Hallelujah!  The Lord is good, and His mercies endure forever!  We’re going to continue our study.  We entitled it out of the reference in Acts 10:38, “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power.”  Amen?  So, we’re looking at that anointing that is available to each one of us, that anointing of the Holy Ghost, that power that resides within us so that we could continue that ministry that initiated in Him, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him.  Amen?

So, we just need to walk with God and be aware of His presence with us and in us.  How vital that is in us being able to fulfill this calling of God to go into all the world and preach this gospel and make disciples.  He said, “If we would go and preach His kingdom message, He would go with us and confirm the word that we’re preaching with signs following, that’s the word of God.  Amen?  Let God be true and every man’s experience, that’s opposite of that, be a lie.  There are so many people today trying to diminish the doctrine of divine healing because of their own personal failures, unbelief, or experiences, wanting to be accepted into the norm of Christianity because the reality is, the majority of professed Christians don’t believe in the doctrine of divine healing.  Many believe that God can heal, but not necessarily that there’s a covenant with God to heal us and how important that is.

Historically, we have the traditions of different denominations.  We hear statements of those in their doctrine that say, “We’re cessationists.”  Those are the people that say that the manifestation of the power of God: miracles, healing, the gifts of the Spirit are not really for us today, that they ceased when the canon was recognized—the 66 books—when the canon was in place, that which was perfect was come.  And that’s where, then, these other revelations of God, they acknowledge them, but they just say they ceased, they’re no longer necessary because we have the authority of the Word of God.  The authority of the Word of God says that that same power was, “Unto them, their children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”  Amen?  So, that’s what the authority says.  It has not ceased.  It’s generational.  It’s to every person who believes.  There aren’t two churches; amen?  There’s only one church.  Jesus said, “I’m going to build My church upon that confession that I am the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

So, we see, then, that Jesus coming to establish the kingdom, saw the birthing of the church in Acts, Chapter 2.  What a great manifestation of God’s presence and power that was.  “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,” the Scripture says, “and spoke with other tongues, as the Spirit of God gave them utterance.”  So, we see Satan wanting to diminish two aspects of the power of God, the manifestation of the presence of God, in trying to eliminate speaking in tongues and the doctrine of divine healing, which leaves a powerless church—pretty smart ploy on Satan’s part.  And yet, you can still talk about all of the other great things that Jesus did in redemption.  But, beloved, to not allow the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, the fulfilling of Isaiah 53, is another gospel.  You can’t add to, and you can’t diminish from the great revelation and truth of God’s Word.