There's a Healer in the

House

There's a Healer in the

House

Dr. Ed Dufresne

Ed Dufresne Ministries

Temecula, California

Unless otherwise indicated, all scriptural quotations are from the

King James Version of the Bible.

There's a Healer in the House

ISBN 0-940763-07-9

Copyright © 1993 by Ed Dufresne Ministries

P. O. Box 186

Temecula, CA 92593

Some material in this book previously appeared in the book Is

God Glorified in Sickness? copyright © 1978 by Ed Dufresne.

Published by

Ed Dufresne Ministries

P. O. Box 186

Temecula, CA 92593

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Contents

Preface............................................................................... . 7

Introduction.................................................. . . . . . . . . . .23

1 Healing Trends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2 Jesus' Ministry Expresses God's Will. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3 Healing: God's Calling Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4 The Benefits of Calvary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

5 The Benefits of Communion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

6 When We're Not Healed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

7 God Is Glorified in Healing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Preface

The House of Healing

By Nancy Dufresne

ecently, I was meditating on the scripture found in

RIsaiah 53:4 and 5, reading:

Surely he hath borne our griefs [sicknesses], and

carried our sorrows [diseases]: yet we did esteem him

stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was

bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace

was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Not only did Jesus die for our sins when He was on the

cross of Calvary, but He also purchased healing for us by

the stripes He took on His back.

As salvation is now available through Jesus' sacrifice

on Calvary for every human who has lived since then and

will ever live on the face of the earth, so healing is also

available for every human who will ever live.

The only reason everyone isn't healed is the same

reason everyone isn't born again: They don't know they can

be.

Healing belongs to everyone, but it must be accepted

and received, just as salvation belongs to everyone, but it

must be accepted and received.

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Jesus' House of Healing

At a time in my life when I needed a healing in my

body, I was reading the wonderful passage in Isaiah

quoted above. When the stripes were laid on Jesus' back,

they constituted payment in full for any healing I would

ever need!

As I continued to meditate on this passage, I asked the

Holy Spirit for a greater personal revelation of what

belongs to me because of the stripes Jesus took for me.

You never know so much that you can't receive more

revelation from the Spirit of God, no matter how familiar a

passage seems. Furthermore, you must gain revelation of

the Word of God for yourself. You can't live off the

revelation God gave someone else. The revelation they

gain certainly blesses and helps your understanding, but

it's only the Holy Spirit who can make it come alive to

you.

I told the Holy Spirit, "I know that I was healed two

thousand years ago at that moment in time when Jesus

took those stripes on His back, but I'm going to meditate

on this truth so it will become ingrained in me."

And as I was thinking on that passage of scripture, the

Holy Spirit asked me this question: "If someone bought

you a house, paid for it in full, and gave you the title deed

to it, but you didn't actually move into the house, or take

physical possession of it until five years later, when did

the house belong to you—when the title deed was given to

you, or when you moved into it?"

I replied, "When the title deed was given to me."

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"Well," continued the Holy Spirit, "Jesus gave you the

title deed to your healing two thousand years ago, but you

can move into it today."

Did you know that Jesus built you and me a house of

healing two thousand years ago? But that house of healing

Jesus built for us will remain vacant until we decide to

move into it.

Dealing With Yesterday's "Junk"

Once you buy a house, everything in that house

belongs to you. Jesus has provided this marvelous house

of healing for us, and everything we will ever need is

inside it!

At different times in my life when I moved to a new

location, I always noticed as I packed that I had collected

so much junk—things that weren't valuable or useful to

me but were kept anyway.

I'd start going through my belongings and throwing

things away, wondering why I had ever kept them in the

first place. Not having to cart useless junk from the old

location to the new made the load lighter when I moved.

Second Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore if any man

be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed

away; behold, all things are become new." Hallelujah!

When you were born again, all that "junk" you had

collected in your heart was cleaned out. It's not useful to

you anymore. You're a brand new creature! You've got no

business with the junk of the past! Don't keep any of that

old junk belonging to the "old man." As you make life's

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journey, it will make your load lighter.

When you received Christ as your Savior, He took

away that old spirit of death that was on the inside of you

and gave you a new spirit, His Spirit of life. Even though

all your sins were washed away by His blood, Satan will

now try to make you think they aren't gone by bringing

them back to your remembrance.

Romans 12:2 says, ". .be ye transformed by the

renewing of your mind. . " That's something you must do;

God won't do it for you. He gave you a new spirit, but you

still have your same old mind that you must deal with.

The only way to deal with it is by studying the Word

of God—building it on the inside of you, knowing it as

well as you know your name—and by spending time

fellowshipping with God in prayer.

Cleaning Out the Closet of Your Heart

When I threw that junk out at moving time, I took it to

the dumpster and left it there.

I could have decided later, "Well, I know that old box

of stuff I threw out isn't any good, but it's been around for

so long, I'm kind of attached to it. Plus, I never know

when I might need it again."

If so, I would have retraced my steps to the dumpster,

dug around in the trash, retrieved that worthless box of

junk, carted it back into my house, set it down with the

other boxes, and said to myself, "Now that's more like it!"

You can do the same thing with that old lifestyle of

yours, but you shouldn't.

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You receive Jesus as your Savior at the church altar or

wherever you are when He comes into your heart (but

you certainly don't have to be at an altar to receive Him).

Your heart is tender toward Him, and you say, "Jesus, I

give you everything. Take my life and make me new

again. I don't want to be what I used to be. I give you

everything that's displeasing to You and ask You to make

me new."

Jesus does just that. Like cleaning out all the old boxes

at moving time—in a split second of time, His precious

blood floods over your soul.

His Spirit imparts the life of Jesus into your spirit (or

heart), and in a moment of time all your unforgiveness,

bitterness, hurt, rebellion, and depression is gone. All that

extra useless baggage you accumulated throughout your

life is discarded.

Jesus goes through the closet of your heart and gets rid

of everything you won't need in this new residence of

eternal life. You are now that "new creature in Christ" the

Bible talks about. Life is sweeter than you ever thought

possible!

Avoid the Dumpster of Unforgiveness

However, in just a short amount of time, the devil

starts bringing those discarded sins back across your

mind. He whispers, "That person you became bitter

toward is still just as mean and nasty to you as they ever

were. Did you hear what they said to you today? See,

nothing has changed. You have a right to feel that way. It's

terrible the way they treat you!"

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And before you know it, the devil has you marching

right back down to the dumpster of unforgiveness and

hurt and rummaging through the trash looking for that

old, familiar feeling you once possessed.

You cart it back to the living room of your heart that is

now the habitation of God's Spirit, and set it down,

pushing God's Spirit aside to make room for that old

possession of sin.

Resist the Devil

You may ask, "How do I do that? How do I allow that

old sin back into my life? I'm a new creature in Christ. He

has taken all that old junk away."

Yes, but you can retrieve and bring up that old junk

again by talking and thinking about it. And before long,

you're reliving those old feelings you had toward that

person.

James 4:7 reads, "Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

Recognize that those old feelings and thoughts are the

nature of the "old man," and the devil wants to pull you

back into that "old man" way of thinking and acting again.

Resist him by saying, "No, devil! The new creature that

I am won't have fellowship with that old creature. We

have nothing in common, and I won't receive those bad

thoughts."

Resist the devil!

How to Live in the House of Healing

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The house of provision that Jesus built for you to live

in not only contains healing as a furnishing; it also

contains prosperity, soundness of mind, peace, love, and

anything you will need in life.

However, before you move into it, you first must

remove any boxes of sin: unforgiveness, bitterness,

rebellion, and so forth. You can't bring any sin into Jesus'

house. Only a pure, hungry, seeking heart will ever

recline on the furnishings of healing.

If Christians aren't careful, they will find that they

have allowed themselves to carry possessions of that "old

man," or old nature, back into their hearts.

Don't defend yourself by saying, "The devil bullied me

into it. He made me do it!" If the devil had that much

power, he would never have allowed you to receive Jesus

as your Savior. You have a will. Use it against the devil!

This house of provision Jesus gives is yours! John 15:7

states, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye

shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

There is an abiding place, and it's in Jesus!

In Him is healing. In Him is health. In Him is joy. In

Him is peace. In Him is love. In Him is prosperity. It's all

in Jesus: He is this house of provision!

Enter into Jesus' healing house. Proverbs 18:10 says,

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous

runneth into it, and is safe."

In Jesus is all you'll ever need. Don't go digging around

in the dumpster of the past to drag out something to live

on, for the past has no life in it. Leave the past under the

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blood of Jesus. The life is in the blood! Live in Jesus,

conscious of His delivering, life-giving blood, and you'll

have all the life you'll ever need.

One of my favorite verses is Acts 17:28: "For in him we

live, and move, and have our being.. ." Learn not to make

a move unless it moves you into Him!

Bullets of Unbelief

At a time when symptoms of sickness were in my

body, the devil was trying to torment my mind with

fearful thoughts. Have you ever experienced this kind of

spiritual torment?

The Word of God calls Satan "the deceiver." We know

that the devil makes his strongest attacks by speaking to

our minds. This is the most successful device he uses

against most believers. He tries to deceive us into thinking

about our situation in a way that is contrary to what the

Word of God says. Thus, in order to use his deceptive

powers to defeat us, the devil must speak to our mind to

deceive it. If he can deceive our thinking, we will not stop

him from operating in our life.

This is the strategy the devil used against me when I

was standing for my healing. He spoke words to my mind

so fast it was as if they were being shot into me by a

machine gun. Of course, they were bullets of unbelief!

I've learned that whenever the devil attacks, he sends

unbelief with the attack to make you think you don't have

an ounce of faith in your heart. Resist that unbelief, which

is of the devil, and it will go! Then you'll be free to operate

in faith against that attack of the enemy.

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The devil will always attack your faith when you're

going through a test or a trial. Jesus knew this. He told

Peter that Satan desired to have him to sift him as wheat;

but Jesus added that He had prayed for Peter so his faith

wouldn't fail.

As you resist that attack of unbelief, faith will once

again prevail in your heart, and you will rise above the

test and trial.

The Holy Spirit Will Come to Your Aid

During my trial of faith, the enemy was saying to my

mind, "You'll never get better. Just look at other people

who have had the same symptoms. They've been that way

for years, and you will be, too!"

But thank God, when the enemy tries to invade your

life, the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against

him. If you will follow the Spirit of the Lord at that time,

He will guide you out of that situation the enemy is trying

to put you in. That's one of the jobs of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said in reference to the Holy Spirit in John 16:13,

". .he will guide you into all truth. . " Truth is the Word of

God, and the Word of God is victory. Therefore, the Holy

Spirit will guide you into victory.

Notice, however, that Jesus did not say that the Holy

Spirit would drag or push you into truth. You must follow

Him willingly, for He is our Guide.

Looking Unto Jesus

The devil was trying to make me look at other people's

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conditions instead of looking at what the Word said about

my physical condition.

The devil's aim, of course, is always to take your gaze

from Jesus. But Hebrews 12:2 says, "Looking unto Jesus

the author and finisher of our faith. . "

Lilian B. Yeomans states this so masterfully in one of

her books on healing when she calls it "life for a look." I

love that. One look at Jesus and that's all it takes!

As I was casting down those thoughts of the enemy,

the Holy Spirit spoke so wonderfully and reassuringly to

my heart and asked me, "Do you look in your neighbor's

checkbook to see if you can pay your bills?"

"Well, no," I exclaimed.

"Then why do you look at someone else's body to see

whether or not Jesus has healed you?"

This response of the Holy Spirit smarted a little bit, but

I gratefully took the hint, and I'm so glad to report I was

wonderfully set free by God's power.

Never let the devil deceive your gaze of faith. Greater

is He that is in you than he that is in the world!

When Your Furnace Gets Fiery

Having preached from the Old Testament Book of

Daniel about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, I'm

impressed by their fellowship with God.

Thinking on these scriptures, I've tried to envision

what it must have been like at this time in the lives of

these three men.

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You need to read the third chapter of Daniel to refresh

your memory about this story. Nebuchadnezzar had just

built an image of gold and gathered all the leaders of the

land together to worship it.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were among the

gathering that day, but being God's men, they refused to

worship the idol and become the devil's men.

When they wouldn't bow down to Nebuchadnezzar's

idol, he had them thrown into a furnace that was heated

seven times hotter than it had ever been heated before.

Before being thrown into this fiery furnace, the three

Hebrews told the king that their God would deliver them.

Think about that!

I wonder how many other people they had seen

thrown into that furnace? I'm sure they had seen many.

This was the punishment meted out to those who had

been sentenced to death.

And I wonder how many times Shadrach, Meshach

and Abednego had seen people walk out of the furnace?

How many times had Daniel seen people walk out of the

lions' den? How many times had Moses seen the Red Sea

part? None, none, none on all three accounts!

