He Healed All That Were Sick
Scripture: Matthew 8:16Devotional Series: The Holy Ghost and Power
Teaching: The Holy Ghost and Power pt. 4 (SUN_PM 2024-10-20) by Pastor Star R Scott
Many of us have got to spend some time in prayer and in meditating on the Word to pull down all of these lies that have built up in our minds, that maybe it’s not God’s will. The truth has declared it. Amen? God watches over this Word and performs it. He’s already, through His indwelling, given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, hallelujah! So, we just need to stir this up and spend time meditating upon the Word of God so that that faith for this great promise would reach heights that we’ve never known before. I’m thinking we might need more faith, more manifestations of the power and presence of God, in these days to come than we ever have. We should start now and remind ourselves, lest we sit here and think, “Well, you know, I’m good. I’m in good shape. I’m okay.” The admonition is, “Stir up the gift that’s in you.” Amen? Stir up that gift that is in you. So that’s what we’ve been trying to do, is to encourage ourselves in that.
We saw that healing, then, is in redemption. That’s what separates us from a big majority of fundamental believers in the church today. We’ve talked about them being cessationists. They believe that signs, wonders, miracles ceased when the 66‑book canon had finally been accomplished, or recognized, I should say. And here they have all of that confidence in these 66 books being the Word of God to us—at the Council of Nicaea, as they finally battled through a lot of these different areas of looking at the deity of Christ, and I think it was the Council then of—it might have been the Council of Ephesus where they were dealing with the canon and recognizing which of these books should be recognized. There were many other books that were written. Many others considered to be put in here. I won’t get into how they arrived at the 66. I’m just saying, as they’ve arrived upon these books, it’s interesting to me, then, that the ones that deals with the canonicity and the infallibility of Scriptures and its inerrancy then can read obvious Scriptures and not accept them as truth.
There’s not a word anywhere in the Bible that says any of these gifts ceased. That came from men’s minds. It’s a humanistic doctrine. He’s the God Who changes not. Amen? The same yesterday, today, and forever, hallelujah! He’s the One Who’s declared to us that this infilling and empowering of the Holy Ghost was for those apostles, “and to their children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:39).
We see the birth of the church in Acts, Chapter 2. As they were all in the Upper Room where Jesus had told them to go and wait for the promise of the Father—they went, they tarried, they were in prayer. God came in His fullness—the rushing mighty wind, the tongues of fire, the enduement with power. And then the church begins to express herself. Chapter 2, verse 16, “This is that that was prophesied by the prophet Joel.” This is that. There’s a lot of talk today about the latter rain; there’s going to be a visitation of God—the latter rain, a power, an outpouring of the Spirit, that’s never been realized before. Beloved, this is that—2,000 years ago! It’s not future; it’s today, praise God! The same revival that started on the Day of Pentecost is still in process. It doesn’t feel like it, doesn’t always look like it, but it is. And it’s available for every one of us—listen to me—to have our own personal revival every day. Amen? Wherever you want to put emphasis—there have been many great outpourings. We can have our own revival every day.
We saw that healing, then, is in redemption. That’s what separates us from a big majority of fundamental believers in the church today. We’ve talked about them being cessationists. They believe that signs, wonders, miracles ceased when the 66‑book canon had finally been accomplished, or recognized, I should say. And here they have all of that confidence in these 66 books being the Word of God to us—at the Council of Nicaea, as they finally battled through a lot of these different areas of looking at the deity of Christ, and I think it was the Council then of—it might have been the Council of Ephesus where they were dealing with the canon and recognizing which of these books should be recognized. There were many other books that were written. Many others considered to be put in here. I won’t get into how they arrived at the 66. I’m just saying, as they’ve arrived upon these books, it’s interesting to me, then, that the ones that deals with the canonicity and the infallibility of Scriptures and its inerrancy then can read obvious Scriptures and not accept them as truth.
There’s not a word anywhere in the Bible that says any of these gifts ceased. That came from men’s minds. It’s a humanistic doctrine. He’s the God Who changes not. Amen? The same yesterday, today, and forever, hallelujah! He’s the One Who’s declared to us that this infilling and empowering of the Holy Ghost was for those apostles, “and to their children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:39).
We see the birth of the church in Acts, Chapter 2. As they were all in the Upper Room where Jesus had told them to go and wait for the promise of the Father—they went, they tarried, they were in prayer. God came in His fullness—the rushing mighty wind, the tongues of fire, the enduement with power. And then the church begins to express herself. Chapter 2, verse 16, “This is that that was prophesied by the prophet Joel.” This is that. There’s a lot of talk today about the latter rain; there’s going to be a visitation of God—the latter rain, a power, an outpouring of the Spirit, that’s never been realized before. Beloved, this is that—2,000 years ago! It’s not future; it’s today, praise God! The same revival that started on the Day of Pentecost is still in process. It doesn’t feel like it, doesn’t always look like it, but it is. And it’s available for every one of us—listen to me—to have our own personal revival every day. Amen? Wherever you want to put emphasis—there have been many great outpourings. We can have our own revival every day.