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The Gifts of the Spirit pt 12: The Gifts of healing · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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right in. And these signs will follow those who
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believe. In my name, they will cast out demons.
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They will speak with new tongues. They will take
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up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly,
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it will by no means hurt them. They will lay
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hands on the sick, and they will recover. They
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will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
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So we are continuing from where we started from
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on Sunday. We're continuing from where we started
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from on Sunday, still the gifts, the gifts of
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healing, the gifts of healing. And what we want
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to consider today, or where we're going to start
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from, of course, a whole lot of things we're
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going to consider, but we have to start from
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somewhere that I mentioned I will talk about
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today, is how healing is a sign. Okay, how healing
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is a sign. We need to go a little bit deeper
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into that. The reason is because there are a
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few questions that we will answer if we trace
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how healing is a sign. So there are a few questions
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that that study or checking that will help us
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to answer. So, Mark 16 verse 17 says, these signs
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shall follow them. And we see that healing is
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one of the signs that Jesus mentioned, right?
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Healing is one of the signs that Jesus mentioned.
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Now, you will wonder, why are they using the
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concepts of sign? Why is Jesus using the language
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of sign? He could have just said, these are the
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things, right? that will follow them that believe,
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right? Or these things will follow them. But
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he used the word sign. And when you use the word
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sign to an audience, it means that they could
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try to understand what you mean, right? Jesus
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himself is talking to a Jewish audience, right?
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He's talking to the disciples, right? And he
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said, these signs will follow them that believe.
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So it therefore means that they will understand
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the meaning of signs. For signs here, is the
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word Simeon. Signs in this Greek translation
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is actually Simeon, which is S -E -M -E. Signs
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is S -E -M -E -I -O -N in Greek. S -E -M -E -I
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-O -N. It means... That's the indication of a
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message. The indication of a message that they
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hold on to. So then that belief, right? The indication
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of the message they hold on to are the signs.
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So the signs points to the message again. The
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signs points to the message. Indication of the
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message that they hold on to. And this message
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is for understanding and believing, right? So
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people that receive this message must understand
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it and they must believe it, right? They must
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understand it and believe it. They must understand
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this message and believe it. Now, the first time
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or the first pattern. that we see in the scriptures,
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where the Bible used the word signs, right? It's
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actually in Exodus. So we're going to trace sign
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again from Exodus because we know, right? By
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the scriptures, right? When we start reading
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the scriptures, we will know that the sign also
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in Exodus was pointing to a message, right? The
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sign in Exodus was pointing to a message and
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it was... I mean, quite interesting to see that
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this sign was to both the Israel of that time
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and to a king called Pharaoh. So the signs were
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to two people, right? Israel and Pharaoh in the
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context of what we want to see. So let's check
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Exodus 4, Exodus 4, verse 8 to 9. Exodus 4, verse
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8 to 9. It said, then it will be. If they do
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not believe nor heed the message of the first
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words, of the first sign. So it means that when
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we see signs, it carries a message. So he's talking
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to the people. He said, if they don't heed to
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the message of the first sign. So the first sign
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was supposed to communicate something to them.
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That they may believe the message of the latter
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time. So several signs were being asked for.
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So these Jewish people like signs. You have to
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prove to them by signs. So he said, then it will
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be if they do not believe, if they do not believe
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you nor heed the message of the first sign, they
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may believe the message of the latter signs.
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Now this is actually talking to the Jewish people
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because Moses was sent to them to deliver them.
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But they were doubting it. He said, and it shall
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be if they do not believe even these two signs
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or listen to your voice, then you shall take
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water from the river and pour it on the dry ground,
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the dry land. The water which you take from the
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river will become blood on the dry land. Is this
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not a sign too? He's just adding signs to signs.
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Now, so when Moses approached them, they started
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saying, well, we are not sure who you are, right?
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We are not sure who you are. We are not sure
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if you have decided to take us away from our
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place where we are enjoying onions and cucumber
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and all those stuffs. We are not sure whether
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you are actually coming to deliver us or to put
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us in more trouble. Of course, later on, you
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will see that they accused him of putting them
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in more troubles. Now, what we will see, right?