Faith's Creative Ability

People with faith will believe that God will do

something for them, even if they have never seen God do

it for anyone else!

Didn't God love others enough to do it for them? Of

course He did—but they didn't believe He would.

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It doesn't matter if you've never seen God do for

someone else what you need Him to do for you. Faith

doesn't stop at what God has done for someone else. Faith

goes on further to the answer.

The second chapter of Mark relates the story of a man

who tried to get into a house where Jesus was ministering.

He was a crippled man who was confined to a bed.

The men carrying him were unable to gain entry

through the door because of the crowd, so they carried

him up on the roof, tore the roof apart, and let him down

right at Jesus' feet. Of course, the man was healed. There

was a Healer in that house.

I want you to see that real Bible faith doesn't stop at

opposition; it just bypasses it.

Bible faith doesn't wait for the door to open upon

God's provision. Bible faith will make its own entrance

into the provisions of God.

If you're waiting for the door of healing or whatever

else you need from God to open automatically, Satan will

block the door. God's provision is there for the taking, just

as these men took what they wanted: healing for their

friend.

The wonderful thing is, that's when you please Jesus

the most—in taking what He has provided for you!

The Roots of Guerrilla Warfare

Throughout history, there have been numerous

examples of nations at war with one another. Usually, one

nation fights for freedom and liberty, while its enemy tries

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to force an oppressive form of government on it to rule it.

At times the United States has sent troops into foreign

lands to lend military support to the nation struggling for

its freedom.

After victory has been declared, the U.S. military

forces return home, usually leaving some troops in that

foreign country to help enforce its victory.

Because defeated nations usually lose the majority of

their military weapons, they no longer have the power to

continue to engage in a full-blown war.

However, as a desperate last attempt, defeated nations

may begin to engage in guerrilla warfare. They terrorize

the winning nation by placing bombs in public places, on

aircraft, and so forth. By killing innocent people and

wreaking havoc, they are still making themselves heard.

This is exactly the kind of warfare Satan and his

hordes are engaged in against the Body of Christ!

Jesus Freed the Human Race

Realize that Jesus was sent to earth from the "nation"

of heaven. He took on the cause of the human race, which

was to regain our freedom and liberty from Satan's

dominion.

Jesus defeated Satan on his own territory, and rose

from the dead victorious.

And in Revelation 1:18, Jesus states, "I. .have the keys

of hell and of death." Hallelujah! Where did He get them

from? He took them from Satan! The Victor always spoils

the enemy.

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Jesus has won the victory! He has set us free from the

bondage of Satan!

Colossians 1:13 declares, "[God] hath delivered us

from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into

the kingdom of his dear Son."

Colossians 2:15 says, "And having spoiled

principalities and powers, he made a shew [show] of

them openly, triumphing over them in it."

When the Bible says that Jesus "spoiled" them, it

means He took away not only the enemy's power, but also

his possessions.

Death no longer has the victory.

Upon defeating the devil, Jesus then returned to His

"nation," heaven. Just as U.S. military troops don't fully

abandon the field of victory, but leave troops behind to

enforce the victory, Jesus did not leave us abandoned.

Heaven sent its greatest power, the Holy Spirit, to help us

enforce our victory!

The devil hates the fact that he was defeated, so he

launches guerrilla warfare on believers to make us think

that the war is still going on. But it isn't! He no longer has

the power to engage in a full-blown war. He has been

stripped of his power, to harm and destroy those who

trust in God.

Jesus has won the victory for us, and now we must

enforce our victory and hold the enemy to it.

Why Satan Plants Bombs in Your Life

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Satan's power was spoiled by Jesus. Although Satan no

longer has authority over you, he wants you to think he

does, so he plants "bombs" all around you.

He may plant one in your finances, in your marriage,

in your body, or in your job—but you have Heaven's

"Enforcer," the Holy Spirit, who will show you things to

come and will expose Satan's plans!

He may speak to you, telling you that Satan has a plan

to attack your finances. You can then enforce your victory

with the Word of God, taking authority over the devil and

all his devices. In other words, the Holy Spirit will detect

the devil's "bombs" and let you know where they are.

Then you, in turn, can defuse the bombs by speaking the

Word of God to those situations, and by binding the

power of the enemy, enforcing your God-given authority!

You do all this even before the enemy's plan materializes!

You are the head and not the tail. The Holy Spirit will

keep you in front of the enemy, not behind him, chasing

him around, cleaning up the havoc he has wrought in

your life.

The greatest Helper you'll ever have is the Holy Spirit.

Learn to work with Him in every area of life.

Satan will launch guerrilla warfare attacks on you to

try to get you to engage in war again, but don't be

deceived: These are just his frantic, desperate, last-ditch

attempts to defeat you. The war is over!

Enforce your victory by the Word of God!

There's a Healer in our house!

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Is God Glorified in Sickness?

Is God glorified in sickness?

We need to know the answer to this question, because

man's tradition teaches that some people are supposed to

be sick so God will be glorified. That's a lie from the pit of

hell!

The Bible says if you're a disciple taught by the Lord,

you will be taught by the Word of God, not by man. Praise

the Lord, I'm not a disciple of a man; I'm a disciple of the

Lord Jesus Christ. How do you grow as a disciple of the

Lord? By being a student taught by the Word of God.

As my neighbor once pointed out, religion today

paints a bad picture of God the Father. Religion says that

God allows sickness to come on people because He has a

purpose in mind to use their sickness. In times past, it was

said that God made people sick to teach them something.

If God allows sickness, as we've been taught, it would

be the same as standing by and doing nothing as a truck

races toward your child as they cross the street.

There is enough time for you to reach them and snatch

them out of harm's way, but, instead, you just stand there

and allow them to be run over. "That'll teach them to stay

out of the street next time," you say.

You won't have a child for long if that's the way you

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treat them! Yet that's how some people say God treats His

children! They say He allows bad things to happen to His

children so they'll learn needed lessons. And many people

believe these lies.

The Lord once spoke to me in my spirit and said, "Son,

anytime anyone says I do bad things to you, those are

demon-inspired words."

Why? Because such statements call God a liar to His

face. They say that His Word is not true. This is why

religion, or tradition, is so double-minded in the area of

healing.

Is Everything God's Will?

Throughout the history of the Church, many

erroneous ideas have been taught. One such error is the

teaching that everything that happens in the earth is God's

will, or He wouldn't let it happen.

God has the power to stop or change anything that

happens, but He doesn't always have the right to do so. I

realize this is a very strong statement, so I want to explain

it from the Bible.

When God created the earth and placed Adam here,

He gave Adam complete dominion over the earth

(Genesis 1:28). That dominion belonged to Adam. God

didn't say, "Use this dominion for a while until I want it

back." No, He said, "Have dominion."

When Adam and Eve submitted to Satan by obeying

him, they transferred this dominion into his hands. They

changed gods and came under Satan's authority.

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We have proof of this in the New Testament, when

Jesus was being tempted by Satan. Luke 4:5,6 says:

And the devil, taking him up into an high

mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the

world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I

give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered

unto me; and to whomsoever I will give it.

If Satan had been lying about this authority being

delivered to him, Jesus would have corrected him with a

scripture, but He didn't. Satan went on to say in verses 7

and 8:

If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be

thine.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee

behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship

the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Another scripture that proves Satan's authority in this

world is Second Corinthians 4:4, where Paul calls Satan

"the god of this world."

The Church's Power

When Jesus came and took our place on Calvary and

went to hell in our place, He stripped Satan of the

authority he took from Adam and gave it to His Church.

The problem has been that most of us didn't know we

could use the Name of Jesus and change things in the

earth! Matthew 18:18 says that whatsoever we bind on

earth is bound in heaven.

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God has given us the very same power He used when He

raised Jesus from the dead! (See Ephesians 1:18-23.) And He

has given us His Word to tell us how to use that power.

If we don't get in the Word to find out how to use that

power against the devil, God has no choice but to stand by

and watch when bad things happen on the earth, or when

His children get sick.

But don't get the idea that anytime a Christian gets

sick or has some symptoms, he has sinned, is not reading

the Bible, or is not standing on God's promises.

Peter said that Satan roams about like a roaring lion,

seeking whom he may devour. Perhaps he roamed around

this Christian and attacked him with sickness to see if he

might devour him.

A Christian has the choice either to resist the devil by

standing on God's Word, or to lie down under the attack

and be sick—and even die.

We shouldn't be judging each other anyway. When we

see someone who is under Satan's attack, we should begin

to apply our faith to his situation. We're all in this

together, because we are all members of one body.

God Doesn't Use the Devil's Tools

God does not use the devil's tools to discipline His

children, or to get glory. Second Timothy 3:16 says that

God's Word—not Satan—is given to teach and correct us!

The Holy Spirit is the Teacher whom God sent to us. He

doesn't need the devil to accomplish His work.

God is not the author of sickness, tragedies, or

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tribulations, but we will learn from them. We'll know

better next time how to avoid the devil's pitfall, plus we'll

be able to help others in their times of need.

Remember the example we gave of a child running out

into the street? You wouldn't plan to let them get run over

and then stand by and watch it happen.

If they had a close call, however, you would take the

opportunity to teach them how to cross the street safely

and remind them that if they had listened to you in the

first place, their close call wouldn't have happened.

What Does God's Word Say?

In the area of healing, we need to know who it is that

is causing the problems in our body. Sickness is not caused

by God; it is caused by Satan! I'm going to prove this to you

from the scriptures, because the Bible says, "In the mouth

of two or three witnesses shall every word be

established" (2 Corinthians 13:1).

John 10:10 is a key scripture in understanding the

nature of God. It says, "The thief cometh not, but for to

steal, and to kill, and to destroy. . "

Did I quote that correctly? Doesn't it really say, "God

cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy"?

Does it say that? No!

What does it say? "The thief. . " Who's "the thief? Satan

is the thief!

The entire verse says, "The thief cometh not, but for

to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they

might have life, and that they might have it more

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abundantly."

That's Jesus talking! He wants you to have an

abundant, abundant, abundant life. God never takes

anything away from you; He wants you to be blessed

abundantly. He wants you to have an abundant life.

Jesus also said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the

Father." If you want to see the Father, look at Jesus. They

have the same nature. They respond to faith.

If you want to see God in action, read about Jesus'

ministry in the following chapters. You can't find

anywhere in the Word of God where Jesus turned anyone

away who wanted to be healed!

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would like to share some things about healing trends

Iin the Church and modern society that the Lord laid on

my heart during my last trip to Israel.

On this trip, He showed me important facts about

healing. I present these facts to you without any apology

whatsoever. What I will be teaching will make religious

devils nervous, because I'm going to step on tradition.

We were in the ancient city of Capernaum, in the

Galilee region, when God began to deal with me about

healing in the modern Church.

The Sea of Galilee is one of my favorite spots in Israel.

I love it. Like most tour groups, we boarded four or five

boats and for a time drifted peacefully on the Sea of

Galilee. As we began praising God, the power of God fell.

It's so beautiful by the sea. One reason why I like it so

much is because Jesus did 80 percent of His healings in the

cities and towns around that region.

Seeking Relief in Worldly Pools

Our guide told us there are many hot springs in

Capernaum. During Jesus' day, thousands of people went

there for relief from their pains and diseases. Then Jesus

would come along, they would look to Him for help, and

they would receive their healing.

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In Capernaum, tourists visit the ruins of an old

synagogue that was built on the foundation of the

synagogue Jesus had visited. Peter's house is nearby.

While we were in that old synagogue we praised and

worshipped God. Then our leader said, "This spot is

where Jesus did a lot of His healings and a lot of miracles."

He asked for some short healing testimonies.

One person said, "I got healed of cancer. The Spirit of

God came on me, and the tumor disappeared." Another

said, "I had bone cancer, and the power of God hit me and

I was healed in such-and-such a meeting." And everyone

raised their hands and praised the Lord.

Then someone else told how God healed their ankle.

And it went on and on. Another person said, "I was ready

to die, and God gave me a new heart." We were so happy

about all these healings, we lifted our hands and rejoiced

every time another testimony was given.

Religion Quenches the Spirit

Suddenly, one of the priests who was an overseer of

this synagogue burst through a door in the ruins and

yelled, "Shut up!" He was so mad, he was as red as a beet.

"Shhh, shhh, shhh! Shut up!" he exclaimed. "This place is

holy!"

I was so surprised, I almost fell off my seat. I looked

around at the rubble (understanding its historical

importance), and said, "Man it's just a pile of stones!"

Then God said to me, "That's what is happening in

your churches. My Church has shut up concerning divine

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healing. They have substituted doctors for divine healing."

There are all kinds of ways to shut you up about

healing and other supernatural works of God. (False

doctrine is one thing that can shut you up.)

This experience in Israel took me back in time to an

experience I'd once had with another clergyman—a Full

Gospel pastor. My Full Gospel pastor. ("Full Gospel"

means they're supposed to believe the whole Bible.)

