I'm sorry, Exodus 15. This morning we'll be looking
at Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. Exodus 15, Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord that healeth. The, what son? We looked last week at Jehovah
Jireh. Oh, how the Lord provided. Abram and Isaac stand at the
base of that mountain. And He loaded the wood on His
Son. He took a fire in His hand and
a knife in the other hand and told Him, boys, we're going to
go worship. What's that? Sacrifice. What's worship? Sacrifice. What's worship? Sacrifice. What's worship? Sacrifice. That's
what they went to do. It's going to soak in. God provided
that. He provided the lamb. That young
man said, Daddy, where's the lamb? Where's the lamb? And he told his son, Son, God
will provide himself a lamb. What instruction. What an example
for us to follow. Well this week, the Lord that
heals thee." The children of Israel here had just been surrounded
by Pharaoh and his army. It was all around except on the
other side was nothing but the Red Sea. They were trapped. A
mountain, the Red Sea, and Pharaoh's army. All them chariots. His
finest men ready to kill them. And God performed a miracle right
in front of them. He told Moses what to do. He
parted that Red Sea. They walked through on dry ground.
Imagine how high that water was on each side. Straight up there.
Dry ground on them shoes that ain't gonna wear out for the
next 40 years. They walk through. They get to the other side and
that whole army drowned. God closed the walls again. Years
and years ago, many, many years ago, somebody said, well, that
was only six inches deep. My pastor said, God drowned all
Pharaoh's army in six inches of water. That's fine by me too. You ain't gonna undo it. You
ain't gonna undo it. And they witnessed this. Every
one of their enemies drowned. Where's your accusers? Gone.
Bodies are washing up on the sea. They're dead. Graveyard
dead. Right in front of them. There's no mistaking it. And
then they traveled some more. This just happened and they traveled
some more. It says in Exodus 15 verse 22. So Moses brought
Israel from the Red Sea and they went out into the wilderness
of Shur. And when they went three days in the wilderness, and found
no water. There's one or two million people
here traveling. There's men, there's women, there's
children, there's cattle. There's many, many living things
traveling together. And they got thirsty. Three days. They probably had some of those
water bladders and they run out. Let the kids drink some. We'll
take a sip every now and then. We'll go find something for these
cattle. And they looked, they diligently looked, and they didn't
find any. They looked for it, they needed
it, and they couldn't find it. It says in verse 23, then they came
to Marah, imagine them peaking that hill, and there's water
flowing abundantly. Oh, I mean, they're thirsty,
thirsty. You ever been around somebody that just, I mean, cried for
water? They'll hurt you to get water. Instincts kick over, and
they press that hill, and there's Marah, flowing waters abundant. And for a little bit there was
great hope in them. And they could not drink of the waters
of Mara, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was
called Mara. Mara means bitterness. How did those waters get bitter?
I thought about that this week. Mara, they come up to it and
the waters were bitter. So bitter you could not drink
of it. So bitter, if you drank of the waters of Mara, you died.
And you were on the verge of death. Someone that's been three
days without water, they'll drink salt water. They will. And this
was so bitter they couldn't drink it. How'd they get that way? You know, there was a time on
this earth that every stream, every puddle, every pond, every
lake, you could go up to and you could drink right out of
it. Did you know that? There was a time you could drink
out of any body of water on this earth. But something changed.
Something happened. Sin entered in. Bitterness entered
in. That's us by nature. Bitter. Bitter. There's no life in us. We can't sustain our own life.
It's death. It's bitterness. It's death.
