THE LORD MY HEALER: Receiving Jesus As Your Healer (Part 3) (Sept 3, 2017) Keith Moore

if they would put up on the screen for us Exodus 15:26 we begin a couple of weeks ago on a series we're calling the Lord my healer and we want to continue with that this morning if you haven't been with us you can get the previous two messages you can go online get them won't cost you anything if you're in the building you can go get a CD or it won't cost you anything but this has been our main text he said if you'll diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God will do that which is right in his sight give ear to His commandments and keep all the statutes I'll put none of these diseases upon thee which I've brought upon the Egyptians for I am the lord that healeth thee the Youngs literal translation says Idaho wha am healing you thee the CEV the complete English says I am the Lord your God and I cure your diseases the message says I am God your healer some say the Lord your physician today's English version says I am the Lord the one who heals you this is one of those great redemptive compound names Jehovah Rapha there are others like Jehovah sidqa knew the Lord your righteousness jehova shamma the Lord who is present or their Jehovah Jireh the Lord who sees and provides and how many believe he stilled the Lord who's with you he still the Lord who provides that never changes the great I am is still I am I am the Lord will is he still the Lord who heals is he opinions vary about this subject but you know we want to see what our belief is based on is that the ideas of men or is it the unchanging Word of God if he said I am the Lord that heals you what should you believe he is the Lord who heals you said out loud he is the Lord who heals me the Lord my healer oh praise God thank you lord in Psalm 103 Psalm 103 first one begins by saying bless the Lord O my soul and all that's within me bless His Holy Name verse two bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits verse three who forgives all your iniquities who heals all your diseases is the Lord still the forgiver of all iniquities well when did he quit being the healer of all diseases hmm why would you believe without exception that it is God's will to forgive all iniquities but have exceptions and reservations about him healing all diseases why would that be because most of the church world would be quick to say yes he will forgive all iniquities but they'll turn right around and now say it might not be his will to heal you well why couldn't you say it might not be his will to forgive you why wouldn't you say that if you can say that about one why couldn't you say that about the other well because of centuries of traditional teaching and talking and thinking the church doesn't have the same level of faith for healing as it does for forgiveness can you see that many of you not all of you but many of you you have heard the Lord will forgive you from the time you were old enough to understand anything and never did you hear people preach that God might not forgive right but you didn't hear that God heals all diseases and that it's always his will to heal you didn't hear that well faith comes by hearing right and and I think sometimes what folks don't realize when we when the scripture says faith comes by hearing that's not just from hearing a message or two you see what we just talked about I'm talking about what you've heard for the last 40 years of your life can you see this that's what builds in you your consciousness of belief and if you've heard that it's not always his will to heal for 50 years then it's going to take something to get your mind renewed because that's ingrained in you and you're gonna have to hear something else and you got to hear it on a regular basis to get that out of you does it need to get out of said out loud he forgives all my iniquities and he heals all my diseases are we read in the Bible should we accept the Bible he forgives all your iniquities he heals all your diseases and then if I just if I just kept saying that the rest of the service it would be time well spent right well how does faith come and your faith is developed where it comes to forgiveness of iniquity I'm not having to try to convince you you know oh come on believe he will forgive you oh I just don't know he will I don't know sometimes it's not as well know it's always as well I just don't know I don't feel like I'm forgiven yeah but he will and he does yeah but I don't know you're not struggling with that but aren't many Christians struggling with the healing part oh yeah because they have heard from the pulpit it might not be God's will it's not always God's will often it's not we don't know why God's working something out he's using this disease to teach you something it's a blessing in disguise that's a lie from the devil it's the curse it's the curse sickness is a curse it robs you of your strength and feeling good it robs you of your time and your money it's a thief I said it's a thief and enough of it can rob you of the rest of the years of your life cause you to leave early nothing good about disease nothing nothing there is no way no how that a sickness or disease is a blessing from the Lord it's a curse any any serious student of the Bible would have to agree I mean it's revealed as a car in the Old Testament and in the New Testament many many scriptures that say so the Bible said Jesus ministry summed it up like this and book of Acts how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil the Bible says everybody jesus healed was oppressed of the devil not blessed of God well when did it change that