They are actually men
who just started following Jesus and he gave
them authority. He gave them power, right? He
gives authority to exercise power. That is what
that means, right? You give them authority to
exercise power over these diseases and they heal.
So this is divine healing. Hallelujah. So divine
healing is what we see. And the question I want
to ask is, the people that they went to heal,
were they believers? They were healing all manner
of people. All manner of people that some of
them did not still believe the message. But they
were communicating the message, they were receiving
the healing. Hallelujah. So as believers, this
is where we stop today. As believers, we can
administer healing because we have the spirit
of Christ in us. These folks, they didn't have
the spirit of Christ. Christ gave them something
to go about it. And that is what made the healing
to take place. What about you that now have Christ
himself in you? If Abraham, that looked forward
to the church. If Isaiah, that the spirit comes
upon and lives, he said, the spirit of a sovereign
Lord God is upon me. Isaiah 61. If Ezekiah and
all those people who never had the Holy Spirit
residing permanently in them, if they can walk
in healing, what about you in high? That we now
have the spirit of God residing in us. It means
that we can walk in healing, right? Can we be
on our feet? Can we be on our feet and just pray?
Now what we want to do now is to pray yourself
into, after this teaching, pray yourself into
believing it. Pray yourself to take away every
obstacle of your mind that makes you believe
that there is no healing. Because healing takes
place and it can take place through you. Can
we be on our feet? All we just want to do is
to just pray in the Holy Ghost. For about a few
minutes, pray in the Holy Ghost and notify yourself
that I believe that healing takes place through
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