You Are Healed: God Said So! | Mike Hoesch

[Music] thank you hey everyone welcome to Healing Journeys today this is Mike Hesh and uh thank you all for joining me I was just uh my wife was just telling me a joke I'm not sure I get it she said what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question anyway moving right along so anyway uh I just wanted to remind you I will be in Minneapolis Minnesota at the Charis Bible College this Saturday it's from 10 to 3 it is open to the public and we'd love to see you there if you're in the area please join us and then I'll be at River Valley Christian church on Sunday and uh that's April 2nd and uh that I believe it's 9 30 to 11 30 is their service time and so if you can't make the Bible College please join us there all the details uh the necessary details are located on my website on the events and the contact page so um yeah and uh you can find my the website address right down there on the lower part of the screen you'll see that there um once My Wife puts it up and uh so anyway thank you Miss Caroline and uh so anyway that's it I think we still have um uh Dave and Karen Metcalf will be ministering again they were the guest teachers uh for uh healing Journeys today for the month of March and they will be I think their last session will be this Friday and so really uh once again I just want to encourage you if you're in the Minneapolis area please join me for one or both of those um it'll be good to see you and please introduce yourself as a uh you watch me on healing Journeys today I'd love to to meet you that'd be awesome and so I think that's it for the messages announcements that I have today and um so once again my name is Mike Ash I am with healing Journeys today and our topic today is going to be you're healed God said so and uh the reason I wrote that is I was uh I was thinking about how we we and I'm including myself because I've been down that road um we don't always accept What God Says as if there's some other authority you know if God said something shouldn't that be so you know I said in uh I mean it says in Acts chapter 10. Peter was up on the roof and he was uh he saw this vision and in this Vision God told him he saw this Vision the Sheep coming down and there were all sorts of uh animals creeping things and beasts of all kinds in the sheet and God told him to rise to kill and to eat and um and Peter said not so Lord he said nothing unclean has crossed my lips ever and God said don't call unclean what I have cleansed and you know we should take that to heart about anything that's written in the word if the word says that we are healed then who are we to say no we're not healed amen you know uh I want to I want to encourage all of us you know we all will agree with the statement that God's word is true how many of you would agree with that okay yeah let's see okay I see yeah I see all the hands okay very good it looks unanimous everyone agrees that the word is true and uh so if the word is true then what I'm going to share today you should be able to say that is true and we can agree with Romans chapter 3 verse 3 and say let God be true and every man or every other person a liar so if I do not agree with God's word God's word is true and I'm the liar amen so let's keep that in mind as we listen today do you know um this is nothing new that what we're talking about has been around for you know since creation and uh let me just start in Matthew chapter 12. and I'm going to start in verse 38 it says then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered saying Master we would see a sign from thee now get their question okay they're like saying okay I want to believe that you're from God but show us a sign to prove that to us and listen carefully but Jesus answered and said unto them and evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign but there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonas the prophet for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth now just stop there for a second Jesus they asked Jesus for a sign and he said you know what if you're seeking after a sign that's evil that's adulterous okay why did he say that well he didn't compromise in his response but he gave them I mean he didn't compromise by giving them a response he actually turned them back to what would cause them not to be evil and cause them not to be adulterous see if you're seeking something other than if you're seeking satisfaction from something other than what God has given to us then you're actually committing adultery because he is our God and we're seeking satisfaction outside of that relationship okay so he used that term intentionally and not to cut them down in a sense but to get their attention like you know they they knew that uh adultery was a sin and it was punishable by death and so he used that it was a very strong term so look in there try and look at it from their perspective when he said that he probably really got their attention and then he says this he says okay here's your sign he said your sign is Jonas the prophet as he was three days and three nights in the way whale's belly he said so the son of man is going to be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth okay he said this is going to be your sign do you know the only way that could be a sign unto them because none of them were alive when Jesus I mean when Jonah was uh on the earth so the only way that could be a sign unto them is if they believed the word if they believed okay that really happened with Jonah because that's what the word of God says so Jesus said that the sign that he is the Son of God or the the Messiah of God is going to be fulfilled when Jesus spends