I can remember it just like it was yesterday. I was a

young believer, and I had gotten hold of healing books by

T. L. Osborn and other great men of God and healing

tapes by Kenneth Copeland. I got so full of the Word of

God that one day my pastor called me into his office for a

little conference.

Carried Away With Healing

He said, "Now, Ed, don't get too carried away with

that healing business. Years ago, down in Texas, I

pastored a church, and a certain teacher whose materials I

know you've been reading came to my church.

"I had a knot on my arm. We were eating lunch after

one of the day services, and this man said, 'Brother, why

don't you just curse that knot?'

'"Oh, no, no, no. I'll go to the doctor and have it taken

off,' I told him.

'"Why don't you just speak to it?'

'"Oh, no, no, no, that's all right.'

"He said, 'Well, would you let me speak to it?'

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'"Yeah, go ahead.'

"After dinner, he said, 'I curse that thing, and I

command it to die!'

"The knot just disappeared."

My pastor told me that story. Then he said, "Don't get

mixed up with that healing stuff." In essence, he said,

"Shhh!" to healing. Five of his relatives have died since

then.

The last time the elders of that church came over to

pray for one of my kids, I threw them out.

As usual, they took a little bottle of anointing oil out of

their pocket, put a dab on their finger, and made a little

cross on the forehead of the sick child, and said, "Now,

Lord, if it be thy will.. "

But I had learned better by then. I said, "Stop! It is

God's will for that baby to be healed. Now pray right."

"Oh, no, Brother Ed. The pastor told us you were

getting into some false stuff."

Jesus Ministers Healing

In Luke 13:10-13 we find how Jesus faced the same

kind of opposition from spiritual leaders when He

ministered healing to people.

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on

the sabbath.

And, behold, there was a woman which had a

spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed

together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and

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said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine

infirmity.

And he laid his hands on her; and immediately she

was made straight, and glorified God.

Some people seem to think we should read this

another way: "And when Jesus saw her, he called her to

him, and said unto her, Woman, you need to keep this

infirmity a while longer to teach you something."

It makes people who are bound by traditions of men

furious to know the truth that God wants to heal people. It

made this bunch mad, too. They didn't recognize that the

Healer was in their house of worship that day!

What About Poor Old Job?

In the Old Testament, man didn't always have the

right image of God. That's why Job blamed God. He said,

". .the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me" (Job

3:25). In other words, the thing that Job feared happened

to him!

Fear activates Satan.

Faith activates God.

People ask, "What about Job? What about poor old

Job?"

Job was operating in fear—that's what happened to

poor old Job! God didn't afflict him in any way. In fact,

God is the One who delivered him.

We saw in verses 12 and 13 that Jesus said, "Woman,

thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He laid his

hands on her: and immediately she was made straight,

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and glorified God."

Notice the woman did not glorify God before she was

healed, and she did not glorify God for the sickness. She

gave God the glory after her healing.

I want to show you through scriptures that nowhere in

the New Testament did anyone glorify God for their sickness!

As we saw in this account, God got the glory after this

woman was healed. That's when God gets all the glory—

for the healing, not for the sickness.

After the woman glorified God for her healing, the

story continues in verse 14, "And the ruler of the

synagogue answered with indignation, because that

Jesus had healed on the sabbath day."

People back then were no different from people today.

A lot of people today get madder than a hornet if you tell

them God didn't make them sick.

The people in the synagogue were angry because Jesus

had healed the woman on the Sabbath day, when no one

was supposed to do any work. They were spiritually

blinded and ruled by their five senses.

If He had come into their midst and said to the

woman, "Now, Sister, because of your sins, you're going to

be sick a while longer," they would have said, "Oh, isn't

He a great prophet!" But Jesus did good; He healed the

woman. The Healer was in their house of worship!

Jesus Stands on the Covenant

The leader of the synagogue said to Jesus, "There are

six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore

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come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day" (verse

14).

Man always makes rules! But you can't put the Holy

Spirit in a box.

This is how the Lord answered the man (verses 15 and

16):

Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the

sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead

him away to watering?

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of

Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen

years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Who had bound this woman? God?

Jesus said Satan had bound her! Furthermore, Jesus

pointed out that she was a daughter of Abraham. Are you

of the seed of Abraham? According to Galatians 3:27-29,

every born-again believer is of the seed of Abraham!

Jesus understood the Abrahamic covenant, but those

people—even the leader of the synagogue—didn't know

their covenant, and didn't know when the Healer was in

their house.

The passage continues: "And when he had said these

things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the

people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done

by him" (verse 17).

God got glory for the healing; He didn't get praise for

the sickness. The oppressor was Satan; the Deliverer was

Jesus. Jesus said so.

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The State of the Modern Church

Notice the same devil that fights healing that was in

the synagogue two thousand years ago is still hanging

around in our churches—today!

Today Christians are getting bigger church buildings.

We're getting stained glass windows. We're on the other

side of the tracks. The mayor is talking to us now. Forty-

five minutes of teaching. Run them in. Run them out. Be

dignified. Yes, we must not get too loud.

I want you to know there was noise on the Day of

Pentecost! No one was going around whispering, "Shhh,

shhh! This is holy!" I'm sick of preachers saying "Shhh"

over a bunch of dumb rocks.

"Oh, that altar's holy. Grandma's tears from 1907 are

on that bench. Shhh! Don't let that dirty hippie come

down here and pray. Shhh!"

We'd better watch out about trying to get dignified! What

my Savior provided for me on Calvary makes me want to

dance, glory to God!

It would do some of you dignified people good to run

around the church. I was in a brand new church one night,

and the power of God hit me. God said, "Run across the

pews." I took off across those new pews. It had to have

been supernatural, for I hit every one of them without

falling.

The people didn't laugh. They were upset because I

had stepped on their new pews. I like what one pastor

told his congregation. He said, "We're going to have

beautiful pews, but, I'm warning you, if you sit down on

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your faith, I'm jerking every one of those pews out and

putting hard chairs in here."

There are always those who say, "I want something

deep."

What Jesus provided for you on Calvary is deep.

Our churches are filled with people like that who

cruise from church to church. They never get involved or

committed. They follow "lights," "smoke," and such,

running here and there in search of the presumed

supernatural.

"Oh, Dr. Light is over here. I'm going over here."

"Oh, the Smoke Man's coming to town. I'm going over

there and get my healing tonight."

They're running from this "hot spring" to that "hot

spring," trying to get relief, because they don't want to tear

themselves away from their television set, get in the Word

of God, and discern what Jesus provided for us at Calvary.

It's time to grow up! If you're just playing games and

you're not in the Word of God, you're going to get

trampled and run over.

God dealt with me about what's going to happen in

America in this next revival.

I predict that churches will arise across America that

will know how to discern the Lord's Body and know how

to pray for the sick. They will stand up and declare that

the healing power of God is for you and me today.

They're not going to say "Shhh" in reaction to healing;

they're going to let the power of the living God flow in

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their services, and they're going to empty out the

hospitals! Yes, they're going to empty out the hospitals.

Today, instead of flocking to springs, people are

flocking to ungodly hospitals for relief. Why aren't they

coming to the Church for healing? Because we haven't

really believed the healing message. We really don't

believe that God will heal today.

When they're in pain, believers reach for the pill bottle

instead of the Bible. If you ask them why, they'll tell you,

"That way I don't have to believe."

If they're suffering from something more serious,

many believers say, "Well, I'll let Brother So-and-so pray

for me, but if it doesn't work, I've got my health insurance

to fall back on."

I'm not against doctors, medicine, or insurance, but we

need to learn to depend on Jesus and feed our faith. That's

what God spoke to me about at Capernaum. He said,

"People were all around these hot springs, trying to get

relief, and that's what people are still doing today."

But I predict it won't be long until you see the Church

of the '90s rise up with healing power and the working of

miracles. You'll see wheelchairs lined up in the churches,

and you'll see ambulances backing up to the church doors.

And the devil of greed is going to be so mad, hospitals

will sue the churches that are preaching healing. "You're

practicing medicine without a license," they'll charge.

I also predict that in the '90s, most secular television

stations are going to say, "Shhh! We don't want any of that

healing stuff." Some are already starting to make such

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policies. This attitude is already taking root even in some

of our Christian stations. "Now, don't get too wild. Just

keep it nice. We don't want to show you saying, 'Come

out, in the Name of Jesus!' Someone might have a heart

attack. You might offend other people." That's religious

devils.

History's Greatest Healing Revival Is Ahead

We're right on the verge of the greatest healing revival

this world has ever seen!

The next few years will be critical. History proves that

there have always been parts of the Church of Jesus Christ

that have missed every wave of God.

We must get in the right position for God to move in

our lives and our churches. We must determine in our

hearts that we won't miss God. We must want the perfect

will of God for our lives.

This is what I want for my life and ministry. God has

said to me, "Son, one of your responsibilities is to tell the

truth concerning a healing Jesus."

Why do you think the devil is fighting the Church so

much, and is trying to destroy the people of God? He has

tried to stop men of God, but he hasn't been too successful.

The devil is having a nervous breakdown over the

ones who will not compromise the Word of God—the

ones who will stand up and proclaim, "We believe in the

healing Jesus!"

There was a healing Jesus two thousand years ago

who went around the cities and towns of Galilee and

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healed the sick and set them free.

That healing Jesus is still alive today! He still heals

today! He still brings people out of wheelchairs. He knows

how to put in new livers, new hearts, and new eyeballs.

There's still a Healer in the house!

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uke 18:35 tells us, "And it came to pass, that as he

Lwas come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat

by the way side begging."

I was meditating on this story one day, and God

showed me in my spirit, like a movie, the whole thing that

took place. I saw the blind man. I know what he looked

like. When I get to heaven, you won't have to tell me who

he is, because as soon as I see him, I'll recognize him.

And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what

it meant.

And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth

by.

And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David,

have mercy [compassion] on me.

And they which went before rebuked him, that he

should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more,

Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

Luke 18:36-39

The same spirit that was in the synagogue was present

that day, telling the blind man, "Shhh! Shut up!" Jesus'

own disciples said, "Don't you know who this man is? This

is holy!"

A translation of this story from Mark 10:48,49 reads,

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"Shut up! some of the people yelled at him. But he only

shouted the louder, again and again, O Son of David,

have mercy on me!"

Blind Bartimaeus didn't care about the multitude that

surrounded Jesus. He didn't care what tradition thought.

He didn't care what anyone thought. He knew the Healer

was present that day along that dusty road, and all he

wanted was to receive his sight.

Faith Brings Jesus on the Scene

He called out, "Thou son of David, have mercy on

me!" And Jesus stopped in His tracks.

The morning I was meditating on this passage, I saw

Jesus stop, turn around, and tell the multitudes, "Get out

of my way!" He started walking over to the blind man.

That man's faith drew Jesus. His faith stopped Jesus!

You've got to realize this blind man wasn't living

under the New Covenant, as we are, so if his faith stopped

Jesus, yours will, too!

Smith Wigglesworth said, "When you use your faith,

Jesus will pass over a million people just to get to you."

If blind Bartimaeus had shut up the first time someone

asked him to, Jesus would have kept on walking. Today,

there are a lot of Christians who are shutting up about

healing.

But I want you to know that God has never changed,

and His Word has never changed. He is the same

yesterday, and today, and forever. If God says it's His will

for you to be healed, then it's His will for you to be healed.

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A Change of Attitude

Verse 40 says, "And Jesus stood, and commanded him

to be brought unto him. ."

The people who were with Jesus changed their

attitude about the blind man in a hurry when Jesus sent

for him. Even the crowd probably thought, "This man is a

friend of Jesus; we'd better get close to him." One

translation states, ' "You lucky fellow,' they said, 'come

on, he's calling you.'"

People might laugh and tell you to shut up or talk

about you when you're using your faith, but when they

see it working, they'll say, "Oh, you lucky fellow! We're

going to get involved with you."

I'm a friend of Jesus. I'm a son of God. Jesus and I are

together all the time. When I'm sleeping, He's still there,

because the Holy Spirit is inside me. I'm wall-to-wall Holy

Ghost—and so are you, if you've been born again! He's

right on the inside of you.

Just speak the Word of God, my friend, for your

healing, believe it in your heart, and it will come to pass!

There's a Healer in your house!

Jesus asked the blind man, "What wilt thou that I

shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive

my sight" (verse 41).

Notice Jesus' reply. Did He say harshly, "Because you

gave my disciples a hard time, you're going to keep that

blindness another 24 hours, until you become a better

person"? No.

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The reason I'm bringing this up is so you'll catch it

when tradition says things like that. It will ring a bell in

your spirit. You'll say, "No, that isn't right."

"Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee"

This is what actually happened: "And Jesus said unto

him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee" (verse

42). "Saved" in the Greek means healing and prosperity.

