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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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Luke, chapter 17. Oh, now it happened. Verse 11. Now it happened as he, Jesus, went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. He cut through. Then as he entered a certain village, there met him 10 men who were lepers who stood afar off. They lifted up their voices and said, jesus, Master, have mercy on us. You got a bit loud. You got to go boldly before the throne of grace. If your neighbors ain't ever heard you call Jesus, hey, if they never knocked on the door to make sure you was okay. Jesus, master, have mercy on us. So when he saw them, he said to them, go show yourselves to the priests. And so it was that they went, that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them say, I'm the one. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned and with a loud voice, glorified God. Scripture is loud. So often we read it so quiet and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. Verse 17. So Jesus answered and said, were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner? And he said to him, arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well. Hallelujah. Grab your seats. This is, whoo. A story that we know. But I love it when God sends me the stories in the Word that I feel like I've read a hundred times or heard preached a hundred times, because I'm always like, well, what new thing are you about to reveal? Because the Word is an eternal well, go deeper and deeper and more comes up. Sometimes something speaks to us specifically at a time in our life, and we can hear the same scripture at another time. And it speaks a new, fresh thing to that moment. And so we have this big move moment. And this was a big move indeed. The first thing that is significant here is that there were 10 of them. Because in Jewish culture, 10 men is a quorum. It is the minimum number of people required to qualify as a spiritual community. So it mattered that they were together as 10 because they were fulfilling a Jewish sanction about what happens or how many people you need to have a spiritual community be active. They didn't look like a spiritual community. They didn't look like where Jesus might go visit. Well, by this time, they knew Jesus where one of them would want to visit. But 10 people got together to survive with the same problem. And where a few are gathered, he shows. And so we see these 10 men and they holler out to Jesus, have mercy on us. Why? Because leprosy was the highest unclean situation. Unlike the woman with the issue of blood, who was ritually impure. As I explained a couple of weeks ago, if you haven't heard the message, go big or go home, go. Listen, we talked about the woman with the issue of blood and that she was ritually impure, but that didn't mean she had to identify herself as unclean everywhere she went. She wasn't allowed in the temple, but she was allowed in the synagogue. So she could move around. And people didn't necessarily have to know that something was wrong. But lepers were known. They had to call themselves unclean out loud so people would know because this was a very contagious disease. And so they lived in colonies together outside of the city limits. And they were visibly sick because it was a skin disease first. And so you would see the sores on their skin. And so they were identifiable. So here are these men all outside the city, but there was 10 of them. And they decided to cry out to Jesus. Now, why would they have done that? Well, for the same reason that the woman with the issue of blood went to Jesus. They had heard about Jesus at this point. Again, his reputation has gone out in the whole area from Judea up through Samaria up to Galilee. And now he's going south again. So Samaria, Judea, that's like Orange county. And then Samaria in the middle. That's la. And then whatever that early, you know, now he in Galilee like he in Calabasas, he in the valley, he up there. So he'd been traveling. Now, all this is by foot. So you know how long it would take for him to move around These places. And so he had gone to Galilee by the time he got there and was doing miracles there. And he healed the woman with the issue of blood. It says his fame had already gone out in the world, in that area of the world. And so people had heard that Jesus heals, but they also heard that Jesus will deal with people that society casts out. He talks to women, he heals lepers. He's been forgiving sins, something that should only happen by the high priest in the temple behind the veil making sacrifices for sins. But he out here forgiven sin. So he has a reputation already for doing things that had not been done before. So when they saw him, they were like, here, yo. There you go. And they cried out Jesus, because they had also heard about Jesus. And Jesus sees them and he cleanses them. He gives them a very specific instruction in verse 14, Luke 17:14, it says. So when he saw them, he said