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Lovest Thou Me? Pt.2

Hallelujah! Amen. Let's turn to John; we'll pick up where we left off on Wednesday. I'm sure by now many more of you have been able to go see "the greatest evangelistic tool in the history of Christendom." As we were talking Wednesday a little bit, having been able to go and see the movie, it was a good, probably the best representation that people have been able to visualize the era, the brutality of the crucifixion. The crown of thorns was more than some of the great artists have rendered with a little trickle of blood coming down His face, but even the movie didn't go as far as the Scripture declares it that He was beaten beyond--you couldn't even tell He was a human being any longer, the way they mutilated Him. As we shared on Wednesday, however, regardless of what they were able to portray in the visual, the real suffering that took place can't be portrayed so that anybody with a natural mind could understand it. Nobody that hasn't been regenerated, been born again, that walked into those theaters understands what took place, because the real suffering that Jesus endured was not the physical abuse, but the Scriptures says that He was made sin with our sin. Can you imagine that? He who knew no sin, the Holy God, the perfect, eternal, infinite, pure, innocent God became defiled, became polluted, was brought into a position of experiencing for the first time ever loneliness, vileness. He never sinned, but He was made sin with our sin. Never committed a sin, but embraced it for you and me that we might be made partakers of His righteousness. When Jesus cried out on that cross, "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34), that was real. This wasn't something that was just being acted out. This was not, as so many evangelicals like to say, "It's just a work of legal substantiation and justification." Of literal experience He embraced the vileness of our sin, the rejection of the heavenly Father, the loneliness so that you and I would never be alone again. Aren't you glad that we have a friend that sticks closer than a brother? Aren't you glad that He who experienced rejection said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." "I will not leave you comfortless." Can you say praise God for that? He experienced it so you don't have to.

It's something that's very interesting. Many people will walk in those theaters and they'll be affected by the real--it's so graphic, the vile hatred of men. Did you see the hatred that was portrayed for Him in that movie? I thought they did a good job, but you know what most people don't understand is that He says, "They're going to hate you just the same way they hated Me." We live in a society today where it's kind of cute to be a Christian, but it's not always going to be that way. Presidents always like to say they're Christians, their version of Christianity. You know, so they can pick up that populous, that vote. What does it mean to be a Christian? It means to have an allegiance to the Kingdom of God. It means to submit totally to the lordship of Jesus. It means we pledge allegiance to Him above any flag, above any race, above any natural relationship, beyond blood relatives. Until we come to that understanding, we're walking below what He endured on the cross for us and in that Garden when He partook of that cup and said, "Father, if it's possible let it pass, but nevertheless not My will, Thy will be done" (Matthew 26:39). You see, that's what it means to be a Christian. "Nevertheless not my will but Thy will be done." As we examine our own lives this morning, can you say that that's my motto, that's how I live? "Not my will but Thy will be done. Not what I want, what You want me to do, what You want me to be. I'm incapable of being what You want me to be. Work it in me to will and to do Your good pleasure. Here I am a vessel; fill me with Your presence, with Your glory." Is that your heart's cry? I trust that if you've seen the movie that you came out of it that way saying, "Bless God, how little I've done because of what He's done; how much more seeing that He's paid a price of that magnitude for me."

We pick back up in John 21 where we were on Wednesday. In John 21, of course, we're dealing with Peter's confrontation with the resurrected Christ, and Peter having already seen the Lord raised being at the tomb. Would that have been cool or what? Even though the resurrection was a short part, wasn't that neat to just hear that stone rolling back? It would have been really neat--I love when the grave clothes just caved in. Peter was a little late, being older he rolled in just a hair behind John, but as they caught the glory of the resurrection and they went back to share it, people wouldn't believe it until the Lord appeared. Finally, even old Thomas, "I won't believe unless I can put my finger in the nail prints of His hands." Which category are you in this morning? How many doubting Thomases do we have here? Probably a pretty good percentage, really, if we'd all be truthful. Many of us came that way but because of His love and because He's pursuing us we're not pursuing Him. We can't come unless the Father draws us anyway. He draws us to Himself and we say, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief." And He says, "Here, put your fingers here touch Me," and He touched you, He changed your heart. He illuminated your mind so you could see. He caused the scales to fall off of your eyes. We saw Him, but more importantly, we saw ourselves for the first time. As we cried out for deliverance just as Peter did on the water, Jesus stretched forth His hand and He took each one of us and brought us to Himself. We've experienced the miracle of the resurrection by that encounter that changed your life, that caused you to be born again. That same resurrection power they saw visually, you and I have seen with greater assurance. The more sure word of prophesy, the re-creation of our hearts, the reestablishing of allegiance in our lives for His lordship. We're not the same. Old things have passed away, all things are new. We love what we used to hate and hate what we used to love. Our priorities have changed. Yet even at times there are wanderings that can take place in each of our lives.