Some people today teach, "Healing passed away with the

disciples." But it did not pass away.

Jesus said, "Thy faith hath saved thee." What? "Thy

faith—thy faith—thy faith!" And faith hasn't passed away!

Since the blind man was healed by faith, you can be

healed by faith.

Jesus didn't say, "Just because you yelled loud, I'm

going to heal you. Just because I like the way you look, the

way you comb your hair, and the way you believe in your

denomination, I'm going to heal you." No! He said, "Thy

faith hath saved thee."

The blind beggar's faith drew out the healing

anointing on Jesus' life!

"And immediately he received his sight, and

followed him, glorifying God. ." (verse 43).

I like people who won't give up their faith. I love this

man. In fact, I can hardly wait to get to heaven just to hug

him and say, "Praise God for your faith. I read in the Bible

what you did, and I learned that I could do the same

thing!"

The story ends, ". .and all the people, when they saw

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it, gave praise unto God."

Does God get glorified through sickness? No! God is a

good God.

There's a Healer in the House!

The second chapter of Mark reveals one of the times

Jesus exercised His authority.

And again he entered into Capernaum after some

days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

And straightway many were gathered together,

insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no,

not so much as about the door, and he preached the

word unto them.

And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the

palsy, which was borne of four.

And when they could not come nigh unto him for

the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and

when they had broken it up, they let down the bed

wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of

the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

But there were certain of the scribes sitting there,

and reasoning in their hearts,

Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who

can forgive sins but God only?

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his

spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said

unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy,

Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up

thy bed, and walk?

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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath

power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of

the palsy,)

I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go

thy way into thine house.

And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and

went forth before them all; insomuch that they were

all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it

on this fashion.

And he went forth again by the sea side: and all

the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.

Mark 2:1-13

Notice the multitude didn't glorify God over this

man's sickness. They didn't exclaim, "Oh, praise God for

this sickness! Oh, we thank You, God, that he's going to

keep it another 10 years, just to become humble and

spiritual."

No! Something in their heart told them that Jesus was

a good man. The attitude of the man's friends was, "We

must get our friend with the palsy to Jesus, for He will

heal him." They literally tore the house apart to get him to

Jesus!

They knew there was a Healer in that house!

Someone had preached to them and put a good image

of the heavenly Father into their hearts.

The Woman Whose Money Ran Out

Do you remember the story in Mark 5 about the

woman with the issue of blood? Someone had preached

the Gospel to her, too. Someone had told her that Jesus

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was doing good things, because verse 27 tells us she had

heard of Jesus.

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood

twelve years,

And had suffered many things of many

physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was

nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press

behind, and touched his garment.

For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall

be whole.

Mark 5:25-28

I was reading this one day, and God dealt with me. He

said, "Son, she'd been sick for 12 years. She was a very

wealthy woman, because it took her 12 years before she

spent all her money. That's a lot of money."

After she spent everything she had, she heard that

Jesus was coming. We must understand that people living

under the Old Testament, as she was, knew that prophets

had healing anointing in their mantles. She knew that. It's

a shame she had to wait until she spent everything that

she had.

This woman spent everything, and it took 12 years.

Then she heard of a prophet coming through town. She

got back to her beliefs. "The prophet of God has the

healing anointing," she thought. That's why she said, "If I

may touch his mantle, I shall be healed."

Notice what she said in verse 28: "If I may touch but

his clothes, I shall be whole." Another translation says,

"And when she heard of Jesus, she came in the press

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behind, and touched his mantle. For she said, If I may

touch his mantle, I shall be whole."

The Shunammite Who Sought the Anointing

Remember the Shunammite woman whose young son

suddenly died? She sought out Elisha, the prophet of God,

who had prophesied that she would have this child (2

Kings 4:8-37). Elisha first sent his servant with his staff,

but the child was not raised.

The Shunammite woman said, "I don't want your staff.

I want you—I want the anointing that's on you—to heal

my child." She made him come to her house.

When the prophet stretched his body across the dead

child's, the boy was raised from the dead. Yes, the

anointing was in Elisha's clothing, but it was also on the

"mantle" that was on his life.

You must realize that the woman with the issue of

blood did have faith, because if people had realized what

she, a woman in an unclean condition, was about to do,

they would have stoned her.

She was broke. She had become what we call a "bag

lady." But she said, "If I may touch his mantle.. "

You know the story. Jesus was walking as the Son of

God, but He wasn't walking in all the privileges He had in

Heaven. While on earth, He walked under the Abrahamic

covenant and in the gifts of the Spirit.

He asked, "Who touched my clothes?" He didn't even

know who touched His clothes, but someone had made a

demand on His anointing. He looked around to see who

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had done this thing, and the woman came to Him,

trembling.

The doctors wouldn't have anything more to do with

her, because she didn't have any more money.

This will never happen to you, but let's use it as an

example. Suppose you get hit by a car, an ambulance

comes and takes you to the hospital, and you don't have

health insurance or money. What will they do?

They will turn you out.

Coming Judgment on the Medical Profession

I've got a friend who needs a liver transplant, and they

won't even talk to him unless he has $125,000.

I predict that we're going to start seeing judgment

come on the medical profession, because most of it is run

by greed. (I know it takes money to operate a business.)

Even though there are good doctors, the simple point

I'm making is: Doctors don't love you as much as God loves

you!

It's a shame that this suffering woman had to have her

back against the wall to look to a healing Jesus. Why

should we wait until we run out of money and they throw

us out of the hospital until we look to a healing Jesus?

Why should we wait until we're completely down to the

bottom until we look to a healing Jesus? We're going to

have to depend on a healing Jesus in this next wave of

God.

"Oh, but he's my favorite doctor."

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Run out of money and you'll find out how much he

loves you. Lose your health insurance, and you'll find out

how much he loves you.

You may ask, "Do you believe in doctors?" Let me

make a statement here: Most definitely I believe in

doctors, but they're not your Healer.

The Body of Christ has almost come to the place where

we say, "Doctors are the healers." No, they're not. They

can't heal you. They can only clean up a wound. They can

only cut something out—but they cannot heal you.

We've dropped our faith. We've become complacent.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

He was the healing Jesus in Capernaum, and He's still the

healing Jesus today.

They didn't have Blue Cross back in Jesus' day. Today

people have more faith in their health plan than in the

healing power of God. There's nothing wrong, of course,

with having a health plan—unless you're depending on

the plan for your healing.

Jesus Shows God's Love by Healing

In Matthew 15:29, 30 we have another example of

Jesus' healing ministry.

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh

unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain,

and sat down there.

And great multitudes came unto him, having with

them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and

many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet....

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What happened next? Did Jesus tell these sick people

to keep their sickness for a while until they became better

people? No!

What does the Bible say? Verse 30 continues, "and he

healed them." Who was "them"? The lame, the blind, the

dumb, the maimed, and many others. He healed them!

The Healer was in their midst!

Then verse 31 relates, "Insomuch that the multitude

wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the

maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to

see: and they glorified the God of Israel."

This makes me want to shout all over the place! The

Amplified Bible says, "They recognized God." When

healings occur in a place, people will recognize God. They

will recognize that there's a Healer in the house.

That's why many in Kathryn Kuhlman's meetings

would turn to God. They recognized God was at work in

their midst, and they knew in their hearts that He is a

good God. They recognized that there was a Healer in the

house!

The devil would like to twist the image of the Father

and get you discouraged, causing you to think God is

doing bad things to you. No, He isn't, because God loves

you.

Remember, God gets glorified in the healing, not in the

sickness! Now that you know the truth, you won't be

hoodwinked the next time someone comes along and

preaches something different to you.

Jesus Shows God's Love for Outcasts

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Luke records an encounter Jesus had with the outcasts

of that society—lepers.

And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that

he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

And as he entered into a certain village, there met

him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:

And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus,

Master, have mercy [compassion] on us.

Luke 17:11-13

What was Jesus' answer? Did He say, "No, I'm not

going to heal you today, because you guys have been bad

dudes and you need to learn a few things. You keep that

leprosy, and after your eyeballs fall out, your ears fall off,

your noses fall off, and your legs fall off, I might do

something about it, because then you'll be spiritual."

Jesus didn't say that, did He? I know it sounds silly,

but a lot of people believe that was His attitude. These

people need to get a proper image of their Heavenly

Father so Satan won't be able to hoodwink them. Then

they'll know that God loves them, and they'll understand

that they have been made the righteousness of God.

You won't have any trouble with faith if you know you

are in right standing with God. You won't have a sense of

sin-consciousness when you enter His Throne Room.

Yes, you will miss it sometimes, but when you say,

"Father, I sinned today—I got ugly at my brother—will

You forgive me," He'll answer, "Yes, you're forgiven

according to First John 1:9." And you will hear Him say,

“Come on in, son," and you will be able to walk into His

presence.

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You'll walk out of there and praise God like you had

never sinned. He has forgotten it. I realize this sounds

rather cocky to the natural man, but our Father loves us.

Faith Brings Healing

Jesus didn't tell the lepers to keep their leprosy. He

said, "Go shew yourselves unto the priests. ." (verse 14).

There is something important to be seen here. These

lepers could have reasoned, "He's telling us to go show

ourselves to the priests, but doesn't He realize that if we

even approach them, they'll stone us?"

Lepers always had to stay “afar off”; they weren't

allowed near healthy people. People threw rocks at them

if they got too close. No one wanted them.

Jesus was telling them to get up close and show

themselves to the priests. These lepers must have heard

about Jesus and thought, "If He says it, let's do it!" That's

what we should do: Act on the Word of God! Know

there's a Healer in the house!

They could have said, "That preacher is nuts. Let's not

listen to Him. Let's go back and continue to be unclean."

Instead, the lepers started out in faith to visit the priests.

At first they didn't see anything; they just acted on the

words of Jesus and did what He said. Then the Bible says:

And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were

cleansed.

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed,

turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him

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thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

Luke 17:14-16

God got glory in the healing! Notice, too, that one of

the lepers glorified God with a loud voice. That's what I

like about people who get healed: They don't care what

anyone thinks. They praise God with a loud voice. Others

may talk about them, but so what? They have received

their healing!

And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten

cleansed? but where are the nine?

There are not found that returned to give glory to

God, save this stranger.

And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith

hath made thee whole.

Luke 17:17-19

The Power of Praise

I saw something there I hadn't seen before: There's

power in praise!

The tenth leper came back and gave glory to God for

his healing. Some people lose their healing when they say,

"I'm not going to praise God, because I've still got the

pain." But the leper returned and glorified God for being

cleansed of the leprosy.

Jesus said to him, "Thy faith hath made thee whole."

What does "whole" mean to a leper? What does leprosy

do? It eats away at its victims!

All 10 lepers were cleansed of their leprosy. Although

the process of the disease was stopped in their bodies,

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their bodies weren't restored from the effects of the

leprosy.

The tenth leper, however, came back praising God,

and Jesus said, "Thy faith hath made thee whole." He had

body parts and flesh restored because he went a step

further than they did: He gave God the glory for his

healing.

His fingers and feet were restored, his nose and ears

popped back on, his hair returned, and everything else

that was missing was replaced. He was made whole!

The other lepers got cleansed, but they forgot to give

God glory for their healing; although the leprosy process

was stopped in their bodies, they were not made whole.

God gets the most glory in your healing, not in the

sickness. Sickness is from the pit of hell. Poverty, strife,

confusion, unbelief, rebellion, depression, and anything

unlike God is from the pit of hell. You must resist these

things like you resist sickness.

Know that there's a Healer in the house!

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Healing: God's Calling Card

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o you know what God's "calling card" is? People

Dbeing healed! A person's illness never drew anyone

to God.

Romans 8:28 is often quoted: "And we know that all

things work together for good to them that love God. . "

This verse, however, is referring to prayer, not to all the

bad things that happen to people.

Your spirit, the Holy Spirit, and all of God's armor

listed in Ephesians 6 will work together for good when

you're spending time in prayer, praying in tongues and

believing God.

When I first started out in my ministry, a man who

claimed he was a Bible scholar came to one of my

meetings. Although he had already had five years of

college, he still didn't have a job.

A man walked into that meeting on crutches but

carried them out. He was completely healed. Scars were

disappearing. Eyes were being opened. Legs were

lengthened.

But the whole time I was praying for the people, this

so-called Bible scholar was muttering, "You can't do that!

You can't do that! That's not what my Bible school taught."

I said, "I'm doing it."

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I didn't even know how to preach at that time. I just

brought my tape recorder, set it up, and we listened to

tapes by Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, and

others. Afterwards we had a healing service, and I prayed

for the sick. That's all I knew.

Then I started repeating a few things our "guest

speakers" had said. I was turned on to the Word, and God

started giving me some sermons. Finally I started

preaching the Word of God myself. Praise God, the

anointing is on His Word, and people were saved and

healed.

