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Speaker 1: Old Man Healing. Our second session, the theme is here
Speaker 1: and be healed. We've looked at more than one time
Speaker 1: where Jesus when they came for healing, they first heard,
Speaker 1: they heard, and then were healed. And we have to
Speaker 1: believe believe with the heart. So we want to talk
Speaker 1: about with the heart tonight in receiving healing and wholeness
Speaker 1: or any of the promises of God. Scripture tells us
Speaker 1: that we must believe with the heart, believe with the heart.
Speaker 1: True Bible faith is a matter of the heart, not
Speaker 1: the head. Knowledge is not faith. Faith is not knowledge.
Speaker 1: So we'll look a little tonight as much as we
Speaker 1: can and what is true Bible faith? What is the heart?
Speaker 1: How do we get the Word in our heart? And
Speaker 1: how do we believe with the heart? Now look at
Speaker 1: Romans chapter ten and verse eight. Romans ten eight, But
Speaker 1: what saith thee that the Word is nigh thee even
Speaker 1: in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the
Speaker 1: word of faith which we preach, that if you shall
Speaker 1: confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in
Speaker 1: your heart that God has raised him from the dead,
Speaker 1: you shall be saved, healed, delivered, set free, and made whole.
Speaker 1: That's how it would read in the Greek the word
Speaker 1: solzo or soteria. For with the heart verse ten, man
Speaker 1: believeth unto righteousness or resulting in righteousness or right standing.
Speaker 1: And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, healing, deliverance, preservation,
Speaker 1: and soundness. For the scripture saith. Whoever believeth on him
Speaker 1: shall not be ashamed. Notice verse ten. With the heart,
Speaker 1: man believeth With the heart, man believes. Recall, we did
Speaker 1: number of weeks teaching on speaking to the mountain and
Speaker 1: mountain moving faith Mark eleven, twenty two to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Jesus had have the faith of God, who use ever
Speaker 1: shall say unto the mountain, be thu removed, and be
Speaker 1: thou cast into the sea, shall not doubt in his heart,
Speaker 1: not doubt in his head, but doubt in his heart.
Speaker 1: I like what brother Hagen says. You can have doubt
Speaker 1: in your head and faith in your heart. And still
Speaker 1: get the answer. Not doubt in your head. But he said,
Speaker 1: just when you speak to the mountain, when you release
Speaker 1: your faith, don't doubt in your heart, but believe that
Speaker 1: what you say comes the past, and you'll have whatever
Speaker 1: you say. Mark or Verse twenty four says, what things
Speaker 1: serve you desire. When you pray, believe, you receive them,
Speaker 1: and you'll have them with the heart, man believeth We
Speaker 1: must believe with the heart. Knowing things in the head
Speaker 1: is not the same as faith in the heart. See
Speaker 1: a lot of people they know things in their head. Well,
Speaker 1: I know that you talk to him about the Word,
Speaker 1: you talk to him about scriptural things, scriptural principles. Well
Speaker 1: I know that I've read that. Ye've heard that, But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they have faith. Just knowing things in
Speaker 1: your head is not necessarily true Bible faith. We have
Speaker 1: to have faith in our heart. A lot of people
Speaker 1: know things in their head, but it needs to drop
Speaker 1: down from the head into the heart. We need to
Speaker 1: get it on the inside of of us, in our
Speaker 1: innermost being. Knowledge is not faith. Faith is not knowledge.
Speaker 1: Remember what Proverbs three five to six is Trust in
Speaker 1: Yahweh with all your heart, with all your heart, and
Speaker 1: lean not to your own head. I'm paraphrasing, lean not
Speaker 1: to your own understanding, your reasoning, your mind, your head.
