Christ In The House

Q: What does the Bible say about healing?

The Bible emphasizes that Jesus, our healer, will heal all who have need of healing, both physically and spiritually. In Matthew 8:14-17, we see Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law, demonstrating His authority over sickness and showing us that He is Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord our healer. This passage indicates that He touched her, and the fever left her, illustrating His compassionate power to heal. Moreover, this healing serves as a reminder that Jesus cares for our physical ailments and is able to heal all who come to Him with their needs. Our greatest need, however, is spiritual healing from sin, which He also provides through His sacrificial death.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is our healer?

We know Jesus is our healer through His miraculous works and fulfillment of scripture, confirming His divine authority over both physical and spiritual sickness. The Gospels record numerous instances of Jesus healing the sick, affirming His role as the divine healer. In Matthew 8:17, it is explicitly stated that He bore our infirmities and carried our diseases, which fulfills Isaiah's prophecy. These acts of healing are not only physical but also encompass the spiritual healing of sin, confirming Christ's dual role as healer of both body and soul. The fulfillment of these Scriptures reinforces the belief that Jesus is indeed our healer, as He takes upon Himself our greatest need—healing from sin, assuring us of His sovereign power over all maladies.

Q: Why is hospitality important for Christians?

Hospitality is vital for Christians as it reflects God's love and care, inviting others to experience community and fellowship with Him. In Hebrews 13:1-2, we are encouraged to let brotherly love continue and not to neglect hospitality, as it can lead to entertaining angels. This emphasizes that our homes should be centers of hospitality, welcoming others and sharing God’s grace. When we invite others in, we create opportunities to witness and demonstrate Christ's love. Hospitality is an expression of our faith and character as believers; it exemplifies the love of Christ and the communal nature of our faith, bringing both joy and blessing not just to those we host but also to ourselves as we serve others.

Q: How does Jesus heal all who have need?

Jesus heals those who have need by His sovereign grace, ensuring that all who come to Him in faith will find healing, whether physical or spiritual. In Matthew 8:16, we see that Jesus healed all who were sick, demonstrating His compassion and authority over illness. This act signifies that everyone who recognizes their need—whether physical ailments or spiritual brokenness—can approach Him and be healed. The assurance of this healing comes not from the strength of one's faith, but from Christ's willingness and ability to heal. It is a promise rooted in His character as a compassionate Savior willing to meet the needs of those who are suffering. This healing encompasses the full scope of human need, assuring us that no one who seeks Him sincerely will be turned away.

Q: What does the Bible teach about good works?

The Bible teaches that true good works are a response to God's grace, exemplifying our faith and the love of Christ to others. In Matthew 25:31-40, Jesus speaks about the final judgment and how acts of kindness done unto the least of His brothers are seen as done to Him. This illustrates that good works are not means of earning salvation but are natural outcomes of genuine faith. Our good works reflect the transformation that Christ has enacted in our hearts through His grace. They are manifestations of love toward others and the community of believers, building up the body of Christ and testifying to the reality of the Gospel. As Christians, we are called to serve and love others as a response to the incredible grace we have received.

Sin none unhealed away. He won't. He will not. He will heal. He has and will heal all that
have need of healing. That's what the scripture says.
Look here with me at Matthew 8, Matthew chapter 8. This is such, as I said Sunday,
I'm looking so forward to all of these messages. There's so
very much in the Gospels, our Lord's journeys and words and
works. Every chapter is full to overflowing.
You just come with your mouths open, I believe the Lord will
fill them. Now look at verse 14. It says,
When Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his mother's, his
wife's mother laid or lying in bed and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and
the fever left her. And she arose and ministered
unto them. There's something in every line.
When I first read this, as so often, I thought I need to get
a message out of this a few verses. But if you carefully look and
carefully look at it, you'll see a great deal. It says he
would come into Peter's house. The Lord of glory came to Peter's
house. Go with me to Hebrews chapter
13. Hebrews 13. Peter, why did the Lord go to
Peter's house? It doesn't say that he gave commandment. I believe that
Peter and Andrew, Andrew his brother, Simon is Peter's first
name, I believe they invited the Lord to their home. I'm quite
sure they did. They invited the Lord to come
home with them. And everybody else went too, all of the disciples. And look at this, look at what
Hebrews 13 says in verses 1 and 2. Let brotherly love continue. That means hospitality toward
the brethren. Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels away. I don't think that Simon and
Andrew knew who the Lord really was yet. They're going to. They're going to. Nevertheless,
they advised him over. Boy, were they glad they did.