three days and three nights in the heart of the earth and then rises again just like Jonah was spit out on the on the shore out of the belly of the whale so Jesus would be spit out of the heart of the Earth by the power of God same way Jonah was and he's saying look if you want to sign this will be the only sign that is given wow so stop us I really want you to consider this point it is so profound but yet so simple he's saying look in order for you to have this sign to where it's going to actually move your heart to agreement you're going to have to believe the word and that is an awesome what would you say that is an awesome release of responsibility for us see we don't have to do anything but just believe the word how simple if God said it it's true everything else that counters what God Said is not true and if you'll Embrace that truth what will be the fruit of it it will be freedom you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free isn't that a powerful point so I want to read one other uh example that kind of says the same thing it makes the same point but a little bit differently let's go to Luke 16. and I love these these points I mean they just uh Rejoice my heart the wisdom of our God and him sharing this the way he did through Jesus is just it's awesome you know here's something I want to encourage you to do you know when I read these accounts I like put myself in the shoes of the people listening to Jesus okay so I'm thinking to myself okay if I'm a Jew if I'm an Israelite if I'm a Hebrew I'm going to have some understanding of the law and I'm going to have some familiarity with the scriptures okay so I'm going to have things I believe that are true that I've been taught from the law of Moses so when I'm listening I'm thinking like how are they hearing what Jesus is saying okay so when he said like I gave that example when he said an evil and adulterous generation wow they would have been just taken back by the adulterous part like they they probably were reminded of of Jeremiah and uh Isaiah where where God likened the children of Israel unto you know uh adulterers stepping outside of the relationship that he had with them to worship other gods to uh you know disobey him and and walk in Rebellion against his Commandments and so there when he said that can you imagine he had their attention and I thought wow so that what he was about to say could have had a great impact on them if they wanted not to be guilty of committing adultery think about that for a second so I I said go to Luke 16 in Luke 16. listen to this I won't read the whole thing for sake of time but this is an account that God uh God gave to Jesus where he saw probably through the spirit or or God opened up his eyes to see uh this uh this account because this is not a parable the rich man in Lazarus if you compare it with every other Parable Jesus never uses a name to identify a person that actually existed um in his Parables but this so this is not a parable this is actually the father's adding a very important truth to us to to add clarification to many other scriptures that he gave in the Old Testament and this is a very important part of that understanding for us and Jesus understood it from the Old Testament so when his father showed him this he knew exactly what his father was talking about so this is the account where both the rich man and Lazarus they both died it says that Lazarus went into uh you know the the bosom of Abraham and the rich man went into the lowest hell I won't teach on that right now but he went into the lowest hell it explains that there this this uh this place where the rich men in Lazarus went to where Abraham and rich men I mean were Abraham and Lazarus were was considered the upper hell and it was divided by A Great Gulf between the upper and the lower hell and in the lowest hell was the place where all the people that had rejected God's way of Salvation prior to the Cross went to be and all the people above that Gulf in the upper hell where Abraham was that was A Place Called Paradise that's where all the saints went before the resurrection from from Able down to you know the last person before Jesus resurrected went to that place and they were preserved there in Paradise because no one had the spirit of God so they couldn't enter into heaven so Jesus is relating these truths to us and what he saw and there's a conversation between this rich man who is in torment uh and uh Abraham who is comforted he's in the you know the place of uh paradise and so I'm going to pick up in the middle of this and uh in verse 25 it says uh you know let me skip down uh well I'll start in verse 25. Abraham said unto the rich man son remember that thou in thy lifetime receive us thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and besides all this between us and you there is a great goal fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from fence you know when we think in our mind like you know a Grand Canyon or something but this is a spiritual divide inside this place because this is a spiritual place this is a place where only the uh the soul and the spirit of each were uh you know resting this is where they were there was there was no physicalness about it other than the location and so he says here uh then the rich man replied and said verse 27 I pray thee therefore father and I want to point this out see Abraham called the rich man's son and uh the rich man called Abraham father and the reason he did was because uh the rich man was a descendant of Abraham but you know you'll think of many scriptures as I just did is you know it's not the physical birth that makes you related to Abraham but rather it's the spiritual birth that makes