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got through basically verses one through five last week. I’m just going to touch on it for 3 or 4 minutes here just to catch everybody up. So previously on The Anointed Physician.

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In the book of Mark we see Jesus entering Capernaum, and after some days it was heard that he was in a house. He was he was in his hometown. I don’t know exactly. The Bible doesn’t say exactly whose home he was in, but he was in a home. And when people found out he was in the home, they just here.

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They came. They came from everywhere. Where’s Jesus, by the way? Did you guys know that during Jesus’s ministry, he frequently would go to very interesting places like the spirit of the Lord is leading me to go to the top of that mountain and people would follow him.

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Okay? He didn’t just wait for a bunch of people to congregate in. I know everybody came here, but go with me on the example. He didn’t wait for a bunch of people to congregate and then come out of a side door, you know, to show up, to then present himself like he’s the one that needs to be doing the presenting.

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Instead, he would go somewhere and would wait to see who followed.

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And those who followed, those who pursued, those who sought him out. They found him and they received from him.

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So he’s in a house, and immediately people are gathering. They’re filling up the room. It’s standing room only to the back wall. They are flowing out of the door. They’re sitting outside and everybody’s leaning in to hear him teach because he was preaching. He was teaching the Word of God, right? He’s teaching the Old Testament. Nobody throw the Old Testament out.

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Jesus was teaching the Old Testament, and he was saying in these scriptures, you’ll see me, or hopefully you’ll see me. Okay, so he’s preaching the word to them. Now that’s Mark chapter two one through two. I’m going to go to Luke five, because Luke also gives this account of the paralytic. And Luke adds a little a couple little details in here.

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That’s very interesting. Is that how we know that the who all the characters were that were in this place? Luke 517 says, now it happened on a certain day as he was teaching, right? Just as Mark said. Then there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.

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Okay. So there were people going, Jesus is over there. And there were also Pharisees, scribes, and, you know, religious leaders of the of the Jewish people who were like, oh, Jesus is over there. Let’s go. You know, let’s go see what he has to say today. And so there’s there’s a mixed crowd. Okay. And then this last final verse, I quoted it last week and I felt it was significant.

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And I want to declare it over us today. As Pastor David was pointing out, Luke 517 at the end says, and the power of the Lord was present to heal. The power of the Lord was present because Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit, he could do these many mighty works because of the power of God that was in him and flowing out of him.

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Okay, so now we know that Pharisees and teachers of the law were there. Mark chapter two, verse three. Then they came to him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. Right? If you were here last week, you got to see me call George up on the stage. And I did a little fireman’s carry. Thank God I didn’t drop him, but I lifted him up on my back.

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And I was talking about this Greek word, which I completely mispronounced. And I’ll probably mispronounce it again. I wrote meaning to raise up, to elevate, to lift up, to bear up. Okay, now there were four men that were bearing up this one man who was a paralytic. He was unable. They would call him an invalid at times, but he was unable to bring himself to Jesus.

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Imagine again, Jesus withdraws himself from the crowd. He goes up onto a mountain. They go, there he is, and boom, here comes the crowd. And these guys pick up the okay, we got to go. We’re going to bring you to Jesus. And they start bringing him for men and they find Jesus, verse four of Mark two. And when they could not come near him because of the crowd, right.

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Rooms totally filled up. There’s a crowd around the people. When they couldn’t get to them, they decided to go up onto the roof. They deconstructed the roof. Right. Do we have those photos just for just for for fun? Yes. So this is a construction of a roof in those days. There’s some beams across, there’s boards across. And they start to pack it with straw.

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And then the next picture, they would pack the straw and they would put down clay to create a hard surface. The Bible says they broke up the tiles, so perhaps they formed tiles and put it on top of this. And they created a, you know, a nice little mezzanine, a little spot up there where they could go in and enjoy the sunset.

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Right. Or throw, I don’t know, fruit at people. And it’s they, they had various things they would go do on the roof. But so these four guys go up on the roof and they start breaking through the tiles, breaking through the, you know, the substrate, whatever that was, pulling the back the straw into where we get that third picture.

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They opened up a space in the roof and they began to lower down this man on his bed. Again, this man is a paralytic. He can’t move. He can’t move in his own strength. He can’t go in his own strength. The life force in him is being squeezed by this disease. And then when Jesus. This is verse five, when Jesus saw their faith, I mean, imagine this scene is happening in front of him.

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He’s teaching. Obviously, there’s some rustling and dirt starting to hit people in the head. They’re going, what is going on up there? They were trying to listen to Jesus. Do you mind? And they break through and they lower him down. And as they’re lowering him, the Lord looks at the four who have done this incredible work, and he looks at their faith.