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What we will see is that this is not the first
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time. That they are doubting Moses' rulership
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over them. Now, let's see. The word sign in Hebrew
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is the word O -T -H. Right? The word sign in
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the Hebrew is the word O -T -H. It's the word
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O -T -H in Hebrew. And it really means, of course,
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similar to the first one, it means to take away
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unbelief. Right? Something that will take away
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unbelief that people can't believe. So when the
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signs appear, it is expected to take away Israel's
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unbelief. Right? It is expected that this sign
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that Moses will show them is expected to take
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away Israel's unbelief. Now let's see if this
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sign did, you know, what Moses was expecting
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and what God was expecting. The sign is expected
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to take away Israel's unbelief. That means they
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will begin to work in what? In belief. Okay.
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Now, let's go to Exodus, same Exodus chapter
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4, verse 28 and 31. Verse 28 to 31. And Moses
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told Aaron all the words, the Lord, yes, the
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Lord, So Moses told Aaron these signs and these
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words. So Aaron communicated the words that God
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has spoken to Moses and did the signs in the
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sight of the people. So the word... and the sign
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can you say again right the creation of the word
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and the sign working together now let's see and
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the people believed and when they heard that
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the lord had visited the children of israel and
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that he had looked upon their affliction they
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bowed their heads and worship now if you don't
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pay attention very well you would think that
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this verse that says verse 31 It's almost the
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only verse that assumed that Israel believed.
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Did you see verse 31? What did verse 31 say?
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The people did what? Believe. So we have to check
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which belief is this, right? Which belief is
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this? So it's not believe unto salvation. Actually,
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how would you know if you go to verse chapter
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2? Let's go to chapter 2 first. Exodus chapter
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2. Exodus chapter 2. Verse 14. This is the first
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time, right? They began to ask Moses after he
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had killed the Egyptian. And he said, who made
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thee a prince and a judge over us? Right? Who
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made thee a prince and a judge over us? It means
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that these two Hebrew boys that were striving
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did not see Moses as a leader. Right? Did not
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see Moses as a leader. Now, after he had run
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away and he was back, the same rhetoric continued.
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They began to question, how do we know God had
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sent you, right? How do we know that what God
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had sent you? So if you read, now you can go
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to chapter four. We can go back to chapter four
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now. Verse one. And Moses answered and said,
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but behold, they will not what? And Moses fled
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from it, right? So the sign started. From the
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moment Moses said, these people will not believe
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that you have sent me. So what did they believe?
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that God had sent Moses. That is what they believed.
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That God had appeared to him and had instructed
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him to take them out of bondage. So it's not
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like they believed the message he said, but that
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it's time to get out of this place, right? It's
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time to get out of Egypt and that Moses should
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lead them. So it wasn't really about like they
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believed the message of the gospel. Otherwise,
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we knew that this generation, only two people.
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were left among them because they all perished.
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And the reason why they perished, the scriptures
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need us to know, is because of what? Unbelief.
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They did not believe the message that Moses was
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conveying to them. So they took, they accepted
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the leadership of Moses, right? The leadership
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of Moses. So when you see consistently, you will
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see them asking him a question and questioning
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his authority. But we see that through the signs,
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Moses was accepted. as the leader of the Jews
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to lead them out of Egypt. Now, let's see Numbers
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14 verse 11. Let's see Numbers 14 verse 11. And
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we'll check some of them. And the last thing
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to Moses, how long will these people reject me?
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And how long will they not what? Believe me with
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all the signs which I have what? I have performed
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among them. So it shows you here that they did
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not believe the gospel, what God was communicating.
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What they believed in that spot was to accept
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Moses to lead them out of Egypt. That was what
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they accepted. So the signs allowed them to believe
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that, okay, probably this guy has got some powers
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to lead us out of here and has some authority
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from somewhere, right, from God, whom they believed.
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So they didn't believe the message. So Numbers
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4 just shows us again that they have not believed
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the message, but rather, Rather, they believe
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the leadership of Moses. However, we still see
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it as a sign and a pointer to the message. So
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Numbers 21, verse 6 to 9. So this one, we see
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it as a pointer to the leadership of Moses. Numbers
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21, verse 6 to 9. And the Lord sent a fairy serpent
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among the people, and they bit the people, and
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many of the people of Israel died. Therefore,
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The people came to Moses and said, we have sinned.
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This is their mindset. We have sinned. For we
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have spoken against the Lord and against you.
