 Good morning once again. Thank you all for joining. Good to see you. Hope you all are doing well. Wonderful to see you. Hi, everyone. Hi, Daniel. Hi, Prad. Hi, Lucy. Sam, Sanjay. Good to see you. Cyril. Hi, hi, hi. I hope you can hear me well and see me well. Okay, let's pray and we'll get started. Jesus, we look to you this morning. Beautiful Savior, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the ancient of days. We love you. We honor you in this place. We welcome you in this place. Holy Spirit, we lift our eyes up to you. We give you complete permission to come and do what you do best. Move among us. Breathe over us, I pray, even as we learn and study about ministering, healing and deliverance. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would fill us, you would empower us and equip us as we study, Lord, as we look into your Word as well. Continue to pour out your wisdom over your children, I pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, great. So we've completed chapter one. We started with chapter two in the last class and in chapter one, we looked at the biblical reasons as to why we need to minister. Why is it important to minister in healing and deliverance? We looked at so many other things that it displays God's nature. It reveals God's power, His glory, His greatness and so many other reasons. And so that's one of the reasons why, not one of the reasons, that's one of the many reasons why we minister in healing and deliverance. The word minister or the literal meaning of that word minister means to be a cup bearer. That means to serve. Okay, the literal meaning of the word minister is a cup bearer to minister. That's what a cup bearer is to, isn't it? Like how Nehemiah was holding a cup. He was a cup bearer standing behind the king. He would serve a waiter basically. And so it's very important for us to serve in healing and deliverance. Okay, so sometimes what can happen is that when we use the word minister, it can sound little complex. Okay, that ministry is only for this person. That ministry is only for that person. But it simply means to serve, isn't it? Like you come and serve tea to me. That's what it is. You see a person in need and you go serve and you introduce Jesus to that person. That's all it is, isn't it? So that's what we looked at chapter one, the importance of ministering in healing and deliverance. We'll do a quick recap of what we covered in chapter two. Actually, let's look into it a little deeper. So, all good? Yes. Right, so chapter two, it talks about God's word on healing. That means this chapter, we are going to focus on what the word of God, the Bible, has to say about. Healing, okay? So we start off by looking at the source of sickness, disease and ailments. What is the meaning of source? Source, what is the meaning of source? S-O-U-R-C-E. What is origin? Okay, what is the source of river Ganga? Where does it start? Do you know? The Himalayas. The Himalayas, yeah. So that's where it begins, isn't it? So the source of the river Ganga is at the Himalayas, at the valleys, right? So that's where it begins, okay? Not in Varanasi, right? It passes through the city of Varanasi but it does not begin there, isn't it? It has many tributaries but the source is where it begins, right? Where it comes from, yeah? So when we say the source of sickness, disease and ailments, that means we are talking, we are looking at, where does it come from? What is its origin? Okay, that's what we're looking at, we started off looking at. And so we looked at when God created the world, the universe, everything He did was perfect. How do we know that? Because God said it was good, right? He didn't need an angel to praise Him or any you and me to praise Him. He created the worlds, He created the heavens and the earth and everything on the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the fish, the animals, the trees, everything. And He said, it's good. Perfect, another word for perfect is flawless. That means without any mistake. Without any mistake. It's just beautiful. Perfect. He doesn't need any correction. Okay, I think there's a reason why God made man on the last day. Because if He made man on the first day, we would start giving advice to God. It's like, no, I think you should place the sun just a little bit on the other side. You know, I think you should put the earth after Mars and Mars should come first. And we still do now, you know. Oh, Pluto is not a planet. Okay, but you get the point, right? When God created the heavens and the earth, when He created you, when He created me, when He created, you know, like, everything was perfect unless sin entered. Okay, and so when sin entered, it separated us. It put in that flaw, like, you know, beautiful white wall. And then there was a black dot. Are you with me? So now that beautiful white wall was no longer just white. It had a mark on it. It was not perfect. It became flawed. Are you with me? And so ever since then, because of one man's disobedience, all of creation, all means all. Okay, all means all. That's all, all means. Okay, all of creation was subjected to corruption. Okay, that means decay. Are you with me? And now when you say decay, d-e-c-a-y, decay is, it's a process, right? What happens? For example, let's take a... So when a person dies physically, okay, that's very important. So when a person dies physically, what happens? I mean, the spirit is separated from them and their physical body is dead. Yes or no? Yes, no? Okay, if we have another answer, then something... Yeah. So when a person dies, we call it as a dead body, isn't it? We don't, we no longer call, you know, a dead body by the name. It's just like in a few hours time, we said, are you taking the body out? When are we burying the body? We no longer give it a name, isn't it? And now what happens sometimes for the ritual or for the ceremony? We place a dead body in the refrigerator, isn't it, in the ice thing. Why? So that it will last a little longer, isn't it? So as soon as death happens, that means a decay process begins. Slowly, gradually, everything is getting rotten. Are you with me? Everything begins to get rotten, and then eventually begins to smell, right? And when you bury it and then you dig it up a few years later, these fine bones, isn't it? So what is happening is when sin entered, all of creation was subjected to a process of decay and corruption. Are you with me? We know that the scripture says that the wages of sin is death, right? And so that's the process set in place. And so it is not a very pleasant process. We looked at in Romans chapter 8, 19 and 23. We see Romans chapter 8 was 19 and 23. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. They're all waiting for a revelation, for an unveiling. That's what revealing means, isn't it? Verse 20, For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. That means all of creation had become subjects to corruption, to this process called decay. Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption to the glorious liberty of the children of God. Another verse, what I'd like for us to read, just give me one moment, is 1 Corinthians 15. Let's not do that if you have your Bibles. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 53 and 54. We read this verse last week, but again I'm just going through all of this for our benefit. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 53 and 54. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 53 and 54. It says, for this perishable body must be, must put on the imperishable. And this mortal body must put on immortality. I'm reading from ESV. So the perishable in your... What's the translation of version? Corruption, okay, yeah. So for this perishable body, that means corruption, perishable, it will one day go away, must put on imperishable. That means a body that will not get corrupted. And this mortal body must put on immortality. The other day when we were studying about the Tabernacle of Moses, we saw that the wood that was used to build the Tabernacle was Achesia wood. In other words, shittim wood, right? Now, of all the woods that God could have told people of Israel to use to build the Tabernacle, could have said use the teak wood, use rosewood, whatever. But why shittim wood or Achesia wood? We looked at because that wood is a... It has a healing agent of itself. It is incorruptible. Okay, and it produces a balm that was used for medicinal purposes, a gum kind of a thing. And so, a termites or all these whatever, insects or worms could not destroy that wood. Okay, we studied about it a lot. This is just a sneak peek for those online, just something that we did. But yeah. Okay, let's move on now. So because of man's disobedience, the spiritual process of decay and corruption set in place. And then, so what was... In Psalm 115, I think, I'm not mistaken. I will get to that in just a minute. God told Adam to be fruitful and multiply and then have dominion. It means have authority. This is yours. But because of sin, God gave Adam the keys. Adam gave the keys to the devil. And because of which, he uses all his power and authority to oppress human beings. So Acts 10 verse 38, it says, How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. It's very important to notice that all who were oppressed by the devil, right? And his angels did all this demonic work. So he doesn't say that Jesus went about delivering all those who were oppressed by God. Yeah. Okay. So again, we looked at... Now, maybe not all sicknesses are due to demonic spirits. I'll say that again. I said this last week, but I'll say it again. All sickness are due to demonic spirits. Okay. But some of the following that's mentioned in the notes, some of them, not all of it, like incurable diseases, birth defect, deformities, unexplainable diseases, symptoms that get worse after prayer, and ministry symptoms that seem to move around different regions, etc. Those are just five points, but it doesn't stop there. It can go on. Okay. What does that mean? But by not all sickness are from demonic spirits. What does that mean? Man's negligence, right? That's what we looked at. So if not all sicknesses are from demonic spirit, that means there's a certain amount of responsibility on us. Yes or no? Yeah. If you keep abusing your body by drinking a lot of alcohol... What is it? What is the syrup character? Hmm. Okay. Oh, I just want quarter. I just want 90, 30 ml every day. It's 30. I'm not a very regular drinker pastor, but I just, you know, a little bit 30 every day. What are you doing? What is happening? Because your body is already a subject to a decaying process. You're speeding up the process of decaying. You're speeding up the process of decaying. You're speeding up the process of decay. Isn't it? And so you're not taking care of it. And then you can't blame the devil. I was like, no, the devil made me drink alcohol. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. It's the same thing with if you love, if we have no control over our eating, you know, we can't resist Biryani. Sure. He's got a Biryani business itself. So... or sweets without control. You know, that would lead to diabetes or if you don't have a healthy lifestyle, if you don't... We all like to work out, no? We all like the idea of working out. But getting up and doing work out, you know, we all like the idea of going for a jog in the morning every day. But I will sit in this chair. I will close my eyes. I will imagine myself like I'm jogging. Okay. Done. Right? But those are all the natural causes when you don't take care of your body. Right? Yeah. Sorry. Okay. I think that was a mistake. Yeah. You can cut this if you want. Sorry, guys. Now, I want to share another personal experience is what happens when you don't care... when you don't take care of your personal, you know, of your body, especially is so when I was a teenager, 17, 18, 19, 20, you know, because of a certain habits, I abused my voice. Okay, and that means because of my certain habits back then, even though I have stopped all of that and given up all of that, because of the damage that was caused back then, it is very easy for me to lose my voice. It's very easy for me to lose my voice. That means if I... I mean, I could sing for