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  IN THE WORD #11
  by Milton Green
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Summary: God's Word sets us free and gives us freedom, and when we walk
in covenant with Him, we experience the blessings of God.

Duration: 1:42:30 Topics: "Spiritual Freedom", "Demonic Influence"
Scripture References: James 5:16

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This sermon emphasizes the transformative power of encountering Jesus
and His Word, leading to a newfound freedom and healing. It highlights
the importance of recognizing sin as the ground for demonic influence
and the need to believe in Jesus for complete healing and victory. The
message warns against deception, the perversion of blessings into
curses, and the twisting of truth by the powers of darkness, urging
listeners to align with God's Word and not traditions.

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Let me tell you something. Do you remember when you first came in here
and you were sizing everyone up around you? You know, all of a sudden
when you get extended around Jesus and around the Word, you know, that
becomes all of a sudden unimportant. It seems like something's not
talking to you that was talking to you when you first came in here.

Now, I told you at the very beginning that the Word is going to be
setting you free and giving you a freedom. Like I told you before, this
day finishes. Many, many, many of you are going to have a freedom since
you haven't known since day one.

Now, how many here knows a lightness is coming in your life, a freedom
is coming in your life? How many here have been healed? That Lord has
healed you right here. Just hold up your hand there. He healed you or
something.

Well, there's a few. A hundred? And He sent His Word to heal you. And
boy, I'll tell you what.

There's no one going to get any glory for it, are there? Now, let me
tell you something. One of the easiest things for me to do to start out
these seminars and start with healing, I would like, and I used to do
this, I would start right out in healing right there. And there was so
much opposition to it, it'd take another 24 hours to get back into the
thing.

It just comes against it. And so I had to change the seminar to come
back, to deal with the enemy, to deal that you could be deceived, that a
person may not, after all, know it all, so they can come to the place
where they hear the Word and so they can receive healing. Because many,
because of their traditions, and they've been taught it's not in the
Bible, they would reject it.

They haven't learned what talks to them to tell them to reject something
before they look at the truth. Examine the truth or reject the truth
before you examine it. You do not have to be afraid to examine something
right here.

I don't care who's talking or who's speaking. I'm telling you, you don't
have to be afraid. When they start saying something different than what
the Bible says, you can always get up and leave.

You don't have to spit out the sticks. You know that? Persuasive
argument's not supposed to move you. Only Jesus is supposed to.

You don't receive anything that the Lord doesn't confirm to your heart.
Amen? Well, now, we're going to be starting with the healing this
morning, and I kind of wish it was behind us, but I'm going to try to
cover it to where that you'll just, besides just the actual thing of
praying and application, which we're not getting to do in this thing.
I'll tell you, shepherd, something.

Brother, I'm telling you, things are coming together, particularly as
shepherds and the people that surround you and that really walk with you
and everything, that we can have a thing to where we can help you, and
it's not going to be somebody's things. It's just going to be
coordinating the body of Christ just to help you. You hear? And these
things are coming together, so you just preach the Word because the Lord
is working out some things there, and it's not going to be anybody's
thing.

It's not going to center around any man. It's not going to center around
any teaching. It's going to be the Word.

You're going to be free. In a short time, we're going to be learning
some things from you. We're going to be learning from each other.

Isn't that right? That's right. Now, I want to tell you what's been
happening. We're waking up from a nightmare, and if that's not settled
in its spirit, it will be before the day is over, and been asleep.

The church has become fleshly and worldly. The church today is doing
spiritual things with a carnal mind and worldly methods. And just like
the boastful world, we boast in ourselves and our works.

We magnify men. We magnify numbers. Magnify church.

Magnify buildings. Magnify denomination. There's something bad wrong
with that, folks.

It's the wrong fruit. You don't magnify these things. Now, we're going
to look at healing.

And you know, in James 5, 14 and 15, it says, now, we're not going to
turn there yet. James 5, it says, anyone who's sick, and it says, let
him call for the doctors. In the church, you call for the elders in the
church.

Now, I don't have anything against doctors. Matter of fact, there's a
lot of doctors that daily walk with Jesus. Luke wasn't a total loss.

Of course, he always had his satchel ready in case God couldn't come
through. But I don't have anything against carpet cleaners either. But
we're talking about spiritual things, not natural things.

Doctors aren't God either. No doctor or no medication, any good doctor I
tell you, can heal no one. They cause things in your body that where the
Lord can do the healing.

And they'll be the first to tell you that. Well, and if you ever see the
Scripture where God heals through doctors, just kind of let me kind of
read that sometime because I think that comes from up here instead of
here. So any doctor that doesn't think he's God is not going to be
offended by what I just said.

Now, if you think he's God, you've got a problem. Now, if the Lord Jesus
wanted his body sick, what'd he put James 5, 14 and 15 in the Bible for?
Well, let me ask you something else. If it's the Lord's will for you to
be sick, why do you go to doctors for and work against God's will? If
it's God's will for you to be sick, why do you take medicine for and
work against God's will? We'll do a little logic here before we get
started in the Scripture.

We put a lot of theology in logic. We see healing abuse and merchandise
by some folks. The Word of God's always been peddled, ever since there
was a Word of God.

But we're unwilling to come over here and just line up with the Word.
We're not supposed to have our eyes on something that's abused. That's
up to God to abuse it.

But we have our eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ. So God does heal in both
covenants. And I'll tell you something.

God healed me. And I've got corn in my crib. And I want to tell you
something.

I didn't have any problem showing you this before I started right here.
I've been actually healed when I knew it was done. And I watch people
healed all the time.

But maybe some shepherd here or some layman. The Lord speaks through to
me to where I can have a better understanding about something like this.
See, we don't have to.

See, I don't have to. I'm not responsible to know everything. Only Jesus
knows everything.

Isn't that right? Do you have to know everything? Isn't that wonderful,
to not have to know everything? If you don't know it, you don't know.
Either you know or you don't know. That means I don't know.

I'm just going to talk about what I know. All right. If you have your
Bibles, turn to Psalms 103, please.

And we'll start in the old covenant. And I want to go through this
quickly because I'm going to tell you what's the truth. The longer we go
today, the better it'll get.

I mean, just tighten up your belt because we're going to plow on through
here. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, my belly showed back up.

Brother, don't you ever get away from this thing without me getting to
meet you. I want to see what you look like. I want to see the Jesus in
you.

Okay. In Psalms 103, it's a very encouraging thing to a dying man in
verse 2 and 3. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of his
benefits, who pardons all your what? Well, isn't that an interesting
thing? I want you to know it's when you know this healing that how it
just kind of drops in dealing with sin first. You going to kind of watch
this as we go through? I've got some things to say about that later.

You know, when there's no sin and no discernment, nothing, you don't
have to deal with these things. You're already there. You're already
rich, increased in goods.

He heals. Here's his benefits. He pardons all your negatives, and he
heals all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all your
diseases.

Now, it's going to be playing with you all night long tonight. All your
diseases. Well, now, that's a pretty encouraging thing for a dying man.

He come and look at this. He heals all, all your diseases. If I can read
right there, I know at some point in time that God heals all diseases,
or I need to cut that out.

And so I'm going to just receive it. So I'd be interested to know if
it's healing right now, today. And that's where we're headed.

But we're going to start back in the Old Covenant. Please turn back to
Exodus 15, please. This won't take long.

Exodus 15. Lord, I just praise you for your grace. I praise you, Lord,
and ask and receive anointing of your Word.

We ask for liberty and freedom in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We
submit to your Word and receive your Word in Jesus' name. Praise you,
Lord.

Total freedom and liberty. All right. First, I want to just look up
there in verse 22, just so we'll see where we are.

Moses led Israel from the what? Red Sea. So they just crossed the Red
Sea, and then Moses said in verse 26, and he said, If, if, if, if, if.
Do you know that things are so perverted in the church today, if you
obey the Word? It's called works in some place.

Did you realize that? It's called works if you obey God. I'm telling
you, a covenant is not to analyze. A covenant is walking to be a doer of
the Word.

Doer, that's what it says from front to back. You better be a doer.
That's where the blessings are.

So I want you to know that when you're led by the Spirit of God, you are
a doer of the Word. That is grace, and you're under grace. Now, why
should a ban of covenant be any different than a ban of covenant where
it's old covenant and new covenant? That's when two become one.

Write down verse 26, and he said, If, if, if, you're going to give
earnest heed to my Word, to the Word, to the Word, to the Word of God,
to His voice of the Lord your God, and do what is what? Right in whose
sight? You know what that's saying? Do righteousness. Is he saying any
less today? Where'd that come from that he's saying any less today? He's
not saying any less today. And you give ear to His commandments, those
that love me, the ones that love Jesus.