to them, go show yourselves to the priests. And so it was that they went as they went, they were cleansed. So two things are important here. First and foremost, why did he tell them to go and show themselves to the priests? Leviticus, chapter 14, verse 2, gives us the law. This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing. Now, this was an incurable disease, but it was built into scripture that a miracle could happen. This wasn't for the day he was released from the hospital. This isn't for the day after the surgery. This is a miracle already expected because this was an incurable disease. This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out of the camp and the priest shall examine him. I'm going to stop right there. So Jesus was giving them a law fulfilling instruction. The miracle would be seen. And part of that was always Jesus showing by the word that he is indeed the Messiah. And they needed to go to the priest. And so that's why they went going. And as they were going, they were healed. And so please know right there, your first move has to be obedience. Your first move has to be obedience. When you have recognized that Jesus is the only one that can help you, and you have cried out to him for mercy. When he gives you an instruction, I need you to follow it. If your first move is to question it. If your first move is to check your strategy. If your first move is to ask for more plans down the road, if your first move is to try to get your anxiety quenched, you're going to miss it your first move has to be obedience. They were not healed when they started walking. Go show yourself to the priest. I'm still leprous, sir. They didn't stand there and wait for the miracle to come. When they called on Jesus and asked for mercy, he responded, you have to assume that you have now received the mercy you asked for. They didn't feel better yet. I don't know. There had been a psalmist at that time. They might have walked away saying, be praised be praised. Because they didn't feel it yet. They didn't see it yet, but they moved. Your first move must be obedience. Do not be afraid to obey God. Well, I'm not sure. Well, what if I'm not sure? Listen, here's something that I have learned in my walk with the Lord over these math since I was 19 years old, is that even when I have missed a little something, he has never let me actually fall. Never. He never let me fall. And so I didn't jump. I was obedient in it must. I understood it. But as I moved, even if I was confused about something, God would just. Here you go. I got you. You didn't know that you needed to file this paper also with the business. But I'll be standing in the courthouse and somebody will come and say, oh, do you have this form? Oh, thank you. I'm telling you, he has done it for me in so many places where my human knowledge failed. He filled in. And so don't try to figure out everything to go. I got to study it out. I want to do it right. I want to do it in excellence. No, no, no, no, no. That's you trying to have a sacrifice instead of being obedient. Obedient is better than sacrificial. Just do what he said. Ah, but I hear God prophetically. Walk, don't run. Hey, walk, don't run. Not in fear or trepidation, but in letting your steps be ordered and being able to hear the next one. But your first move has to be obedience. And so they were obedient. And so as they went, they saw that they were healed in motion. That's why I said earlier, big faith, big steps. Faith without works is dead. You got to get in motion with what you believe. Do something. Even if your big move right now is to pray more often or to just try not to be afraid. Do something visible, write it down and stick it on your mirror. I will not be afraid. But you gotta move. Tell somebody, hey, my big move is to resist fear in my life. Can you Check on me once a week to make sure I'm making this move. Do not keep it in your head. You got to do some kind of work. So they did their work. They started walking, and they got healed. And then the Samaritan comes back. Only one person came back to say thank you. Now, this the part we're familiar with. They came back to say thank you. He came back to say thank you. The others didn't. Now, let's not be too judgmental on them, because if you got healed from leprosy, you'd probably be pretty excited and you might want to keep running until you got to the priest and he declared you clean. And maybe they were going to come back after that. Maybe they were trying to get all the boxes checked first. Let us go to the priest. He told us to go to the priest and it wouldn't be obedient for us to stop and turn around. There's other possibilities besides ungratefulness. And a lot of times we read the worst into the base. They may have just been ungrateful, but also they may have been trying to complete their obedience. And maybe they were going to come back later. But what was different about this man that he came back now? He was a Samaritan. This matters because Jesus has now changed his journey. He was in Galilee. He's