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Pray to the Lord that he take away the serpent
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from us. So Moses prayed for the people. And
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the Lord said to Moses, make a fairy serpent
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and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone
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who is beaten, when he looks, we watch, we live.
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Verse 9. So Moses made a bronze serpent and put
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it on a pole and so it was. If any, if a serpent
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had beaten anyone, when he looked at a bronze
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serpent, he did what? Lived. Right? So in this
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context, right, we taught on Sunday that this
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was used to communicate, was communicated or
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explained much more the spiritual reality of
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it in John chapter 3, verse 13 to 15. So the
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spiritual reality of healing, of divine healing.
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is communicated in John 3, 13 to 15. There's
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a reason why I'm saying this. The spiritual reality
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of divine healing that we see in Numbers was
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communicated in John 3, verse 13. And we realize
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that the word lifted, lifted up. Let's go to
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John. Thank you. No one has ascended to heaven,
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but he who came down from heaven, that is the
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son of man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted
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up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
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the son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believes
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in him should not perish, but must have eternal
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life. So the communication of divine healing
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is eternal life. There's a reason why we are
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going there. Because it's going to answer some
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of the questions that popped up on Sunday when
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some people came to ask questions and some thoughts.
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The communication of divine healing is eternal
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life. And we see that that was from the word
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lifted up, which means the resurrection of Jesus.
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So the Son of Man being lifted up means Christ's
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resurrection. At Christ's resurrection, eternal
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life will be made available. At Christ's resurrection,
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eternal life will be made available. So, it will
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mean that when God was healing them, He was communicating
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eternal life to them. As He was healing them,
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He was communicating eternal life to them. Now,
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one question I would like to ask. All these people,
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in their abundance, That were healed in Egypt.
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And even people that believed. Right? And were
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healed. Did they later die in physical body?
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Did they later die in physical body? Good. Now
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this is taking us somewhere. Because. If they
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truly die, right, in body, it therefore means
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that beyond the sign is eternal life that is
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communicated. Do we get it? So what we are holding
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on to much more is the eternal life. As we administer
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healing, as we heal the sick, right, we are holding
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on to eternal life. So if this person has believed,
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right, this person believed the gospel, The person
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is able to be healed and continue the walk of
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the gospel. So Paul would say, for me to leave
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this Christ to die is gain. So I'm going somewhere.
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So it means that the person would continue to
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do the walk of the gospel. The person would continue
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to live. If the person has not believed, the
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person will be preached to and the person will
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come to salvation. So the question was actually,
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What if we pray for someone and the person passed?
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Right? What if we pray for someone and we didn't
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see the manifestation, we didn't see the manifestation
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of dying and the person passed? The answer, right,
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is that the message, if the person has belief,
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the message of eternal life is already active
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in the person. So you don't have a problem. Okay?
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The message of eternal life is already active
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in the person. You don't have a problem. If the
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person comes to life, when it comes to life,
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when we see the manifestation, the person continues
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in that. The focus is eternal life. Do we get
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it? So, the message, but if the person has not
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believed, that is the only time you can say,
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this person did not believe. You know, the person
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just passed, right? You have some worry that,
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you know, we know that they are not in Christ.
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But when the person has believed, the message
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of eternal life, is already active in the person,
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right? That is why when we are administering
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healing, even to someone that is sick, you can
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preach to them on the sickbed too. Do you get
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it? So when we are preaching, we are praying
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for someone that is sick and you see that the
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person is conscious, the person can answer, but
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we are preaching resurrection and the healing
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power in resurrection together to the person.
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So you're not just saying that I'm trying to
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heal the person, right? I'm just trying to, no,
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no, we are preaching Christ because where the
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healing power is, is where? Is in the power of
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resurrection. Do we get it? So in the entirety
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of it, right? The focus is the message of Christ,
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right? The message of Christ. But we, I mean,
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that does not notify that we will not continue
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to walk in it. We walk in it. We manifest it.
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But we must know that while we are doing all
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that, the communication is the gospel. So let
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me say a few things I wrote here. I say, although
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these people were healed, they died afterwards
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because it was physical healing that communicated
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an eternal healing to them. So the dilated elf,
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it does not modify our exercise of healing. It
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does not. It does not nullify because it means
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that if you say, oh, because people will never
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die, it means that you are not ready to communicate
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the gospel through the power of the gifts of
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healing. That is what you are saying. You are
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saying, I don't want to walk in this one. I don't
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want to communicate the gospel through this power
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that is at work in me. That is what we are doing.
