The Issue of Faith - John Paul Jackson (2013)

[Music] [Music] we talked last night about justice and the the need for justice and part of I think part of the missing equation you know in the Maggio Braddock equation er there are several parts to that that equation and one of the missing parts is justice that we're do justice from heaven and with that justice then was we we are in right standing with God then God acts on our behalf and it gives us that justice and I believe many of you and prayerfully all of you we're going to see an incredible increase in what God does on your on your behalf I want to talk this morning and it's interesting pastor the you were saying faith and radical radical faith because that's actually my message this morning isn't it and issue of faith so if you would turn with me to Romans chapter 12 and also Acts chapter 10 first I'm going to read Acts chapter 10 verse 38 and then we're going to go on to Romans 12:3 and then we're going to cover roughly 50 passages of Scripture after that so father help us help me communicate the Wonder and the splendor of your word that you might be glorified in the name of Jesus made preeminent above every single name it already is but in our site may it be then in the name of your son we pray amen in x-gen 10 chapter 38 I think this verse spoken by Peter pretty well sums up the issue of healing it says this God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good and hearing and I'm sorry doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him for God was with him may that be said of all of us for God was with him what does it take for God to be with you I mean there's no place he's not so in the sense he is always with you but is there a way to have a greater measure of his presence can we have a greater measure of his presence in our lives I think the answer is yes now that I'm getting older I feel like David the way I've been young and I have been old and I've seen a lot of things and I'm recognizing that there have been times in my life where the presence of God was greater than at other times times when I had greater clarity and greater focus than at other times times when without my even knowing that God was doing something in spite of me because I was totally unaware of what God was doing totally unaware of what God was saying promising to people without even knowing I was prophesying and then they would come back a year later and said you know that prophetic word you gave me when we talked last year so I remember talking to you but I had I don't remember giving you a property court oh yeah you gave me for the court and when you said this I said well I was just talking to said no that was a property warden it came true and I realized God was speaking without me knowing you carry a greater measure of presence sometimes God does that he doesn't always have to tell you that he's talking through you but Jesus went about doing good there's two two particular words in here that I think are important for us to grasp the first one is doing good that word good is the Greek word that simply means being a benefactor giving to someone something they don't have somebody who's poor receiving something they don't have somebody who is hurting receiving something they don't have love healing being a benefactor he went around being a benefactor you literally could replace the word good with benefactor and the second one is healing all who were oppressed that were oppressed here is taken from two greek words one kata meaning to bring down to cover and to smother and the second one being do not tease and dignities means this to shackle by power to dominate so oppressed here means Satan were the people that were ill he was smothering them covering them with power and domination and so the benefactor comes and says enough of this and he heals all of them it's important to understand at the beginning before the fall there was no illness there was no illness only after the fall was there and I believe Jesus came to Rick in the reconciling of us to the Father he came to return us to that state where the by faith we then can walk in a way where there is no illness I think that literally could be the result of what faith means in our life but faith can we increase it is it given to each in really we have a measure that's all we get how how does that work why don't we see more signs and wonders why don't we see more miracles I've been a recipient of a lot of miracles in my life I'd like twice God brought me back to life twice obviously because I'm still here I am NOT a zombie I really am here but why don't we see more happening Romans 12 Romans 12 3 gives us a hint of that and we particularly focus on the first part of that verse but the last part of the verse is very very important Paul writes this for I say through the grace given to me to everyone who is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith not notice not the measure meaning there's only one measure and everybody has that but a measure indicates that this measure is variable and that it can be increased and perhaps it could also decrease he's dealt to each one a measure of faith so when we're talking about healing there's really summed up in in mark 9:23 Jesus says to them if you can believe all things are possible to him that believes Jesus again in Matthew 17:20 says so jesus said to them because of your unbelief why couldn't we carry the size what could we cast us demon out because of your unbelief for surely I say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed you'll say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you we're going to deal with this unbelief here in a moment and then mark chapter 11 and amazing things happen Jesus and His disciples passed by this tree one one evening and because it wasn't producing fruit Jesus