you related to the father of Faith Abraham so it goes on to say verse 27 it says then said he I pray thee therefore father that thou would Ascend Lazarus unto my father's house for I have five Brethren that he may testify unto them lest they come into this place of torment and Abraham saith unto him they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them and he said nay Father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent now listen carefully very carefully because this in this is speaking to us Abraham answered and said unto the rich man if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded the one rose from the dead that is such a powerful statement there think about that for a moment that's exactly what we are talking about that's exactly what Jesus said in the parable I mean in the account when they asked him the questions show us a sign and he said I'll give you a sign Jonah see our best evidence our best uh way to embrace what God has for us is not what we can see with our eyes not what we think is important but rather just simply what his word declares and if we'll if we'll agree and believe and Obey what that word says then we will have the fruit of it manifested in our life but if we are like those people that ask Jesus for a sign and we are like this rich man who said no no no no they have to see a sign uh and if we're like that and then we're going to be hindered from receiving what God has already provided for us you might say I don't understand well think about this for a moment if the word of God Says by Jesus Stripes you were healed and you say no I can't be healed because I have these symptoms then when are you ever going to receive that you're healed you're gonna you're the demands you're actually making in that statement is deliver me of my symptoms and then I'll know I'm Healed where if you said that to Abraham he would have said if you believe the word of God then you'll be healed but if you're waiting for a sign then like Jesus said then you'll never believe that's an important Point okay it's quite sobering you know I came to that realization when I was very sick I mean I almost died because I was so connected to the absence of my symptoms equaling me being healed I had to give up on that and the day I genuinely gave up on that and said okay whatever the word says that's what's true and I decided to I'm going to believe what the word says is true whether I see it hear it smell it touch it or taste it amen now remember I asked you a question at the beginning of our time together I asked us all I said how many of you believe that the word of God is true and every one of you well I think almost every everyone I could see had their hand raised okay and so now I'm going to hold you to that and I want you to hold yourself to that okay so that means if I read you the word of God today and I read you what God's word says about you then if you say it's true then you're going to believe it you're going to say okay that's true I accept that as my truth because it's God's truth okay so will you do that for me today just stick with what the word says okay so turn with me if you will to Colossians chapter one we'll just start there okay Colossians chapter one I'm going to cover a lot of scriptures I think and uh I'm not going to spend much time on each one but I I just want to bring out some very important points to us okay in Colossians chapter 1 it says right here verse 12 giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us to be or meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light okay now this is the word of God and it says that God our father has made us partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light so in other words we all have the inheritance that God has given to us it's already ours he's made us a partaker of that inheritance okay that's good news past tense it's already done do you know that you have that listen on he says it who has this is God who has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear son in whom we have Redemption through his blood the even the Forgiveness of sins listen carefully this word of God says that we have been delivered from the power of darkness in other words we're going to read another scripture in a moment that says at one point we when after we had given ourselves over through sin to the devil we were under the power of Darkness but this says because we've received Christ as our savior it says that we have been delivered from that power and we have been placed in the Kingdom of his dear son okay hold on to these points I'm going to add to them as we go along listen carefully and it says that we are now redeemed because of the blood of his son and we have the Forgiveness of sins okay just I want everyone with me to say I am forgiven of all sin okay I am forgiven of all sin that's what the truth is that's what this word says now many of you I do believe agree with that and you and you know that to be true and your heart is resting in it because not because you feel forgiven all the time but because your heart has believed the truth so when the enemy Whispers In Your Ear oh you're a sinner you did this wrong or you did that wrong you just simply say yes I did do that wrong but that sin has been washed away by the blood of Jesus and now I am forgiven isn't that beautiful that's the truth and if we don't believe that we're saying God lied about his son okay and we know that that's not true amen so while we're in Colossians uh let me skip down let me read a few uh other verses here uh verse uh 21 it says in you or how many of you are you yeah I'm a U2 and it says uh in you that were sometimes alienated and enemies where in your mind