We began a new series; I believe
it was last week. Exodus 15:26 He said, "If you
will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and
will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to
His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of
these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:
for I am the Lord that healeth thee." Hallelujah. I am the Lord that heals you. If you look this up in the
original language dictionaries, this "I am the Lord that heals
you," you will find this one of the great compound redemptive
things: Jehovah Rapha. The Lord has revealed Himself
through His names. He's revealed Himself Jehovah
Shammah: the Lord Who is present, the Lord Who is there. Jehovah Shalom: the Lord your
Peace. Jehovah Tsidkenu: the Lord your
Righteousness. Jehovah Rohi: the Lord your
Shepherd. Jehovah Jireh: the Lord your
Provider. Hallelujah! Jehovah Nissi: the Lord your
Victory. How many believe He is still the
Lord your Peace? And always will be the Lord your
Shepherd. The Lord your Righteousness. The Lord Who is always there. Well, is He still the Lord your
Healer? Will He always be the Lord your
Healer? Nobody has a right to take the
great I Am, and say He was. He used to be. No. No. I am the Lord that heals you. Let me read another couple of
translations. The Young's Literal says, "I,
Jehovah, am healing thee." The Contemporary English version
says, "I am the Lord your God, and I cure your diseases," the
CEV that was. The Message says, "I am God your
Healer." Some, instead of "Healer," say
"Physician." The One Who mends you. You could say it like this: I'm
the One Who fixes you. That would be accurate. I'm the God Who fixes you. Oh, somebody needs to get
excited about that. Tell Him, say: "You are the God
Who fixes me." Of what? Whatever needs fixing. Right? I don't have to go around
unfixed. I don't have to go around
broken, impaired. Because He is the God Who fixes
me. He is the God Who fixes me. I'm the Lord, the One Who heals
you, your Physician. Your Healer. Now one thing we got into last
Sunday, I want us to look at again, in Jeremiah - you don't
have to turn there; they'll put these on the screen for us. Jeremiah 17:14 says, "Heal me, O
Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved:
for You are my praise." Heal me, and I'm healed. Save me, and I'm saved. Why would you say it like that? Because the two are connected. They're connected. The modern church has separated
salvation from healing. And they've done damage to the
Scriptures and obscured the truth. The new birth and healing are
directly connected. Hallelujah. They are connected. We're going to see that more and
more as we go. Psalm one hundred and three we
shouted about last weekend. Psalm 103:1 he said, "Bless the
Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not," what? All, "All His benefits." Now, why would the Lord say to
us don't forget all My benefits? Because a lot of folks have
narrowed down the benefits to one or two. They believe there is the
benefit of being saved and not going to hell and going to
heaven. But you get out much beyond that
and they go, "Now it might not be God's will... We don't know..." They don't believe in many
benefits. But we do. Because the Bible says so. "Forget not all His benefits,"
and then he starts listing the top benefits. Benefit number one, "Who
forgives all," now he keeps emphasizing forget not all His
benefits. He forgives all, "Your
iniquities; Who heals all your diseases." Now we read this and we shout
about it, but most folks don't believe it. Most churchgoing people do not
believe this verse. "Say what?" You heard me. They believe half of it. They believe the Lord, it is His
will to forgive all iniquities. But they don't believe it
equally and as strongly that it is His will to heal all
diseases. But it's the same verse. It's the same verse. Say it out loud: "He forgives." Congregation: He forgives. Now go ahead and apply it to
yourself. Say: "He forgives
(Congregation repeats) all my iniquities and He heals all my
diseases." All. All. If you say, "Well you know,
people don't always get healed." Yeah, and people don't always
receive forgiveness. But it doesn't change the fact
that He is the Forgiver of all iniquities. And He is the Healer of all. Somebody say: "All." All. All diseases. Oh, thank You Lord. Somebody say, "Thank You Lord." Praise be to God. Go with me over to Luke the
fifth chapter and get ready. "Get ready for what, Brother
Keith?" Get ready to get free. Get ready! I may preach, you may shout. Be warned, be ready. Hallelujah. Whoa. Tell me what the truth will do
for you. The truth will absolutely make
you free. Free. Free. So many times you don't realize
how bound you have been until you get the truth. How much you have been robbed,
and how much you have been hindered and held back and held
up and then the truth dawns on you and you go, "Whoa, wait a
minute. Wait a minute. No! I don't have to have this
anymore. I don't have to live like this
anymore! I don't have to put up with this
anymore!" It will make you free! Whoa. Luke 5:17 "And it came to pass
on a certain day, as He," Jesus, "was teaching, that there were
Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by," now we hear doctors
of the law, but these are doctors of theology. These are preachers. These are individuals who have
done extensive study in the law of Moses. The law and the prophets. So they are experts, supposedly,
in the Scriptures. And the Pharisees were very