Our homes are to be hospitality centers. That's what they're
called. That's why we were given them.
They're not to be simply our own private getaway, but hospitality
centers. As I said, we can learn a great
deal from this. We can learn from the disciples,
how they followed the Lord and did what he said and what the
Lord did for them in return. The Lord will greatly repay those
who feed and house him. The Lord will greatly repay those
who feed and house him. You say, well, I can't see. Well,
how's the Lord? Oh, yes, you can. Now, turn with
me to Matthew 25. Matthew 25. You know these verses. See, and you know these things
before. But, oh, we need to be reminded, don't we? You know
what a preacher's called? The Lord's Remembrancers. You
know what the scripture says? The Lord's remembrance. In other
words, just reminding people over and over again of what the
Lord has said. Not to say anything new. Matthew
25, the Lord will greatly, greatly repay those who feed and house
him. Now everything we have, we receive
it. A man can receive nothing, John
said, except it be given him from above. John said, and that
was John the Baptist, and then John the Apostle said, all every
good and perfect gift changes, that every good and perfect gift
comes down from the Father above us. Everything. Our Lord said
freely and effortlessly. He's providing for us. And I
told you the illustration before of the man who wanted that pearl
of great price. Remember? Surely you remember
that illustration. You better believe it. I told
it 111 times. The man who wanted that pearl of great price and
the fellow told him it would cost him everything he had. And in the end, the owner We
took everything from him, gave it all back, but he said, now,
remember, it's mine. I've given it all back to you
on loan, and you won't mind sharing it with, you won't share my money
with somebody's needs, or my car, and so on. So everything we had, we received
it, and we're, we borrowed it. The Israelites, we were studying
Exodus, aren't we? How'd they get everything they
got? They borrowed everything. You remember that? You remember
that in our early studies, that they borrowed from the Egyptians? Well, they weren't ever going
to pay back to the Egyptians. But the point was, it was borrowed.
We can't keep anything. We're not going to keep anything.
The old saying, you can't take anything, which is absolutely
true. We don't own anything. The earth
is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof. The world inhabits us thereof.
Everything that belongs to him, he's freely given it to us, and
we're to freely give. And we entertain the Lord when
we entertain his people. Ask Abraham and Sarah. One day Abraham was sitting under
a tree, and three men approached him. Sarah, get something, get
some food, somebody's coming. Who did he entertain? It was
the Lord Himself. What did they hear upon entertaining
the Lord? Some mighty good news. Sarah's
going to have a baby. Will the Lord repay those that
feed and house Him? Manoah and his wife. Somebody came to their house
one day. I don't know what Manoah's wife
was, or name was. Nobody does either. Manoah's
wife. Wife, pick something. Did they hear some good news?
Gonna have a baby. Samson's his name. Not that everybody has some idea
we're gonna have a baby. But the Lord will give great
fruit. great for Peter and his wife
here they entertain the Lord and. You can see what happened. You already read it look at Matthew
twenty five verse thirty one the Lord say when the son of
man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and all nations
gathered before him. He shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats." Notice
who decides who is what here, the Lord. He shall set the sheep
on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Who decides this?
Who decided this? Who set who? Well, people didn't
decide this. It's not of him that willeth
or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. The Lord
was on his throne, was he not? Reigning, ruling. All right,
verse thirty-four. Then shall the king say unto
them on his right hand, Come ye, blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Pre-prepared, preordained, predestined.
I was hungry and you gave me meat. I was thirsty, you gave
me drink. I was a stranger and you took
me in. Naked, you clothed me. I was
sick, you visited me. I was in prison and you came
unto me. Then shall the righteous answer
him." Now, these are folks who literally did these things, saying,
Lord, they don't remember doing this. They never thought that
they'd done anything special. I said, Lord, when we the and
hungry and fed the or thirsty and gave the drink with all we
the a stranger and took the or naked and clothed with all we
the sick or in prison and came under the and the king shall
answer and say under them there are truly I stay on the in as
much as you've done it under one of the least of these my
brother you have done it. You had me. No, it is not. No, it is not.