curses it they come by at the very next morning and they marvel Peter seasons that look at this the tree that you cursed it's dead from the roots and Jesus says this in verse 22 of mark 11 he says have faith in God have faith in God now let's just stop for a moment have faith in God this incredible deity not human at all omniscient in every way there's nothing he has ever forgets that there's nothing he ever learns has never not known something which includes has never not known that you would be here today from before the foundations of the earth in fact eternally before he planned you for now that's his incredible omniscience his knowledge this incredible God that we serve the only God who is under present meaning there's no place he is not the psalmist says you're the I can't I can ascend to the deepest part of the ocean you're there I can descend to the deepest parts of hell you're there I guess there are the highest heavens you're there there's no place where you're not his omnipresence meaning there's no place that you are that he is not there's no time in your life that he has not seen you noticed you that's incredible God that we serve that is omnipotent all-powerful there's no power greater and then at all he has never never lost power he has never gained power he's never said run out of power like doing something in the middle of doing something he goes oh I've got to recharge he's not like a battery he's not dependent on electricity he is all-powerful never gain power never lost power and I refuse to diminish this incredible God in any way because if we diminish him and we say God does not know certain things he is not he chooses to not know certain things then how can I trust God because maybe he's not omnipotent because maybe he's just not met anything greater than he is how do I know that he's not omniscient because maybe he if he's not omniscient then maybe he just doesn't know that he's not the only God and what if he's not omnipresent well then maybe he's just not scoured enough of the space out there to find another God and if he changes in any way that he's not imbue table and if he's not the same yesterday today and forever how can I trust that he won't run out of power tomorrow see these are so foundational to our belief system that if you take any part of it away any particle of God away diminish him in any way you destroy trust and all of a sudden you have to realize there could be something greater than God and you just diminished him and in doing so now you've created a question mark in your mind how can I trust him Trust is essential to faith we hope because we can trust in him very important and yet there's a lot of teaching out there saying that God doesn't know things but then how can I trust him if he doesn't know how can I trust him if he is not omniscient how can I trust him I refuse to accept anything any translation of the word that diminishes God in any way whatsoever I can tell you this I have stood in front of him one time and it took me two years to be able to say he could do it again because it was so terrifying and I know this he is an absolute control he has absolute power he as there is nothing Satan is not an issue with him sometimes we act as if Satan is equal to God and we we wouldn't say he is but we treat him like he is see when Jesus in Luke 9 said I saw Satan falling from heaven like lightning that was a major statement in that statement he just said Satan is not omnipresent how do we know because you can't be omnipresent if you got kicked out you can't get kicked out if you're omnipresent how can you get kicked out of some place you always are think about and we know it's not omnipotent how do we know it's not omnipotent he got kicked out if you're omnipotent you do the kicking you aren't to kick e and we know that it's not on omniscient how do we know it's not omniscient because if he was omniscient he wouldn't have rebelled because he would have known he lost we know it's not immutable how do we know because the very fact that he left heaven changed him and then that changing we also know something about this we know that he left the source of all life David said I take my next breath because you take yours and when he left the source of all life then as he's leaving that source of all life he begins to deteriorate and he deteriorates and decays every single day more and more and more he is a decaying spirit being not only that he leaved the source of all life he left the source of all light so not only is he a decaying spiritual being he is an ever darkening spirit being and I'm convinced that in Genesis 1 where it says when it says that God separated the darkness from the light is when Satan was removed from heaven you see when you break down the evening and the morning were the first day the root word for evening is the word Erev meaning chaos and the root word for morning is Bo care meaning order C until day four there was no Sun that tells us gives mankind the ability to measure time now there was time because the receipt when sand sequence involves time day 1 but it's interesting is because it says you could literally say and chaos and order where day 1 and chaos and order were day 2 so he took the remaining chaos of day one began day 2 and created greater order and took the remaining chaos of day two and made day three and make greater order and took the chaos of day three and day four and so on today 6 when he made man at the end of day 6 then it says oh exactly the way I want it in order now there's order and I can rest and arrested you see when we take a Sabbath we're telling God I trust you to take my chaos and turn it into order I am depending on you and I trust you so much I don't have to make anything happen I can rest and you see that's the general idea in healing it's not an illness in your life