strict, live by the law, do it right. And they, "Were come out
of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem," so we've
got a mass of preachers at this meeting. They weren't just preachers out
of Galilee, but also Judea, also Jerusalem, out of every town in
these regions. I mean, you would've thought
this was a preacher convention. A bunch of PhD's, doctors of
religion. "And the power of the Lord was
present," this is a revelation manifestation of one of these
compound names we were just talking about: Jehovah Who is
present. Hallelujah. The power of the Lord was
present, was there, "To heal them." Them preachers. Now, that's not what they came
for, but the power was there to do that for them. Isn't God merciful? A bunch of them were there to
find fault. They were there to take notes. To find fault with what He is
saying, with what He's doing, getting Him in trouble with the
authorities. Trying to hurt Him, trying to
undermine Him some way. Now you know when you have a
stinky attitude like that, you're bound to have some
problems too. So, they needed healing. Acting like that, living like
that for any length of time, you're going to have problems. And they all showed up, a bunch
of them mean, snarky fault finding, judgmental,
snooty, thinking they're so smarty. And you might've just seen them
and got mad and said, "We don't need this bunch here," but they
waltzed in and the Spirit of God said, "Man, we need a lot of
healing. We need a lot of healing in this
place." So the power is here. Oh, hallelujah. Who wants to get healed today? The Spirit of God, just like He
hovered over the face of the deep, He was hovering over this
place, and over this room, and over this house, hallelujah, and
He's saying, "Come and get it! Healing for everyone! Get your healing." It was there. Healing power was there for the
taking, for the receiving. But no one was getting healed. This is a revelation. Can it be that the power of the
Lord is present to heal and nobody get healed? It can. Just like the power of the Lord
can be present for people to get saved, born again, and nobody
gets saved. He's not going to make people
receive Jesus and be born again. He's not going to make people
receive healing or anything. The power was there. Verse eighteen. "And, behold, men brought in a
bed a man which was taken with a palsy," he had paralysis, "and
they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before Him. And when they could not find by
what way they might bring him in because of the multitude," isn't
that something? The guys with the best seats
were not receivers. And people who were ready to
receive couldn't get in the building. And so, "They went up on the
housetop, and," they tore up the roof. One translation said they broke
up the clay tiles. And they, "Let him down through
the tiling," well, it says tiling right there, "with his
couch into the midst before Jesus." So there's this commotion up
top. You hear this cracking and
breaking, and dust falls into the preachers' hair. And they were already snarky. And so they're lowering this guy
down right in front of Jesus. So they interrupt what's going
on. Jesus probably said, thank God. Why? Because He had a tough bunch
sitting in front of Him there. And we finally have somebody
that has some faith. Who is ready to receive what is
so freely given and available here. And they let him down to the
tiling, with his couch, into the midst before Jesus. Verse twenty, "And when," Jesus,
"saw their faith," did you know you can see faith? You can see faith of them
hauling him up on top of the house. You could see the faith breaking
through and getting him there, whatever it took. You can see - he wouldn't let
them be dragging him around like this and cooperate with all
this; they must believe something is going to happen
when they get in there. He saw it, and He looked at and
He said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did they say we want
forgiveness? Why are they there? He's paralyzed. What did they come for? So did Jesus misunderstand the
situation? No. No. "Because you know, forgiveness
and healing are different things." Right? No? Yes? No? When He saw their faith, He
said, "Man," and He said it loud where everybody could hear it,
"your sins are forgiven you." And man, tension in the room
rose. Didn't get better. Verse twenty-one, "And the
scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this
which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God
alone?" Who can forgive? Now, this is interesting. Because back then they were
saying, "Well, He maybe can heal, but He can't forgive." And now they're saying, "He
maybe can forgive, but He can't heal." I want you to know He both
forgives and heals. He did, He does, He will forgive
all your iniquities and heal all your diseases. Because you have a Healer. He is the Lord Who fixes you. Glory to God. But man, this is what they were
looking for. They came looking to find a
problem. You know, seek and you will
find. If you came trying to find fault
with me today, you could probably find it. Might not even need a magnifying
glass. But, if you were looking for the
Lord to bless you, you can find that too. Right? We're not looking for problems,
we're looking for answers. We're not looking to judge and
nitpick, we're looking to get help and to come up. Right? They were there ready to take
notes, they were there. They don't like Him. "And the power of the Lord was