He said, Obey His commandments. And you keep all, all His statutes. He's
made means for you to keep them, to do them.

And then he says, If you will, I will. That's what covenant is. If you
do this, I'll do this.

And then when you're doing this, he said, he told them, I'll put none.
You know what none means? Not any. Isn't it wonderful that you leave
three million people across the desert and removed all the diseases and
none stumbled? Isn't it, isn't it something? I mean, God's something,
isn't He? He's more something than the devil, isn't He? I'll put none of
the diseases on you which I put upon the world, Egyptian, for I, the
Lord, am your what? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Sure
He is.

When He changed. Turn to Deuteronomy 7, please. That's really
encouraging to a dying man right there.

Deuteronomy 7. Deuteronomy 7. All right, here, I'm telling you, if
you're in covenant, old covenant, if you are in new covenant, if you're
covenant with God, I want you to know you are wholly separated people.
You don't walk, talk, and act like the world. Is that plain? Now, let's
just look at just a little of it right there in verse 6. For you, now
this is a covenant people, are what kind of people? You're holy people.

And the Lord your God, the Lord has what? He always chooses who's going
to be in covenant. He's chosen you to be a people for His what? Own
possession out of all the people who are on the face of the earth. I'm
going to throw in 7. The Lord did not set His love on you, nor choose
you because you were, had big numbers.

For more than a people, for you are the fewest of all peoples. Few there
be that go up there. Now, verse 12.

Then it shall come about because you listen. First, you listen to the
Word. Have we heard that before? Have we been reading that all over the
New Testament about a foolish man and a prudent man? You're not seeing
anything.

Listen. You listen to the Word. And then number 2, put a little 2 there.

You keep in what? Do the will of God. That's what we've been seeing over
and over and over and over. He didn't say analyze it and speculate about
it and grade God, condemn God.

Because you keep in doing that to the Lord your God. Number 3. If you do
this, if you listen to the Word and you do the Word, then I'm going to
keep with you the covenant. That is exactly what the Lord is saying over
in the new covenant.

And His loving kindness. You know what loving kindness is? It's a
covenant love. It's a God kind of love that He gives to those who walk
in His covenant.

It's supernatural love. And it's a supernatural love that we become
partakers of. That's the grace.

That's the power of the Lord that His love flows through us, a love we
can't receive except from Him. So is it talking about covenant here,
folks? You will keep with you His covenant. Now, a covenant is to keep.

And it's loving kindness which you swore to your forefathers. Now, the
powers of darkness want to hide that. And they'd rather you get your
little test papers out and test God out and kind of pick through instead
of walking in it.

And see, when you don't walk in it, you don't have any power over the
powers of darkness, and they know it. That's the reason they bring all
these other words, as we saw in the power of the Word, to steal the Word
from you, and they're powerless, and you can't. Now, what did the Lord
say in Hebrews about the Lord Jesus? He said, God has sat Him at His
right hand, waiting, waiting, waiting.

He's still there. Just waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting.
That's a key word.

And the next word is key, until, until, until, until, until. These
enemies are made of footstool by His feet, by the body. Well, you have
to wait for Jesus to do it.

You've already got all the weapons. He's already done it. Get in on it.

Amen? He's the head. We're the arms. Go do it.

Bind them up. Sack them up in Jesus' name. Everything Jesus has, we have
in covenant, because we're one in the name of Jesus.

But if you've got the worries of the world, if afflictions get you,
persecutions, the pleasures of this life, and the worries about other
things, man, that's another life. That's not the spiritual life in
Christ. Amen? Well, I'd say, let's go on.

Verse 15, you've got your big pencil ready. And the Lord, you hear the
word, do the word, keep the covenant. Here's what in verse 15, the next
thing.

And the Lord will remove from you all, all, all, all, all, all, all,
all, all, all sickness. Is he putting this in here teasing folks? I
can't hear you this morning. Okay.

Okay. And the Lord will remove all sickness, and he'll not put on you
any, any, any, any, any means none. He's not going to put any of them.

He's not going to put any of the harmful diseases of Egypt, the world
which you have known, he'll lay them on all who want. The ones that hate
you, the world hates you. Harlots hate you.

Adulterers hate you. The flesh hates you. They get it.

When did it change? Boy, isn't this real complicated? Boy, I mean, ever
learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just get
your theology from a man. Just have your eyes on a man.

Get your eyes on something besides theology. Get your eyes on something
besides the Lord. Well, it'll get better here in just a minute.

Turn to Deuteronomy 28. We're still going to look at this covenant.
Deuteronomy 28.

Now, I want you to know that God has added Israel. There's been an
Israel, a God, since Exodus. And I want you to know that these people
are standing before him to make covenant.

Now, the covenant, incidentally, is on those tapes. The church today is
sleeping in money. That's where I started in the covenant.

They're saying, of course, I'm not sharing this thing because the Lord's
led me not to. But there's some very, very important things to know
about covenant. But they're standing before God to make covenant.

Now, that's when two become one. Two or more become one. And they stood
there, the tribes, the chief, the elders and officers, to enter in
covenant with the Lord God and into an oath.

A covenant is an oath. All right, now, if you see before. Now, I want
you to look at me so you see this because you're going to miss this if
you don't.

Now, when anyone is walking in this world, I want you to know they're
cursed because the powers of darkness is just getting more in their
deceit and darkness. They're putting more and loading up more and more
and more. Death is working in them all the time.

They're just taking over more areas and areas and areas of life. You
notice when folks have problems, they don't generally get worse. They
get, I mean, better.

They get worse because we turned everything. And it's what the church
does today, you know. The church, you know, if someone has these
problems or, you know, and everything, let's, well, let's kick out the
wounded.

Send them over there to the nuthouse. Jesus can't help you. Of course,
when you get bad enough, hey, the world can put you in a jail because,
after all, God can't do anything.

And they're all around us. Brother pastor, I'm going to tell you what.
I'll tell you what, if you're receiving this word, you have the most
joyful time.

All these hurting people and this burden that's been loaded up on you,
you're going to be reaching across that desk to hurting people right
there, and you're going to be touching them and saying, Boo, devil, in
Jesus' name, and watching them transformed right in front of your eyes.
Not only you're going to do it, your whole congregation's going to be
doing it because they're going to be sanctified. Now, when you walk
through this world, you are cursed.

There's no hedge. You've got an enemy in this world that controls this
world. He's stronger.

He's people walking in flesh. They're led to the altar of your mind. And
the puppets, they become puppets, and they get more and more ground,
more and more sick, and they use them.

They use them, and they use them against other people. They control
them, and they don't even know it. They're cursed.

Now, when you come to make a covenant, Old Covenant or New Covenant, you
take God Almighty. That's not like man making covenant with one another.
When you make covenant with God, you make covenant with someone stronger
than all the powers that are.

So then, you make a covenant. You take an oath. I will if you will.

That's what covenant is. You take an oath that you're going to walk
right there. When you take this oath and you enter in, a hedge comes
around you.

They have been a land to possess since God made covenant with Abraham.
And he told him, Abraham said, How shall I know that I can possess the
land? And God just turned around, because you and me are fixing to make
covenant, and you always triumph when I'm with you. Do you understand
that when God's with you that you always triumph? Of course, the world
don't see foolish things.

They can't. The flesh don't see it. But now, when you enter into
covenant, you take an oath, you're walking in it.

So when you walk in it and everything, and then when you choose in your
heart to be drawn away, and we'll see quickly, we're going to see how
the demons, right here, right there in Deuteronomy, after they made the
blessed covenant, show them how demons will draw them away from the
covenant. And he said, When you do, and you let they draw your heart,
your hearts, you're going to love me with all your heart, not me plus
demons and idols of the world. And then when you do that, you've got
blessings when you walk, all these things.

We've been looking at it. It's good to be healed, not have any sickness,
and all these things working with you. He said no sickness going to be
on, didn't he? Did I say that, or did the Bible say it? Okay, all right.

And so he walked in covenant. You walk in covenant, your blessings are
on you. That means God.

These blessings overtake you. You can't get away from them. You bless
everything you put your hands to.

You're blessed coming and going. Now, the opposite of that is when you
let your heart go somewhere besides loving the Lord with all your heart,
and they draw you away to get you somewhere else, the breach comes down,
and then the powers of darkness are turned loose on you. This is a
curses.

This is what Deuteronomy 28 is, blessings and curses. Folks, it's still
around. There's always blessings and curses in covenant.

And so the breach comes down, and here they come because you've broken
an oath. You've broken your word. Now, isn't it amazing how people would
be offended with curses when these curses right here in 28 are all over
the church today? And you know something? These curses, some of these
curses are called blessings.

