 So we let's pray and we'll get started today my father. We submit this time into your hands. We thank you Once again for this beautiful day your grace and your mercy and the sustains us that upholds us faithfulness We thank you Lord. I will submit this Two sessions into your hands Lord. I pray even as we learn more about you and ministry father I pray Holy Spirit that you would continue to teach us and help us understand your ways Lord in Jesus name I pray Amen. Awesome. Okay. All right Let's get started today in the last class the week before last we discussed chapter 4 we looked at The title learning to minister healing and deliverance from Jesus That's the chapter we looked at and we saw what are the different ways? That Jesus ministered and he functioned in as he minister healing and deliverance, right? And just to do a quick recap of what we learned in the last class we see that He Jesus made the will of God very clear and during the course of this Of this subject we've learned that it is God's will to heal everyone. It is his intention. It is His will and he's he demo Jesus demonstrated that and he showed that right so the will of God We learned about the will of God the exercise of faith the flow of compassion the importance of compassion as we administering and healing and deliverance and the anointing of the Holy Spirit dealing with the issue of sin and salvation and And some of the methods that Jesus used we looked at that And the nature of Jesus's healings and miracles We looked at all of those and a couple of things out what we also looked at was One basic foundation out of or a fundamental thing what we looked at was The norm versus the exception, right? The norms is that we are expected to come with faith We are expected to flow in compassion, right? We are expected to Do what God calls us to do that's the norm thing, right? We ask for God's kingdom to come and invade our realm invade our situation And what and then there there are these exceptions Where God decides to step in when his divine authority and sovereignty He steps into a situation and he decides to do what you know What he wants to do and one of the keys versus that we kept reminding us was some 115 verse 3 Right. He is God. He's in heaven. He does as he pleases. Okay? So those are all the things that we looked at in the last class And so let's continue to go to we want to we want to try and cover chapter 5 and chapter 6 today We'll see how that goes. Okay and and I Hope that you know, you've learned something So far in the couple of months that we've been studying this chat of the subject There was something that you could take off And learn. Okay. So moving on to chapter 5 We learn about the secret to Ministry as demonstrated by Jesus. Okay the secret to ministry as demonstrated by Jesus now Please notice the title. It doesn't specifically or necessarily just mean ministering in healing and deliverance or healing ministry, but it's ministry in general but everything what Jesus did And a huge part of his ministry was healing and deliverance. Okay, so The secret to ministry as demonstrated by Jesus now There are four keys Our secrets to ministry as the as Jesus demonstrated now Have you I'm not sure if you ask this question, but I have asked this question is like, hey You know, what is you know, what is the secret behind that person's success in ministry or in business? You know, how is that person so successful? In ministry What is their secret? What are some of their keys? Have you asked this question? You know, have you looked at another man of God or a woman of God and say I want to be like that. How are they so anointed? How do they move so beautifully? In the whole in the Holy Spirit in the gifts and whatnot. Has anyone asked that question? We're looking at another person or another man of God or a minister Or a businessman, whatever right At some point we've all have wondered we've all had this question, right? And so and we when we look at Jesus and everything he did You know and in his time on earth We can't help but wonder How do you do it? Like what were some of the keys or secrets? To you know, to his ministry in the way that he functioned Okay, and so that is what this chapter is all about, right? And I think this is awesome that we get to Learn some of the secrets of Jesus Which has been there in the Bible. So few things right The first one is ministering out of intimacy and obedience These are some of the keys and secrets to Jesus's ministry And that's what we're looking at right a ministering out of intimacy and obedience ministering based on the finished work of the cross ministering from a place of dominion and authority And ministering through the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit Okay, so the first thing we looked at we let's look at is ministering out of intimacy and obedience intimacy and obedience, right so Jesus walked in an absolute intimate relationship with the father And we read that in the gospel of john time and time again not only in the gospel of john but We've read a lot of scriptures and passages from the gospel of john and hence I'm mentioning that gospel But in all the gospels that we read we see how Beautifully and intimately Jesus walked with the father right and time and time again We see that the father saying I love my son and the son says I love the father I do everything what he tells me to do And I do everything what he shows me to do et cetera et cetera Right, so he walked in complete Obedience with the father Right and And that is a testament to the humility of Jesus itself Right, he did what he saw the father do and taught what he learned from the father Okay, so intimacy obedience and fruitfulness are inseparable simply means that intimacy and obedience go hand in hand Now you can't see that you are having an intimate relationship with god and not walk in obedience Right if you tell