sickness became a blessing when did that change or is it still oppression is it still the work of the destroyer and the killer and the thief well if it is and it's not from God and he didn't give it to us we don't have to receive it we can resist it we can stand against it and fight the good fight of faith because we have a healer somebody say I have a healer I have a healer glory to God I have the healer in Luke 5 we looked at this last time Luke 5 the man that they brought who was paralyzed that his four friends brought him to where Jesus was preaching and they went up on top of the house and tore off the roof and let him down before Jesus Luke 5:20 says when Jesus saw their faith he said to him man your sins are forgiven you will did were they come in there to get forgiven ha I don't think they were what were they coming for healing he's paralyzed but then Jesus looks at him and says man your sins are forgiven you you know the Lord will answer your question the way it to be answered not the way you asked it he'll answer the question the way I know when I was working in healing school the brother of Kenneth Hagins ministry back some years ago I was there Phyllis and I were there for 20 years and so I spent a lot of time in the healing school and it was my job and an opportunity to lay hands on people every Thursday and I didn't know much I was green in ministry but I knew it was the anointing that made the difference and the anointing destroys the yoke and removes the burden and and I knew I didn't know much about it didn't feel like I had much and I needed more that was my thought I need more I need some more anointing and so I prayed and I prayed now I prayed and I prayed and I asked the Lord for anointing Lord let me just have some more anointing yeah we're gonna lay hands on these people we need the anointing give us some more anointing finally after months of this I was in the speaker's room one day by myself praying and the Lord spoke to my heart I don't mean I heard an audible voice but inside me very distinctly like he'll speak to any believer if you learn how to listen he said to me faithfulness faithfulness and I was kind of set up I knew it was him and I thought okay faithfulness that's interesting faith what are you laughing about faithful is I said yes yes Lord I'm gonna I'm gonna think about that look at that but you know I'm about to go in here and lay hands on people what I could really use right now is some anointing some more annoying so I kept praying for a while and and again it came up in my spirit faithfulness Keith's faithfulness I thought huh okay well yes Lord uh I'm gonna do a study on faithfulness I mean I'm I'm gonna get in this and look at this more but you know it's only five minutes till I go out here to lay hands up here what we could really use right now is some anointing and and I didn't realize he's answering my prayer see they came for healing and what he say to him you're forgiven my said well what's that got to thing you just didn't know it and finally what he helped me to see what I said well what does that mean obviously you're answering my my prayer and my question but I don't see he said son all of my people receive an anointing when they're filled with the spirit many of them have done nothing with that why would they need more I've never thought of that before I thought wow is it true that when when you filled with the spirit you'll receive power is that right after the Holy Ghost has come on you power to be a witness right he said many of them have done nothing with that anointing why would they need more what's he saying to me it's not you said I need anointing I want anointing you got to be faithful with what you have that's how it increases it doesn't come by you begging for more you got to use and be faithful come on Hollis be faithful with what you have do everything you know with what you have and he will add to you he'll give you more so I saw I need to quit this and he showed me two scriptures to go to Matthew and Luke and I went there and so I just set there and confessed for 30 minutes the Spirit of the Lord is on me because he's anointed me the Spirit of the Lord is on me because he's anointed me I'm anointed and I did everything I knew with the anointing that I had that was on me and he was faithful as the years went by he added to he increased hallelujah so he was answering my prayer I'm praying for anointing he's talking to me about faithfulness and I didn't see it but he was exactly answering my prayer well these folks come for healing and what did he do he said you're forgiven well then that set off a discussion and a debate amongst all the preachers that were there and they said verse 21 the scribes and Pharisees begin to reason they said who is this this speaks blasphemies you know accusing Jesus of blaspheming isn't that something who can forgive sins but God alone and here's something the church has not emphasized Jesus perceived their thoughts he answered and said to them what reason ye in your hearts whether is easier to say your sins be forgiven you or to say rise up and walk Jesus connects forgiveness with healing he connects them he combines them he puts them together everybody say forgiveness and healing most of the modern church has separated these haven't they they've separated him Jesus did not and his he is he not the same yesterday today and forever if he put them together then what do you think he's doing now Jesus preached and ministered forgiveness and healing everywhere he went forgiveness and healing forgiveness and healing he didn't do forgiveness only he didn't do healing only it was