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He sees their faith on display. He sees their faith in action. And he says to the paralytic, now remember, this is because of those four. He says to the man who can’t walk, who is paralyzed, he says, son, your sins are forgiven. Wow. And that’s about where we took a timeout last week, and I wasn’t sure that I would be able to speak this week.

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It just kind of happened. And so thank you, Lord. Here we are for episode two of The Anointed Physician. All right okay.

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So we’re going to pick it up in verse six of Mark two. And some of the scribes, we realize they’re sitting there. Luke gave us a little detail that their scribes and Pharisees present. Also, Mark doesn’t speak to this, but but now we’re getting there. And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts right there, saying this inside themselves, not out loud.

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Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone? So the statement Jesus is making saying son, saying son alone is a little strange. Like he’s not your actual son. Jesus, you’re 33 and or 30 something years old and unmarried. How is he, your son? Okay, son, your sins are forgiven for someone to say that statement according to the the law or the scribes and Pharisees and the way they would be, let’s say, meticulously taking account of everybody’s sin.

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You can’t say that like that’s forbidden. How dare you say that you’re comparing yourself to God.

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Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?

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So let’s talk about the scribes for just a second. The scribes were teachers of the law. In the King James Version it actually says doctors of the law. It’s interesting correlation there, physician doctor. Okay, we’ll get there. They were scholars. They were teachers. They were interpreters of the law. They were actually very crucial in the the keeping of the mosaic law and the handling of it.

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Well, let’s say and some in the Old Testament did this very honorably. But then as we start getting closer to Jesus’s time, it converted and turned into something it was never meant to be. All right. One honorable and notable scribe was Ezra. So we have the book of Ezra. And then in Nehemiah, you also see that Ezra appears in Nehemiah.

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And Ezra was very skilled, and he was careful to listen to this. He was careful to keep read and teach the law of God. That’s what that’s what a scribe was essentially to do. They were a keeper of the Word of God. First they were. They were one who kept it right, like the Word of God. The Bible says to to keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issues of life, like let the Word of God get into your heart and then protect it.

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Keep it. So they kept the law. They also read the law. So like I’m going to read some scriptures to you today. I’m not going to add much. I’m going to I’m going to give my preaching commentary after it. But I’m going to read the Scripture as the Scripture was meant to be heard. That’s important because the scribes then begin to add to it and interpret it, and make the Word of God seem so complicated and convoluted and heavy and burdensome.

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And that’s what they began to do. But not Ezra. Ezra taught, and he didn’t just teach. He also he didn’t just talk about the Word of God. He also wept for the people. He also fasted and he interceded on behalf of them. He actually said, my guilt is before you, Lord. If you read this in like Ezra nine, Isra ten, his guilt, he was like, I am with the people in this.

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I’m not separating myself out because I’m so devout and committed to the law and committed to caring for the word. I’m not separated from this. I’m actually in this with your people, God, because I’m one of your people. So this is really wonderful to see that Ezra was honorable scribe. He he fulfilled the duty, if you will, of the of the scribe beautifully the way God had had, you know, intended it to.

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But back to Mark these guys, these scribes, they were nothing like Ezra. Okay? They taught the law. But as I said, they added to it. They made it so complicated. They took and they interpret the law and they’d say, oh, yeah, well, you need to give to the Lord, you know, of your first fruits. That means even the tiniest little grass that grows in the back.

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You need to snip off 10% and bring I mean, it sounds it sounds crazy because it was they started to turn God’s law, which, by the way, even in the Old Testament, listen to me. Even in the Old Testament, this was God’s love letter to help keep his people close to himself. That was the goal. Now it was impossible because they could only temporarily atone for breaking the law until Jesus came.

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And once Christ came, he fulfilled the law. He didn’t get rid of it. He didn’t abolish it. He fulfilled it, meaning he lived it. Nobody else could live according to the law except for one man, the Son of man, Jesus Christ. He fulfilled the law. And so for us as believers, we don’t go, well, the law doesn’t apply to me.

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No, you bet it does. Aspects of it. I’ll be careful here. There’s ceremonial things that we we don’t have to do anymore, because that was specifically for the Jewish people. That changed a little bit for the Gentiles. I am buzzing through this really quickly. But what what ultimately changed is that it was fulfilled in Christ. And as we are in Christ, that’s what makes us righteous.

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And the law doesn’t have any more of its effect. Or we can also be made righteous in him. Does this making sense or righteous in Christ because he fulfilled the law? Okay, so these guys were building up burdens. You know, I’m not going to read you. Matthew 23, but Jesus had a lot of things to say about the scribes and the Pharisees and their hypocrisy, the way they spoke about the law, but they didn’t do it right.

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It’s easy to say a scripture. Then we have to go apply it, and we’re in. I find myself ascribe at times this is what the Word of God says. This is how it goes. This is how it works. This is what it’s supposed to be. And then you go to apply it and you’re like, oh.