God's people, Christ's people are his body. He's the head,
they're his body. Good works. These people did
good work. The Lord acknowledged what they
did, but they didn't acknowledge it. And all the righteous those
who are truly righteous are not self righteous that is they don't
they don't see any goodness in themselves they don't acknowledge
any works that they've done. They say after we've done all
that's required of us we're still unprofitable servants. And so they took they did not
take any note of what they've done what the Lord did. And then
there was the others. versus forty king shall answer
and say unto them as much as you've done it to me verse forty
five. And shall he answer those who
did not these things. Verily I say unto you as much
as you did it not to one of the least of these you did it not
to me. So. We can have. Your. And there's many in here who
have done, as Abraham, Sarah, Manoah, his wife, many in here. And I see the Lord's evident
blessings on that home. You know, just as people don't
seem to take notice of the judgments of God upon our present generation,
These judgments that are so clear, the wrath of, Romans 1 says,
the wrath of God revealed, clearly seen, revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness. But men don't take notice of
it. Like the Egyptians, they, plague after plague, they never
did repent, never did acknowledge God's hand in it. And I read the other day, you've
read it too, the wrath of Katrina. Katrina's wrath. Whose wrath? Who's right? Is that an independent,
self-sufficient, living thing, a whim? Who blows a whim? And just as I was trying to say,
was just as people do not seem to recognize the judgments of
God against sin and so forth, people don't seem to recognize
the blessings of God upon his people. We don't. But they're
clearly saying that not only the judgment of God, the wrath
of God, but the love and the blessings of God are clearly
seen, revealed from heaven upon the righteous. Study those who seem to be greatly
blessed. Now I'm not talking about things
that's not an indicator of blessing. Those who seem to be greatly
blessed spiritually are those who do a great deal
for God's people. Mark it down. Mark it down. And we have several
in here that I can clearly see God's blessings upon them. How
did the Lord bless Peter and Andrew? Heal Peter's mother. He and say. The Lord. Everybody the Lord healed in
the New Testament. I can guarantee you he's saying.
Everybody. Guarantee. He saved this woman because we're
going to see them all verse fourteen in our text here it says. Peter's
wife's mother his mother-in-law was what laid sick of a fever
and perhaps he had the flu and back then. They didn't have what
we have today things were much worse people died. From the least
ailment back then. Here are things called consumption
chronic diarrhea. And they couldn't hear. They
haven't met something like flu. They didn't have what we have. And he apparently had a bad,
bad case of something, flu, fever. But anyway, it was Peter's wife's
mother. Now, stop right there a second.
Peter's wife. Now, this is the man that Catholicism
says was the first pope. He has a wife. Now, people, that religion didn't
get that from the Bible. As a matter of fact, 1 Timothy
says that false religion will forbid to marry and abstain from
certain meats. Peter had a wife. And what God hath blessed, let
not man curse. Peter had a wife. He wasn't a
pope, he wasn't the head of the church, only one head of the
church, always has been but one head of the church, Jesus Christ,
Jesus Christ. Well, his mother-in-law was sick
of a fever, perhaps the flu. We've got folks that are sick,
too, of something, and I'm not, now I'm not talking about physical
ailments. We've got relatives that are... Overcome, a sin and unbelief. And it says here in verse 15,
Peter invited the Lord over and it says, he saw his mother's
wife's mother laid and sick of the fever and he touched her
hand and the fever left her. He healed her. Now, the centurion
servant, think about this with me, the
centurion servant was healed with a word. The centurion said,
Lord, you don't have to come to my house. Just speak the word
and you'll be healed. You're sovereign. You're Lord
over all. You're Lord over everything.
You just say the word. You made everything by your word.
You uphold all things by your word. You just speak the word
and it'll be done. And the Lord did. He said that
was a great thing. And he did. And that servant
was healed the moment he said so. Well, here, he touched her. He touched this lady. Well, whether the Lord, whether
it's his word or whether it's his touch, same person. Whether
the Lord, and here's the point, he's Jehovah-Rapha. Scriptures
calls him Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord, our healer. The way that
translates. Whether he heals with means or
without means, he's the one that heals. But this throws people
for a loop, you know. People go to the hospital and
go through all these treatments and then they come out like somebody
with cancer. They go to the leading cancer
center in the United States, you know, and have the best care.