forgiveness and healing in fact he's telling them which one's easier I'm glad he didn't say which one's harder he's letting us know neither one of them's hard now if you were having to do the healing it'd be hard to be impossible if you were having to do the forgiving it'd be hard impossible you're not having to do either one all you and I got to do is receive it and that's easy now the devil tell you snot he's a liar somebody say receiving is easy say it again receiving forgiveness is easy and receiving healing it's just as easy both of them is easy which one's easier to quote Jesus which ones which one's easier to say your sins be forgiven you or to say rise up and walk and then he uses healing as a proof he said verse 24 that you may know that the son of man not son of God though he was yet he's nuts he's not saying I'm doing this as God son of man has power on earth to forgive sins he said to the sick of the palsy I say to you arise take up your couch and go to your house what's he saying he's saying which ones that you say it you're saying I can't tell him his sins are forgiven so which one's easier for me to tell him his sins are forgiven or to tell him get up and go be healed which one so there their mouths are shut now they don't know what to say he's saying so that you will know the forgiveness is real you're going to see the healing can you see this how do we know the forgiveness is real if the Lord can't heal us how do we know even forgive us that's not my reasoning that's his come on can you see that well he could but but he you know maybe it's not his will well if it may be it's not his will to heal us maybe it's not as will to forgive us how do we know oh we know by the Word of God well the same Word of God says all your diseases right same Word of God says the same thing about both which is why he said which one is easier the church because of the influence of the enemy even doctrines of devils has divided forgiveness from healing divided and even called those of us who preach healing in error hmm I had thought to tell me one time oh we don't preach all that healing stuff we just preached the gospel well if you preach the same gospel Jesus preached and the same gospel Paul preached people will get forgiven and heal because they got healed in both of those hmm people got faith to be healed from hearing what the Bible calls the gospel that Paul preached you see it in the book of Acts those very words no it's a matter of believing it he said that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins he said to the sick of the palsy I say to thee arise take up your couch and go to your house what happened verse 25 what happened immediately he rose up before them he took up that whereon he lay and departed to his own house glorifying God and if you're honest what would you have said well he must be forgiven he must be forgiven right he must be able to tell him he's forgiven why because if he can heal him he can forgive him if he can forgive him he can heal him Jesus combined them Jesus connected them let's go back to what Jesus said right let's put them together he forgives all your iniquities and he heals all your diseases come on say that life he forgives all my iniquities and he heals Oh my diseases all glory to God I just got a glimpse I got a glimpse healings in our camp we're gonna have more and more healings in our camp somebody say so be it so be so big and it shouldn't be shocking we're preaching it right and faith comes by hearing it glory to God I'm excited about it no they got more and more testimonies to read praise be to God let's read Isaiah again we were there and in this teaching in this series if I go over some of the same verses again and again it's not because I'll have memory problems I'm doing it on purpose I believe I'm doing it the leading of the Lord we need we need to get things that have been ingrained in people for decades out your mind needs to get removed renewed with the Word of God and the way that happens faith comes by hearing and over a period of time over a period of time Isaiah 53 verse 1 and I'm reading in the Youngs literal translation Isaiah 53 one who's given credence to that which we heard and the arm of Jehovah that's the power of God on whom has it been revealed yeah he comes up as a tender plant before him and as a root out of a dry land he has no form nor honor when we observe him nor appearance when we desire him all Bible scholars that I've ever heard anything about agree this is talking about Jesus Isaiah is seeing in the spear centuries beyond him of the one who would come and take our place hallelujah he is despised and left of men a man of pains and acquainted with sickness not now hold on Jesus never missed it in his earthly walk and he never opened the door to any kind of effects of sin because he never sinned so he wasn't sick personally a day of his life so how was he acquainted with sickness well the same way he was acquainted with sin he received it as our substitute to redeem us as one hiding the face from us he is despised and we esteemed him not he was treated like a criminal surely our sicknesses he has born and our pains he has carried them how many believe the Bible I said how many believe the Bible come on say it out loud surely my sicknesses he has borne and my pain he has carried them go me to God blow me is this true or not is it true or not do you believe it surely my sicknesses he has born and my pains he has carried them now if you say well my Bible don't read that way it says griefs and sorrows yes one of the reasons I'm reading you to you long Young's literal the truth is the translators stumbled