how by Wicked Works yet now hath he reconciled you know what reconciled means how many of you know what reconcile means it means to be thoroughly changed see we've been reconciled you might say thoroughly changed to what we've been thoroughly changed to God in other words we were completely separated from him and now we are reconciled unto him we've been brought bought back by him that's the Redemption Part through what Jesus did and now we're reconciled unto him we've we've been thoroughly changed to where we can be at peace in his presence okay we don't have to be fearful uh in God's presence because we are without well let me read it it says uh he uh now hath the reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy unblameable and unreprovable in his sight so we could read this backwards and saying well the way God sees me is Holy unreprovable and unblameable what's more important to you how you see yourself how others see you or how God sees you do you know when you boil it all down there's only one that's really going to matter on the Eternal scheme of things and that is what God sees about you wouldn't it be better to live your life through God's view than it would be to live through someone else's view or even through an unrenewed mind View I can assure you folks uh take the second one is much better and let's read on down this is so good listen to this it says even well let me start in verse 25. it says where uh wherefore where of I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God even the mystery which hath been hid from the ages and from Generations but is now made manifest to the Saints you know what this is saying this is saying that there was a mystery in Ephesians that talks about this too there was a mystery that nobody understood until Christ came and once Christ came now we all understand or can't understand what that mystery was and what is that mystery verse 27 to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory see here's the mystery he the mystery was that one day Christ the spirit of Christ would dwell in people and they would be reunited to the father in complete Union just like Jesus was amen and still is amen this is really just restating or uh what Jesus said in John chapter 17 where Jesus prayed that to the father that we would be that we you and I and the disciples and those who believed would be one with Jesus as Jesus was one with the father and that we would have the same Oneness with the father that Jesus had so all three of us you know those three groups would be one in the father that's that was a mystery that people didn't understand and now it's revealed unto us isn't that beautiful that's that's awesome skip over here to verse chapter 2 verse 9. um it says right here speaking of Christ it says for in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily and you are complete in him which is the head of all principality and Power in whom you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision decision of Christ we are buried with him in baptism we are also risen with him through faith through the faith of the operation of God who raised who raised him from the dead and we being dead in our sins in the uncircumcision of our flesh had the quickened together with him having forgiven you all trespasses blotting out the handwriting of the ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us took it out of the way and nailed it to his cross do you know what this is saying this is saying that we don't need nothing this is saying that every lack that we have was met in Christ Jesus when we were dead in our trespasses and sins separated from him God restored us through placing all of that sin on Jesus Christ and the consequences of those sins and in that sacrifice those who would believe on Jesus that sacrifice would be their substitute and would pay the penalty that we could not pay and everything that was charged against us would be blotted out by the blood that he shed isn't that awesome that's exactly what happened in the Old Testament when they did you sacrificed an animal the shedding of that blood through the Old Testament law uh or even before and after the law they were offering sacrifices because they knew the shedding of blood was for the covering of sin but once Christ came his blood actually washed away our sin that's why there's no need to offer another sacrifice because his washed away sin amen everything that was charged against us now is been washed away isn't that beautiful you know remember now we're talking about God's word is truth most of us will agree yes my sins are washed away yes I have been redeemed yes I have been reconciled unto God through what Jesus did yes there's no other way but what God provided through Jesus but when it comes to things like we are complete in him we might say well I don't feel that way you know John put it this way in first John 4 17 he said as Jesus is so are we in this world think about Ephesians chapter 5 I believe it's verse 30 it says that we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh think about that for a second that boggles our minds but hey let's go over to Ephesians this is good this is the reason why we can say okay I don't understand that my flesh can't grab a hold of that but God says that this is true so if God is true then every other thought that's coming into my mind that disagrees with that is a lie simple huh go to with me to Ephesians chapter 2 verse one listen to this it says and you how many of you are you I'm a you it says and you hath he quickened or given life to who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein time passed we walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of