And it'll take the will of the Father. It'll take the blood
and doing of the Son. And it'll take the work of the
Holy Spirit to make us sweet. I ain't that bitter." Well, maybe
not yet. You ain't been made sweet neither. If you ain't that
bitter, you ain't been made sweet. It'll take His doing to make
us sweet. The Lord used this event to prove Israel, to prove
their faith, to prove their trust in the Lord. If He gives us something,
He's going to prove it. We did that when we repelled
in the army. I'm scared of heights. You'd
put the brake hand on, make your L, and you'd put your hand on
your helmet and you'd say, I trust my equipment. And as I said,
I trust my equipment. I was sinking down just a little
bit every inch. Hurry up or I ain't going to
trust it no more. What he provides, he will prove to us. He provided
it. He knows what it is, but he's
going to prove it to us. He's going to show it to us. Three
days after they walk through that Red Sea on dry ground, he's
going to prove to them. Wouldn't that enough? Wouldn't
that enough, walk through that Red Sea? Wouldn't that have lasted
a lifetime of stories and being able to tell? We walked through
the Red Sea. A army was coming. Water like
you ain't never seen. Separated. You trust God? Three days later. Oh, what are
we going to drink? Murmuring over what to drink.
What did he just do? A miracle with water, didn't
he? But that's understandable. You make it three days without
water. Imagine all them cattle moaning. Murmuring. All those
babies crying, those toddlers begging their mommies and daddies.
I'm thirsty. Those nursing mothers that need it. Tongues swelling,
mouth drying, parts, deaths on the doorstep. A severe trial
that came quickly that only took 72 hours, three days. Everyone
was dead and dying. But the Lord heals His people.
He heals, healeth them. It's continual. Salvation is
not an experience. You're going to go through some
things, but it's not a one-time shot. It's not a one-time event
of partaking of those living waters as a child of God, and
then, well, I gave my heart to Jesus. It's not a deposit in
an insurance account. That's not what that is. He said,
He that cometh to me, I will no wise cast out. You're going
to keep coming. If you're His, you'll keep coming.
He will sustain you to the end. How do I know that? He says so.
You're going to be leaning on Him, casting all your care on
Him until eternity comes and then you'll do it forever. You'll
be with Him, made like Him. Be one with Him. He that cometh
to me. And the Lord is going to healeth His children. Are
we, in a sense, being argumentative is all it is. Are we forever
healed? Are we forever holy? Of course
we are. Of course we are. Those in Christ, God did the
work. You're perfect. You're holy forever. That new
creation in you is an incorruptible seed. But while we're on this
earth, we need healed. And then we need healed. And
we need it proved to us. We need His faithfulness proved
to us and proved to us over and over again. Until we're took
out of here. This in us is our nature, born
of Adam. We see the mighty hand of God
work in providence, in salvation, in saving His people. You watch
the Red Sea parted, 72 hours later, we're the ones that's
bitter. Complaining about the water. We murmur. It says in
verse 24, and the people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall
we drink? It says they murmured against
Moses, and they did. That's who heard it. That's who
they was against. That's who they got mad at. But it was really
to Moses. It was against Moses, but really
they murmured to Moses. He didn't make the waters bitter.
He didn't pull out a map and decide where they was going to
go next. He was led by the Lord to this spot. They were really
murmuring against the Lord. They took it out on Moses, but
they were murmuring against the Lord. And I need to remember
this. I need to be reminded of this minute by minute. I need
my murmuring silenced. All murmuring is against God.
That's a hard jagged pill for me to swallow, but I need to
learn it. If I murmur, it's against God. It's just, it's too cloudy
this morning. You're cursing God. I'm cursing
God. It didn't rain enough. These
vegetables ain't popping up. They're not germinating quick
enough. That's against God, isn't it? That's not against the seed
company. It's against God. All murmuring is against God.
But they murmured against Moses. What shall we drink? And instead
of murmuring back, here's something else I need to learn. Instead
of arguing with them, instead of trying to reason with them,
Moses, instead of trying to heal their poor thoughts, and instead
of trying to heal their poor ways, he did what a good pastor
ought to do. He prayed. He took his burden
to the Lord. He cried out to God. James tells us, he said, confess
your faults one to another. That doesn't mean sit down and
you get you a booth and you tell them you have a sinning competition
and everything bad you ever did. But you just say, I'm a sinner.
