← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now.
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I receive it right now from the.
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Top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the Healer. We have been on a series that I have been so blessed to be able to teach and I. I trust you've received a lot out of it. We are well over 65 episodes teaching on in Christ, who He is in us and who we are in Him. And there are so many blessings that belong to us simply because we belong to Him. And we certainly are feel like we're only scratching the surface of what that means to be in Christ and all that belongs to us because we're in Him. But if we're not careful, sometimes we will only think that what belongs to us is a better home, a better job, better health. And those are true. All those things do belong to us. But can I tell you this? What also belongs to us because we're in Christ is a better way of responding, a better way of walking toward others and how we treat others. Even though others treatment toward us might not get better in Christ, our treatment toward them must equal God's and must not equal them. So we can't just pick and choose the part of in Christ we want to walk in. All of it is what we're to walk in. It's so important that we understand this, that to have the highest order of faith, learn you are in Christ. That will turn you into a daily experience of mastering the enemy. That when the enemy opposes you, he brings something against you, you constantly go back to who you are in Christ. When you respond to him, you don't think of one as outside of Christ, but you go, wait a minute, in Christ I can do all things. He's the one that's strengthening me. He's the one that's filling me. He's the One that's working through me. And that easily puts us over all the opposition of the enemy. Know this. When we're dealing with the enemy, we have to think as one in Christ, not outside of Christ, or he'll whip us. But know this. When we're dealing with people, we still have to operate as one in Christ and not one in our flesh. Because if we, if we operate, think or respond as one outside of Christ, when we're dealing with people, we're going to step outside of love. And if we step outside of love, we just stepped on the devil's territory. So in Christ is not only all our needs met, all our desires met, all of our future rewritten, but in Christ also means I'm going to respond and walk in love. I'm going to walk in patience with people. The fruits of the Spirit are going to be dominant in my life. And that puts a demand on us that we can't just live the way we used to live, because now we're in Christ. I can't conduct my marriage the way I did before I was born again, because now I'm in Christ. I can't speak to my spouse or my relatives any old way I want to because I'm in Christ now. So that puts a higher demand on us. But know this. It's a demand easily met. Why is that? Because we have the fruits of the Spirit on the inside of us. They are not just simply feelings. They are forces that are the exact character and nature of God that he responds based on these exact same characteristics. What are they? In Galatians, chapter 5, verse 22, it talks about the fruits of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance. All these things that are on the inside of us, they are the character of God, the nature of God. And as one in Christ, God expects us to yield to those forces of those fruits of the Spirit because they are forces. They'll put you on top of opposition. But that means you're no longer permitted to go back to your flesh to find your response. You're no longer permitted to go back to an unrenewed mind to find your response. We have to go to who we are in Christ to find our response. Now you need to watch the previous episode because we did some previous teaching on this. But when it comes to walking in love, how many of you know our faith won't work right if we step outside of love? Because the faith that we have in our heart, it came from God. It's not a faith we conjured up. We have God's own faith in us. If we're born again, it's the faith of God, his very faith. He took a measure of his faith and he deposited it into our spirit. But then there's a condition with it. He says this faith won't operate unless it's joined to my love also. You can't just join human love to divine faith and have it operate. Divine faith, the faith of God that's on the inside of you requires that it be joined to divine love. There's a difference between human love and divine love. Every man on this earth has human love. But when you're born again, God delivered you from that low flow of human love and brought you into the divine flow of. Of divine love. And so divine love, complete, operates completely different than human love. And because the divine love of God is on the inside of every believer, God will not. He will not, if I could say this, endorse an action that is based on human love anymore. We cannot go down to human love because now we have a higher love that's placed on the inside of us. And that's God's own love, his divine love. And then he sends us out and says, now go love the world with that love. Leave behind human love. That love will not. It doesn't have the stuff for the finish. It will not reach the end. It will falter, it will fail you. Human love will only equal how it's treated. You treat me good, I'll treat you good. You treat me bad, I'll treat you bad. That's human love. That's how it operates. That's how come people will say I love you. They'll enter a marriage and then their love will turn to hate and they will leave the same marriage they agreed to enter based on human love because it doesn't have the stuff to finish. You need divine love to finish the race. You need divine love, a love that stems from him and not a love that stems from how someone treats you. So as a born again believer, God no longer authorizes us to ever tap into human love anymore. That love has passed. That's the love walk of the old man. We're redeemed from the old man. We are new creatures in Christ. And new creatures in Christ have a new source of love to draw on. Divine love. And so God has given us his faith. But he's saying this faith won't work unless you're going to join it with divine love. Human love joined to divine faith will fail. It has to be divine faith has to be joined with divine love. Now. Divine love is different from human love in this essence, in this respect is that human love says, how you treat me is how I'm going to treat you. But divine love is, I'm not going. I don't even care how you treat me. I'm going to treat you based on who's in me, not based on how you treat me. So that doesn't. So what that does, that