that is not born of chaos there's not an illness in your life it isn't some cell in your body rebelling against the created order and God wants to take your darkness and turn it into light he wants to take your chaos and turn it into order that's what signs and wonders and healings and miracles are really all about it's taking chaos and turning it into order injustice is a chaos anything that is out of God's created order is a form of chaos whether it be slightly chaos or great chaos it is a form of chaos and God wants to heal you and end that chaos or end your being smothered as we talked in the very beginning all those who are oppressed smothered by the power and domination of darkness it says half faith in God that's what he's saying to these disciples the one who can in chaos have faith in Him the one who can change chaos have faith in Him you see this is incredible word named faith I mean named peace peace Shalom Erev re Rene in Greek but Shalom in Hebrew we think Shalom means peace did you know Shalom really does not mean peace part by shocking the most of you Shalom really doesn't mean peace Shalom literally is a processive word meaning the removal of chaos and anarchy resulting in calm the removal of chaos and anarchy resulting in calm so when I say Shalom to you it is saying may the chaos and anarchy of your life be removed and result in calm and tranquility so when we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem the Shalom of Jerusalem may the chaos and Anarchy be removed and may calm and tranquility rule it is an essence saying may the evening be turned into morning Wow illness is like that it is chaos and anarchy I'm good friends with with a scientist dr. Thomas Washington he's one of the few cyant are doctors one of the few medical doctors of the wahe award Health Organization we'll listen to about oncology issues cancer and he simply says this cancer is nothing but rebellious cells refusing to act in the way God created them nothing but that and so when we pray for cancer we want Shalom in those cells the removal of chaos and anarchy and the result is peace and tranquility meaning everything works the way God made it that's the God we serve it takes chaos the earth was without form and void and darkness covered the face of the deep and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters you know you're only like 97% water so when the Spirit of God hovers over you he's hovering over the waters have faith in God huge statement that we would gloss over a few years ago this book called the secret that actually quotes this passage mark 11:23 2:25 but in this quotes are because it leaves out have faith in God it begins with when it coasted it begins with this the rest of it for surely I say unto you whoever says that this mountain be removed in cast in the sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that these things he says will be done he will have whatever he says therefore I say to you whatever things you ask and pray and believe that you receive you and you will have Wow whatever things you ask and pray you can believe and you receive will have so pray or ask believe receive and you'll have it just leaves out have faith in God but a census the universe will bring this to you the universe the universe is waiting to bring this to you housing universe gonna bring this to you house the atomic structure of the universe gonna bring this to you see people don't even know that literally the throne room is the model that the atom was made from when I stood in front of the throne of God May 12 1995 I'll never forget it in front of me is this incredible light on the throne I see a little bit of form mostly light and lightning bolts and balls of fire coming out of him and layers of light around him and circling him underneath above and beside and around me around his throne area is these angels circling just like electrons in an atom I'm standing there and I'm realizing I this is like how he made the whole of creation he took a model of the throne and made an atom from it and every time a light left him an angel said holy holy holy a holy act of the turn of the Father Son Holy Spirit three Holies every time but there's billions of these these acts of God every single second and so there was billions of holy holy holy x' and they were said from out there speaking in and out and so behind me above me underneath me around me holy holy holy and all these angels every act was holy holy holy you'd hear it here you'd hear it here and there was clearly distinguishable down here it sounds like a waterfall or a tornado or train going by this incredible God have faith in the universe he created it never have faith in a lower substance put your faith in a higher substance don't put your faith in creation Romans 1 talks about that where they worship the creation over the Creator and this is exactly what's going on in that book it's teaching you how to worship the creation gives you 95% food and 5% rat poison you know that's how they kill rats and mice and other things it pg 95% food and 5% poison and they eat it and they die same thing happens to us we can eat and die from the 5% poison so we we pray we believe we receive and we'll have that's true but it leaves up really two important points that it's this pray believe receive and have this sandwich between first one is ask God second one is you have to forgive see it says and when you do this when you do this when you stand praying if you have anything against anyone forgive him that your Father in Heaven may also forgive your trespasses and if you do not forgive neither will your father forgive you yeah yeah you mean forgiveness could stop lack of forgiveness can stop my healing absolutely me carrying around bitterness towards somebody can stop my healing absolutely well I have faith in God