That's what I am. God showed me and I'll confess
that. I'm a worm. I'm a maggot. And I need grace.
And I need mercy. And pray for one another that
ye may be healed. Pray to God that you may be healed.
The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
That's what James told us. Moses prayed. He was a righteous
man. And the Lord answers him. God's going to perform another
miracle. So the children of Israel won't die of thirst. His people
will never die of thirst. The trial he sins is not for
death. It's not for ill. But it's for good. It's for life.
That's why he sins a trial. And the end of each trial The
end of every trial that a believer goes through, you and I, we're
going to be a little bit sweeter. We're going to be a little bit
sweeter. We're going to be a little bit more humble. We're going
to be a little bit more long-suffering. We're going to be a little bit
more patient through it. Every time. Little by little.
Takes a lifetime, don't it? But the power of God is going
to be on display here by making this water drinkable. He could
have just spoken, couldn't he? Moses could have cried out to
the Lord and said, Lord, what are they going to drink? They're
going to kill me again. They're taking up stones. They're
going to murder me. Do something, Lord." He could
have said, the waters are now good. Go drink them. He could
have just spoke it, couldn't he? But he uses means. Our God's a God of means. He
uses means. It says in verse 25, "...and
he cried unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which
when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet."
The Lord uses means in this body. and in our spirit. We're healed
spiritually by the person and the work of Christ our Lord.
We're healed spiritually by Him being made a curse for us. He's the branch, isn't He? What was about this tree? They
walked right past it in all their brilliance. And all their understanding
and their learnedness. They walked right past this tree.
It looked just like any other tree. It was without form. It wasn't pleasant to the eye.
It just looked like an old tree, like every other old tree. This
was Christ, wasn't it? That's what the Lord showed them.
And he's going to be cast into those waters of wrath. Or you
ain't going to be able to drink. You ain't going to live. He's
not the one cast into the bitter waters, absorbing our sin, and
dealing with those waters for us. We ain't gonna live. We're
gonna die. He's the branch throughout all
the Old Testament. He's that tree. And Paul wrote
to us in Galatians 3 and said, "...Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it's written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." And we don't worship
the tree. Many people do. They whittle
it out, and they hang it around their neck, and they put it on
their cars, and they make jokes about it, and it's blaspheming
against God. That's what that is. We don't
worship a cross. We worship the One who hung on
the cross. We worship the One that accomplished our salvation
on that cross. The One that took out all the
bitterness. Took out all God's wrath against sin. Took out all
the condemnation I rightfully earned. All the bitterness that
was me, He took it. And He gave us living water.
And it's not just drinkable. Did you notice that? That water
wasn't made potable. You boil it a little bit and
you can drink it. You ever had iodine tablets? I thought about
this this week too. Things that purify water. I've
had to purify water before. It's drinkable. Ugh, it's hard
to drink. It don't taste good at all if
it's been treated. It don't taste good. It says
this water was made sweet. Sweet. It was sweet. It's not
just drinkable. It's sweet. Salvation of the
Lord, when someone truly understands what that is, Christ and Him
crucified, well, it's sweet. You don't want to add nothing
to it. You don't want to take anything from it. It's perfect.
It's perfection. God is just and a justifier.
And we say, Amen. That's delicious. It's sweet. Like that manna from heaven.
It tastes like honey. Like graham crackers and honey. Delicious.
It's through Christ and Him crucified all things were made sweet to
those He died for. Those He represented. For those
He absorbed all their bitterness and absorbed all their sin. Put
away as far as the east is from the west. For He hath made Him
to be sin for us. Who knew no sin? Was that tree
bitter? It was wood. It didn't know any
bitterness of water. But when it was cast in that
water, it absorbed that bitterness. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
That way those pure, true, and living waters can flow from our
bellies in abundance. Can you and I drink of the waters
of Marah and live? Can a man or a woman soak up
their own sin? Can they put away their own bitterness?