present to heal them." Mercy of God. "Who can forgive sins, but God
alone?" They're Scriptorians. "When Jesus perceived their
thoughts, He answering said to them, Why reason in your
hearts?" Why wrestle about this? He's about to help them. What were they wrestling about? Forgiveness. What did the man come for? Healing. What did He get initially? Forgiveness. What is He about to get? Healing. He said, "Why reason in your
hearts?" Why wrestle about this? "Whether is easier, to say, your
sins be forgiven you; or to say, Rise up and walk?" The Words of the Master,
recorded for us for generations. Notice He didn't say which one
is harder. He didn't say which one is
harder, what did He say? Which one is easier? Why? Because they're both easy. They're both easy. It's easy to be forgiven, it's
easy to be healed. Now you say that and a lot of
folks will go, "No, no, it is easy to be forgiven, but man,
I've been wrestling on this healing thing for fifteen
years." There's people that have been
wrestling about forgiveness for years too. No, Jesus said, "Which one is
easier? You have a problem with Me
saying he's forgiven? Well, which one is easier, to
say your sins be forgiven you or to say get up? Walk. Be healed." Hallelujah. Thank You, Father. Somebody say: "Which one is
easier? Congregation: Which one is
easier? Which one is easier?" Verse twenty-four, "But that you
may know that the Son of Man," now, not Son of God, Son of Man,
"has power on earth to forgive sins, (He said to the sick of
the palsy,) I say to you, Arise, and take up your couch, and go
into your house." Now, according to Jesus, this is
just as easy as getting forgiven. In fact, He is saying, in so
many words, He's saying if he doesn't get up, then that's a
sign he's not forgiven either. But if he does get up, then
you'll know he's forgiven too. Which one is easier? Why would He say which one is
easier? Because they are connected to
the same source of problem, and joined to the same solution in
redemption. We haven't been taught this like
we should. We haven't meditated on it like
we should. Most Christians believe it's
easy to be forgiven. But get healed? "Eh. Not as easy as being forgiven,"
according to Jesus, it is. If you can be forgiven, you can
be healed. If you can be healed, you can be
forgiven. He said, "Which one is easier?" The answer is they're the same. They're the same. Somebody say: "The same. The same. The same." Do you believe you can be
forgiven? Then you could be healed the
same way. It's provided the same way. It's received the same way. The enemy has made it confusing. The enemy has tried to obscure
this, convolute it. It's quiet in here. In Matthew nine, don't turn
there but in Matthew 9:6 Amplified, Matthew's account of
this same happening, He said it like this in the
Amplified. "In order that you may know that
the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins and remit
the penalty," forgive sin and remit the penalty. Well, if the sin is forgiven,
there should be no penalty for the sin. If the sin is forgiven, there
should be no penalty for the sin. If the sin is fixed, no penalty. Sin problem fixed, penalty
problem fixed. Right? Sin problem fixed, sickness
problem fixed. Lack problem fixed. Oppression, depression problem
fixed. Which one is easier? They are the same. Praise God. Praise God. In verse twenty-five, "And
immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon
he lay, and departed to his own house," forgiven, and healed,
"glorifying God." Does sin glorify God? No. Forgiveness does. Does sickness glorify God? No, healing does. Does being in bondage glorify
God? No, deliverance - does defeat
glorify God? No, victory. Victory glorifies God. There's people that will tell
you something different, but they're wrong. Don't let them deceive you. Immediately he got up. He did what? I mean, he's paralyzed. He's paralyzed. Paralyzed people can't get up. Sinful wicked people can't be
righteous. Yeah, they can. Yes, they can by faith in Jesus. Paralyzed people can't get up. Yes, they can. By faith in Jesus. Which one is easier? You might say, "I think that
forgiveness is easier." Then you don't understand the
seriousness of sin. What did it take to pay for our
sins? What did it take for the spirit
of a human being to be born again, re-created, cleansed and
washed? That's a greater miracle by far
than any repair work on an already existing human body. No, it's wrong. People think, "Forgiveness is
easy." Forgiveness is a big thing. And cleansing and washing is a
big thing. Hallelujah. And if you can be forgiven, you
can be healed. Same way you received your
forgiveness is exactly how you receive your healing. Works the same. You don't cleanse yourself, and
you don't heal yourself. You just receive. It's not your job to fix you. You can't fix you. Don't need to. You have the Lord Who fixes you. Go with me to Romans, please. Romans the fifth chapter. Romans 5:1 says, "Therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ." Verse nine, "Much more then,
being now justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from
wrath through Him." Saved from wrath. It's not His will that any
should perish. "For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more,
being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now
received the atonement." Actually a better word there may
be "reconciliation." If you look in your margin, most
of your margins will say "reconciliation." "Atonement" is actually an Old
