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The Gifts of the Spirit pt 11: The Gifts of healing · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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is taken away in the name of Jesus. Every heart
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and soul is taken away in the name of Jesus.
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that Christ has bestowed unto us. I have in -depth
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understanding. I am not confused. I have clarity
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in the name of Jesus. As the word comes, the
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miraculous happens even as the word has been
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preached in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father.
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In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. In Jesus' mighty
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name, we pray. All right, great. So it's good
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to be in church this morning and it's good to
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have us in church. Last week, Wednesday, we were
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encouraged to listen to the previous track so
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that we can be able to follow in this teaching
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because this teaching is actually in series and
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we've been taking this teaching from, I think,
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August. Right. And this is October. So we are
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continuing in this teaching today. Now, the title
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of this is The Gifts of Healing. So for me, they
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are saying this should be the subtitle. Please
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don't just put the things of the spirit or what
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you're putting. Please. This should be the subtitle.
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The Gifts. S in the Gifts of Healing. The Gifts
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of Healing. Now let's go to Acts. Chapter 4,
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Acts chapter 10. I said every time we would teach,
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we would read the scripture, and then we would
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begin teaching. It's to prepare our minds and
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our hearts to receive what the Bible is going
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to teach. What we are going to explain from the
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scriptures today. Acts chapter 10, verse 44.
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Acts chapter 10, verse 40. Just open your Bibles
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and I want us to read it together. I want us
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to read it together. Acts chapter 10, verse 40.
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For everybody, if we are ready, I want us to
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read it together. It's also on the screen. Can
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we read it together? One, two, go. While Peter
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was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit
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fell upon all those who heard the word. Can you
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read it again? While Peter was still speaking
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these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those
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who heard the word. One more time. While Peter
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was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit
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fell upon all those who heard the word. Father,
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we thank you because there's manifestation of
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your power, even as we teach in the name of Jesus.
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So the title of this teaching is the gifts of
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healing. Because the last time we talk about
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faith, right? We talk about the gift of faith.
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That the gift of faith, right, is something that
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you can stand in gap and receive for someone.
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So someone is sick, someone is stressed, someone
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is going through challenges. You can receive
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on behalf of someone. So you can believe for
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someone. There are many people that have believed
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something for us. And later in our life, we received
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them. Right? So you can believe someone can stand
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in the place of prayer for you and they can believe
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that you receive healing, you receive different
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things, you receive what you are expecting from
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God. So at those times, your own faith might
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be failing, right? Your faith, there are circumstances
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that might make you not to be able to exercise
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faith. But someone can receive by believing on
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your behalf that this thing will happen, right?
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And we see that now today, we want to focus on
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one of those things that can be received. And
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one of those things is healing. Healing is one
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of those things that can be received and is a
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gift. So it can be administered. Healing can
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be administered. Healing can be received. Healing
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can be received. Now, while I was preparing this
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study, right, I had to actually, first of all,
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go through several understanding of healing,
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right? The goal today is to fill us with overwhelming
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evidence that healing is something that takes
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place among the believers. They can receive it
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and they can minister it. So the goal today is
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to show us from the scripture or the goal of
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this teaching is to show us from the scripture
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that, Healing is something that takes place among
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the believers. They can minister it and they
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can receive it. So like we've taught that because
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we all have the spirit of God, all that is found
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in the spirit of God can be exercised by the
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believer. All that is found in the spirit of
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God can be exercised by the believer. And the
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gift of healing is one of those things. And here
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we see it's under the gifts, right? Under the
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spiritual gifts. Now, one of the things that
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we see is that some people said healing, there's
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no more healing. In fact, while they counter
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many gifts of the spirits, right? Many things
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of the spirit, for example, speaking in tongues,
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prophesying, word of wisdom, word of knowledge,
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right? Healing is one of the ones that got the
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hits the most, right? Healing God. Why did they
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say healing God hits the most? The reason is
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because when they pray for people, they have
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another mindset that this person might not be
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healed and God might want this person to die.
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So by that, right, the administration of healing
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to people is weakened. So they're not able to
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administer healing. So they'll say, oh, if it
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is God's will, let this person die. God's will?
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Regarding healing in the Bible, it's clear. Are
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we together? So we are going to see it today,
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God's will regarding it. If God really desire
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people to be healed, and we see it consistently.
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Now, so some people pray that people should,
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you know, God's will should be done, but God's
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will is healing when it comes to healing people.