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So you are neglecting what is in you. So it definitely
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means that although People might pass, right?
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But we must continue to minister healing. We
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must not neglect it. We must not neglect it.
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I wrote just that the essence of healing is that
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we want to see the message of Christ and it is
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already revealed in those people. Now let's go
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to 2 Kings 20, verse 1 to 6. 2 Kings 20, verse
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1 to 6. In those days, this guy was sick and
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near death, right? So this was someone who survived.
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Let's see the essence of the survivor because
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I mentioned it in Sunday, but we didn't read
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it. In those days, this guy was sick and near
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death. And Isaiah the prophet, son of Amos, went
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to him and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Set
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your house in order, for you shall die and not
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live. And he returned his face towards the floor
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and prayed to the Lord, saying, Remember now,
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O Lord, I pray, I have walked before you in the
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youth with a loyal heart and have done what is
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good in your sight. And this guy wept bitterly.
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And it happened before Isaiah had gone out into
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the middle courts, that the word of the Lord
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came to him, saying, Return and tell Zechariah
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that the leader of my people, thus says the Lord,
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the God of David, your father, I have heard your
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prayers and I have seen your tears. Surely I
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will heal you. On the third day you shall go
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up to the house of the Lord. Verse 6. And I will
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add to your days 15 years, and I will deliver
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you in this city. Right? You see? This is what
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God was communicating. I will deliver you and
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this city from the hand of the king of Assyria
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and I will defend this city for my own sake and
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for the sake of my servant David. The communication
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of the sign is actually the deliverance of that
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city. Right? Communication of the sign, deliverance
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of that city. So we see here that someone survived
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and when the person survived, what was he doing?
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It was deliverance of a city. Right? Deliverance
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of the city. Deliver you and the city. Deliver
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you. And so we see that function of God's deliverance
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made manifest after a sign of healing and the
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presence of life. All right. Another question
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that popped up during the course. Of course,
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we are not answering questions, but while we
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are teaching, we are trying to address this question.
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The question is whether healing, right? Okay,
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the question is, when the part of a body is restored,
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is it healing or miracle? So that was what the
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prophet asked. Like when a part of a body, for
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example, a particular part of someone's body
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had been taken away and by the power of prayer,
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it was restored back. So the person asked, is
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it healing or miraculous? Now, this is the answer,
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okay? Don't forget we are coming from faith,
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right? And we said one of the things that we
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can receive for somebody is this healing, right?
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Okay. Now, in this healing, healing is one of
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the... Okay, let's put it this way. Healing itself.
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So, write it this way. Healing itself is working
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of miracles, right? Healing itself is working
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of miracle. No, not S. Miracle. Yes. Healing
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itself is working of miracle. But not all miracles
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are healing. Not all walking of miracles are
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healing. Because they are connected, right? Healing
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is a walking of miracles, but not all walking
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of miracles, right, are healing. So the casting
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out of demons, the speaking to the wind, speaking
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to circumstances around you, right, addressing
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certain situations around you, right, is not
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healing. It's actually putting things in order
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around you. So healing itself, It's a working
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of a miracle, but not all working of miracles,
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right, healing. And I gave last year, on Sunday,
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I gave the example that when Jesus calmed the
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storm, he wasn't healing the storm. He wasn't
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healing the storm. I said healing is, it would
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take place in the vessel that God can inhabit.
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That should also tell you many things when you're
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healing someone, right? When you're administering
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healing. Is it that God can inhabit that person
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or God inhabits that person? It means that the
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function of this is for the person to have life.
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So inanimate objects that we talked about last
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Sunday is something that cannot carry life. Do
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you get it? Inanimate is something that cannot
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carry life. So something that cannot carry life,
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God has nothing to do with it. Table, chairs,
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things, God has nothing to do with them, right?