Can you do something about that? Is that up to you? Is that your
choice? Is that your ability and your doing? You make a decision
for God? Zebedee's wife, she petitioned
our Lord for her sons. She come to him and she said,
he said, what will you have me do, woman? She said unto him,
grant that my two sons may sit, one on the right hand and one
on the left hand in thy kingdom. Let my boys serve with you. And
Jesus answered and said, you know not what ye ask. You don't
even know what you're asking. Are you able to drink of the
cup that I'm able to drink of? That's him drinking of this cup. from Exodus 15. This hour is
coming. That's what all this Old Testament
testimony pointed to. The hour is coming. He said,
are you able to drink of the cup I shall drink of? Are you
able to be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with? You going to be able to be submerged,
immersed in those waters? You think that tree floated?
It was immersed. It went down in the water. And
they say unto him, we're able. Did He just curse them and have
fire extinguish them for eternity right then? No, they were His.
That woman was His child. Her boys was His. Family, isn't
it? And He saith unto them, You shall
indeed drink of My cup, and you'll be baptized with the baptism
I'm baptized with. For you, this is sweet. For you,
this is eternal. It's a work that's been done
before time ever was. That's right. You can drink of
it. because of what I did. And God ain't gonna let his children
forget that. We ain't gonna get up on some plane, like a boat
getting up on steppe, and we're gonna forget about what happened.
No, no. The person and the work of our Lord's gonna be on the
forefront of our minds. He's that living water because of
who he is and what he accomplished at Calvary. And because of that,
we can freely drink. We can go down to Maran. It ain't
sweet. It tastes delicious. Now it ain't bitter, it's delicious,
it's sweet. He said, whosoever drank of this water shall thirst
again, that woman at the well. But whosoever shall drink of
the water that I shall give him, he gave his life on that tree,
willingly laid down his life, shall never thirst. But the water
that I shall give shall be in him a well of water springing
up unto everlasting life. We won't forget that in three
days. When this life's over and we go into eternity, we ain't
going to be concerned about what precious metal the streets are
made out of. What kind of mansions and what
kind of crowns are going to... Jewels are going to be in my
crown. It's going to be ever reminding of the person I'm working
in. What he accomplished for us. Praising him. Giving him
all the glory eternally. Lord, you did it. I'm the bitter
one. You did that. Thank you, Lord. When death was
obvious to these people, when thirst was overwhelming them,
when they just couldn't bear the trial anymore, there was
a crying out. They cried out to God. And the
Lord showed Moses a tree. That's one representative, isn't
it? Those people didn't cry to God, they cursed Moses. And as
their representative, as a picture of our great high priest that
intercedes for us, Moses cried out on behalf of the people. That wasn't the same words, was
it? That was groanings that can't be uttered. They couldn't say
it. He said it for them. Let's picture across our representative,
across our intercessor. And the Lord showed Moses a tree,
and cast in the waters of wrath, and those waters were made sweet. Every time Moses gets him real
good here throughout the scriptures, he prays to the Lord, and you
know what happens? He smites the rock, water comes out. He
says, here's the man. He throws the wood in the water.
Every time, He preaches Christ and Him crucified. That's the
answer. That's the answer. How am I going
to improve my marriage in the modern society? Christ and Him
crucified. That's how your marriage is going
to be. How am I going to raise children in such a volatile world?
Christ and Him crucified is how you're going to learn. That's
the answer. Every time, that's what... Where's
the lamb? That's what every time... I'm going to get up... How many
hundreds of times I've stood here? That's it. That's the solution. That's what heals. That's the
Lord that heals us. That healeth us. For the preaching
of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. What you
talking about this wood going into water and the bitterness
and the sin. He soaks it up. What are you talking about? Ain't
there something we can evolve from, from this? Shouldn't we
have some programs and get the kids in here and keep them busy
on a Friday night so they ain't running around town? The preaching
of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto
us which are saved, that's the power of God." What did it take
to take all that bitterness out of that water so they could drink?
