let me start over here in Acts chapter 10 and verse 38 and there's so much I'd like to share the Lord laid some things on my heart specifically for today that I've never shared it like this before but I want to start here in Acts chapter 10 and in verse 38 uh Paul Peter was preaching to Cornelius about Jesus and he said in verse 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him
there's a lot in that verse but I just wanted to point out that he was anointed by God to do good some people teach that healing is of the devil that people who uh preach healing you know that that doesn't happen today and that that's of the devil obviously you aren't one of those or you wouldn't be here but he went about doing good and healing all not some but all it is God's will to heal every single person if you have any doubt about that that's one of the reasons that you're struggling with healing
you've got to believe that he wants every single person healed and somebody says well then why isn't every person healed well let me ask you this does he want everybody saved well absolutely is every person saved no and there's even some people that go to churches and think that they're saved there's a lot of people that aren't saved God wants wants every single person saved 1 John 2: 2 says he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world he's already paid for the sins
of the whole world it is not God's fault that people aren't born again it's not his fault it's not his fault that not every single person is uh healed he went about healing all and it says that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him the devil is the one that brings sickness God isn't the one that puts sickness on people I'm not going to go into detail on this but in the Old Testament you can see some examples where God struck Miriam with leprosy in Numbers Chapter 12 part of the curse of
Deuteronomy chapter 28 is that you'd get The Botch the mildew imods I don't even know what those are but it sounds bad amen and you can see some things in the Old Testament where people were struck with things but it was never ever ever a blessing it was a curse it was a punishment and the Bible says in Galatians 313 that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us and so even though you might find very isolated instances of where God struck people with things it was never a
blessing it was always a curse Christ redeemed us from the curse and praise God he is not putting sickness on a single person so you have to believe that God God's will is to heal all that means all in the Greek it means all it means every person in here is supposed to be completely healed amen and you know we tolerate we tolerate things that we shouldn't tolerate and this is one of the problems is that as long as you can tolerate something you will that's right but when you get sick and tired of being
sick and tired and you just say I've had it this is over I refuse this you start seeing healing manifest you know we got ra Rael U Hudson here someplace is she in here she's here this week because we did a television program with her but anyway she was talking about the things that she went through and I mean it was terrible on her wedding day all of these symptoms hit her and for 9 to 10 years she went through terrible pain and I mean lost she was down to 7 7 something pounds her kidneys
were shutting down her heart was shutting down she had things on her her lips were stuck together her face broke out and stuff she had shingles she had everything you could name and I mean it was intolerable and she went through all of these treatments and everything and finally they told her that they were going to have to give her a heart transplant but she was so sick she couldn't stand a heart transplant she wouldn't live through it but she as we were interviewing her on our Grace and uh faith today program which by the
way will be starting our new network September the 30th it's going to be awesome but as we were interviewing her she just said when she heard heart transplant she said no and she just put her foot down and her and Herman said no that was it and from that moment on she started getting better and I pointed out I said that's one of the reasons that you went for 9 years is because you were tolerated it you have to get to this place to where you recognize this isn't from God this is not the Abundant
Life that God purchased for me and you have to get to a place to where you resist the devil and he will flee from you James 4:7 you submit yourself to God but sickness is not of God pain is not of God you don't put up with stuff don't put up with stuff just CU you're getting older and that you have to do all of these things you need to put your foot down spiritually and say that I've gone as far as I'm going to go I refuse this and the moment you go to resisting
the devil I tell you something happens but this says that they were all oppressed of the devil for God was with them and anyway I want to share some things with you today I've never done done this exactly the way I'm going to do it here today but what I want to share with you is all sicknesses of the devil God's not the author of any sickness but there are some things that are just natural but even that's a a result of the Fall it's because of the Fallen human race that we have uh all
of these viruses sicknesses and diseases and things so in a sense every sickness is from the devil but there's some things that aren't demonic they're just natural like I remember one time when I was pastoring in pritet Colorado I had a man come to me and he was driving a concrete nail in concrete and he hit and the nail broke and it bounced off and stuck in his ey and so he had this nail sticking out of his eye and it was bleeding and he was in terrible pain and so I prayed over him the
