AUDIENCE:  Amen.

ART:  That’s exciting! It means that you can truly fulfill Matthew 10:8 which says “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, drive out demons. Freely you have received, now freely give.” Jesus said in John 5 just as the Father gives life to the dead and raises them up even so the Son gives life to whom He is pleased to give it. Sometimes we’re sitting here thinking people aren’t being healed because of all these different reasons. Maybe God doesn’t want it. I think sometimes people aren’t healed because we don’t want it. Because you can give it away to whomever you choose. Now that’s a tough thought. Now it’s a tough one. It’s a challenging one. But me? I carry this thought. I let it spur me on toward love and good works. I let it challenge me. I let it push me forward in the ministry. And I’m telling you God’s going to do great things through you if you’ll remember I know I can do this because His nature’s been put in me. He is the Lord our Healer. He’s put His Spirit in me. I’m a new creation. See that’s the beauty of salvation. You know like under the Old Covenant it was work, work, work. I have to prove myself. And the proof of the Old Covenant was nobody could obey everything. You know if you break just one of these things you’re guilty of all of it. Like I mean you could say I deserve hell because I’ve broken Ten Commandments but the truth is I deserve hell cause I shaved the hair on the sides of my heads. You know like that’s one of the commandments. You know you could go to the slightest little thing and we’ve broken it. You’re guilty of all of it. But Jesus comes and He sets us free from all of that. He says I will fulfill the Law on your behalf. Wow. He pays the price for our sin. He takes the wages of sin which was death so that we can live. And then it doesn’t stop there. He doesn’t just save you. He puts His Spirit in you. The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead. The Holy Spirit of God. And you’d better believe if God is with you What does Acts 10:38 say? “Jesus went about doing good, healing all because God was with Him.” With Him. So, I wish I could just expound on this stuff but we’re going to run out of time. I just want to make sure you’re clear. I know that in scripture there are times when God made people sick. It happens. But the issue of whether God makes someone sick is separate from the issue of does God always want to heal. We have a New Testament example. There’s only one person in the entire Bible who Jesus specifically made sick. That was the man Saul who became the Apostle Paul. When he was on the road to Damascus he had a vision of Jesus and he wound up blinded by this experience. He was on his way to go persecute Christians. Right? Now three days he stays blind until Jesus appears in a vision to a normal ordinary disciple like you or me named Ananias. And He says to Ananias go to this man named Saul at this place and this location. Tells him what to do and what to say and to lay hands on him because Saul’s seen a vision of a man named Ananias coming and laying hands on him and restoring his sight. Now Ananias knows who this Saul is. He knows about the persecution against Christians and everything. He’s terrified. He says Lord send somebody else. Right? I probably would have too. I’ve heard about this guy, Saul. But instead the Lord encourages him. He goes. He lays hands on Saul and heals him. Now think about that. The one and only case where Jesus made someone sick the prescription was as soon as a Christian could get there they ministered healing. God’s will was healing. He just wanted to stop Saul from persecuting Christians. So you think God made you sick? Well are you on your way to murder Christians? If not, it probably wasn’t Him. Okay?

AUDIENCE:  (LAUGHTER)

ART:  Just being real with you. Now the another case is when Saul became Paul he’s ministering and there’s this   guy out there who after Saul…after Paul preaches the gospel this guy stands up and starts preaching the opposite, opposing the gospel and Paul says you’re going to be blind for a time. In other words this wasn’t even a permanent blindness. It was just to shut the guy down and move him out of the picture so the gospel could take root. So in the New Testament whenever God did something that brought sickness or disease it was always temporary and the clearest picture we have the prescription was healing. The other one was it was to wear off. You see? So don’t be like no, this is my cross to bear. Jesus gave… No, that’s not your cross to bear. It was Jesus’ cross to bear and He bore it. Your job is not to carry what He carried. Your job’s not to pay for sin. His job’s to pay for sin. Your job’s not to carry sickness. His job is. So here’s what we’re going to do. I only have a few minutes left and I want to see some people healed. We started tonight. We saw a gentleman’s knee get healed. That was awesome. And so if there’s anybody here who needs physical healing. Anybody watching you need physical healing. Here’s what we’re going to do. I want you to… if you’re in the studio audience raise your hand just so we can see what we’re working with. All right. Look at this. There’s hands all over the place. Many behind us. The guy whose knee we prayed for he’s got his hands down. I love it! And were going to see Jesus do something here. Now look around you at the people whose hands are up. Okay? Because I’m about to teach you exactly what we do to minister healing. All we do is we lay hands on someone and we say be healed in Jesus name and we have them test it out if they can. Some things can be tested immediately. Like pain in your body or something like that. Vision problems. Hearing problems. Some things you’ve going to go to a doctor. You can put your hands down so you don’t need healing for your shoulder too.

AUDIENCE:  (LAUGHTER)