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It’s a lot easier to just talk about it. It’s a whole nother thing to do. The word which we are capable of because of Christ. He enables us, and the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. Right? So they wouldn’t they would create such burdens for people. They would stack up burdens upon them, and then they would do nothing to help them.

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So they could point out where you were breaking the law, but they couldn’t do a thing about your forgiveness. And they actually did a terrible job about pointing to the one who could forgive. They they heaped upon people condemnation. So they were more concerned with their own greed, their own selfish ambition than they were with other brothers burdens.

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And I use that word, brother on purpose, because they were the same people. They were the same. They were the same kin. We’re not talking about Gentiles here. We’re talking about the same Jewish people who came from a from the nation of Israel, the 12 tribes. And they, you know, all the way through Bill Testament. Here they are again.

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And they’ve got their sections and everybody’s kind of partitioning themself off into, oh, we’re the spiritual elite and we’re the poor and decrepit, and we’re somewhere in between where this whole group of sinners that are outcasts, the society, and they have nothing to do with them, but we’re all the same.

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So, like I said, Jesus had many things to say about them in Matthew 23. One of the things I want to highlight is he called them blind guides. Blind guides. A blind guide isn’t going to be able to help you get anywhere. So they themselves couldn’t see. But then they thought they could direct people. Okay, that’s the idea of who the scribes were.

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In John five, Jesus was speaking to the religious leaders, the Pharisees, the Sanhedrin. The scribes would have been part of this also. And he says, you search the scriptures because you think in them that you have eternal life. It is they that bear witness of me. The scriptures are speaking about Jesus. The scriptures are testifying about Jesus. He says, yet you refuse to come to me.

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You imagine that you’re a scholar of the law and you’re blind to Jesus standing right in front of you. You don’t. You don’t even see him. You’re nowhere near. I mean, the closest they got was saying, it’s only God that can forgive sins. That’s as close as they got. They were right, but they were blind. At the end of the day, the scribes were jealous of Jesus because their motives were being revealed by Jesus teaching, because he taught with authority.

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And Mark 22 the people were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authority and not as the scribes. Oh, ouch! That comparison for a scholar is like, well, what seminary did Jesus go to? Who did he learn under what Rabbi taught him? All we know is he’s like an illegitimate kid of Joseph and Mary who came out of Nazareth, who taught him.

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And so they had this high brow view of their position.

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At the. So, again, their motives were being challenged and their motives were being revealed and their religious authority was being, I don’t want to say, undermined. It was actually being destroyed. They were quickly finding out. We don’t have a whole lot of authority here. You know why? Because we talk about the scriptures, but we can’t perform anything.

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Let me submit to you that perhaps they couldn’t. I’m using the word perform, but you understand it’s not about performance. They could not do any mighty works because they were not close to the people.

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It’s one thing to be high and lofty and pontificate about the Word of God and this, that, and about the word and this, that about in the word. And it’s like, okay, well, great. Well, we can you go pray for that leper. And they’d be like, oh, he’s unclean. I want nothing to do with him. They walk on the other side of the road.

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So they were full of religiosity and legalism. That’s who Jesus is dealing with. No wonder he was a little frustrated.

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All right. Verse seven again. Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone? So Jesus replies to them, verse eight. But immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned these things within themselves, he said to them, why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier to say to the paralytic, your sins are forgiven.

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You have to say, arise, take your bed and walk. It’s funny statement. Quick pause here. Jesus is is in my understanding and just kind of my view of him. He’s he’s saying like it’s which is easier to say, meaning I could say anything here. And the paralytic is going to be made whole, so I can say, your sins are forgiven and you’ll be made whole.

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I want you to hear this. I can say your sins are forgiven and you could be made whole. Or I could say, rise and walk. One of the statements says nothing about sin. One of the statements says nothing about healing.

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But either way, no matter how the Lord says it, you can be made whole and you can be forgiven. And James, the Bible says, call for the elders. Let them anoint with oil. The prayer of faith will go forth. I’m going to paraphrase, and they will be healed, the sick will recover. And then the Bible says, it’s very interesting thing.

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And if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven. Some people think that all sickness is due to your own personal sins, and that’s not actually borne out in the Bible. Now sin sin sin not an s, but sin is the cause, right? Like I spoke about this a little bit last week, sin is the cause for all sickness, disease, death, decay.

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People wonder why the world is the way the world is. It’s because of sin. Okay? Genesis three when Adam fell, sin was the result. But sin, wages of sin is death. It leads to this decaying of everything that God designed. Sin is an infection, okay? And it infects in all three parts of the human being, in their spirit, in their soul, and in their physical body.