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Now, the first thing we are going to do this
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morning, is to check the Old Testament text.
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Right? The Old Testament text. If God desire
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people to be healed. Were people healed in the
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Old Testament? Right? Because one of the arguments
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is also that this healing stopped when John the
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Baptist died. So they argue that, you know, all
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those things we call the things of the Spirit,
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all the things we call prophecy, these things
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ended the moment the last apostle, which was
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John, The moment the last apostle died, it all
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ended. The problem with that is because they've
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not been able to check that even before the disciples,
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was God healing people? He was, right? So we'll
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see it from the scriptures. So if God was healing
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people before the disciples, when the disciples
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healed before resurrection, and they healed after
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resurrection, then today, healing should still
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be taking place, right? So it means that they've
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not paid attention to those scriptures. So we're
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going to open the scriptures today to show that
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God desire people to be healed, right? And he
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ministers that through every believer that has
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the spirit of God. Now, you know, in this church,
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that's one of our emphasis is that we train you
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to be a minister. Because the Bible says he has
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set them in the church. The prophet, the apostles,
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the evangelists, the teachers, the pastors. Ephesians
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4 .11. For the equipping of who? The saints.
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So this morning is another equipping for you
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so that you can understand how healing takes
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place. That healing still takes place today.
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Hallelujah. Alright, so let's start. The way
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I'm going to teach it, I'm going to teach it
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in... kind of sections we have a b c so you can
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write so that it can guide us now the first point
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where we will see healing is just write physicians
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healing the first point a physicians healing
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we want to take different types of healing that
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the bible acknowledges in the old testament the
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physicians healing second kings 9 verse 15 2
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Kings 9, this is the physicians in it. Does the
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Bible acknowledge, right? Does the Bible acknowledge
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that there are doctors, people visit doctors?
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Does the Bible acknowledge that? Does the Bible
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acknowledge that there are substances that you
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can use to get healed? Does the Bible acknowledge
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that? That is what we are saying in this first
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section. The physicians healing. Now he said,
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but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover
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from the wounds. which the Assyrians, the Syrians
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had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazel,
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king of Syria. And Jehu said, if you so mind,
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right, let no one, right, leave or escape from
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the city to go to Jezreel. The next one. So Jehu
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drove the chariot and went to Jezreel to Joram.
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for Joram was laid up there and he has the king
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of Judah who had come down to Joram. Go back
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to verse 15. Go back to verse 15. So he returned
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to Jezreel to recover from the wounds, right?
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So he was actually in this context visiting a
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physician. Okay, if you read the entire context,
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he was actually visiting a physician when a war
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had taken place and he needed to recover from
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the wounds. So this is not divine healing, right?
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This one is talking about someone paying a visit,
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right? For a physical treatment. Okay. So it's
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someone that was paying a visit to a physician
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for physical treatment. Let's go to 2 Chronicles
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16, 12. 2 Chronicles 15. 16, 12, please. And
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in the 39th year of the rain, Asa became diseased
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in the streets and his malady was severe. Yet
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in this disease, he did not seek the Lord, but
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he sought who? He sought physicians. So physicians
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were there, right? Physicians were there. Now,
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from one of our studies and series of our studies,
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we have also seen, we have also seen, because
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I want to stick to the Old Testament, that oil,
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is also being used, right, as a form of treatment.
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As a form of treatment. So, we see that oil is
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used. Now, if you can write it down, when Joseph,
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right, when Joseph was told his father was sick,
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one of the things they took there was oil. So,
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they also used oil for embalming of someone who
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has passed. Right? Joseph used that on Jacob.
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So, oil has some medicinal use in the Bible.
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And the Bible acknowledges these things. Let
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me give you one text from the Old Testament,
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from the New Testament. Just this one we'll take
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from the New Testament. 1 Timothy, right? Let's
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just read 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy 5, 23. And it
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said, drink no longer water, but use a little
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wine for your stomach's sake. and thy often infirmities,
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right? He said, use a little wine, Paul talking
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to Timothy, for thy often infirmities, right?
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So it means that certain substance we use for
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physical treatment of infirmities. Are we together?
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Now, after checking the scriptures, one thing
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that is clear about the Bible is that most times,
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There are very few records of physical healing.