bleeding stopped the pain left and he was just fine but he had a nail sticking out of his and I said you know what I believe God's healed you but somebody's going to have to pull this nail out I said would you like me to pull this nail out or would you like to go to the doctor and have it put he said I think I'll go to the doctor so anyway I I don't know exactly how that happened to him but that was just something natural if you hit your hand with the hammer it
might be the devil that caused you to be careless and not pay attention or something like that but you know your thumb getting swelled up that's not necessarily demonic that's just something natural that happen but here's what I want to share today and I don't know that I've ever quite shared it this way but did you know that there's a lot of sicknesses that are demonic and this is important that you recognize this because our society has become increasingly secular it has gotten to where even Christians look for an organic a natural answer to everything
for instance when it comes to health you will hear on Christian television Christian radio uh many different platforms that there sometimes is 50% of the stuff is about diet and exercise and there there is a place for that I personally believe that 10% maximum of 20% % of your health is related to diet and exercise but I think that's a maximum and yet most people most Christians are looking for some physical answer for every single thing and there's a lot of things that there isn't anything physical this is why the doctors can't diagnose everything is
because not everything is physical some things are just straight out demonic and most Christians don't even acknowledge this you know I saw a thing where they did a survey among all the people in the world that had the lowest heart problems and I think it was Japan that had the lowest uh heart problems and so they came they came up with that's that was a statistical fact but then they came up the reason for it is because they ate so much fish and they had omega-3 oils or something like this and so they credited it
to that the first thing I thought of is that the Japanese honor their Elders to such a degree that they even worship them some sometimes they build a house in the back of their house and they take care of their people they don't put them in old folks home and the Bible says that if you will honor your father and mother you will live long on this Earth that's one of the Ten Commandments and it's repeated a number of times they don't even take any spiritual things into account but I don't believe it's omega-3 oils
that causes them to have the lowest heart problems it's the fact that they honor people the Bible says a merry heart does good like a medicine and I guarantee you if you are a joyful people you look at U oh Burns George Burns the guy lived to be 103 I think and he smoked cigarettes all the time and drank and did all kinds of things and he lived to be 103 but he was a happy guy Bob Hope lived a 100 I think it was and stuff and you find out that a lot of comedians
not maybe new comedians because they're just crass and vulgar and and they try and outdo each other on who's the the most viol but you know a traditional comedian that laughs they live long a merry heart does good like a medicine honoring your parents does good honoring the word man there's so many scriptures about the word is Health unto all of your flesh and life unto them that find it and spiritual things are much much much more important than all of these emphasis that people are putting on now again I'm not advocating you being a
couch potato and not eating right and never exercise and I average 5 miles a day exercise and I've been doing that for years and stuff so I'm not against that and I I can't say that I eat you know twigs and berries like some people I tell people that's not food that's what food eats amen so anyway I'm not the great example of how to eat but I'm in good shape I've lost 35 40 lounds kept it all for over a decade and I'm a healthy and and things so anyway I'm not saying that you
don't take care of your body but I am saying that the emphasis that Christians have put on natural things and the fact that they look for a pill to solve every problem I don't even want you to raise your hand if I ask how many of you take pills daily don't raise your hand I guarantee you it I would be shocked if it wasn't 90% or more of the people and that is not the way that God Made You To Live is to be taking supplements and pills and even vitamins did you know that they
they've actually come up with people that take so many vitamins you can take so many vitamins it does damage to your body thank you for that Thunder silence so anyway as introduction to what I'm saying here I'm just trying to say that we have gotten to where we are humanistic we are looking for a physical answer for everything when there's a lot of things that it is not physical it is demonic there is a spiritual realm not only God's spiritual realm but there are demonic spiritual Realms things that are happening in our nation it's demonic
I tell you abortion killing over 63 million babies that is demonic and anybody who will Advocate killing a baby in his mother's womb will'll Advocate putting men in women's sports will Advocate all kinds of stuff people that'll do that there are no limits to where they'll go that's it thank you for those few responses amen so I'm trying to use my phone and you'll have to bear with me a minute this is not my strong suit but I'm using my living commentary if you guys haven't gotten my living commentary you've missed out on one of
the best things that I've got and this is in a u format that it'll go on your phones to but my footnote here in Mark 1 verse 32 Mark 1:32 says and it even when the sun did set they brought unto him all that were diseased and them that were possessed with devils and the city was gathered at the door and he healed many that were sick of divers diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the Devils to speak because they knew him so let me just share with you there are 10 different
