People spend billions every year to retain or restore health. No one wants to be sick. Yet, religion often tells us that God is either causing sickness or allowing it for a reason. But that’s not true—GOD WANTS YOU WELL.
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and now here’s Andrew today I continue a
series on healing that I’ve entitled God
wants you well I started this a week ago
today for those of you who watching are
watching our Monday only broadcast I
encourage you to please get the
materials that we’ve offered because
I’ve been teaching in a series and the
things that I said last week were just
you’ve got to get all this and put it
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this with just lots of scriptures listed
in it and we’ve got a CD where actually
healing scriptures from the New
Testament are red with some soothing
music in the background and people have
been using this to just literally just
plant the seed of God’s Word on healing
in their life and we’ve combined them
all together and we’ll be making an
offer about that at the end of the
program today today what I want to do I
last week I tried to establish that it’s
God’s will to heal I used it from
Scripture about how that the Greek word
Sozo
literally includes healing in it it’s
not just forgiveness of sins I took
scriptures that put forgiveness of sins
and healing in the same verse I took the
commentary from Matthew chapter 8 verse
17 on Isaiah chapter 53 verses 4 & 5
where it says by stripes we are healed
and showed that that was talking about
physical healing of your body and I used
Jesus as an example Jesus was the
Express image of the Father Hebrews 1:3
and he says if you’ve seen me you’ve
seen the father
and yet Jesus never gave a person
sickness Jesus never told a person that
God wants you to suffer more because
this is your pond
Sh’ma our this is to make you holy or
better know Jesus according to Acts
chapter 10 verse 38 went about doing
good and healing all that were oppressed
of the devil and so if you really
believe that Jesus represented God
perfectly then you cannot believe that
it’s God’s will to make a person sick
that God wants a person to stay in some
kind of a wheelchair situation or some
situation where they’re suffering
physically because Jesus never did that
Jesus went about doing good healing all
that were oppressed of the devil
so I’ve already made those points and
yet there is a large large large number
of people that they just don’t let the
Bible get in the way of what they
believe there’s a lot of people than
honestly well I don’t care what you say
what the Bible says here’s what I
believe and you know what I’m not going
to effectively reach those people but I
know that there are some people that
just are believing the wrong thing
because they haven’t heard the truth and
so I’m using the word to try and change
those people you know I was actually
this is back when I was pastoring in
Childress Texas and I was painting a
house I had to supplement my income and
I was painting this house and there was
a woman there who was a Baptist and I
got to talking to her about the Lord I
was painting her house and during a week
or so that I was painting in her house
we became relatively good friends and
and she really liked me and she had
heard me say that I’d left the Baptist
Church that I was pastoring this
independent nondenominational church and
one day she was sitting there and she
says why did you leave the Baptist
Church and I said well I received the
baptism of the Holy Spirit and they
asked me leave they didn’t want me
anymore and I was talking to her about
that and she says are you talking about
speaking in tongues and I said well
that’s part of it I said yes I speak in
tongues but I said there’s more to the
baptism of the Holy Spirit than just
speaking in tongues and she says all
that I’ve asked you to leave my Baptist
Church to and I say how could you say
that and I turned over to first
Corinthians chapter 14 about the last
verse or next to last verse and it says
forbid not to speak in tongues I said
here’s a scripture that says forbid
not to speak in tongues and this woman
just as a serious as a heart attack
looked me right in the face and she said
there’s lots of things in the Bible that
we don’t believe that woman said that I
just throw up my hands like how do you
convince a person who just admits that
oh I don’t care what the Bible says
here’s what I believe and this is what
I’m going to believe you know I can’t
really change a person who doesn’t
believe in the authority of the word but
if you say that you believe in the Word
of God then this these things that I’ve
shared should make an impact on you and
I know that there’s people who are
saying all right already I believe it’s
God’s will tell me how to do it but I am
just I’m exhausting this subject because
really the vast majority of people who
aren’t receiving healing aren’t
receiving it because they wha in this
first thing they may know God can heal
but they aren’t convinced he is going to
heal them and so if they pray a prayer
and if there is an instant manifestation
if they if it takes any period of time
at all which there are scriptures like
Mark chapter 16 verse 18 that says you
shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall its future tense recover the word
recover means that they just get better
they get well and it’s not all
instantaneous not all healings happen
instantaneously some of them you just