delivers us from. From being tripped up by how someone treats us. Because divine love isn't moving based on how it's treated. It operates based on who's in me. And when someone treats you bad, God doesn't leave you. He's still in there. And so he's still in there for you to draw on. And he will not permit us to equal them. He only now says, I will only back up my love being operated in. I won't back up human love. Listen, this is part of in Christ. If we say we're going to live as one in Christ, then we have to draw on all he is in us. And it's going to change the way we treat people and the way we respond. Because in Christ, we love as he loves. And the Bible tells us that God loved us when we were yet unlovely, before we were ever born again, before we ever loved Him. He loved us. Why? Because he wasn't equaling us. He loved us based on who he was and not based on who we were. And so now we've come into that kind of love in Christ. Now we want to go back to a verse we started on on a previous episode, and that's found in Matthew 5. 43. Jesus is speaking and he said, you have heard that it has been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and. And hate thine enemy. You know what he's talking about right there? Human love. That's the way human love acts. I love you as long as you do something that's good. You do something I don't like and I hate you. You treat me bad, I'll treat you bad. Jesus said that's. That's what you've heard. That's the way you used to operate. That's what you used to call. Correct. But now he came and defined God love, the love of God, divine love for us in the next verse. Divine love is found in verse 44. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Look at the next phrase, verse 45, that you may be the children of your Father, which is in heaven, or another translation says, so that you can show evidence that you're his child. So the way we respond is going to show evidence of what we're drawing on. If we respond to unlovely actions, if we respond to them with divine love, then everyone knows, and we know we had to draw on divine love to do that. But if we respond in a way that's unlovely because they treated us in a manner unlovely then, now we're announcing, I just drew on my flesh. I drew out of my flesh to treat them that way. Now Jesus is saying, when you draw out a divine love, you're showing who is running your life. You're showing who you're yielding to, who you're responding to. So what is this? Jesus is giving us a command that we have to love our enemies. Why is he giving us that command? He's helping us to draw on the greater one in us. He's helping us to draw on the life of God, the love of God, the faith of God, the fruits of the Spirit. He is helping us to become skillful with who we are in Christ when he puts the this command on us. And so we can love our enemies. You see, I can't. Yet in Christ, you're in him and he's in you. And you can love your enemies. Why? Because divine love is in you. And divine love responds based on who's in us, not based on how we're treated by others. Now, when he says, love your enemies, you say, how do I do that? The next phrases tell us how we're going to love our enemies. Number one, we're going to bless them that curse you. Number two, we're going to do good. Ah, this is going to take on action. Do good to them that hate you. And look at this. Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. That means you're going to, number one, you're going to bless them. How are you going to bless them? With words. You're going to speak blessing words instead of hate words. Instead of, number two, you're gonna do good. That means you're gonna do an act. Now, an outward act that is going to show that you're drawing on the love of God. And number three, it says you're gonna pray for them. Now you're going to take that person into the presence of God with you and you're going to request something good on them in God's presence. Now look at that. To love your Enemy, you're going to have to speak well, you're going to have to do well, and you're going to have to take them into the presence of God with you. Because God wants to bless them. You say, but why does God want to bless them? That is not God condoning and approving of what was done against you. Listen, if someone does something damaging to you, they have just sown a seed and they're going to reap a harvest on that. And God doesn't want them to reap a harvest that's going to destroy their life. And you say, yeah, we want that. No, no, no, because you've done things you don't want to reap a harvest on. You've said things you don't want to reap a harvest on. You've acted in ways we've all done that, acted in ways we don't want to reap a harvest on. We say, God, I don't want to reap a harvest on the things I've said in the past or the things I've done or how I've someone I don't want to reap a harvest. Well, then you're going to have to sow that same interest in somebody who has sown a wrong seed against you. God, listen, remember what Jesus prayed when he was at his crucifixion. He was being beat. He, they had put the crown of thorns on him. And what did he say? Father, forgive them. He took them into the presence of God while they were doing these horrific acts against a man who knew no sin, there was no cause for what they did. And he took them into the presence of God through his prayer life. And he said, father, forgive them. Why? They don't understand the seed they're sowing. And I don't want them to get the harvest on the seed they're sowing. Because if they get a harvest on this, they're outside of God's help. And I don't want them outside of God's help because I came to be the price for them. He says, forgive them. Listen, we have to love people enough to say I don't want their lives torn apart no matter what they might do to try to tear apart other people's lives. I don't want that for them because I used to be in their shoes. I used to be outside of Christ. I used to be the one out saying anything I wanted, thinking anything I wanted. And I wanted God's goodness and God's mercy for me. So I want it for them. Listen, the Word tells us God reigns on the just and the unjust. Let's go down. Let's look at verse 45 again. We're there. In Matthew 5, verse 45, he's saying, you're going to do these things, treat your enemy well. Why? Because in verse 45, that you may be the children of your Father, which is in heaven. Then he describes how God, who our Father in heaven, how he treats people. It says, for he makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Notice this. He shines on them. And he rains on them because he's good. He doesn't withhold from people who do bad because he can't. He can't do anything but good. He cannot equal bad people by withholding