Can you imagine that? They're called blessings. God don't call them
blessings. Now, let's begin.

In chapter 27, they had spoken curses on himself. If you don't obey the
word of God, and that is part of the oath. And then we start there.

Let's look at the blessing in verse 21. Now, it shall, I mean, 28 verse
1. Now, it should be if, if, if, if. I want you to circle these
scriptures right here.

Because if is a condition. I want you to know that if is whether a
person walks in covenant or not. You don't say some words, and you and
Satan go out and do your things and get all the blessings of God.

Is that clear? All right, now. It should be if, if, if you will
diligently obey the Lord. That's what he says from Genesis to
Revelation.

Diligently obey the Lord your God. Being careful to do all, all, all,
all, all, all his commandments. Which I command you today, the Lord your
God.

See, it's I will if you will. I will if you will. When you start seeing
that in the word.

You start seeing old covenant. You start seeing new covenant. If you go
ahead and do these things, I'm going to do this.

If you bear fruit. If you bear much fruit. I'm going to do everything
you ask me, I'm going to do.

I will do this. You do this. And I'm going to do this.

You do this. I'm going to do this. You do this.

And if you don't do this, you're not going to hear from me. You pray
with the wrong motives. That's what it says in new covenant.

What it's saying right here. Amen? All right, now. You do all these
things which I command you today.

The Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Verse 2. And all these blessings are going to come upon you. And they
what? They're going to overtake you.

You can't get away from it. If, if, if, if, if the blessings that come
on you. If, if, if, if, he'll obey the Lord your God.

You don't want somebody to read that to somebody and say, He's talking
about works when you obey God. Can you believe that? What do you need
the Bible for if all you have to do is say some words? Where'd that come
from? Verse 6. Blessed shall you be when you come in. And blessed shall
you be when you go out.

This is the blessings for those who walk in the covenant. Blessed coming
and going. Well, let's just look there in verse 7. The Lord will cause
your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you.

They shall come against you one way. And they're going to flee seven
different ways. Now, that's the blessings.

That's the blessings. Now, in verse 9. The Lord in this covenant,
walking in covenant, is going to establish you. Is that what he said in
1 Peter 5? He's going to perfect you and establish you.

Amen. For those walking in covenant, absolutely. That's what God does.

He's going to establish you as what kind of people? Holy people. That's
what you saw in 1 Peter 5. It's resisting the devil in the flesh and
suffering in it. Isn't that right? Here's a holy people to himself as he
swore to you.

If, if, if, if, if, if, if, if you will keep the commandments of the
Lord and walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk in his ways, he's
going to establish you as a holy people. Is that right? Is that exactly
what we read in 1 Peter? Absolutely. Now, verse 15.

Jump over here. Now, verse 15, there's where the blessings end. Because
this, he tells you what's going to happen to you if you don't walk in
covenant.

Where'd this thing come from that you receive grace to go do what the
devil says? From the devil. Verse 15, but it shall come about if, if,
if, if, if, if, if, if, you will not obey the Lord your God. You will
not obey his word.

You will not obey his commandments. You will not walk in covenant if
you'll not observe to do all, all his commandments of his statutes which
I charge you today that all these curses shall go to what? When it says
come upon you, curses come upon you. May I just go ahead and tell you,
that's them.

They're going to come upon you and they're going to overtake you because
the hedge comes down. The hedge comes down when you're not fruitful and
you are not fruitful if you're not obeying the word of God. Is that
clear? When you're not, and that's exactly, and so here the tree cutters
come.

Now let's go over and look in, well, verse 19. We watch things change.
Cursed shall you be when you come in.

Cursed shall you be when you go out. Instead of blessed coming and
going, you're cursed coming and going and people don't even know when
they're cursed. Because they've been programmed to hang in there.

Keep a stiff upper lip. Let the rough end drag. Don't let anybody know
I'm coming apart inside.

I've got it all put together in my pride. You've been programmed with
all your red pieces of steel and all your threads and everything that
you're somebody, that you're something. You've already writhed.

You're increased in goods. You've got wood and you've got stone. You've
got silver.

You've got gold. You've got the eyes of the world and they've built you,
used these things to build pride in you. And you're zero with the real
mouth of it.

That's deception. Okay. You're cursed coming and going.

Now, I want you to watch and see. It's not a ban the Lord's sin. I don't
want to run that by you too fast.

It's not a ban the Lord's sin. Well then, when you're sinning, is that
when the enemy has ground to work in you? Well, we know that demons
bring sickness. When did they become a blessing? Sin, that's where
demons work.

That's where they get their ground. Now, I want you to keep that in mind
because right now you're talking about the cursed. Are we in the cursed
part right here? Look in verse 22.

This is the ones who do not keep the commandments and walk in his ways.
The Lord's going to smite you with consumption and with what? See right
here, God calls that curse. Something got perverted and turned around.

It's called a blessing. Let me tell you something, folks, about fever.
You'll see later on that Jesus addressed the fever as a personality.

You'll just be amazed what you can do to just take your hand and remove
fevers. You're not going to remove it while you're being blessed with
it, though, are you? The Lord will smite you with consumption, with
fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, and with the
black, with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish. In the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I bind up all heresy, unbelief, all false
doctrine.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, all legalism. In Jesus' name, all
doubt and unbelief. You're bound, sealed with the blood.

You cannot minister right now in Jesus' name. Every hint at this word
right here, every hint at the thoughts right now is stopped right now in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's go on to verse 23.

Here's curses. And the heaven, 23, over your head shall be bronze. That
means your prayers are not going to, and the earth, which is under you,
is iron, judgment.

Cursed, 25. Now look here. The Lord will cause you to be defeated before
your enemies.

You shall go out one way against them, but you shall flee seven ways
before them. A while ago, the enemy was going seven ways. Is that
correct? You know what I've heard Jack Taylor say? It only takes one
weak, anemic demon to bind up the average church.

Why not? They don't believe in them. So when it says the demon's fleeing
seven ways, one demon chases a thousand seven different ways. That's the
difference in blessings and curses.

But you shall flee seven ways before them, and you shall be a what?
You're going to be an example of terror to all the kings of the world.
Verse 27. Now are we talking about sickness? Being in old government?
And the Lord will smite you with the balls of Egypt and with what?
Tumors.

Well, there they are. Isn't that something? How'd tumors get there?
Tumors are not a blessing. Tumors are a curse.

Now if you have a tumor, don't be offended. It's not a blessing. Get rid
of it in Jesus' name.

While we're trying to make somebody comfortable in their flesh with a
tumor, something has killed them. That's where we live with that. You
can't minister to the Spirit and minister to this carton.

We're talking to the inner man, not this part. The flesh always gets
upset. That's when you have to add water to it.

This is good news, somebody had a tumor. Do you know it? Sure it is.
Find out it's not a blessing.

The Lord will smite you with the balls of Egypt and with tumors, with a
scalp, an itch from which you cannot be healed. And then here's a curse.
It's 29.

You shall grope at noon. You're not groping. You're trying to find your
way spiritually.

Groping at noon is the light part of the day. You can't find the way.
That's a curse.

The powers of darkness are on you. As a blind man gropes in darkness,
you shall not prosper in your ways. You're going to just be oppressed
and robbed, continuing, and there's going to be no one to save you
because you haven't got a part to stand against them.

That's what the thief does. I mean you're oppressed. The thief comes to
rob, steal relationships, to work against you, to hinder you, and
everything that you do.

You're cursed in everything you do. And you're programmed to say, well,
hang in there. Hang in there.

Don't let them know. Hide all this that I'm tearing you apart inside.
Hang in there with your pride demon and pride flesh.

Don't let anybody know that you're something and you hadn't really got
it. So when a person decides his back's up against the wall and he isn't
in charge, he's not Lord after all, that's when he gets saved. All
right, now, 45.

So all these curses shall come upon you and they're going to what? There
they are. That's them. They pursue you.

What's it saying, John? Walk in the light. Is you having the light
because darkness is there to what? To overtake you. You better walk in
the light.

You better walk in the word. But darkness is right there to overtake
you. And these curses shall come on you and they're going to pursue you
and they're going to overtake you until you're what? Destroyed because
you would not obey the Lord your God but keeping his commandments and
his statutes which you bear.

You wouldn't walk in covenant. When did that change? Now, I throwed some
messy ones in there that didn't have to do with healing because I didn't
want to have to come back later on. I was going to just pick out the
things, the curses and healings and the blessings and so forth.

But now, here's where I was going to all the time. Now, here is, we're
still in the curses for the rest of the chapter of 28. Now, I'm going to
continue right here.

And if you look in 29, just pull over to 29 verse 1, you see that we're
looking at a covenant. These are words of the what? Covenant which the
Lord commanded Moses to what? To make with the sons of Israel and the
land of Israel besides the covenant which he made. So, you see, you are
looking at a covenant.