then forgive because he said to forget they no deserve to be forgiven well then you got your justice and that also includes a lack of healing I was raised in a Pentecostal household and then that that Pentecostal household my father actually was a Pentecostal pastor for a while similar God the United States and my father actually was one of the founding pastors of the Oklahoma district of the symbols of God so I thought kind of a lineage of believing that God does stuff and I was taught that the healing takes awhile and miracles are instant that's what I was taught but then when I go to the Bible I go hmm it says that jesus healed and it was instant I said that doesn't make sense jesus healed and it's instant but I was taught that healing takes time miracles are instant but that's not what the Bible says so I began to look a lot how does this work what is going on here here's what I found out totally consist throughout scripture what is healing healing is always the removal of something from you the removal of something and that's why deliverance casting demons out of people when they have left the person they had the Bible says they were healed several times in Scripture it tells us and Jesus cast the devil out of our the demonized person and they were healed you go how is deliverance healing well if you understand it's the removal of something you understand it could be the removal of a germ could removal of an infirmity or an affliction or a demon but it's always the removal of something all throughout scripture well what are miracles miracles are always the recreation or regeneration of something he regenerates or he recreates he regenerates a crooked bone he regenerates an organ that is only partly working he recreates a missing eye or he recreates a missing limb he recreates and sometimes you have to have both of these simultaneously let's just use get cancer of the kidneys you can have the cancer removed and the kidneys only work 25% and therefore to be fully functional in line with the created order you have to have the kidneys regenerated after the cancer has been removed so there are two issues at hand we find those two issues in the woman the issue with the woman of blood where it both says that Dunamis and authority were present and authority heals Dunamis recreates and so well in when we find that we realize the that which caused the issue of blood was removed but the womb needed healed both took place in that woman for the maimed the recreation of something Matthew 15:30 one so the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking the maned made whole that means things that were missing were put back the lame walking the blind seeing and they glorified the God of Israel the leper and Luke 17 and one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back and with a loud voice glorified God and they said to him and Jesus said to him arise go your way your faith has made you whole this were healed of their leprosy but they were still missing the nose that was eaten away still missing fingers that were eaten away our toes that were eating away our ears that were eaten away by the leprosy but the one who came back was made whole the nose was replaced the ear was replaced the digits were replaced whatever the cancer and whatever the leprosy ate away was replaced he was made whole the others were healed he was made hope you see healing and you see miracle faith I found out in discovering walking through this whole process trying to understand it in some some form that makes sense it could see I believe but we serve an incredibly logical God the problem is our earthly logic to our earthly logic heavens logic seems theological but then a higher logic a higher logic will also will always seem illogical to a lower logic ie my logic versus my child's logic how many of you have said your child says oh I don't understand and you explain it I don't understand ah that's like this I don't understand because your logic is higher than your child's well if you think that's something tried the distance between God's logic and yours here's what I found out I've discovered there's three ways the first way that faith manifests itself is through the instigators faith the instigator meaning the person who says let me pray for you examples of that would be the woman who has been over for 18 years in Luke chapter 13 Luke 13 11 and 13 Leben through 13 and behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity 18 years almost bent over and could in no way raise herself up but when Jesus saw her he called to her and he called her to him and said to her woman you are loosed from your infirmity nothing there's nothing says son of David have mercy on me she's just going about her business he's bent over can't straighten up it's probably sweeping the floor nothing says it that she did it everything says that Jesus saw her and he did it and he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God began to bring demoniac mark-5 however Jesus didn't permit him because he wanted to go with Jesus and Jesus said to him go home to your friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you here's one for sure it had to be the instigators faith it's a young man of name how do I know that he had absolutely no faith because he was dead dead carried in a coffin Jesus sees the mother crying has compassion walks up to the coffin young man arise any me he sits up in the coffin no faith but the instigators faith Jesus took the action and the young man was healed the second way we see faith exercises in Scripture is through the recipients faith meaning the person who needs healed those examples of that Matthew 9 two blind men and then he Jesus touched their eyes saying this according to your faith be it unto you he didn't say my faith he didn't instigate the issue your faith which