God Receives Glory When We Exercise Our

Authority

Now Peter and John went up together into the

temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb

was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the

temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them

that entered into the temple.

Acts 3:1,2

When passersby saw the lame man at the gate, did

they all praise God because of his infirmity? No, the

reason he was lying at the gate was because he was

begging for alms. That was his only means of livelihood.

Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the

temple asked an alms.

And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John,

said, Look on us.

And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive

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something of them.

Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but

such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ

of Nazareth rise up and walk.

And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him

up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received

strength.

And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered

with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and

praising God.

Acts 3:3-8

God got all the glory for the lame man's healing, not

for his sickness. "And all the people saw him walking

and praising God" (verse 9).

He praised God and they praised God. They praised

God for his healing, not for the fact that he was sick all

those years so he could be humble.

The lame man was expecting to receive some money

from Peter and John, but he received something far better

than money: The power in the Name of Jesus is what Peter

and John gave him. They knew the Healer was present to

heal this man.

God's power will work the same through any born-

again believer as it did through Peter and John at the Gate

Beautiful. Jesus gave us His Name and the authority to use

it in Mark 16:17,18:

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In

my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak

with new tongues:

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any

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deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay

hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

If you're a believer, these signs shall follow you!

How Does God Teach His People?

God revealed this message to me one day when a

horrible teaching was going around that God was the one

who was making people sick in order to teach them

things.

Don't get me wrong: You can learn things out of

sickness, but why should a bit have to be put in your

mouth so you can learn something?

What does the Bible say about God's teaching? Isaiah

53 describes prophetically what actually happened when

Jesus was on the cross. It teaches that as Jesus became sin

for us, and as all our sicknesses were put on Him, His

appearance was marred beyond recognition.

Also, the chastisement (meaning punishment by pain)

needful to obtain our peace was put on Jesus. He paid the

price for our redemption.

Chapter 54 talks about the redeemed. Verse 13 says,

"And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and

great shall be the peace of thy children." Taught of the

Lord!

Second Timothy 3:16,17 says, "All scripture is given

by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for

reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly

furnished unto all good works." The Word of God is good

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for teaching and correcting. If you want to get corrected,

get into the epistles. They will clean you up.

Jesus Teaches About Prayer

In Matthew 7, Jesus gave this teaching:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall

find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that

seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be

opened.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask

bread, will he give him a stone?

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts

unto your children, how much more shall your Father

which is in heaven give good things to them that ask

him?

Matthew 7:7-11

What is Jesus doing here? He's trying to paint an

image in your spirit. "Ask, and you shall receive," He

says. "God is a good God!"

Jesus is teaching about prayer in the sixth and seventh

chapters of Matthew. And right in the middle of this

teaching, in Matthew 7:15, He says, "Beware of false

prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but

inwardly they are ravening wolves."

I looked up "ravening wolves" in the Greek and found

it means "spoiling lights." What does the word "light"

mean? "The revelation of the Word of God."

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There are the false prophets going around the earth

today, spoiling, or twisting, the revelation of your

heavenly Father.

In Matthew 7:7, Jesus is trying to give you a good

image of your Father. He says that God won't give you a

snake if you ask for a fish. And right in the middle of

telling you that God is a good God, Jesus warns you to

watch out for false prophets.

People who don't know any better are going around

and twisting the revelation of the Father. That's why the

Body of Christ has been in such darkness all these years:

Christians have had the wrong revelation of our Father in

heaven.

God's Will Is Healing

Years ago, there was a Bible student who gave me a

bad time in a Bible study. He told the group, "I know

someone who didn't get healed."

(What about the ones who did?)

He went on to describe a beautiful young woman

lying in a hospital room, dying with a disease. He painted

such an appealing scene. He told about the nurses this girl

won to the Lord before she died. He said that God had

allowed the sickness so she could win those nurses.

"Isn't that wonderful?" he concluded. Some of the

people began to weep.

I was preaching the Word of God to them, and here

they were, crying over a poor girl who had died five years

before, after winning some nurses to the Lord.

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God could have healed her, and she could have won

500 people to the Lord and gone home to heaven at 80

years of age! After all, there's a Healer in the house!

Why do you have to be sick to go to the hospital to

witness? Why don't you go there anyway?

If you're sick in a hospital, God will take advantage of

the situation and show His love through you to the lost

that are there. But that isn't His perfect will for you. He'd

rather you win the whole hospital to the Lord while you're

well.

If sickness is a blessing from God, then my mother was

blessed tremendously. She was in and out of institutions

most of her life. She was constantly sick.

People try to tell me that God did that. I'd rather serve

the devil if that were true, but it isn't! It was Satan who

did that to her, not my God.

Should You Praise God for Sickness?

You can praise God in sickness because the

manifestation of your healing is coming—but you

shouldn't praise God for the sickness.

Do you know what god you're praising when you

praise God for sickness? You're praising the god of

sickness, who is Satan! You may not know it, but you are.

God is not the god of sickness. He doesn't have any

sickness.

Doctrines saying that God wants some people to be

sick come from the pit of hell to make the Christian

double-minded. Jesus never turned anyone down who

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asked Him for healing. He didn't say, "You must keep

your leprosy for a while." No, He said, "Your faith has

made you whole!"

Jesus' attitude always was and is, "What can I do for

you? What can I do for you? What can I do for you?" He never

turns anyone down—but He never forces healing on

anyone, either.

Jesus responds to faith, not to whims. He doesn't

suddenly decide, "I like this fellow. He's good looking,

and he's got a nice moustache. I think I'll heal him of that

cold." The Lord doesn't have any favorites. Although He

put me in a healing ministry, I have to believe Him for my

healing, too.

I woke up one morning with a throbbing headache. It

was still pounding after I got to the office. It would have

been so easy to give in to it and go back home, telling

myself, "I think I'll lie down. No one will miss me. I can

read my Bible in bed. I need a rest anyway; I've been

working too hard."

That's what the devil told me to do. I said, "You're a

liar, devil! Healed men don't lie in bed when they should

be working."

I remained at the office, stood on God's Word that says

I'm healed, and received the manifestation of my healing.

There's a Healer in my house!

The Word: Anointed To Heal

Early in my ministry, a certain man told me, "You

don't pronounce words correctly. You'll have to go to

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speech school for 10 years before you can preach." He

almost had me convinced. I almost quit preaching the

Gospel.

Finally I realized that if I'm preaching the Word of

God, I don't need to worry about how it comes out,

because it's anointed. God will anoint the preaching of His

Word.

Promote the Word, and the Word will promote you. I

don't care where you are in life—promote the healing

Word. If you need healing, promote the Word and you'll

be promoted into health.

When the storms of life come your way, act like an

eagle. Spread your wings of faith. The wind of the Holy

Spirit will pick you up, and you'll soar over all those trials.

That's what an eagle does. When an eagle sees a storm

coming, he locks his wings in a flight position. When that

big storm comes—sickness, trials, tests—the winds lift him

up above it. He can soar thousands of feet high, and he'll

stay up there while the storm is blowing, raging, and

tearing everything up down below. He just soars above it.

All the chickens down in the chicken coop will be

running around looking for someplace to hide while Mr.

Eagle soars safely up above the storm. When the storm is

over, he comes back down.

Turned on to the Word

I thank God for His Word. After being saved for four

years, I said, "Phooey on this religion junk!" I was filled

with the Holy Spirit. I was a deacon and greeter in the

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church. I did everything—I even cleaned the toilets—but I

was still unhappy.

The outside of my Bible was worn out, but the inside

was brand new. I was a real Bible-toter. I carried it

everywhere. I thought that was the right thing to do.

"Look, I'm a Christian!" I was proclaiming.

I never got inside my Bible until 1971 when I went to

Denver, Colorado, and heard Kenneth Copeland preach

about the covenant man David. There I heard for the first

time that I could stand on God's Word, for it is true.

Don't you dare tell someone to stand on the Word for

healing and then tell them it might not be God's will to

heal everyone. There is a Healer in the house.

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The Benefits of Calvary

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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not

with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto

you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you,

save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1,2

e need to be determined to say the same thing Paul

Wsaid here. I would phrase it, "I don't want to hear

any gossip. I don't want to hear any tale-bearing. I don't

want to know anything except Jesus Christ and Him

crucified!"

Another translation says this: "I am determined not to

cultivate any other knowledge, or esteem any other

doctrine as worthy of notice, save Jesus Christ and the

benefits of the cross."

I've been in the ministry more than 27 years, but I still

feel like an apprentice. The more you get involved in the

ministry, the more you find out the less you know.

Of course, when you start out, you think you know

everything. You get hold of Mark 11:22 and 23, and you

think you know the whole Bible. But there is so much

more for us to learn and experience in God!

Divine Discontent

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We should never be satisfied with our current spiritual

status. I'm certainly not satisfied. I'm not satisfied where

I'm at in God, and I'm not satisfied with the results I'm

having in my ministry.

I'm having good results, but I'm still not satisfied with

them. In fact, I have a sense of divine discontent, and I

always want to have it, so I won't get in a spiritual rut and

lose out.

Part of my dissatisfaction is because we in the Body of

Christ are not really helping people as much as we could.

We serve a mighty God, and we appreciate His anointing,

but we're not seeing the mighty signs and wonders that

the apostles saw in Acts 5:12-16 and elsewhere.

Another reason why it's easy to be dissatisfied is

because of all the doctrinal differences we find in today's

Church. Is there a Rapture, or isn't there? Is this the

kingdom of God, or is it coming later? Should we war in

the Spirit or not? All these discussions are going on.

How to Keep Your Doctrine Straight

I was pondering these questions one day, and the Lord

began to deal with me about our text, First Corinthians

1:1,2. I've preached from it before, using different

approaches.

The Lord said, "Do you know how you can keep your

doctrine straight?"

That's when He showed me that phrase, "I don't want

to know anything but the cross."

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involved in preaching, there's no anointing on it.

Furthermore, if a doctrine or a ministry isn't in line with

the cross of Jesus Christ, it won't last.

Trends in Teaching

The other day I heard a man who is an excellent

preacher. I really liked a lot of what he said, but he was

trying to prove something in eschatology, the study of the

end times.

I didn't agree with everything he said, but it didn't

bother me. I didn't get upset and walk out of the meeting,

because I've seen these trends come and go.

He was trying to prove that he has end-time prophecy

figured out. Unfortunately, the more he tries to push his

theories, the more it's going to hurt his ministry and his

anointing.

His theories may be popular right now, but they won't

last. Have you ever noticed how things in the world get

popular? Hula hoops were popular once; today it's

skateboards. Tomorrow it will be something else. That's

just the way the flesh is: It always has to have something

new and different.

I am going to stay with the Word, how about you? I

am determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him

crucified. I am determined to know nothing but the

benefits of Calvary.

Keep Calvary and its benefits in everything you

preach, and you'll stay fresh, sharp, and hot for God!

Let's read that other translation again: "I am

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determined not to cultivate any other knowledge, or

esteem any other doctrine as worthy of notice, save Jesus

Christ and the benefits of the cross."

Many doctrines are vying for our attention, but we

must pass over them and concentrate on the benefits of

the cross: the blood and our redemption from sin,

sickness, and disease.

What Does Communion Mean?

I'll never forget the night we had a Communion

service at the Full Gospel church where I got saved and

served as a deacon. It was beautiful. We had candles and

everything.

The pastor said, "Now this emblem, the cup,

represents the blood, and this emblem, the bread,

represents the Lord's body."

I said, "Lord, I really don't understand it."

Most believers don't really understand what it means

when they receive Communion. They don't know the

benefits of the cross!

How do I know this? Because when we're in Full

Gospel churches, most of the congregation always comes

forward for prayer for healing! You'll see this scene

repeated in most Pentecostal, Full Gospel, and

Charismatic churches. The situation has concerned me for

many years.

Either we're doing something wrong, or the people

just don't understand the benefits of the cross, because we

are the healed! There's a Healer in our house!

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Living Beneath Our Benefits

Healing is supposed to be the "dinner bell" to summon

the world to come to church and get saved and healed.

Healing has already been provided for you and me as

believers, so why aren't we healed? What is the problem?

We're not healed because we're not walking in our benefits.

We're not healed because we don't understand there's a

Healer in the house!

If you have insurance on your car, you're in a wreck,

and then you pay for it to be fixed, that isn't very smart.

It's already covered if you have a policy with collision

benefits, and you need only to pay the deduction. Walk in

your benefits!

The same thing is true of tithing: Most people in

churches don't understand the benefits of tithing.

"That's Old Testament," they argue. "We're under the

New Covenant. We don't believe in tithing."

"You're really in trouble," I tell them. "It's a shame you

come and worship God, yet you live on Barely-Make-It

Street until the day you die and go to Glory, where there

are streets of gold."

You can have the benefits of prosperity if you tithe,

and the Lord promised to rebuke the devourer from you.