now traveling south again on his way to Jerusalem. This matters today, in this season, because when he arrives in Jerusalem, he will be crucified. So Jesus is on his way to die, and he's stopping and doing these miracles along the way. And this Sunday, next Sunday, the next Sunday, we're gonna be tracing this journey of Jesus every Sunday until Easter Sunday when we find out about how he made the biggest move of all. Moves. So he's actually on his way to be crucified. I want you to keep that in your mind because he out here doing stuff. He doesn't spend the entire journey like, well, here we go. I'm going down. Jesus, have mercy on me. I'm about to have mercy on you on the cross. Why are you calling me? Don't you see I'm on my way to get killed? He knows where he's going. The Bible says in another verse that he set his face steadfastly towards Jerusalem. Yet he is still being who he is made to be. You have got to be both present oriented and future committed. You can't be so focused on where you believe God's getting you that you miss where you are and what your purpose is in this moment, in this Space right now, today. Sure, he could have ignored everybody, got all in his feelings, and acted like Gethsemane from that point until the cross and said, y' all are all gonna receive those things through my death. Why should I do more? Oh, but let somebody ask us for something a little bit. Be. Oh, they don't even appreciate what I did for them already. Ah, Gus, get like Jesus. Your future matters. You know where he's sending you, but don't miss what he's calling you to do right now in the moment. He answered them and he healed them. But he is in between Galilee and Samaria. Which makes sense, then, that this group of 10 men would be a mixed ethnic group because both of them were outcasts on the border of their area. And so it seems. It doesn't say exactly, but it seems that nine of them were Jews and one was a Samaritan. But it's possible that there were other Samaritans in the group. What's significant? You know what? Thank you, Holy Ghost. No, no, no. Nine Jews, one Samaritan. And I'm going to tell you why. Because once the healing started, the Samaritan could not have gone to the priest. Because Jewish people didn't like Samaritans. The priest wasn't going to speak nothing over a Samaritan. He was an outcast. He did not have access. He didn't have access to what the Jews had access to. So they were able to go and complete the ritual. But not the Samaritan. He was a tag along. They had just got in a group with him because they was all lepers. And at that moment, what they were suffering made them close. But when they stopped suffering, hey, yeah. Cause somebody will be with you. Because y' all all in the valley together. But what happens when you get on the mountain? Are you still my boy? Are you still my girl? Then those nine men didn't say, come with us. We gonna tell the priest. He gonna bless you. They let him go. Cause they went to get what belonged to them. And look at the obedience of this man. Go show yourselves to the priest and you will be cleansed. That you've been cleansed. He said, well, he left with them, knowing he could not. He was sent in a direction where he knew he would not be accepted. He was sent in a direction that where he would be denied. He was sent in the direction of rejection. My God, in order to be obedient, make your move, baby. Your first move has to be obedient. But God, they don't like me. Over there. But God, I would get rejected. But God, I'm not allowed to talk to priests. They don't like us. They racist over there. They can't stand Samaritan. And he would have been right. But you being right ain't got nothing to do with you making your first move, baby. Go be obedient to God. And so in that way, you can say he was the most obedient out of all, all of them. Because it didn't make sense for him to go. He came back to Jesus. Now, why does that also matter? One, he had nowhere else to go. Two, yet again, as we saw with the woman with the issue of blood, Jesus is revealed to be the high priest. Oh, he showed himself to the priest. Jesus is our priest again, I tell you, my Bible says there is no mediator between God and man except Jesus Christ. You don't need anybody to tell you you're forgiven. You don't need anybody to send you to light a candle or pray a rosary. I respect my brothers and sisters who are Catholic, but I'm trying to tell you there is nobody in between me and God but Jesus. And so, just as the woman with the issue of blood fell at his feet and she fell in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened within her, he comes back to thank the Messiah. Now, why would he have also had reason to suspect that this was the Messiah? I want you to understand something about the relationship with the Samaritans and how it started. Because the Samaritans and the Israelites were both the children of Abraham. They all started out together. The Samaritans and the Jews shared common ancestry through Abraham, but they became divided. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC, there was a war. It split the space. And the Samaritans were on one side and the Jews were on the other side. They was mad because many Israelites were deported and foreign populations resettled in the region. So they pushed the Jews out of the space. I'm in the Bible. And it left them very angry with the people who remained there. Over time, a distinct Samaritan community developed. And they accepted the Pentateuch, which is the first five books of the Bible, as scriptures. But they worshiped on a different mountain instead of in Jerusalem. And because of these historical and religious differences, they deep hostility developed between the Jews and Samaritans. They couldn't stand each other. I don't know if you all knew that history was that deep. And why then is Jesus constantly intersecting Samaritans Why is the parable of the good Samaritan so important? He points out that the Samaritan treated somebody better than all of you did. That's an insult story that he would tell a story about a Samaritan being better than the Jews. You hear what it is now? That he went to a Samaritan woman at a well. Not only was he talking to a woman, he was talking to a Samaritan woman who had a bunch of husbands. This is three strikes. You're out. And he tells her everything she's ever done. And she recognizes that he's the Messiah. Why? Because they descended from Abraham. They too are expecting a Messiah. But they were only in those first five books. And so they wouldn't have had every verse, but they would have had this verse. Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15. This Samaritan man would have known. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. And him shall you hear from your brethren. The Bible doesn't stop calling us brothers and sisters because we got mad features. Other because we drew the different political lines, because we drew the national lines. God doesn't stop calling us brother and sister. We have decided that we are not. But Jesus, by showing refusal to hate Samaritans, was giving them a lesson that mattered. I want you know I'm going to jump read one other verse I want to read to you. Hold on. Ah, Luke, chapter nine, verse 51. I want you to hear these scriptures in case there's ever a group of people that you don't like. In case you ever feel free to use scripture against them. God's not your hitman. He not. And some of you want to treat him that way. He gonna break the teeth of the wicked. He gonna destroy my enemies. He's not your hitman. If the Holy Spirit. If God sent the Holy Spirit to wipe somebody out, then that was God's choice. Take it back to the to Moses and the plagues. The Bible says offenses must come, but woe unto them by which it comes. I don't need it to be me. Yeah, okay. Maybe God is going to blow something up. But I ain't got to be. It ain't got to be on me. I. Okay, okay. Luke, chapter 9, verse 51. Now it came to pass when the time had come for him to be received up. This is the beginning. That he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers before his face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for him, but they did not receive him. Now, they have received him before. When the woman with the well, she ignores. It's Jesus. He reveals himself as the Messiah to a Samaritan woman, woman with multiple husbands. For the first time on the planet while he's here, he says, you're right. I'm the Messiah. She goes and tells all the men in her city about him and brings them to him. So we know that Samaria has received Jesus at other times, but this time, this village in Samaria didn't. The village. They entered a village of Samaritans to prepare for him, but they did not receive him because his face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. So first of all, it wasn't about what they did wrong. Is that Jesus. That wasn't his call in that moment. And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them just as Elijah did? Because they don't like Samaritans. They have watched Jesus talk to that Samaritan woman. They watched her bring men to come and accept him. But even after all of that, they still had such a hatred so deep that when they did something they didn't like, they was ready for Jesus to give them permission. Permission to blow them up. I'm just in the Bible. And what happened after they asked for permission to rain fire down on a people? Verse 55. But he turned and rebuked them. And he said, you do not know what manner of spirit you are of. They right there with Jesus all this time. And he still said, y' all still do not know yourself what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And then they went into another village. So I just wanted to read that so you could see how deep the issues were between the Jewish people and the Samaritans. And so then for this Samaritan to come back to Jesus, he would have known that there was a Jesus coming, a Messiah coming. There's another verse in Deuteronomy. Hold on. Let me get back to that which I read. Excuse