me that you have an intimate relationship With the father with god that means it will also be shown in your walk Is that you are walking in obedience? Right, and if you're walking in obedience that simply means that you are walking you're having that intimate relationship with the father So let's look at john chapter 15 verse 4 5 and 7 it says Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine Neither can you unless you abide in me I am the vine you are the branches He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit for without me you can do nothing Okay, you might want to highlight it underline it whatever is without me you can do Nothing We need to realize that okay without him without jesus in our lives Is really nothing much you can do okay? If you abide in me and my words abide in you You will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you okay, and so This intimate relationship is developed with just being in his presence longing to be in his presence and You know reading his words spending time in prayer speaking and praying in tongues singing in tongues etc etc Okay, and I've often said this is If you break the word intimacy, it simply means into me you see because I show you Right and um, just think about all Uh the relationships close relationships your best friends your close friends at relationship between husband and wife or good friends or what not? um They are they are willing to pay a certain price to get to know another the other individual a little bit more Right, uh, I am and uh most of the times we as christians um We like the idea of being a christian and we like the idea Of wanting to love god Right, we like the idea of uh, I love god. I love him. I love the bible Uh, but we don't often um act on that Wait, what good is it if you keep telling a person that you love them and you do not show it in action You don't express it or in words or you know, whatever in action That person isn't going to uh Feel anything if you get what i'm saying, right? um And so that's the whole point here is that if you say that you love god and if we say that we love him Uh, we want to live our life for him. We want to die for him. Uh, etc, etc We got to make um pay the price Right to Um to walk in that intimate relationship with him to to spend time in his word to read him to read the word to study the word To pray spend time and prayer spend time and praying in tongues, etc, etc And that is how you build an intimate relationship. Uh with with with god Um, right, uh, look look at another verse john chapter 15 verse 9 and 10. It says as the father loved me I also have loved you Abide in my love. There's this constant invitation. Hey just as the father loves me And I in him, uh, you know, I have loved you the same so come Abide in my love come there's the doors are wide open Uh, the invitation is there for you to come the red carpet is rolled out Um, so if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love Just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love Okay, so look at that true obedience is an expression of intimacy Right, so true obedience is an expression. What is an expression? It's you are expressing it. You are showing it off Okay, see because I love you. I'm going to do this That what makes what pleases you what makes you happy what what puts a smile on your face Uh, I'm going to do that because I love you Right, um, do you have friends where they say, uh, you give them another advice They listen to all your advice and they do exactly the opposite of what you tell them to do Um, right So you you you give what I'm saying. Okay, so, uh, how does one express? Of obedience it simply is true obedience is an expression of intimacy love and devotion affection, etc Right, if you love me keep my commandments. That's john 14 15. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you Right, you are my friends if you do whatever I command you Okay, um And so in the notes, it's mentioned that obedience is an expression of our relationship with him We love him. We are his friends. Hence we obey him Right. I know there are two kinds of obedience. Isn't it? One is a person who commands your obedience or your respect Or your love and the other one is where one another individual demands your respect Demands that you work for them right They for example Those who slaves and the masters in egypt The slaves did everything what the egyptians told them to do They're not because they enjoy doing that But you know, they were demanded otherwise they would get whipped So slaves did it Because they were demanded to do so But here we obey our god because we love him And it is and everything is born out of love in the kingdom of god everything that we do Must be out of love and if there's a single thing that you are that you are doing is because You know because you have to do it then it immediately becomes a work and you begin to burn out as they say it Okay, so obedience is an expression of a relationship with uh with our with our god Where we love him. We are his friends. Hence we obey him Okay And at the bottom of that of page John g lakes writes something beautiful And by the way, um, we learned we'll talk a little bit about john g lake a little later, but yeah, here's a quote of what he said He says healing is basically a spiritual thing The power that heals The sick comes from god Down through your spirit Out through your hands Into that man or woman If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship You will have power With god and there is no escaping it And this is true that when we are in the right communion and fellowship with the lord There is not power enough in all hell to put disease upon our little finger Okay, uh john g lake is one of those individuals who had the most powerful and impactful and successful healing ministries In south africa in africa I mean people in in a particular