06/10/2020 - The Balm of Gilead - Rev. Dillon Morgan

I'm thankful to be here and I do feel like God has given me a word you know I was an evangelist you usually get the perks of getting to preach something over and over and over again and I and just talking to brother Tyler actually today in the office and I told him I said man I said God won't let me preach something that I want to preach I've got to preach what he's telling me to preach tonight so tonight is gonna be different for me I just want to make that very clear nobody likes to preach harder than I do I don't think I love to preach till I'm red in the face and I'm sweat through my shirt and suit and I've gone through about 17 bottles of water but the Lord really began to deal with me I'm starting on Monday and and I just feel like God's given me a word tonight so if you would just bear with me and if we could open our hearts to the word of the Lord very burdened tonight with what I feel pretty very different prayer for myself for this service and that was that I could almost feel as the Prophet felt as he wrote my text tonight I wanted to feel that weight that he he had on him when he began to put this on paper and I really feel like the Lord has done that I I told I told somebody that today and they said be careful what you pray for you might get it and I think I'm living in that right now I'm so heavy tonight but I'm excited to see what the Lord is going to do I have a picture I want to start with tonight if they have it up there it's a picture of a tree as we can see of this tree this is a small and seemingly very insignificant tree one that if you were I today or in the future we're to buy a house and were to see that tree planted in the front yard I imagine we would want to get it out as soon as possible it really does not it does not have the beauty of the bloom of the rose and it doesn't encumber the subtle beauty of the lily that's found in the valley nothing about this tree is appealing to the eyes a matter of fact if we were to begin to do our landscaping and redo our yard I don't imagine anybody buying this tree and saying I need this in my front yard it's not really very effective for shade and it doesn't really produce fruit that is tasty and it's not an apple tree or one time I started doing something about trees and I listed something that didn't grow on a tree so I'm just gonna stop there but that tree is where we find our text tonight in Jeremiah 8 and number 22 he said is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered Jeremiah understanding the importance of a seemingly unimportant tree begins to talk to us about the necessity of a balm in Gilead and this necessity of a physician there are through 50 generations Gilead was famed for its plantations of aromatic and medicinal herbs this very tree the balsam tree was a lowly tree little better than a shrub with scanty foliage and inconspicuous flower looking at it you would scarcely have thought it to be profitable for any purpose for shade for beauty or for fruit but on wounding its stem there flowed a very pellucid gum which was carefully collected and was considered of all the substances known to pharmacy the most sovereign and wonderful so early as the days of Joseph this balm was an object of Commerce and was carried down to Gilead to Egypt in the days of Solomon the gardens where this tree grew were annexed to the crown and it became an item of the royal revenue so precious were they deemed that in the days the roman invasion a battle was fought for their possession and among other symbols of victory which this great victorious Roman leader carried this bossom tree it was borne through the streets in a triumphal procession the healing nature of the balm of Gilead was noised abroad as it was carried and applied across cities and kingdoms they understood the importance and the necessity of the bomb that was in Gilead so the Prophet Jeremiah poses this rhetorical question found in Jeremiah 8 and 20 - is there no bomb knowing Gilead was known and one of the only places of which you could find this life-giving bomb he then begins to continue to ride in the second format of this rhetorical question is there no physician knowing that the greatest of specialists in not only taking this bomb from the tree but also applying it was found in Gilead the healing ointment was applied by physicians that understood its components found on these buds they knew the balm they knew this balm was for some the only hope with an understanding they applied by the hand of the physicians who understood these healing elements so when we see this very insignificant looking tree but to those that understand the value and what this tree represents they knew in reality it was of the utmost of value and of the utmost importance they would look among that tree with amazement and wonder but the question yet was posed is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there the prophets are called physicians and the word as we know this is the balm as we are to look at it in New Testament and in our days and type in shadows we would understand that the physician would be the men of God or the preacher who is first the Great Physician Jesus but all of us have received the commandment in Matthew 28:19 with the great commission to go forth preaching and teaching and applying the balm of Gilead as the word is the balm so are the ministers of the gospel in do measure in their place to speak properly and fully Christ is our only physician and we are but his ministers bound to apply his saving medicine to the sick souls of his people so we need to understand this balm is what we receive the day that we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost this bomb is the answer to the world Jesus gave us this command as I said in the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18 we will pick it up and Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things wheresoever I have commanded you and lo I am with You alway even unto the end of the world as we have received this life-giving oilmen as we have received this life-giving