me. Verse chapter 18, verse 15, when it says, the Lord your God will raise up a prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren, him shall you hear. Later, in the New Testament, twice in the Book of Acts, this verse is repeated, acknowledging that it refers to Jesus. But they had this verse in Samaria. The challenge was, there are some people who expect Jesus to Simply be a prophet, they will acknowledge him as a prophet. I'm not talking about nobody specific. I'm just saying some will say we do believe it. We read the word, we believe in Jesus, we believe he was a prophet. But when that leprosy left his skin, he knew he had gone from prophet to messiah. See, you have to recognize we don't win hearts to Jesus. We by arguing. You could have your apologetics degree and you can show them in a 27 scriptures why he is more than a prophet. He's the Messiah. But if you would lay on your face and fast and pray and ask God to give you some power that when you walk into somebody's life and you can tell them how body be healed, God gave me this word for you. God has made me so wealthy, he sent me to pay your rent for the next six months. Then he goes from being a prophet to be in the Messiah because he has done something miraculous that they could not do for themselves. And so this man recognizes as a son of Abraham himself and he cannot go to the priest of the Jews. So he comes back to the high priest who is Jesus and shows himself to the priest. And not only does Jesus declare him clean, he says, your faith has made you clean, whole. That word cleanse and the word whole don't mean the same thing. The word cleansed is a Greek word that means to purify or to remove impurity. It has more external implications. And so their skin became clean, they were cleansed. But the word whole means something else. It means to save. You have been saved, you have been rescued, you have been restored again, like the man, the paralytic that he healed and called son again, like the woman with the issue of blood who he called daughter and who sought out to work her salvation out in fear and trembling. This is a salvation experience, not just a healing experience. And so the outside was cleansed, but now the inside has changed. And this matters even in the way that leprosy teaches, teaches us about the transformation that we need. Because see, leprosy was visible. It started on the skin, but after it made sores on the skin and peeled the skin back, the next thing that it does, and it still exists in some parts of the world, the next thing that it does is it damages nerve endings. And so now you don't feel any pain. The problem with that is, is that because they didn't feel pain, they were often being injured without knowing it. So they weren't just walking around with sores. Some of them was walking around with a Broke arm hanging off with a cut open leg, anything. They wouldn't have known how traumatized and deformed they were because they didn't feel it happening. And that is the condition that so many of us come to Jesus in. You don't even know how bad you look. You think because it don't hurt no more that you must be okay, but. But all it means is sin done made you numb to the destruction that's been happening in your life. When Jesus looked at them, the ears was hanging off, nose was missing, leg broken, bones sticking out. And they don't even know how bad they think. The worst part is they're separated from people. They don't even know their body is close to death from trauma after trauma after trauma because they don't even feel it anymore. You don't even feel it when he smack you in your mouth no more. You don't even feel it when your checking account is in negative overdraft, overdraft, overdraft. Because you don't started living like that. You don't even feel it when a friend needs your help and you aren't able to give it to them and they leave you, you're just like, it's where they all leave me. You don't even feel it anymore. But that doesn't mean you're okay. Numb and health are not the same thing. Numb and whole are not the same thing. Not the same thing. So they were in that kind of condition. But then furthermore, what we know today is that that leprosy germ can get all the way down into the bones because bones and skin are connected. And so once that thing gets down into the bone, it starts to rot them from the earth inside. And we know in scripture that bone represents spirit. And so once the bones start changing, ain't no fire shut up in that bone. Once the bone starts breaking, my deepest belief is gone. And so I believe that that teaches us something about the difference between being clean and being whole. Because I can clean up some skin, but if the bone is already infected when I'm under pressure, that bacteria will rise back to the surface again. But he tells this man, your faith has made you whole. So he went from being clean to being whole. He had a salvation experience. And I know that meant he was changed to the bone, to the bone and was able from that moment to follow Jesus. Are