Speaker 1: Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not
Speaker 1: to your own understanding, and all your ways. Acknowledge him
Speaker 1: and he will direct your path. Now, sometimes a little
Speaker 1: difficult to understand heart or define heart. We're going to
Speaker 1: do a little bit of that tonight. But to just
Speaker 1: simplify it, you know, as people say, well, how do
Speaker 1: I know it's my heart? Well, just keep it To
Speaker 1: make it real simple, I would say to somebody, well,
Speaker 1: what happens when you fall in love is that with
Speaker 1: your head or with your heart? It's not your head.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's with your head, there's by a
Speaker 1: problem there. But don't you don't you know, meet somebody
Speaker 1: and then after a while say well, after many months
Speaker 1: I've been about thinking about this and making computations in
Speaker 1: my mind and factual analysis, I've come to the conclusion
Speaker 1: that yes, as a result of this factual basis, I
Speaker 1: do love you. That would be loving the head. But
Speaker 1: when it's in the heart, you know it, it's different
Speaker 1: than the head. And faith has to be in our heart,
Speaker 1: our whole being. If you would so lean not to
Speaker 1: your own understanding. You don't believe God with your head
Speaker 1: any more than you believe in with your feelings or
Speaker 1: your eyes or your ears. It says, believe with your heart,
Speaker 1: your innermost being. Now, this is where a lot of
Speaker 1: folk get mixed up, because they'll stand on the word
Speaker 1: of God, or they'll hear principles of faith, or say
Speaker 1: a message of healing, divine healing, or any of the
Speaker 1: promises of God, and they'll say, well, I stood on
Speaker 1: the word of God. I believed, will say healing. I
Speaker 1: believe that I was healed, and I confess the word
Speaker 1: and believe the promises. But I must not be healed
Speaker 1: because I don't feel healed. So hence they think they're
Speaker 1: did not receive healing because they don't feel healed. Or
Speaker 1: they'll say I don't look healed, and I always say, well,
Speaker 1: your feelings were not made for believing, your eyes in
Speaker 1: your ears were not made or believing your heart was
Speaker 1: made for believing to say that I must not be healed. Now,
Speaker 1: if you listen to what I'm saying, this could help
Speaker 1: some people. I must not be healed because I don't
Speaker 1: feel healed. Would be like for me to stand here
Speaker 1: and say I need one of the ushers to turn
Speaker 1: the lights on, and they look at me and they say,
Speaker 1: well passor the lights are on. No they're not on.
Speaker 1: I can't smell them. Turn the lights on, they are on. No,
Speaker 1: they must not be on. I can't smell them. You
Speaker 1: know what, my nose was not made for seeing, and
Speaker 1: your feelings were not made for believing. Or to say,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody turned the air conditioner on because I
Speaker 1: can't hear it. I can't hear it. Well, my ears
Speaker 1: were not made for feeling, and your ears or your
Speaker 1: eyes are not made for believing. It's your heart that
Speaker 1: may for believing it. So many times people base their
Speaker 1: believing on what they feel or what they see, or
Speaker 1: what they hear from the doctor, from other people or
Speaker 1: something like that. It must be based on the word
Speaker 1: of God and what God's word saith. Go to Proverbs
Speaker 1: chapter four. Proverbs chapter four. We've been spending some time
Speaker 1: in here looking at God's medicine. I want to look
Speaker 1: at it from a little slightly different angle tonight. Proverbs
Speaker 1: chapter four, verse twenty. With the heart, man believeth. With
Speaker 1: the heart, man believeth, Probably four twenty to twenty two.
Speaker 1: My son, my daughter, attend to my words incline thine.
Speaker 1: Ear onto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes.
Speaker 1: Keep them in the midst of thine heart. Keep them
Speaker 1: in the midst of Thine heart, for they are life
Speaker 1: under those that find them in health. We looked at this.
Speaker 1: It's the Hebrew word marpe, which is a derivative of
Speaker 1: the Hebrew word rapa yahweh rafa Exodus fifteen twenty six,
Speaker 1: where God said, I am the Lord that healeth you.
Speaker 1: I'm the Lord, your doctor, your physician, i am your
Speaker 1: healer rapha. Here it says his words are life to
Speaker 1: those who find them in health healing. The word health
Speaker 1: here in the Hebrew means healing, medicine, remedy, and cure.
Speaker 1: In fact, anytime I quote this, it just automatically comes
Speaker 1: out that way word life to me and health, healing, medicine, remedy,
Speaker 1: and cure. Just like anytime I quote salvation, it just
Speaker 1: comes out salvation, healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness. You should
Speaker 1: train yourself to think that way and talk that way,
Speaker 1: because that's what it literally means. We miss out on
Speaker 1: God's best by just focusing on one aspect. I was
Speaker 1: reading a Jewish study Bible this week, and I was
Speaker 1: reading what they had about the word shalom. Because I'm
Speaker 1: tremendously interested in shalom and I've taught on that before, wholeness, completeness, wellness.
Speaker 1: I thought, I wonder what they got to say about
Speaker 1: shalom and it said as I looked it up, they said,
Speaker 1: it is impossible to define with one word. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what I've thought for years. It's impossible to define it
Speaker 1: with one word such as peace. Like I've said before,
Speaker 1: to say shalom is peace is like saying the Pacific
Speaker 1: Ocean is a body of water. Well, it's a body
Speaker 1: of water, but it's a whole lot more than that.
Speaker 1: They'll denturing Lake Wawasee in the Pacific Ocean, you know,
Speaker 1: like saying the Grand Canyon as a hole in the ground. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a little more than a hole in the ground.