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And I'll tell you the reason. There are very
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few records of physical healing in the sense
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that they had to visit the physician and the
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Bible described what was given and how that what
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was given produced healing. There are very few
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instances. And I tell you, the reason why this
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is like that is because the Bible is communicating
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a spiritual reality. Are we together? So the
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reason why the emphasis of the scriptures is
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not on using physical substance, the emphasis,
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I said, because there's an acknowledgement that
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the emphasis is low is because the Bible is communicating
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a spiritual reality that it wants we, the believers,
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to walk in. So the emphasis on using physical
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substance is quite... It's like you having a
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book dedicated to matters of the spirit and you
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pay too much emphasis on the things of the natural,
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right? So it becomes what is the main subject
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of the Bible, right? You can question what's
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the main subject if it's talking about all of
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this. But there is overwhelming evidence of divine
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healing in the Bible. Overwhelming evidence of
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divine healing. Now we are done with the natural,
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the physician's healing. If you also notice,
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when Jesus was dying, they also used the word.
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That the physician should do what? Should heal
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himself. They used this word on Christ. They
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said, physician, heal yourself. So, they were
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assuming and saying that Christ is like their
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medical doctor. Because they have seen him heal
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many people. They've seen Christ heal many people.
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They've seen him done a lot of miracles, but
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yet they had no understanding. So by the time
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they approached him to even walk him, they walk
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him as if he was a medical doctor. They say,
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oh, physicians, heal yourself. They use the statement.
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So it means that in that society and that environment,
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the Bible acknowledges how the physicians plays
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a role. But the emphasis is not the physician.
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The emphasis is not the physician. Now let's
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look at another one. Let's look at another one.
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So the gift of the Spirit, before we look at
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it, just write this down. The gift of the Spirit
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is not pertaining to this part, this physical
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use of physician. The gift of the Spirit, the
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gift that we're talking about in 1 Corinthians
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12, is not pertaining to this physician's healing.
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It's not pertaining to that. For every section
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we will check, we will check it and see what
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God is really saying. The reason is because so
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that you can be able to know and how to administer
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these things. Now, the second one. The second
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one. Can you write? I just created these titles.
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You just bear with me. Healing in quotes. Just
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put healing and put in quotes. Quotation marks.
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Healing. Inanimate objects. Healing inanimate
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objects or things. I intentionally told you to
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put that healing in quotation. There's a reason.
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So you put healing inanimate things or objects.
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Now in the scriptures, there are places where
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the word healing was used for things, right?
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It was used for things. For example, healing
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inanimate things, water was healed in the Bible.
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Was water healed? They used the word healed for
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water. Exodus 15 verse 22 to 27. Exodus 15 verse
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22 to 27. And Moses brought Israel from the Red
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Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of
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Sheol. And they went three days in the wilderness
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and found no water. Now, when they came to Marah,
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they could not drink the waters of Marah, for
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they were bitter. This is not figurative, this
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is literal, right? Therefore the name of the
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place was called Marah. The next one. And the
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people complained against Moses saying, what
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shall we drink? So he cried out to the Lord and
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the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into
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the waters, the waters were made sweet. There
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he made a statute and ordinance for them and
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there he tested them. So what did Moses do here?
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Moses healed the water. We did not see the word
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healing here, right? We did not see the word
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healing here. Let's go to 2 Kings. 2 Kings 2.
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I think verse 19. If I'm correct, verse 19. Then
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the men of the city said to Elisha, Please notice
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the situation of this city is pleasant, as my
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Lord sees, but the water is bad and the ground
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is barren. And he said, Bring me a new bowl and
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put a salt in it. So they brought it to him.
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Then he went out to the source of the water and
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cast the salt there. So we see in this context,
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what was being healed was water. Just similar
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to what Moses did. Similar to what Moses did.
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Let me see if I have one more scripture. For
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an inanimate object, the word healed is used.
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1 Kings 18. Verse 30. 1 Kings 18, verse 30. Then
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Elijah said to all the people, come near to me.
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So all the people came near to him and he repaired
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the altar of the Lord that was broken. Okay?
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He repaired what? The altar of the Lord that
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was broken. Now that word repair is the word
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rapha. It's the same word that was translated
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to heal. He said, and he did what? He repaired
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the altar of the Lord. That word is still the
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word Raphael, right? Was used. So the actions,
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right? The actions of Elijah when it comes to
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the altar of the Lord. So healing, repaired,
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was used. Now, in this context, okay? Having
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understood the gift of the spirit. And as we
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proceed, we will see what took place here. Okay,
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are we together? What took place here is the
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working of miracles, not the gift of healing.