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Sin can affect these places. But just because you have committed sins doesn’t necessarily mean immediate instant correlation. Your sins equals your impairment. And see, that’s what the scribes thought. The scribes thought. Oh well, you’ve broken the law, you’ve broken the law, you’ve broken the law. So your penalty for breaking the law, you’re paralyzed. See, we got to be real careful with that in Christianity.

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Really, really careful. There are some times where direct sin does result in some sort of physical or I would say soul level affliction some times, and then sometimes something else is going on. You remember the account of the man who was born blind. The disciples came to him. They think they’re figuring it out. Oh, okay. Okay. So that guy sinned, did this kind of sin.

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He’s paralyzed. That guy sinned. He’s born blind, right? Jesus. And he goes, no, he said, who sinned that this man was born blind? And he said, no one. This is the Son of Man. Jesus is cluing us in here. He said, no one sinned. What? And then what does Jesus say? The. Some were born like this for the glory of God.

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Okay, we’ll just let that marinate. It’s okay. It’s good. So he says, I can say both your sins are forgiven. Or arise, take up your bed and walk. Which one is he? Which one is is simpler to say. Verse ten. Here’s why he said that statement, but that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.

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Whoa! But, Jeremy, he hadn’t died on the cross and been raised yet. Guess what he said before he died? I am the resurrection, and the life I am is a Jehovah level statement, right? Like I am the Lord, your healer. I am the Lord. Your peace I am. He was saying, I am God in the flesh, here to die for you, to save you from the most hideous infection of the human species.

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And I would even say the creation sin. That’s what I’m here to eradicate. I’m here to destroy every wicked work of the devil. That’s why I came as God in human form, in the Christ.

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That’s quite a statement. I’ll tell you this. That is why they crucified him. They. They brought the legal charge, if you will, because the scribes were lawyers, doctors of law. They brought the legal charge that he’s blasphemed. That’s what they killed him for. They didn’t kill him because he did miracles. They didn’t kill him because he did mighty works.

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They didn’t even kill him because of his preaching. They killed him because he blasphemed. Or they accused him because. Did he blaspheme? Why? Because he was the Son of God.

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Wrongly charged, wrongly judged, wrongly executed. And that’s why he was raised. Because he was innocent. Because he was the Son of Man. So he says, the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. Then he turns to the paralytic and says, I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go to your home. So he said it both ways.

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I think he did it intentionally. I believe Holy Spirit led him to say, your sins are forgiven for that very reason, that he could literally reveal himself and test their hearts, and whether or not they would see him and they remained blind. This is hard to imagine, but the King of Glory, God incarnate, presented himself before these people and said, I am.

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And they didn’t believe.

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Lord, help our unbelief. The man immediately rose, took up the bed, went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed, glorifying God, saying, we never saw anything like this. Wow. So that’s our text. But I want to I want to tie this in because we’re going to continue. I kind of broke into teaching about healing a little bit last week, and I want to kind of teach a little bit more on that.

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As we’re looking at this parable, I want us to understand the Kingdom way. The way the kingdom operates is through the preaching of the kingdom of God. And then there’s a demonstration of the Lord’s power because he doesn’t, like Paul would say, it’s not just in word, but it’s in demonstration. God doesn’t just say things and nothing happens.

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I know sometimes we think nothing’s happening, but things are happening, but we may not be aware of what he’s doing. Okay? He’s always working. So there’s the preaching of the kingdom of God. Then there’s the demonstration of the Lord’s power to forgive, save, heal, deliver, rescue, restore, protect and resurrect. When you preach the word or preach the Kingdom of God, that message of the kingdom is is that Jesus Christ came.

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The gospel is part of that. He died. He was buried. He rose again. He ascended into heaven, and he’s coming back down to the earth to rule and reign. That’s the kingdom of God. That’s what Jesus preached. And that’s what the apostles then preached. Great. The apostles didn’t just preach the gospel, they preached the kingdom of God, the gospel of the kingdom, the good news that God’s kingdom is here now because the king was there, and the king is in heaven now, and we’re his body.

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So the king is here in his body.

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And then one day the head is going to come down and be rejoined to the body. And wow. The new creation, the new creation will take place. Okay. I’m I’m dipping into a little, you know, eschatology here, but this this is. You see, we have to have a view of eternity. We have we have to look into that.

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And if you read through the rest of the New Testament, all of them are pointing to his return. They’re all pointing to Jesus Christ coming back in the same way he went up. He’s coming back now. When exactly that’s happening? Nobody knows. Are we in that time now? It would it would appear there’s a lot of things and you know, that are lining up biblically.

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Right. But if the Lord tarries, we remain faithful. We look forward to his coming or we go be with him early. Either way, we’re going to be with the Lord. Amen.