So pay your "premium"—your tithe. If you don't pay your

"premium," you won't get any benefits. That's the way I

look at tithing. (This part never goes over very big!)

My Vision of Jesus on the Cross

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Getting back to the Communion service, as one of the

deacons, I was standing up front holding the emblems and

assisting.

I was really hungry for God, and I prayed, "God, I

want revelation knowledge of what we're doing in this

service."

You see, sometimes we do things "religiously,"

according to traditions we've become accustomed to. But

people don't necessarily understand our traditions.

Pastors ought to spend an entire service teaching on

why we receive Communion so people will understand

what it's all about and what its benefits are.

Paul, one of the greatest apostles who ever lived, said

he was determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ and

Him crucified. I was determined to find out why we were

receiving Communion!

As I was standing there, pondering this and praying,

“God, I really want to know what took place at Calvary," it

seemed like the roof came off that beautiful new sanctuary

—and there was Calvary!

I saw Jesus hanging on the cross, with the crown of

thorns on His head, the wound in His side, and the blood

flowing out of His wounds. I said, "Yes, I recognize that."

But God said to me, "The pictures you see in Sunday

School and in cathedrals aren't really what Jesus looked

like on the cross."

Demonic Diseases Hit Jesus!

Suddenly reality started breaking through to me. I saw

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words fly through the air out of heaven and hit Jesus, and

He flinched as they struck Him.

The word "cancer" would hit Him, and He would

flinch.

"Arthritis" would hit Him, and He would flinch.

"Tuberculosis" would hit Him—and all of a sudden,

the words came faster and faster. All kinds of diseases

started hitting Him so fast, I couldn't even make out their

names.

Every time one hit my Savior, He started changing. He

didn't even look like a man; He just looked like a disease.

It was horrible! When I saw that, I said, "He doesn't even

look like a man."

These words kept hitting Him—every demonic disease

on earth hit Him. That's how our sickness and disease

were laid on Him.

All of a sudden, He no longer looked like the Catholic

art work I grew up seeing. All of a sudden, He no longer

even looked like a man! Why? Because the Word of God

says that the curse of the law was laid on Him.

He took the sins of the world upon Himself for us. In a

sense, He paid our "premiums" for us, and now we can

enjoy all the benefits of Calvary!

I Saw What Really Happened at Calvary!

That vision really made a preacher out of me, because

I saw what really happened at Calvary!

I saw that Jesus bore all my sicknesses and diseases,

like the Word of God says.

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That vision is as fresh to me today as when I had it

more than 20 years ago. That's why I refuse to accept it if

someone tries to tell me that the Lord puts sickness and

disease on us to teach us something! That's a miscarriage

of justice!

And I refuse to take anything from the devil when he

tries to put pain, weakness, or disease on me. I tell him,

"No! Those things were already laid on Jesus two

thousand years ago!"

You see, those are some of the benefits of Calvary. As

Paul said, I don't want to know anything but Jesus Christ

and Him crucified.

What Paul meant was, we Christians need to go back

to Calvary and discern what Jesus provided for us—the

benefits of Calvary—and walk in those privileges. Let's

not walk below our blood-bought privileges!

Let's not forget that there's a Healer in the house!

Prosperity: One of the Benefits of Calvary

I was preaching for a Hispanic pastor once, and he

invited another Hispanic pastor to have lunch with us.

"This other pastor would like to talk to you," he explained.

"That's fine," I said. "I'd love to talk to him. I like to

minister to ministers."

I do a great deal of counseling with ministers because I

have a traveling ministry, but I don't counsel with people

from their churches or their staff members. I tell them to

go to their pastor, because their shepherd is the one who

should counsel them.

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I never got to talk much to the pastor who wanted me

to talk to him because he did all the talking. I ate my salad

and then I ate my hamburger, and still he talked and

talked.

Finally he said, "I want to ask you a question"—but he

didn't actually ask me a question. Instead, he informed

me, "I just don't understand it: I preach on Sundays, but I

still have to work a secular job for a living."

"How many do you have in your church," I interjected.

"Oh, we've got about 300."

"And you still have to work?"

Then he launched into a big discussion, telling me,

"We Hispanics are all poor. Our families came from

Mexico, and we've known only poverty through all our

generations." He went on and on in this vein.

Finally he stopped. As I wiped my face with my

napkin, he said, "That's my problem."

The Pastor Who Preached Poverty

It was my turn. I said, "First of all, your church isn't

your problem; you're the problem the church has! Your

skin may be brown, but the blood of Jesus Christ erased

racial distinctions."

Next I told this pastor, "I can just imagine what you

tell your congregation when you receive the offering."

"What do I say?"

"You tell them, 'I know you work in the fields, and I

know you don't have much money, but if you could give

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something, it would really help.'"

The pastor exploded, "How did you know? You must

be a mind reader!"

I said, "No, I didn't even have to get that by the Spirit.

All I had to do was listen to you talk. You talk poverty.

Poverty has followed the Hispanic people here from

Mexico. You need to teach your people that when they

receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, they have

come into a new family.

"They're now children of the King, and they need to

appropriate the benefits of Calvary. One of those benefits is

that they don't need to be poor anymore, and they don't

need to allow that poverty spirit to get on them."

Controlling Wrong Thinking

He got mad at me. "Well, Brother Dufresne," he said,

"when you got saved I guess all your wrong thinking left

immediately, and your mind became clear."

"No," I told him. "I hear testimonies of that happening

to people, but my mind tried to get even more squirrely! I

became born again, but this body and this mind didn't."

People ask me, "What's your family background?

What's your family tree?"

I say, "Nuts. Nuts on my mother's side and nuts on my

father's side." But when I made Jesus Christ Lord of my

life, that "nut tree" died instantly, and I became a child of

the King!

The Bible tells us to do something with our body: Keep

it under control. It also tells us to renew our mind with the

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Word of God.

It's our responsibility. I'm the one who had to get hold

of that squirrely mind of mine and get it renewed in the

Word and under control.

If a bad thought comes, I don't put up with it. I cast it

down. I say, "No, that isn't my thought, devil, in the Name

of Jesus."

People tell me, "I don't know what to do with my

thought life. I just can't control it."

Yes, you can. The Bible says for you to do something

about your mind unless you've got a devil in there that

you need to have cast out.

Men Who Saw Calvary

I've been enjoying the benefits of Calvary since the day

I got saved. Eventually I got T. L. Osborn's book Healing

the Sick. In the book, he explained that the curse of

sickness has been laid on Jesus. I said, "That's what I saw!

That's what I saw! That's what I saw!" I had a vision of

Calvary and what was provided for me.

Another man who had the same vision long before

Jesus went to the cross was Isaiah, an Old Testament

prophet.

In Isaiah 53:1-11, Isaiah wrote prophetically that the

Messiah was so marred, He didn't even look like a man.

He wasn't beautiful, like we assume the Son of God to be.

The "man of sorrows" who hung on the cross became

sin. He became sickness and disease. He became poverty.

He carried all these things for you and me so we wouldn't

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have to carry them.

So why are you carrying a heavy load?

"Well, I'm doing it for the Lord," many answer piously.

No, Jesus already carried it. Do you think you're better

than Jesus? Are you trying to be your own Savior?"

You're not in that category; however, you are a joint-

heir with Jesus Christ if you're one of His.

Preachers Who Slap Jesus!

The way some preachers preach, do you know what

they're doing? The Lord showed me this amazing scene

one day.

It's as if they get a ladder, lean it against the cross,

climb up there, wearing the traditions of men that state

that Jesus didn't bear all our sickness and disease—and

reach out and slap Jesus in the face as they call Him a liar!

That's what a lot of preachers are actually doing as

they're preaching doubt and unbelief from their pulpits!

As for me, I don't want to know anything but Jesus

Christ and Him crucified. That includes the benefits of our

redemption—like having a Healer in the house!

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For I have received of the Lord that which also I

delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night

in which he was betrayed took bread:

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and

said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for

you: this do in remembrance of me.

1 Corinthians 11:23,24

esus said, "This is my body, which is broken for you:

Jthis do in remembrance of me." Notice He did not say,

"in memory of me." There's a big difference. "In

remembrance" means, when taking Communion,

remember what was provided for you.

Most people take Communion "in memory of poor

Jesus." They may even shed a few tears, feeling sorry for

Him, hanging on that cross.

But Jesus isn't dead; He was resurrected! And He's no

longer hanging on that cross; He's seated at the right hand

of the Father, doing fine. He isn't even poor anymore; He's

in Heaven, a place of indescribable wealth, where no one

wants for anything.

So Jesus isn't telling you to take Communion in

memory of Him; He's telling you to do it in remembrance of

Him.

Three Areas to Put in Remembrance

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There are three areas you need to put in remembrance.

First, I like to put God in remembrance. He said so: "Put

me in remembrance of my Word." You put Him in

remembrance by saying, "Father, your Word says, 'By his

stripes I was healed two thousand years ago."'

Sometimes I interview people who are in the healing

line. I ask them, "What is going to happen when I lay

hands on you?"

"Well, I hope I'm going to get my healing," they

usually say.

"No, you already got it two thousand years ago!"

The devil either puts you in the future tense or in the past

tense, but "now faith is." Faith is always now, in the present

tense. It isn't in the future, and it isn't in the past. It's

always now! We live in it now! It's ours now! Why? Because

faith is. If it isn't now, it isn't faith.

If it's in the future, it's hope. If it's in the past, it's

history. Too many people live in history. "Poor ol' Jesus,"

they sigh. "One of these days—in the sweet by-and-by—

I'll be healed."

I want to live now! Healing has been provided for me

now. It's fresh for me now. It's mine now. I'm walking in

healing now. There's a Healer in the house!

"Well, you don't look healed," grumbles Unbelief.

Look—you've still got those tumors."

"I'm healed because the Bible says I'm healed. My

healing is not based on what my body says; it's based on

what the Word of God says."

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We're to put God in remembrance of what He

provided for us.

Second, I put the devil in remembrance of what God said.

Third, I put myself in remembrance of the benefits of

Calvary. When I receive Communion, it puts me in

remembrance of the benefits of Calvary and of what Jesus

provided for me there.

That's why Paul said, "I am determined not to know

anything save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified."

Power Is in the Benefits of Calvary

The power of God is in the benefits of Calvary!

In our text, First Corinthians 2:1, we saw that Paul did

not come to the Corinthians with eloquence of speech or

wisdom. In verse 4, Paul says:

And my speech and my preaching was not with

enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration

of the Spirit and of power.

Paul came with demonstration of that power because

he said, "I am determined to know nothing but what was

provided for me at Calvary."

You ought to study your Bible to find out everything

that Jesus provided for you on Calvary. Then you can put

yourself in remembrance of it.

Paul's teaching about Communion in First Corinthians

11 continues in verse 25:

After the same manner also he took the cup, when

he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament

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in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in

remembrance of me.

"Remembrance" means to remind, or to call to mind,

the blood covenant that Jesus and the Father cut. And you

have a right into that covenant, because Jesus Christ is

your big Brother! Do you know that covenant can't be

broken? The Father and the Son will not break that

covenant.

This Is Christianity

That's why I believe the Hispanic pastor who was

always talking about the poverty his people had known in

the past should now begin teaching them the benefits of

Calvary and who they are in Christ.

Yes, you may have come from a background of

extreme poverty and extreme everything else—but the

bondage of your background died when you accepted

Christ. It died two thousand years ago!

Praise God, I was ready for a nut house, but I grabbed

onto the benefits of Calvary. I learned that renewing my

mind with the Word of God instills the mind of Christ in

me, so I wouldn't have to be nuts.

This is the real thing! This is Christianity. This, right

here, is what it's all about. This is "where the rubber meets

the road."

I don't want to know anything but Jesus Christ. I am

determined not to know anything except the benefits of

Calvary.

How to Avoid the Ditch

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The Lord said to me, "Weave the benefits of the cross

through your teaching and your preaching. If you stay

with the benefits of the cross, you'll see people delivered,

and you won't get in a ditch."

Calvary is where it all happened. That's where our

benefits are.

When you teach out of the Old Testament, always go

through Calvary with the teaching. It will keep your

doctrine sound.

That's the trouble with what prophets are teaching

today. If people would go through Calvary, they would

understand that they don't need to go to a prophet for

guidance like people did under the Old Testament.

When you go through Calvary, you've got the Holy

Spirit. After Calvary, Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit to dwell

in us and with us. He was only able to come to us because

of what happened at Calvary. You're led by Him, not by a

prophet.

The Perils of Disobedience

Traveling ministries get off when the minister gets

tired. "Well, I'll go pastor some church for a while," he or

she decides.

If you ask them, "Did God call you to pastor," they'll

snap at you, "I don't care if He did or not— I'm tired! I'm

going to go pastor."

They're in trouble if they do.