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Please write it down. That what took place in
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all this context, apart from the one that Elisha
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was physically repairing the temple, what took
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place here is the working of miracles is not
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healing. And I'll tell you why. So this is also
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not related to the gift of healing, but we see
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the word used in the scriptures. We are coming
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to the one where the Bible talks about healing.
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Now, something can be happening in your environment,
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right? You have heard testimony of people, they
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wanted to hold a service, okay? And they brought
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an engine that was working, maybe an engine like
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this. And the mixer was working all along. But
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all of a sudden, they came to relocate it to
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a place where they needed to do evangelism and
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nothing was working again. And you'll hear people
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say, they just went and they lay hands and they
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prayed on it and it started working again. Now,
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this is working of miracles. You know why? Because
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healing, in terms of the gift of healing, takes
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place, right, on the vessel that God can inhabit.
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So the gift of healing works on the verse. So
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it does not work. We don't call that healing
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because that is the working of a miracle because
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God does not work there. He cannot inhabit an
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engine, but he can inhabit horse. So why do we
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call the one that happens to us healing? Because
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the purpose, I'm going to take this back again.
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The purpose of healing is to show the gospel.
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When it comes to man. So when it comes to man,
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God's purpose of providing this possibility of
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divine healing is that when we heal people, we
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can show them the message of Christ. Or that
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we ourselves, when we are healed, we are able
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to go and preach. So again, like I said, circumstances
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around you, situations around you, right? Things
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might be happening and you can speak. You can
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touch them, right? You can look at them and,
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you know, say something in the spirit and that
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natural circumstance can come to obedience of
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what you have said. That is not healing. That
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is the workings of miracles, which we are going
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to teach. Okay? That is the workings of miracles.
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Now, when Jesus rebuked the wind, was Jesus healing
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the wind? Together, when Jesus rebuked the wind,
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was he healing the wind? Okay, that's an inanimate
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object that was being spoken to, right? And the
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wind respected. So when we deal with those circumstances
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and things, it's actually you're working miracles
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because you are changing something in the natural
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to obedience. But the word was used for these.
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It is because. So why was it used? It is because
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it is to show that something has been restored.
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So healing was used for water, for altar, for
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example, altar. It was used to show that something
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has been restored. Something has been made whole.
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Something has been made complete. Something has
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been put in a state where it can function well
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for man. That's it. It has been shown, it has
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been used to show that now the water can be drank,
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can be taken, right? We can take the water. We
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can also say that the altar, then worship can
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take place there, right? So it is that the natural
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circumstances around us, we put them on that
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subjection through the power of God. When we
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do that, that is working of miracles. So this
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is just part of it. So all of this is not healing,
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but the word was used to show that they have
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been made complete. Now, the main one we want
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to talk about. The main one. Healing in the context
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of salvation. Healing in the context. This should
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be the C. Right? This should be our C. This should
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be C. Healing in the context of salvation. So
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you can write that the gift of healing, the gift
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of healing, right? The gift of healing is expressed
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in the context of salvation because it was given.
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The gift of healing is expressed in the context
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of salvation because it was given. by the Spirit
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of Christ. Right? It's expressed in the context
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of salvation because it was given by the Spirit
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of Christ. Now, before we talk about the resurrection,
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right? Before we talk about the resurrection,
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we're going to come to that later. Let's begin
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again to peek from the Old Testament to see if
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people were healed or what healing was talked
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about. Now, let's see. 2 Chronicles 7, verse
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14. 2 Chronicles 7, verse 14. The first scripture
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is for this text. If my people who are called
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by my name will humble themselves and pray and
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seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
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then I will hear them from heaven. I will forgive
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their sin and I will heal their land. Now, it's
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talking about a spiritual state. Over people.
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Right? He's talking about a spiritual state over
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people. And healing is used to communicate the
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deliverance of God. Okay? He's talking about
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the spiritual state of the people. And healing
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is used to communicate the deliverance of God.
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We're going to come to that that refers to physical
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healing. So this one we see that he's talking
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about their spiritual state. Their land. Now,
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this land is not land. It's not literal here.
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It doesn't mean the floor or the ground, but
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it's talking about the people will be healed.
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It means they will be restored back to the place
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of worship. Now let's see Isaiah 1 verse 1 to
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6. Isaiah 1 verse 1 to 6. And the vision of Isaiah,
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the son of Amos, which is so concerning Judah
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and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
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Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. Hear,
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O heavens, and give hear, O earths. For the Lord
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has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children,
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and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows
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its owner, and the donkey its master's scribe.