Speaker 1: And shalom is a whole lot more than just peace.
Speaker 1: So we need to train ourselves to receive the fullness
Speaker 1: of what God has for us now not is Verse
Speaker 1: twenty two. For their life to those that find them
Speaker 1: in health, healing, medicine, remedy and cure to all their flesh.
Speaker 1: Keep thy, keep thy verse twenty three, keep thy wet
Speaker 1: heart with all diligence, For out of it are the
Speaker 1: forces of life. Out of it are the forces of life. Now,
Speaker 1: if we didn't have any other scriptures on healing and
Speaker 1: health than these right here, you know, we would still
Speaker 1: know that God wants us healed and in health, even
Speaker 1: if we didn't have any other scriptures other than just these,
Speaker 1: and we have a whole lot more. But right here
Speaker 1: the scripture tells us God wants us healed and in health,
Speaker 1: and not only tells us so, but tells us how
Speaker 1: to get it, tells us how to get it. Now,
Speaker 1: if healing in health wasn't his will, why would God
Speaker 1: tell us how to get it? If it wasn't his will,
Speaker 1: why would he tell us how to get it? He
Speaker 1: tells us how to get it right here. Surely he
Speaker 1: would to tell us how to get something that wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't his will for us to have, And he
Speaker 1: tells us how to have healing in health and Hollness said,
Speaker 1: attend to my words and cline your to my sayings.
Speaker 1: Let them not depart from before your eyes keep them
Speaker 1: in the midst of your heart, and there'll be life
Speaker 1: to those who find them. In health, medicine, remedy, and
Speaker 1: cure to all their flesh. He gives us the recipe
Speaker 1: for healing and for health. He tells us exactly how
Speaker 1: it works. He says his words are medicine to all
Speaker 1: our flesh, medicine to all our flesh. He doesn't say
Speaker 1: his words are like medicine. That's how a lot of
Speaker 1: folk read that. Oh, his words are like medicine. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't say it's like. He says they are medicine
Speaker 1: his words. Remember last week we talked about words of life,
Speaker 1: words of life. If you weren't here, I'd encourage you
Speaker 1: to get that message and listen to it. If you
Speaker 1: were here, I'd encourage you to get it or go
Speaker 1: online and listen to it again.
Speaker 2: Words of life. God's word is life. We need it
Speaker 2: more than food for our bodies. God's word is full
Speaker 2: of life.
Speaker 1: His word contains words of life, as opposed to words
Speaker 1: of death. Words of life. It matters what you hear,
Speaker 1: It matters what you feed on, It matters what you
Speaker 1: put into you. Good things will help you, Bad things
Speaker 1: will hurt you. You are what you eat, physically as
Speaker 1: well as spiritually and emostly and mentally. God's word is
Speaker 1: full of life. His words are medicine to all our flesh.
Speaker 1: Look how the Living Bible reads here, we'll have it
Speaker 1: on the screens. Is God's words will mean real life
Speaker 1: for you, and radiant health. Real life for you, and
Speaker 1: radiant health should be in the notes there. Not you
Speaker 1: don't need to go to the program, but in the
Speaker 1: notes there radiant health. His words are radiant health. How
Speaker 1: many would like that radiant health? Hallelujah? Only about half
Speaker 1: of you. That's a shame. How many would like that
Speaker 1: radiant health? All right? God's word translation, My words are
Speaker 1: life to those who find them, and they heal the
Speaker 1: whole body. They heal the whole body. So he says,
Speaker 1: guard your heart more than anything else, because the source
Speaker 1: of your life flows from it. The source of your
Speaker 1: life flows from it. His words are health to your
Speaker 1: whole body, to all your flesh. How much of your flesh,
Speaker 1: all your flesh that would be from the top of
Speaker 1: your head to the tips of your toes, from fingertip
Speaker 1: to fingertip, that would be all your flesh. He says,
Speaker 1: My words are health, healing, medicine, remedying, cure to all
Speaker 1: your flesh. God's Word is medicine when we believe it
Speaker 1: with the heart, even now as I'm preaching, or other
Speaker 1: times when you hear the word of God, if you
Speaker 1: are receiving it, let me say this way. If you
Speaker 1: are hearing it in faith and receiving it in faith,
Speaker 1: you know what. It's medicine to you, and it's working.