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That’s a word of life. That’s a word of life. 101. That’s who we are as a people. Amen. Right. So when we read this account about the paralytic, it’s kind of easy to think that the paralytic greatest need was physical healing.

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Like the four guys even carrying him. Like, we just need to bring him to Jesus, and then Jesus can heal him in physically. He’ll be better, right? That would be my motive, right? Like, hey, just come to church, come to service, and the Lord can heal your back. He can heal your eye, he can heal and he can.

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He can. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that motive, but when we come with our motive and then Jesus says, your sins are forgiven.

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Suddenly we’re like, oh, he had a different priority.

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I said it last week, God’s priority is the forgiveness of our sins. And that didn’t just happen one time when we got saved, right? We all realize this. When we get saved, we confess Christ. You know, we we we accept what he did for us on the cross death, burial, and resurrection. We receive him as our Savior, and then we declare him as our Lord.

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What do we do? We acknowledge that we are a sinner. A sinner is a term that is like a nature. Like that was a habit. That was something that we were bound to. And then he redeemed us. And while we still may make mistakes and fall short of the glory and miss the mark, we are not classified any longer as this dirty, rotten person who can’t get it right.

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No, because why? The blood of Jesus has redeemed you from that. He’s completely pulled you out of that kingdom of darkness. And you have a new nature, a divine nature. And because of that divine nature now, and what God provides for us with the divine nature, we can begin to walk. Even as he walked, we can begin to walk free from sin.

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That’s the power that God has given. And that’s when he says, for the forgiveness of sins. He’s talking about your entire life. Not just that one moment. That one moment was miraculous. Don’t get me wrong, that one moment of a new spirit is one of the greatest miracles any and all of us could ever receive. If I never receive a miracle for my physical body, I got the greatest miracle one could ever receive in that new spirit.

00:31:06:00 – 00:31:30:02
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Thank you Lord. Then he didn’t want to just leave us there. He said, hey, I’m going to give you a new heart to. I’m going to remake every part of you. And then one day, as I said last week, we will get a new body. We will get a resurrected body just like Christ’s resurrected body. See, everything Christ did is everything that we get to take hold of.

00:31:30:04 – 00:31:52:11
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It may look a little different. I’m not saying you’re going to walk on water, and you’re going to go empty out the hospital by healing everybody. I’m not. You get what I’m saying? Sometimes we look at that and we go, well, I’m not doing all of that. And it’s like, we’re just just keep walking. Just keep walking. You know, the disciples, for a period of time, they didn’t do anything to the Lord, authorized them, gave them power and anointing.

00:31:52:11 – 00:32:12:20
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And he sent them. He commissioned them to go in his name and with his authority, and with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, to then step into these places and begin to operate. I would even say they had to qualify themselves. They had to walk. They had to stay faithful. There is many other people who walk with Jesus that left him.

00:32:12:20 – 00:32:43:00
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Your teachings are too hard. I can’t hear it. And their heart hardened and they got blind again and they stopped walking with him. So the greatest need for the paralytic was the forgiveness of sins. Guess what? The greatest need for the scribes and the Pharisees was a forgiveness of sins. But because of their self-righteousness, they would not receive the Lord’s forgiveness.

00:32:43:02 – 00:33:21:25
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Forgiveness is our greatest need. I know we have a lot of needs. Lord, I need this, I need provision, I need that I’m hurting. I need my backfill. You know, I have all these things. We’re listening out, all these things. I just say this by way of Holy Spirit. But when was the last time you asked the Lord to forgive you?

00:33:21:27 – 00:33:48:28
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Holy Spirit’s doing what he does. Okay. God’s priority when it comes to healing is for the healing of our spirit. That was that resurrection from death, that healing. Though listen to this. That healing came as a result of repentance. That healing came as a result of confessing that we were out of line with him. And because of his forgiveness, he brought us back into fellowship.

00:33:48:29 – 00:34:03:03
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That healing came from the renouncing of our past and declaring our dependency on him. That healing came from God’s forgiveness.

00:34:03:06 – 00:34:24:15
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Healing flows from forgiveness. Healing flows from forgiveness. Science is finally catching up to God. And in some ways, science is is. I’m going to want to go into all of that. But science is like, oh my God, healing like forgiveness when we test it, like people really start to get better.

00:34:24:17 – 00:34:45:20
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Imagine. Yeah. Imagine that healing comes from God’s forgiveness. Healing for your spirit, for your soul, for your body. You know, healing can also come from forgiving each other.

00:34:45:23 – 00:35:17:22
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Should we talk about that? First John 119 says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If you go study that out, unrighteousness also speaks about things that we commit in our soul. It’s not just talking about physical acts of unrighteousness. It’s talking about the thoughts, the attitudes, the dispositions, the indifference, the bitterness, the resentment, the hatred.