get better and if you pray for something
and if you aren’t instantly completely
well and if you will at all on this fact
that God wants you well then you aren’t
going to receive anything of the lord
for he that wavers is like a wave of the
sea driven with the wind and tossed let
not that man think that he shall receive
anything of the Lord James chapter 1 I
believe around verse 7 but you’ve got to
believe without wavering you got to
believe that you receive when you pray
mark chapter 11 verse 24 and you can’t
do that if you doubt that it’s God’s
will so there’s a lot of people that
just see people who suffer and it is so
prevalent that they just let
circumstances dictate their theology to
them and they don’t let the word of God
get in their way
but here is something else I want to
deal with I want to talk about something
that is in Scripture that I believe has
been misinterpreted and applied and
there are some people that it’s not just
natural occurrences and the way things
are that has influenced their belief but
there are some people that have been
taught and wrong and have taken
Scripture and interpret it incorrectly
and this is harder to get rid of it’s
actually easier to write on a blank
slate than it is to have to erase the
slate from the wrong thing and then
start writing over and there are some
people that because of Paul’s thorn in
the flesh and a teaching about this have
have been taught that God wants people
to be sick and it’s God’s will for
people to be sick so let me take these
very verses out of second Corinthians
chapter 12 this is where Paul talked
about his thorn in the flesh
and in verse 6 he said for though I
would desire to glory I shall not be a
fool and the terminology here this is
the King James I’m reading from this is
Old English and it doesn’t exactly
communicate to everybody today but this
is the term fool here is talking about a
non-believer in Psalms chapter 14 verse
1 Psalms 53 verse 1 it says The Fool has
said in his heart there is no God in the
Bible a person who doesn’t believe in
God is called a fool so when Paul says
I’m not going to you know act like a
fool and just boast and tell you about
all of these things he’s saying I’m not
going to act like a non-believer a
person who’s not trusting in the Lord so
in verse 6 for though I would desire to
glory I shall not be a fool for I will
say the truth but now I forbear lest any
man should think of me above that which
he seeth me to be or that he heareth of
me and lest I should be exalted above
measure through the abundance of the
revelations there was given to me a
thorn in the flesh the messenger of
Satan to buffett me lest I should be
exalted above measure for this thing I
besought the Lord thrice that it might
depart from me and he said unto me my
grace is sufficient for thee for my
strength is made perfect in weakness
most gladly therefore will I rather
glory in my
firma t’s that the power of Christ may
rest upon me therefore I take pleasure
in infirmities in reproaches in
necessities in persecutions in
distresses for Christ’s sake for when I
am weak then am i strong so these are
the verses where Paul talks about his
thorn in the flesh and before I get into
the real heart of this let me just
introduce this by saying that in verse 7
Paul made this very clear lest I should
be exalted above measure through the
abundance of the revelations there was
given to me a thorn in the flesh the
messenger of Satan debuffing me so Paul
says that this thorn in the flesh came
to him because of the abundance of
revelations now Paul wrote half of the
New Testament you know I have somebody
criticized me on that recently and they
said he didn’t write half and they
figured out that it was like 40
something percent the way they came up
with that was taking the number of pages
in the New Testament and he wrote about
I don’t know 40% of the pages in the New
Testament but if you count the number of
books I think there’s 26 books Paul
wrote 13 of them and I think that’s if
you include Hebrews and a tribute that
depaul but anyway when I say half the
New Testament it’s an approximately
approximation it depends on whether
you’re talking about the books are the
pages or if you count the words don’t
you know just sometimes it bothers me
the way that people are so nitpicking in
critical and missed the point the point
is that here is a man who wrote the
largest portion of the New Testament
more than anybody else that’s how much
revelation he had the man who
contributed more to the church than any
other person in scripture this man that
amount of Revelation is why he had a
thorn in the flesh so here’s my point
until you get to where you write half of
the New Testament have revelations that
last for 2,000 years and people are
talking about what you’ve written until
you get to that point
Paul thorn in the flesh doesn’t even
apply to you man
so I’m gonna go on and I’m going to
discuss it next
to you but if you just really took it in
context and realize that thorns in the
flesh what Paul was talking about only
come because of the abundance of
Revelation that excludes the majority of
you who’ve been hiding behind Paul’s
thorn in the flesh and saying oh I’m
just like the Apostle Paul I’ve got this
thorn in the flesh what you’re saying is
you have so much revelation you’re so
mature you are so strong as a Christian
that boys Satan just has to do something
to limit you and Buffett you and all of
