 Well, good morning friends a brother Mike back on the podcast. It's Sunday morning at 9 o'clock mountain time Trusting you're ready to go to Receive from the spirit of the living God got a good Bible study for you this morning Remember that If you need to get in contact with me You can do that by sending me an email Mike at hardcore christianity.com. You can watch all my teachings Including this one on our teaching channel youtube.com House of healing az All you'll find all of my teachings on on the youtube channel. There's like 400 of them And if you happen to be in the phoenix area Please come for a visit We're downtown on 15th avenue. We're just south of osborne road. It's the red brick building And if you're out there be on facebook, you can go to michael w smith or you can go to the faith our facebook group hardcore christianity And if you'd like to read about all the miracles that have happened in the ministry I list them on my facebook page the group called blessings If you go to blessings, you see a picture of the arizona deliverance center and just scroll down there and see all the Utterly remarkable things that have happened people getting healed people being delivered from demons Literally it's all right there on the blessing page. Some of them are pictures. Some of them are videos Anyways opportunity for you to be encouraged, which is what i'm going to do today Try to encourage you if you have your bibles there turn with me to the great gospel of john As you know is different from the other three synoptic gospels matthew mark and luke and john is The most amazing of the four gospels and is these is the greatest Collection of writings in the history of the world The gospel of john is at the top and Then you have the three gospels here and then you have the book of x and those are the books that Allowed us to get saved 2000 years later. Totally amazing. Check this out john chapter five Verse one says there there was a feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem Now at jerusalem by the Sheep market there was a pool there now in the greek that was kind of mistranslated Uh probaticus was the greek word that meant sheep gate There was a special gate or an area In jerusalem where all the livestock was brought in And this pool was very close to The entrance for the livestock for the city. So if you were selling livestock In jerusalem during the feast or during some other holiday You would go in through that Back gate into the city of jerusalem there was a special gate for animals and so uh It's called in the hebrou tongue Bethesda Bethesda In in uh, hebrew it means the house of kindness And this pool had five porches and the remains of this pool are In jerusalem to this day you can see pictures of it on google if you like But it says in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk Obviously, that's the greek word asthano Which means People who who couldn't walk could not They were they had ambulation problems. They Also, some of them were blind and then some of them were halted says Colas is the greek word for somebody who's limbs limping Uh, it also says there's there were people there withering That's uh Xeorus which means Atrophy their bodies had atrophied Through lack of use And they laid there waiting for the moving of the water. This is one of the strangest of stories in all the bible Really unusual It says for an angel went down at a certain season A season nobody knew And the angel went into the pool And he troubled the water it says to wrestle means to agitate or stir And uh, whoever first After the troubling of the water stepped in Was made completely whole of their disability Or this the greek word here is uh Nosema nosema means a disease some of the people there were Paralyzed or disabled from diseases And it says a certain man was there which had an infirmity 38 years 38 years imagine that That's amazing. That's a long long long time to pray to god to be healed and uh In our society today Obviously 99.9 of the christians would have given up This guy did not give up And he was there Looking for a miracle from god He had Demonstrated his perseverance and he Was still believing And it says verse six says when jesus saw him lying there And he knew that he had been there a long time That's the greek word gnosko. It means he understood Somehow that the guy had been there for 38 years or thereabouts And jesus asking the weirdest question you've ever heard Very strange Will you be made whole that's the greek word phalo? It means do you want to Do you want to be made whole now? that appears to be a extremely stupid question It appears to have no logic and no sense But actually that's a very revealing question What i was what i'm about to share with you is going to sound Like i'm crazy But Some people who are sick or disabled Don't want to be healed And they won't fight for their healing. They won't believe for it Why is that well somebody's getting some kind of benefit out of a disability or a sickness or something It could be social security disability benefits. It could be workers comp. It could be sympathy. It could be attention You never know what is going on in somebody's somebody's mind and as a counselor. That's the first thing I look at What is this person thinking? That's the first thing I look at And here you see You can see that god Literally is exploring What's in the guy's mind Because on the surface of it it appeared Of course, he wants to be healed. He's laying there by the pool And jesus is that he do you want to be healed? You know What's that revealing to us? Well, there were some people at the pool of Bethesda That were there for other reasons Maybe they had developed a friendship or two at the pool Maybe