Four zillion dollars later they come out and they recover after
a while and then they just are so thankful for modern medicine. And they're at our disposal.
But they suck so much. They suck so much God. They're not God. They're just
misguided. They don't know what they're
doing. They don't know God. They're
just blind. They're just blind because who
really is to heal somebody? It's about healing. It's the
Lord. And the Lord, you know, And people that don't believe
that, don't look to the Lord, don't give Him the credit of
the Lord for their healing. The Lord sent them, that's all
it is. And for those who lie, trusting
in the flesh, modern medicine and all that, congratulating
one another for surviving this and that and the other, we are
going to be able to heal them and upheld them and get all these
things. Whether it means, or what I mean,
to be subordinate to Jesus in the name of the Father. The word, uh, uh, what is it? Elijah. Elijah is the name of
Jesus. But, uh, Hezekiah, Elijah. Hezekiah
was in, help me here. I get those guys mixed up. It
doesn't matter. Anyway, the prophet Elijah, Hezekiah
was sick, and he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord answered him
and said, I'm going to give you 15 more years, didn't He? Remember?
The Lord said, I'm going to give you 15 more years for the work.
But Elijah, or whoever it was, Elisha or Elijah, laid up a plaster
of figs and put it on his chest. Then he got better. What healed
him? Figs? He was dying of something in
figs. It was the Lord that healed him.
The Lord gets a glow. The Lord gets a glow. Well, he
touched her, and the fever left her. He touched me. Oh, he touched me. Oh, that song.
I love that song. If the Lord touches someone we
know through the preaching of his gospel, through his word,
and when he does come with his word, you'll feel like he laid
hold of you, won't you? Everyone in here who's been healed
of this plague called sin, it's infirmity. You feel like the
Lord laid hold on you. I feel like he laid hold on me
real hard. I think by the night of the night this prodigal son.
He touched her and her fever left her and says she arose verse
fifteen she arose and ministered unto them. Now she ministered
unto Peter, Andrew, James, John, the Lord, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Thomas, on and on, James, all of them. Lord rejuvenated
her, she jumped up, fixed them all. I don't know. Bean soup or something. Lentil
soup. Now, Peter and Andrew's companion. Here's what I want to show you.
Go to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. Peter and Andrew,
this was their house. They both lived here. There's
other places that plainly show us that Peter and Andrew, back
then, large families living on one roof. Peter and Andrew, Simon
and Andrew, lived in this house together, and then when Peter
got married, his wife moved in. His mother-in-law did, too. I know Peter's glad the Lord
saved her and her him. They were probably both unsaved,
but I know they weren't, and living in the same... Peter was
a fisherman. Oh, man, his mother-in-law wished she'd never married him. Oh, the Lord sure did bless that
house. He ordained peace for that house
between in-laws. I was so blessed. Oh, young people
in here, unmarried, oh my, you can't pick your in-laws, but
I'm telling you, you better look real hard. I was so glad when we met in
both sets of parents who believe. Nobody. Never heard. Never conflict.
Never pitting her against me or me against her. Never a problem. Both sets of parents 1,000% behind.
That's a lesson. The Lord saves whole houses doesn't
he? We'll get to that in a minute. Psalm 119. Peter, Simon, and
Andrew were companions of the Lord and his people. Now the scripture says evil communications
corrupt good manners. The opposite is true too. The opposite is true too. Listen
to David. Psalm 119. Sixty-three, I'm a companion
of all them that fear thee, and them that keep thy precepts.
Who are your buddies, David? Who are your friends? Who are
your cronies? Who do you run around with, those that fear
my God? How can life be fellowship without
you? Who was it that Peter said, you
unbelieving wives, you may sanctify. I mean, you believing wives may
sanctify the unbelieving husband by the chaste conversation and so forth. Look at verse 74. David said, They that fear thee
will be glad when they see me. David said, I'm a companion of
them that fear thee. Those that fear my God are my
buddies. That's who I, that's who my friend, my bosom buddy. You can't lie, you can't have
fellowship with darkness or bail with Christ. You can't do it.