times recorded in the gospels where Jesus cast Devils or demons out of people and I've got all of those listed here in this footnote I'm not going to take time to read every single one of them but let me just show you demons caused dumbness Matthew chapter 9 and verse uh 32 says and as they went out behold they brought unto him a dumb man this isn't talking about not intelligent this is talking about he couldn't speak they brought unto him a dumb man possessed with a devil and when the devil was cast out the
dumb spake and the multitudes marveled saying it was never so seen in Israel now this is not to say that every time that a person has a speech problem or an impediment or something that it's always demonic but sometimes right here it shows you that Jesus cast a demon out of a person to cure a person that couldn't speak did you know that that would seldom if ever be an option to most people today they wouldn't even think about that but that's exactly what the word of God says you know you most people don't let
the word of God get in the way of what they believe they just are going to believe what they want to you know we see so many things today these people going in and murdering people and doing weird stuff and they say well they they're having mental uh problems what do they call it well I was anyway there they they say that they're having a mental problem what it is it's demonic and people won't say that today it's not popular today but I tell you all of the so-called mental problems mental health issue that's what
they're calling they they say they got a mental health crisis it's demonic much of that time it's because they're on drugs and it's not all illicit drugs many of them are doctors prescribe these drugs I was talking with somebody just recently who when they were in a hospital they were giving these drugs and they were hallucinating doing all kinds of things drugs have psychotic effect to it and so um even if it's induced by a drugs I believe that's demonic Satan uses those drugs and stuff so anyway this dumbness was caused by a demon in
Matthew 12: 22 this is the same book and so this even though it's similar it's a separate instance it says then was brought unto him one possessed with the devil blind and dumb and he healed him in so much that the Blind and dumb both spake and Saul so here an ability to not speak and blindness was caused by demons and then uh it's lunacy Insanity seizures attempted suicide fing at the mouth nashing of the teeth and screaming was caused by demons this is Matthew chapter 17 and in verse 14 it says and when they
were come to the multitude there came to him a certain man kneeling down to him and saying Lord have mercy on my son he is lunatic and sore vexed for often times he falleth Into the Fire and of into the water and I brought him to thy disciples and they could not cure him then Jesus answered and said oh faithless and perverse generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I suffer you bring him hither to me you know before I go on with the rest of this let me just point out
that Jesus was not pleased with his disciples inability to heal this person and I guarantee you if Jesus was here in his physical body walking among our churches today he would not be pleased with the fact that we can't Minister healing to people if you go to the average church if you go to the average church here in Woodland Park now we got some good churches but if you go to the average Church in Woodland Park and ask them to pray for you they'll say well why don't you go to the doctor if you've got
a mental problem well have you tried this drug have you been to a psychiatrist if you've got a financial problem well have you been to the government ask for help we've got this government that will give you some free money and stuff did you know in the Bible days man Jesus was disappointed with his disciples inability to meet the need we shouldn't be sending people to all these other places when Jesus has an answer to you physically emotionally financially and every other way and yet sad to say the average Christian we use Jesus as a
last resort if these other things won't work then maybe Jesus will heal us that's the reason we aren't seeing the same thing he was not pleased he said you are a faithless and perverse generation if you can't operate in those things in verse 18 and Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour he rebuked the devil it wasn't just physical these seizures we don't know exactly what this was but it would be similar to what we call um epilepsy and things different things like that
that cause seizures again I'm not saying that every seizure every single thing that happens is always demonic but here is a scriptural example of a person that was foaming at the mouth they were lunatic they couldn't control themselves they would fall into the water and Into the Fire and that was demonic and he cast it out and he was cured from that very hour and if I have time here I got to talk quickly but if I have time I'll come back to the rest of this and explain why they couldn't cast him out that
is really power powerful and here's another uh situation being bowed over which was possibly what we call curvature of the spine in Luke 13:1 it says and behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and was bowed together and could in no wise lift up herself and when Jesus saw her he called her to him and said unto her Woman Thou Art loose from n infirmity and he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified god notice it said that this was a spirit of infirmity
this was a demonic power it was not just physical it was not just natural so curvature of the spine in that instance was U demonic in Matthew 4: 23 and Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people in his Fame went throughout all Syria and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments and those which were possessed with devils and those which were lunatic and those that had