when they got to this even some of your modern translations relegate it to a footnote it came back that one one group of translators were working together and one of them said now look this these same words are translated sicknesses and pains in other parts of the Old Testament it's just good translation and one guy finally said if we do that it'll play right into the hand of these divine healing people well how about it says what it says and there is no better commentary than the Holy Spirit what do you mean put hold you place there put up Matthew 8 16 and 17 Matthew 8:16 when the even was come they brought unto Jesus many that were possessed with devils and he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sick keep reading that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet you reckon where he's quoting from exactly where we were reading Isaiah 53 that it might be fulfilled that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses now the Holy Spirit said that when he was speaking through Isaiah he said he bore our sicknesses he would know what he meant how many think they ain't no better commentary then the Holy Spirit saying this is what I said so it is true Jesus took our infirmities our weaknesses and our sicknesses and he carried our pains Oh hallelujah and he goes on to say go back to Isaiah 53 back where we were surely our sicknesses that he has borne our pains he has carried them and we we've esteemed him plagued smitten of God and afflicted verse 5 he is pierced for our transgressions now do you see that most of the modern church hears this very differently than the previous verse hmm why would you hear it differently when most of the church hears this he was pierced for my transgressions or they say absolute absolutely he was bruised for our iniquities yes yes yes did he take our sins yes did he bear my iniquities yes did he take my sicknesses well that's all much spiritual really but what's the sin part see people try to explain things away because they haven't heard it but the Bible does not say one less than the other Jesus connected them the Holy Spirit connected them Isaiah connected them Matthew connected them why don't we connect them huh he took my sin he was pierced for my transgressions he was bruised for my iniquities the chastisement of my peace was on him this is a part of our of his substitution and our Redemption that many have not taken advantage of you're not supposed to go around with no peace you're not supposed to be depressed and distracted and anxious and vexed he took that crown of thorns that they jammed on his head was say it was painful in itself but it was much more going on it was symbolic of what was happening in the spirit the the breaking of our peace the vexation the anguish the the the worry the fear the panic all of that came on him too why because if there'd never been any sin there would never been any sickness and there would never been any anguish and worry and fear and there would never been any poverty so if you take care of the sin you take care of all of the fruit of sin did Jesus go to the cross spirit and soul and mind and body did he go completely did he obtain a Redemption for us spirit and soul and mine and body he became sin with our sin he became sick with our sickness he became poor with our poverty Emma quoting scriptures the chastisement of our peace was upon him don't you love him Saints he took everything everything that was death and destruction on himself and he bore it he took it somebody say he took it he took it he took it nobody made him nobody could force him he willingly allowed it to come on him he took it so as to pay for it so we wouldn't have to he was pierced for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace is on him and by his bruise now this describes the scourging did he have to go to the scourging post to go to the cross no you didn't now he had to do it to get a complete redemption for us nothing he did was unnecessary but he could have gone to the cross without being scourged first in fact that was not usual I mean the cross is gonna kill the person that's condemned to die what they were trying to do is scourge him and maybe not get him to the cross the leaders were trying to try to get away from well if we scourge him he looks like he's half-dead well then they'll be satisfied but they wasn't satisfied they yelled crucifying but it wasn't by incident or accident it was part of the plan of God he was allowing it and he took upon himself the beating the the whipping the scourging the punishment the results for sin and the Bible tells us while he was doing that he took our sicknesses Oh somebody say he took my sicknesses he he took our sicknesses he took our weaknesses he took our pains and then he went on and he took the thorns and the chastisement of our peace and then after that went on to the cross and hung there and became sin with our sin and then people will look at that with him tied to the whipping post being scourge and sickness coming on him and saying is it your will for me to be healed that's like looking at the cross it is it your will for me to be saved a foolish thing to say an ignorant thing to say come on said out loud he took my sicknesses he bore he carried my pains and by his bruise by His stripes I am I am healed Oh somebody's getting some help today I am healed I'll keep saying it I am healed glory to God my my Oh somebody say thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord now since forgiveness and healing are combined we understand more about receiving healing than we think we do do you know how to receive forgiveness yeah