Disobedience among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the Flesh and of the mind and were by Nature the children of Wrath even as others see Paul's just cutting through all the fat he's saying you were you were as evil as the devil you were a child of the devil you you rejected God's way and at one point in our life we were all there we were all dead in our trespasses and sins listen folks if you weren't dead in your trespasses and sins then you don't need a savior okay I think most of us would agree that we we have sin and come short of perfection amen verse 4 it says but God who is rich in Mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us this is God's word God says he had a great love that he loves us with so that's truth right there because it's in the word so it's truth so God loves you okay notice what that love produced even when we were dead in sins he quickened us together with Christ and raised us up together uh and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus wow that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding Riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus do you know folks that's why in Colossians it says that we are in Christ we are complete in him that means everything the father did for us including placing us in Christ by Grace We're saved he placed us there by Grace not by our performance that we are now in Christ so we can never be separated from our father isn't that awesome our father said look I want a place where they're completely safe and that they can never be separated ever again from me and he's I can see him who who would where could I I'll put them in my son and in my son they'll never be separated from me so when we became born again he gave us his spirit and we became one with Christ and he even made us sit with him you know we're at the right hand of the father we just need to look over to the left there and say Hey Dad okay we don't have to scream and beg and you know wallow he's just right here okay his spirit is dwelling in US but we are seated in Christ at the right hand of the father folks that's our present tense status it's not someday in the future it's right now remember whose view do you want to look at yourself through your view someone else's view or God's view see God's view is the only view that is clear it's the only view that sees all things as they truly are you know I remember in the song of Moses he's he this he's saying he said that speaking of Jehovah he said you're a God of Truth and without iniquity just and right are you see that's the testimony of Moses and Moses talked with God like and God answered him you know I don't know how audible it was but we know that all the children of Israel heard God speak from the mountain they heard an audible voice okay and this is what God this is what Moses description of God was like now remember Abraham told the rich man he said look if they want to know how not to go to hell Moses and all the prophets talked and ministered What God Says on how to stop going to to the lowest tale that place of Torment so again if we'll just believe what the word says if we'll accept that as truth then we'll reap the fruit of what we believe and know as truth isn't that awesome how simple that is amen how simple that is listen to this let's just go over to the page before in uh verse chapter one verse 3 says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ see we can actually say it this way he has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the spirit in Christ isn't that awesome see we're in the spirit we're not in the flesh we're going to read about that in a minute okay listen to what else it says see this verse says you are blessed because God says we're blessed now don't you call yourself anything other than blessed because God says you are blessed that's your present tense status in an hour from now you're gonna be blessed and it's gonna be your present tense status then see God is in the now always God never goes out of now because he's Eternal it's always now where he is at isn't that awesome to know listen to this it says here in verse 4 that he hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world why so that we could be holy and Without Blame before him in love see God said look we're going to have to work out this sin thing so how are we going to do that okay I'll put them in my son who is without sin so that I can have a clear view of them always that they are holy they are without sin and there without blame before me because they're in my son isn't that awesome think about that folks that's true it's true now and it'll be true in 10 minutes it was true four hours ago okay you may not have seen it like that but now you know it is true okay okay that's page one I've only got ten more to go so hold on uh listen to this go with me to John I love this I'm challenging you folks remember if God said it it's true where is it I think it's in Titus that says uh that God cannot lie so that means he only tells the truth folks this is simple God let God be true and everyone else a liar okay so if God said it it's true if it's any other thought other than what the word of God says it is not truth it's a lie okay I'm glad we got that out of the way let's go on to verse chapter 6 of John okay chapter six of John listen to what he says in chapter 6. let's see here chapter six let me find the verse ah where is that I thought it was here am I in John 6 oh it would help if I was in the right chapter okay John 8 are you ready John 8 verse 36 that's I knew right the 36 was right it wasn't saying that into six listen to this it said if the son therefore shall make you free you shall be free indeed