Testament word. Our sins are not atoned and
covered like they were under the old covenant of sacrifices. Our sins are washed away. Hallelujah! Ha! Verse twelve, "Wherefore, as by
one man sin entered into the world," everybody say: "Sin." Congregation: Sin Now by that one man, he's
talking about Adam, by the first man, by Adam, sin came into the
world, "And death by sin," the wages of sin is death, "and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." In the beginning when God
created the heavens and the earth, you read of the account
in Genesis, on which day did He create pneumonia? Or smallpox? On which day did God create
AIDS? Or cancer? Or heart disease? Which day? Not the first, not the second,
not the third, not fourth, fifth or sixth. He rested on the seventh. When did He create it? Sickness, disease, deformity,
deficiency, was not a part of God's original creation. It entered in because of sin. Right? Man's sin opened the door to the
curse and death. Well, when we're talking about
sickness, there would never have been any sickness if there had
never been any sin. True or not? There would never have been any
poverty, any oppression, depression - there would never
have been any sickness if there had never been any sin. It was through sin that death
got in. Sickness is incipient death. It is a measure of death working
in the body. You get enough sickness in the
body, it's dead. Poverty is death. Poverty is death working in your
material realm. You get enough poverty in a
person's life, they will literally starve to death for
lack of something to eat. Death is the same result. If a lot of poverty will kill
you, then a little poverty is not good either. It's the same evil stuff. God is not using death to teach
His children. If God approved of poverty and
sickness and these things, then He would also be approving of
what let them in. What brought them in. Sin. Like one individual said,
sickness and all these things, "Is the vile offspring of its
father satan and its mother sin." It's not the work of God. God gets glory in His works. The devil gets glory in His
works. The devil's works are stealing
and killing and destroying. Poverty, disease, it robs, it
steals, it kills, it destroys. The Lord gets glory in life. He said, "I am come that you
might have life and have it more abundantly." He gets glory in you being
forgiven of your sin and cleansed and washed and living
instead of dying. He gets glory in your needs
being met, and you being blessed, not going under. He gets glory in you being
healed and healthy and able to serve Him. What good does it do Him if you
can even get off the bed? What good does it do God and
you're robbed of half your life, die young, die prematurely? That doesn't glorify God. He needs every soldier, boots on
the ground, He can get. And He needs you healthy and
strong, going all day and all night. Yes, don't let the devil lie to
you. "Well, maybe this disease is a
blessing in disguise." No! It's not a blessing in disguise
or otherwise. It's a curse. And a curse is a curse and will
continue to be a curse. And you and I are not cursed. We're blessed. And if we're forgiven, we have a
right to be healed. And it's connected to the same
thing, and it's based on the same thing. Now in John nine, if you would
look there, or they'll put it on the screen for us. When you mention sickness and
sin, a lot of times people begin to get uncomfortable. And a lot of folks will just get
out right indignant and angry. "If I have a problem, are you
suggesting that I've sinned?" Are you suggesting that you
haven't? And yet, the Bible connects it. In fact, put on the screen first
of all James 5:14; don't go there, they'll put it on the
screen for us. It says, "Is there any sick
among you?" Now this is New Testament
scripture. "Let him," do what? "Call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
the name of the Lord," and what? "And the prayer of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and," and,
and, "if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." Why connect sin and sickness? Why connect them? What did Jesus say? "Which one is easier?" Verse sixteen, he keeps going. "Confess your faults," now he's
talking about sin, he's talking about where you missed it, he's
still talking about healing and forgiveness, he didn't just stop
with that one statement, now he goes on confess your faults and
mistakes to one another, "and pray one for another, that you
may be healed." Forgiveness and healing. Now having said that, that
doesn't mean that if you've got something wrong with you that
it's automatically because you've personally sinned and
caused it. That is not true. Although it is true you can
ignore what you know is right and open the door to problems. That's true too. I mean, if you know doing
something is bad for you and you just keep on doing it, well, you
missed it. Or spiritually the same thing is
true. We want to walk in a manner that
our conscience is clear. But what if you did blow it? What if you did miss it? And what if you did have a
problem physically? We know Somebody that takes care
of both. We know Somebody that takes care
of both! Forgives all your iniquities and
heals all your diseases. Somebody say: "All. All. All. All." If I say, "Well, it may not be
all diseases." Why can't you say it may not be
all iniquities? Nope. "All" has to mean the same
thing. Now notice in the ninth chapter
of John you see this. John 9:1 "And as Jesus passed