It's impossible. And David said, and those that fear the Lord
will be glad when they see me. Unworthy as we feel, yet it's
true. All those people the other night
were there to see me. Now that just amazes me. I didn't have much to say. I
didn't thank you enough. I really didn't. Because I didn't
know what to say. It leaves you speechless. Truly,
I feel totally unworthy of all this. I'm glad you feel that
I'm worthy. You should. You should. But I don't. And you don't either. I was hoping you wouldn't do
anything. But I'm glad you did. Now you know exactly what I'm
talking about. I really, I was hoping, I told my daughter, I
said, don't let anybody do anything. But if you had nothing, you know
what I'm saying. But real improvement. You don't
feel worried. You don't want people making
hope. You do. Really. In all honesty, you wouldn't
feel hurt. There are places I have never gone to prison. There are places I've never been
there in years. I don't care. They're capable
men. That's somebody else's business.
I'm not hurt. What does it matter? I'd rather be here anyway. And
we don't... You shouldn't be able to offend
the chief of senators. You know, we don't get upset.
You don't want people making up with you. You don't want people
making up with you. But the fact is, they will. God's
people love each other and esteem each other better than themselves.
They really do. This is not just religion. This
is true. This really is. Isn't it amazing, Kelly? I mean, isn't it amazing? God's
people really do love you. I had friends before. My old
buddies that I grew up with, when I could walk and talk. I don't have any of them. They're
all gone. Every last one of them are gone.
I mean, boys and girls that I spent years with. Boy, I plan on spending eternity
with them. And I say that Dear God will be glad when they see
me. Isn't that amazing? That is amazing if you know yourself.
The Lord often saved whole houses of those who were churned. Lydia, Lydia had the Apostle Paul in
her house. The Lord saved her whole house. The jailer, remember the jailer?
He took Paul in, washed his stripes, fed him and Silas, and the Lord
said, He's home at last. Well, the Lord still does it. And it says that she was grateful
for this. Verse 15, she arose and ministered
unto them. One who's been touched by the
Lord, healed by Christ, one who's been regenerated by the Holy
Spirit is a grateful disciple. Mighty fine. And will minister
unto Christ by ministering unto his people. Well, how many does
she minister unto? I want you to stop and think. Look at verse 16. When
evening was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed
of the devil. Over in another chapter, It says there were so
many people that they couldn't get to the door. And there were
some people up on the roof. Now ladies, stop and think about
this. Men? Ron, they started tearing
the roof off of the house. Give it a try. Same house. Same house. Started tearing the
tile off the roof. They lowered somebody down there.
Hey, my house. Oh, you're blessing this house.
And everybody's in it. Everybody's in it. People start
flowing. How many did she minister unto?
Yeah, I've told you about Betty Gruber
and other women, my mother and women in here. Just keep feeding
whoever comes. Keep feeding. And what if she'd
have said, What if Peter's mother-in-law
said there's not enough food. Now I mean how many loaves do
you have. That's all he would say how many loaves do you have. Did that later. I don't have
time to feed all of you. I can't afford this. Turn with
me to First Kings, Chapter 17. These are all the excuses, you
know, we use. I can't afford this, but I want you to look
at these stories with me. You'll get a blessing out of
it. First Kings 17. This is Elijah. It's easy to
get Elijah and Elisha mixed up in it. They're buddies. and they lived together and Elijah
left and Elijah continued and it's hard to know where one left. Widows and so forth. Verse 10.
Let's go down here. It says Elijah rose and went
to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate
of the city, behold, a widow woman was gathering sticks. He
called to her and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water
and a vessel that I may drink. And she was going to fetch it.
She said, no, fine, that's fine. A cup of water. And as she was going to fetch
it, now Elijah knew something about
her circumstance. The Lord gave him great insight.
He called to her and said, bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of
bread in thine hand. While you're getting the water,
bring me a sandwich too. And she said, As the Lord died
God live. Is this a believing woman. The Lord I have not a cake I
don't I don't have a cake. I got a handful of meal in a
barrel just a handful of meal a little oil and a crew and I'm
gathering two sticks. That I may go and dress, or that
is, make a fire and cook my son and myself something to eat,
and then we're going to die. Elijah said unto her, Fear not,
go and do as thou hast said, but make me thereof a little
cake first, and bring it to me, and after that make for you and
your son. And she said, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel.