Peter had encountered the resurrected Christ. What a change occurred that Sunday morning after he had cowered and rejected the Lord. Did you see that look that Jesus gave him? It couldn't portray what Peter saw that day. Can you imagine? Some of us have experienced--but we think so highly of ourselves. As Peter said, "Though everybody else will forsake, You don't worry--I'll be with You. I'm willing to die. Lord where are You going that we can't go?" "I'm ascending to the Father. You can't go with Me now but you'll come later." "Lord, show us the way." "Have I been so long with you, Phillip, and you don't understand the way yet? I am the way and the truth and the life. If you've seen Me you've seen the Father." He revealed Himself and Peter didn't yet have an understanding of who He really was. Our whole life process of sanctification is really finding out who we are.

I heard these words come out of my mouth as we were in worship this morning just praying. I just heard these words come up out of my spirit, out of my mouth as I was praying. I said, "Oh Father, take our knowledge of You beyond our doctrine. Help us to know You beyond our doctrine." See, doctrine is what we have up here but we need to know Him. Every thought needs to originate in Him. Every action orchestrated by the Spirit of God that indwells us.

"Lord, though everybody else forsakes You, don't worry--I'll be with You until the end." "Really, Peter, before the cock crows you'll deny Me three times." I don't think he believed that. He heard it but he didn't believe it. I mean, his doctrine says if the Lord says it, it must be true but, you know, maybe it's a metaphor of some kind. I mean you're talking about The Rock! How do you see yourself this morning? "I'd never do that. I would never act that way. I would never sell out for that." "Peter, Satan desires to sift you." Randy, Satan desires to sift you. Tom, Jerry, Tony, "I've prayed for you," Jesus said. Can you say praise God? You see, we have an enemy. We have someone who wants to destroy us. We have an image of ourselves, we have a doctrine, we have a desire, but the capacity isn't in our own strength, it's not in our members. It's only in our momentary obedience in yielding to His lordship that we can be successful. It's in our momentary dying that we live, because if we're going to live we have to die. Amen? Because of all the things that surround us, naturally, we're so oblivious to how we need to die to every area of our lives. The Lord helps us to come to that.

Peter's being brought to a revelation of himself and He says, "The devil's out to get you but I've prayed for you." "Praise God, I appreciate it, Lord, I really do but, you know, pray for the other guys a little more because I'll never leave You. They're the guys that really need Your help." We all know the story, and those of you who saw it depicted, it was a very interesting thing. Finally, he swears an oath, "I don't know the man. I swear, what do you want me to do? I'll swear on my mother's head, I'll swear on the Bible. I don't know the man." The cock crows and Peter looks into the eyes of Jesus, broken. Here's what I want you to see. The brokenness, the emotion, the temptation, the moment is stronger than your doctrine because doctrine would do this--Jesus prophesied and said I would deny Him three times before the cock crows. I just did that, His words are true. He said He's going to rise again. Doctrine makes sense. Doctrine doesn't hold up, only relationship only the knowledge of God through experience. "The exercising of our senses, the Scripture says, that we might discern good and evil by reason of use, pressure, experience." Peter is now experiencing his doctrine and faith is being worked in him. For faith to be perfected it has to be tried. The trying of your faith works patience. You're not going to complete this journey without failures, without pressure, without hard times, without tears, without rejections, without fear, but faithful is He who called you who will do it. Amen? He that endures to the end shall be saved. That's what this story at Galilee is all about in chapter 21 of John. Let's go and see that as we're thinking along these lines. Here's Peter and his denial and he denies the Lord and then all of a sudden the resurrection takes place. "Go tell the disciples and Peter that I'm risen." Isn't it interesting? I love that He specifies Peter. "Tell the man I'm risen and I'm not mad at him." "I went through all of this for you, Peter. Not to get rid of you, not to expose you for the bozo that you are, but to make you a new man. Can you put down self-will and pride long enough to accept the gift that I have for you? Can you own up to the fact that you're a failure that you might become a success? Can you own up to the fact that you're nothing but you can do all things through Me?" That's what He wants to bring every one of us to in our lives, and whatever it takes He'll get you there. Now, some of us are slower learners than others. "I just don't understand why I have to go through so much more than somebody else over there." Because you're hard-headed! God loves you and He chastens those that He loves. Get ready for another beating because you aren't all that, you're not there yet! So here we are in the process. Here's the attitude, and I'm saying all of that to say this, here's the attitude we have to have. We have to understand that all these things are working together for our good. Amen? "Yes, the chastening is grievous for the moment but it works in us the peaceable fruit of righteousness," the Scripture tells us (Hebrews 12:11). The question that I have for you this morning, and I don't know exactly who we're taking to, but the direction changed by the Spirit this morning. Somebody is getting talked to. I don't know who you are but what the Spirit of God is saying to you is don't faint, don't quit.