by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth." He was born blind. "And His disciples asked Him,
saying, Master," who sinned? "Who did sin, this man, or his
parents, that he was born blind?" So they are saying somebody
sinned, that's why we have this situation and this physical
problem. And the reason they would think
that way is through the Old Testament you see that disease
and poverty and all these things is a curse. They knew it was a curse. And you don't get a curse for
obeying God. But Jesus said what? "Neither," one. Neither one. Whose sin caused this baby to be
born blind? Well, it wasn't him, he wasn't
born yet. How did he sin? It wasn't him. Well, it must've been his
parents. Jesus said, "No, it wasn't. Neither one." You mean you could have a
problem and nobody sinned? Yeah, I tell you whose fault it
is. Adam. He sinned and it opened the door
to the curse in the earth. He said, "Neither has this man
sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be
made manifest in him." Don't stop there, verse four, "I
must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day," they had not seen the works of
God until they saw the healing. They want to fix the blame. Jesus wants to fix the problem. But no - you hear how it got a
little quiet? Because we're talking about sin
and sickness. And oh, man, people get in arms
about this. Just the mere suggestion. It's a good thing to understand
this. That's why the devil wants to
keep you away from it. No. Not necessarily - let me back
up. Through one man's sin death
entered in. Right? Why is disease in the earth? It goes back to the garden. I mean, animals get diseases. When did they sin? Plants get diseases. When did they sin? And by like token, you can
encounter something in your life that you didn't sin and cause it
to come. What if you weren't even a
believer? How would it be going with you? The enemy is always trying to
minister condemnation, isn't he? Such a liar. Such a deceiver. "Well, something is wrong with
you... You don't have enough faith... You've missed it in so many
ways." Well, you and everybody else
around you. But why would you stop there? If you had missed it, if you
knew you had missed it. I mean one occasion Jesus told
the man, He said, "You've been made whole, go and sin no more
lest a worse thing come on you." Right? So you can do things that are
wrong and open the door and have problems, but if you did, you
know it. I said, if you did, you know it. And if you don't know it, you
don't hunt, hunt, hunt, maybe I missed it somewhere, maybe I
missed it somewhere, and maybe you didn't. Maybe you didn't miss it. Maybe the curse is in the earth. "Yeah, but I've had such a hard
time." What if you were an unbeliever? Where would you be? A lot of you, instead of having
tough fights you would be gone years ago. There's something worse than a
tough fight. That's just getting destroyed,
boom! Don't know anything, don't know
how to believe God, don't know how to fight the good fight of
faith. It's not like unbelievers who
are not trying to believe God have such rosy, wonderful lives. They're getting hit, they're
getting attacked, same stuff and worse. Why? Just being a human being on the
planet you can encounter difficulties, imperfections in
your body. Imperfections in the atmosphere. Imperfections - it's because of
the curse, which is because of sin. Oh, but we have a Forgiver and
we have a Healer. So no matter how it got that
way, no matter where it just was in here because of sin and the
curse, or I did something stupid and opened the door and caused
myself a problem, either way, which one is easier? I can get forgiven and I can get
healed, and I don't have to wait until next week. I don't have to wait until
tomorrow. Whoa! Glory to God! Hallelujah. Oh, somebody say, "Thank You,
Father. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Father." Go with me to Isaiah
fifty-three. Anybody got anything marked over
there? Isaiah fifty- three. I'm reading out of Young's
Literal translation. Somebody is getting free. Somebody is getting free. Quit trying to find fault. Quit trying to pin blame. Quit looking for stuff that's
not there. Quit yielding to condemnation. If there's something you need to
see, the Lord will show you. If you don't see it, be happy. Right? "Well maybe you... Maybe..." You can't live by maybe. That's the enemy trying to mess
with you. "I could have... I should have..." That's a bunch of junk. That's a bunch of phone humility
and all it will do is condemn you and undermine your
confidence. And that's what the enemy is
after is to keep you in a place of no-confidence or no faith. How do you receive your
forgiveness? By faith. How do you receive your healing? Same way, by faith. And that is in confidence. You can't be going around going,
"I hope I'm saved... I don't know that I really
deserve it..." Let me help you with that. You don't, so get over that. You just receive it. It's a gift. "I haven't lived very well. I don't know if I'm worthy of
being healed." You're not. Get over it and go head-on and
receive it by the mercy of God anyway. If I can be forgiven, I can be
healed. Same provision. Did Jesus take care of the sin
problem? Did He? Did He? Did He? If there had never been a sin
problem, there would've never been a sickness problem. Well, in taking care of the sin
problem, He also took care of the sickness problem. And the poverty problem. Hallelujah! So, it's for us to receive our
healing just like, somebody say, "Just like.