The power of God is what it was. The wisdom of God. The foreknowledge
of God. Those waters were Mara. I was
reading through Ruth. So the reference to that same
word. And Bethlehem come down after her and Naomi and Went
back up to Bethlehem and Naomi said call me not Naomi call me
Mara For the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Well,
that was talk about the living word. That was new to me this
week God's dealt bitterly with me. God's dealt my sin in me. No He may chasing you. He ain't punishing you I can
tell you that that was what soaked up the Mara. That's what soaked
up the bitterness But that's how she felt She said, I went
out full and the Lord had brought me home again empty. Why call
you mean Naomi? Since the Lord testified against
me and the Almighty hath afflicted me. Look at all his bad things.
He took my husband, took my children, brought me back here to Bethlehem,
poor and starving to death. What's Bethlehem? The house of
bread. When did she show up? When did the Lord's providence
bring her there? Saying, oh, the Lord's dealing with my sin. He's punishing me. At the beginning
of the barley harvest. Brand's about to start coming
in and that ain't gonna quit for a long time. And she said, call
me Mara, call me bitter. That's us, isn't it? Rarely. It's a remnant in this
world. People say, call me bitter. I
ain't nothing but sin. I'm a maggot. And God ought to
deal with me. And if he sends me to hell, he's
just in doing so. He's right. when we see our sin,
when we see what we are, when we see that we're sick. How was
Naomi made whole again? Where did all her sorrow and
poverty go away from? When Boaz, her kinsman redeemer,
came. He married Ruth, took care of
Ruth, and boy Naomi was sure took care of, wasn't she? He
redeemed Naomi too. Jehovah Rapha, the Lord to Helothee,
people could argue too. Well, they weren't sick, they
were thirsty, and that's a symptom of dehydration. We're talking
about the symptoms, not the illness. Wrong. A person that argues semantics
and they argue technicalities is not dying of thirst. Somebody
gets into the nuts and the bolts and the technicalities of things,
they're not dying of thirst. They're not crying out, water!
They're not crying out, water. They don't need a physician.
If bitterness, if sin isn't put away, we're going to die. That
bitterness isn't taken away. And the scribes and Pharisees,
they asked our Lord this. They said, why do you drink with
publicans and sinners? Why do you eat and drink with
publicans and sinners? Those nasty tax collectors and these
lowlifes. Why do you eat with them? And
He said, they that are whole need not a physician, but they
that are sick. If you can do it on your own,
if you've got some remedies, People put there the pride of,
man, I fought cancer. You got boxing gloves? Who do
you think healed you? Who gave that man the wisdom
to do those things? God did, didn't he? If I don't need it,
I can do it myself. They that are whole need not
a physician. You can do it. But they that are sick, I came
not to call the righteous, that's self-righteous, but came to call
sinners to repentance. The Lord uses means in this body,
physically, in this world. Old Brother Don used to say,
faith and common sense go hand in hand. It don't take much. The Lord gave us doctors. He
uses himself as a great physician. Doesn't he? People say, I ain't
going to a doctor. You're a fool. Paul had a doctor travel with
him. It was Luke. He was a physician. I think I
broke my pinky finger. Come here, I'll split it up for
you. Put this salve on it. You'll be alright. In our bodies,
we're given these things. The Lord uses means. But in our
spirit, He uses means. The work of Christ on the cross.
The person and work of Him. Him being made a curse for us.
That's the means He chose to use. Isn't that grace? Isn't that mercy? Undeserving, stiff-necked, murmuring
people. Just kicking rocks. Why are you
doing this? Are you bringing us out here to kill us again?