you willing to make the only first move that matters? Your big faith by itself is not enough. Do call Jesus for mercy. But then you have got to move obediently. Obediently and when he. When God does the thing or the thing you're believing for what offering will you pull out? He came back and gave him an offering. He said, thank you, you did a thing for me. He offered his gratitude. He opened up his heart. The Bible said, don't rend your clothes, rend your heart. He came with his heart ripped open and said, thank you for changing my life. Thank you for seeing me. Thank you for not rejecting me because I'm not one of you. Thank you for being my personal high priest. He rendered his heart and he offered thank you. He didn't ask for nothing else. Can you restore me? Can you get my money back? Can you get my wife to come back? Just thank you for this change. Hallelujah. What will you render? Ah, I don't know if some of my old school church folks here. Do you remember that song? What shall I render unto God that's cogic for all his blessings? I got somebody. Come on. What shall I render? Tell me, what shall I give? The next verse says, God. God has everything and everything belongs to him. I'mma stop. God has everything and everything belongs to him. So this is the question. What shall I render? Tell me, what shall I give? You've got to rend your heart. You've got to rip it open. And be willing to give God your gratitude, your time, your finances, your dreams, your ideas. When you realize what he's done for you. It was because he came back and rendered thanks. His acknowledgement of him as the Messiah changed his life. And because he was willing to rend his heart and open up and pour out an offering. His faith made him not just clean, but whole. Does anybody want to be whole? Does anybody want to be whole? Big faith, big steps, big steps. Seed. What will we pour out? It will change everything. But you have to recognize first that Jesus is who he says that he is, because everything starts with that move. Stand to your feet. We got to get out of this room for a minute. My God, My God, My God. Know that God has already made a way for you if you would just be obedient to Him. It couldn't have been crazier in instruction for that Samaritan to go with the Jews towards a priest. But he did it and it changed everything. Your crazy obedience will absolutely transform your life in ways you could never imagine. I flew all over the country trying to decide where to live in 2020. I flew to Maryland, North Carolina. I went down to Galveston, Houston. I went out all kinds of places looking for a place that Would give me something I wanted. I wanted to be near the water. So I went to all these coastal places that were cheaper and far more accessible. But months earlier, God had told me that this state was home. But I was checking, and I would get to the city and put my foot down. It was like, nope. It was like the ground was like, nope, visit, but you can't stay. And finally I went where he told me to go. I got in a 2015 Mini Cooper and drove across the country by myself through the desert, through the hours in the desert, couldn't see nobody. I thought, if this car break down, I'm in trouble, But I'm just running through the desert. But there's something about driving west that's special because the sun set and because you're driving across the time zones where the sunset would be 30 minutes if you were standing still when you're driving. It lasted for hours. I was driving into that beauty for hours, tears streaming down my face, because that's where he told me to go. I was in the desert, but I was driving. I was in an old car. I didn't have anything but a word that he would provide for me. And look at me now. Look at what he did. But my first move, none of the other moves mattered. The four cities I flew to didn't matter. Those weren't move. I wasn't doing nothing because I wasn't moving in faith. But when I turned my eye, when I set my mind, my heart, my hands, my feet to where he told me to go once clicked into obedience. That was the first move that followed all these others things. Are you in obedience today? Some of you have done that, and you are big moving. Some of you need to redirect because you started moving, but not in obedience. You trying to detour your way to the space in a way that you think you can get there. But I need you to stop redoing God's plans and just go where he told you to go. If you're in this room today and you don't know the Jesus that I just preached about, if you are suffering in ways that you don't even feel anymore, trauma has repeatedly broken you. Maybe your body is living literally sick. Y', all, I'm gonna. I got a healing testimony I'll share with you in the next service that he did in my body this week. But you may be in your body, sick. In your heart, sick, in your mind sick. Jesus wants to heal you today. Giving your life to Jesus is a healing request. Heal my broken heart. Heal My sin. Forgive me of the thing I can hardly forgive myself for. But then I won't have