seems to indicate if they have a little bit of faith to get partial healing if they have a lot of faith to get full healing according to your faith the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda John 5 jesus said to him do you want to be made well and jesus said to him rise take up your bed and walk the man couldn't even roll into the pool after 30-some years and Jesus said arise take up your bed the lame man from birth acts 14 9 this man heard Paul speaking and Paul observing him intently seeing that he had faith to be healed he had seeing that the man had faith to be healed heal him the third way is through what I call the corporate faith through corporate faith what am i mean by corporate faith I mean the collective faith of all of us I call it the all go see I was born of Waxahachie Texas you can always tell them somebody who doesn't know Waxahachie because they call it wax a waa XA h AC h IE Waxahachie and in Waxahachie Texas we have this saying we have y'all now most of you yeah the Mississippi copied it from Texas so most of you think that y'all if I said y'all come here that would mean everybody in this room not in Waxahachie Texas or in Mississippi y'all could mean you you two on the front row y'all could mean only only that side of the room y'all is is still not the hole we do have a phrase for everybody in the room it's called all y'all [Laughter] now that's everybody in the room Oh y'all come on all y'all and means everybody no exceptions come come on did you know that 85% of the time that Paul writes the word you in his epistles it's an all y'all he's speaking corporately to everybody in the room as a whole you as a whole or one 1st Corinthians 3:16 if it was written in Waxahachie Texas it would say this do all y'all not know that all y'all are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in all y'all first Corinthians 12 25 to 27 there should be no schism in the body but that the members should have the same care for one another and if one member suffer all the members suffer with it or if one member is honored all the members rejoice with it now all y'all are the body of Christ and members individually now why is that important to you because it this all y'all means you're one you're one and in that oneness there is something that happens that happens no place else and that's this God takes a little bit of faith every one of you have and he makes it as if it's the faith of one person he takes a little bit of faith everyone has and he adds it together as if it was the faith of one person why is that important well the lay men that was let down through the roof found out it was really important and Luke 5 verses 20 and 24 Jesus sees the young man let down to the roof and when he saw their faith the faith of who the faith of the friends of the young man who cut a hole in the roof and let him down and seeing their faith verse 24 he said to the man who was paralyzed I say to you arise take up your bed and go to your house seeing their faith Wow all of their faith added together there was a corporate all y'all but hinders corporate all y'alls on the negative side to Nazareth in mark 6 and says he could do no mighty works there meaning no miracles except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them in other words he there was so much lack of faith he couldn't do recreative works but he could remove a few things because of their unbelief there the city the corporate nests so much lack of faith so much unbelief the young girl who died mark 5 Darius's daughter Jesus come says she's not she's not dead she's asleep now you have to understand when Jesus said that they're asleep it means the Spirit has not departed from the premises has not gone to she old yet has until Jesus's resurrection everybody who died went to shield the Spirit has not left the premises yet so she's asleep not dead what was that important because until he died he did not have authority over she old death hell and the grave when he died he then stood before Satan and was able to take control because he said basically to Satan when he descended Paul says in Ephesians he descended before he ascended why because he presented himself to Satan who had control over Sheol and he literally was able to say I am sinless you're not give me the keys you have sinned Satan they have sinned you're over them but I am sinless give me the keys and at that moment he preached the good news and everyone who believed in him was released from she'll to Paradise and some of them Matthew says even walked the streets of Jerusalem spreading the good news and Josephus says that it was reported that Zechariah the Prophet walked the streets of Jerusalem very unusual so see it was very important because if the spirit had left to she all then he had no right yet to get that spirit back but if they're asleep and it has not departed the premises now he has a right to get the spirit back listen before his death burial and resurrection after that he now has the freedom to do that period does that make sense to you okay okay so jars his daughter goes in she says she's not dead she's asleep meaning his spirit still on the premises and they ridiculed him so what did he do he put them outside the walls of the house and then he healed does a girl the daughter isn't it interesting that just eight inches of Adobe mud and rock could make the difference in healing or not that takes us to a whole of the deal which I can't talk about today which is the spiritual laws of geography and there are spiritual laws of geography here on earth that's why we can have portals but another story how about the demonized child that the disciples could not healed and Mark 9 immediately the father of the child cried out and said the tears lord I believe help my unbelief verse 25 this is really interesting we so gloss