Fortunately for us, under the New Covenant, we're

under grace. But under the Old Covenant, if an

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unqualified or sinful priest entered the Holy of Holies, he

was struck dead immediately! It takes a little longer to die

now.

I'm determined to run the race. When I'm 85 years old,

I plan on still being strong in my mind, my body, and my

calling. I expect to be preaching as long as the Lord tarries.

When Man's Nature Changes

When I got saved, my nature changed. I'm in God's

family now. All that Ed Dufresne used to be is gone. I'm in

Christ now. When I look at people, I purpose to see them

through God's eyes.

I don't look at brown; I don't look at black; I don't look

at white skin anymore. Praise God, I see Calvary, and I see

that God has called me to preach. I'm enjoying the benefits

of the cross.

Not everyone does, of course. They'll tell you, "You

know, cancer (or some other terrible disease) runs in my

family."

Which family? The old family, or the new family? It

doesn't run in your new family! I'm going to walk in the

new family. I'm going to take the benefits of the cross!

If that Hispanic pastor would just get hold of the

benefits of Calvary and start teaching his people about

tithing instead of working in the fields, they'd end up

owning the fields!

When he says, "I know that you work hard, and I

surely wouldn't want to ask you to pay your tithes," he's

robbing those people!

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If they would pay their tithes, they would prosper.

Some of you don't like that because you don't like to tithe.

I don't care. You can't fire me, because you didn't hire me.

I work for God.

"Let a Man Examine Himself”

Continuing our study of Communion:

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this

cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and

drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily [with the wrong

spirit], shall be guilty of the body and blood of the

Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat

of that bread, and drink of that cup.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth

and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the

Lord's body.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among

you, and many sleep [die].

1 Corinthians 11:26-30

We need to teach people to make sure they're right

with God before they receive Communion. Why? Because

the blood speaks out and reveals sin.

A worldly spirit has gotten into the Church. The way

people live and behave has almost become a "game." For

example, people who are secretly committing adultery

come to church.

When I pastored, I would state during a Communion

service, "If you're living in adultery, do not take

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Communion, because the blood speaks out. We're not to

trample underfoot the blood of Jesus."

True Worship Will Come

Most pastors let everyone who's saved—and even

those who aren't—take Communion. But God is raising up

a Church in these last days that will know how to worship

Him.

Remember the woman at the well? She told Jesus,

"The Jews worship God one way, and we Samaritans

worship God another way." Jesus replied, "But the hour

cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall

worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father

seeketh such to worship him" (John 4:23).

I believe these are the last days, when believers are

going to enter into true worship, the glory cloud will come

in, the power of God will fall, and everyone in the

building will be healed. It's going to happen. I can see it!

There's a Healer in the house!

Notice First Corinthians 11:28: "But let a man examine

his neighbor, the preacher, and the preacher's kids." Is that

what it says? No, it says, "But let a man examine himself,

and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."

In Full Gospel-type churches, we've always examined

ourselves to see if we have sin in our life, and that's good;

that's one part of it. But here's another: As you study the

cross references to these scriptures, you'll discover that

Communion is a time for you to put yourself in

remembrance, and then to examine yourself to see if

you're in faith for the benefits of Calvary.

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Remember: Communion is for your benefit. Jesus has

already done everything He is going to do. Do you need

healing in your body? Walk in the benefits of Calvary.

Remember the blood covenant that has provided healing

for you! There's a Healer in the house!

"Not Discerning the Lord's Body"

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth

and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the

Lord's body.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among

you, and many sleep [die].

1 Corinthians 11:29,30

". .Eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not

discerning the Lord's body." The next verse begins, "For

this cause.. ." What cause? Not discerning, or having

insight into, the benefits that have been provided for you

and me.

"For this cause, many are wimps—weak, and sickly

among you—and many sleep." The true translation is,

"many die."

Paul is addressing the Church. He isn't writing to

sinners; he's talking to you and me, the Church, in this

epistle.

If you go to the funeral of a Christian who was 35

years old, they come under this passage of scripture. How

would you like to preach this at a funeral: '"For this cause'

is the reason they died, because they didn't appropriate

the benefits of Calvary." But that's the truth.

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We all have been promised long life. Not all of us are

there—not everyone's faith is there. I understand that. It

doesn't even mean they were bad people. It doesn't mean

they went to hell. They went to heaven. They just didn't

take the benefits that were provided for them.

Some people don't like to hear this preached, because

they like to pet their sickness or disease. Some women like

to be sick because it gets them attention from their

husband—attention he won't give them unless they are

sick. And vice versa.

"For This Cause Many Are Weak and Sickly"

"For this cause many are weak and sickly among you,

and many sleep." They're weak in their body. They're

sickly, and many die. That's just one part of it.

The other part, which I preach frequently to ministers

and churches, concerns discerning and not discerning the

gift ministries in the Body of Christ. (See First Corinthians

chapters 11 through 14.) This is the spiritual part.

The physical part is the reason why many are sick:

Because they do not discern the benefits Jesus provided

for them on Calvary.

And because they do not discern that there's a Healer in the

house!

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or this cause many are weak and sickly among

“Fyou, and many sleep [die]." If we would judge

ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are

judged, we are chastened of the Lord.

So we must judge ourselves: Are we in the faith? Are

we taking the benefits that have been provided for us as

children of God? I'm not addressing sinners; I'm

addressing saints.

Now, don't get mad at me, but let's look at hospitals

and doctors. No, I'm not against hospitals, and I'm not

against doctors. I believe medicine and doctors have

helped a lot of people. Praise God for them. Without them,

a lot of us Christians would already be dead!

Now if you, as a Christian, are going to a doctor or are

in need of a doctor, and that's where your faith is,

continue to go. Never go beyond your faith. But desire to

develop your faith for God's best, which is to live in divine

health.

My point is, if we develop our faith, the hospitals and

the doctors are not for us; they're God's grace for the

sinner, because the believer has already been provided

with God's provision.

Unfortunately, even though there's a Healer in the

house, some are not able to receive this provision yet,

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because they don't believe it. "For this cause" —for not

having insight into the benefits of what was provided for

us at Calvary—they're not healed.

All the benefits of Calvary, including redemption,

healing, prosperity, and long life, are present in the body

and the blood of Communion! That's what Paul is talking

about when he says we're not discerning what has been

provided for us.

Take the Word's Prescription

"For this cause.. ." The reason people in the Body of

Christ are sick is because they don't take the "prescription"

of the Word of God. I know that's the reason. This

knowledge is what set me free! Actually, this is what the

Gospel is all about.

Let's tie this knowledge in with Isaiah 53, which is a

prophetic look at Jesus, "the suffering Messiah," on the

cross. "Who hath believed our report," Isaiah begins the

first verse.

"Who hath believed our report?" Who can believe

this? "And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For

he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a

root out of a dry ground. ." (Isaiah 53:1,2).

Isaiah was describing Jesus when he prophesied, ". .he

hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see

him, there is no beauty that we should desire him" (verse

2). In other words, Jesus didn't have a pleasing physical

appearance.

Now look at Isaiah 52:14, where Isaiah paints a true

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portrait of Jesus on the cross: "As many were astonied

[astonished] at thee; his visage [appearance] was so

marred more than any man, and his form more than the

sons of men."

When God Gave Healing on Credit

Do you remember in the first chapter of this book

where we noted that the children of Israel were bitten by

snakes out in the wilderness—and they were healed "on

credit" with their "Master Healing Card"? There was a

Healer in their house!

This story is found in Numbers 21. Moses prayed, and

God told him if a pole with a brass serpent was held up,

all the sick who looked on it would be healed.

Why did they put a snake on that pole? Why didn't

they put a lamb, which would have symbolized Jesus, the

Lamb of God, their coming Messiah? The snake

symbolized sin, and our sins were laid on Christ. He took

our sins upon Himself.

They got healing "on credit" before Calvary!

Oh, healing is God's will for people! He even let the

children of Israel get healing "on credit"—and then Jesus

came and picked up the tab!

He hung on the cross to pay for it, and as He hung

there, He became sin. He went to hell and paid the price for

us.

The Essence of the Gospel

Religious people can't handle that. Their brain goes

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"tilt"! But that's the essence of the Gospel. These truths are

what Paul was referring to when he said, "I don't want to

know anything but Him crucified."

This is where the power of God is! This is where you'll

find deliverance that outshines mere religion.

"Religion" paints Jesus on the cross, bleeding—but it

doesn't go any further than that!

I want you to know that Jesus didn't stay on that cross.

He went to hell as our Substitute, and He paid the price

for us. Then He rose again from the dead.

Now that I've accepted Him, no one can put that old

sin-nature of unrighteousness on me. I'm a child of the

King now—not by my doing, but by God's.

Isaiah the Reporter

I saw that same vision Isaiah saw. I'm not bragging; it's

a fact. I'm reporting what I saw, just like the prophet

Isaiah did. He was a reporter.

So when I relate these things, all I'm doing is

reporting. Can you see how preaching the benefits of the

cross can keep your doctrine straight?

The devil has already been whipped, so the real fight

is in pulling down strongholds, as God told us in His

Word. And the biggest stronghold of all is in your mind.

Get that mind of yours renewed according to the Word of

God!

The Sorrows of Calvary

Isaiah reported that there was no beauty we would

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behold at Calvary. I know, because I saw Calvary. There

was no beauty in Jesus. He was so marred, He didn't even

resemble a man.

There was no beauty in His crown of thorns—it was

an ugly thing—but religion really likes those thorns and

the aspect of suffering.

Down in Mexico and over in the Philippines, people

cut and beat themselves to try to atone for their sins. But

Jesus already bore the sins of mankind!

We don't need to try to atone for our sins and, anyway,

we couldn't, because we aren't Jesus. So why should we

punish ourselves?

People wouldn't need to try to be their own Savior if

we'd teach them that all they have to do is take the

benefits of Calvary!

My dad told me for years, "Son, when I get my life

straightened out, I'll accept Christ."

I said, "Dad, you'll never get it straightened out." You

can never get better without Jesus. All you can do is accept

by faith the benefits Jesus provided for you on Calvary.

"With His Stripes We Are Healed"

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of

sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it

were our faces from him; he was despised, and we

esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, [this means

sickness and disease] and carried our sorrows: yet we

did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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But he was wounded for our transgressions, [our

sins] he was bruised for our iniquities: the

chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his

stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:3-5

Isaiah reported that Jesus was "despised and rejected

of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief”

(verse 3). If you're preaching what I'm preaching, you're

going to be despised and rejected, too, because you'll be

preaching the same message Paul preached.

Do you know who is going to despise and reject you?

Christians—religious people. But God never called us to

try to straighten each other out or fight one another using

our sermons as weapons.

I want that faith and anointing Paul had, where snakes

bit him and he just shook them off, unharmed.

Now notice the seventh verse: "He was oppressed,

and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is

brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before

her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

Beating the Blues

I've made up my mind that if I begin to be oppressed,

I'll say, "No! I'm going to have a good day. I'm not going to

have a blue Monday." At such times, I speak to my mind,

"You're not going to be blue."

"Yeah, but you have a right to be blue," it tells me.

"No, I don't have a right to be blue."

"But everything is going wrong."

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"I'm not going to receive it."

I'm determined not to accept any other knowledge. I

choose to receive only positive knowledge. That's another

benefit of Calvary.

The only way to really help people today is to stay out

of theological ditches and go through Calvary in your

preaching. Look at things in the light of Calvary, through

the New Covenant.

Jesus is coming again—I don't care what others preach.

I've made up my mind I'm going to preach Jesus and Him

crucified, plus the benefits of Calvary. I want that

anointing on my life that I need to help people.

I want to tell them, "There's a Healer in the house!"

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in and sickness are from the same source. That's why

SJesus said to the man in Matthew 8, "Thy sins be

forgiven thee."

God is glorified in healing, not in sickness.

Some people say that God allows people to be sick so

believers can lay hands on them and they will recover.

They say that if there were no sick people, we wouldn't

know that God heals. But we are to believe what the Bible

tells us, not what we see around us.

We know that God heals, because His Word says so! We

don't have to see it to believe it. We know there's a Healer

in the house!

God doesn't have to plan sickness for anyone so He

can get glory when they are healed. There are already

enough people who are under Satan's authority for us to

pray for and lay hands on for healing.

Christians should all be well and sharing with sinners

how they can be born again and healed. Christians should

also be learning more and more each day from God's

Word. When we do, we will discover this truth:

God wants everyone to be well!

Methods of Healing

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God desires so much for you to be healed that He has

established several methods by which you can be healed.

Therefore, by acting on His Word, it is possible for

every person to be healed!

But first you must know it is God's will to heal you.

Listed below are some scriptures that clearly establish the

fact that it is the will of God to heal. Get your Bible and

read the scriptures listed below. Remember, God is no

respecter of persons!

John 14:7,8—Jesus' ministry was an expression of God's

will. He never turned anyone down who came to Him for

healing.

