 Welcome everybody to unfiltered with pastor David pastor David. How are you doing John? Good want to welcome those who are joining us here today? Pastor today the question I wanted to ask was centered around healing. We received in one of our social media platforms somebody asking us about Your thoughts on on healing services, and if they're legit If people go are they really healed and the people that go and if they're not healed Does it mean that they don't have faith? The idea of setting up a time for God to heal as Has no biblical basis You never see anything declared in any of the New Testament books that relate to The healings and miracles of the Lord and the Apostles You never see that Jesus ever said, you know, you need to show up in this town on Tuesday because we're gonna So I've always been skeptical Skeptical of such things because I've never believed in Bible doesn't teach that you can orchestrate the movement of the Holy Spirit You know God is sovereign. He is not he is not his will is not determined by me He is sovereign. He has his own will. He does as he pleases right and when it comes to the area of healing that's really under his own control and so what we do is ask and We pray that the Lord will answer in the affirmative and and so beginning from there I've never felt that there is a legitimacy in healing crusades and healing ministries or even as people who are referring to themselves as operating in the office of or role of a healer and So God is our healer. Do I do I believe that God heals? Well, of course. I mean you see healing miracles Variety of them in the old as well as obviously in the new there was No, no illness that Jesus could not heal, you know and and Matthew and Mark and others Matthew makes it clear when he says that he healed all manner of diseases. So there was nothing impossible for the Lord I mean my goodness if he could cause the blind to see the deaf to hear the lame to walk and even raise the dead and The Bible as far as I can see over the years that I've read and studied and been taught Doesn't close the door for God's supernatural abilities to continue I Obviously and every every time we close the service as you know John We pray if that God might do healing for those who might have a request For the scriptures teach us that our God is a healer one of the ways. He's referred to as he is God the healer the Lord the healer and and all of that and so yeah, we do believe in Healing what I have a problem with is people orchestrating the movement of the spirit by scheduling him for this Tuesday or for two weeks Or three weeks. We're gonna see that not only that but when people say That you're not healed because of your lack of faith then that makes my faith sovereign over the will of God You know and so I believe that what you're doing at that point is your You are saying that God is subject to my requests and the intensity and great amount of when Jesus himself said It's a mustard seed because it's not faith like a mustard seed. You can move a mountain. It is point. Obviously is that It's it may even if you have a small amount of faith you have a huge God who can do the impossible and so When people go so far as to say you You know, you didn't receive your healing because your faith isn't strong enough That's putting an awful lot of pain and guilt on a person who's already suffering within illness My mom suffered with illnesses from the time she was 24 Until she died at 83 Wow, and you can't imagine the amount of prayers that I and others prayed for my mom that God would please heal my mom please heal Bonnie and Ultimately she received the healing when she passed from this life into the presence of the Lord That's when she got her perfect healing So anytime somebody says you aren't healed for lack of faith They're a they're a charlatan. There was a particular man I'll leave unnamed who quote-unquote ministered in the LA area and He he said and I quoted him one time in one of our Bible studies God doesn't want to live in a house that he can't see out of the windows and you know He starts describing the hearing if you don't have hearing or you can't walk You don't want to live in that kind of house. Well, his wife came up with cancer and She died of it But prior to her death, I still remember and it broke my heart. It saddened me To see this this frail woman Who came up to apologize to the church because she had become ill because her husband had made his money and his reputation on on healing and So I have a real difficulty with those kinds of things another quote-unquote healer who who actually was one of those who ushered in this positive Confession movement. He was pretty much what they call the father of the positive Confession movement those who know know who I'm speaking about Well, he told everybody, you know that you could be healed guaranteed. He died of a disease I believe it was a heart disease, but he died of a disease So physician heal thyself When you go out and you you're telling people that you're guaranteed for this and if you don't receive it It's a lack of faith. They they are putting guilt on people and they're not taking in the full counsel of God Healing is part of the ministry of Christ and Healing's I believe continue to this day and yes We've had people in our fellowship who have come to me speaking to me who have have been healed then I prayed for many people over the years beginning with my mom and And I will not take responsibility for them not being healed. I I do not I do not claim to be a healer. God is the healer I don't know of an office in scripture That is the office of the healer, you know these signs follow those who believe and there are things that that God will do But those are the supernatural acts that cause us to realize that miracles do happen and a miracle loosely defined is Something that no human being could perform and has to be an outside source and the miracle has to be supernatural in Nature and so we usually attribute that kind of definition to the works and powers and the miracles of Christ, you know and so We'll never have a healing service. I don't see it in scripture. I don't believe that you can schedule God to do things at certain times God is sovereign and my responsibility is to ask and to ask in faith nothing doubting so we ask because we have a healing God and It's not that person's lack