Speaker 1: If you hear the word of God and you mix
Speaker 1: it with faith, then you're taking the medicine. You're taking
Speaker 1: medicine right now, right now. Now, think about how does
Speaker 1: medicine work. You don't take a tablet and in three
Speaker 1: seconds all the symptoms are gone. That truly would be
Speaker 1: a miracle drug. But it doesn't work that way. You
Speaker 1: don't take a tablet and say wow, three seconds there
Speaker 1: that's gone. Go your merry way. But what is typical
Speaker 1: of medicine. It's progressive. Remember Jesus said, you'll lay hands
Speaker 1: on the sick and they will recover. Said the nobleman's
Speaker 1: son began to amend. From that hour, says of the
Speaker 1: ten lepers. As they went, they were healed. Now in
Speaker 1: Jesus ministry, people it wasn't very long because he was
Speaker 1: operating under an anointing like nobody's ever operated on, because
Speaker 1: he had to the spirit without measure, and he was sinless.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you, when this spirit of God can
Speaker 1: find a vessel that is sinless and has the spirit
Speaker 1: without measure, that the annoying is going to be so strong.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, a lot of things happened progressively. They start unnoticeable,
Speaker 1: but you keep getting better and better and better until
Speaker 1: every symptom is gone and you have the full manifestation.
Speaker 1: Remember Mary, when the Angel appeared to her, she said,
Speaker 1: be it unto me, according to thy word. She believed
Speaker 1: the word. Well, she didn't get pregnant. I mean, she
Speaker 1: can't give birth the next day. It was nine months
Speaker 1: before she gave birth. But it began the minute she believed.
Speaker 1: The Angel said to her, blessed is she that believes
Speaker 1: there shall be a performance of those things which were
Speaker 1: spoken under her. It's out reads in the literal, there
Speaker 1: shall be a performance of those things that were spoken
Speaker 1: unto her. Or all things are possible to those who believe.
Speaker 1: So oftentimes it's progressive. Now, when the spirit of God
Speaker 1: is moving, when the gifts of the spirit of moving.
Speaker 1: There are many times instantaneous manifestations. But if you notice,
Speaker 1: even in large gatherings, you can have thousands of people
Speaker 1: and really just a small number of those thousands receive
Speaker 1: an instantaneous manifestations as the spirit wills. And we don't
Speaker 1: fully understand how it all works and why. But the
Speaker 1: word of God we know is reliable. Believing the word
Speaker 1: of God is reliable, he says, it's health, healing, medicine,
Speaker 1: remedy and cure to all your flesh. John G. Lake
Speaker 1: a tremendous pioneer of faith and minister of healing, he
Speaker 1: said in his writings he said, sometimes I think our
Speaker 1: instantaneous healings are actually a curse for us, because he said,
Speaker 1: people that get them, they just tend to go right
Speaker 1: back on their way and forget all about it and
Speaker 1: do their own thing and don't learn anything about faith,
Speaker 1: and don't continue in the word, don't build their faith up.
Speaker 1: But as you continue to feed on God's word, read
Speaker 1: God's word, study God's word. His word is life and
Speaker 1: health and medicine, remedy and cure to all your flesh,
Speaker 1: to all your flesh, medicine. Now, things are often inert
Speaker 1: until mixed with an activator. When it comes to medicine
Speaker 1: or chemicals and things like that, you can have something
Speaker 1: that's just it's just dormant until you mix it with
Speaker 1: the right thing. And then sometimes you mix it with
Speaker 1: you take take somebody's just sitting there doing nothing. But
Speaker 1: if you mix the right things, whether you can have
Speaker 1: an explosion, or it can start bubbling, or it can
Speaker 1: do all kinds of things. Once you mix with something
Speaker 1: that's just lying there dormant. Well, when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Word of God, we need to mix faith with it,
Speaker 1: believe it in our heart. Go to Hebrews chapter four.
Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter four. It's so important that we take the
Speaker 1: word of God, believe it in our heart, mix faith
Speaker 1: with it, and it comes alive. It begins to work.
Speaker 1: Now I don't propose to have the final word on it,
Speaker 1: but after many years of study about the heart and
Speaker 1: trying to discern, well, what's the entry and the spirit
Speaker 1: and the soul and the heart and the flesh and
Speaker 1: these different things, I've come to the conclusion and the persuasion.
Speaker 1: You know, for many years it was taught that the
Speaker 1: heart is the spirit. But there's problems with that because
Speaker 1: Jesus said one place said how the heart of man
Speaker 1: come adultery and fornication and lies, and how the heart
Speaker 1: of man, Well, that couldn't be the recreated spirit. But
Speaker 1: yet other places it seems to refer to the spirit.