the py and he healed them so again this is demonic that Jesus was casting these things out of people when he called us to preach the gospel it says in Matthew 10:1 and when he had called unto him his 12 disciples he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease so he gave us power not only against sickness but against unclean spirits and then it says to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and disease and then in verse 10
Matthew chapter 10 verse 8 excuse me 7 and 8 it says and as you go preach saying the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the Dead cast out Devils freely you have received freely give you know I was raised in a Baptist Church that believed all the Devils were in Africa they didn't believe there were devils in the United States well we've got sophisticated Devils they may not manifest themselves through witches and stuff the way that they do in Africa I've been over to Africa and I've seen witches
and talked to people that have been under spells and stuff but it's there there's devil they're just sophisticated Devils they love to hide they love to transform themsel into an angel of Light but I can guarantee you a lot of sickness is absolutely demonic in its Origins and we were given a command to go heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise raise the Dead cast out Devils that is a part of it and so the point that I'm making here today is that you can't cast sickness out and you can't heal a devil you need
a little bit of discernment is is this a physical natural thing that I'm dealing with or is it demonic and I guarantee you a lot of sickness and stuff is demonic we had another instance where um you know well I hope I'm not Julianne you don't mind if I talk about you do you she she talks about herself so anyway I think this would be okay but I had Julianne on our program and Julianne was talking about she was healed of things that had $300,000 worth of doctor bills and she was having all these things
she came to a healing is here conference that we had down in the springs and she tried to get to me and couldn't get to me and she was very upset that I wouldn't pray with her but in hindsight she was saying it was good because the physical problems that she was dealing with were actually just a result of all of the emotional problems that she was having on the inside she had been through tremendous trauma and she had all of these things and if she would have just got her phys physical body healed but
left all of this junk on the inside of her it's like cutting a plant off at the ground level you leave the roots there and the thing will grow back much of our physical problems is a result of the way that we're believing and the way that we're doing things and attitudes that we've got and as I bring these things up I know that there's going to be some Christians saying hey wait a minute Christians don't have demons Christian can't have a demon and so you get into these things about well you might be oppressed
but you can't be uh possessed and so we talk about being oppressed depressed possessed and all this stuff did you know there's one Greek word in the New Testament for a demon-possessed person and it just means to be demonized it means to be having Satan control some area of your life you don't have to be possessed in the sense that you're owned by the devil you know I've got a pen right here and this is mine it's in my possession but if I gave this to Andrew down there he would be holding it would be
in his possession he would possess it but that doesn't mean he owns it you know Satan can control people let me just say if you're depressed you are controlled by the devil that's not normal that is not the way God made you to be depression fear anger bitterness unforgiveness is all demonic stuff it's demonic it's or it's An Origin of the devil over in John 8:44 Jesus told these people you are of your father the devil he was a liar from the beginning and U Abode not in the truth because there is no truth in
him when he speaks he speaks of his own for he is a liar in the father of it every time you lie you are demon demonized you may not call it possessed but you are of the devil Satan is the one that CS that lie thank you for that thunderous silence I know people don't like this and what what are you saying I'm saying that the devil is alive and well and he's putting thoughts in people's hearts and he's doing things and he's causing a lot of sickness and people are trying to get the devil
healed you can't get the devil healed you have to resist the devil and he'll flee from you you have to cast it out so you need to recognize is this thing just physical is it natural is it organic or is it demon you know I hesitate to say some things but I'm doing this for your benefit not for mine it would be better for me to just keep my mouth shut but for your benefit two years ago when we moved to Woodland Park we live over if you see these towers over there we live over
there and there's a pass it's 9330 ft I named it it came to pass I said that's why it came was so it could pass and two years ago when we first moved here I walked over here and it's nearly 45Β° it's Steep and as I was walking back some of you don't know me but I'm a competitor even with myself I every time I go walk I try and beat my last time and do everything and so anyway I was walking up this Steep Hill 9300 FT elevation and I did something I don't know
what I did but man I had pain in my chest down both arms I couldn't stand and I couldn't walk from here down to that scooter without being out of breath now I don't I never went to a doctor I didn't find out what happened but I I've dealt with so many people I know that that's either a heart attack or a blocked artery or something and if I had have gone to the doctor they'd have done open heart surgery on me and I just refused to do that now I believe that that was just