Elijah said, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of
meals shall not waste, neither shall the cruise of oil
fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
It was a great drought. And she went, and she did according
to the saying of Elijah. That is, she fixed him something
first. And she and he and her house did eat many days. What about that barrel of flour?
The barrel of meal wasted not neither did the cruise of oil
fail according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by man. Look at chapter of second Kings.
Now here's. Elijah second king and another
widow. Second Kings chapter four. Look at the first one. and following
their pride a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets under a lot of certain one. Second Kings four. She cried under a lot to say
in that server my husband is dead and I'll know it's the best
server appear the Lord. And now the creditors come to
take. My two sons to be bonded that
is we can't pay our bill. And a lot of said under her what
shall I do for the tell me what has now and I have And she said
that hand may have not anything in the house save a pot of oil.
He said go borrow three vessels. Abroad of our neighbors empty
vessels. Borrow not a few. I heard old
Walter Gruber preach from this in Spanish. And it was wonderful. The words sound similar. He said,
and when you're coming and shut the door upon you and your sons
and pour it out in all those vessels and set aside that which
is full. She went from him, shut the door
upon her, on her son, brought the vessel to her, she poured
out. And it came to pass when the vessels were full, she said
unto her son, bring me in yet another vessel. And he said unto
her, there's not a vessel more. They're all full. And the oil
stayed. And she came and told the man
of God, he said, you go sell the oil, pay your debt, live
thou and thy children off of it. It doesn't stop, OK? Go on. Right
after that, verse 8, it fell on a day, Elisha passed to Shuman,
this is Shunammite, and there was a great woman. How do you
believe she was great? not necessarily a material thing,
great faith. Verse 8, a great woman, and she
constrained him to eat bread. Please, would you come in and
eat with us? Please. And so it was that as often as
he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. Read on. And she said unto her husband,
Behold, now I perceive this is a holy man of God, which passes
by us continually. This is one of God's men that
keeps coming here. Let's make a little place for
him to stay. So they made a little place on
the wall and set him a bed and a table and a stool and a candlestick.
It'll be when he comes to us, he'll just stay here with us. And he came, he turned in the
chamber and lay there and stayed there. And then down in verse
13 he said, Behold, Elisha said, Behold, thou hast been careful
for us with all this care. You've spent so much care on
us. What is to be done for thee?
What are we going to do for you? Something needs to be done for
you. Well, look down at verse 16 and 17. He said, About this
season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace the
sun. She said, no, my Lord, thou man
of God, no, do not lie. And the woman conceived and bear
a son. At that season of life, she had
said unto her, according to time, that she had a baby. The Lord will repay. He will
repay with him. Is this still true? Is this still going on? There's
a witty woman in here who's fed me many a cake. Slop Drop Cake
is her finest concoction. Let me tell you a little thing
on Nancy. She's a great cook. Her face is turning red. She's
a great cook. One day she was so proud of this
cake she had made. It was beautiful. Dropped that thing on the kitchen
floor. We all went and looked at it. She scooped it up. I think
we ate it. Slop, drop, click. That took
care of her pride. Not all of it. Not all of it. No, this woman's barrel has never
wasted. This widow woman. Is this still
true today? There's a couple in this room.
Well, there's a couple who have done countless things for me. Now, I didn't say all this to
compare my... I am not, I am not, I am not comparing myself
to an Elisha. Never the less. There's a couple
who have done so much for me, and they just had a baby. Just had a baby. Precious baby. I'm trying to show you is that
this thing, God is still blessing his people, but bless others
and help others. The barrel won't wait, and the
womb will be broken. The Lord promised. Whoever the Lord, whoever entertains
God's people, the Lord will bless them. Well, verse 16 in our text. Go back there. I've got to hurry.
I vowed a vow. To start preaching. Shorter. Verse sixteen. It says when evening
was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with
devil. Now if you're not possessed by the spirit of Christ. You know we think of being in
possession of somebody's raving lunatic no doubt that person
is. But the fact of the matter is,
the person is either possessed by one spirit or another, right?