We've talked before about that greatest of speeches by Churchill. He's known for his quips and some of the greatest stirring speeches to preserve the nation under great moments of duress. His speeches kept a whole nation inspired. He was an interesting character. You never knew what he was going to say. I like one of the stories about him, I've shared it before. He was known to drink a little bit, and he was in the elevator at this meeting and this lady comes in and she looks at him and she says--he was a couple of sheets to the wind and she looks at him and says, "Sir Winston, you're so disgusting in your inebriation you're making a fool out of yourself. Just a drunk!" He says, "Maybe so, ma'am, but I'll be sober in the morning and you'll still be ugly!" He always had something to say; you didn't even want to mess with him when he was drunk. Here he is and he's called for this speech and people are sitting waiting to hear. He was known for being fairly long-winded as some orators are. I just love this, the power of how succinct. You know, things can get so bad that a whole bunch of words aren't going to stir people up, man. They're waiting to hear what the man has to say at this moment. As he steps to the podium this speech comes forth. I've shared it some time in the past but I try to put myself there and hear the words of this man. As he looks in the eyes of these people fearful, doubting, "What can we possibly do?" He had the answer that would bring victory to that nation. As he stood in the pulpit he looked into their faces and he said, "Never, never, never quit!" He went and sat down. Sometimes there's nothing else to say but that.

I don't know who you are this morning, but that's God's word to you, because if you do you're going to end up like Judas who went out and hung himself and there's no hope for you. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. There is no other answer, there is no other way, there's nothing else that'll make you happy, there's nothing else that'll remove the fear, there's nothing else that'll take away the pressures of life, and there's nothing else that'll bring the meaning of life but a relationship, a working relationship with Jesus, a death to self and a surrender of what God's expecting of you.

Here's Peter, and he gets the message, he comes to the tomb, the Lord is raised, victory has been declared and now we find him fishing. "What are you doing?" "Well, the Lord's raised and we haven't heard a whole bunch, so we're just doing that that we know what to do."

As we ended on Wednesday we saw that Jesus' resurrection doesn't empower you to do what you did before you were regenerated. He was no longer a fisherman he was the fisher of men. Amen? What's God called you to do? Those of you who are struggling right now, you're dealing with failures in your life, you're dealing with sanctification and you're a little bit confused. "What's God saying to me? What's God doing? I thought I was supposed to be...I don't know for sure." Let me tell you this, and we've taught you the principle. You return to Bethel. When is the last time you heard clearly the voice of God? Let me ask not only where did you hear that voice, but what did He tell you to do, and have you finished the task yet? If you haven't, don't look for anything new. You'll only end up in error. If you're seeking the mind of God, the will of God, the direction of God and you haven't finished the last task He's given you, you're only going to get into error. You'll hear voices. "Oh, well--now I'm supposed to do this." What about what He told you to do? See, that's what's happening right here. When Peter is being confronted of Jesus and He said, "Do you love Me more than these? You said you love Me more than all of these other disciples. Do you?" He wasn't going to make that statement again. "Lord, thou knowest that I love You. I'm not talking about these guys. I don't know where they are, I don't even know where I am. You tell me." Jesus' response to him was, listen, "Finish the task that I gave you to do. Feed My sheep. Take care of My lambs." Do you want to know what Jesus is going to tell you when you fail Him? He's going to tell you, look, get up and finish the task that I gave you. Don't go looking for something else to do. Don't say, "Well, it's obvious I'm a failure at that. It's obvious I can't accomplish that." You're not going to get off the hook that easily. Yes, you failed; now go finish it. Amen? What did God call you to do? Who is that that He put in your life to become part of the process of your purging? Don't run from them, run to them.