Speaker 1: Other places it seems to refer to the soul, the
Speaker 1: mind of will, emotions, and intellect. I'm persuaded that the
Speaker 1: heart is the spirit and the soul combined, that the
Speaker 1: heart contains both the spirit and the soul. And some
Speaker 1: proof texts for that would be Romans. We won't turn
Speaker 1: there for sake of time, but Romans, well, maybe we
Speaker 1: should hold your place there in Hebrews and go to
Speaker 1: Romans chapter two, Romans chapter two. And in fact I
Speaker 1: first heard Bob Yandy and the pastor and Tulsa, the
Speaker 1: former professor teacher at Raymad Bible Training Center, allude to this.
Speaker 1: And he said he was talking about how he said
Speaker 1: a lot of times the different instructors and teachers that
Speaker 1: Ray would get together and they'd say, what is the heart?
Speaker 1: How do we figure out what the heart is? Because
Speaker 1: obviously someplace it can't just be the spirit, and other
Speaker 1: places it is and that and look at Romans two
Speaker 1: twenty nine, it gives us some insight into the heart.
Speaker 1: But he is a Jew who is one inwardly. And
Speaker 1: circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, of
Speaker 1: the heart in the spirit, with the understanding that the
Speaker 1: spirit is a part of the heart in the spirit,
Speaker 1: the heart in the spirit. And then if you go
Speaker 1: over to first Peter chapter three one Peter chapter three,
Speaker 1: in verse three it talks about godly women, who says,
Speaker 1: whose adorning. Let it not be that outward adorning of
Speaker 1: braiding the hair, and of wearing of gold and the
Speaker 1: putting on of apparel verse four, But let it be
Speaker 1: the hidden man of the heart, in that which is
Speaker 1: not creftible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
Speaker 1: So so for I would I believe that the heart
Speaker 1: contains means, the spirit and the soul. One it's talking
Speaker 1: about believe with the heart. It's to believe it in
Speaker 1: our spirit and be persuaded in our mind, to have
Speaker 1: a renewed mind, to have it down in our heart,
Speaker 1: or we've meditated on it. Proverbs four kind of gives
Speaker 1: us the formula forgetting it in our heart. It says,
Speaker 1: attend to it, incline your ears to it, Let it
Speaker 1: not depart from before your eyes, keep it in the
Speaker 1: midst of your heart. That if we will attend to it,
Speaker 1: incline our ears to it, don't let it depart from
Speaker 1: our before eyes, it'll get down into our heart. See
Speaker 1: the word of God to become medicine to us and
Speaker 1: for us to believe it with our heart. And a
Speaker 1: lot of times, whether we want to admit it or not,
Speaker 1: our problem in receiving is we're not believing with the heart.
Speaker 1: We're just acknowledging it with the head. We just say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that, or I know that, but we don't
Speaker 1: really believe it in the heart. And it says with
Speaker 1: the heart, man, believeth Jesus a doubt, not in your heart.
Speaker 1: Guard your heart with all diligence. So to get it
Speaker 1: down in our heart, we need to attend to it.
Speaker 1: We need to incline our ear to it. We need
Speaker 1: to let it not depart from before our eyes. We
Speaker 1: need to keep it, guard it. Why would God tell
Speaker 1: us to attend to it, to incline our ears to it,
Speaker 1: to let him not depart from before us, to keep
Speaker 1: keep in the midst of our heart. Why would he
Speaker 1: say that because there's a whole lot of people that
Speaker 1: are not doing that. He would not tell us we
Speaker 1: had to do all those things if everybody was automatically
Speaker 1: doing it. See the Word of God, reading it, studying it.
Speaker 1: It's not a one time thing. This is not like
Speaker 1: other books. Well, you can read them one time and
Speaker 1: say okay, I read it and I'm done, and probably
Speaker 1: never read it again. You think I may books you've
Speaker 1: read over your life. Well, probably some people could count
Speaker 1: on two hands how many they've read over their life.
Speaker 1: You know some people they never read, but then other
Speaker 1: people are voracious readers. But whatever the case, say how
Speaker 1: many books you read over your life, and very few
Speaker 1: of them you read more than once. It's got to
Speaker 1: be a really really good book to read more than once.
Speaker 1: But the Bible is not like that. It's not like
Speaker 1: when you read it and you say, okay, I read it,
Speaker 1: I'm done. It's to be read, studied, meditated on, constantly, continually, prayerfully, diligently,
Speaker 1: reverently read it all the time, all the time. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of folking read through the whole Bible.