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But Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
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Alas, sinful nations, the people laden with iniquity,
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a broad of evildoers, children who are corruptors,
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they are forsaking the Lord. They have provoked
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to hunger. The Holy One of Israel, they have
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turned away. They have turned away backward.
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Why should you be shrinking again? You will revolt
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more and more. The whole earth is sick and the
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heart faints. From the soul of the foot, even
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to the head, there is no soundness in it. but
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wounds and bruises, right? Putrefying sores.
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They have not been closed or bound or suited
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with what? Ornaments. Again, you see ornaments,
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right? Used for expression of physical healing.
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Now, what is Isaiah saying here? We need to understand
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what Isaiah is saying here. Isaiah, okay? Isaiah
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is using a people that have been taken captives,
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right? And the states, they find themselves in
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sickness. to preach a spiritual reality to them.
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So again, I say, Isaiah found the people, his
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people, right? In captivity and they were actually
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sick. They were actually had their shorts, right?
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They were in another country, right? They were
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taking exile. So when Isaiah wanted to communicate
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with them, he used their natural circumstances
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to communicate a similar thing. in their spiritual
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states. So in the book of Isaiah, you have to
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pay attention very well, right? To know when
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he's doing this particular style of writing.
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So Isaiah told us that they are wounded and he's
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using that wound to communicate that. So he's
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using their physical sickness to communicate
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God's salvation. That is why later in that chapter,
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he says, come, let us what? Let us resume together.
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Right? And he began to talk about if your sins.
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Right? But what did he use to communicate sin?
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The bruise, the sores, the sickness. So sin,
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right, is communicated as sickness. It's communicated
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as sickness. And the solution to it is the preaching
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of the gospel. Are we together? The solution
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to that sickness is the preaching of the gospel.
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Let's add more scriptures to where sin has been
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used, where sickness has been used to communicate
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sin. Right? Let's add scriptures there. Jeremiah
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3 verse 22. Jeremiah 3 verse 22. Return you backsliding
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children. I will heal your backsliding. Indeed,
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we do come to you. for you are the Lord who are
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God. So backsliding, another way of people who
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are not believing, healing for backsliding, right?
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People who are drawing away. So backsliding,
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talking about people who reject God. Another
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scriptures, Jeremiah 17, verse 14. I know someone
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might be asking, is it only sin that God heals?
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No, we are just starting from here. God heals
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the physical sickness too, because that's where
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we are going actually. That's where we are going.
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But we need to know, we need to lay this foundation
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so that when we are talking about the physical
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healing, you don't see it as a show. You don't
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see it as what we are doing just to, it's just
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there. You will know the reason, the purpose
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behind God giving the believer the ability to
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heal. You will know. So as we see, first primarily,
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the emphasis. It's taught here as sickness, sin.
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Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save
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me, and I shall be saved. For you are my what?
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My praise. Right? So the prophet is really emphasizing
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it and using it, you know, reiterating what he
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said. Heal me, I will be healed. Save me. So
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within that context, we also see healing and
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salvation. Healing and salvation. You can put
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all this other... and you can read them later.
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Isaiah 6 verse 1. You can put Isaiah 6 verse
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1. Let's see. Put Isaiah 6 verse 1. Come and
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let us return to the Lord for He has torn, but
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He will heal us. He is striking. He will bind
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us all. Right? Isaiah 14 verse 4. Sorry, I'm
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reading them fast so that we can get to a particular
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place. Isaiah 14 verse 4. I will heal their backsliding,
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the same thing. I will love them freely, which
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is the point of salvation. My anger has turned
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away from him, right? For my anger has turned
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away from him. Now, the last text that we will
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see, just write it down, Isaiah 53 verse 1 to
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5. We will study it extensively because that
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text is one that we use. that he had bought our
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sorrows, he had bought our griefs, right? By
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his stripes, we are healed, right? So that one
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also is in the context of salvation, but does
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not negate that God heals us physically. Do we
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get it? Isaiah 53 verse 25. So the problem is
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when we lay emphasis on one against the other,
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or we accept one against the other. So most people
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will say this thing, this gift of healing has
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ended. They emphasize on every part where healing
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has taken place as salvation. But truly, God
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does heal the physical body. So you can write
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this part now, divine healing, right? Divine
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healing. Divine healing. divine healing. So we've
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started from physicians healing, we've gotten
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to inanimate, we are in healing and the context
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of salvation. Now we're talking about divine
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healing, right? Is there divine healing? Despite
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these things being communicated as, despite sickness
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being used to communicate sin, is there divine
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healing? Yes, there is. And in the New Testament,
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that's not the first place where we see it. So
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there's divine healing. So you can rise. Divine
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healing is a sign of God's salvation from sin.
