You are called to stand firm in the truth that Christ's sacrifice covered your physical ailments just as it covered your sins. Even when you feel nothing, choose to walk by faith rather than sight, trusting that God's power is available to you right now. Declare your body as God's temple and evict sickness from your life today.
We give you thanks, o god, for your presence in this place. We ask, o god, for "ears to hear", hearts to receive, hands and feet that are quick to carry out your word. I thank you for a surrendered people, for a god hungry people, that you dwell not only in the midst of us, but you flow in and through us. We ask as we go into this session for your mighty hand that bears the evidence of such great love to be upon our lives in Jesus name. Amen.
You may take your seats and thank you so much. In this session, I'm gonna quickly cover which I'm very confident you have heard multiple times, the reality of the complete work of the cross. When Adam sinned, that perfection was broken. Sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and there became a very quick deterioration in mankind. Sickness, disease, poverty, destruction, violence was all the result of the fall.
Christ came to redeem us not just partially from the results of the fall, but complete **body, soul, and spirit**. Not just soul and spirit, but body, soul, and spirit. And so we need to understand that the purpose and the plan revealed in Christ was not just to heal back then as he walked, but the continuum of what he said and did. I love what it says in acts-1, what Jesus began both to do and teach. In other words, as you go into the book of acts, which is the blueprint for the church and the apostolic order was what Jesus began, we are the continuum of it.
And so what he began to demonstrate and do as the father has sent me, how the spirit of the Lord is upon me and has anointed me to what? To heal, to preach, to deliver. We are that continuum of that present reality. Go with me to Isaiah-53:4-5. Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities, and by his stripes, we are healed. Then go to 1 Peter-2:24. He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree by whose stripes you were healed. You are healed.
You were healed. And so we see when Christ went to the cross, he not only bore the penalty of our sins, our iniquity, the fall of Adam, but he also bore our sicknesses, and we're gonna look into that in the next few minutes. In *1 Thessalonians-5* and verse 23, Now may the God of peace himself *sanctify* you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved harmless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we see that God's plan is not just for your soul and spirit, but your body is included in that. And then I love 1 Corinthians-6, verses 19 and 20.
Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you? You are not your own. For you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God in your body. And so we understand that the body is the vehicle of the indwelling and the empowering of the Holy Spirit, and that our body is is the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, and we'd glorify God in our body. And so when sicknesses come upon me, this is my typical line.
In the name of Jesus, sickness depart from our body. I've been bought with a price, the blood of Jesus. I do not belong to myself. I belong to God. This is his property.
Sickness, I give you "eviction notice". Leave my body now. Disease, leave my body now. Weakness, leave my body now because I belong to God. That is a revelation that I walk in and hold to because of this reality.
When Jesus went to the cross, it's very easy to believe that he took our sins. Have you noticed how easy it is with your faith to believe that you are forgiven, that you're born again, and you're a new creation. Very few people doubt that experience. Do you feel it? Some people do.
Not everyone. We walk by faith, not by feelings, not by sight. We walk by faith. Do I feel saved? I have had encounters with God in the spirit that I felt in my body.
I've had God invasions fill me, But most of the time, I walk by faith. I've been in meetings where God is moving in incredible ways, and I feel absolutely nothing. People are feeling God, and I'm standing thinking, like, why? I was in a meeting in, South Africa after being here a few, years, and I was invited to do this conference in my home city where I got saved. And I'm in the university, and it's packed, the the conference hall.
And there's a man sitting on the front row who I know, he's a spirit filled leader of a megachurch in South Africa. He jumps off the front row and he plunges into this open area, and he begins to swim. And I'm thinking, I know you. You're, like, really conservative. This must be a move of God for you to do this because I know that man.
He would not fake nothing. Anyway, I'm standing there. Suddenly, others die, and they're all in this. And I'm standing on the stage, and I'm blown away. Everyone is just crowding in there.
And and 1 of the guys comes standing up here on the stage, and he's looking at the scene. And I said, what's going on? It's like my meeting. I'm the preacher. He says, can't you see it?
I said, see what? He said, there's a "river flowing" through the meeting. I said, no, I'm just the preacher. I feel nothing. I see nothing.
I walk by faith. So I was standing on the stage. It was quite high. I just jumped off pretending I'm in the river by faith, and I'm swimming backstroke. Woo hoo.
But I felt absolutely nothing. Most times when God uses me, I feel nothing. I see nothing. I just walk by faith. I hear, but I don't often see.