two hours or two and a half hours non-stop, but then now because of all the damage that was done back then, getting across a one-hour set is challenging. Are you with me? And so, and again, now that I know that my voice is not the same as when I was young, it is up to me to take care of it and that's why you see me with this flask all the time is that I keep, you know, is I make sure that my vocal chords are moist, are what do you say, are hydrated all the time because I have to speak a lot and if I scream, I can lose my voice and if I eat so if I'm singing, if I'm leading worship say tomorrow morning, Sunday service, not eating too spicy food the previous day, oily food or fried foods, all of that can damage our ice creams or Coca-Cola. Right now, I can't drink a lot of Coca-Cola the previous night and eat fried food, oily food, everything and then expect my voice to function very well the next day morning. Right because some of us can do that is like eat everything, whatever you want the previous night, I'm taking it from myself and then the next day morning when my voice doesn't work I can't blame the devil, this devil doesn't want me to sing. I rebuke it, you know do you get the point right while not all sicknesses you know can be attributed to the devil but there are natural causes that you and I have to take responsibility of. Are you with me following all this, yeah? Following, right? Yeah, okay, yes. Curiosity just asking this question so on COVID-19 would it be like termed like a grey area or would it be like a man-made thing or a demonic thing? What did you wake up and decide to ask me the toughest question possible? I don't know, I think it's the most controversial subject ever like this topic of the COVID-19 I don't know but according to me in my opinion it feels like a man-made thing that just aggravated everything else that is already in, like I said everything is in a decay process and because what happens when we don't take care of it, we're just speeding up that process it's as simple as that so yeah but that's a man-made whatever, that's my opinion guys okay okay alright, let's move on are you all learning something? are you all with me? are those online? okay great, wonderful awesome, awesome, okay, thank you okay, so now we come to this very important question it's not a tricky question it's not a tricky question does God send sickness? okay, let's answer that question and move on in life does God send sickness? 100% no let's move on I mean the question should be absolutely clear, does God send sickness? no okay, we look at in detail as we move on a little further and then, but there are these difficult passages in the scripture that we come across for us to understand a few things, right for example in 1 John 1 5 and James chapter 1 verse 17 it says, God is light and there is no darkness in him yeah but then there is Psalm 18 verse 9 and 11 that says he made darkness his secret place his canopy around him was dark waters and thick clouds of skies so there's one scripture that says God is light and in him there is no darkness and then there is this Psalm 18 verse 9 and 11 that says he made darkness his secret place this is one of the difficult passages or there's another a passage that says in Titus chapter 1 verse 2 that God is truth and he cannot God is truth and he cannot lie but then there are these other scriptures in 1 Kings chapter 22 and 2 Chronicles chapter 18 that says lying spirits came from God that's another difficult passage before you ask me any questions just hold on just hang on okay okay now there are a few examples of those difficult passages in your notes and there are more okay so how do we understand these difficult passages like what do we do to understand these difficult passages okay so just look at me for a second so God's will okay everybody say God's will and God's word and God's deeds deeds is what God's actions what he does so God's will and God's deeds will always be consistent with his nature okay consistent means same right he's the same yesterday today and for ever right during the time of Abraham he was not a different God during the time of Jacob he was not a different God during the time of Moses he was not a different God and now he's not different he's the same yesterday today and for ever ever right so God tells Joshua that as I was with Moses I will be with you right although your leader may die although everything around you may change everything may seem inconsistent around you but as I was with Moses I will be with you that means he's saying I am the consistent one I am the unchanging one so God's will God's word and God's deeds will be consistent in his to his nature not up and down okay so if we don't understand these difficult passages but if you and I can understand Jesus that is enough can I say that one more time if you don't understand these difficult passages but if you understand Jesus that is more then enough why because God's best his best is revealed through his son Jesus can I say that again God's best is revealed what is revealed revelation or an unveiling right God's best is revealed through his son Jesus okay like one of the pastors says that Jesus Christ is perfect theology okay Jesus Christ is perfect theology that means if there is a theology teaching out there that says something that does not look and sound like Jesus that means Jesus is not wrong the theology is wrong are you with me right so God's best is revealed through his son Jesus Christ are you with me okay alright let's move on I think so let's do a quick summary of this section demonic work and man's actions God cannot give or bless people with something he does not have so that means just to address the question the source of sickness is not God okay the source of sickness is not God and there are times where due to divine judgment you know you will come across verses or scriptures that says you know God turned his face away from his people right God took God gave handed them over to the Amalekites have you come across these scriptures it's in the Bible right he it says God handed the people of Israel over to the media