thing as we have received this thing that that that is so sought after by so many they just may not understand exactly what they are seeking after it is now our god-given right as the ministers of this balm to distribute it to those that are dying all around us as we have received from those who are willing to go to this source of the life-giving tree we must also realize it is our job to go to this life-giving source and deliver its life-giving agents to those that are all around us we find that the bomb has previously stated as the Word of God everybody say the bomb is the Word of God and the physician the great physician is Jesus and once we have received we become a physician of the bomb as well to quote brother Stoneking everybody in the New Testament was a the way to get out this juice that would create the bomb is by cutting it very precisely thus issuing would be this precious bomb as you see here it is also how we get the healing ointment out of God's Word is by cutting it and skillfully dividing it 2nd Timothy 2:15 says study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth to not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth it is true that God's Word is the bread of life but while it is in the whole loaf many cannot understand it so it is needful for us as the physicians to break open the balm of Gilead and deliver it to those that are around us in this season we must be in the Word of God more than we have ever been breaking it down and giving it to this hurting world like never before I stand today and for the last three or four days I feel like I have heard the cries of this world echoing through my mind and I hear the hurts of the people that are in this city in every city across the world right now and we must understand that they may be crying out things that issue on the mainstream media but what they are really hungry for is the balm that is found in Gilead they need this healing ointment that we get to experience and it is our job to break it down and give it to those that are dying and and freely give it to them that are hungry and freely divided this word and deliver it to those that are lost and on their way to a devil's hell jesus said it this way but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel in matthew 10:17 and as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand this is what he said heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast out the devils are you ready this last part is what I really want to bring to your attention freely he have received freely he have received it didn't cost you anything it cost him everything and he said freely as you have received that's how we need to give freely we cannot be stingy with this bomb we cannot be stingy with this sought-after thing we cannot be stingy with what we have received freely in the house of God as the earthly bomb was by their civil merchants transported to other nations and given to them so that they could receive this healing ointment so it is our job to go and to give them this forever healing agent so when this heavenly bomb was given to any Gentile a merchant of their own a prophet of Israel carried it Nineveh could not have survived less Jonah carried this bomb there would have been no hope for Babylon unless Daniel would have marched into that place and held on to his convictions and delivered this Vaughan acts we look at acts 13 and verse number 47 for so hath the lord commanded us saying I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou should us be for salvation unto the ends of the earth and when the Gentiles heard this they were glad they're glad when they hear this life-giving appointment and this life-giving bomb they were glad when they heard it and they glorified the word or the bomb of the Lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed and watch what he said and the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region this must be published in Palm Bay this must be published in they'll born this must be published in this County this must be published in this state this must be published in this world we have a bomb that is found in Gilead and it is our job it is our job as we have freely received to freely give this bomb there they were willing to receive the palm of Gilead and just as Paul had go and show them the word we must go and show the word it is our heavenly duty to show this life-giving substance of the balm of Gilead the world is crying for something the world is not in need of another program this world is not a need of another gimmick this world needs a mouthpiece of God to stand and propagate the gospel and to go forth teaching and preaching this beautiful wonderful matchless truth acts 2:38 will still save somebody baptism in Jesus name is still the only way we have a palm found in Gilead we have a bomb found in Gilead and it is our great comission to stand and to deliver this bomb we need not to diagnose the symptoms for another day we've got to quit diagnosing symptoms and get down to what really is the disease we've got to quit uplifting the symptoms and we have to make the diagnosis that was made in the beginning in Genesis at the fall of man sin is still the issue sin is still the disease that were up against this world needs someone to stand and say I've got the answer to sin we cannot continually treat the symptoms that we hear publicized on mainstream media that's a symptom of the sin the things that are going on in this world their cry for drugs their need for alcohol their need for another pill or another shot from a needle their need from those things is a mere cry of a symptom of the real disease and we have the answer against sin this world is not crying for recent headlines boosted by our mainstream media you've got to discern their true cry and that is an empty vessel crying out saying I need something real in my life I need something sustainable to carry me through everything else that I've tried it's temporary I need something that's gonna outlast me I need that's gonna carry me I need something that's gonna mend my marriage I need something that's