And that's critical because sometimes people will be sensing God and you feel nothing, but you gotta stand confident that what God told you to do, you obey. Because ministry is by faith. And we receive our salvation by faith. How easy is that? And then when we're sick, we wanna live by feelings to manifest the healing power of God in or through our lives.
And so, when Jesus went to the cross, and I know this is probably 1 of the most used scriptures in terms of righteousness of faith, 2 Corinthians-5:21, for he made him, Jesus, who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. So Jesus bore our sins. He has your sin. Jesus who knew no sin became sin for us so that we might be what? The righteousness of God.
Where's your sin? On Jesus. We don't doubt that. But at the same time, according to Isaiah, he lifted up and carried our diseases. Say, he not only took our sins, but he lifted up and carried our diseases.
How easy is it to believe that he took our sins, but how difficult is it to believe that he took our sicknesses and our diseases? And that's what I want to establish in this second session that it was not just a sacrificial death for our sins, but included in this great act at the cross where Jesus hung poised between hell and heaven on earth, taking our place that he bore not only our sin, but our sickness, our disease, our weakness. He lifted it up and carried it away. So we believe that he carried our sins, but can we believe that he carried our diseases? In Isaiah-50:6, I see a great key.
It says, I gave my back to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who plucked out the beard. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. And we knew that took place at the cross. He's prophesying hundreds of years before Christ, before it was even known the Roman torture, the crucifixion. This event unfolded exactly as Isaiah saw it, but I want you to see something.
I gave my back. Why did he give his back? They didn't take his back when they took him to the whipping post. He gave his back. Just as he gave himself on the cross, he gave his back.
Why? Because in that act, it was for our healing. In Psalm a 129 and verse 3, the plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. What's what's he prophesying and seeing?
The redemptive completion of Jesus giving his back to be smitten. And in Isaiah, let's go back there, 50 three:four and 5, surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes, we are healed. Griefs, the Hebrew word for griefs, means sickness, physical diseases, or affliction.
So in that act, it was not just for our sins, but it was for our sicknesses. Sorrows, the word sorrows means pain, or mental, or physical suffering. So he not only carried our sins, he carried our sicknesses, our diseases, our affliction, our pains, our mental and physical suffering, *transgressions*. He carried our transgressions. That's our rebellion, our willful disobedience or trespass.
He carried our iniquities, which is our moral corruption or twisted nature, that his peace, his shalom, would be upon us, which is wholeness, completeness, well-being, and restored harmony, who healed made whole, restored to health spiritually and physically. So when you understand the language contains the revelation not only of sin's forgiveness, but healing and breakthrough from mental, emotional, and physical illness. Surely, has born. The word born means to lift up and carry away. So he has lifted up and carried away our sickness, our disease, our pain, our sorrow, and our suffering.
In *Matthew-8:17*, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, he himself took our *infirmities* and bore our sicknesses. So we see it in Isaiah. We see it in Peter. We see it in Matthew. All linking together what?
Not only forgiveness, but what? *Healing*. All contained in there. In Matthew-17, it says that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities. Took means to take a hold of, to receive, and carry away.
*Infirmities* means weakness, physical or moral frailty. Boar, to carry to bear the burden of another, and sickness means diseases, chronic or acute illness. So we see Matthew tying up with Isaiah, Hebrew and Greek meaning exactly the same thing, prophetically declared, fulfilled, and recognized in both Matthew and Peter. When Jesus gave his back to the smiters, they plowed it like furrows, for by his stripes you were healed. This Notice the past tense of Isaiah becomes the reality, you were healed.
You are healed. You were healed coming together in that single act. And I think 1 of the things we have to understand in redemptive realities is tenses. We live in the present tense of God's word. So the past tense prophetically becomes the present tense in reality.
So it's not just future tense as *healing* 1 day, but it is now present as something that is given to you not based on your worthiness or even your morality, but it is accomplished for us. I was thinking about the blood applied to the doorposts in the Passover. In the house were people that were corrupt. They weren't living necessarily morally and serving God, But when the blood was applied to the doorpost, regardless of their state of heart or mind, they were redeemed. Yeah.
Come here. That's the good news. It is not based on what we could do by our effort, by our works, by our discipline, by our morality. All the angel of death saw was blood and meant, I'm passing over that house. Which has got nothing to do with your maturity or even the revelation that you walk in.
It's based on grace. The blood was applied by faith, not based on their worthiness or their morality or their spirituality. There were people that were living immorally in that house, and yet they did not die or their sons did not die. They avoided the tragedy of that moment because of the blood. When Jesus gave his back, they whipped him 39 times.