(Congregation repeats) Just like." Just like I receive my
forgiveness. Isaiah 53:1. "Who has given credence to that
which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom
has it been revealed? Yea, He comes up as a tender
plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He has no
form, nor honour, when we observe Him, nor appearance,
when we desire Him. He is despised, and left of men,
a Man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, and as one hiding
the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed Him
not. Surely," oh, somebody say:
"Surely." Congregation: Surely. Surely, "Our sicknesses He has
borne, And our pains - He has carried them, and we - we have
esteemed Him plagued, smitten of God, and afflicted. And He is pierced for our
transgressions, bruised for our iniquities," now stop, stop,
stop. How many believe He bore your
iniquities? He was punished for your
transgressions? The previous verse says that He
bore your sicknesses and carried your pains. Is that true or not? Do we take a cleaver and divide
these in two and say, "Yeah this is for us, but this is not? This is for everybody, this may
not be for everybody?" You dare not do it. He bore my sicknesses. He carried by pains. He took my iniquities. He bore my transgressions. Surely our sicknesses He bore. Our pains He carried. Verse five, "He is pierced for
our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement
of our peace [is] on Him," that's all your mental and
emotional health. Jesus never had any mental
problems of His own, but He took ours. I said, just like He bore our
sins, He bore our sicknesses. Just like He bore our
sicknesses, He bore mental anguish. The chastisement and broken
peace was on Him, hallelujah! "And by His bruise there is
healing to us." Did He have to have the thorns
jammed on His head to go to the cross? No, He didn't. Did He have to be scourged at
the whipping post in order to go to the cross? Well then, was that just extra
unnecessary? No. He was taken care of everything. Oh, hallelujah. He offered up Himself, Spirit
and soul and mind and body. He redeemed us spirit and soul
and mind and body. Yes, He paid the price for our
sins. He also paid for our healing. He also paid for our peace and
our needs to be met. Yes, He did. Yes, He did. Yes, He did. Now, here's a big one. If it all happened in the same
Jesus, in the same work of redemption, and it's received
the same way, so much so that Jesus said, "Which one is
easier? Get forgiven or get healed?" To Him, it's the same. And He knows. So we ought to stay with Him. If He said it's the same, what
do we say? It's the same. How do you know you are
forgiven? How do you know you're forgiven? Is anybody in here convinced you
are forgiven? How do you know? Do you always feel forgiven? Have you always acted righteous? How do you know you are then? Are you sure you are forgiven? Maybe you're not. Check how you feel. That would be a mistake. Check, see if you feel forgiven. Do you really feel completely
clean? Do you really feel like the
righteousness of God? Do you really feel? Then how do you know you're
forgiven? How do you know? How do you know? You believe that you have
received your forgiveness, oh hallelujah. You believed you receive it. The more you believe it and the
less you quit focusing on how you feel, the more confidence
you have and the freer you live. Guess what? Guess what? That's exactly how you receive
your healing. How do you know you're healed? It's not based on what you feel
any more than your forgiveness is based - it's not based on a
report, it's not based on a test, any more than your
forgiveness is based on a test. Which is easier? It's not your job to fix
yourself. You don't have to have any
condemnation or shame or feeling put out or feeling less because
all your money is not here, or you still have some symptoms, or
you still have a symptom of unrighteousness. Not your job. Not your job. Your job is to believe you
receive. I receive my forgiveness. That's all I have to do. I receive my forgiveness and I
am forgiven. Don't let your eyes fool you. I'm forgiven and cleansed no
matter what you may see or not see, I am forgiven. And what else? Come on, what else? What else? I'm healed. No matter what you see, no
matter what I feel, I believe that I receive my healing. It's based on the same Jesus,
the same work, the same redemption, hallelujah! Stand on your feet and praise
God.