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Divine healing. It's a sign of God's salvation
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from sin. It is a sign of God's salvation from
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sin. When we heal, Through the supernatural power
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of God, when we heal through the supernatural
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power of God, we communicate the resurrection
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of Christ. When we heal through the supernatural
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power of God, we communicate the resurrection
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of Christ. Now let's check. some Old Testament
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scriptures and see if healing took place there.
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Right? If healing took place. Healing of the
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body. We mean divine healing now. Not using it
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figuratively, but divine healing. So there's
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what we call the law of first mention in the
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scriptures. So when we are studying the scriptures,
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when we are paying attention to the Bible, there's
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what we call the law of first mention, which
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means that where was healing first discussed?
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Right? Who first healed, for example? Who first
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healed? Who first healed someone? Where was healing
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first discussed? So, of course, you know, we
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talk about a lot of things mentioned. Our first
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book is what? Genesis. Our first book is Genesis.
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So let's go to Genesis 20. Genesis 20, verse
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7 and 17. So now, therefore, restore the man's
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wife, for he is a prophet. Please hold on to
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this part that says he's a prophet, because he's
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going to help us explain verse 17. He is a prophet
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and he will do what? Pray. And you shall what?
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Leave. But if you do not restore her, know that
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you shall die and all who are yours. Right? Now
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go to verse 17. Let's go to verse 17. So Abraham
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did what? He prayed to God. And God what? Healed
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Abimelech, his wife, his female servants, then
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the poor children. Now, so he's talking about
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Abraham. right? Praying for Abimelech, a king,
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and he was healed. So it means that there were
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infirmities on him, on his family members, and
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all of that, right? And what did Abraham do?
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Abraham prayed and he was healed. So from the
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scriptures, at least by this record, we see that
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Abraham himself healed someone. He prayed and
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he was healed. Hallelujah. Abraham prayed and
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someone was healed. Numbers 21, verse 9. The
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next person, usual, right? Moses. Numbers 21,
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verse 9. And Moses made a brozen serpent and
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put it on a pole, and so it was, if a serpent
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had beaten anyone, when he looked at the brozen
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serpent, he lived. Right? He lived. So, it means
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that Moses was also administering healing. In
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this context, who administered the healing? Moses.
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So he said, okay, for you people to be healed,
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he raised the top. Was that figurative? No. In
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that day, they had to look. If you don't look,
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the person would die, right? So they needed to
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look. So all of them looked, right? All of them,
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although in John, right? This was later used
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to communicate what? Salvation again. So when
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we see divine healing, salvation is always around
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it. It was physical here. People who had sinned,
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they were beaten by a literal snake. And Moses
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healed them by administering healing. But it
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was just to communicate salvation when John came.
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So we see divine healing here. Another scripture
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is Numbers 12, verse 3. Numbers 12, verse 3.
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This one is a context where it will be men, right?
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Numbers 12. Really? Can you check Exodus 2 verse
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3? Exodus 2 verse 3. Let's see. Okay, not the
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scriptures, right? Switch to 2 Kings 5 verse
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10. 2 Kings 5 verse 10. I'll find the scriptures.
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2 Kings 5 verse 10. And Elijah sent a messenger
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to him. saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven
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times and your flesh shall be restored to you
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and you shall be what? Clean. This is Naaman.
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And this is who? Elisha administering healing.
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Right? Administering healing. 2 Kings 20 verse
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5. 2 Kings 20 verse 5. Return and tell Hezekiah,
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the leader of the people, of my people. Thus
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says the Lord, the God of your father, I have
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heard your prayer and I have seen your tears
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and surely I will do what? I will heal you. Right?
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I will heal. And on the third day you shall go
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up on the house of God. Now you can find a scripture
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where Moses prayed. I think that was scriptures
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I was looking. Moses prayed that Miriam be restored.
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Right? So I was saying that context is the context
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where if we're to be other men, right? That's
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why Moses, you know, squirt me, right? Numbers.
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Yes, it's in Numbers, right? Please, can you
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go back to that Numbers? Let's find it. Around
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that verse. Because he told Miriam that Miriam
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would be healed. He prayed for her to be healed
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and she was healed. Despite that, what did they
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do? They rebelled against the authority of Moses.