The whip would have metal, glass, and bone. And they're plowed and and if you understand anything about the cat and iron tails, when they whipped, it would rip the flesh. And those stripes were laid upon him for 1 reason. He gave his back for 1 reason. They did not take his back.
They did not take his life. He gave it for 1 reason. What is that reason? Redemption. Spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically, he gave his back to the smiters that by his wounds we were healed.
I love Psalm 103 verses 2 and 3. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your *iniquities* and heals all your diseases. I want you to notice something here, that we have no problem believing all our inequities are forgiven, but we often have an issue in believing all our sicknesses have been dealt with. And so we have to focus on that word all. Not some or most, but all.
What does all mean? Everything. All. And so we notice that the Psalmist here sees the redemptive reality that not only are our sins forgiven, not some, most, but all, and at the same time, who heals all your diseases. I again refer back to the Passover when Imagine being a slave, working under pharaoh's domination and control in making clay bricks from morning till night under great pressure.
You're working, Not only are you making the bricks, you've got a fend for yourself and for your family so they in the little time they have, they're having to plant their own crops, harvest. So all they know is toil, labor. How many of you would believe that they're suffering from malnutrition, dehydration, and what will come with malnutrition and dehydration? Disease, sickness. How many believe that when you're making bricks all day that you have back and hip problems?
Someone said to me the other day, we need to get back to the bible way of eating. I said, I want you to remember something that even though they were eating organic whole foods, Jesus went about healing all who are oppressed of the devil. They were sick and diseased. Crowds were coming. Even with their healthy eating, they were not *healed* and healthy because of their diet.
They were suffering under the fall of Adam. That's right. So your diet, though it's good, is not enough to sustain you from the wages of sin, which is death. And so, Jesus came to take our place, not only save us from sin, but to heal us from sickness. So they work in day and night, back, hip, knees, muscle, malnutrition, dehydration.
Passover, they eat the lamb, which is what? A glimpse of Christ being ingested by faith. And then it says, there was "not 1 feeble" among them. So overnight, something miraculous happened. How many of you have seen Exodus, the movie, they're coming out of Egypt and then they've got like donkeys carrying stretches, old people lying on the stretches, people with canes walking towards the Red Sea.
How many of you have seen those images? Not accurate. Why? Because it says there was not 1 feeble among them. That's right.
They were skipping and running. People that had had severe back injuries were woo hoo. They were walking. They were not having to have canes and being carried and supported because there was none, not most, none feeble among them, which was a glimpse at the cross, at the work of Jesus taking our place. So salvation and healing are not separate provisions.
They're 1 and the same thing. When the bible says in Romans-10:13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. What I want you to notice whoever means anyone. Put your name there. What does the word saved mean from the Greek?
*Saved, healed, delivered. *Saved, healed, delivered**, and another element, protected. Saved, healed, delivered, and protected. So whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That word saved is very powerful.
Most modern day believers see saved from guilt, shame, separation, but they don't include sickness. But the reality of that word is not only saved from sin, disease, poverty, sickness, demonic activities in your life, And so people will say, well, then why I'm I'm forgiven? I'm a new creation. Why am I sick? Why am I in pain?
Why do I have depression? Well, you have to possess the land. You have to "lay ahold of" what Christ has laid hold of for you. Some people call him the name of the Lord. They don't feel saved, But over time, they discover they are forgiven.
They discover that their name is in the lamb's book of life. They discover that they have security. Now, they're walking in a revelation of confidence. When I came out of the prayer room even though I had an encounter with God, I didn't understand the implications of what he had done for me. I had to lay hold of it.
Yeah. I'd come out of the military in pain, injuries, stuff in my body. I told you about my parents and their parents and their parents talking about diseases and sicknesses. I had those symptoms in my body even as a young man. I could have been boarded out of the army if I wanted to, but I never wanted to.
I wanted to be in there. But I I had symptoms, but I laid a hold of the word as I discovered this reality and I started to stand my ground in faith and take his covenant promises as something for me, not just for them out there, but I began to appropriate it to my own body and watched my body start to conform to his word. Pain, sickness, disease, bowing at the name of Jesus. So when we talk about being saved, it is not just being saved from sin, but it is also being saved from sickness. I love this story, and I I do this and I'll do it in communion.
When that Syrophoenician woman came to Jesus, she's outside of the covenants of God. She comes by *faith* to lay ahold of the provision of what Jesus was doing amongst the Jewish people. So she comes and she she appeals for healing. And it almost seems as if Jesus ignores her and is rude, but she doesn't give up. I think Jesus was bringing about a shift because she was desperate, but she wasn't in faith straight away.
