← 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. I receive it right now from the 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 you're joining us today for Jesus the Healer. And we're in the midst of a series called We're Teaching on In Christ I Can. And it's such a vast subject. And really who are in Christ is the foundation of our redemption. And so we're so thankful that we're able to take this time with you and study and discover some of these things that the Word tells us. Because really, the only way to know who we truly are is to find ourselves in the Word. What does the God. What does God say about us? What has Jesus made us to be? Who we are in Christ is so much more than who we are in the natural. And when we start drawing on who we are in Christ, rather who we rather than who we are in the natural, it gives us the best life. Because if we're just going to live on the life on the plane of the natural man, we're going to be cheated in this life. But if we will learn to draw on who he is in us. As we've said before, God authored a plan for your life, but he never intended for you to fill it or fulfill it apart from Him. He filled you with Himself because He intends to fulfill it through us. But how did all of this come to pass? I mean, it's because Jesus paid the price so that we could be one with the Father. And our true identity is who we are in Him. So we have to go to the Word and find out who we really are. You might. You're. You're a child to parents, you're an employee. Maybe you're a spouse. You know, you're a father, you're a parent, you're a mother. But the real you is who you are in Christ. And that is our greatest identity. And really, it's our only truest identity because it's the unchanging identity of who we are. And when we begin to live and see ourselves. Now this is important, that we have to see ourselves as in Christ. Because when we see ourselves a certain way, then we start living the way we see ourselves. If we see ourselves. Well. Well, you know, my life has been full of broken things and parts of my life have been broken and all this. I don't make light of that. But that's not who you are in Christ. You're made whole in Christ. You're as he makes you to be and not how the experiences of life made you to see yourself. So we have to go to the Word and find out what we look like in God's eyes. Because God did everything that was needed to put us back as he would have us to be. And he wanted us in Christ and Christ in us. And so because Christ is in us, let's not just keep drawing on our past. That's how then that's what the enemy draws on. He as the accuser of the brethren. He always goes back to your past or he goes back to a weak place in your life. He goes back to a place of wrong thinking. Have you ever noticed the devil never goes back to a place of right thinking in your life to accuse you with that? No. He always goes back to when you thought wrong about something, when you did wrong in line with something. He goes back to who you were before. Before you knew Christ. Because that's what he does. He goes to places that aren't really you anymore. But it's our job to find out who we are in Christ and draw from that flow. And then we live the best life. One of the things that we see, Paul writes In Galatians, chapter 2, in verse 20, he said this. I am crucified with Christ. Do you know that that has to become something that's a revelation to you when you build on the inside of you. I am crucified with. What's he talking about? He's talking about the old man, the you before Christ. It doesn't even exist anymore that in the. In the courts of heaven, your record is clean because it was crucified with Christ who you were. And if there is anyone who needed to establish in their understanding and in their spirit that they were crucified with Christ, it was Paul. Because Paul was really a great persecutor of the church. He was arresting Christians. He was consenting to the death of Christians. And when he was on the road to Damascus, he was going there to further persecute Christians. But here he sees himself and says, I'm crucified with Christ. He doesn't keep bringing up his past as a reason to not progress and to not advance in the plan of God. Can I say this? When people go back to their past to say, well, I'm this way today because of this experience of my past, how somebody treated me, what somebody did to me, well, that might be a reason of your life, but it is no longer to be an excuse of your life. Because we have been crucified with Christ. And what happened to us, even maybe what we did wrong and failed, or what somebody else failed us in, or what they did to us, we need to leave it all crucified with Christ because that's the way it doesn't rise up and live with you for the rest of your life. So this is a great truth that at Calvary it wasn't just your sin, but it was also the old man that was crucified with Christ. It wasn't just what happened to Jesus, it was what happened to Jesus for us. And this is what we need to understand. Yes, Jesus paid the price of our sin. Yes, he was taking the penalty of the world, but he was also causing us to be crucified with him so that we would not be carrying around the old man. That was the place and the entry point of failure. So Paul said, I am crucified with Christ. He had to confess this. Why? To get past the awareness of what he used to be. He didn't focus on what he used to do. He focused on who Christ made him to be. You were crucified with Christ. That old life is anything that happened to you, anything that somebody did is crucified. So what's that mean? Quit talking about it. Quit trying to get healing from something that you were crucified from. Amen. The only thing our past is worth and worthy of is forgetting, because our past and the old man was crucified with Christ. Paul goes on in Galatians 2:20. And he said, nevertheless, I live. So he's talking about, I have a life now that I'm living in the earth while I'm on this earth. Yet it's not me that's being that's gaining expression in this life, but Christ that's living in me. So Christ is living in me so that he can live through me. Christ raised you well. You were buried. You were crucified with Christ, buried with Christ, raised from the dead with him, seated with him because Christ wants to now live through you. And he wasn't living through the old man, he's living through the new man, who you are in Christ now. So Paul says, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh, or while I'm in this earth. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. So we see this. The cross wasn't just what endured what Christ endured, but it's our identification with him. And by faith we went to the cross with him. And by faith we were buried with him. And by faith we were raised with him and seated with him at the same. Amen. So when, when Jesus died, we died. When Jesus conquered Satan, we conquered Satan through him. His victory is our victory. Many only see the cross as a place of forgiveness of past sins and getting them to heaven, which is true. But it's not only that. The cross didn't just get us into heaven, it got us into victory over all the power of the enemy while we're here on this earth. It does didn't just get us a pardon, it gained us a position. We were raised to that position. It's a position of authority over the enemy. So Jesus bore our sins, but he also stripped the enemy of authority over us. That's the way we need to see ourselves. We're in authority over the enemy. Anything that the devil wants to do against us, it cannot succeed because we have authority over him. Because Colossians chapter 2, verse 15 says this. It says, and having spoiled principalities and powers, that Jesus made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it. Listen, Jesus didn't just get us out of hell, but he freed us from everything that would have. That would have been a bondage, that would have been a struggle in our life. He freed us from every single thing of the past. And you need to see yourself as that. You. If you don't see yourself as having been crucified, buried and raised with Christ, you're going to try to struggle to get free from things. You'll try to. If I could say this, see yourself struggling against fear. You don't need to struggle against fear. You need to walk in authority over that because you have been made master over anything of the enemy that he would want to work against you. Listen, Jesus destroyed the chains as well as destroyed the devil. He delivered us not just from the power of the devil, but from anything that the devil would work against us. He also utterly defeated and stripped the enemy and put us in the place of absolute Victory. Jesus paid the debt for us, but he also destroyed the debtor. And that's what we need to understand. That's why the devil just can't do anything to us anytime he wants, because his power over us has been rendered ineffective and useless. I want us to go to Romans, chapter six. And we're going to look at verse six. And this is the King James translation that we'll start with. But Romans, chapter six and verse six, it says this. Look at the first two words of this verse. Knowing this, look at this, knowing this. We can't just glance over what's fixing to be said. We're going to have to know what he's getting ready to say. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, with Jesus. That the body of sin might be destroyed. What's he talking about? The old man, the old sin nature. And under that old sin nature, our body would just comply with that sin nature. If the sin nature wanted us to do wrong, we'd just let our body do all things. Of kinds, kinds of things. Well, not anymore. Because that has been crucified with Christ. Why? That the body of sin might be destroyed. That henceforth we should not serve sin. Henceforth means this. Going forward, we should not serve sin. Look at verse 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now think of it. If you know of someone that has died just naturally their body died, you know, they're not struggling to not sin anymore. Why? Because they're free from the power of sin. Because they've died. Well, this is what Jesus did for us. He said, I tell you what, the great, the genius of God's plan was this. I don't want them grappling with sin for the rest of their life. So we'll just destroy it altogether. And so it says in verse seven. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Now this is something we have to build in us. We need to say it. I am dead. I was crucified with Christ. I died with Him. Why? So that we could also live with Him. What's that mean? Living the life that he authored for us? Before we were born again, we were living the life the devil authored for us. But now that we're in Christ, now that we're new creatures in Christ, we're to live the life that God authored for us. Now look at verse nine. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, he dies no more. Death has no more dominion over Him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once. But in that he lives, and he lives unto God. So listen, when we died with him, he died to sin, we died to sin. When he was raised to life, we were raised to life. Verse 10 again says, for in that he died, he died unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he lives unto God. We're living unto God. Our life now is to be governed, dictated, and find its authorship in God. Looking at verse 11, likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. Ah, we have to do something. We have to consider ourselves dead to sin. We have to see ourselves dead to sin. We have to see this, that sin is no longer master over us. Sin is no longer lord over us. It's no longer pushing us around. Before we were born again, the. The nature of sin absolutely governed how we lived. But now