You are and you're going to see why because we're dealing with this
healing. Now, look at me. You're going to see why.

You said, well, I wonder why somebody else can't see it. Honey, while
you've been looking at them, their eyes have been closed. You've been
trusting men instead of Jesus.

And well, you're going to see why the eyes are closed. You quit worrying
about why somebody else can't see it and see why you hadn't seen it.
You're responsible for you.

See, that shows where your heart was. Now, so we're looking at a
covenant. Is that right? You don't have any problem with that.

Now, the covenant is not something to go tease somebody with. God
doesn't come to tease you with it, does He? All right, let's back up 58,
28 and 58. If you're not careful to observe all the words of this law,
and observe them, which are written in this book, to fear this honored
and awesome name, the Lord your God, God hadn't changed.

You have to learn the fear of the Lord, and you'll not learn the fear of
the Lord if you don't know something about Him. You'll not fear Him
without revelation. If you learn to fear Him and you're careful to
observe, then the Lord... If you're not careful to observe these words,
then break it up, 59, look here.

Then the Lord is going to bring extraordinary plagues on you. They're
going to come on your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues and
miserable and chronic sicknesses. Do you see that? They're going to come
on you.

And He's going to bring... What's that word there? Please circle back.
He's going to bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt which you're
afraid now claim to you. Look at me just a minute.

How can He bring something back on you if He hasn't taken it away from
you? He's taken it away. He's going to bring them back if you don't
continue to walk in the covenant. Now see, isn't that interesting? All
you had to do is just read to see that healing is clearly in your
covenant unless you've already received a lie.

And if you've already received a lie, then you have to fit the Bible in
that stronghold that's come against you that you've already received.
And I'll show you how that works. Is it there? Is there anything sneaky
about it? It's not sneaky, is it? And then out here that mind goes about
40 miles an hour trying to figure out, quit fighting to be sick.

Now, verse 61, here's the curses. And also every sickness and every
plague of which not written in the book of the law, the Lord will bring
on you until you are destroyed. Now see, when there's no powers of
darkness, they're already in Africa and they can't come through the
stained glass.

These things are not important, see? That's why they got left out.
People get wise up here. You leave out the powers of darkness.

And finally, eventually you leave out everything that the Spirit of God
can do. You skip everything to do with the gifts. We skipped everything
to do with the deliverance.

We skipped everything to do with healing. We skipped everything but what
man can do. So now, we're coming back here.

Get in on it. Amen? So now, I'm not going to have to cut out Psalms
103-3 of them. I'll leave it in my Bible because He clearly heals all
diseases.

You know why I know? We just read it right here. Now, something up there
keeps saying, have God really said? He sure did, sir. You just read it.

Now, but the main thing, what I don't know, does He heal today? Does He
heal now? Now, that's a question I need to know. I'm glad you asked.
Let's turn to Hebrews 8. Now, we're first going to compare these
covenants.

Now, you know what you just looked at? You know if you just stop and
think about it right here. Wouldn't it be very encouraging to know that
God, we just read in a covenant where God healed through the blood of
bulls, through the blood of goats, and the ashes of heifers, looking
forward to the blood of Jesus, and now today we've just got God and His
blood right now. I think we might can look for maybe just a little bit
more today than what they had through the blood of bulls and goats and
ashes of heifers.

Okay. Let's look in verse 6. Now, here are the covenants compared. Verse
6. But now He has obtained, Jesus, a more excellent ministry by as
much... Now, you've got a more excellent ministry in Jesus by as much as
He is also the mediator of what? A better covenant, no conditions, which
has been enacted on what? Better promises.

Now, right here are the covenants compared. You have got a more
excellent ministry. You've got a better ministry, a better covenant, and
better promises.

Look at me. No conditions on anything unless you want to receive a few
up here. Hath God really said? You know, the Lord just keeps reminding
me I'm going to have to go back here.

You know, this thing is on the video and for some reason the Lord wants
me to go back. You know, have you ever heard the saying then? Yeah, but
God... See, always there's something up here that fights against it,
that fights against it. They say, yeah, but in the old covenant God knew
they couldn't obey all the law.

So God just put it in there so they would just be disappointed and
continual despair. Well, I better clear that up because the Lord just
reminded me of it. Oh, well, just turn it loose and come on back over
there.

Come back to Deuteronomy. We'll see if they... what the Lord had to say
about that. Turn over to about Deuteronomy 29.

Deuteronomy 29. Now, chapter 30 is where I want to go. Let's begin
looking in verse 2. It talks about you return to the Lord your God and
what? Obey Him with all your heart and soul.

Now, I want to ask you something. Is the Lord asking you to do any less
to that today, to obey Him with all your heart and soul? No. No, He's
not.

That's what happens when you become one with somebody, you love them
with all your heart and soul, your mind, will, emotions, and all your
heart. So this was in the old covenant. But look here in verse 11.

For this commandment, which I command you today, is not to what? It's
not difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. Do you see that? So when
you're ever told that, you know, they couldn't do it, let's just fight,
let's fight, let's fight, let's have something against everything that
God said, let's just fight. Well, let's go up there.

Let's drop on down there. Verse 14. You see this same thing in Romans
10.

The word is very near you in your mouth and in your heart that you may
analyze it. Observe it. See, I have set before you today life and
prosperity, death and adversity.

You can be well or you can be sick. That's what he said. I've said it
before you.

And then he says, verse 17, But if your heart turns and you will not
obey the Lord, but you are what? Something's going to draw you away. And
you worship other what? That's them, and you're going to serve them. And
we'll come back to that later on.

You'll see that's them. So we've dropped that in there. It's not too
difficult or out of reach to walk in covenant.

Now, I want you to turn with me to Isaiah 53, please. We're going to
look at that, the prophecy through Isaiah about Jesus at Calvary, and
then we're going to say in the New Testament to complete what we're
going to look at healing for today, right now. That's why all these
people held up their hand a while ago.

They were healed. They wasn't psyched up. There's a difference.

No one got into the glory either. Seminar can't get no glory. Seminars
don't change folks' lives.

Folks don't change folks' lives. The Word is what he sent to heal. Okay.

I didn't know what a seminar was until I got in one. I'm telling you the
truth. Isaiah 53, verse 4. I'm going to skip.

I usually start in 52 there, and you come back and look it over. This is
Jesus at Calvary. Isaiah looking hundreds of years ahead to Calvary.

Surely our griefs... Boy, we just jumped right into it. You know what
that says? This is Jesus at Calvary. Surely our griefs he himself bore.

That's Jesus. What? Was Job sick? Well, if you want to go over and look
and see in Job sickness, you'll see it's the same way this grief, same
thing that's used to describe Job sickness there. All right.

Now, surely our griefs he himself bore. Now, most of your Bibles there,
if you look over in your margin, you'll see it just plainly says
sickness. Sure his sickness he himself bore.

But, see, we can't go to margin, so we clear right up with something
later on, can't we? We need to get some other script. So I'm going to
come back there, but I want to tell you that's what it is. Don't fight
it.

Look at me. You didn't get anything except through the blood. Will you
please tell me how you get anything from God almighty except through the
blood of Jesus? I want to give you a minute to think about that.

Don't fight it, folks. It doesn't come. Nothing you receive comes
anywhere except through the blood of Jesus.

Don't fight Calvary. Don't fight to be sick. Don't fight to hang in
there.

Don't fight to keep a stiff upper lip. Get in on it. It's coming your
way.

Now, surely our sickness he himself bore. He bore everything. Everything
happened at Calvary.

Of course, the most important thing that happened at Calvary is he took
your sins. If he didn't take your sins, you wouldn't be in healing. Our
sorrows he carried.

I receive that in Jesus' name. Yet we are self-esteemed, mimstricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. Boy, he didn't look like the Son of God
at Calvary, did he? He sure didn't.

But I tell you what, the people that look at him at Calvary right there,
they saw things in the natural. We're in a spiritual meeting right now.
We're looking at what happened behind the cross.

We're looking at what happened in the spiritual realm, not what the
flesh and man saw. He's smitten of God and afflicted. Five, but he was
pierced through for our transgressions.

I receive that in Jesus' name. He was crushed for our iniquities. I
receive that, too.

The chastening for our well-being fell upon him. I receive that. And by
his scourgings and by his stripes, we... What is those two words? Are
healed.

Will you circle are healed about three times there, please? Are healed.
All right. Now, I want you to look at me while you get that circle.

Look right here. Now, Isaiah is looking hundreds of years to Calvary,
and he's saying, you are healed at Calvary. Calvary is 100 years ahead,
and you're healed of what? You're healed.