Desperation is not faith. There are a lot of desperate people, but they're not in faith. So Jesus needed to give her time to make a shift from desperation to faith. So it looks as if he ignores her. It would be it would violate the character of God if he ignored her because God is good to all.
And so all means she's included in the all. That's right. And, you know, so Jesus is not ignoring her. He's wanting her to shift from a state of desperation to faith. And so as she makes this shift, Jesus is ignoring her and he says, *healing is the "children's bread"*.
Well, what do we eat in communion? What is in the bread? *Healing*. It's not a trick question. So don't worry.
I'm not gonna embarrass you if you say healing. So healing is the children's bread. So this is my body broken for you. When we partake of the elements of communion, what are we doing? We ingesting by faith the provision of that *covenant* that healing is the children's bread.
She says, yeah, but even the dogs eat the crumbs. With *faith* for crumbs, her daughter is healed. If crumbs carry so much power, what does the bread cover? And we are partakers of the bread. Children have not just the crumbs, but the bread.
We have access to the bread. She had access to the crumbs, but there was enough power in the crumbs to bring about a deliverance. Every time I eat the bread, I take it. I say, god, her deliverance for her daughter was in crumbs. You said this is our bread.
Yes. Give us this day our daily bread. I ingest this bread. Your word feeds me, not only spiritually, mentally, energy, creativity, but healing, health, strength. I partake of this in *faith* based on this that if crumbs could bring deliverance to her daughter, this bread as a child of god is my inheritance, and I eat strength and health into my body.
Jesus turns around to her and says, "great is your faith" because she understood the provision was in the bread and the bread included crumbs that fell on the ground. And so we see that healing is not just a bonus. It's our bread. So healing is in that word salvation, sozo. It's our provision.
So we see that in conclusion, Jesus carried our sins, no problem, but he also carried our sicknesses. We need to make that shift from our sins were 100% dealt with. There are very few Christians that have been taught the word that doubt the reality of their new birth. How many of you are confident that you're the righteousness of God? Why?
Because of the word. The entrance of God's word has brought light. Jesus took your sins, settled the account, paid it in full, what you couldn't do for yourself. You received the imputed *righteousness* of God. You have direct approach.
When you approach God, you approach him with confidence. Why? Because his blood speaks louder than your guilt, your shame, your nakedness, your failure. Even when you have sinned, you understand that when you confess, he's faithful and just to forgive you, and you approach with confidence, and you lay hold of that access to the throne of grace. Am I correct?
Yes. Who doubts that? Very few. Especially when you've been taught and trained in your identity and position. And yet, when the pain in your body is crying out, somehow we have to mute the sound of pain.
With the same volume of faith for sins forgiven, you have to mute the sound of pain, sickness, symptoms with the same faith that got you forgiven, righteous, new creation. You have to make that shift for your body. But it's hard when you're in pain because you feel it. You don't necessarily feel saved, but you take it by faith. So how do you have to take it when your son's lying paralyzed, unable to move?
How do you take it? By faith. If faith can move a mountain, faith can move disease, sickness, pain, suffering, But you have to stand confident in that word and possess it as your reality because if you doubt it, he who doubts is what? double minded, unstable. It works sometimes.
It works for others, not for you. You have to have confidence. I don't always have confidence. I was in a meeting where a guy came forward. It was It's not.
Hello, Pearlgate 7 7 7. I'm busy. It's my alarm to tell me that your Chick fil A is arriving any minute. Some of you are more excited about the chick fil a than the revelation of God's word, but Where was I? I was in this meeting.
It was an incredible meeting. It's the only meeting in 50 years where everyone was *healed* once. You know, Jesus, the word says, and he healed everyone. How many of you have read that and wondered, could that ever be our reality? I was in a place called Mount Clemens, Michigan.
And in that meeting, everyone that came in was healed, 100%, deaf, lame. But 1 man came forward. His legs were crippled. He had pain. He walked away healed, pain in his hands celebrating.
As he turned and walked away, he had these hearing aids. How many of you remember the old ones, the pink ones, the big pink ones that would sit behind the ears? Any of you remember those? Now they're small. You can hardly recognize them.
Those days, they were big pink ones. And my eyes caught the pink hearing aids. And I heard the Lord say to me, tell him to take them out and I will heal him. And I I've I seem like I'm a mighty man of faith, but at times, I'm a wuss. And I I like I don't want to embarrass anyone or hurt anyone.