Luke 5:12,13—Jesus said that it was His will to heal this

man.

Luke 11:17—God's kingdom is not a divided house.

God doesn't want some people sick and others well. God

and the devil are not working together to teach His

children something through sickness. The Holy Spirit is

the Teacher. God wants you well; it's Satan who wants

you sick.

Acts 10:38—Sickness is oppression from the devil.

Isaiah 53:4-10—Jesus bore your sicknesses and your

chastisement (punishment by pain) so you wouldn't have

to experience them.

Listed below are methods of healing with the

scriptural basis for each method.

1. Anoint With Oil (James 5:14-16)

In his epistle, James is addressing newly born-again

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people. The anointing with oil was established to give

those who have little or no knowledge of God's Word

about healing something tangible.

They can feel the oil and hear the elders' prayer of

faith, and thus are better able to receive their healing. This

method is also good for Christians who are more mature

but whose Word level is low.

2. The Prayer of Agreement (Matthew 18:19,20)

The prayer of agreement is having another person

believe with you and agree for your healing. This method

is only effective if you make sure the other person will

believe and stand firm with you on God's Word.

When you and the other person are in genuine

agreement, you will encourage one another with God's

Word.

3. The Laying on of Hands (Mark 16:17,18; Mark 5:21-23)

If someone lays hands on you for healing, he should be

someone who believes that when he lays his hands on

you, you will recover.

You should also release your faith as Jairus did in

Mark 5:21-23. He believed that when Jesus laid His hands

on his sick daughter, she would recover.

You don't need to go to a service where a minister has

a healing ministry to be healed by the laying on of hands,

although that is a good way to be healed.

Actually, any Christian who believes that when he

lays hands on the sick, they will recover can be used by

God in this way.

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4. The Gifts of Healing (1 Corinthians 12:8-11; Acts 3:1-8;

John 5:1-9; John 9:1-7; 2 Kings 5:9-14)

The gifts of healing mentioned in First Corinthians

12:9 operate as the Holy Spirit wills. As you can see from

reading the above scripture references, the Holy Spirit

uses a person who will be obedient to get healing to the

person in need.

The Holy Spirit knows what it takes to get that person

to release his faith and receive healing (as in the case of

Elisha and Naaman).

There are different operations, as the Bible says, but it

is all as the Holy Spirit wills. Sometimes He will heal as

someone ministers in music, as the psalmist David did.

Often He has ministers call out that people are being

healed, getting healing to them in that manner. There are

many operations of the gifts of healing, and all are

wonderful.

5. Special Anointings (Acts 19:11,12; Acts 10:38; Mark 5:25-

34; Matthew 14:34-36; Mark 3:10,11)

Kenneth E. Hagin says:

The laying on of hands can also be practiced from

the standpoint of transmission. By laying on of hands,

one transmits God's healing power unto those sick

persons, because he is anointed with that power.

Notice that this power does not work automatically.

You cannot transfer healing power to whomever you will.

Jesus Himself could not heal people who had no faith!

(See Mark 6:5.)

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The Touch of Faith

When the woman with the issue of blood touched

Jesus and He felt healing power go out of Him, He asked,

"Who touched my clothes?" His disciples replied, "Thou

seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who

touched me?" (Mark 5:30,31).

There was no way of telling how many people had

touched Him out of curiosity, just to see if anything would

happen. But no healing power had flowed out of Him into

any of them; only into the woman who touched Him with

faith, recognizing there was a Healer in that place.

And he looked round about to see her that had

done this thing.

But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing

what was done in her, came and fell down before him,

and told him all the truth.

And he said unto her. Daughter, thy faith hath

made thee whole....

Mark 5:32-34

6. Just Say It (Mark 11:23; Matthew 8:5-13; Mark 5:25-28)

The last two methods of receiving healing are the

operation of the God-kind of faith. God spoke the world

into being by faith (Hebrews 11:3).

Jesus said in Mark 11:23 that "whosoever" can do the

same thing. This means, you can speak your healing into

being, believe it in your heart, and it will come to pass!

7. Believing You Receive When You Pray (Mark 11:24;

Hebrews 11:1; 1 Peter 2:24)

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Jesus said to believe you receive the things you desire

when you pray. Faith says, "I am healed now, according to

God's Word." Receiving your healing by faith, based on

God's Word, will bring the manifestation of that healing to

your body.

Ephesians 6:13,14 teaches us to keep standing on God's

Word. Once you believe you have received your healing

by faith, you are to stand, regardless of what you feel like.

Jesus promised that if you believe you receive it when you

pray, it will come to pass.

Praying for Life-and-Death Situations

In Isaiah 54:17, Gods Word says that no weapon that is

formed against us shall prosper, and that every tongue

that shall rise against us in judgment we shall show to be

in the wrong.

Here is a confession of faith that will prove invaluable

when you are faced with believing that someone will live

and receive their healing when everyone around you is

saying it is impossible for them to live.

For example, there are times when doctors say there is

nothing that can be done for a patient, and this person is

sure to die.

However, you can stand on God's Word and proclaim

that this weapon—death—that has been formed against

them will not prosper, and that though tongues have risen

against them, judging that they will die, they will show

those judgments to be wrong—and they will live!

When you are praying for life-and-death situations, do

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what Jesus did in Mark 11:14. He spoke directly to the fig

tree. And He spoke the end result. So speak directly to the

body of the person that you are praying for, and tell that

body to live! Tell it that there's a Healer in that house.

Remember: There is no distance in the spirit realm.

You don't have to be with the person to speak life to them.

Do what Jesus said to do in Mark 11:23: Speak to death

and command it to leave, in the Name of Jesus!

Then, like He said to do in verse 24, believe that you

receive life for that person when you pray. Then believe

it's done because of faith in God's Word. God is not a man

that He should lie.

From that time on, return God's Word to Him in

prayer. His Word does not return to Him without

producing an effect; it accomplishes what He purposes,

and it prospers in the thing for which He sent it.

When praying for others, confess His Word over the

situation like this:

A Healing Confession for Others

"Father, in the Name of Jesus, I thank you that ________

shall not die, but shall live and declare your works and recount

your illustrious acts. And, although this is impossible with men,

it is not impossible with You, for all things are possible with

You.

"I will not weaken in faith and consider ________'s body.

No unbelief or distrust will make me waver or question

concerning your promise, but I am strong and empowered by

faith as I give praise and glory to You, for I am fully satisfied

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and assured that You are able and mighty to keep your Word

and to do what You have promised.

"Your Word says that You will even deliver the one for

whom I intercede who is not innocent through the cleanness of

my hands. Whether the people I pray for are innocent or not, I

believe that it is done because of my intercession, because You

are no respecter of persons. I thank You that it is done in Jesus'

Name. Amen. So be it!"

As you use this prayer from the Word of God, you will

see results. Jeremiah 1:12 says that God is alert and active,

watching over His Word to perform it. Expect Him to

work in your behalf because He loves you.

Scripture References: Psalm 119:18; Mark 10:27; Romans

4:19-21; Job 22:30 (The Amplified Bible).

A Personal Healing Confession

"Father, in the Name of Jesus, I praise You that Jesus

Himself took my weaknesses and infirmities and bore away my

diseases. Because of this, and in agreement with Mark 11:24, I

pray and believe that I am healed now!

"According to your Word, Jesus personally bore my sins in

His own body to the tree as to an altar and offered Himself on it,

that I might cease to exist in sin and live in righteousness, and

by His wounds I have been healed!

"My faith in your Word is my proof that I am healed,

regardless of what my body says. I speak right now to my body

and command that you get in line with the Word of God that

says you have been healed. Now you act healed, look healed,

sound healed, feel healed, taste healed, and smell healed, in the

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Name of Jesus!

"I thank You, Father, that it is done now! I will not weaken

in faith and consider my body. No unbelief or distrust will make

me waver or doubtingly question concerning your Word; but I

am strong and empowered by faith, and I give praise and glory

to You in Jesus' Name, because I am fully satisfied that You are

able and mighty to keep your Word and do what You have

promised."

Scripture References: Matthew 8:17; Mark 11:23,24;

Romans 4:19-21.

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Document Outline

- There's a Healer in the House

- Contents

- Preface

- The House of Healing

- Jesus' House of Healing

- Dealing With Yesterday's "Junk"

- Cleaning Out the Closet of Your Heart

- Avoid the Dumpster of Unforgiveness

- Resist the Devil

- How to Live in the House of Healing

- Bullets of Unbelief

- The Holy Spirit Will Come to Your Aid

- Looking Unto Jesus

- When Your Furnace Gets Fiery

- Faith's Creative Ability

- The Roots of Guerrilla Warfare

- Jesus Freed the Human Race

- Why Satan Plants Bombs in Your Life

- Introduction

- Is God Glorified in Sickness?

- Is Everything God's Will?

- The Church's Power

- God Doesn't Use the Devil's Tools

- What Does God's Word Say?

- 1 Healing Trends

- Seeking Relief in Worldly Pools

- Religion Quenches the Spirit

- Carried Away With Healing

- Jesus Ministers Healing

- What About Poor Old Job?

- Jesus Stands on the Covenant

- The State of the Modern Church

- History's Greatest Healing Revival Is Ahead

- 2 Jesus' Ministry Expresses God's Will

- Faith Brings Jesus on the Scene

- A Change of Attitude

- "Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee"

- There's a Healer in the House!

- The Woman Whose Money Ran Out

- The Shunammite Who Sought the Anointing

- Coming Judgment on the Medical Profession

- Jesus Shows God's Love by Healing

- Jesus Shows God's Love for Outcasts

- Faith Brings Healing

- The Power of Praise

- 3 Healing: God's Calling Card

- God Receives Glory When We Exercise Our Authority

- How Does God Teach His People?

- Jesus Teaches About Prayer

- God's Will Is Healing

- Should You Praise God for Sickness?

- The Word: Anointed To Heal

- Turned on to the Word

- 4 The Benefits of Calvary

- Divine Discontent

- How to Keep Your Doctrine Straight

- Trends in Teaching

- What Does Communion Mean?

- Living Beneath Our Benefits

- My Vision of Jesus on the Cross

- Demonic Diseases Hit Jesus!

- I Saw What Really Happened at Calvary!

- Prosperity: One of the Benefits of Calvary

- The Pastor Who Preached Poverty

- Controlling Wrong Thinking

- Men Who Saw Calvary

- Preachers Who Slap Jesus!

- 5 The Benefits of Communion

- Three Areas to Put in Remembrance

- Power Is in the Benefits of Calvary

- This Is Christianity

- How to Avoid the Ditch

- The Perils of Disobedience

- When Man's Nature Changes

- "Let a Man Examine Himself”

- True Worship Will Come

- "Not Discerning the Lord's Body"

- "For This Cause Many Are Weak and Sickly"

- 6 When We're Not Healed

- Take the Word's Prescription

- When God Gave Healing on Credit

- The Essence of the Gospel

- Isaiah the Reporter

- The Sorrows of Calvary

- "With His Stripes We Are Healed"

- Beating the Blues

- 7 God Is Glorified in Healing

- Methods of Healing

- The Touch of Faith

- Praying for Life-and-Death Situations

- A Healing Confession for Others

- A Personal Healing Confession

Table of Contents

Preface...............................................................................

Introduction..................................................

1 Healing Trends.

2 Jesus' Ministry Expresses God's Will.

3 Healing: God's Calling Card.

4 The Benefits of Calvary.

5 The Benefits of Communion.

6 When We're Not Healed.

7 God Is Glorified in Healing.

There's a Healer in the House

Contents

Jesus' House of Healing

Dealing With Yesterday's "Junk"

Cleaning Out the Closet of Your Heart

Avoid the Dumpster of Unforgiveness

Resist the Devil

Bullets of Unbelief

The Holy Spirit Will Come to Your Aid

When Your Furnace Gets Fiery

Faith's Creative Ability

The Roots of Guerrilla Warfare

Jesus Freed the Human Race

Why Satan Plants Bombs in Your Life

Is Everything God's Will?

The Church's Power

God Doesn't Use the Devil's Tools

What Does God's Word Say?

Religion Quenches the Spirit

Carried Away With Healing

Jesus Ministers Healing

What About Poor Old Job?

Jesus Stands on the Covenant

The State of the Modern Church

History's Greatest Healing Revival Is Ahead

Faith Brings Jesus on the Scene

A Change of Attitude

"Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee"

There's a Healer in the House!

The Woman Whose Money Ran Out

The Shunammite Who Sought the Anointing

Coming Judgment on the Medical Profession

Jesus Shows God's Love by Healing

Jesus Shows God's Love for Outcasts

Faith Brings Healing

The Power of Praise

God Receives Glory When We Exercise Our Authority

How Does God Teach His People?

Jesus Teaches About Prayer

God's Will Is Healing

Should You Praise God for Sickness?