00:35:17:24 – 00:35:46:00
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Those are unrighteous things and they plague like an infection. Our soul. They plagued the mind. They plague our will. They plague our emotions. Then, then. Yes, that flows into our physical body. See, we look at our physical body and say, I’m stressed, I’m riddled with anxiety, and my physical body is breaking down. And the Lord says, your sins are forgiven.

00:35:46:03 – 00:35:52:19
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Well, what sin, Lord?

00:35:52:22 – 00:36:22:12
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I must say this this way I’m being a little funny, but I dare you to go ask the Lord to show you. Show? Show you where you’re falling short. Trusting that he’s a good father. That always leads to repentance so that he can what make you whole. He can restore your soul. He can heal you.

00:36:22:15 – 00:36:55:10
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This is really. I mean, this is essential if we’re going to walk in healing, which we will if we are going to operate in miracles, signs, wonders which we will. Forgiveness is the secret. It’s the key. Colossians 113 through 14 says, he has delivered us from the power of darkness, and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.

00:36:55:13 – 00:37:23:21
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Your sins are forgiven. Jesus, the anointed physician. He became sin for us. He took on all our sin, our shame, our unrighteousness, our greed, our addictions, our self-centeredness, our pain, our troubles. Everything that sins separated in our spirit, all that sin infected in our soul, and everything. Sin afflicts in our body. Jesus bore it all.

00:37:23:24 – 00:37:55:19
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We read about this in Isaiah 53. Verse four says, Surely he borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. That word born is the same as the four men that picked up the paralytic and carried him, and brought him, and presented him before Jesus, the man Christ Jesus, the Son of Man, God incarnate, carried your griefs. That word griefs actually means sickness.

00:37:55:22 – 00:38:14:06
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He carried your sorrows all your pain. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. That means that we thought he was being punished by God because of something he did, but he was innocent.

00:38:14:08 – 00:38:46:00
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Verse five says, but he was wounded for our transgressions. No transgressions are crimes. Every time we committed a crime or sinned against the law of God, against God’s commands, his statutes, we every time we disobeyed, every time we rebelled, Jesus got wounded. Every time he got whipped and lacerated and split open. That was for me because I made the crime.

00:38:46:00 – 00:38:50:16
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But he paid the penalty.

00:38:50:19 – 00:39:15:28
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He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. He was hit with a stick. Crown of thorns were thrust into his head. The chastisement meaning the punishment for our peace was put upon him. You know there’s no peace outside of the outside of a relationship with the Lord. No matter what the world says, no matter what practice, what sense.

00:39:15:28 – 00:39:40:22
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What? Ohm. What? I’m not joking here. There’s a lot of things that get peddled, and the Christians are lapping it up. It is not. Listen to me. Going to bring you peace. It is a false identity is a false god. It’s an idolatrous pursuit to think that some crystal, some this, some that is going to bring you peace.

00:39:40:22 – 00:40:11:08
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There’s only one source of peace, the Prince of Peace. And it’s because of this. It’s because he took on our punishment. So, see, we’re trying to get out from feeling punishment. Help me, Lord. We’re trying to get out from feeling oppressed. We’re trying to get out from feeling burdened and heavy laden and and overwhelmed. And we’re going to sources that are not him.

00:40:11:10 – 00:40:46:05
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I love doctors. I have no problem with earthly doctors. But James says call for the elders. He doesn’t say call for the doctor. The priority is is off. We prioritize human health. We we put ourselves into all kinds of self inner healing, and we get no remedy. Or if you get a remedy, it’s a false one. Why? Because of the source who gave it to you.

00:40:46:07 – 00:40:58:19
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If we don’t get it from him, the Great Physician, if we don’t get it from Jesus, the anointed physician, we are going about it in our own strength, like the scribes.

00:40:58:21 – 00:41:23:06
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Trying to justify and then turning to remedies outside of God’s therapies. Do you know the healing in the New Testament? The word is therapy. God is quite literally our therapist. That’s what it means in the Greek. Therapy means to heal, to cure, to restore. It also means to serve.

00:41:23:08 – 00:41:47:22
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He’s the great physician. He’s the anointed physician. He’s the anointed therapist. I’m not. And I don’t hear me wrong. I’m not saying that going to therapy and and getting some help is wrong. I’m not saying that. I’m not saying that’s a sin. You hear me very clearly. I’m saying, who did you go to first? That’s what I’m saying.

00:41:47:24 – 00:42:14:27
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Did you turn to the Lord first? When the issue came up, did you go consult ChatGPT? I’m not. We think this is funny, but this is serious because we’re searching for remedies in the wrong places. He is the only remedy. The word of God. The Bible says that the Word of God is his statutes. They are quite literally his prescription.