these things that Paul talked about this
doesn’t even apply to the majority of
people there’s very few people watching
this broadcast that I think have right
to claim anything about Paul’s thorn in
the flesh which I don’t even believe was
sickness but just his first point he
made it very clear he says lest I should
be exalted above measure through the
abundance of the revelation there was
given to me a thorn in the flesh so he
tied this thorn in the flesh to the fact
that he had so much revelation that he
was so mature in the Lord that he had
heard so much from God is the reason
that he had it most of us aren’t in the
same category therefore it’s wrong for
us to think that we have Paul’s thorn in
the flesh this is just not true
also let me say this that when it says
lest I should be exalted above measure
again if you take this in context he’s
talking about being magnified in the
eyes of people and people just
automatically think that this exaltation
is wrong they they have a wrong
impression about what true humility is
and they think that a truly humble
person is a person just beats themself
down never says anything good about
themselves and that is not scripturally
correct Moses is the one who wrote
Numbers chapter 12 where it talked about
Miriam and Aaron his brother and sister
came out against him and criticized him
and Moses is the one that wrote the
scripture that says now Moses was the
meekest man on the face of the earth
according to most people’s definition of
what humility is you couldn’t know that
you’re humble if you knew that you were
humble then you
would be humble anymore I heard a story
one time about a man who in a church
they took a vote on who is the most
humble man in the church and everybody
agreed it was dear old brother so-and-so
on some Sunday they got him up and gave
him this big old button this big old pin
that they pinned on his coat that and it
said humble on it he was a humble button
and so they gave it to him and because
he accepted it they took it away if it
had been truly humble he would have said
oh no I don’t deserve that
see that’s not Yunel attached that’s
religious stupidity forgive me for being
blunt but you know I you meant it
humility is it’s not going above what
God says about you but it’s not going
below it either
there is a godly type of exaltation it’s
not wrong it’s not wrong to stand there
and know that God is for you and the
scripture says I believe it’s in first
Peter chapter five humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God and He will
exalt you that he may exalt you in due
time there’s a number of scriptures that
talk about God exalting us over in the
third chapter of the book of Joshua it
talks about the Lord spoke to Joshua and
said today I’m going to magnify you in
the sight of the people because for you
to be a leader other people have to see
God’s power and God’s anointing on your
life and there is a godly type of
exaltation so the reason I bring this up
is that when people read this where Paul
said lest I should be exalted above
measure and this thorn in the flesh was
to keep him from being exalted they just
automatically assumed that this was God
that gave it to him because who else
would want you to be humble not the
devil but there is a godly type of
exalting I don’t think that this is
talking about him being exalted through
pride arrogance this is talking about
that the anointing of God was resting
upon the Apostle Paul in such a way that
Satan came against him it says right
here in this very verse that there was
given unto me a thorn in the flesh , the
messenger of Satan to buffett me , he
explains what this thorn in the flesh
was and where it came from it was the
messenger of
this did not come from God this was not
God humbling him God was trying to exalt
him God was his blessing was on Paul to
such a degree that people were being
drawn to him because he raised this man
from the dead that fell out of the
window everywhere he went there were
miracles that took place he was
converting people to the Lord and people
were coming to the Lord by the thousands
and God was exalting Paul and lest he be
exalted above measure lest he become
such a powerful force because there was
so much good things happening in his
life Satan came against him with a thorn
in the flesh and it says that it was the
messenger of Satan so there’s two things
I’ve already established right here one
of them is that until you get the kind
of revelations that the Apostle Paul as
you shouldn’t even be thinking about
this thorn in the flesh it doesn’t apply
to you and this exaltation that this
thorn in the flesh was to keep him from
being exalted wasn’t necessarily a
arrogant prideful exaltation I believe
it was being exalted in the eyes of
people because of so much power being on
him Satan was trying to tear him down
here’s basically the logic Paul was just
so anointed things were happening that
people saw him and people wanted to be
like the Apostle Paul so here comes
Satan with a thorn in the flesh that
brought Paul down I’m going to explain
this in more detail but it brought Paul
down and Paul suffered and had problems
that most people didn’t have and when
people saw this power of God on him so
that he just walked into a town and the
magistrates got into fear and said lo
the people that have turned the world
upside down have come here also and
people were afraid when they even heard
about him there was such an anointing on
the Apostle Paul that it was drawing