So you got tired of hearing that? What's our Lord do? Take that
tree one more time and throw it in the water. I'll show you
again how you saved. I'll show you what I did to my
son. Sin wasn't swept underneath the
rug, was it? And he turned away from it. He gave his son for
our sin. It says in verse 25, And he cried
unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which when it was
cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he made
for them a statute and an ordinance. And there he proved them. They
were gulping down pure water. They were having a great relief
from this thirst. And another cause to cry out
came. Right when relief came, a cause to cry out to the Lord
came. There was sweetness and it goes
back to bitter. And then there's sweetness and
there's bitter. And now the way it is, you're sick and you're
healthy. You're sick and then you're healthy. There's ups and
there's downs. There's mountaintops and valleys
throughout our lives. It ain't all roses. It ain't
all health and wellness and riches and all these things. There's
ups and downs, isn't there? That's wise. Wise. Verse 26 says, "...and
said," the Lord's still speaking, "...if thou wilt diligently hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is
right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments,
and keep his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord
that healeth thee." I consider diligently. There's
a whole lot to consider in this verse, but I consider diligently
here. We're told to be diligent in
whatever we do, aren't we? The Lord told us to do that.
He said to do it halfway. He said, you go to work, you
work as unto the Lord. You be diligent. He told us in
Deuteronomy 4, only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thy eyes have
seen. Be reminded of these things. They forgot what their eyes are
just seeing, didn't they? What their feet just walked through.
And lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life,
but teach them thy sons and thy sons' sons. Don't forget these
things. Be diligent. Keep your soul and tell your
family about it. Tell your sons. It says in Deuteronomy 6, And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou
risest up. When's a good time to tell your children that God
provides. When it's a good time to tell
your children and your loved ones that the Lord's that heals
you. Who got you sick? I got the sniffles
right now. It's a big dust storm. I can
blame it on. I can blame it on somebody else getting me sick.
Who got me sick? Sin got me sick. Lord allowed it to happen. Why?
Because I caught to it. I didn't think about that until yesterday.
I'm preaching on the Lord to heal us. I'm going to get sick
this week. That's what's going to happen. That's okay. I'm going
to have a runny nose. I diligently tell our children
that. Abraham told Isaac that. He said, the Lord will provide.
The Lord will provide. And the Lord healed him from
death, didn't he? The Lord's going to kill you, He's going
to raise you up. He heals too. The Lord's people speak in those
terms because they know the Lord. They know. There's a good article
in there by Henry about Paul and him being a Jehovah Witness. And I come to him and I said,
do you know who Jehovah Jireh is? Do you know who Jehovah Rapha
is? And they said, no. He said, well I'm Jehovah's Witness, you
ain't. Get out of here. Because he knows him. I heard one of
the Lord's people this week speak to someone and they said, well
if the Lord will, we'll do this. Get a little look, like what? Natural, isn't it? A new man,
that's how they speak. But do I do that diligently?
commanded to, to teach my children diligently. Do I tell my children
diligently about the Lord that heals and the Lord that provides?
Am I consistent when I lie down and when I raise up and when
I walk the way and when I'm in my own house? Do I consistently
do that? We're told multiple times throughout the Scriptures,
hearken diligently. Do I listen diligently? Do I
listen to the man that God gave me to preach His Word to me diligently? Am I diligent about it? Or am
I sloppy? Am I haphazard? Am I going all
over town, smorgasbording? Do I diligently consider, we're
told? When I take these things home,
and I mean set on them, not kick on a football game, do I really
consider? Do you diligently consider? Do I? Do I diligently seek His
face? Do I diligently learn, He tells
us? He says, if you will diligently
obey the voice of the Lord your God. How diligent am I? Verse 26, and he said, If thou
wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and
wilt do that which is right in his sight. How good am I at that?
And will give ear to his commandments. I pay attention to him. And will
keep all his statutes. Can you list all his statutes?