you do how did you get forgiven how many in here believe you're born again you believe you're saved you believe your names in the Lamb's Book of Life and you believe that your sins and your failures and your mistakes are not held over you and against you but that you have been and are washed by the blood of the Lamb come come on how many believe that that you you your sins are forgiven and all the wrong things that you have done and been are washed away the believe that how do you what makes you believe that how did you get that how did you get there let's let's go back to when it happened how did you get there there was a point where you heard the truth and you believed that you were in need of a savior and you believed that Jesus is that Savior and that he has paid the price he he took your sins he he took the punishment and he board it and paid for it but that alone will not save you I said that alone will not save you what do you mean you had to go beyond that knowledge and awareness and you had to receive oh come on is anybody that you had to receive Jesus as your Savior you had to receive Jesus as your Redeemer didn't you and you had to receive that forgiveness that he offered you and you had to receive that cleansing that the blood provided for you you had to receive that righteousness that was given to you am I telling the truth i'ma tellin it right you had to receive it how did you receive it how'd you receive it you received it by faith by believing you received it you believed it in your heart you said it with your mouth you said oh Jesus I receive you as my lord I confess you I believe in my heart you died for my sins and God raised you from the dead I confess with my mouth you are my safer you are my lord you received Jesus as your Savior wonder how you receive healing that's the wonder how wonder how Jesus said what which ones which ones easier they are not different they are based on the same Redemption they received the same way just like you receive Jesus as your Savior you must receive him as your healer you receive him as your healer and also you receive the healing that he has bought and paid for and provided as your healer and how do you do that how do you do that how did you receive you forgiveness you believed you received it you believed you received it now what if somebody says I don't believe in the Lord and I'm not receiving all that did that make you decide that it's not God's will to forgive all what if you meet some Christian that says you know I know the Lord said he'd forgive me but I just don't believe he did and I don't feel like he did will you say well yeah he don't always forgive we don't know why he's working something out in your no no you know better than that well if we don't base Jesus being the Savior on whether somebody receives forgiveness or not why do we base Jesus being the healer on whether somebody receives healing or not not everybody's going to receive Jesus as Savior not everybody's going to receive Jesus as healer but it doesn't change the everlasting truth that he is the Lord who forgives the holier iniquities and who heals all your diseases I am he said the Lord that heals you nobody has a right to qualify that and restrict that change that divide that take the theological cleaver of man's philosophy and divide it right in the middle yeah he still forgives all but no don't talk about him healing off because sometimes he doesn't sometimes he says sometimes he don't sometime he says yes sometime he says no sometimes he says wait a while yeah and sometimes people say stupid stuff don't let people's confusion and their heralding of the traditions of men robbed you of simple strong faith in the it is written hallelujah glory to God praise be to God somebody say praise be to God praise be to God where are you Isaiah go to mark 11 if you would please thank you Father I'm not planning on keeping you too much longer but is this important as this I believe it is I believe it is just because somebody didn't receive their forgiveness we don't decide that the Lord is no longer the Savior and just because some men doesn't receive healing we don't decide that he's no longer the healer he is the healer whether people receive it or not he is the Savior where the folks receive him or not all that proves is somebody didn't receive but one of the things that we we must get our mind renewed in is that we receive by faith not walking by sight jesus said in mark 11 and 24 he describes the the faith principle so perfectly jesus said therefore I say to you what things soever you desire when you pray believe now a lot of people have stopped right there and they've cut off the rest of the verse and they said what you need to do is just believe just believe just just believe that sounds good but it's not the rest of the story believe what believe what I don't believe God is good yeah but that won't get you healing leave God can do anything that's wonderful but that's not what he said believe here that's not that won't get your healing you can believe that God is real you can believe that Jesus came to the earth died on the cross paid the price for sins you can believe he's coming back again and be lost I said be lost why because you've never received him as your Lord and Savior you've never submitted to him as your Savior how many understand he must be received and what he has done must be received how is it received not mentally not fish basically but spiritually by faith he said what things have you desire when you pray do what believe specifically that you receive them them things you just prayed for you believe that you receive them then