it was a gigantic daily pity party Maybe it was a frustration venting group You never know what is going to happen. You never know what people are thinking You'd be surprised at what people are thinking Those of you who are married know what i'm talking about And it says verse seven the impotent man answered him sir sir greek word curious Which means lord It's usually translated as lord lord. I have no man When the water is troubled To put me into the pool While i'm coming Hey, somebody else steps out ahead of me And gets in the water Okay, there's your answer jesus god his answer He knows the guy has faith now. He knows that the guy wants to be healed He knows he's not there for any other ulterior reason or motive And then jesus says to him quote rise That's the greek word word a gyro means to stand up Stand up Take up your bed Take up iro is the greek word means to pick up and get rid of Move this bed out of here because somebody else may need to use this area Move get rid of your bed. You don't need it anymore okay Last year And this uh story and the picture of it is on my uh facebook group Blessings I had gone to a um a revival that another ministry was having In phoenix and uh it was at a place called castles and coasters And uh that's a it's a giant amusement park at a Near and near a mall that's kind of closed down now metro center mall And uh I got there at the end of the revival on the last day and uh while I was sitting there listening to the christian group saying I looked over and saw a woman in her wheelchair so I got up and went over to talk to this woman she was with her husband and uh She uh had bit looked like she had been uh in the wheelchair for a long time. She had Gained a lot of weight. She looked like she was you know 40 pounds overweight So I started to talk to her and I realized that she had been She had rejection demons and she had been rejected and uh Dismissed by numerous people particularly her parents She told me a little bit about her background And I said to her uh Do you want to be healed? Would you like to be healed? She said yeah, I want to be healed. I said well, what we're going to have to do here is Forgive all those people and we can do that right now and uh God will honor your prayer And we can pray for them just like the bible says in matthew chapter 5 love your enemies Bless those who curse you and pray for those who despitefully use you despitefully use you She agreed and so I led her led her through a uh repentance prayer We got all of these abusers covered Her her first husband was physically abusive and used to beat her Her mother was very critical and negative toward her Uh, she you know, she had had had a tough life So then I said well Let's go ahead and stand up now and so I reached down and grabbed her Hens and I just kind of pulled her out of the wheelchair And she stood up and she was wobbly And I said that's okay. Keep standing. Come on stand up Okay, now go ahead and walk walk walk over there and her husband was to her left And she started walking and was utterly amazed And uh, she was crying and um, I got a picture of her and her husband hugging Each other after she was healed. I put it on that facebook group blessings and about uh 20 something minutes later I was praying with somebody else and I looked up and I saw that this woman had sat back down in that wheelchair I ran over there And grabbed her and told her to never sit in that chair again And uh, she is to push the chair home not sit in the chair Because I didn't want her to lose her healing And I kind of panicked when I saw that and uh Fortunately she listened to me And she was healed You can read the story on the on the facebook group and jesus said stand up Pick up your bed get rid of it and walk And the greek word there parapetale means to walk around walk all over the place just walk around And he did it says immediately the man was made whole and then he I row picked up his bed And he walked all around and unfortunately For jesus this occurred on the Sabbath day sabaton is the greek word for sabbath Now the jews had all kinds of sabbath several of them During the year We don't know which one this one was but we don't do know it was some some kind of sabbath And verse 10 says the jews therefore said to the man that was cured Hey, it is the sabaton it is not lawful for you to carry your bed And he answered them and said He's answered them. He said he that made me whole told me Pick up and get rid of my bed. So I'm I'm carrying it out of here And then he told me to walk And then they asked him what man Is that that told you that who told you to take up your bed and walk? Okay And the guy said I don't know who it is I'm because after the healing Jesus had moved out of the area for obvious reasons had he Had he started healing the people at the pool of the pheasant there would have been absolute bedlam In the in the area where people would be I mean it would have drawn a crowd and It would have been uncontrollable a mob would have Manufactured had he started healing Everybody laying around the pool of the pheasant. There must have been dozens and dozens of bodies laying there Here you can see The horrible disease of religion And here you can see why religion is so satanic it places Religious dogma above the love for the person It places religious theories Above the welfare of humans The religion is more important than the benefits to humanity It happened one day when jesus was in a synagogue. He saw a man that had a withered hand He was totally disabled and obviously with one hand He couldn't work because most jobs back then were manual labor and He looked around the bible says he looked around the synagogue after he said is it lawful on the