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If they interrupt your flow of things in the
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natural, you can address them by the power that
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is resident in you. Do we get that? But God is
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interested in what will carry his spirit much
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more. Praise God. So that is the answer for the
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healing is actually a miracle, but not all miracles
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are healing. Now, the question is, why is healing
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spectacular? Right? Why is healing now so, why
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is it so distinct? Why do we have to bring that
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out? Why did Christ say, you know, this is more
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specifically that was mentioned. Healing is spectacular
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given that it communicates, right? It communicates
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consistently across the scripture, salvation,
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right? It communicates consistently across the
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scripture, salvation, right? That's one that
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we can hold on to for now. We can hold on to
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that. Across the scriptures, healing communicates
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salvation. And we have seen it across from Genesis
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up until... Let's proceed a little bit. John
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chapter 4, verse 46 to 54. John chapter 4, verse
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46 to 54. And Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee,
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where he had made the water wine. And there was
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a certain noble man whose son was sick at Capernaum.
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And when he heard that Jesus had come, When he
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heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee,
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he went to him and employed him to come down
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and heal his son, for he was at the point of
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death. Thus Jesus said to him, Unless you people
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see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.
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And the noble man said to him, Sir, come down
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before my child dies. And Jesus said to him,
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Go on your way, your son lives. So the man believed
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the words that Jesus spoke to him. and he went
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his way. And as he was now going down, his servant
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met him and told him, saying, Your son lives.
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Then he inquired of them the hour when he got
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better, and they said to him, Yesterday at seventh
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hour the fever left him. So the father knew that
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it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to
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him, Your son lives, and he himself believed,
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and his whole household. They believe the miracles
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of Jesus. They believe the healing ministry of
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Jesus. They believe the miracles of Jesus. They
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believe healing ministry of Jesus. Alright. Now
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write this down. God's healing is not restricted
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to a certain time. God's healing is not restricted
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to a certain time. Neither is it restricted to
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a few. neither is it restricted to a few. God's
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healing is not restricted to a certain time,
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neither is it restricted to a few. As long as
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the intention of God and the purpose of God is
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involved, healing is always available, right?
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When the intention and purpose of God is involved,
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Healing is made available. Healing is always
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available. Right? When intention of God, which
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we know is salvation, which we know is the communication
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of the message of Christ, healing is always available.
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Now, let's see how healing was made manifest.
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Because the question is, if Abraham did not have
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the Spirit of God, okay, resident in them, Moses
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also neither did, right? Resident in them. Elisha
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did not as well. How? what was working in them.
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Of course, we know it's the Spirit of God, right?
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We know it's the Spirit of God. We need to check
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again, these three people, to see how it took
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place. So in Genesis 18 verse 19, in Genesis
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18 verse 19, you can write this down. Maybe we
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can move a little bit faster. Abraham walked
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in healing through prayer. Abraham walked in
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healing through prayer. We've read it before,
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so I will not read it now. We can write that
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down. Genesis 18 verse 19. Abraham walked in
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healing through prayer. So he prayed, right?
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He prayed and healing was made available. So
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you probably were expecting the Spirit of God
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to come on him and make healing made available,
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but he prayed, right? He prayed. So that was
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what we see in that scriptures. In Numbers 12
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verse 13, Moses also prayed, right? Moses also
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prayed. So you cannot think healing. You cannot
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wish healing. You have to pray healing. Right?
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You cannot think it. You cannot imagine it. You
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cannot wish it. You cannot be quiet and say,
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okay, I expect healing. You have to do what?
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Pray. You have to pray healing. That's why James
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would say, the effective fervent prayer of a
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righteous man. James 5. The effective fervent
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prayer of a righteous man abilites what makes
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power available. So the effect healing, Through
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prayer. Consistently we see it in this too. 2
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Kings 5 verse 8. 2 Kings 5 verse 8. Elisha made
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healing available to make God known. So he told
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Naaman, he said, I will show you that there is
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God in Israel today. He said, I will let you
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know. that there is God. 2 Kings 5 verse 8. He
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said, I will let you know. Please let him come
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to me and he shall know that, okay, he shall
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know that there's a prophet in Israel. It means
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someone who communicates the message of God in
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Israel today, right? So, that's, through that,
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the next verses that followed, what happened?
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You received healing, right? You told him, go
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to this place, go to Jordan, wash, and you will.