gonna put my family back together I've tried every 12-step program I can't get off the alcohol I can't get off the drugs oh but I've got an answer for you friend and if you're listening tonight and if you're in this room tonight there's a bomb in this room there is a healing agent in this room it's found in the Word of God and that is the Holy Ghost there's a balm in Gilead I say to this city there's a balm in Gilead I say to this state there's still a balm in Gilead a tollable the undal of the balm of Gilead I was the standard day is dear mice to it posed this question is there no bomb in Killian is there no physician there and why then it's not the health the daughter of my people recovered why then is the world hurting why was we hear the cry of the body of Christ and not tend to their cry the cry of the dying souls that are walked by on a daily basis I'm not just preaching to you I'm preaching to myself here tonight melancholy fact is that sin prevails sin is here as in other places of Scripture represented under the figurative character of a disease and in the representation to appropriate for sin affects the soul much in the same way as a disease affects the body it is a derangement of the spiritual frame by which as functions are impeded its strength and feeble its comfort impaired its proper ends counteracted and it's very existence as a creature destined to immortal Felicity it is endangered and it is becoming destroyed the biblical illustrator breaks sin down like this it is a hereditary disease not induced by outward or accidental circumstances but Intel upon us as an attribute of our fallen nature and cleaving to us with this much as much passion as if it were a part of our original being it continues to write as is a pervading disease not limited to any one portion of our Constitution but dwelling in every department of it influencing its intellectual powers its moral dispositions its sensitive organs Isaiah said the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint it is a vital and habit-forming disease not touching merely the extreme or superficial parts of our system and resisted in its progress by any inherit energies but corrupting and preying upon our inmost soul and as so to all that is within us and to all that is around us as to grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength sin is a deceitful disease not always accompany with those violent and decided symptoms which forbid us to mistake the nature or disregard the perils of our condition but often assuming that gentle form which allows us our apprehensions and flatters us with the hopes of recovery it is often with all a pailful and harassing disease filling us with dissatisfaction and fear and trembling rendering our days gloomy and our nights restless or piercing us with Agony's to which we can find neither utterance or relief it is a mortal disease so the biblical illustrator continues not inflicting upon us as a momentary moment and then giving place to the renovated vigor but mocking at all human attempts to throw it off sooner or later subduing us by its resent less power and consigning us to the pains and the terrors of the second death I ask again to the sin that is trying to consume us in our world is there no balm in Gilead no remedy by which the disease of sin may be cured is there no physician there no physician qualified to apply the remedy and make it effectual Christ is set forth as the great physician of our souls he has wisdom to devise rather method may be necessary for rescuing the victims whom he has been sent to deliver he has tenderness and compassion to induce him to do and bestow and suffer all whatever it may be which their circumstances require Christ is still the answer he has the power to conquer every obstacle that would frustrate his exertions in their behalf and to render effectual means that they may be employed for their recovery Christ is still the answer and as he has all these attributes in an indefinite degrees so that he is competent to heal those and whom this disease called sin has assumed its most intervening form and even to call them back from its very gates of the grave in the records of Christianity we read many who though sin was preying on their very vitals as a deep-seated and mortal distemper and through they were ready to perish because they had no ability to stand or withstand sin or its progress yet escaped from its destroying power Christ stands above sin as the answer as the answer Jesus friend is still the answer to sin Jesus friend is still the answer to your hurt Eastwind there's still a bomb found in Gilead and it's that anointing that we feel rushing through this place right now friends brothers and sisters there is still a balm in Gilead it's the Word of God and when we apply it to the hurting and the broken of this world we will show them oh you're crying out but there's still a balm in Gilead a beg God I ask God what do I need to preach this Wednesday there were things I wanted to preach but I kept hearing the cry of this world right now I kept hearing the brokenness and the disunity of this world right now I felt the Lord quickened me so strongly there's still a balm in Gilead friend brother sister in Christ the body of Christ that I have the pleasure of standing before today if you're here today and you're broken and you don't have the gift of the Holy Ghost I'll tell you there's a balm in Gilead in this room here for you today but friend let me go one step further to every Apostolic that's here there are people outside of these doors that need this balm it's sounding chiliad there are people walking amongst these streets they need this balm sounding gilja if you want to know what the answer to this world's cry is right now it is still the Holy Ghost it is still baptism in Jesus they they don't need another program they need the Holy Ghost they don't get another fancy message they need the bomb that was found in gilja today I know shop let there be a bomb arise in every home let us break this word down like we never have and deliver it to the hurting and the broken that is delivered