It's either the Holy Spirit or the evil spirit. And various possessions, demon
possessions, can take various forms. And we don't have time to go
into that, but many were possessed with devils, and there are still
many today. And he cast out the spirits with his word. Here,
it's just his word. He didn't touch them all, but
with his word. And it says he healed all that were sick. He
healed all that were sick. There's another gospel that says
he healed all that had need of healing. The Lord heals all that
are sick. The Lord heals all that have
need of healing. All sinners are going to be saved. It would shock some people, wouldn't it? Ask somebody for a sinner.
Ask them. The Lord will heal. You see,
the whole don't need a position. The well don't need a position.
Most people don't need Christ. They just need Him when they
get in a little bind. When they get sick or something,
but they don't leave. But I'm telling you, people that are
unholy, unfit, undone, from the sole of their feet to the top
of their head, no sound of sin, they need Christ. They're going
to have him. He's going to heal all of them.
Everybody that has need of healing, he'll heal them. Every sinner
who comes to God by him will be healed, will be saved from
their sin. Every one of them. And these people came to the
only one who could displace another spirit. The
one who is greater than, greater is he that is in you, than he
that is in the world. The only one who is greater than
the adversary. The only one who can cast him out. There are no
such thing as exorcists today. No, sir. They're all sons of
Satan, that's what those fellows are. The Lord is the only one,
greater than the adversary. And he cast them out with a word.
The word of God, Scripture says, is quick and powerful, sharper
than any two-edged sword. The word of God. It's not my
word like a fire. When the word of God first came
to you, did not your hearts burn within you like those men on
the road to Oman? Did it not? Nancy, you've told me your story
so many times about when you first heard the gospel. You got
mad at first, but then later on, it was the greatest thing
you ever heard. Your heart burned like those disciples. That's
that word like a fire. It's not my word like a hammer,
God said, that breaketh a rock in pieces. There's some folks in here tonight
that if you had known them years ago in their wild career, you'd
thought nobody could break that old, wild-ass code. Nobody could
do anything with that old boy. Or that old girl. They're sitting
beside you. Sitting there clothed in their
right mind. What did that? That hammer. Damn. It's a hammer
too. Keeps hammering. The Lord keeps
hammering until that old hard heart is broken. I mean broken
and beasted. Then he gives a new heart, a
heart of gold. He turns that old hard hearted fella into an
old song. That's the Word of God. It is not my
word like a hammer. A hammer. God's Word is his power.
That's what he used here. He cast out the spirits with
his Word, healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled.
Did you ever think I was going to get to that? That it might
be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Himself took our infirmity and bear our sickness. Everything
our Lord did, he did to fulfill God's Word. That's why he came.
It behooves us, he said, to fulfill all righteousness. He came to
do it, to fulfill God's Word. And he is the Christ who fulfilled
everything concerning himself. And here it says, Himself took
our infirmity and bear our sickness. himself. Yes, he himself did
it all. Peter wrote this later on. Peter
wrote in his fifth verse of his epistle, he said, when he had
by himself purged our sins. The Lord Jesus Christ, no one
helped him, no one can, no one did, and no one will share the
glory. If you want a job done right,
do it yourself. And that's exactly what Christ
did. Himself. Boy, there's a whole
message right there. Himself. Who? It's Him. It's
God. Himself. Manifest in the flesh. Himself. Now, what is he talking
about here? You know, Isaiah 53 doesn't read
exactly like that, does it? Does it? Isaiah 53, 4 reads this
way. I'll read it to you. Brother
Sam read it in a study, and it says, he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. And on down it says, with his
stripes, we are healed. He's talking about something
different than physical healing. He's talking about our greatest
need. Our infirmities, infirmities are weaknesses, health weaknesses.