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be clean so consistently we see that these people
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engage in prayer they engage in communication
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what we can see there is that the spirit of god
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was at work with them i know i said was at work
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with them i didn't say in them okay so in them
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i said it was at work with them the spirit of
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god was working with them in their prayers in
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their communication of the message of the gospel
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and they are declaring that there is someone
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who carries God's message. So, like us today,
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when we heal, it is to show that we carry God's
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message. When we engage healing, right? When
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we pray and healing takes place is to reveal
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that we are the prophets of God. We carry God's
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message and that message is salvation. So the
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Spirit of God was at work with them in their
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actions. Mark 9 verse 38 to 40. Mark 9 verse
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38 to 40. Mark 9 verse 38 to 40. Now John answered
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him saying, Teacher, we saw someone who does
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not follow us, who does not follow us, casting
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out demons in your name, and we forbade him.
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Because he does not follow us. Now, he's not
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talking about holding the adoption or anything.
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It means that he's not part of this club. He's
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a psycho, right? We just saw him somewhere. You
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know, the same way they say they see some people
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somewhere, they were baptizing people, right?
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So he's not in that category. And Jesus said
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to him, do not forbid him. For no one who works
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a miracle in my name can sooner or later speak
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evil of me. Right? So it means that there were
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people. who were working in the name of Jesus.
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So Christ was working with them. The name, the
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office of Christ was working with them at that
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point. This is exactly similar to Numbers 11.
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So you can put Numbers 11, verse 27 to 29. Also
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someone was prophesying, right? I think we can
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check that. I think, yes. A young man ran and
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told Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying.
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in the camp. And Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses,
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I stand. One of his tribesmen answered and said,
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Moses, my Lord, forbid them. And Moses said to
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them, are you sinning for my sake? Oh, that all
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the lost people were what? Prophets. And the
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Lord will put his spirit upon them. What he's
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doing in the scriptures is to show that people
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who have the intention of God, walked in the
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things of God. People who had the intentions
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of God walked in the things of God. People who
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had intentions of God, who had God's body, who
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had God's purpose in their mind, they walk in
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the things of God. They walk in the things of
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God and they cannot be restricted. They cannot
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be stopped. They cannot be restricted and they
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cannot be stopped. They cannot be restricted
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and they cannot be stopped. Now, let's go to
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a couple of scriptures. Now, all of these closes
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up this teaching in terms of the Old Testament
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explanation, right? How they're working in it.
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Now, in the gospel, how will they be working
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in healing in the gospel, right? This one, we
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see that they had God's intention. They had God's
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mindset. They want to fulfill what God is doing,
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right? They want to communicate the message of
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God. And by that, in their prayers, in their
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communication, they walk in the sign. So now,
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what about in the lifetime of Jesus, right? Which
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we call the documents, the synoptics or the gospels.
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How did they walk in healing? So Matthew 4, verse
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23. Let's start with Matthew 4, verse 23. Matthew
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4, verse 23. He said, and Jesus went about all
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Galilee, teaching in their synagogue, preaching
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the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds
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of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases among
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the people. Right? This is just another version
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of Acts 10 verse 38. So put Acts 10 verse 38.
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Acts 10 verse 38. It's quite parallel to this.
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He said, and God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.
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with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went
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about doing good and healing all who were oppressed
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by the devil, for God was with him. Now we see
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here that Christ is who? Is regarded as who?
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The anointed Messiah. Right? In this context,
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we see him, he said, anointed Jesus of Nazareth.
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Because he's referring to the lifetime of Jesus.
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Are we together? So this text is referring to
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the lifetime of Jesus and which we have read
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in Matthew 4, verse 23. Now, there are four things
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that we can pick from here. There are four things
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that we can pick from here. First, sickness is
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an oppression of the devil, whichever may. It's
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never of God. It's an oppression of the devil.
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It's an oppression. And like they said, all that
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were oppressed by the devil. Healing all who
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were oppressed by the devil for God was with
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him. It's an oppression of the devil. Healing
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is a good work of God, right? Healing is a good
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work of God. So you can know that sickness does
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not come from God. God cannot test you with sickness.
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He is not interested in how you would react when
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you seek. God is not interested in that. He's
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not interested in that. He's interested in when
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any of those things come, how he will deliver
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you. So God is interested in how he will deliver
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you. It's the good work of God. What we see here
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is also the power of God. He heals all sicknesses
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and diseases. So there is no like, there is one
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that they will mutate and bring tomorrow and
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will be more powerful than the power of God.
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The power of God heals all manner of sicknesses
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and diseases. So someone will say, oh, the ones
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we have today, we are known in Acts chapter 10.