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Okay, so 13. So help me with Numbers 12 verse
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13. Numbers 12. So Moses prayed for someone and
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she was healed. she was healed. Now, it therefore
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means that exceedingly what we see in the scriptures
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is a lot of divine healing taking place. And
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Moses cried out to the Lord saying, please heal
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her, oh God, I pray. We knew that she did not
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die on that sickness. She was restored. She was
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restored. So we know that you can now write,
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you can write now that the gift of healing The
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gift of Hillel is for the physical body of man
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to be restored. The physical body of man to be
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restored. The physical body of man to be restored.
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the physical body of man to be restored. So this
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is what we see in the Old Testament text. Now,
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what you must pay attention, okay, is that prior
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to the resurrection of Jesus, okay, prior to
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the resurrection of Christ, there are ways by
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which this took place. So let's go to the New
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Testament text. Matthew 4 verse 23. So now in
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the New Testament. In the New Testament text.
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Matthew 4 verse 23. Just stay on that scripture.
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It said, And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching
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in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the
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kingdom, and healing what? all kinds of sicknesses
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and all kinds of diseases among the people. So
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Old Testament, we see healing. Jesus coming in
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the New Testament continued and also did what?
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He healed. But what do we see there? We see that
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it goes with what? The preaching of the gospel.
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So he said, preaching the kingdom of God and
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healing all kinds of diseases. Healing all kinds.
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There's something I did not emphasize on when
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we're talking about Abraham praying for Abimelech.
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In verse 7, he said he is what? A prophet. It
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means that Abraham communicated the message of
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God. That was what he does. He is a prophet.
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He communicates the message of God. And therefore,
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he administers what? Healing. Right? He administered
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healing. Good. And now we see Christ communicating
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the message of God and he did what? He's administering
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healing. So therefore, can we say that every
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believer who walks in the office of Christ as
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the prophets, as a priest, as a king, can we
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say that every believer can administer healing?
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Can we say that? Yes. Right? Yes. So just add
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1 Peter just to connect that together. 1 Peter
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2 verse 9. But you are a chosen generation, a
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royal priest to the holy nation, a special people
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that you may proclaim the praises of him who
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has called you out of darkness into his marvelous
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light. Next. Who were once not a people, but
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are now the people of God, who had not obtained
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mercy, but now have obtained mercy. We read the
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scriptures this morning. Go back to verse 9,
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please. It said, A royal priesthood, a holy nation,
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a peculiar people, God's own people. One of the
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ways by which we make known the praises of God
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is also through healing. So that when somebody
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is healed through your hands, they will give
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praises to God. They will give thanks to God.
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You can teach them the word of Christ. You can
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explain to them what has taken place. Do we get
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it? That when somebody comes to you, and you
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administer, you don't say, oh, you are healed.
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You don't just heal somebody or someone comes
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to you and you pray for the person and the person
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comes back to you and you say, I'm healed. And
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you just say, okay, go and seek a priest. There
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is nothing like that. You have to preach to the
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person if the person is an unbeliever. If the
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person is a believer that does not understand
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this thing and it took place and the person shares
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the testimony, you must teach the person that
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the gifts of healing is real and God does heal
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people. There is divine healing. Are we together?
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So, healing comes with the communication of a
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message. Healing comes with what? The communication
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of a message. Let's go to Hezekiah's case again.
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Hezekiah's case. That should be what? Second?
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King, right? Can you pick up that scripture for
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Hezekiah's case? Can you check it for me? 1st
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Kings or 2nd Kings? I have my scriptures here.
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Alright, 2nd Kings 5. No, 2nd Kings 20 verse
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5. 2nd Kings 20 verse 5. Now, in this case, okay?
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In this case, let me tell you what was communicated.
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What was communicated in the case of... Hezekiah
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was the deliverance of Israel. So God's healing
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of Hezekiah, you can write it down, that God's
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healing of Hezekiah was the communication of
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God's deliverance of Israel. He said on the third
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day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
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Now, if you continue to read this text downward,
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you will see that Israel was delivered from their
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enemies. Israel was delivered from the enemy
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nations around them. So the healing of the King
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Isaiah was actually a communication of God's
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salvation to his people. The communication of
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God's salvation to its people. So now, right,
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to the church, to the church, to the church,
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to the church, I mean today, today, right, to
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the church, to we that are in church today, right,
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we're going to finish on this particular note.