town would be afraid if if they hear the john g lake is coming to their town because Our hospitals will be empty To every town or village that he would visit um and so And people would bring you know sick people in trucks to his crusades and his meetings and and so john g lake is um Is one of those generals of god as we say right that whose life that you know, we need to look at and and study as well and And hence the final assignment if you've already seen it Okay Cool. Um, let's move on. So that's the first uh success or a key Um of jesus's ministry is ministering out of intimacy and obedience There is an invitation for us to walk an intimate relationship with the father Okay, and the second thing is ministering based on the finished work of the cross Okay ministering based on the finished work of the cross Matthew chapter 8 verse 16 and 17 it says when evening had come They brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with the word And healed all who were sick That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by aizayah the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Right he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses now what we need to understand Here is now Jesus is making advanced payment Now jesus healed everyone who he healed before the cross, isn't it? but He healed and ministered Based on the finished work of the cross because he knew that he was going to pay the full price And so this is what we call it as you know a down payment or an advanced payment, right so And and hence the Matthew the gospel writer he's quoting aizayah Maybe we've looked at this before he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Right and so jesus ministered based on you know what he would accomplish on the cross Like he knew he was going to die on the cross and he knew that he was going to rise again from the dead Right so what he did in the gospels before is Actual death on the cross was a foretaste of the benefits of his finished work on the cross and so when you and I minister In healing and deliverance today We know for certain what jesus has done on the cross Are we certain? Is everybody so certain and sure that jesus died and the cross and rose again? Yes. No, maybe right sin sickness And satan they were all dealt with on the cross Okay, what sin? sickness diseases Sorrows grieves our pain Everything was dealt with on the cross Everything the payment is paid in full Right sickness was removed satan is defeated sin was paid for right And so what is left is for us to receive it by faith and walk in it Right be received by faith. So we if you are receiving if you are asked praying for healing We receive it by faith if you are ministering healing and deliverance. We minister in faith Knowing fully knowing it's being fully aware of what is what jesus has done for us on the cross Okay, so ministering based on the finished work of the cross is extremely crucial and important And the next next key in jesus's ministry is ministering from a place of dominion and authority Okay dominion and authority Um, so jesus was never intimidated or threatened by any, you know demon Or any kind of disease like, you know, so I mean, I'll be honest guys. I I've seen a lot of Deliverance happened to a demon possession You know growing up and all of that you you see people manifesting and all of that, right? And as a kid and whatnot, I'd be like, oh good lord. What is happening here? Right. Um, what you know when when the demon starts manifesting through a human body It's uh, very painful to watch. It's very sad to watch what What the demon spirit puts a human being through right? They start howling they start moving like a snake And do all kinds of nonsense and whatnot um, right and Which is not which is not nice. It's just not pleasant to to see or witness, isn't it? But What when we look at the life of jesus He functioned out of dominion and authority Right. He was not shaken or intimidated or taken by surprise. It's like, oh, I don't know how to deliver You know this I don't know how to deal with this demonic oppression and whatnot right, uh He functioned in authority Right, he did not Plea like he's saying he did not beg you're saying, okay, please can you go? Uh, you know, don't embarrass me in front of all these people. Please please please please We don't see jesus doing at all, right? Uh, he knew that they were defeated. Uh, he knew that they have no authority Because he knew that all authority in heaven and earth was given to him right, uh, we look at uh The demonic spirits were scared Of jesus and we look at in luke chapter 4 verse 34. It says Let us alone What have we to do with you jesus of nazi? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are the holy one of god Right And so we see that they are trembling in fear and asking to just let them be and in verse 36 of luke chapter 4 We see that uh, what a word this is for with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they came out Are you just you see those choice of words there for with authority and with power? He commands the unclean spirits and they came out Okay, and the beauty of this whole thing is Is seen in luke chapter 10 verse 19 is Jesus has given us the same authority that he functioned in Like luke chapter 10 verse 19. He says behold. I give you the authority To trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing Shall by any means Hurt you right I hope you are encouraged just listening to this or reading this scriptures and because that is the intention is to encourage us is This is one of the keys you know To how jesus functioned and and in everything that jesus did he just didn't do it for himself and move on He did it to also show us How we can function and how we can minister to people In this day and age, right? We are encouraged to walk in intimate relationship with him to walk in obedience with him To minister