what is that saying the word of God says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved you're freed okay so if the son has made you free then you're free indeed so don't ever say oh I'm in bondage to this or I'm in bondage to that it's a lie the enemies persuaded you of something that is not true if you've been made free by Jesus you're free right now you'd say yeah but what about this sickness what about this disease well stop cooperating with it it's not yours you've been made free from that that's what the word of God says and notice in verse 32 it says and you shall know the truth Not Just Hear It but you will know the truth and the truth will make you free see that's the job of the truth when you know it it always fulfills its purpose God said in Isaiah 55 11 my word does not return unto me empty it prospers in the thing that I send it to do so think about that if God sends it to you and you say ah no thanks oh I've already got something in here I I don't want that then that word it's not the word that's going void it's you're rejecting the word of Freedom that he sent you folks let's not do that that's just not smart Okay in case you're a little confused about that go with me to Galatians Galatians chapter 5. Galatians chapter five listen to this verse 1. it says Stand Fast therefore in the liberty or the freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage Paul is saying look we were made free past tense our present tense is I'm at Liberty in Christ I am free indeed that is my present tense status but notice what he cautions against he said and be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage folks let's not ex let's not accept what the enemy's telling us just because we have a feeling in our body just because we have our senses telling us something contrary to the word do you know think about this for a moment do you know that the moment we cross over from being bound in these physical bodies to release from them into the spirit we're all gonna we're all gonna say I could have had it I could have had it that's that's our if you know if we were still able to think that way but that part of our carnal mind will be gone uh we're gonna all think wow I could have had it why wait we're free now let's not allow the enemy to entangle us again into that bondage where we were dead in our trespasses and sins where we were separated from the goodness that God desired us to live and walk in let's not make that choice let's say no to that amen and he gives us good reason in chapter two listen to this in verse 16. he says verse 16 of Galatians 2. man is not justified by The Works of the law see many of us and I was guilty of this when I was sick I was trying to perform and keep the word to the letter so that God would release what Jesus did for me what do you call that folks yeah well besides stupid it's called works it's called performance see I was trying to do something as if in my mind and heart I was thinking Jesus didn't do enough oh the father forgot about me so I've got to work out this little part of my salvation okay see the devil gave me all these scriptures to support his lies but out of context of course in context with all of the word I could see wow those were lies he twisted the word to say something it really didn't say that's exactly what he did to Eve in Genesis 3 hath God said oh maybe you didn't hear him right maybe that's really not what he meant okay the devil's still using that same uh way of communicating to all of us but we've been made free now we should see that as darkness and not and see it for darkness and uh for what it actually is he goes on to say a man knowing that a man is not justified by The Works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ see we are Justified because of Jesus being steadfast on his father's word see Jesus accomplished our justification through his steadfastness on what the father taught him he stood on the word and he didn't budge off of it amen why because Jesus knew he was free he was free in his father you know he was free just like we're free he never got into bondage to have to get out of it but he was free and never got into bondage and he stayed free by just staying in fellowship with his father yes walking in the word to the point where it was manifested in his flesh isn't that awesome that is awesome folks let's read on he says uh that uh let's see that but by the faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ and not by The Works of the law for by The Works of the law shall no flesh be justified see folks if you're trying to appropriate anything that we've already been given in Christ through the flesh you're missing the mark you're trying to get something as if there's a work that yet needs to be done folks give up on it that's bondage be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage why because you're free in Christ don't take on anything of the world and try and use the world to appropriate what Christ has freely given to us it's a dead work it'll keep you away from the Simplicity of receiving through just believing and then Paul says in verse 20. he says I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me you know folks even your faith you don't have to work your faith just place your faith in what Jesus has done his faith accomplished all that we need let's live by his faith which is above exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think he's accomplished it amen isn't that awesome wow just a couple more places hang in there with me go with me to Romans chapter 6. I love the book of Romans uh Romans 6. listen to this [Applause] verse 17 it says but God be thanked that you listen past tense you were the Servants