Paul in first second Corinthians twelve said I glory in my department. That's when I'm weak. He's strong. Infirmities are felt weaknesses
felt inability felt helplessness. It's a good thing. Let me tell
you something about the power of negative. Let me tell you
something about how you're better off to feel like you're healthy. Tell you something about being
completely and totally 100% dependent, not independent, dependent. The
Lord helps those who can't help themselves. Now that's what this
book is. The Lord helps those who can't
help. That's what infirmities mean. It means felt weaknesses,
inability. David, who was the greatest man
on earth, greatest man who ever lived on this planet, David said,
I'm poor and needy. I can't do anything. He wrote
Psalm 38. He said, my sins are over my
head. I can't do anything. My loins
are filled with it. Help me. Paul was the next greatest
man, greatest man in New Testament. The apostle, he said, in my flesh
dwelleth no good thing. He said, the things that I would,
I do not. The things I would not, that's what I do. Who shall
deliver me? I thank God through Jesus Christ. Himself took our
infirmities. See, he was made in the likeness
of sinful flesh, but without sin. He took on himself the form
of the likeness of flesh with the infirmities of the flesh,
but he was not helpless. Well, he depended on God, though.
He lived by faith, because we do. Because we do. He did this as our substitute.
It's the lowest of the low. Nobody's been lower than he.
And sickness. We're born blind, deaf, dumb,
halt, lame, and we're full of fevers, passions, and lust, and
full of demons possessed. Every one of us is born with
all these maladies on himself. That's the only way you can explain
some of these people have been drastically changed. Himself, our Lord, took upon
Himself our sins. Scripture says He bore our sins
in His body on the tree. He made sin for us. Made sin. And the sickness that we bear,
the greatest sickness of all, And the sickness that will remain
with us until the day we die is this thing called sin. And
you say, but I still have it. No, no, no. He took it. He took it away. Scripture says
he nailed it to the cross. Scripture says he removed it
far from us as far as the east is from the west. That's what
it says. Though we feel it, that's good. Though we're somewhat plagued
by it, it's just a dead body. And someday when you get in the
grave, that body's going to stay there and you're going to fly
in the face of God without sin. We bear our sins. That's the
greatest problem because everyone he healed physically died of
something, didn't it? Lazarus, who was raised from
the dead, died of something. So he must have not taken all
his sickness. Yes, he did, too. He took his sins away. This health and wealth, listen
to me, I'll close with it. This health and wealth modern
religion is not faith. Listen to me now. Listen to me,
please. All this health and wealth modern religion is not strong
faith on their part, but strong delusions. Which Paul said, those that receive
not the love of the truth, God sends them strong delusions that
they believe a lie. I believe there are people who
never get sick. I've been waiting for years on
some of these modern televangelists to get bad sick. They don't seem
to get sick. Maybe they don't. Strong delusions. By God I tell you why. That widow's
child. That type of women that you have
that. Yes sir. Elisha died of a sickness. Elisha, the one who, he died
of sickness. He died. Now don't let any of
these people tell you that Paul was sick all his life. Wasn't
he Ed? He had a horrible eye affliction
called the thorn in the flesh. Timothy had a bad stomach problem
all his life. Couldn't Paul or Peter or somebody
heal it? Nope. Nope. Hepatitis, pastor at, where was
it, I forget, Thessalonica, a brother, he almost died from a sickness.
robert mary mccain that twenty nine i could go on and on the
list of the greatest some of the greatest virgin that fifty
eight years old he was sick for thirty five years he didn't say
his congregation about the last six years of his life he was
laying on sickbed down in mentone frank wanted to be back in the
city and died at fifty eight that's young at fifty eight that's
real young Scott Richardson, go on, Mahan,
Nyberg, keep going, and members of the church and so forth. God's
choice people get sick, so don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
And die from it. Die from it. The sickness our
Lord takes away will never return. And you'll never die from it
again. But these are strong delusions upon this world who doesn't care
much for truth and turn away their ears from the truth on
the fable strong delusions from God while the waters of a full
cup are rung out on God's people. Why? Because we have here nothing. We look for nothing. And you
know according to it seems to me this modern religion you know
they're having such a big time you know why leave here? Everything's
so hunky-dory why leave? Not God's people. Not God's people. They'll be glad when it's time
to leave this place. And he was mighty glad. Okay. I hope that's been a blessing
to you. Stand with me. Our Lord, thank you for your
word. Thank you for coming here, word
made flesh, revealing yourself to us. Thank you, Lord, most
of all for Bearing our. Our. Lord. In your body on the
tree thank you for dying for us that we don't ever have to.
You said you promise me that live it believe it should never
die. We believe this according to
your work. We believe Lord help our unbelief
as we say. In Christ's name we have met
here tonight. You're dismissed. Yeah. Yeah.

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