based on the finished work of the cross Right that that the sickness and and satan is defeated and they have no power and authority for all authority Jesus has given to us in the same authority that he functioned in Right and as the last point We've again spoken quite at large about this is ministering through the presence and the power of the holy spirit Right the presence and the power of the holy spirit. Holy spirit Is god with us god on earth right Again, this is just a little bit of a trinity and whatnot. It's it's not god the father god the son got the holy spirit It's there one and the same Holy spirit god the holy spirit is with us Right, I mean just knowing that a truth Should encourage us to function in authority that he is with us Emmanuel Right and so many scriptures that says I you know it goes on to say I will never leave you nor forsake you Is not just for us to feel good Is to function in authority saying okay, he is with us He will never leave us nor forsake us and in that authority in in that assurance I'm going to minister healing and deliverance knowing that my god Is with me Right. He is in me and he is over me Right. So again, we learned that everything that jesus did He did it in the power of the holy spirit Isn't it right? So we looked at time at that point time and time again. So Those are the four keys. Let's look at it very quickly What are the four keys or secrets to ministry as jesus demonstrated first one is ministering out of intimacy and obedience ministering based on the finished work of the cross ministering from a place of dominion and authority And ministering through the presence and the power of the spirit Amen So is this clear enough any questions on this chapter so far? Are you with me following? All right, then let's move into chapter six now Uh Chapter six is answers to common questions and sicknesses on on healing Okay. Now in this chapter, we are going to address um common questions that people have asked You know, oh people have regarding Healing and sickness and whatnot Okay. Now. These are not the only questions. Um, so these are frequently asked questions No FAQs as we said with regards to healing and deliverance where Um, you know people have regarding healing ministries. Okay, see Nina has something to say While jesus was on a theme minister through the presence and the power of the holy spirit Uh Like we would yes, you know I mean, uh, what jesus has done has he's He said very clearly that you would do this and much more greater things Right, and so there is a place an intimate relationship with god that we can walk in Uh, where we can function the way jesus did and do greater things than what he had what he did When that very clearly jesus himself has said so and it all comes down to us, right? Um, and um, our end of the equation as I say it is How how willing are we to build that intimate relationship with him and walk in obedience? Yeah, is that a clear nina anything you want to ask? Actually, I'm I'm taking a class from home today so you can also unmute and speak so Okay, may I may I can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I know so what I was asking him and we've kind of dealt with it a bit in the Christology and things like that but just just to clarify more than anything Uh, so when jesus while he was on earth I mean we keep Hearing that he was fully god and fully man But he refrained from using those powers. I mean as he would I mean like like I mean he didn't use the powers that he had But he limited Himself to using the power of the holy spirit because in some scripture it says the presence of the Power of the lord was present to heal right in spite of jesus being there So does so would that mean that jesus limited himself to Depending on the holy spirit for all the works that he did Which is why we have the confidence to be able to Um do exactly like he did That I was just wanting to clarify that so, uh again Kind of I'm just trying to understand this part where the times where jesus did not heal. Uh, are you saying that he limited himself? No, no, no whenever he did what he did whether it was raising the dead or Any miracle that he did and you were looking at so He limited himself to using the power of the holy spirit like we would do is what I had asked So, I mean it is not as if he used his only uh importance Yes He did not use it that way. I mean because it says he refrain from using No, so yes. Yeah, so, uh, I mean yeah, we keep saying that he was fully god and fully man And you know in he was fully god in his identity that he was a son of god and it was very clearly, you know Mentioned again during the time of his baptism You know what not that the heavens opened up Everybody heard a voice saying okay, behold My son whom and whom I'm well pleased. So he was fully god in his identity Right and and then he was fully man in because he was in a human body So he was not only present. We see that he was not You know, he he grew in strength and he grew in wisdom and all of that Is what we what we mean when we say that he was fully man Okay, thank you Thank you Awesome. Okay. Um, so let's move on then to uh chapter six. Um answers to common questions on sickness and um healing Uh, again, this chapter is about addressing some of the most Misunderstood passages in the bible Right How people can take one passage of scripture and kind of manipulate it or misinterpret it As we can as we say it. Okay, so but So what we must do or what we must keep in mind is that If you're interpreting a scripture Right every scripture or all scripture must be interpreted in the light of the rest of the scripture Right, you we cannot just take one verse in isolation and say, okay, this is what this verse alone says so And use it according to and just believe that And you know, don't take the time to study In the light of the whole the rest of the scripture That's one thing and