people to the Lord because they saw
supernatural things well to balance that
out Satan also gave him this sort thorn
in the flesh that made people think well
man if that’s what being a powerful man
of God and having the anointing of God
on you if you’re going to have to suffer
all of these kind of things I’m not sure
and Satan gave this thorn in the flesh
to him to try and balance this out
now say I’m countering a lot of
religious doctrine here if you were to
just read these verses and take them at
face value I do not believe you would
come up with the doctrines that have
been taught from this but we have heard
it taught so many times that people just
automatically think that this thorn in
the flesh is something that applies to
everybody I’ve already shown you the
only applies to those who have the same
type of revelation that the Apostle Paul
had it has been said so many times that
this is talking about something that was
done to humble Paul and keep him from
being arrogant that he had a real
tendency towards pride we’ve heard that
said so many times that we forget that
there is a godly type of exaltation and
I believe that this is Satan that was
trying to counterbalance all of the
godly things that we’re going on in
Paul’s life that we’re exalting him in
the value and in the opinion of people
see we just have so much religious
doctrine that it makes it hard to
counter this but if you read it for what
it says it came because of the abundance
of the revelations it came to keep him
from being exalted and I’m taking a
little bit of Liberty here but as I
going through this I believe I can
justify it but there are two types of
exaltation
there is a arrogance but then there’s
also a godly exaltation I’m choosing to
believe that this is talking about a
godly exaltation and then it says that
it was given unto him a thorn in the
flesh and it specifically says it was
the messenger of Satan to buffett him
not the messenger of God now again if
people would just read the Bible and
believe the Bible this would solve the
problem and this would be over and
nobody would be struggling but this has
been interpreted to where Oh but Satan
can’t do anything unless God allows it
you won’t find that in the Bible that is
not true I could prove this with many
many scriptures but let me just use one
passage over here in 2nd Peter chapter 3
and in verse 9 it says the Lord is not
slack concerning his promise as some men
count slackness but is long-suffering to
us we’re not willing that
should perish but that all should come
to repentance now this right there says
that God is not willing for any man to
perish and yet jesus said that there are
going to be more people perish than the
people that find the narrow gate unto
everlasting life and of course we know
that Satan is the one who is fighting
against us to blind people’s hearts it
says that over in 2nd Corinthians
chapter 4 verse 4 in Ephesians chapter 2
there is a demonic warfare going on so
Satan is keeping people from
accomplishing God’s will God is not the
one who is allowing that and loosing the
devil upon them
we’re the ones who cooperate with the
devil and allow the devil to do this so
anyway I could spend a lot more time on
it I’m not going to take the time to do
it right now but I’m telling you that
Satan does not have to have God permit
him to go do something Satan is the god
of this world is what the scripture says
mankind empowered him we took the
god-given authority that God gave us to
rule this earth and we gave it to the
devil Satan has been the god of this
world and Satan is the one who came
against Paul with a thorn in the flesh
and for people to just ignore the fact
that it says that this was a messenger
of Satan and then turn around and say
that this is God that did this to Paul
is totally against what the scripture
says you know I’m not sure that the
Apostle Paul ever anticipated that when
he said something about his thorn in the
flesh and said it was a messenger saying
he probably figured that that was pretty
explicit and that was probably
sufficient I don’t know if he ever
imagined that 2,000 years later people
would be so twisted to think that God is
the one who uses Satan to do all his
dirty work that’s that’s a far stretch
he just said real clear that this wasn’t
God it was a messenger of Satan sent to
buff at him the word buffett is like a
wave when it comes in and it hits the
shore and then it retreats and then it
comes back and it’s just a buffeting
meaning it’s a repeated action over and
over and over and over and over it’ll
just wear you out by the repetition of
it
and it was Satan that just buffeted hit
Paul over and over and over again with
this it was not from God now again I
hadn’t even got into what the foreign in
the flesh is that’ll be on the another
broadcast because I’m just about out of
time today but if you just took the
first things that we’ve talked about I
mentioned that it’s because of the
abundance of the revelation this
exaltation was not a demonic arrogance
and pride it was a godly exaltation and
it was Satan that was the author of it
not God for the purpose of dragging him
down and discrediting him in the eyes of
people so that he wouldn’t have as much
impact as what he was having now that is
really simple and that is very very
contrary contrary to the traditional
interpretation of these passages of
Scripture and I’ve got a lot more to
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