00:42:15:00 – 00:42:38:11
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In the same way a doctor would say, oh, here’s what I’m diagnosing. I see that you have this symptom, so I’m going to give you this remedy to help cure said symptom. In the same way, we should be going to the Great Physician, the anointed physician, and saying, Lord, you know everything. You’ve given me a new spirit that’s incorruptible.

00:42:38:11 – 00:42:56:03
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Thank you for that. You’ve given me a new heart, but for whatever reason, my heart is burdened. For whatever reason, my heart is anxious. For whatever reason, my heart is impatient. Oh, for whatever reason, my heart is full of pride. How did that get in?

00:42:56:05 – 00:43:11:29
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And we turn to the Great Physician, the anointed physician. And he can so perfectly by Holy Spirit diagnose what is wrong. We can turn to the Word of God and so perfectly come into an understanding like, oh!

00:43:12:01 – 00:43:44:00
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Maybe it’s my hardness of heart and my self-reliance that has opened the door to this affliction. Maybe there’s a correlation and we have an enemy who just hates us. So, you know, sometimes he doesn’t need a reason. Sometimes the Lord is allowing testing in our life to see if we’ll be faithful.

00:43:44:03 – 00:43:47:20
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Again. Doctors are good.

00:43:47:22 – 00:43:59:12
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But are you turning to the anointed physician first? That’s the challenge today. Because he knows everything.

00:43:59:14 – 00:44:20:19
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You know, a lot of people say, well, is it the will of God? Is it God’s will to heal? Well, he’ll heal me if it’s his will. Let me reassure you of something. It is his will to heal because it’s his nature. We know about God’s nature because he reveals himself as a healer. He says, I am Jehovah Rapha.

00:44:20:20 – 00:44:49:14
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I am the one who heals you, cures you. That word Rapha also means physician. I am the Lord, the Eternal one who heals, I restore if he created it out of nothing. Do you think the God who created the heavens and the earth can repair what he originally created from nothing? I mean, that’s how powerful he is, but yet we just throw that away and go, well, if he.

00:44:49:14 – 00:44:54:25
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I don’t know if he will. I don’t think he will. If he can.

00:44:54:27 – 00:45:19:08
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Or we don’t even ask. So it is his will to heal because it’s his nature. And then he revealed his nature further in the sun and with the sun he showed up. And what did he do? Matthew 423 through 24 says, and he went all through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues. There’s the teaching of the word of God, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom.

00:45:19:11 – 00:45:45:03
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There it is proclaiming of the gospel that is the kingdom way, and healing every disease, every affliction among the people, so that his fame spread all through Syria. And they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures and paralytic. And he healed them all.

00:45:45:05 – 00:46:05:06
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God is our physician. He is our therapist. The Word of God is his prescriptions to us. This is why we have to read the Word of God. It’s not just to be a Bible scholar. It’s not just to be able to know, like the scribes every and tittle, and be able to pontificate about every single line and what it means and what it meant.

00:46:05:06 – 00:46:25:17
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And here’s what it meant in the in this and that. And, you know, like some of that for teaching is fine. But sometimes we go into places where it’s like really come back, like come back. We’re getting way out there. Why? Because the knowledge isn’t the thing that heals, it’s the relationship.

00:46:25:20 – 00:46:51:00
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So the Word of God is his prescriptions to us. Jesus, quite literally is our medicine. That’s why we take the bread and we drink the cup. More on that another day. Part three I’m kidding. Jesus said his words are spirit in life and Proverbs four verse 20, it says, My son, give attention to my words. Incline, bow down your ear.

00:46:51:01 – 00:47:18:26
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Don’t be arrogant, but bow down and listen. Incline your ear to my sayings. Don’t let them depart from your eyes. Keep them. There’s that keeping. Keep it in the midst of your heart for their life. To those who find him, and health to all of their flesh. Flesh means flesh. It means your physical body. Wait. Are you telling me that if I read the word and I take that on faith that actually will bring health to my physical body?

00:47:18:28 – 00:47:46:08
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Yes, absolutely. I know some ministers have shared their story. One of them’s Derek Prince. I really love Derek Prince and his Bible teaching. And he says one of his testimonies. I took the word of God the same way you would take medicine twice daily after meals. He would eat a meal, and then he would go take in the Word of God, and he would eat a meal, and he would go in and take a take in the Word of God.

00:47:46:08 – 00:48:10:22
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And you know what? He was cured. And let me just declare this now he was cured from eczema. He had eczema really gnarly all over his body for one year. And after that he never had eczema again. See, there’s these chronic things that, that that we know are prevalent in society, much like leprosy that was prevalent in a society.