You're healed of every need you have is met through the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and that blood is Calvary. Now, let's forget some of
these things in a box. Let's see what the Word's saying, because as we
go on, don't camp there, because I tell you it's going to get stronger
and stronger and stronger.

I'm not stopped there. I've got a lot more to say about this. All right.

Now, will you please turn to 1 Peter, please? 1 Peter. 1 Peter 2. When
you turn there, I want you to look at me. Are you ready to look? Now,
I'm going to show you something.

I told you that Isaiah lived. This is Calvary, okay? Isaiah is looking
hundreds of years ahead to Calvary, and he said at Calvary that by the
wounds and by the stripes of the Lord Jesus Christ, you are healed at
Calvary. Is that correct? All right.

Back then, Calvary took place, and Jesus, I mean, Peter wrote the Spirit
of God through Peter, wrote 1 Peter 2. Is that correct? 1 Peter was
written after Calvary. Is that correct? All right. Now, may I ask you
something? From what point of view are you looking at Calvary? From
Isaiah's eyes, or are you looking at it from Peter's eyes? Right,
because Calvary is behind us.

Is that right? This is when Peter had something to say about Calvary. So
we'll read what Peter said. Isaiah said, by his stripes you are healed.

Now, we have the same point of view as Peter. Is that correct? All
right. Now, 1 Peter 2, verse 24, and we're talking about Jesus at
Calvary.

And he, Jesus, himself bore our sins, yes, in his body on the cross.
Now, here's something that's read through real fast, folks. You're
looking at covenant right in the middle of this verse.

Don't run through it. Now, get your little pencil ready that we might
what? Die to sin. Isn't this interesting? We're talking about healing
right here, and it says, first, you're dying to sin.

Is that right? That's what your Bible says. Don't cut it out. And then,
number two, you're what? Oh, living the righteous, you're what? This is
all sin.

You're walking in covenant. You're in the New Testament, aren't you? And
then, for by his stripes, you what? You were healed. I believe that's
better than are healed.

I were healed at Calvary. Now, let me ask you something. Let's look at
that.

Let me just say something else. At Calvary, was the whole world saved?
Did he die for everybody at Calvary? May I ask you something? Is the
whole world saved? They didn't come to Calvary. Are you seeing what I'm
telling you? You don't get it if you don't come to Calvary and receive
it God's way.

Amen? So if you don't come, if you want to have unbelief and doubt, you
don't come to Calvary, you don't get healed. Hang in there. You don't
have to come and receive it.

Jesus did it all. And then, you know, we sing this song. Well, let me
get in that.

I want to tell you something. Jesus is done. It's done for Jesus.

But you're still in a war. You're in a war and you walk out that door.
The war goes on.

Jesus has already won the battle. But you have to get in on it. You have
to get in on what he did there, Kevin.

And you don't get in on it in unbelief. You get in on it in belief. Now,
wherever you receive, now, the war and the powers of darkness that we've
been ignoring, what do you think they've been doing? They've been
perverting.

They've been calling curses blessings, blessings curses and twisting it
around. Call darkness light, bitter sweet. That's what the powers of
darkness, they twist it all around.

Fear of the devil instead of fear in God. Fear of demons. Can't talk
about demons.

Where all this come from? That comes from folks who are asleep, that
ignore the scripture that God says, Do not be deceived. Do not be
deceived. I'll warn you, mourn you, mourn you, mourn you, mourn you.

That's wise in their own eyes. So, you've run into another part of the
scripture that's perverted. You going to receive it and get in on it? Or
go write another book that God can't do nothing? Because he's going to
do it all over his building.

Hey, that's just a few. You wait until this day is over. But if you
don't believe it, you won't see nothing.

You got a veil over your heart. You will never, never, ever see it. And
I'll show you why when we get through here this morning.

Now, so, you don't receive anything except through the blood. Now, did
you notice right there before you dropped down on being healed right
there? You were healed of what? Not every healing, everything that
emotions, spiritually, physically, all healing is done there. Jesus is
the healer.

Isn't that right? But you notice something. Did he say something there
to deal with sin before the healing comes? Did he say something about
sin? Oh, I just thought I'd throw that in there because I want you to
know there is sin in the church after all. Okay? And there's not much
healing.

Okay. Turn back to Matthew 8, please. Praise the name of Jesus.

Matthew 8, verse 16. We're going to deal with that scripture over in
Isaiah 5-4, 53-4. And when evening had come, they brought to Jesus many
who were demon-possessed, and he cast out the demons with the what? He
is the Word, isn't he? Well, how do we cast them out? The Word of God.

And he healed all, all, all who were ill. All of them. In order that
what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,
he himself took our infirmities, and he carried away our diseases.

Any Bible you have, you'll see right there it says Isaiah 53-4, that he
has carried away our diseases. Then we want to fight and say, well,
that's already been fulfilled. Let's just fight a little bit more to be
set.

Let's just fight against all of it. Well, how did he heal diseases then?
Because he could forgive sin. And right there, although he hadn't been
to Galilee, he could forgive sin.

Are you seeing? Okay, so he took our infirmities. He carried away our
diseases. Now, I want you to look with me in Matthew 9, please.

Matthew 9. In verse 35. And Jesus was going about all the cities and
villages. He was teaching in their synagogues.

He was proclaiming the gospel. Is that what we do? We proclaim the
gospel of the King. He was healing every kind of disease and every kind
of sickness.

Now, I want to ask you something. You know what we've called the name of
the ministry? It's just taken part of the word. There's only one
ministry, the ministry of Jesus.

That's what we're all into. But just for the sake of until we're fitting
together in a different way than what we've learned to fit together,
we're calling a ministry that we're in, be fruitful and multiply. Now,
let me tell you what this is what Adam was to do, the first Adam.

He walked in the image and likeness of God. Now, look at what I'm
saying. In Jesus, the last Adam, he was fruitful.

Now, first, how you be fruitful and multiply? You're fruitful when you
walk in the covenant. This is what Jesus did. He was fruitful.

How do you multiply it? You give unto others, it's getting given to you.
That's to be a disciple. The Lord gives you something, you give it to
others.

That is being a disciple. You multiply it. Whatever God teaches you, you
teach others.

Amen? You multiply it. And so this is how Jesus was being fruitful and
multiply. Now, Jesus had been given authority right here to heal all
diseases and cast out demons.

Let me talk to you about the threefold ministry of Jesus. His preach of
gospel, cast out demons. I'm going to tell you, the whole bunch, the
whole world there needed captives of demons.

And to heal the sick, and they bring sickness in the body. Now, let's
don't get hung up somewhere in something that he said, Oh, every
sickness is caused by a demon. Have you heard me say that? Or did you
hear somebody else say I said it? See? Then you listen closely to what
I'm saying.

I'm saying most everything I've ever dealt with, I'm telling the powers
of darkness about it. So let's don't start something new today because,
you know, you just want to deal with that because he said this or he
said that. I mean the powers of darkness bring sickness into your body.

And see, when you deal with all sickness like the powers of darkness is
there, I'm going to tell you what's the truth. This is the way the word
teaches you. And I'm going to tell you what you're going to see people
getting healed.

But if you don't deal with the powers of darkness, you're not going to
be as effective with the healing. You understand? Because that is to
understand. Now, so here Jesus was.

He healed all diseases. He was casting out the demons and was only one.
He could only be in one place at one time.

So what did Jesus do? He wants to multiply it. He's being fruitful.
God's given him a ministry, and that ministry hasn't changed.

I don't think he improved on what God sent Jesus here for. So Jesus goes
to multiply it. What was he going to do? He's going to teach others to
do the same ministry because he has authority to give it to others.

So he's going to make disciples. Well, you know what a disciple is?
That's a little Jesus. Isn't that right? He said, the works I do shall
you do also.

Right? And greater works. So we watch him right here. Jesus can only be
in one place at one time.

And in verse 1, And having summoned his ten one, Matthew 10, 1, And
having summoned his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over the
demons, that's the unclean spirits, that's not ego, to cast them out and
heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Now, you see,
what ministry did Jesus give his disciples? He gave them the same
ministry that he was doing. Now, I want you to know.

If you're a disciple, you're a disciple. The only thing special about
these twelve disciples is the fact that they were, you know, apostles
and they were in Jesus. Everything that was done to them wasn't them.

It wasn't their power. It was Jesus. What's the difference a disciple
then and a disciple now? It's all Jesus still, isn't it? Or was it their
good works? It was all Jesus.

There were multitudes of disciples beside these disciples, and you'll
find out there's some other folks, kind of like Stephen and Philip, some
laymen over there. They're doing signs of warning, casting out a few
demons, and healing sick folks all over the place, right? So don't get
hung up on that twelve-disciple thing, okay? A disciple's a disciple.
Now, turn to Matthew 28.