How am I doing? I will put none of these diseases
upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians." All those
plagues of death he brought upon them. He said, I won't do that
if you'll do this. That's an if-then statement,
isn't it? That's a covenant of works. How do I respond to that? I can't keep it. I'm lame. I'm deaf. I'm hot. I'm blind.
I'm sick. Call me Mara. The Lord has dealt
bitterly with me. He brought me all the way out
here and He gave me something I can't do. Look at the end of verse 26,
colon. Here's how you're going to handle everything He just
said, colon. He's going to list it. For I am the Lord that healeth
thee. What just happened when we was
going to die because the waters were bitter and I couldn't handle
it? God provided. He healed the waters. Healed
me through them waters, didn't He? Healed my thirst. Healed
all my need. What happens when He said, You're
going to diligently seek me. You're going to keep all my statutes.
You will do this thing. You and your house are going
to serve me. Lord, I'm sick. You're going to have to provide. You're going to have to heal
me. And He says, I'm the Lord that healeth thee. You must provide
all, Lord. You must heal all. You must be
my shepherd. You must lead me. You must be
my peace. I have no peace in myself. There's
no peace in this world. I can't claim my own self. You're going
to have to be my banner. Don't have people rally around
me. Have them rally around you, and you're going to have to be
my righteousness. That's the names that we're going through,
isn't it? You're going to have to do these things, Lord. It
says in verse 27, And they came to Elam, where there were twelve
wells of water, and three score and ten palm trees. Well, what
a nice place to be. Every tribe, you get your own
well. Ain't gonna run out. And they encamped there by the
waters. This is the beginning of a true beginning of life as
believers when we're brought home to glory. There's water
abundant, shade abundant. That's where He brings us. There's
complete and total healing. That's what that means. Do you
know that? For somebody to pray for complete
and total healing, that means this body dies, because it's
going to. Physically we want our ailments
to be gone, don't we? Oh, my elbow hurts and I didn't
have heartburn and all these other things. This body is going
to die. It must die. It must go away. This body of
death must go on the ground. But when I'm completely healed,
when I'm totally healed, The Lord that healeth me, it will
be spiritual. And I'll be conformed to the
image of His Son. Because I'll see Him as He is.
Holy. Perfect. Without sin. Without
the ability to sin. I don't even know what sin is.
I'm just morally innocent. Holy. I'll be made like Him.
That's Jehovah Rapha. The Lord that healeth. And it
says, Thee. Who's Thee? Whosoever. You need healing? Are you aching
in the soul? If you're not aching in your
body, call out to the Lord. Say, Lord, I'm hurting. Thank you for sending
this. Let me see Christ in this physical
trial you just sent me. But heal me. Heal my heart. Heal my thoughts, my mind. Give
me peace. Show me you're leading me. That's what I need. I need
healed. He's the Lord that healeth thee.
Whosoever. Call out to Him. Come to Him.
Run to Him. Pray to Him. Cry to Him. Here in a few weeks, we'll look
at Jehovah-Reh-ha. This is Jehovah-Reh-fa and we'll
look at Jehovah-Reh-ya. That's the Lord my shepherd.
You know what that shepherd does? Here the Lord healed them and
He took them to twelve wells of water and has plenty of palm
trees to shade them. David spoke of Jehovah-Reh-ya.
The Lord's my shepherd. I shall not walk. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still
waters." They're sweet waters. He restoreth my soul and He leadeth
me in paths of righteousness for His namesake. That's the
surety of it too. The Lord's going to provide.
How do I know? That's His name. He's going to
provide for His namesake. What if the Lord is going to
heal me? Is He going to heal me halfway and then I'm going to have to
do something about it? No, He's going to have complete healing. No such
thing as sickness no more. No more tears will be shed. No
more pain. No more sorrow. How? Because He's for His namesake. For the sake of His name. That's
His name. I don't know if He's going to leave me. Keep me forever.
That's His name. He's my shepherd. For His namesake. All the best. Blessings.