no more. Does that. Does that dictate to us our life? It says, but we. Verse 11 Again, likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. Now, see, we need to say, I'm dead to sin. We have to talk to it. We have to build that truth in us. We're not just trying to talk ourselves into it. That is the truth of God. But we have to speak, establish that truth in our own being, in our own spirit, and in our own thinking. That when the temptation of sin comes, you say, no, you don't, because I'm dead to you. You used to push me around. You're not pushing me around anymore. That addiction used to push me around. That bad habit used to push me around. No, it doesn't anymore, because I'm dead to you. You have to talk to it as though it's dead and not treat it as though it's a living thing in your life. You have to establish that you're in utter dominion over that. Why is that? Because the Word says that we have been from the kingdom of darkness translated into the kingdom of his dear Son. And in the kingdom of his dear Son, there is no more bondage to sin, no more bondage to addiction, no more bondage to bad habits, no more bondage to something that tried to push us around. But again, let's look at verse 11. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. Look at this. But alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. What do you mean, alive unto him through Jesus Christ our Lord? Well, when Jesus was raised from the dead, we were raised from the dead with him. And just as Jesus is alive by the power of God, and unto God So are we. But it's up to us to reckon ourselves or consider that to be true about us. Look at verse 12. Let not sin therefore reign your mortal body. If sin is pushing us around, it's for one reason we let it. It's not because it's greater than us. It's not because it's stronger than us. Because we have been dead to sin, we have been. Sin is no longer lording it over us, no longer master of us. And if it's gaining the upper hand, it's because we let it. We didn't hold it in our in the place of. Of us lording it over sin instead of sin lording it over us. So notice this again, verse 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it and the lust thereof. So verse 12 tells us, don't let sin. Then it tells us how to not let it. In verse 13, neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. So what's this? What's all this mean? It means that when the temptation of sin comes, you say, nope, you used to push me around. You're not anymore. And I used to comply. And I used to yield my body to the dictates of that sin. But I'm not anymore because I'm not responding to sin anymore. Now I'm responding to God now. I'm responding to who I am in Christ. So if we don't know this now, remember we said in verse six, he started this passage with know this. You have to know that sin's not your Lord anymore. You have to know it doesn't have dominion over you anymore or you will yield to it. You will comply with it. You will lay down to it, because that's the way you used to. But we know something new now. We know something more now. We know something different now. And we know that it has been defeated. We know that it has no dominion over us. And even if it tries, sin tries to come with great pressure against the mind. We know this greater is he that's in us than he that is trying to bring pressure against the mind, pressure against the body, that from within you, you can say, no, you don't. I am not your slave anymore. I am now your master. And it's because I'm in Christ that that great trans has happened. Amen. So now let's go back to verse 13 again. Neither yield yourselves. Well, how do you yield to something? You respond to it. You know, how many times have you heard a conversation around you that was less than right, that maybe it was speaking against somebody? And brother, sometimes you wanted to chime in you go, you know what? That's not my business. I'm not chiming in. What is that? You didn't respond to it. You didn't yield to it, although it was around you. I don't care if addictions, past addictions. I don't care if past weaknesses, you can feel them all around you. You don't have to respond to it anymore because you have the authority to say no to sin. Because sin is not your master anymore. You're in dominion over it, and it's not in dominion over you. But when people don't know that the devil works on their ignorance, he gains the upper hand over them because they're ignorant of these things. But Paul warned us in verse 6. Know this. You have to know that sin is not your master anymore. Jesus has made you master. Now let's look at verse 14. It says, for sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but you are under grace. Oh, my goodness. Partaking of our victory depends on what we know. It's not just dependent upon what was worked for us. We have to know what was won for us by Jesus. What was worked for us by the power of God. So that we don't struggle trying to get something Jesus already got for us. You don't have to struggle to get free from an addiction, from a bondage, from a bad habit of the flesh. All you have to do is know this. Wait a minute. That has been crucified with Christ. It no longer can Lord it over me. I was crucified with Christ. Those old ways, that nature of the devil, those old bad habits, those addictions, they were crucified with Christ, buried with him. And I'm not going to let them come out of that grave again. Well, I know this. That too many times the people think that they identify themselves with what they used to do. In people trying to get free, there has been. The world will try to offer some help because. But the world can only help based on the natural. It can only help the body. The world is only in contact with the body, or they're only in contact with the mind of man. The world knows nothing about the. The spirit of man. But when God set us free, it came out of the spirit of