over this when Jesus saw that the people came running means they were over there they see Jesus and this child they come running before they get there Jesus delivers the child why did he deliver before the people could get there the idea is that when he saw him running he healed the child really quick before they could get there why because something in that crowd would have hindered that moment how about the blind man and Mark 8 where Jesus made spittle and touched his eyes and they brought a blind man to him Jesus and begged him to touch him so he took the blind man by the hand led him out of the town and whinnies so after he's out of town he then spits on his eyes and puts his hands on him and he's healed why did he lead him out of town before he prayed for him because there was something in the town that would have hindered that miracle how about the blind man Jesus touched the man's ears made spittle and touched the man's tongue who mark 7 they brought to him one different guy now different guy it brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they begged him to put his hands on him and he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers in his ears he spent spat and touched his tongue and looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him be ears be open why did he pull him away from the multitude because it was an all yaw of unbelief now let me let me just well then it was obvious that miracles were or were not done because of two things really one it wasn't what God was doing it wasn't the timing Jesus only did what he saw the father doing at the Pool of Bethesda probably hundreds of people if you ever been to Jerusalem seem to pull a Bethesda you know there was room for a lot of people there and you know in that era there was a lot of people who need healing it's laying by that pool waiting for the angel the trouble the waters but he only healed one man not everybody there was heal who would own Zarephath God sent Elijah to her but there were many widows the Bible says but only one received the Word of God from Elijah we don't know all the ins and outs and why all all of that happens the young men that Jesus said it was for the glory of God that this happened not because his mother or father sinned but for the glory of God there are many many things we don't yet understand in God's logic and we don't understand by our logic but here's here's something that's very important we need to understand from what we've just seen in the scripture that unbelief is not just a zero we we think of unbelief as a non consequential attitude but it is not non-consequential I look at it like this unbelief is like the kryptonite of Superman it is a negative it is not a zero it is a negative and what we've just read instigators faith recipient's faith all y'alls faith but now we know something we know that it takes more faith for miracles to happen than it does for healings to happen why because in Nazareth he could do no miracles but it could heal so we know and it said because of the run belief so we know that that it takes greater measures of faith for a miracle than it takes for a healing number two we know that unbelief subtracts from whatever measure of faith is present so what does that mean let's just say it takes a hundred measures of faith to heal a young man standing in front of me if he has that hundred measures of faith he gets healed if I have that hundred measures of faith he gets healed if he has fifty and I have fifty measures of faith he gets healed if he has twenty-five measures of faith I have twenty-five measures of faith and all y'all have combined fifty measures of faith he gets healed what if what if we have the hundred measures of faith we need for his healing or for a miracle but there's five measures of unbelief out there what happens he does not get healed you say well that's not right well that's what happened in Nazareth does exactly what happened in Nazareth unbelief takes away from belief and it's almost like what is the sum of the equation is the sum of the equation enough to heal because if it's not it won't happen Wow and so we casually flippantly have prayer for the for the sick and we're talking and mingling and you know what then it'll get healed because you know what you're not involved with your faith in the process or should I say process we have to be we have to understand we have a part to play and that you're here at the moment they're being prayed for not as an observer but to throw your faith into the pool what if at the great judgement seat of Christ where we all have to give an account what if you stand before him and God replays your life play your life assess now I like this I like this oh but by the way this woman would have gotten up and thrown away your canes had you not been talking with your neighbor during that prayer for her on August the 1st 2013 and I hold you responsible for her lack of healing because I brought you there to throw your faith into the process you see we treat God so rightly but in his omniscience in his omnipotence in his under presence he does nothing by accident and you are responsible but what you do in his presence I don't mean to be harsh but I think that sometimes we think so much in terms of grace we flippantly discharge responsibility grace does not mean you don't have responsibility sometimes grace is harsher than the law you go to grace is harsher than the law yeah well what do you mean well Jesus said you've read that Moses said the law there you should not commit adultery but I say to you if you even look on this woman you've done it sometimes grace is harsher than the law and yet we flippantly go a lot covered by grace well you may have the wrong idea of grace great i see i'm having a lot of difficulty little sidenote here but i'm having a lot of difficulty