from them. He sends his light. He sends his reign not just to those who are good, but to those who do, those who are unjust and those who do evil. Listen, you want to know how you joined the ranks of God's family? He rained on you when you were unjust. He gave his light to you when you were in darkness. When you were in evil, he did something good. He sowed the seed of His Son. And that's the reason we all came out of the ranks of darkness and into the. Into the kingdom of light. Because we used to occupy the seat of evil, we used to occupy the seat of the unjust. And while we were in those places, God kept raining. His goodness kept raining. His word kept raining words of life to us. And we could say, I'll take it and I received it. We had to receive it. But we couldn't have received it if he had to send it our direction before we even belong to Him. So he's showing us he doesn't just do good to those who do good, he does good to everyone. And so because he's in us, we can equal him and do good to everyone. So because he did verse 45, he's showing us how to do verse 44, right? We do good to everyone. Now let's go back to verse 44. We're going to have camp on this for a little bit because this thing is loaded and in Christ we can fulfill verse 44. Now, if we're going to think as one outside of Christ, if we're going to act like one outside of Christ, speak like one outside of Christ, we can't do verse 44. We'll fail. Why? Because if we're doing it outside of Christ, we went back to Human love. We stepped outside of divine love and went to human love. Human love cannot do verse 44. It takes divine love to do verse 44. And if you're born again, divine love is in you. And you can do verse 44 because he's in you to put you over. He's in you to empower you and enable you. And the divine love of God is on the inside for you to spend. Now, the love of God is a fruit of your spirit. And you better pick that fruit. Fruit. Right. You won't ever partake of fruit unless you pick it. You have to draw on it. You have to yield to that fruit. Now again, let's read verse 44. Jesus said, But I say unto you, love your enemies. Since he said love your enemies, we're in disobedience not to, because he told us to. Then the next phrases again are going to tell us, how do we love our enemies? Number one, we bless them. We say something good. Dad Hagin, who was our spiritual father, Kenneth Hagin, he said, when someone has been saying things against me, he said, the next time I. The next time I see them, he said, I treat them like they bragged on me. Ah, what's that mean? He blessed them. He still talked good about them even though he knew they were talking bad about him. What's that mean? He didn't go to human love. He went to divine love. He said I treated them just like they bragged on me or spoke something good when they really spoke something evil. What's that mean? He says, my actions are independent of their actions. My actions and our actions are to depend on God and find our source in God, not find our source in how someone treated us. So, number one, we are going to bless them that curse us. So how do they curse us? Through what they say. They said something unlovely. Well, we're going to bless them by what we say. We're going to say something good about them. To go around and tell how somebody has mistreated you, you're outside this verse. You have now equaled them and you've gone down to human love. And God will not empower human love. And your faith won't work alongside human love. It has to be fueled by divine love. Why? Because faith is divine. It finds its origin in God. And the faith that's on the inside of you did not come from you. It came from God. And it has to be fueled by a love that came from God, not a love that comes from your flesh, not a love that just comes out of your emotions, in your soul. It has to become, it has to come out of the love of God that's on the inside of you. So when somebody says something against you, you have to say something for them. You have to say something that's opposite to what they're doing. And that's what Jesus constantly did. Listen, if people knew your heart, they would not have said what they said. Right now we have to make sure that our heart is right toward God. But sometimes people say things because they misunderstand and you need to say, well, they just didn't understand what I meant by that. Or they just didn't understand my heart. On that. What is that? You're saying something good. You're not saying, well, how dare them say that about me. No, they just didn't understand. And that's what Jesus said. Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. They don't understand the seed they're sowing. And I don't want them to have a harvest on the seed they're sowing. I want them to have the harvest that heaven sowed the seed for them to get. And Jesus was the seed heaven sowed. And he wanted them to have the harvest on the seed of Jesus in their life. So he blessed them when they were doing wrong to him. So number one, the way we love our enemies is we say the right thing. Number two, the next phrase is do good to them that hate you. Ah, that means we have to not just say something good. We have to now take an action that sows something good. Now, through my years of ministry and just being a believer, you know, I'm a preacher. I occupy a five fold office. But you know what? I'm first a Christian. I'm first and foremost a Christian. I have to walk in the light of the Word just like anybody else. Just because I'm a preacher doesn't mean I get to bypass anything else. All of this that Jesus told us to do. Can I tell you this? He did it himself. And this for, for a preacher, you have to, you're a Christian first. You have to walk in the light of this just like anybody else. And I've had throughout my Christian walk, I've had people say things and do things in all different ways against us, against my husband and I, against the ministry, against me personally. And can I tell you what God would always have me do? I couldn't equal them, but he would always give me something to obey. And you know what? He would give me something to obey, something good to do to them because when they responded in a way that was damaging to me, he gave me something to obey and told me what to do. Peace is more important to me. When you do good, you can take an item that you sowed, money that you had earned and you bless them with it. You're buying peace that you never could have gotten any other way and it works good in your life rather than a harvest of difficulty for them. Amen. Well, we're not done with this. We're going to come back in upcoming episodes and keep going this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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