Sabbath day to Help people and care for people Well, no in religion. It's not lawful You're not allowed to do that with the satanic power of religion You have to conform to the rules And jesus looked around with anger It says in the greek he was he was upset at the attitude of the people toward that disabled man with a withered hand It bothered him that nobody cared that this guy was totally disabled Living in poverty could not work That had been suffering for years That really bothers Your heavenly father. He doesn't like that And you know the story the guy he said stretch forth your hand There it is boom and he was instantly healed And then it says they were filled with madness Did you believe that that is the supernatural power of religion? It is it is murderous Many wars have been started because of religion religious is satans trump card On humanity and religion Will be satans supernatural power Demonstrated in the antichrist and the false prophet Just a few years from now the tribulation is only a few years away now We're certain jesus had Hit himself away But later on it says here jesus found him now that greek word for find there is really interesting It's heurisco Which means he was looking for him Jesus was looking for The man who had been healed He was walking around the temple trying to find the guy When he found him he says these words, which is Absolutely remarkable He says quote you behold you had been made whole Send no more Lest a worse thing Come upon you Wow that seems to be indicating it doesn't say it but directly but It seems to be indicating that Sin or some kind of sin Had caused that man's disability He had been sinning and jesus wanted to warn him Again out of love That's why your heavenly father tells you, you know, you've got to watch your life. You got to stop sinning You've got to become sanctified Is the term Hagiazzo Means to be sacred Sanctified in the greek. It means to be set apart for god That's what god's calling you today to do today uh At the end of the first month of 2023 He's calling you to become Sanctified to set your life apart For god Can you imagine a worse thing than being disabled for 38 years? And that's crazy. What's worse than that? I don't even want to think about it and then unbelievably The man departs and goes back to the jews Now he had to have known that the religious jews in the temple were angry at jesus because They were angry at the disabled man because he was carrying his mattress around Imagine that He must have known something was negative He couldn't have been a complete neophyte He goes bats back and rats jesus out He rats him out That is utterly amazing You would have thought the guy would have been absolutely consumed with gratefulness And would have been so thankful That he would have stood up for jesus Every step of the way And then the lord comes to him and gives him a warning So that he can maintain his healing and I've been a counselor for over 40 years. I have seen so many people Lose their healing you wouldn't believe how many drug addicts alcoholics You wouldn't believe how many people you know healed of arthritis or fibromyalgia Lose their healings You would not believe it. Why? They started sinning again Rheumatoid arthritis osteoarthritis fibromyalgia Those diseases are all Promoted Caused by Soul wounds Wounds in the soul Taking offence bitterness unforgiveness Alcoholics drug addicts Many of them lose their healings Because they go back to drinking they go back to self pity they go back to Self-discussed they go back to criticizing others religion is Got to be the biggest plague the devil ever poured on humanity And here you can see it In living color This guy goes from being healed for 38 years disabled And Jesus warning him Helping him again so he can retain his healing Because if you go back into sin that's going to affect your faith. It's going to It's going to affect your level of doubt People can lose their faith people can lose through doubt And sometimes they can lose their healing. So Jesus was saying Going sin no more what kind of sin it was only they knew he didn't reveal it here But it was him trying to help the guy First he healed the guy then now he's trying to help the guy keep his healing And it says in verse 16 the jews then started to persecute jesus Because he had done these things on the Sabbath. He had he had broken the laws Of religion another reason jesus was doing it on the sabbath of course was to Demonstrate us in living color the transition from Old testament law The old testament contract the old testament covenant To the new testament covenant in the new testament covenant covenant the the sabbath And all the other laws rules and regulations No longer apply You're no longer required as a born again christian under the new covenant to You know keep festivals and feasts and holy days and new moons. None of that stuff is required anymore Is it a sin for you to do it? No, but it's not required as long as you understand you're just doing it For other reasons other than the fact that you're required to do it You'll be fine Stand fast in the liberty That christ has made you free And do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage Stay free Stay healed Okay God wants you well. He wants to heal you He wants to take care of you Now is all sin Is all is are all sicknesses and disabilities caused by sin, of course or not Of course not Sometimes they're just outright attacks sometimes the result of witchcraft sometimes they're the result of bad genetics Sometimes people are born with disabilities, you know that happened in john chapter nine, you know Jesus ran into a guy who was blind from birth And the master said who sinned that caused this Kid to be