finding where grace covers sin fact i can't find it i see where blood covers sin I see no place where grace covers sin he said well but but paul says that were saved by grace absolutely but that didn't cover sin the blood of jesus covers our sin grace is a strength to say no to sin and yes to god grace is a strengthening agent blood is the covering agent we get this all mixed up see we we somehow in our desire to for freedom and by the way freedom doesn't mean freedom from having to obey god freedom means i don't have to be a slave to the devil i am free from the oppression of the devil see all of these things combined in the all y'all of the miraculous signs and wonders and healing in our midst and so what happens what we don't when we leaders don't stand up with some holy testosterone and say what is really in the bible then the people become sheep scattered without shepherds and what ends up happening is they wonder if there's really a god because nobody is getting healed and nobody is full of faith and nobody is having signs and wonders and we're not telling you what it takes to walk and live in that environment oh yeah I'm not a time I got eight more pages to go so I think that's good I think I've said of what the Lord wants me to say there is an all young yes there is the recipients faith but don't ever say well if you had enough faith you'd be healed because they could look right back at you and say well if you had enough faith I'd be healed because that's what it is written in this scripture of ours we must know and apply the Word of God Moses stood on the mountain God said I've given you favor now Moses when he stood on that mountain was no slouch but he stood on that mountain he had already cast his rod down twice and it became a serpent once at the burning bush and once in front of Pharaoh isn't the Moses that his rod ate the serpent of Janice and jamberries the magician's of Pharaoh this is the Moses that held out the rod and the waters pardon the ground was dry instantly this is the Moses who lifted the rod the waters closed and all the armies of Egypt were drowned this is the Moses who struck the rock and enough water came out of the rock to give water for a million-plus people with men women and children this is no slouch he's standing on the mountain and he says this if I found favor in your eyes then three things teach me your ways presence go with us show me your glory today would go show me your glory may your presence go with us and give me a million dollars see the last thing Moses asked for is the first thing we asked for first thing he said was show me your ways that I might know what do you mean Moses was saying I've seen all these miracles and I have no clue who you are teach me your ways that I might know you they are found in here they are found in here if you never open this you'll never know his way if you never read what he has given us you'll never know his ways it is so important that we know this incredible Word of God no matter what gift you have you have to know the Word of God years ago God challenged me decades ago God challenged me because I didn't go to Bible School I didn't go to seminary but I had a gift and he challenged me and I read in the scripture where the law was found and every time the law was found they brought it to the prophets to read the law and tell them what it meant and the Lord told me very clearly you have no clue what this word means you have a gift you've loved me you gave your life to me years ago but you don't know my word know my word learn my word and decades ago I began to dig into this incredible Word of God and it teaches us so much we learn his ways the ways of God there's someone what the left kidney that while I was speaking God began to hear your left kidney someone with a bladder issue you've had pink in your blood and that you're afraid it's pink in your urine your think you're afraid it's something bad with your with your bladder and you won't have that when next time you go to the restroom God touched you while we were we're speaking some of someone here has a growth had a growth under esophagus Laura Lennox voice Bach and that growth is dissolving and within three days it will no longer be there some of you someone was raped when they were younger and had great difficulty relating to their husband because of that that memory is being healed because it was it was darkness that tried to come upon you and it's stopping you from being one in your marriage that's being healed all kinds all kind sake there's so many issues of darkness where the enemy wants to oppress you and God wants to heal you there's someone a man here and there's a growth around he thinks he may have testicular cancer or something some problem he's afraid to go to the doctor or you've been thinking about it and if it came right down to it you'd go you know I don't really want to go that's being healed if someone here with congestive heart failure meaning your heart's not failing you now but it's called congestive heart failure CHF and it debris it causes your ankles to swell because your heart's not pumping strong enough to get the blood out of your legs to the rest of your body and so your leg is continually swell you wake up at night I mean you'll wake up in the morning and your legs may be down a little bit but about the end of the day your legs are swollen again that's being healed right now during them while I was speaking it's already the process that's already begun the ways of God we need to know the ways of God and when my final statement is this when we know the ways of God our life will change and there'll be a clear distinction between those who know God and those who don't and what God's God does through us for the presence of God is witness [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Tue Jun 02 2020