As Jesus is confronting Peter here and He's giving him the admonition to finish the task, you see, in verse 19 as we shared on Wednesday, he finishes the discourse with these words now, "Follow Me". We've reestablished that the call and the gifts are without repentance. "You can't get away from what I've called you to do." Man would say you're a failure, you're no longer qualified. I mean, how much worse could you get than denying the Lord? Jesus solicits him back, reaffirms the call on his life, reaffirms the fact that if you go I'll go with you and confirm the Word with signs following.

As we're going to look tonight in the study, we're going to see how this begins to practically work itself in each one of our lives and that's just through selective, willful obedience to His commandments. You see, the question asked over and over again in this twenty-first chapter is, "Do you love Me?" The answer was affirmative. "Yes, Lord you know, Lord you know." Then we go back a couple of chapters. Go back to John 14:15, "If you love me, [say it with me] keep my commandments." "Do you love Me?" "Yes, Lord." "Do you love Me?" "Yes, Lord." "Do you love Me?" "Lord, you know I love You. You know better than I do. I don't know how much I love You but You know how much I love You. It's obvious I don't love You enough; help me to love You more. I want to love You more. I want to know You more. I want to be like You." If you love Me...for every one of us here, beloved, your love directly correlates with your obedience, period. Do you love your wife? Do you love your children? In direct correlation to your obedience to Jesus and how you oversee their lives. Now the natural love--you see we get this mixed up--the natural love, if you love your wife, you love your children naturally we're going to say, "Well that love is demonstrated by my fidelity, it's demonstrated by my provision, it's demonstrated by my instruction, etc." All of that, that you're doing has to be as a representative of the Lord if it's going to truly be agape love. If it doesn't originate from the Word of God, if it's purpose is not to bring about spiritual, eternal, godly seed and fruit then its phileo. What makes it agape is God as the source. You see, many times phileo love and agape love is hard to distinguish between, but what's the source and what's the purpose? What am I accomplishing? What is the fruit that's coming out of this relationship? That's where we, many times, get ourselves mixed up in the love of God; so we'll just, many times, tell the Lord, "Well, Lord, I love You." And what we're saying is I have strong affection for you. Many of the people that go into that theater and watch that movie have a great affection for the Lord. That's not the issue. It's not, are you sympathetic toward the Lord, do you believe in the historical Jesus? The issue is, is He absolute Lord of your life? Are you keeping His commandments? Are you making decisions without Him? Are you making decisions for your own gain? Are you rejecting Him for your family's personal comfort? Who do you love? Lovest thou Me more than these? More than these fishes? This provision that I just gave you, the abundance, do you love Me more than the blessings? If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John goes on in his epistle and says not only will we keep the commandments but they won't be grievous to us. It's not going to be difficult. "Oh man, I have to." "Have to go to church tonight." "Have to go to prayer." You hear other Christians, If you ask them, "What are you doing Tuesday?" "Well, we have prayer at church." Well, do you go? "Well, we all have to go." No, you get to. Amen? It's a privilege. Praise God! If you come because you have to--and that word is just to identify the fact that there's a standard. You don't have to come; you know that. You say, "Well, yes we do, because if we don't come then we can't be part of the family." Right, but you don't have to come. I don't think anybody has ever shown up and we've pulled out a .357 and said, "You're going to prayer!" Then you have to come! No, there's a standard. If that's the attitude that you have then it's law, then it's legalism, then it shows how childish you are, how carnal you are and that you're still under the schoolmaster. Somebody has to kick you in the pants and say here's what's right. If you're walking in the spirit, you get to come. You realize, praise God, "You know what, that's the best place for me to be, because if I wasn't there I'd be out cutting my lawn. I'd be out losing golf balls. I'd be out strolling the mall, combing the mall, just cruising, looking for that new telephone that takes pictures and shoots down incoming missiles." The fact that standards have been established, goals--disciplines are to set a standard, a guide by which you can measure your own heart. Do you get to come or do you have to come? That tells where you are. That's what commandments are all about. When you delight in them and the Spirit of God is causing you to realize the benefit and the privilege of accessing the Holy of Holies, the throne room of God; to be able to get the ear of God, to be able to experience the voice of God that transforms your life, that refreshes you, that causes you to be able to stand against all of the wiles of devil and all of the cares of the world, now you understand your mature state as a son of God to whom the Father delights to give us His kingdom.