00:48:10:24 – 00:48:35:16
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It was incurable. The only way they could think to deal with it is just like push all the lepers over there. So none of us get it. There’s no cure until the cure. Jesus, the anointed physician, came into being, and the leopard man came up to him and said, Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean. And this is where he revealed his will.

00:48:35:16 – 00:49:04:06
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I am willing be made whole. And he was cleansed from that leprosy instantaneously. Now I’ve seen the Lord work a miracle in our family, with our kids, with eczema, to where they have very little of it showing up after being head to toe full blown, and we would be praying for a miracle and asking God to heal them, and asking God to move, and asking God to move, and then learning some natural remedies.

00:49:04:06 – 00:49:22:20
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Because sometimes you need a balance of both. Okay, right. We’re going to be wise. We’re going to we’re going to do earthly remedies, but we are going to prioritize who the Lord is, what he’s capable of, and our relationship with him. We’re going to put that above everything else. So we’re doing the earthly remedies. I’m doing the remedy.

00:49:22:22 – 00:49:42:13
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We’re about six months into dealing with this eczema thing, and I pray for my daughter. Lord, let her have a great night sleep tonight. In Jesus name. No itching. Thank you Lord. Amen. I walk out of the room and the Holy Spirit stops me. He stops me. And he said, when did you stop praying for a miracle?

00:49:42:15 – 00:50:03:07
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Because I realized, oh wow, I got so good at managing. I got so good at coping with this disease, this affliction. I got so good at managing it through all the natural care, which by the way, again, is good. But I left out God.

00:50:03:10 – 00:50:25:11
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So guess what? I had to go and ask the Lord to forgive me. I went back in the room. I put my hands on her daughter said, father, forgive me for not staying in that place of faith. And I pray, Lord, that you would miraculously heal her and touch her. We got a word of encouragement about a week later.

00:50:25:14 – 00:50:46:09
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Got a prophetic word from Jenny Laxa, and in the next two weeks, our daughter’s condition went from 90% bad to like 50% better. The condition began to change because my position was right.

00:50:46:12 – 00:51:06:15
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I’d like to take a moment if you if I know we’re right at noon and if you need to go, it’s okay. But I would like to take a moment today for us to bring ourselves into that rightful position so that the Lord can take care of our condition. It’s about surrendering to him. Is it his will to heal?

00:51:06:16 – 00:51:34:21
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Absolutely. And to be honest, it’s not quite the right question. The question we should be asking is, is it our will to see him? Is it our will to search the scriptures, to listen to his prescriptions? Is it our will to believe? What he has said? Is that our will to receive what he has already done for us on the cross?

00:51:34:21 – 00:52:06:01
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By his stripes you were healed. Healing has been is done. But are you willing to receive? Are you willing to seek him? Are you willing to pursue him? Are you willing to pray? Are you willing to bear up, like Galatians, to bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law, just like Christ fulfilled the law? Guess what? We fulfill the law by bearing up the burdens of others and bringing them before the Lord.

00:52:06:03 – 00:52:34:28
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Maybe someone’s miracle is waiting for you to pick them up. Maybe someone’s healing. Maybe their deliverance is waiting for you to be in this place, this position of intercession. Maybe the body needs to be discerning the body. Are we willing to patiently endure? Are we willing to bear the burdens of others? Are we willing to forgive?

00:52:35:00 – 00:52:38:04
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So.

00:52:38:06 – 00:52:47:07
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You can come forward? Or you could sit in your chair? Let’s take a moment to present ourselves before the Lord.

00:52:47:09 – 00:52:56:03
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To rightly position ourselves before the King, the anointed One, the Great Physician.

00:52:56:06 – 00:53:19:29
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And let him move and heal every condition of our being spirit, soul and body, spirit, soul and body. Whatever your need is, you may be coming forth for something physical and he’s going to do something supernatural in your soul. You may come for something and anguish in your soul, and he’s going to heal your body. I’m not sure what it is because this is the this is the job of the Holy Spirit.

00:53:19:29 – 00:53:34:13
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But he wants to move. He wants to touch. He wants to heal and he wants to restore. Amen. And I would say those in this house that are elders, Rob.

00:53:34:15 – 00:53:57:06
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Those who are elders. Like it says in James five, Dave Knight, would you please you come, lay hands and pray and release anybody who’s had a prophetic word over their life about a gift of healing. You come and you pray. This is not up to me. This is up to the body of Christ to impart life.

00:53:57:09 – 00:54:02:14
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Healing.

00:54:02:17 – 00:54:26:03
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I would even say this is also a moment if you need to forgive someone. We don’t have to literally be doing communion because we can do communion every time, every day. But if we consider our brother and sister, if you have ought, if you have an issue, please, please go to them. Ask for forgiveness, and let’s let the cleansing.

00:54:26:05 – 00:54:29:29
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So let the cleansing flow. Amen. Thank you Lord.