blind the man or his parents Okay, and back in the day back in that time Everything bad that happened to the person In religion everybody saw it as They did some kind of sin to cause it They didn't understand the spirit world And didn't understand that demons Carry sin sickness and disease with them And they impart those things Into the body of a human And they didn't understand spirits or warfare Mainly because they had did not understand and did not take to heart the great book of Job In that book God revealed that Satan Has the power To do things most people do not think he can do Uh control the weather Implant sicknesses on people's bodies Uh murder family members Destroy businesses All these things job faced And he didn't know it was satan behind the curtain Causing all these problems It couldn't be any clearer read the first and second chapter of job today. It's just two chapters And you will find uh 21st century christianity in those two books christians today are as ignorant about the devil as job was Without a doubt Job did not understand That god was not causing all those problems Job said he was The lord gives and the lord takes away But it wasn't true because he couldn't see behind the curtain the veil, but god used that person the great prophet job And he used that incident to to show us And train us to see clearly That behind the curtain of your life There is a spiritual war going on on the other side of the veil I can't see that veil right now Because I live in the natural world But if you were to die if I was to die right now My inner man, of course, would leave my body and I could see Into the spirit realm Better than I can see in the natural world In the spirit realm, you don't even need to talk to anybody Your thoughts Transmit to the other spirit being When you're in the spirit realm, you're not talking to angels like I'm talking to you You're talking in your mind They can hear you and you can hear them Communication in the spirit world of spiritual Communication in the natural world is natural Send no more Less the worst thing Come upon you I did my teaching on monthly teaching on Deliverance training yesterday I would urge you To take a look at that teaching I went into a lot of key areas of human intelligence And the mind of human beings in that teaching It should be up on the youtube channel today But the teaching was yesterday and it was Very interesting everybody was very interested in the teaching It was a refreshing revelation into the mind of man and how the devil handles people of different intelligent levels I went through the whole thing and Went through the testing instruments used to discover what kind of an IQ what kind of intelligence a human being has but the spirit realm is more real than the natural world The problem with you and I is we can't see it and Most human beings unfortunately If if it's not involving their five senses They don't they don't really focus on it. They don't they don't believe it And that's what jesus was saying to the disabled man Listen, there's a spirit world out there And if you keep living in sin You could end up disabled again You could end up on another mattress You could end up back at the pool Now you would have thought that christians would be as thrilled as they could be With me brother mike. Yeah Oh, yeah, you would have thought wow. Hey, this this guy's really wonderful No, that is not what happens. I Preach and teach a form of the gospel that is extremely blunt Because I don't have time to go slang saying pussy foot around with the word of god I just teach it bang right in your face And you would have thought people would be rejoicing over that but no they do not rejoice over it They send me emails and Stuff they get offended at me and so on In fact, it happened yesterday I was counseling a father and a son who had traveled to the deliverance center from out of state after my deliverance training class and The the dad got mad at me and took offenses at what I was saying He had enormous bitterness and disgust for his wife And I tried to explain to him every which way but loose That there wasn't any way for him to be delivered from demons Because he had to forgive his wife first And he went into a long diet tribe about all these bad things his wife had done She did this she did this. I mean it went on for like four or five minutes And I said look That's got nothing to do with you if you want to get healed you have to forgive her and that's it That's the end of it You want to die you want to die with demons you want to die in misery You want your family to go down in flames Yes, or no The guy would not listen to me Got mad Left in a huff, you know, but that's how it works this guy Got a warning from jesus how to keep his healing And immediately went to jesus and the enemies He knew they didn't like him He knew he he ran out of known they wanted to kill him, but they knew that That they were critical of him Right out of the gate. He had healed on the Sabbath So right there the guy knew Hey, these people don't like this guy that healed me As soon as he found out who he was He rats on him Well, that's weird. I wouldn't have done that. Oops time out. Yes, you would have that's typical for a Christian in the 21st century Okay, because 99% of all christians are carnal christians Which means they live out of their soul And your soul is the seat of your emotion And people who live out of their emotions like the man at the pool of a thesda Always always end up A loser If the devil can get you to live out of your soul and live by your emotion You're dead in the water Dead You've got to repent of it. You got to change Now yesterday that poor family that dad that came to visit me Would not listen