man's being. That's the place of victory. But the world only knows how to deal with the body and the mind. They don't know how to deal with the spirit of man. That if you will sow the word, God's word into that spirit, in the spirit of man, that spirit that the life of God in that spirit will rise up and start dominating the mind, dominate the flesh. So the world can only try to work on you from the outside in. But God deals with us from the inside out. So what happens is the world will teach you to say things. Well, I'm this and I'm that. But I'm getting victory over. No, no, no, I'm not this. I'm not a. I'm not an addict. I'm not. I'm not this. I'm not. I'm not depressed. I'm. We can't call ourselves something and then walk free from it. We have to say, I'm free from it. And know this, that the world tries from a natural standpoint, they try from a mental standpoint. But God dealt with the problem at the root. And the root was he dealt with the nature of man. And in you is the nature of God, the life of God. And in the life of God. There's no addiction in the life of God. There's no bondage in the life of God, there's no bad habits. So we speak from who we are, from the inside out. And that's what dominates and changes the way we think and the way we behave. So don't yield to that which you used to yield to. Because now you're drawing from a different place. Before we were born again, all we knew to do was draw out of our flesh, draw out of our mind. But now we have a new nature in us. The life and the nature of God. And we draw from there. Now I want to read to you. We were reading in Romans 6, 6. I want to go to the living Bible translation and let's see how that reads the living Bible of Galatians 6, 6 says, you old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him. That part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded. Don't you like that? So that your sin loving body is no longer under sin's control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin. For when you are deadened to sin, you are freed from all its allure and its power over you. What's that mean? You don't even want to do wrong anymore. Before you were born again, your flesh wanted to do wrong. But not now. I don't want from the inside of me. I Want to be right. I want to do right. I want to please God. I want to live in line with the greater one that's on the inside of me. I don't even want to go to the places I used to go. I don't want to put partake of the things I used to partake of. Why? Because the life of God has rewritten everything. Now look at verse eight. And since your old sin loving nature died with Christ, we know that you will share his new life. Christ rose from the dead and will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. And he died once for all to end sin's power. But now he lives forever in unbroken fellowship with God. So look upon your old sin nature as dead and unresponsive to sin. And instead be alive to God. Be alert to him through Jesus Christ our Lord. What's that mean? Be mindful of God. Be mindful who's in you. Be mindful that there's a new life in you. And I'm restrained responding to him that's in me. Then look at verse 12. Do not let sin control I like this. Do not let sin control your puny body any longer. Amen. Don't let it control you. Do not give in to sinful desires. How can I keep from giving in? Because the greater one's on the inside of you now. And because sin is not your Lord anymore, it's. It cannot master you when you will not agree. Verse 13 says, do not let any part of your bodies become tools of wickedness to be used for sinning. But give yourselves completely to God, every part of you. What's that mean? Your eyes have no business looking at something that God didn't, that God didn't participate in. You have no business taking your feet, walking you to a location you shouldn't be in. You have no business saying things that God would not have you part of. And so we have to understand this, that we're not using our tools the wrong way. The tool of our body, but for rightness. So it says in verse 13. Do not let any part of your bodies become tools of wickedness to be used for sinning. But give yourselves completely to God, every part of you. For you are back from the dead and you want to be tools in the hand of God to be used for his good purposes. Sin need never again be your master. For now you are no longer tied to the law where sin enslaves you. But you are free under God's favor and mercy. And remember what it says in verse six. Know this. You have to know I'm free and I'm free forever. And when those old things try to rear back up, you talk to them. You say, nope, I know something more now. I know that I'm free and I know that you're defeated and I'll never serve you again, and I'll never be a slave of fear again. I'll never be a slave of doubt again. I'll never be a slave of anxiety. Because all of that is the old man, not the new man. Because the new man is in Christ and the new man lives totally free. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time because we're going to continue this direction. And until now. Next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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Today we're excited to announce a new worship album called in youn glory by Grant DeFresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen in your presence is my reward. Your glory is yous power. I want you to know that every single person in this world needs a Savior. And the greatest thing of all is that we have one. But this Savior must be welcomed. This Savior must be received. And it's so easy to receive Jesus as the Savior. The Word says that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. So right now, do that with me. Say, jesus, I receive you as my Savior. Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life, and I'll live for you all the days of my life. God bless you.