Matthew 28. Matthew 28. All right, now.

Jesus is fixing to ascend and go into heaven. Please look at me. He's
fixing to say some things.

These are the last words he's going to say before he ascends and goes
into heaven. He's already been to Calvary. Do you think these words will
be important? They're very important.

Yes, they are. The last words he's going to say before he ascends and
goes into heaven is to sit at the right-hand throne of God. And he has
these disciples together, and I want you to know here's the last thing
that he told them before he ascends and goes into heaven, starting in
verse 18.

After Jesus came up and spoke to them and saying, All authority, all
authority, I want you to watch this, has been given to me in heaven on
earth. I've got it all. Now, I've already done it.

Now, here's how I want you to get in on it and get people on it. Go,
therefore, since I have all authority and I've given it to you, go,
therefore, and what? Make disciples for who? Folks, men, teachings,
theology, or make disciples for Jesus? Okay. You go make disciples for
Jesus of all the world.

And you go, you baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit. Amen? Is this important? There's another verse there,
isn't there? Huh? Well, let's go ahead and read it. Now, this is the
last thing Jesus said.

When you make these disciples, you, what's the first two words? Oh, you
teach them. It didn't say work them. It said teach them, right? You
teach them to observe all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all,
all, everything I commanded you.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Did we just read there that they told this? This was just
first church.

Did he just tell them, you go make other disciples so this ministry of
Jesus can spread? Now, nobody hadn't come back from another ministry,
have they? He said, you go teach them everything I've taught you. Is
that what you just read in your Bible? Oh. And did he just read, you go
cast out demons, you heal all the sick, and preach the gospel.

Is that right? That's what your Bible says anyway, right? Now, which of
you does it have, this or this? It says it there, doesn't it? Is it
going to say somewhere later on there I was just yashing? It's there,
isn't it? Don't you leave here if something's trying to keep you from
saying that there. Look at it. It's right there.

Go over there, boy, and teach them to observe all, all, all, all,
everything I've taught you twelve disciples, I'm going to multiply and
multiply and multiply. I'm starting with me, and then you, and it goes
the same ministry. It's all in one ministry, the ministry of Jesus.

All right, now, you teach them to observe everything I command you, and
lo, I'm going to be with you until the disciples and satanists say for
me to leave. I'll be with you until the disciples and satanists say for
me to leave. If you don't like it, cut it out.

Let's fight to be sick. I'll be with you what? Always, always, even
until when? How long is he going to be with you? Have you come to the
end of the age? I'm not fighting to be sick, are you? The end of the age
is the end of the world, right? That's when Jesus returns. Amen? Hath
God said? Yes, sir? Right there, no options.

That's good. I receive that, Lord. I receive that as grace in Jesus'
name.

Praise the Lord. You know what a precious, precious preacher. Be turning
to Matthew, I mean Mark 16.

We don't need to use it, but I know it's not supposed to be in there,
but let's look at it anyway. Precious, precious pastor. Oh, I'm telling
you what, he's something.

And, see, he just had to fight through this like I had to fight through
it, just like everybody has to fight through it. And he's pastor of a, I
mean, not that it especially matters, but he's pastor of a big
congregation there, just a precious man. And he came up here, and it
just, boy, it just blessed me.

And he said, Mel, and he named two things, but one of the things he
said, the one that set me free and had me to see the healing is the fact
that Jesus told him to do it after he was resurrected, after he'd gone
to Calvary. Now that should set a few of you free. I never even thought
about that thing.

But let me share something with you. Folks, I want to tell you something
about, shepherds have had very much of a disadvantage in all our
traditions because they have to unlearn more than you do. Do you
understand that? I want you to, you better be careful.

Now, you're a steward of God's word. And someone told me how somebody in
San Antonio went down to their pastor right there and told him he's
going to have to change his way and he's going to pay his way to a
seminar. The person that did that will answer before God to that.

And these kind of things happen, the powers of darkness, usually people
go back and say things like that to someone. And then what's the powers
of darkness going to do to that man? He won't get in 25 miles of this
thing. He won't come to examine the word because someone's building a
sermon about it.

Now, I'm going to tell you what, the only thing I can proclaim the word
now, I am responsible as a steward before God to not exaggerate to say
what God says. I'm going to tell you right now in Jesus' name that you
are a steward before God, what God's entrusted you with. And you will
answer.

You will answer. You read Matthew 12 very closely, and you see that
you'll answer for every word you speak. Now, I'm going to tell you what,
we're all the same.

But God has given us different stations and everything like that. And
I'm not talking about compromised folks. You understand what I'm talking
about? I'm just saying, brother, you better be in the spirit the way you
handle God's word.

Amen? All right, now, in Mark 16, now we already see what Matthew had to
say about it, and here's what the Spirit said to Mark's point of view.
And he said to them, verse 15, go into all the world, this last thing
Jesus says, and preach the gospel to all, all the world, all the
creation. And he who has believed, has believed, please circle has
believed, he who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved, but
he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

Look at me. You're looking at a believer. I have believed.

May I ask you something? Have you believed? Have you believed? This next
verse is for you then. If you have believed, and these signs will
accompany those who what? Have believed, good. In my name they're going
to cast out demons.

They will speak with new tongues. They'll pick up serpents. If they
drink any deadly poison, it shall not hurt them.

They'll lay hands on the sick and they might recover. Now, look here. If
we're over here, we lay hands on sick and someone don't recover, we need
to start moving over here to find out why they don't recover.

Isn't that right? Now, let's don't cut it out of the Bible because it
makes us look bad. Huh? Let's find out. There's something we don't know.

You know, I can show you a bunch in James before you get to James 5, 14
and 15 and on with all. A bunch, volumes. You don't just pick out
something and say, I'll take that.

You'll take the whole counsel of God is what you'll take. All right,
now. So I want you to watch what happens.

That's the last words he said. You'll lay hands on the sick and they
will recover. Is that what your Bible says? They will recover.

These are what's going to follow those who have believed. This is not to
12 disciples. It's one to go tell, have believed.

Is that what your Bible says? When did it stop? Who come back and change
the Bible? Verse 19. I wish I had been sitting in the back then. So when
the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was received up in heaven, and he
sat down at the right hand throne of God.

Is that where he went just immediately? He said it. Now, watch very
closely. So what did these folks do? Did they go preach unbelief? They
went to preach exactly what Jesus said to preach.

And they went out, and what did they do? They preached everywhere. And
what did the Lord do? He, the Lord, worked with them. He confirmed this
word, and by signs it followed.

Now, that's what you're seeing when all these people held up their hands
there being healed. I didn't get to lay hands on them or nothing. I
guess God's going to get all the glory, doesn't he? But when they go
preach the word, God worked with them, he confirmed the word, and signs
followed.

Is that right? Now, what do you do when you don't preach the word? We
have to do one of those shotgun prayers where I hope they die
comfortably. And we've all done it. We've all done it.

See, and this is where the Lord leads us. Well, let me ask you
something. Did he say he worked with them, confirmed the word, and by
signs it followed? That's how he confirms the word.

He doesn't do signs to make some man look something, does he? The signs
are to confirm God's word, to make God look good. Amen? Not some man got
power. Jump! Why, now, let me ask you something.

When he said that he told you to go do those things and these signs that
you have believed, and you go make disciples, they have believed, they
lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover, they go cast out
demons, what did he do? He went immediately to the right-hand throne of
God. Is that correct? Isn't that an interesting thing? I thought we read
in the next verse that he worked with them and he confirmed the word by
signs following. Was he able to do that from right-hand throne of God,
Dad? He certainly was.

Where is he right now? Oh, and he'll still work from the right-hand
throne of God today when you preach the word. The second verse, when you
walk in covenant. Amen? Okay.

That's good, isn't it? All right, now, we're going to look at this
thing. Turn to James. Just go ahead and turn over there.

I wasn't even going to look there, but let's do it. James 5. They said
they will recover when you pray for them, right? Now, you want me to
tell you the verse that goes with this? If you're bearing fruit for God,
ask anything you wish and he'll do it. All right, when you're bearing
fruit for God, what does that mean? You're walking in covenant, right?
You walk as in covenant with God, and you ask whatever you wish and
he'll heal it, right? Now, the opposite from that is to walk over.

Now, listen to me. You walk over in James 4 after your own pleasure is
making the name and yourself and your ministry and everything, and you
lay hands on somebody, and you don't get what you pray for because your
motives are all wrong. Your motives are not for the glory of Jesus.

He wants your church to look good. He wants you to look good. He wants
your denomination to look good.

He wants your theology to look good. You want to look smart. So you've
got the wrong motives, and so they die.