Where are you in this process? Whether you get to come or have to come isn't the issue; it's identifying truthfully where you are in this process. That's what Jesus is doing with Peter here. He's just revealing his own heart to him. Peter's beginning to grasp that he's still responsible for the lives of others. That's what he's been called to. Is he qualified? Yes, because he was sent. Man's qualifications, man's standards may have said, "You know he's no longer qualified to be a leader." God says, "I can affect my will in anybody that doesn't quit." Past performance good or bad is meaningless. It's present availability. Are you available to God right now? He will work in you to will and to do His good pleasure. "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your responsible service. And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:1). What are you making available to God right now at this moment? What do you have to offer to Him? "I don't have anything. I just have these five little stones." That's enough. "I don't have anything; five loaves and two fishes." That's enough. "I don't have anything. Just this little bit of meal." That's enough. What are you keeping back for yourself? "Just this little bit." That's too much, because if you try to retain your life you will lose it, but if you lose your life for His sake then you'll gain it, you'll take it back up again. Well, here you are and the Lord has a question this morning. Do you love Me? You see, Jesus said, "Do you agape Me?" Peter said, "I phileo You. I have strong affection for You." Not enough, because your affection was not sufficient when you denied Me three times. Your affection didn't produce sufficient faith when you began to sink. Your strong affection for Me did not lean upon My spiritual weapons but you drew the sword and cut off Malchus' ear. You keep trusting in yourself and I will continue to bring you to death. You will not fail unless you quit. That's the message that Jesus was giving Peter here at the sea of Galilee. "You can go back fishing or you can go back to feeding My sheep. Are you going to finish what I called you to do?"

Look over at Matthew 10, and we'll wind up this morning with a couple of these passages. Matthew 10 is a very powerful passage concerning the going forth of the disciples. Carrying the name of Jesus out into a hostile environment, something, I think in the near future, we're going to be experiencing. It's popular today to be a Christian because people have not really seen what genuine Christianity is about in our generation, very little. Most true representatives of the Kingdom of God are perceived as cults in our generation because mainstream Christianity has become so secularized. It's no different than in the days of Constantine when everybody was a Christian. Today all Americans are "Christians." Well there are a few Muslims. They'll be okay according to Mel, so don't worry about them. You go out and preach a Jesus like we're talking this morning and people are not going to be real happy with you because He's not a politically correct Jesus. The Bible makes it very clear He is a Rock of Offense. Jesus is offensive to the secular. You cannot serve God and mammon. You either love Me or you hate Me. "I am the way, the truth, and the life: and no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me" period. A line has been drawn. "You know what? That sounds awful judgmental to me. That seems to me to be a message that is not one of tolerance." The Gospel has been so emasculated, the Gospel as been so diluted that it can no longer be recognized as the power of God unto salvation. It's nothing more than a secular, social, politically correct, humanistic, existential tool for the betterment of man; and not the revelation of the glory of God, and depravity of man, and the sole dependence of a man upon an infinite, almighty God. You bring this Gospel as it's purely represented by Jesus and people are going to hate you and they're going to call you a bigot, and they're going to call you an elitist, and they're going to call you a separatist. They're going to stand over here in their cleric robes just as the Pharisees of old did and they're going to say words that have no power because, "Your traditions" Jesus said, "have made the Word of God of no effect" (Matthew 15:6). It's not enough to be teachers, it's required that you be doers. "For if you are hearers of the Word and not doers you've deceived yourself and the truth is not in you" (James 1:23). We need to see Christianity for what it is, beloved. It's a cross, and it's a death to self. It's a dying that we might live for His purpose and His glory.

Matthew 10:22, have you found it? "And ye shall be hated of all men"... If you're a Christian and a nice guy they'll let you ahead of the class, president of society, president of the United States. They'll give you the best jobs because we all know Christians are moral people and nice people and they can be trusted, and they won't steal your money. "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." Now, the hatred is going to start from the religious segment, not the totally pagan or secular. Why? Because pagans have conviction and religious people are hypocrites. That's what I like about the pagans. I love a good unsaved guy. Just dead in your face, "I don't believe that stuff! You want me to tell you about what I think about your Jesus?" They'll say it and you'll say, "Glad to hear you speak the truth, man." What you believe, your truth, it's not the truth, but it's what you believe to be the truth and I appreciate it. You're wrong, going to Hell. "Oh, I believe in Jesus. Yes, He died for our sins. God is so good. He blessed me with two Mercedes, a mansion, four wives. This last one's richer than the others. God's so good." Then run and go party with the pagan guy. I like the pagan.