nights God handed them over to the Amalekites what does that mean God it's not like God took them and gave them handed them over right it is simply saying that God took away his hand of favor his hand of protection from of his people which allowed the enemy to attack the people of Israel are you with me this is very important for us to understand okay so there are times due to divine judgment or divine encounters you know for example Saul who later is known as Apostle Paul he goes blind now that was what that was a divine encounter and he was not blind for eternity for three days yes or no so you know so there's a distinction between a divine encounter divine judgment where God takes his hands of his people which permits and allows the enemy to attack and inflict our lives right have you heard of stories where and I have heard so many stories of you know these people some people who practice witchcraft what they say is you know I sent this spirit to attack that family it went and attack that family but when I sent this spirit to attack this Christian family it could not do anything there was a wall of fire around that family have you heard stories like that yeah what does that mean that means God is present he's covering them are you with me okay so yeah one of the highlight of this section what I want you to remember is God's best is revealed in the person of everybody say that God's best is revealed in the person of Jesus Christ alright always remember that Jesus Christ is perfect theology okay how many times do you see where you know when people who are sick came to Jesus and said let me pray about it and come back to you did Jesus and we say that Jesus healed everyone who came to him in faith isn't it everyone scriptures say his multitudes came but you know there are certain Christians who get stuck up on this story of this person called Job yeah but what about Job yeah what about Job I don't believe in the theology of Job I believe in theology of Jesus isn't it we will very conveniently forget that Jesus healed multitudes but we get stuck on this one person but what about this one person okay so that's another difficult story passage character whatever you want to call it but again the foundation of your strong foundation will be strong if you understand and know that Jesus God's best is revealed through his son Jesus what did he do what did Jesus do when he was here on the earth and what does he continue to do he heals right he reveals the father right awake now everybody yeah okay so let's move on to this next very important section called the basis for ministering healing and deliverance basis like the basics of what we need to understand like the foundations of what we need to understand to serve in healing and deliverance okay the first basis is very simple it's again going back to the first biblical reason as to why we need to minister in healing and deliverance because it reveals the nature of God right and what is his nature and what was the covenant name that he gave to the people of Israel Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Rafa thank you that was the covenant name he gave to the people of Israel right that means he is our healer isn't it yeah that's his covenant name and I think I've spoken about the word covenant with us isn't it what is the meaning of it okay so his will his what he does his word his deeds will be consistent with his nature that means if his covenant name is that he is a healer that means that's who he is the one who heals is not going to inflict us oh wow let me look at this person you know let me let me watch him suffer he's not going to do that right his desire is to see you walk in wholeness and that is his nature and it is not just for you and for me that is God's heart to all mankind are you with me that is God's heart too all mankind he wants his children to be made whole Jesus did not just die on the cross for Christians there were no Christians by the way when Jesus died became much later isn't it right but we'll get to it in just a second so because the next section is beautiful it talks about the cross the second basis for ministering healing and deliverance is the cross of Jesus Christ oh that wonderful cross of Jesus Christ one of my favorite hymns is oh that wondrous cross have you heard of it might not there's another old hymn called the old rugged cross it's an very old English hymn it says on a hill far away there stood an old rugged cross if you haven't it's a beautiful hymn hundreds of years old where will you and I be if not for the cross of Jesus Christ we need to pause as bible call it students and as Christians people who go to church every week um it is possible for us to lose the wonder of the cross it is possible for us to take the cross for granted are you with me what will keep your love and that fire for God alive is that you have not forgotten what he saved you from and what cost God gave us from it's like that song here I am to worship the bridge that says I will never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross isn't it so the second basis or the basic for us to serve in healing and deliverance is the cross of Jesus Christ prophet Isaiah who is known as the prophet of prophets okay he is known as the prophet of prophets almost 800 years ago 800 years before Jesus talks about the cross from Isaiah chapter 52 onwards halfway through 52 was 13 and the whole chapter of Isaiah 53 he is talking about the cross it's almost 750-800 years before Jesus right? Isaiah 53 was 4 and 5 says surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows I want you to highlight that because in just a minute we are going to read from Matthew chapter 8 okay where Peter quotes the same scripture but slightly differently okay I want you to pay attention to this verse Isaiah 53 was 4 and 5 surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him smitten by 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 by his stripes we are healed by his stripes we are healed okay so it's very important for us you and me to notice that it doesn't say that by his stripes we are saved it doesn't