would not change The guy at the pool of Bethesda my guess is ended up sick again After he ratted on jesus my guess is I don't know that for sure That he ended up disabled again You friend No You're not going to be that way not in 2023. You might have been that way in 2022 Not this year You're not going to lose this year. This isn't it isn't going to happen. It's not going to happen If you know somebody needs to be healed. I just finished a three-part series on The unusual oddities and mysteries of divine healing. It's on the youtube teaching channel Healing part one part two part three tremendously informative Teaching unlike any teaching on healing you've ever seen before I looked at the pros and the cons the ups and the downs Of divine healing and outlined the whole thing for you And those those three teachings quite remarkable At the end of all three of the teachings, of course, we had an altar call where people some people were healed and Dozens were delivered from demons. You can see it right on the Video tape I leave my mic on so you can hear the conversations of what's going on You can notice what I'm doing and saying If I make a mistake you can see it so you won't repeat it If I say something productive, you can hear it and repeat it So it will go better. It's an interesting learning experience watching people get healed And delivered in real time very unusual but today You are going to learn through this beautiful story That You've been praying a long time for something And the devil has beaten you over the head with a real bat not a nerf bat a real one telling you Give up quit don't Keep believing that's what he's telling you You're facing a total disaster in your life and you and I are the same. I'm just an ordinary person I have had so much adversity and so many disasters that I faced over the years I I'm not even going to recount it Okay, but I will close with this I told you this a few podcasts back As you might remember if you heard the podcast When I was a teenager I went to a kathryn coolman service in Tulsa, Oklahoma at or you at the maybe center On campus there that was the basketball auditorium and If you want to hear the whole story about what happened that day go to my youtube channel youtube.com slash house of healing az and Look up the video brother mic meets kathryn coolman and You'll be crying while you're watching it and you'll be laughing while you watch while you're watching it I did both while I was telling it But I actually saw a pool of Bethesda a situation and I Was a teenager then I was not following God And I was utterly Flabbergasted I was flabbergasted I was sitting on the aisle down at the lower level about Oh seems like 20 rows 25 rows I had gotten there two hours early And I ran like carl lewis To get down to the front to save I needed four seats Five seats needed five seats. Why took the seat on the aisle? And I saved the other four for the people I went there with And at the prayer time at the end of the service um kathryn coolman came out and Set a very short prayer um I found the woman very strange She was the strangest looking minister I had ever seen in my life Of course, I was only 19 at the time how much that I've seen but I was hoping that all ministers didn't look like her. I mean she looked really bad And while she was praying way back in the back on my right up the aisle I was on the aisle seat up the aisle way back in the back I heard a bunch of noise and moaning And crying going on and then I heard crying and moaning going on all over The maybe center there was 16,000 people there 16,000 people The basketball floor and all they had folding chairs. That's where we were I mean the place was literally packed. There were no seats left none Completely full I turned around on the aisle seat and looked back down the aisle And there was a guy that looked like an ashwitch victim Coming toward me down the aisles going down to the front to give his testimony he Had pipe cleaners for arms and pencils for legs. He had been in the wheelchair. It looked like most of his life. He had completely withered or atrophied totally He he was totally and completely disabled. He was obvious the guy was a quadriplegic And while he was walking down the aisle, I looked at his face I was in a state of shock He was weeping. There were giant tears coming down his cheeks And he was walking kind of staggering like that balance Little off you could tell he had been on the wheelchair for years. I mean it was it was a pitiful quadriplegic case He was healed his spinal cord had been healed I could not forget it and here I am an old man decades later I can remember the incident almost like it was yesterday Almost like it was yesterday This guy crawled out of the wheelchair section, which was his pool of a pheasant And was heading down to the front now What point am I trying to make here? You may be facing challenges and difficulties in your life That have not been fixed have not been answered have not smoothed out yet And the devil's coming to you and he's hitting you hard He is beating on you Give up quit get impatient make a bad decision force the thing yourself Fix it yourself Lose your faith quit. There is no god god doesn't care. He's not going to help you. He's not going to be with you All of it just bomb bards in Who gets it with it? Everybody gets it with it. I Am getting hit with it. Absolutely. I Have some things in my life that are still not been answered And my daughter is still disabled after 26 years And the devil keeps telling me to give up and I keep Telling him I'm going to keep on believing I'm going to keep on believing And you know what you are too You're going to keep on believing Because god has a miracle In 2023 For you