"If ye love me, [John 14] keep My commandments." "Lovest thou Me more than these?" As we end this morning, the true love for Jesus--if you love Him you will be hated of all natural men. Now are you willing to love Him if that's what the price is? You see, we've been hearing a gospel that says if you love God everybody is going to love you. No, just the opposite. If you love God everything is going to go smooth in your life. No, no, no! "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." (2  Timothy 3:12). "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers us out of them all" (Psalm 34:19). You see, the message is not a very popular message in our generation.

Now the question that I have as we end this morning's session, "Lovest thou Me?" Are you ready to finish the task? You've blown it, you've messed up, but I have a question for you this morning. You went back in the world, whatever it is that you did. Whatever decisions you made, you're denial of the Lord, whatever. The question is, this morning do you love Me? "Lord, I can't even say for sure." "Are you ready to get back about My business to finish the work that I've called you to? Are you willing to choose Me at this moment over all of your emotions, over all of your lusts?" Can you, in simplicity, just as Peter did as he began to sink just reach up and say, "Help?" You'll get the same response, He'll reach down and take you by the hand or you can go out and hang yourself like Judas. Choose this day, but know this, "He that endureth to the end shall be saved."

Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning, and we ask that as we face the trials of life, the afflictions, the failures that we all experience, we will not quit. We have nowhere to go. You alone have the words of eternal life, so we come to You and say, "Here am I, send me." Here am I, Lord; quicken me, make me alive again. Lord, stir up, again, in me the gifts that were once used for Your glory. You said You'd never leave us nor forsake us, don't let us forsake You. Peter, having gone through all that trial in his first epistle, chapter 2, said, "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endures grief and suffering wrongfully" (1 Peter 2:19). You see, Peter grew up. He learned that it's not just when you deserve it, but even wrongfully you just endure it because faithful is He who called you who will do it, praise God. He said in that same epistle, "Gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober and hope to the end because there is grace available to you. It'll bring you to the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13). Read the epistles of Peter and see what the mature believer comes to when he chooses to deal with his failures, with his denials, and resubmits to be used again of God. Look at the maturity that's waiting for you when you make the right decision.

Let's stand before the Lord this morning. As we wait in the presence of the Lord, and the presence of God's Spirit is here with us, Ken, if you and Charlotte will come. We're going to lay hands on Charlotte this morning. They're scheduling her to remove some of here bowel Thursday. We're going to believe God to just heal her this morning. The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord will raise them up. Jesus is here. We can't heal, but He does. The prayer of faith saves the sick and the Lord shall raise them up. By His stripes we are healed. Iaomai--healed, spirit, soul and body. A lot of people don't want to believe in bodily healing. It's for the whole man, praise God. The same blood that saves your soul is the same blood that can heal your body. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil so He might as well do this, this morning. If the elders will come. The Scripture says, "They shall call for the elders of the church, they'll anoint them with oil, pray the prayer of faith and the Lord is going to raise her up" (James 5:14). She called, we anoint and pray and the Lord raises her up, praise God! Hallelujah!

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, Father, we receive Your healing. Father, we receive for Your glory the healing of this body. We recognize Your resurrection power, Jesus, the authority of Your Word, and on that we stand whole and rejoice in the goodness of our God. Hallelujah! Oh, Lord, we delight in You! As we get ready to rejoice in Charlotte's healing, we also delight in the healing and deliverance of whoever that was, one or more people this morning that this whole service was directed to you. Finish My task, finish the work. I will not leave you nor forsake you. Let's sing it together and rejoice in Him. We sing praises to Your name... Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah! We delight in You, Lord. Well, you can do one of two things this morning. You can go out and hang yourself or you can humble yourself and be recomissioned. See the Lord ascend up into Heaven. Go to the upper room and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Preach and see thousands saved in one day. Write your own epistles. Be crucified for His name's sake. Choose this day who you're going to serve. Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "Don't quit." Praise God! Amen, go in peace, God's love go with you.

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