Do you see any difference? So he said they will recover. So what we're
doing, folks, so you'll understand this, we're not really seeing the
flow of healing like it's about, but it's more and more and more and
more. And so what we're moving more in the righteousness, we're moving
more in the holiness of God in our walk and everything, and I'm telling
you what, we're on the threshold of seeing what they saw right there in
Acts because we're finding out about being one.

And if you have any problem with that, I want you to think back 10 years
ago and seeing where it was possible to have a meeting right here where
Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Presbyterian, Catholic,
and everything have come together right here, and don't give two cents
except about Jesus right there in your hearts. Amen? Now, who do you
think did that, folks? Organization. The Spirit of God.

That's right. Okay. Now, 14.

14, we're in the New Testament, aren't we? Is anyone here among you
what? Sick. Now, the opposite from sick is being well. Let him call for
the elders of the church, let him pray over him, anoint him with oil in
the name of the Lord.

Now, you call for the elders. That's right. That's the spiritual
leaders.

And the prayer offered in faith. Now, there's a big word, faith, isn't
it? Yes, don't leave it out. Will restore.

Not maybe or perhaps or could be, but it will restore the one who is
sick. The Lord will. Will.

Didn't say might. He's going to raise him. Which direction? He's coming
up.

And if he's committed any sins, they, there's that word, will. He will
be what? Well, amen. Will be forgiven.

Now, there's a problem. Turn back to Mark 6, please. Incidentally, did
you recall that Elver and James 4, it was talking about being able to
cleanse your hands of your sinners and purify your hearts, you double-
minded and deal with sin before you got over in James 5? Well, I'm glad
you noticed that.

Turn back to Mark 6, please. Because, see, if the enemy can keep you
from dealing in sin, you don't get released from captivity. Are you
hearing me? Yes, sir.

We're going to, I want you to be watching that. We're going to see it in
Hosea and different places over and over. If you're, if you're, if
you're not taught to deal with sin, to just go ahead and walk on your
stubbornness and stiff neck, then you can't be released from captivity
if there's no repentance.

Now, in Mark 6, we're going to see a place that Jesus, who all things
have been created through Jesus Christ in heaven and earth, visible and
invisible, where the thrones, dominions, rules, authority, everything is
being created through Jesus Christ and for Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is
before all things and in Jesus Christ all things whole together. Now,
can you believe that everything created through Him, that He'd come to a
place where He couldn't do no miracle? If He couldn't do it, you can't
do it.

You're going to see that He could not do a miracle around unbelief. So
if, wherever you get unbelief or the powers of darkness are behind it, I
know it looks good, so logical and everything, but God just doesn't work
in it. So there in 6, we look in 5. He could do, Jesus could do no
miracle there except He laid His hands upon a few sick people and He
healed them and He wondered if they're what? Unbelief.

And He was going around the village teaching and He summoned the 12
beginning to send Him out in prayer. Now, here He's starting the church,
isn't He? He was giving them authority over the unclean spirits. All
right, now, I want you to look at me.

I want to share something very important to you right now. I met
yesterday out in the hall several people who come from Graceland Baptist
Church, that church that I told you that was in the greater Louisville
area. That's the first place where the Lord had used me in this
situation where we've been, where I got to see the church demonized,
really.

And it was in this church that I told you that this situation, we
started casting the demons out of this church member. And I told you
about how broken the pastor was and when the Lord showed him, and it
would be to you, it would be to all of us, he's a godly man. And he and
I sat down together with another brother, Jim Hilton, and I was going
through the Word and I was sharing some things right after this happened
about healing.

This man taught over in Southern Seminary in boys' school. And I came to
the Scripture that I'm fixing to read with you, the second one I'm
fixing to read to you, and I want to tell you what he said. He said, I
taught Mark in seminary, and I've never seen that Scripture before in my
life.

And so, I just want to just share that with you because I'm telling you
what, see, when you look at the Bible through tunnel vision, when you've
got tunnel vision to the Bible, there's certain things you'll never,
never, never, never, ever see when you've received a lie. It's blocked
out to you. And I'm going to show you that you can't go and explain it
to somebody.

You cannot go and explain it and make your mother see it. You cannot go
make your wife see it. You cannot go make your husband see it.

You cannot make your child see it. The only one that can make them see
it is the Spirit of God, and there's going to have to be something right
there before they'll see it. And I'm going to show you why in just a
minute.

But here, the second Scripture I read is the one that he said I taught
Mark in seminary, and I have never seen that Scripture. You look there
in verse 12. And they went out and preached, these are the twelve, that
men should repent.

And they were casting out many demons, and they were what? The twelve
disciples were anointed with oil, many sick people were healed. Doesn't
it seem like it just might be all right to anoint someone with oil if
the twelve disciples did it? In that same chapter earlier there, Jesus
laid hands on the sick. Doesn't it seem like it just might be all right
to lay hands on the sick? There might be something to it if Jesus did
it, huh? Ain't that right? Jesus laid his hands on them in verse 5. So
it says that over and over and over, and he turns around and tells us to
do the same ministry before we get so smart that we got a new ministry.

We only have one ministry, and that's the ministry of Jesus, the works
he do shall you do also. Don't fight it. It's fun.

And greater works these will you do. Okay, in Mark 6, you know, at one
point, I don't want you to turn to it, but in John 4, 48, Jesus said to
them, unless you people see signs and wonders, you're not going to
believe. You're not going to believe the word.

You have to see it before you believe it. Well, you don't get to see it.
He said, Matthew 13, 54 through 58, it says, And this a carpenter's son,
they took offense at him.

Do you remember we looked at that before? See, people became offended
when Jesus set them free, and they don't know. Do you know what a sign
and wonder is, what you do or Jesus did? Signs and wonders is against
Satan. And the blessings, if I went ahead and read it, that you'll do
signs and wonders, and the curses in Deuteronomy 28, if you don't do
signs and wonders, you become a sign and wonder.

They're going to do a number on you. Now, that's either Jesus is working
through you or they're working on you. It's very simple, folks.

It's exactly the way it is. So when people don't know, what is it that
causes people to be offended when you do something against Satan? Them?
Because they've already put a lie right in there. And they put a label,
fear, intimidation, all these things.

Now, let me tell you something, pastors. This whole business where
they're running this over to them, where they're trying to get you to
work out and sort all this out right now, and they just feel... And,
brother, you can't do that. It's not your place to.

The Holy Spirit says, well, you're getting loaded up a lot here in three
days. Everybody here is. You're going to have to get the Lord to sort
all this out.

Folks, don't get under any pressure. It's not up to you anyway. Rest.

And, brother pastor, you don't have to go in and drop day three on them.
Why don't we go in and teach about repentance? Start down here, but
don't stop until you get up there. And I'm going to tell you something,
brother.

Now, are you listening? When you start teaching it, and you're coming on
up with it, the more you teach, the more you get. And that's the way you
get it. If you don't teach it, if you water it down, if you compromise
it, you're ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth.

You don't get it. When you know a truth and you hold it back, forget it.
We're going to look about that today.

We're going to look about that. It'll stop. Let me tell you something,
pastor.

I'm just going to have to just say this. The moment you're going to go
through a struggle, and the moment you decide in your heart, the day and
the very minute, the hour, the hour and the minute and the moment that
you decide in your heart right there, God's looking at it, that you're
going with a sheep of God, and there's not going to be nothing that
exists that hinders you from obeying God. There's not going to be
nothing to make you fearful, intimidate you, or control you.

I don't care where you're in a drugstore, walking down the street, in a
church building office or where you are. When you make that decision in
your heart, when you go back home and walk in your house, you'll find
out that God has given you a new family because junk has come off of
them. There'll be so much peace around there, they'll fall down.

And that'll happen the moment you make that decision in your heart. And
until you do, you're going to be scared to death. I'm not speaking of
curse.

I draw those words back in Jesus' name. But see, it's something to work
through with the Lord. Something you have to work through because when
Jesus is Lord, that is exactly the way it is.

Nothing makes you fearful, nothing will intimidate you. It's Jesus. It's
not Jesus plus anything else.

Now, okay. Now, another thing in Matthew 21, 14 and 15, but we won't
turn it, but he saw all the wonderful things he did and they became
indignant. Isn't that wonderful to see people healed and see them set
free and to be upset over it? Turn to Luke 9, please.

Luke 9. See, you don't understand why they're upset. Because those folks
living in a house with them got upset. That's why.

Look at me. There's a lot of folks who move in this house right here.
You hear? They start pulling levers.

They start controlling. I asked them in Luke 9, verse 1, and he called
the twelve together and he gave them what? Well, how about that? Where
did that word come from? They had power, didn't they? Well, you have to
have power to do this. But they not only had power, but they had
authority.