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The power of God, according to the scriptures
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that we have seen, He heals every form of disease.
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So it shouldn't restrict your mind, right? So
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you don't have any restriction that, ah, this
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one, this is how the doctor say it will manifest,
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right? This is how, oh wait, the same way you
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are seeing these signs, right? It has reached
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a particular stage. You know, this information
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in many occasions comes into our mind. But the
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information that supersedes that is that the
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power of God heals all sicknesses. The power
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of God heals all sicknesses. And so we see this
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taking place in the earthly ministry of Jesus,
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the healing ministry of Jesus. Now, one of the
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things that we know is that the number of people
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Jesus healed in his lifetime was not recorded,
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unfortunately. Unfortunately, I don't know which
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other one, but the scriptures made us to know
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that the number of people that are received from
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him, all their names were not mentioned. Right?
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All their names were in a minute. For example,
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the 5 ,000, right? We don't have the names of
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who ate, who took extra and all of that. We don't
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have those names. You know, maybe that's taking
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the time. It would have, you know, filled unnecessary
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space maybe in the scriptures. Maybe there was
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no message for us to receive from there. But
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we can go John 20, 30, right? John 20, 30 reviews
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that. There are a lot of things Jesus did and,
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you know, we're not recording it. And truly Jesus
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did many other words. signs in the presence of
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his disciples, which are not written in this
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book. So you can say it's John, even in Matthew,
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some of those people he healed, no name. No name.
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So it means that healing was abundance. Are we
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together? Healing was abundance. It was a regular
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thing that happens when Jesus preached. It was
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a common place in the preaching of Jesus. It's
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a common place in the ministry of Jesus. Matthew
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15, verse 21 to 28. Matthew 15, verse 21. Then
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Jesus sent out from dead and departed to the
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region of Tyre and Sidon. of the house of Israel.
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And she came and worshipped him saying, Lord,
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help me. And he answered and said, it is not
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good to take the children's bread and throw it
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to the little dogs. And she said, yes, Lord.
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Yet, even the little dogs eat from the crumbles
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which fall from their master's table. And Jesus
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answered and said to her, oh woman, great is
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your faith. Let it be to you as you desire. And
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her daughter was healed from that very hour.
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Did she receive the bread too? Did she receive
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the bread too? Come on, she received, right?
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She received what others can receive by faith.
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She received. So it's like healing is regular.
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It's common. It's a common place. Right? It's
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a common place. We can put it as common place
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for the believer. Right? Healing is a common
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place for the believer. It's something that should
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be regular. We're going to end on these two notes.
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First, that is a common place. We'll end and
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we'll pray. It's a common place. It should be
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common. It should be regular. Right? If you read
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Acts, Acts will say that and many signs and wonders
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were what? Were regularly done by the hands of
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the apostles. Many signs and wonders were regularly
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done, right, by the hands of the apostles. When
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we continue the teaching next time, we would
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dig deeper. So first, it's common, it should
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be regular. In your life, you should expect it,
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right? You shouldn't expect that it's until you
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take prostramore that you'll be healed. No, you
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should expect more. Just like I said, the emphasis
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of the Bible is on divine healing. So the emphasis
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of the believer, most of the time that you foresee,
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should be on divine healing too. and little of
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the physical, just like the Bible worked in that,
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or the Bible expressed that to us. So it should
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be regular. When you're sick, when you have a
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headache, lay your hands, touch your shoulders,
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touch your knees, and you'll receive. Now, the
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second one, Luke 5, 13, verse 15. Luke 5, 13,
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verse 15. I just want to put this scripture so
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that we can know. He said, Then he put out his
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hand and touched him, saying, I am willing. Be
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what? Be cleansed. So the leprous man was asking
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Jesus, if you are willing. If you are willing.
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And he said, I am what? Willing. So God is always
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willing to heal. Always willing to heal. Right?
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God is always willing to heal. God is always
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willing to heal. God is always willing to heal.
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Can we be on our feet? Just take time out to
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pray, right? We just want to spend an extensive
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time to pray much more. God is always willing
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to heal. Healing is a common place for the believer.
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It should be regular among the believer. So we
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will stand up and we just begin to pray in the
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Holy Ghost, right? We want to give ourselves
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to the expression, Of healing. We want to give
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ourselves. So that our mind receives it. And
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believes it. And we walk in it. We appreciate
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