what will happen as a result and you shall have them then what then things you prayed for and then things you believed you received you'll have them things this is the principle of faith the word receive if you look it up it means to take it means to take hold of to take or to lay hold of believe you take it faith has hands faith has hands that take now when symptoms disappear is not when you received your healing that's the results of receiving your healing I'm gonna say it again two or three times when your symptoms go away that's not when you received your healing that's the results of you receiving your healing when it comes to forgiveness you don't feel forgiven and feel righteous and free and then you believe you receive your forgiveness you receive Jesus as Savior you believe you receive your forgiveness and then after you believe it your feelings start changing you feelin clean you feelin forgiven you view being confident that you're saved that's not when you received your salvation that's the results of you receiving your salvation and do you doubt God being the forgiver or our Savior if you made a mistake you're being saved does that mean you could never miss it mm-hmm and yet could you say look would you look here I missed it again I must not be saved well if you do you're in trouble huh well I'm just having some symptoms of sickness mean we don't have a healer and we're not healed if that if that's what that means then if we make a mistake and we have a sin in our life we should believe we're not saved in the Lord's not always the Savior we've learned how to do it with forgiveness but we hadn't known how to do it with healing and it is the same jesus said which one's easier people are all condemned because they got symptoms of sickness in their body what's wrong what's wrong well you might as well say am i a real Christian because I made them I made three mistakes last year I had symptoms of being an unbeliever I had a symptom of being unrighteous I had a symptom of sin so I must be a sinner no no you're still saved what do you do you believe you receive your forgiveness for this - you believe you receive your righteousness restored and that's not about your symptoms of feeling bad over you missing it being there are not being there you don't wait for your symptoms of feeling bad that you missed it to be gone then you're gonna believe you're forgiven it's you're believing you're forgiven that causes the symptoms of feeling bad that I missed it to change and to leave we got to do the same thing with healing just because you got some symptoms of sickness and problem in your body there's no reason for you to be condemned no reason we go what's wrong with me I don't have faith I still got symptoms well yeah we could put a magnifying glass on you and might find some symptoms of you not being righteous but you are I said you are you are not we don't we don't want besides we don't want my feelings we should not what do you do my job is not to pay for the sin Jesus paid for it my job is not to make me righteous and clean I can't do that that's why I need a Savior that's not my job will nor is it my job to make me healed nor is it my job to make the symptoms change nor is it my job so what's my job my job is to believe that I receive forgiveness and cleansing and righteousness and stand fast in it and declare and decree it no matter what I look like I feel like of what you think I look like I feel like I'm saved whether you think I am or not I'm the righteousness of God in Christ whether you think I look like it or not because the biggest thing it depends on it's what he has done and me believing I received it that's my whole job is to believe that I receive it and confess it is truth in my life well by the say and the other stuff I need to ignore it I need to not let the enemy bring up things from the past to me like not let him keep pointing out things and trying to put me in condemnation well the same thing is true with healing the symptoms leaving is not when you received your healing that happens after you received your healing come on can you see what things soever you desire when you pray do what believe that you receive them believe that you take them believe that you lay hold on them then what happened and you shall have them you'll see it you'll feel it the things will change it's easy oh so much say it's easy I don't have to fix a heart problem I like to fix a kidney I don't want to heal cancer all I got to do is receive Jesus as my healer just like I received him as my savior and Redeemer and then receive just like I receive the forgiveness that my Savior offered me I receive the healing that my healer offers me and I say I believe that I receive healing you don't look like it if I look like it felt like it I wouldn't need to believe I received faith has hands healing is bought and paid for forgiveness is bought and paid for but it must be received just like you got just like people got to receive him as Savior got to receive him as healer faith has hands that reach out lay hold of what he's given and take it to yourself not not not physical hands faith hands but they're real whatever it is it's been bugging you you say I believe I receive healing for my stomach I believe I receive healing for my head I believe I receive and then be happy about it yeah but I still heard yep I know it I know it but the one that when the results occur that's not when you received it that happens after you believe you receive it and you'll had it I believe that I receive healing go over to extend upon your feet stand up on

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