Speaker 1: They call themselves Christians. I'm saying you'll lose your salvation.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a little embarrassing when you go
Speaker 1: to heaven meet a zekei and he says, Hi, have
Speaker 1: you read my book? And you go, uh, Nope, Jonah, Jonah,
Speaker 1: have you read my book? Nope. It's just good to
Speaker 1: get an overview, and a one year Bible is a
Speaker 1: great help to doing that. Take that one year Bible
Speaker 1: and just you know, it'll keep you on course. It'll
Speaker 1: keep you on track. I estimate I've read through the
Speaker 1: whole Bible over thirty times, just through that one year Bible.
Speaker 1: And this year I took a break and I noticed
Speaker 1: my Bible reading is not as good as it's been
Speaker 1: when I got the one year Bible. Still reading it,
Speaker 1: but I said, I'm not not as on track as
Speaker 1: I would be if I had the one year Bible going.
Speaker 1: So I'm probably get it out again next year. But
Speaker 1: get into the word regularly, consistently, constant, careful, diligent, reverend,
Speaker 1: prayerful study of God's Word as we practice all four
Speaker 1: of those things and proverbs for attend to it and
Speaker 1: cline your ear to it, let it not depart from
Speaker 1: before your eyes, keep it in the misyard. That's how
Speaker 1: it gets down into your heart, read it, study it,
Speaker 1: meditate it, and you get it down in your heart,
Speaker 1: get your mind renewed to it. You believe with your heart,
Speaker 1: and you see it come to pass as Jesus said,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to work. Now, look at Hebrews chapter four,
Speaker 1: verse two. For unto us was the gospel preached as
Speaker 1: well as unto them. But the word preached did not
Speaker 1: profit them, not being mixed with faith, not being mixed
Speaker 1: with faith in them, that hurt it. So people can
Speaker 1: and hear the word preach to them. They can hear
Speaker 1: a tremendous message, an anointed message, a powerful message, but
Speaker 1: if they don't mix faith with it, it's not going
Speaker 1: to profit them. So we must mix faith with it.
Speaker 1: Dake and his commentary on this verse says, the idea
Speaker 1: is that of the human body, in this idea mixing
Speaker 1: with it. He said, this word in the Greek, it's
Speaker 1: like it's taken from the human body, which kept alive
Speaker 1: by the proper mixing of food with the saliva and
Speaker 1: the gastric juices. Should this mixture not take place, such
Speaker 1: food would be a means of death rather than life.
Speaker 1: So he said, if somebody takes in food but it's
Speaker 1: not properly mixed with saliva and gastric juices. The very
Speaker 1: thing that should produce life produces death and the word
Speaker 1: of God. If it's not properly mixed with faith, with
Speaker 1: believing in the heart, it can actually produce a form
Speaker 1: of death rather than life. So what does it mean
Speaker 1: to mix faith with it? Well, let's look at before
Speaker 1: we close there just what it doesn't mean. And I
Speaker 1: think God helps us know what it does mean. To
Speaker 1: mix faith with it means as you hear the word,
Speaker 1: as you read the words, you study your word, don't
Speaker 1: reject it, don't doubt it, don't ignore it, don't be
Speaker 1: distracted from it. You know, when you're reading on your own,
Speaker 1: guard against your mind being distracted, in your mind wandering.
Speaker 1: And as long as the devil knows he can gets
Speaker 1: you to do that, he'll just wreak havoc in your
Speaker 1: life till you teach him that, No, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be distracted no matter what you do, I'm going
Speaker 1: to focus. I'm going to focus. When you're in church.
Speaker 1: Teach yourself when you're in a meeting, in the words
Speaker 1: being preached teachers, well, not to be distracted, to focus.
Speaker 1: The lock in on what's being said. Somebody gets up
Speaker 1: and goes to the bathroom. You've seen it once, you'll
Speaker 1: see it a thousand times. It's amazing, though. Notice, especially
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, I'll be preached along. Somebody gets something
Speaker 1: and goes the bathroom. She's about fifteen heads. It's like
Speaker 1: they're just going to the bathroom. There's nothing to see,
Speaker 1: and you're going to possibly miss the very thing that
Speaker 1: could turn your life around. But we're so easily distracted.
Speaker 1: Somebody start looking at the fans. You know, it's hello.
Speaker 1: You know I'm saying something may help you here. You know, Wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't know there's all those knotholes in there. One knotholes.