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To the church, the gift of healing, it means
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to the believer, to the church, when we heal
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people, when we lay hands on people, when we
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call people to come out and they are healed.
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To the church. The gift of healing communicates
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edification to the people. The gift of healing
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communicates edification. It means it strengthens
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the faith of the people. It strengthens their
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body for the work of ministry. It's edification
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unto them. It is strengthening to them. It is
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for them to be able to function for the work
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of the gospel. Let's go to Acts 10 verse 38.
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Acts 10 verse 38. Acts 10 verse 38. How God anointed
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Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with
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power, who went about doing good and healing
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all who were oppressed by the devil. For God
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was with him. Now, we see Jesus here. And this
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was not before resurrection, right? I'm sorry,
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this was before resurrection, right? This was
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what? Before resurrection. We're going to explain
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this on Wednesday much more because this was
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before resurrection. But for the church, you
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must know that it's for edification. For this
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as well, is to strengthen the faith of the people
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and to communicate the message. Let's see. A
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few things that we can touch upon again today.
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Exodus 4 verse 8. Exodus 4 verse 8. Then it will
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be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the
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message of the first sign, that they might believe
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the message of the latter sign, right? Sign.
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Now, for unbelievers who are outside the church,
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okay? For unbelievers who are outside the church,
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right? When you heal them, it is for a sign.
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The word sign, S -I -G -H, S -I -G. And it's
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for a sign. For you, healing is not a sign. Judah,
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you are in the church. It is what is among the
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package that came as you believe the message
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of God. But for those who are outside, when we
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heal, it is for a sign to a message. For you,
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healing is not a sign. It is the bread of the
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children. Healing was used to communicate food.
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It means that it is something regular. It is
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something that should be found where the children
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are. It means that the children need to be always
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whole. The children need to be sound. Those that
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are called for the work of ministry need to be
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healthy so they can do the job. So healing was
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used to communicate food in that context. But
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for someone that is outside, it is a sign. Right?
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It is a sign because they do not understand the
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power of God. So what is the power of God? Romans.
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Salvation. The gospel on salvation. Salvation.
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That is the power of God. So when we heal people
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outside, it is that they might see the power
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of God. What is the power of God? It's salvation.
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It's salvation. Hallelujah. Amen. So, we see
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that every believer, because we are prophets
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and kings, we can walk in this. We can walk in
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this. Let's go to Luke 9, verse 1. I'm just reading
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these scriptures to also show that when Jesus
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was on earth before he died, there was healing.
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There was healing. The New Testament text. Luke
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chapter 9 verse 1. Then he called his 12 disciples
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and gave them power and authority over all demons
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and to what? To cure diseases. So this is, they
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are not medical doctors. They are actually men
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who just started following Jesus and he gave
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them authority. He gave them power, right? He
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gives authority to exercise power. That is what
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that means, right? You give them authority to
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exercise power over these diseases and they heal.
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So this is divine healing. Hallelujah. So divine
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healing is what we see. And the question I want
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to ask is, the people that they went to heal,
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were they believers? They were healing all manner
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of people. All manner of people that some of
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them did not still believe the message. But they
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were communicating the message, they were receiving
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the healing. Hallelujah. So as believers, this
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is where we stop today. As believers, we can
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administer healing because we have the spirit
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of Christ in us. These folks, they didn't have
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the spirit of Christ. Christ gave them something
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to go about it. And that is what made the healing
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to take place. What about you that now have Christ
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himself in you? If Abraham, that looked forward
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to the church. If Isaiah, that the spirit comes
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upon and lives, he said, the spirit of a sovereign
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Lord God is upon me. Isaiah 61. If Ezekiah and
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all those people who never had the Holy Spirit
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residing permanently in them, if they can walk
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in healing, what about you in high? That we now
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have the spirit of God residing in us. It means
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that we can walk in healing, right? Can we be
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on our feet? Can we be on our feet and just pray?
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Now what we want to do now is to pray yourself
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into, after this teaching, pray yourself into
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believing it. Pray yourself to take away every
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obstacle of your mind that makes you believe
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that there is no healing. Because healing takes
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place and it can take place through you. Can
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we be on our feet? All we just want to do is
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to just pray in the Holy Ghost. For about a few
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minutes, pray in the Holy Ghost and notify yourself
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that I believe that healing takes place through
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me. We appreciate you being here today. We hope
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you carry this word with you throughout your
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week. Don't forget to check the show notes for
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