I've seen people go up to people in wheelchairs and try and pull them up, and then they can't stand. And I think, You know what I'm talking about, that ah. And I thought, could you imagine if he takes these things out and then he can't hear? How embarrassing would that be? My insensitivity humiliating him, making him feel as if he's got no faith or whatever, you know, or them thinking I've got no faith, which I was questioning.
So in obedience, I said, would you come back? Please take out your hearing aids. God says you will hear. I put my hands on his ears. I said, be open in the name of Jesus, and he was instantly healed.
He was the last miracle of that night when everyone was healed. But what did I do? I had to step out in faith. And it's not always easy because experience screams at you. Failure screams at you.
You've laid hands and you've seen people not here, and then that image grips you and you think, what if? And so at times, I'm powerful. I'm energized. I walk in revelation. And other times, I face these things that you face.
I wish it always worked. But that was a great night when everyone was healed. I long for that to happen again. I was in, I was young, a surfer. I decided I better grow up and get a job.
So I got a job as a trainee manager in a soup in a department store. And my area that I was designated to was where they do blankets and sheets and pillows. And that was where I was gonna be trained. So I cut my hair. It was still fairly long, but like here.
And I had a long beard like yours when I met you. And I had this blonde bleached hair from surfing now cut and this long black beard down here. But I had this plaid jacket, early seventies, which is ridiculous. White with blue and green and mustards patterns in it. I had a mustard shirt on and a green tie that was wide, bell bottom pants and these big ridiculous shoes.
I looked like an idiot, but I thought I was cool. When I look at the photographs, I roll my eyes. So I show up at work, very cool, and and people are coming up to introduce themselves. And this man, comes up to me. He's an Afrikaner.
Hey. Good morning. My name is mister Deplessi. Hey. I wanna invite you.
We have a prayer meeting in the basement before work every day. You're welcome to attend. I said, thank you. I'm I'm a believer. I'd love to join you.
So the next morning, I go into this basement where we're going to pray and there's about 10 people there, mister Duplessi. And we pray for the country and for the business and things. And he says, in closing and he's got an Afrikaans accent. Now brothers, my back is very, very sore. Could you please pray for me?
So everyone's like praying, God, if it'd be your will, and I'm not this brand new Pentecostal on fire. I put my hands on his back. I said, in the name of Jesus, "be made whole". Yes. And he goes, oh.
He says, the pain is gone. And he begins walking around. He's a Dutch reform man, but he was, like, on fire Dutch reform. He's not just a traditional traditional Calvinist. He's on fire.
And now he's healed. He's so excited. He goes around the business. Today, God healed my back. He's talking to all the staff.
The next morning, we get to the business, to the prayer meeting, and there's, like, double the crowd. It's like 20 people standing there. So we join hands to close in prayer. And now I'm brand new. Hey.
I've just cut my hair, got a job, on fire, but brand new. I haven't read the New Testament through yet. I know nothing about the gifts of the spirit, the operations of faith. I'm just fleshing it out, incarnating this word as I'm discovering the things of God. And I hear the voice of God, which is if I have any strength in my ministry, it's that I hear God.
I don't see a lot, but I hear. And I heard God say to me, there's someone here who's deaf. I want you to pray for them and I'll heal them. So brand new, bold, on fire. There's someone here deaf, and god says, today, I will heal you.
And the lady holding my hand begins to weep. She says, that's me. So she turns to face me. She's got hearing aids. I say, take those out, and I put my fingers in her ears because I heard that I saw that in the gospel.
Jesus put his fingers in her ears. I said, ears in the name of Jesus be open, and she was healed. But she was not only healed of deafness, she had sugar diabetes. The next day, she came and testified, my blood levels are normal. I'm healed.
Not only was she healed, her son, who was born because of the diabetes had, oxygen starvation, he was healed all in a single miracle while the basement filled up with every staff member in the place. We had a revival and a move of God because of healing, and I heard when you opened that you said you long for the day that our healing miracles would draw the souls and the people into the church. Isn't that what we desire? And I saw that as a brand new believer just stepping out in faith, hearing God, and doing what he told me to do. That's how I laid hold of this provision and this journey as I stepped into this realm.
Well, by this time, Chick fil A has arrived. You can start writing out your questions and put them on the table here, and we'll go through it in our next 2 sessions. I'm going to come back. I want to speak to you on a subject that I call *faith* and honor, the secret to miracles. The "secret to miracles" that I discovered, and it's gonna it's gonna change the way.
And then I think our last session before we do communion will be according to your faith, be it unto you, and we'll get into that. So, pastor, come and close in prayer. Let's just give just a hand for the word.
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