Speaker 1: It's like, we get so easily Oh what does she
Speaker 1: have on today? Where'd she get that? I wanted? We
Speaker 1: had to talk to about that, you know, so easily distracted,
Speaker 1: so easily distracted. I like what her brother Coplan say,
Speaker 1: He said, you ought to be so focus, so locked
Speaker 1: into the word of God. They're in a meeting. If
Speaker 1: the lights go off and a bomb goes off, you
Speaker 1: just sit there and say, keep preaching, keep preaching. You know,
Speaker 1: that's locked in, that's focused, that's how important because the
Speaker 1: word is life. It's life. It's life now. You know,
Speaker 1: even right now as I'm preaching, there could be somebody
Speaker 1: you just didn't hear a word I said the last
Speaker 1: five minutes because your mind I said something in your
Speaker 1: mind went off on something else, you know. But that's
Speaker 1: why you got to train yourself to focus. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you a great thing to do. It's not easy, but
Speaker 1: it works. It was when somebody's preaching, repeat back in
Speaker 1: your mind everything that said. Wow, you want to really
Speaker 1: soak out of a message, all that's in there, It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Right after they say it, you say it back in
Speaker 1: your mind. And I and I work on doing that.
Speaker 1: Most of the time I'm not listening, I'm preaching. But
Speaker 1: when I do that, I do real good for about
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes. You know. The next thing, I know, Oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot to do that. But you got to train yourself.
Speaker 1: You just repeat it back to yourself. Hopefully some of
Speaker 1: you are doing it right now, repeating it back to yourself,
Speaker 1: and you'll realize you'll get a whole lot more out
Speaker 1: of a message. You ever listen to a message on
Speaker 1: CD or tape or maybe you're there live and you
Speaker 1: hear it, and then you get the CD or tape
Speaker 1: and then you re listen to it. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been in meetings before, we've had guest speakers in and
Speaker 1: I got the CD and I listened to it, and
Speaker 1: it'll be like five minutes. I'm going, Where was I.
Speaker 1: I didn't even hear that. I was there on the
Speaker 1: front row nodding in agreement. I didn't even hear it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how we can Our minds can wander. Some
Speaker 1: people's minds can wander a whole lot more readily and
Speaker 1: easily than other people's minds. But we're to take every
Speaker 1: thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. Bring your
Speaker 1: mind into line, and say we're going to focus. We're
Speaker 1: going to mix faith with the word of God. Don't
Speaker 1: be distracted. Joshua and Caleb, they mixed faith with the
Speaker 1: word of God. God said, I've given you the land,
Speaker 1: and they mixed faith with They said, our God is
Speaker 1: well able, we can do it. The Ten Spies and
Speaker 1: the children of Israel, they didn't mix faith with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: God said it, but yeah, we know he said it.
Speaker 1: But that's how a lot of people are. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they didn't mix faith with it. They didn't receive the promise.
Speaker 1: They didn't go into the promised land. They did not
Speaker 1: go into the promised land. We read it last week,
Speaker 1: I think and Luke. It says that Jesus went and
Speaker 1: he preached, and the power of the Lord was present
Speaker 1: to heal them. And none of them were getting healed
Speaker 1: even though the power was present. Why because nobody was
Speaker 1: mixing faith with it until they let the man down
Speaker 1: through the roof, and it said Jesus, seeing their faith,
Speaker 1: said rise, take up your bed and walk. They mixed
Speaker 1: faith with the word of God, so we must mix
Speaker 1: faith with it. Morgan G. Campbell said this, we'll have
Speaker 1: the quote on the screen. Where faith is lacking, the
Speaker 1: provisions of God are unavailing or unavailable. Where faith is lacking,
Speaker 1: the provisions of God are unavailing. In other words, we
Speaker 1: don't have faith, we don't receive the provision. Matthew Henry
Speaker 1: and his commentary said, there have been in all ages
Speaker 1: many unprofitable hearers, and unbelief is at the root of
Speaker 1: all unfruitfulness under the word. There have been in all
Speaker 1: ages many unprofitable hearers, and unbelief is at the root
Speaker 1: of all unfruitfulness under the word. Faith in the hearer
Speaker 1: is the life of the word. Faith in the hearer
Speaker 1: is the life of the word. Warsby comments. Only as
Speaker 1: the word is mixed with faith can it accomplish its purposes.
Speaker 1: Only when it's mixed with faith can it accomplish his purpose.
Speaker 1: God's word is medicine. It's actually time released medicine. You
Speaker 1: take it, and keep taking it, and keep taking it,
Speaker 1: and you get better and better and better and more
Speaker 1: and more healed and whole and complete. Time release medicine.
Speaker 1: Just keep taking there's the medicine. There's no medicine like
Speaker 1: God's medicine. I mean, every medicine, it doesn't matter what is,
Speaker 1: even an aspirin, has potential adverse side effects. Every medicine.