of sin but you have obeyed from the heart the form of Doctrine which was delivered unto you and now you've been made free from sin and become a servant to righteousness isn't that awesome do you know to serve righteousness is not bondage at all it's freedom listen to what it goes on to say he says in verse 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto Holiness he's saying look you were really good at yielding yourself unto sin and unrighteousness he said use that same effort now that you're capable of to yield yourself unto righteousness and when you yield yourself to righteousness the fruit of that is going to be holiness verse 20 he says for when you were Servants of sin you were free from righteousness and what fruit had you in those things wherever you are now ashamed for the end of those things is death he's saying look you had no good fruit walking after your flesh but now but now think about it he says now you're free from that and you're righteous you're the very righteousness of God because you're in Christ he says and now being made free from sin and become servants to God you have your fruit unto Holiness and the end everlasting life for the wages of sin in other words if we walk in sin there's a payment coming he says and that is death but he said but the gift of God that we have received through the Faith of Christ is eternal life and we're in Christ Jesus do you know it says in John 17 Jesus said this is eternal life that we might know the father and his son Jesus Christ so folks the moment you knew your father as Father and Jesus as the son of our father and and uh savior when we know that we be we entered into eternal life folks there's no lacking of life in eternal life okay stop a second go with me over to Romans 8. this is good listen to this so if we had this eternal life why would we choose to walk after the flesh why would be well why would we have any interest in the flesh listen verse 8 of verse 8. it's of Chapter eight it says so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God but verse 9 but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you do you know that it we read in Ephesians well we didn't read it verse 13 it says that when we became born again that we uh were sealed by the spirit of God and here it says that if the spirit of God dwells in us we're not in the flesh we don't have to follow the flesh it goes on to say now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he's none of his so if you're not born again you don't have the spirit of Christ but listen to verse 10 and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but listen carefully but the spirit is life because of righteousness but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you how many of you are you we're all of you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also do what Quicken your mortal body by his spirit that dwelleth in you do you know the word mortal there means dying so God said look because the spirit is dwelling in you it has the ability to give life to your mortal body look God said you are healed if you believe that truth then that spirit in you will make you free from that sickness and disease it's God put it like this Matthew chapter eight we all know this Matthew 8. verse 17. verse 16. when the even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils and he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sick that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses here's an opportunity folks that's truth choose to believe that truth Jesus took your infirmity and bear your sickness first Peter 2 24 I can I gotta read this first Peter 2 verse 24. who his own self bear our sins in his body on the tree that we being dead to sins how many times have we read this in the last few scriptures are sins that we were dead in are now dead to us they're gone there there's no reason for them to be there because Jesus bore them and we've been made righteous he says look uh that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness that's our present status if all you have is righteousness because there's no more sin then what it what are you you're righteous and listen to what that else Jesus did by whose Stripes you were healed folks if the first part of that verse is true then the second part has to be true also it can't be well the first part's true the second part's not true either they're all true or they're all a lie and if they're all a lie we have much more to be concerned with than a physical symptom in your body because if Christ be not raised we are yet in our sins and we are of all men most miserable folks the good news is you are healed because God said so those are the facts in your case folks I encourage you to choose that choose to believe that truth reject the lie that your body is telling you that oh until that symptom is gone I'm not going to be well or or the the tricky uh statement of the devil oh I'm waiting on the manifestation oh I'm Healed my strategies I'm waiting on the manifestation no you're not you're waiting to believe that God's word is true that's the actual truth praise God I just want to assure you you are healed because God said so and God is not a man that he should lie hath he not said and shall he not do amen praise God folks hey thanks so much for joining me it's been awesome again I want to remind you please uh if you're in Minneapolis this weekend uh please uh stop by at uh the Karis Bible College on Saturday and then at River Valley Christian church on Sunday would love to see you there awesome well God bless you and I'll see you in the next true stream bye bye now [Music] thank you

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