say by his stripes we are saved now if Jesus just simply wanted to save our souls he could have just gone directly to the cross but the stripes that he received was for our healing okay alright so surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows I'm just looking at your notes the Hebrew words provide a little further insight for grief so the Hebrew meaning for the word grief is sickness, disease and malady everything and the Hebrew word for sorrow is pain and grief okay so one more time let's look at that verse 4 in Isaiah 53 what does it say he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows okay now let's look at what Peter says in Matthew chapter 8 verse 17 Peter is quoting what Isaiah said but see what he says Matthew chapter 8 verse 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet said that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet said which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities and bore our sickness Isaiah writes he took our griefs and our sorrows but in Matthew he's saying okay he bore our infirmities and our sickness and so that's what it really means the griefs and sorrow means that he took our sickness that means you can just pray for healing only over cancer or all these major diseases you pray for healing over common cold over viral fever also are you with me yes or no okay so that's one of the basis for ministering healing and deliverance one Peter chapter 2 verse 24 these are all fundamental scriptures that you and I need to remember going back to Sunday school days memory verse all these have to be memory verses that you have to memorize it okay and write it 10 times Colossians chapter 2 was 14 and 15 says having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us which was gone ready to us and he has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross let's slow down a little bit and reread that verse having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us what is it saying that means there was judgment written for you and for me there was what is the judgment what's the judgment death isn't it it was written okay Joseph deserves death Akhil deserves death emotion deserves death okay Komal deserves death everything but what Jesus did it says he wiped out the handwriting he raised complete it says that was against us which was contrary to us and he has taken it out of the way having nailed to the cross and I love the next verse verse 15 says having disarmed the principalities of and powers he made a public spectacle of them prime thing over them in it that is on the cross he made a public spectacle public spectacle means what embarrass them in public are you with me okay yeah it's read the verses in the language that you would understand because those are very powerful scriptures okay and just don't read them and move on you know someone says meditate on the word of God isn't it like meditate on this word okay read it and reread it okay and then reread it and the word meditate that was used there is see the scriptures out again softly right having disarmed the principalities and powers think about it okay all good no Hebrew chapter 2 verse 14 one more scripture in as much then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood he himself likewise shared in the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil okay he might destroy one who had the power of death that is the devil okay he had the power of death and Jesus defeated him on the cross so cross is powerful for us to understand why do we minister healing and deliverance is because of what Jesus did for us amen why do we minister to everyone in healing and deliverance because the cross is for everyone okay I say that again why do we minister in healing and deliverance because the cross is for everyone no no no the cross is only for me yeah sorry guys the cross is for everyone and then the blood of Jesus as if the cross was not enough he gave us one more weapon take it my blood okay cross in chapter 1 verse 13 and 14 he has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of his love in whom we have the redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins Hebrews 9 verse 12 not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all having obtained eternal redemption okay the blood of Jesus it speaks a better word than the judgment the blood of Jesus is alive and that's why we partake of the blood of the table of God of communion right every Sunday we all know the story in Exodus 12 I think when people of Israel before they leave Egypt tells Moses that people of Israel are to put the blood of a lamb a spotless lamb on the doorpost of every household you remember that story and so when judgment came it would pass over that household which had the blood that's where we get the pass over from is when the judgment of God came it would pass over the house that had the blood of the lamb on its doorpost now did you notice that when the judgment came it did not check who was worthy behind the door when judgment came it did not knock on the door and said okay you know it didn't do that it only saw the blood on the doorpost right it's the blood of God blood of Jesus that covers us from sin we understand we very clearly understand that God forgave our sins we've been forgiven we understand that really well we've been forgiven but we don't understand or we easily forget or neglect that we've been given we've not just been forgiven but you've also been given the righteousness of Jesus okay it's very important that we understand that alright so the blood of Jesus shed for us on the cross it redeems us okay I think we stop here because if we go on to the next section we move on okay so let's do a quick recap we just looked at the two bases for ministering healing and deliverance basis number one God's nature thank you and the second one the cross and in that we see that the blood of Jesus right and we also see that his in God's nature we see that his covenant name is Jehovah Rapha he's our healer etc okay alright great so we'll pause here we'll take a quick break and we'll resume in the next section okay thank you