something natural that I did to myself I don't think that was demonic I think that was just me pushing myself I I couldn't hardly breathe but I refused to slow down and um anyway I hurt myself and it took me a year to fully recover I got to where I couldn't walk from here to the back door without stopping and resting and walking through an airport I couldn't uh do it and stuff but you know what now I'm back to five miles a day I'm walking at 5 point I'm walking at 5 and a/4 miles
per hour which is as fast as I can walk walk without running and I'm back and I'm healthy and I can now walk over there and I and so anyway I recovered and I believed God and stood on it and I'm back 100% And so anyway I'm not saying that everything is demonic there are some natural things that you have to deal with but I am saying that many times people are missing the obvious and if you take scripture and look at scripture Jesus cast demons out of people to affect cures and again this doesn't
mean that you got to wallow on the floor it doesn't mean that you got to scream or anything like that you know I used to cast when I first got started I was still in the Baptist church and we read a book I'm not going to tell you the name of it because it is not good but I didn't know anything about this and so we followed the things in this book you had to have two people present you had to have them throw up in a bucket you had to ask them their name I
remember asking this one demon what's your name in the name of Jesus what's your name and it goes liar and I said are you telling me the truth you know it's dumb I did some dumb stuff before Jamie and I got married we were dealing with this one guy who was a homosexual and he had demons I believe homosexuality your demon possessed and that'll go over big I'll probably get a lot but that's I hadn't got time to go into this but in this in the King James when it says an unclean Spirit if you
search the word out that is a sexually pervert spirit is what it's talking about it's talking about U sexual immorality and anyway this guy was demon possessed we with this is another thing we did we had him fill out a questionnaire which I never saw Jesus do that we had him ask these questions and we'd prep them and go through all this stuff and anyway we' been dealing with this guy for 3 weeks we were that you had to have two people present to cast a demon out which is dumb but anyway we didn't know
yeah man if I don't have the time to tell you but it's amazing how we got started casting out demons it just we fell into we didn't do it on purpose we just saw a person totally delivered of drugs and alcohol instantly and came down off the eye and were set free and so people started coming to us anyway we had this homosexual we were dealing with he came on a Wednesday night service and he asked for me so I went out to see him and he said I came to get delivered and he brought
another homosexual guy with him and I said well the other guy that helps me he he's not here so I can't pray for you and he says well I'm not leaving with these demons and I said well I'm not praying for you and he says well he says you better do something so this is before Jamie and I was married and so I went and got Jamie and we went into a little Sunday school room that had glass on two sides outside walls and and it was glass and we were in there and there were
chairs stacked up about 10 high and there was nothing in the room all the chairs were stacked up so anyway we were in there and I was talking to this guy and all of a sudden he fell on the floor and got to barking like a dog and slithering like a snake and he started taking chairs and throwing them against this glass window and I didn't know what to do and so I just what's your name in the name of Jesus and anyway I was feeling like I was made a total fool out of and
this other homosexual that was there he had climbed up on top of 10 chairs and he was plastered against the wall like this watching this guy and I didn't know what to do and I was asking them their name and doing this and Jamie was praying in tongues just as fast as she could go and I just felt like man this isn't going good and the Lord brought to me a scripture where he commanded the Devils to hold their peace and to come out of it and I said well boy that'd be good and so
I just said I command you y'all to shut up and come out of this guy in Jesus name and he just flopped on the floor and it looked like he was dead he was laying on his stomach so I went up and rolled him over and he goes oh praise the Lord I'm free and I thought man that's a lot better than the way we've been doing it so I'm not saying that we have to go through all this weirdness that many times you hear about sometimes things like that will happen depending on what degree
of control a demon has over a person but just changing your mind getting rid of that you know it says in Psalms 107:20 that he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction amen and you can get delivered just through the word plus if you get delivered through the word then because it was the word that delivered you you can keep it but if you have somebody cast something out of you against your will you don't you aren't protected and that demon will come back seven times worse is what Jesus said
so anyway this morning I just wanted to share with you this that many people are just looking for some physical natural way to deal with everything I'm not saying that all sickness or even most sickness is demonic but sometimes things are just demonic and you have to resist the devil you have to rebuke the devil and if you're trying to get the devil healed it's not going to work or if you're trying to cast out something that's sickness natural it's not going to work so you have to have a little bit of discernment and know
the difference between the two amen
