A Pentecostal preaching in Philidelphia
A Pentecostal preaching in Philidelphia
A Pentecostal preaching in Philidelphia.
It's a great privilege for God's servant to be in the city of Brotherly love, to walk into this building tonight and to sense the marvellous presence of the Holy Spirit.
And tonight we are going to talk about "how to take the limit off of God"
In the 8th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew, we are reading from the 5th verse.
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum there came unto Him a Centurian beseeching Him and saying "Lord my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy grieviously tormented" and Jesus saith unto him "I will come and heal him"
Before I read the rest of this scripture it is very important that I stop and tell you this tonight, you cannot change the will of a person once that individual has already died, you might try, you might go to court to try to break a will but it is a very difficult thing to do in the natural world.
2,000 years ago Jesus Christ gave us His will, He sealed His will, and He sealed the testament of His will with His own precious blood, included I that will that Jesus left us is the healing of our physical bodies in the atonement.
The bible said that Jesus Christ came here for a purpose and that purpose was to destroy the work of the devil.
There is a marvellous thing about God, He is not finicky, He does not change. Men change, theologies change, denominational structures change, but ladies and gentlemen the God who created this world...
The Lord Jesus Christ, who thought it not robbery to be co-equal with God but humbled Himself and made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of flesh and blood and came into this world for the purpose of defeating and destroying the works of the devil, and the works of the devil are 1st sin 2nd sickness and thirdly death....
3 things that God never intended for man to ever possess, God never intended for man to have an evil mind and a tongue that cursed and swore, God never intended for man to be sick, sickness came as a result of man's disobedience through sin, and God never intended that man should ever die...that's right
When you look at this little Jew preacher I want you know that God never intended for your hair to get bald, your eyes to grow dim, your ears to wax heavy. God intended that man should live forever and never die. He was created perfect, in the image of God.
Now I can't help it if you have been brought up Baptist, or if you are in a backslidden Pentecostal church where your preacher doesn't know how to pray
But that doesn't alter the will of God
There is no doctrine of the Baptist church, no doctrine of the Pentecostal church, no doctrine of the Catholics, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians that can alter the word of God
And God's will is that we be in health and prosper
And God didn't say to put an "if" in there, there is no way for you to ever be able to pray the prayer of faith as long as you keep and "if" in there, "if it be your will God heal me, if it be Thy will provide" God tells us exactly what His express will is and Jesus came into this world to fulfil the express will of God.
That's what it is all about.
And do you know why I can look at you tonight and pray the prayer of faith in this building, nothing wavering, because I know it is God's will. You say "how do you know? did God tell you? yes He did...He told me right here in this book that hold in my hand. Somebody said "well I don't understand it how sometimes good, well intentioned people get sick and die, well we just have to be honest and say "Lord we don't have all the answers"
But let's stop putting an "if" where God doesn't put an "if"
He says "I WILL come and heal him." His will hasn't changed, men have changed, the church that used to believe in certain doctrines which have become moderised, those churches have changed but God hasn't changed He says "I WILL" He says "I WILL".......not "IF.....I WILL"
The Centurian answered and said "Lord I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof but speak the word only and my servant will be healed, for I am a man under authority having soldiers under me, I say to one man come and he cometh, to another go and he goeth, to my servant I say do this and he doeth it" and when Jesus heard it He marvelled and said to them who followed "verily I have not found so great faith in Israel"
And He said I want you to know that I know what I am talking about, if you don't think that I know what I am talking about I just want you to know that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, and all things were made by Him and without Him wasn't anything made that was made and the Word became flesh and I'm that Word, I was before the beginning, I made the beginning....
When God led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt I was the great "I am" I was the one who was in the pillar of cloud by day, I was the one who was in the pillar of fire by night, I was the one who was in the rod that opened up the red sea, I was the one who fed the Jews in the wilderness, I was the one who rolled back the river Jordan for Joshua, I was one who quenched the violence of fire for Shadrach Meshac and Abidnego, I was the one who stopped the mouths of the lions for Daniel.
He said if you have any doubts don't ever doubt because I am that I am that I am that I am....and I'll tell you NOBODY ever had faith like this man.
And Jesus said to the Centurian "go thy way, as thou hast believed, so shall it be done unto thee"