You know, they had died. They had died to the lust of flesh, the lust of
the eyes, and the boastful pride of life. And he gave them power and
authority.

They're not going to be like they was before. He gave them power and
authority over all the demons to heal disease. Here's a disciple, and he
sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.

Now, there's a threefold ministry of Jesus. He just gave it to the
disciples, and the interesting thing happens over in Luke 10. Turn
there, please.

Luke 10. Luke 10, verse 1. And after this, the Lord appointed 70 what?
Other what? Oh, how about that? I wonder what these 70 disciples are
going to do. They're going to do the same thing all disciples are
supposed to do, the ministry of Jesus, the threefold ministry of Jesus.

That's what you're going to see. And he sent them out two ahead of him
to every city and place where he himself was going to come. Verse 3, Go
your way, behold, I'm sending you out as what? In the midst of who? Now,
are you seeing it, folks? The whole world is wolves.

Adulterous is the wolves. And you're the lamb. You know, you look pretty
foolish to the world.

So innocent. As a matter of fact, you look fun, square, and sissy.
Because that's where they're broken in the flesh.

See, a lamb doesn't have any motive. See, he doesn't think of all the
schemes up here. See, scheme, that's powers of darkness.

You don't have your mind going to work out all the advantage for your
carton, see? A little old lamb, he just sent right out in the middle.
You, the lambs, is the way we walk. Not deceitful, everything's up
front.

We don't have anything deceitful going on. Everything's up front. So
when you've got everything up front, you understand it's then and only
then that the powers of darkness can't talk to you.

As long as they can be deceitful or something like that, they've got
you. But you've got everything up front there. I'm telling you what,
when everything in your home's up front, when everything in your
church's up front, when everything in your relationship's up front, the
enemy cannot come and put jump suspicions against each other which you
divide home.

Are you seeing that? That's what a lamb does. He has everything up
front. Now, look at verse 8. And whatever city you enter, and you'll see
this is a congregation, they receive you, and they receive you, eat what
is sent before you.

And you heal those who are in it who are sick, 70 disciples. Well, what
about that? And say to them, the kingdom of God has come near you. How's
the kingdom of God come near them? Because the kingdom of God's in them,
right? With them.

Okay. But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out
in the streets and say, even a dustier city which cleans her feet will
wipe off and protest against you, lest you be sure of this, the kingdom
of God has come near you. Now, after the Lord had told them to go heal
the sick, they said, you know, Lord, what are we going to do? Some
people are not going to receive this.

He said, I know that. When they don't, you go and just do your part, but
when you leave there, when you get outside, just take your shoes off
right there, and just kind of hit them together like that. And go on to
the next place.

Oh, by the way, 70 disciples, I have one more word for you about if
people don't want to receive anything about healing. Because after all,
people are not going to receive anything healed when the devil tells
them they can't heal, they can't do anything. So here's what I'd like to
say to you, 70 disciples, in verse 16.

The one who listens to you listens to me, disciple. The one who rejects
you rejects me, disciple. And he who rejects me rejects the ones who
sent me.

In other words, disciple, when they reject you, they reject God. You
just do what I tell you. Is that clear? Now, we come to a place right
here.

I want you to look at me right here, and I'm going to stand right here.
Some are not looking. Now, this is very important, what I'm going to say
to you, Muriel.

For me to be able to illustrate what I'm going to read to you right
here, I'm going to be Jesus. You're going to be the 70 disciples. This
is baby disciples.

It's their first time out. Is that correct? That's right. It's their
first time out, and they're sent out to heal the sick, to do the
ministry of Jesus.

First time, brand-new babies. Don't have much seniority. Then they come
back, and you're going to be the 70, and I'm going to be Jesus.

Now, you can kind of see me right here, can't you? Okay. Now, look with
me in verse 17. When I say, look at me, I want you to look at me so I
can show you something.

Verse 17. Now, let's read. And the 70 returned with joy, and they've
been out.

First time, baby disciples, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to
us in your name, in the name of Jesus. And he said to them. Now, the
subject begins on demons.

Is that correct? That's the enemy, the powers of darkness. And he said
to them, I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Behold,
disciples.

That's you. That's me. That's a 70.

That's a 12. I have given you authority to tread upon these serpents and
the scorpion. That's these powers of darkness.

And over all, all, all, all, all, all the power within me. And nothing
shall end you. Why don't you remember this, little baby disciples? In
verse 20.

Nevertheless, baby disciples, do not rejoice in this, that the demons
are subject to you. Don't rejoice in this, to you. But rejoice that your
name is recorded in heaven.

Don't take your eyes on heaven. Don't get boxed up in deliverance.
There's a whole lot more.

I'm a lot more than just deliverance. You hear? Don't take your eyes off
of heaven. Don't just get boxed up there.

And then, look at me. Look at me right here. I want to tell you what
Jesus did.

Now, you see me. He turned. Now, some of you want to go ahead and read
that next chapter.

Now, look at me. He turned like this. And you know something? The reason
he turned, and you need to know this, this reason I want you to know it,
is because he stopped talking to the 70 for just a moment.

It's not next day. He stopped and he turned there because he had
something he wanted to say to the Father. And you know what he did? He
said about two verses here to the Father he wanted to say.

Now, look at that verse 21. Here's what he said to the Father at that
very time. See, it didn't say next day, did it? At that very time, he,
Jesus, rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit.

There, Jesus rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit and said, I praise
thee, O Father, Lord of heaven, that you did what? Oh, had what things?
For these things, the casting out of demons, you had these things from
the who? The wise and intelligent, and did reveal them to these brand-
new baby disciples. Isn't that something? That's the way God is. Yes,
Father, for thus it's well-pleasing in thy sight.

Now, look at me. Please, look at me. In one verse, Jesus rejoiced
greatly.

It's well-pleasing to the Father that brand-new babies will see this
ministry, and the wise and intelligent, and the ones that have their
eyes on them will never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
never, never, ever see it. Where's your heart? And you see the next
verse, why? All things, Jesus says in verse 22, have been handed over to
me, my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, who the
Father is except the Son, and to anyone to whom the Son wills to what?
Look at me.

It's all revelation, not intellect, not wise and intelligent. It's
whosoever will. Now, look at me.

Is that good? Okay. Now, Jesus, after he said that, now watch me. Is
everybody watching? Good.

Jesus, right then, he turned back to the 70 disciples. He threw it all
from the Father, and he turned back to the 70 disciples. You know how I
know? It says so right here in the next verse.

And turning to the disciples, see there, I told you. He said what?
Privately, look at me. Now, Brother Bob, I'm glad you're back with me
today.

If I'm going to say something privately to you, brother, I'm going to go
down, and I'll say it, and it's going to be private between you and I.
That means no one else is to hear it. Is that right? Please look at me.
You're going to miss what Brother Bob and I are doing.

And so if I go over to you, brother, and I say something to you, it's
privately. Now, he had something privately to say to these 70 disciples.
Does that mean it's not for someone else? Is it? Because nothing like
this had happened back through there.

You start over in Genesis. It wasn't doing these things over there.
Okay, here we go.

And here's what he said to them. Verse 23. Now, I'm Jesus, you're the 70
disciples.

23, and turning to the disciples, he said privately, blessed are the
eyes which see the things you see. Did you see the folks over in the
parable of the wood that couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't
understand because they had a heart problem. They were drawn near to God
with their mouth, but their heart was far from him.

And now he's the one that opens the eyes through revelation. He has to
see who he wants to see, and those he doesn't want to see don't get to
see because of this. Proud folks don't see.

Humble folks see. Now, verse 24. For I say to you that many prophets and
kings, baby disciples, wished to see the things which you see, and they
did not see them, baby disciples, and to hear the things which you hear.

And baby disciples, they did not get to hear. Now, you know something?
Now, you not only got to see healing in the Word, but you got to see
that when you trust other folks, if you trust blind folks, you can't see
it either. Where is your heart trusting? Where is your heart? Do you let
Jesus lead you in all truth? Isn't it amazing, Pastor? Whatever
denomination you're called, you know, if you was brought up in Catholic,
you were probably one Lord didn't call you to go over and preach in the
Baptist, did he? No.

You're raised up, he calls you just to preach in your structure. You see
what I mean? So we get caught up in the things that we've been raised
up, and these things are handed down and handed down, and his enemy has
been coming against the people that our ancestors hadn't dealt with
these things, folks. We've been looking in the Bible here for three
days.

So if it has not dealt with, and offended like the Pharisees when it
comes up, there's some deception somewhere. Don't fight against the Word
of God. Don't love your traditions more than love the Word of God,
because let me tell you something, what we have isn't working.

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