then when we are interpreting it We interpreted in the light of the person of jesus christ himself. Why because he is perfect theology Right, uh, there is no the other theology or doctrine that is greater than jesus himself Okay, so everything we know about god must align itself to what is seen and heard through god who became flesh and that is Jesus christ. Okay, can I say that again? Right everything we know about god must align itself to what is seen and heard through jesus christ himself Right anything we claim to understand about god that is not aligned to what jesus said or did Has to be questioned and discarded Right again simply because jesus christ is perfect theology the word who became flesh Okay, so uh, and with that in mind, let's look at some of the misunderstood passages scriptures, etc Okay, uh, let's see The first one is paul's porn All right paul's thorn We've read about this in the book of quarenteans chapter 12 or 7 and 10 and lest It says and lest I should I should be exalted about above measure by the abundance of the revelations A thorn in the flesh was given to me a messenger of satan to buffet me lest I be exalted above measure Concerning this thing I pleaded with the law three times that it might depart from me And he said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is me perfect in weakness Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in needs in persecutions in distress for christ's sake for when I am weak Then I am strong Okay, um, so let's look at this passage and see what we can learn. Okay, so paul apostle paul He received abundance of revelations, right? We see that He had a lot of visitations personal experiences. He was taken up to the third heavens Etc etc, right paul and and it is out of those all those revelations that he's written a third Of the new testament itself Um, right and so then he says lest paul gets puffed with pride god permitted a thorn in the flesh uh now Many of us now how it's been interpreted or misinterpreted or understood is that okay this thorn that paul is talking about is sickness or an Or an eye problem eye problem because uh, you know, there's a in an epistle. He writes where I have written everything in big big fonts Right, uh, so they read the thorn to that because he can't see very well or something or a hand problem or or whatever okay, but paul when he's writing this uh scriptures, right, he's saying he's very clearly. Okay, let's just look at that verse seven Okay, um and lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations A thorn in the flesh was given to me a messenger of satan Okay, so a messenger is a greek word. It comes from the greek word means angelos Right in the lower case angel again simply means a messenger and we look at in in the book of revelations chapter two and three Uh, you know, it talks about the angel of the church. In other words a messenger, right? um And so the messenger of satan hence was a spiritual being that constantly opposed paul in his ministry to bring him down to slow things down in his in his life Right, so it was he's not It's very plain and it's very clearly mentioned that what paul is talking about is that he is referring to the messenger of satan Uh, you know that that keeps hindering him that keeps to it keeps striking him repeatedly Right, so and he says this in second corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 and 27 Uh, I'll read for us. Uh, he states that Are they ministers of christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure In prisons more frequently in deaths often From the jews five times. I've received 40 stripes minus one Right, uh, three times. I was beaten with rods once I was stoned three times. I was shipwrecked a night and day I have been in deep In journeys often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils of my own countrymen in parents of the gentiles in perils of the city in perils of in the wilderness In perils in the sea in perils amongst false brethren in weariness and toil in sleeplessness often in hunger and thirst and fasting often in cold and nakedness Right, uh now By and some of these hardships were what he took upon himself Many of these came as oppositions Right to work that he was doing Right and all of these served to keep his feet on the ground help him walk in humility knowing that he had to depend upon uh, the law Okay, so at the point here is uh It's very clear what you know the thorn that he is um is referring to Uh is a demonic spirit a messenger from satan Right because of the abundance. That's the reason right because of the abundance of revelations That was given to um paul Now we have to keep this in mind Uh, you know very what is very important is that um, we don't receive Uh, you know such In the abundance of revelations like paul did today because what the revelations that paul did Received was put together in the canon of what we call today as the bible And he's written like the third of the new testament Right, so as believers today, none of us have received such abundance of revelations Right, uh, and we have not been used in the same manner as paul to have the privilege of Say we we say there's a thorn um in the flesh or some sort right And so that that is very clear, okay, so for us to claim that our sickness is a thorn in the flesh Okay, that's a very important thing right for us to claim that our sickness is a thorn in the flesh Given to us for a grand spiritual purpose or whatever Is uh, not the right thing to say it in a very simple manner Okay, it's it's a very wrong thing to confess or declare Okay, and so that's the one passage uh, that is often misunderstood uh, misinterpreted Which is paul's thorn that talks about in the quarentines Okay, um, and so okay before we continue what we'll do is we'll pause here. We'll take a break We'll come back and resume with the next session Okay, I'll see you all later