of faith if they're not healed and it's not my lack of faith if they're not healed Because ultimately God is sovereign and determines who he's going to heal We're commanded to ask God is the one who will According to his will who will perform that work and so anybody who is saying you got to go to this healing Well, it's healing service. I have to say this and I'll close with this job many times These people are not only professing to heal, but there's no there's no doctor That's confirming these Jesus told The the leopard to go to the priest and perform the sacrifices as a witness to them So they could see because only God can cleanse a leper and that's the whole point You know go and show yourself to the priest and and give the sacrifices that are required in the law Why well because it's a testimony so anybody who claims to be healed and Refuses to go to a doctor because they think well, that's lack of faith Isn't following scripture because if somebody is genuinely healed Then you ought to go to the doctor so the doctor can say This is this is out of my hand I didn't this is this is something beyond me That's a sign to them because the healing actually is is is revealing the presence of God in a supernatural fashion And so you go and have it validated before you start running around saying I've been healed I've been healed and then you die of that disease That's and and again that can really hit someone's faith Especially when the message is out there that your faith isn't well a brother your faith just wasn't strong enough But I think about you teaching the word every week Twice a week three times a week with both services on Wednesday evening and how many healed hearts They have been maybe not so much the physical healing But the healed hearts of brokenness and healed hearts of addictions and the heal hearts of of just a life That has been destroyed and you see God's work at work the God's word at work every single work And that's where the every single week that's for like for me That's where the healing came from was God's word. It wasn't you instituting a healing room or a healing Service it was the word of God very often John these healing rooms require some admission price Yes, they make a lot of money on the faith of God's people And if there's no outrage in a person's heart Over what's done to God's sheep. They don't have a heart for the Lord because I guess I've been around too long 52 years. I've walked with the Lord. I've seen a lot of things in these years I've pastored this church over 41 years and prior to that I was an assisting pastor and prior to that I was teaching studies and homes and the idea that you could you could injure somebody So callously and I have to tell you there are quite a number of people out there Who who really don't care about you or me who really don't They just don't John We are stepping stones to their road to greatness and and I've seen it too many times. I I've seen too many hurt people and some of these people who Who profess this, you know They have their own private jets because they don't want to fly in a commercial airline because it's that tube is filled with demons Crazy and the fact that these people give money to these charlatans Just shows the heart of the people and when Jesus saw that that woman giving her mites that widow with her her mites and all She's a picture of of of the sacrifice and love and the giving and even in her condition Which was in poverty. She had great faith faith great enough for Jesus to use as an example Because he saw people throwing great sums into into the the trumpets into the offering box And but he focused his attention on a woman and he said this woman has given all she has to live What is he saying? This is a woman that is in contrast to the Pharisees who are making money off your souls This is a woman who is yielding herself to to a God that she trusts and loves even in her poverty And so I'm telling you there's just so much air and it's still out there. They're still on TV They're still selling their their their healing cloths and their prayer mats and these seeds of faith They're still out there and I'm I get outraged by it I I had a mama who was sick who died whose last year of life was on a bed with with a bag because of a class to me and Who died in a slow painful way and in the arms of my sister and for for someone to say oh, she didn't have any faith I Believe that that causes God not only not only Sorrow of heart and grief over what his quote-unquote children say but I believe it causes anger too Because it's just wrong to hurt those whom God loves with that said Maybe we always keep our eyes on Jesus Christ Let your will be done not mine Let your will be done. I like how you put that in perspective our will Scheduling God at this time this time and this time and we're gonna you know it got showing up You need to be here that your faith is so sovereign over everybody else and even over God Well, you got to come and see me because I'm the man God is using at this moment And I need a new pair of shoes so make sure you're offering I'm sorry, yeah, we can go so long Thank you pastor for sharing on that and for the one whoever we sent that question And thank you so much and and if you guys do have questions you can send it through social media And we can see if there'd be something that we can chit chat about here We do want to invite you to our Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 Pastor you're taking us through mark. I mean I was looking over your notes before For Sunday and it's gonna be I It's gonna be a good study. I think that the that it's yeah, I'm looking forward to giving that study it's very touching to me and Well, behold the man. Yeah, behold. It's gonna be a good study. Invite your friends and family to come out and join us Next Wednesday, we will have another unfiltered between now and then but we do have communion So you can get that on your calendar. We do have our Bible study First on Wednesday night and then communion and just want to invite you guys out men reminder that we have our Super Bowl breakfast Tickets are in sale. Anthony Munoz is gonna come out February 4th That's gonna be a Saturday you can get your tickets at the gazebo after service or you can actually register online Thank you guys for tuning in pastor David. Thank you so much. God bless you guys