Speaker 1: I'm not against medicine, but people folk need to realize
Speaker 1: they take medicine, there are potential adverse side effects. And
Speaker 1: I know people that are taking medicine to overcome the
Speaker 1: side effects of the other medicine, of the side effects
Speaker 1: of the first medicine that they're taking. They're taking four
Speaker 1: and five medicines and the second, third, and fourth and
Speaker 1: fifth one are to deal with the side effects from
Speaker 1: the first and second one so potential adverse. God's word
Speaker 1: has no adverse side effects except life and joy and
Speaker 1: peace and freedom and victory. If you want to say
Speaker 1: those are adverse, and they're not. God's word is medicine,
Speaker 1: but it does no good until we find it. It's
Speaker 1: life to those who find it. We have to find it,
Speaker 1: we have to acquire it, we have to take it
Speaker 1: according to directions, and we have to mix faith with it.
Speaker 1: Let's look at it one more time. As we close.
Speaker 1: God's direction, his prescription for taking his medicine, his word
Speaker 1: real simple. Here four things. Attend to God's word. Incline
Speaker 1: your ear to God's word. Let not God's word depart
Speaker 1: from your eyes, and keep it in the midst of
Speaker 1: your heart. Keep God's word, And as we looked at before,
Speaker 1: it entails the whole being, mind, eyes, ears, mouth, tongue,
Speaker 1: the whole being, the heart. Really, the heart is the
Speaker 1: whole man, the whole being. Hallelujah. Somebody define heart dostly,
Speaker 1: they said, the heart is the seat of the total personality.
Speaker 1: Where to keep our hearts with all diligence. What we
Speaker 1: hear is important, what we study is important, what we
Speaker 1: see is important. We should recognize that out of the
Speaker 1: heart will come all the great issues of life. Think
Speaker 1: of it. Out of your heart come all the issues
Speaker 1: of life. Guard your heart. Get into the Word of God.
Speaker 1: It's medicine, medicine. Believe with your heart. How do I
Speaker 1: get it into my heart? Attend to it and cline
Speaker 1: your ear to it. Keep it before your eyes. What
Speaker 1: you hear is important. What you study is important. What
Speaker 1: you see is important. Guard your heart. Guard what goes
Speaker 1: into your mind, what goes into your eyes, what goes
Speaker 1: into your heart, guard it, guard it. Feed on the
Speaker 1: word of God. Don't feed on the junk of this world,
Speaker 1: the doubt and the unbelief, and the fear and the negativity.
Speaker 1: That's not going to produce faith. It's going to produce
Speaker 1: doubt and fear. Fathering the name of Jesus, we thank you.
Speaker 1: Your words are life to us, for we have found
Speaker 1: them in health, healing, medicine, remedy and cure to all
Speaker 1: our flesh. We thank you, Lord God for your living word.
Speaker 1: Lord it, as we believe it with our heart, as
Speaker 1: we mix faith with the Word of God, it becomes
Speaker 1: life to us. It's alive, it's powerful, it's sharper than
Speaker 1: any two edged sword. Lord, we thank you. Your word
Speaker 1: is continually working in us. It's medicine, continually progressively, constantly
Speaker 1: working in us, as we feed on it, as we
Speaker 1: take your word, as we as we receive your word
Speaker 1: into our hearts, as we believe it with our heart.
Speaker 1: For with the heart man believes with the your mouth,
Speaker 1: confession is made.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We praise you for it. Lord God, We bless you
Speaker 1: for it in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Glory, glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Praise your Father for your healing virtue, your healing power,
Speaker 1: your healing life, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Thank
Speaker 1: you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Father. Let's stand up.
Speaker 1: We're going to sing this song and closing, and I'm
Speaker 1: impressed to just closed by doing this. As we're singing
Speaker 1: this song, if you would like hands laid on you
Speaker 1: or anointed with oil, I'm going to invite you to
Speaker 1: as we're singing, if you'd like prayer to come up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask John, Jerry and Connie to come up
Speaker 1: and pray as well, So I'll ask them to be
Speaker 1: over there if you, if you too, would and I'll
Speaker 1: be over here and if you if you, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's easier for people to go to somebody that
Speaker 1: they don't know and doesn't know their circumstances situation. If
Speaker 1: you prefer to go to them, I won't be offended
Speaker 1: at all, you know, won't bother me or if you
Speaker 1: want to, I'll be here as well, and we'll both
Speaker 1: be available to lay hands on you, anoint you with oil, uh,
Speaker 1: and just believe God with you for healing wholeness if
Speaker 1: that's your desire. So as we sing this, if you'd
Speaker 1: like prayer, come on up and we'll minister to you
Speaker 1: and uh if you if you don't need a prayer
Speaker 1: to saying and pray for people that are coming up.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. We hope that you enjoyed today's episode.
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Speaker 1: God bless you all.