to those that are bound by addiction Belma pornography bound by sin bound by sea there's a bomb sound gilja [Applause] totally Alaba imagine what would happen to this city if fifteen of us got so hungry to know this bomb and started teaching Bible studies in our neighborhood 500 so revival would happen overnight imagine what would happen if we just started saying I'm gonna teach my neighbor a Bible study because I know the bomb that is found in Gilly at a 500 so revival would take days in that kind of economy [Applause] it's a balm found in Gilead we can't hear what the world is saying right now and not discern the truth of the matter it's sin that's what's going on friends brothers sisters these things that are happening we're told by this bomb found in Gilead and Jesus Christ himself and let me tell you what else was told when we start seeing these things a mighty harvest sons and daughters prophesied old men having dreams and young men having visions let me tell you what else was prophesied of this season an apostolic harvest where the latter and the former come together and we see a mighty move of the Holy Ghost where we can't hold the amount of people that come into the house of God there's a harvest in the middle of this payoff but it won't happen if we don't give them the bomb that is found in Gilead love is still the answer I'm hurryin to a close John 13:34 what's what Jesus says a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you imagine if Jesus limited his love but he said as I have loved you that ye also love one another you ready you want to know how we really know if we're a disciple of Jesus we like to claim that we are but there's really only one test to know if you're a true disciple by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if you have love one to another next time you're in Walmart or Target or chick-fil-a and you feel a hurt on the person standing next to you why don't you just remind them there's still a balm in Gilead let me tell you about a place that I want to take you to and when you get there you're just gonna feel the love of Jesus that's what we feel in this room right and when you get there you're gonna know this is the balm of Gilead I'll close with this story and I'm done just to two weeks ago I think it was my mom and dad were driving to my grim Paul's I believe it was his 80th birthday my dad was telling my mom I just feel like there's something we need to do right now I just feel like there's there's something more I have to be doing right now my mom said well Lord Jeff what do you think it is I don't know but there's just something I need to be doing about everything that's going on so they went to my grandpa's 80th birthday was that Colton Steakhouse because my grandpa wanted a stake from Colton Steakhouse not ruse Chris Colton's so they go to Colton's and they're sitting at the table my dad looks over at this table he bumps my mom he says I just feel I just feel like I'm supposed to pay for that couples meal and my mom goes Jeff there's six people at that table that's gonna be like a hundred and thirty dollar so they start talking a little bit my dad you know waves over there waiter says I want to buy that tables meal sitting at the table were three different ethnicity groups and the head of the table was a interracial couple and my dad walked up to the man and leaned his hand on his back and said I just want you to know I don't agree with what's going on in this world and we want you to know that Hope Center loves you and we took care of your meal tonight and put the receipt down and Bishop little to his knowledge that the girl was a backslider from a church just two hours down the road well she got a little inspiration herself and she makes this post on Facebook showing a picture of the receipt and this long dissertation and what just happened it ends with this we want you to know that there are still true Christians in this world that love you no matter what that's not even the cool part it now has some 5,000 shares on Facebook and yesterday my dad was interviewed by the Baxter bulletin because they wanted to see the place that showed that there still a balm in Gilead and he was contacted by USA Today and they said you know what we want to do a video interview and we want to put you on television because we want people to know that there is still love in this world friends brothers and sisters there's a bomb still in Gilead after the Holy Ghost there's still an answer to this hurting in broken world and it's found right here in what we're feeling right now this is the answer to the hurting this is the answer to the broken this is the answer of book of Acts Apostolic Church having the love of God and so in fourth it there's a bomb in gilja there's a bomb still he swims there's a balm of Gilead here today you're hurting the balm of Gilead is here you're broken the balm of Gilead is here you need a touch of your life the balm of Gilead is here I wish every person wherever you're at feel that and you want to come and pray for a moment go ahead if you want to stay where you're at and just throw your hands up and call upon the name of the Lord I challenge you to do it but I pray a conviction would follow this body tonight I pray a hunger would fall on us tonight that we would get such a hunger to show forth the love of God that we would remind this world there's a balm in Gilead there's an answer to this hurting world come on your neighbor seems broken they need the palm of Gilead your friend seems broken you don't understand why they're still appalled hidden chiliad discern their cry for help discern what they're saying and realize sin is still the issue and the only answer to see it is found in the word the Lord the balm of Gilead Rockpile Abajo Soho there are no logos he'll totally come out just cry out for the next few moments I'm gonna turn this microphone off would you just get a hold of an apostolic hunger to get this gospel out like we never had I want to see five hundred soul saved why because the balm of Gilead huh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Thu Jun 11 2020