to carry it. No more to say, come give your life to Jesus is really for me to ask. Do you want to be healed in any way? Because connecting to him will heal you. Is there anyone in here who doesn't know Jesus, but you need to be healed in some way? Just slip your hand up. I want to introduce you to Jesus. Are you here? I don't see you. Hey, come here, babe. And I pray for you. Is there another who says, I don't know Jesus, but I know I need to be healed. My heart is broken, My body is broken. I'm tired in some way. Is there anybody else? All of heaven is rejoicing because one person said it. We can't make it sound like heaven sounds, but we're gonna try. We're gonna try. This is how God feels about you. And you. Come here, baby. This baby came. This is how happy heaven is. Because you are loved like this. Welcome. This is so easy. All it takes to become the child of God in this way is to believe on Jesus. So I'm going to ask you a couple questions, and if the answer yes, say yes. If the answer is no, say no. Because we want to get yeses. And if it's no, we gonna get there. But I feel like it's probably a yes. Do you believe that Jesus is the son of God, God is his father. Do you believe that Jesus left heaven and was born a baby, a human body, in order to grow up and die for you? He died on a cross. He let some people beat him to death for you, and then he rose from the dead. Do you believe that Jesus. Jesus rose from the dead, like, for real. He was dead, now he's not dead. And now he's sitting next to his father, my Bible says, praying for you 24, 7. Do you believe Jesus is praying for you? Then you are now a child of God, a son of God, a daughter of God. And nothing can get you out of his hand. You belong to him. We're not perfect every day, but we belong to God every day. Welcome to the kingdom of God. This minister is going to get some information from you. Brother o', Shea, would you go with this little brother. Come back, little guy. Where's. Who's with him? Who's with him? Come here. Come on and be with him too, so he can meet them. We got some souls in the kingdom. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you for bringing him to church today. Thank you for bringing him to church today. Well, does anybody else need prayer? We actually got a few minutes. I want to open this altar. Who needs prayer today for the faith and the steps? Come on down. We're going to just come to this altar place. Hallelujah. Worship team, can you come on back? Hallelujah. If you just want prayer today from this word, maybe you need strength to make that obedient first move. Maybe you need a healing that hasn't manifested yet. Maybe you know Jesus, but you haven't been asking him for the mercy, and he wants to heal you. On today. I went to see my surgeon this last week in 2022. He took out my parathyroid gland. The next year, my thyroid started swelling on this right side. I found out it was enlarged because I was on a news interview and somebody noticed it who was a medical professional. They sent an email, said when the light hit, I could see your thyroid is enlarged on this right side. Go get it checked out. Thank you. Thanks. Don't be looking at folks like, you know, I hope they know I didn't know. So I went to see my surgeon. He's. He's on the east coast. And he was like, yep, it's definitely enlarged. We're just going to watch it, not going to do anything. I went back another time. It was enlarged, but it wasn't doing nothing. So I was on the east coast last week, and since I had been a year, I called him and said, hey, can I text him? Say, hey, can I come and see you? Absolutely. But I had been feeling like it looked like it was getting smaller, but I was like, maybe that's just me being optimistic, you know, and it didn't feel the same to me. And so I went to and we're talking, and he's catching up with me. He's read the Garden Within. He's a fan of me. I'm a fan of him. This guy is amazing. We're talking back and forth. And he said, you know, I'm looking at you from here, about five feet away, and it doesn't look as big as it did when I saw you last year. It looks smaller. Have you noticed that? I said, you know, I thought it was just me. Okay. He said, well, let's look. He put the ultrasound on there. He said, Dr. Phillips, I don't know what to tell you. But last year it was large and solid, but now that large thing is just filled with fluid. It transformed from solid to a fluid. And so there's no way it's cancerous because Cancer makes things harder. But this has gone in the opposite direction and it has become completely liquid. So all I gotta do is stick a needle, needle in there and just pull out the liquid. He said, this is the best possible thing that could have happened. Don't know why it happened, but it happened. He said, I'm just gonna take the fluid out and then he's gonna put alcohol in it and the alcohol will dry it back up. And he said, and it should shrink to its normal size. But he couldn't do it that day because I couldn't spend the night. I said, well, I'll be back in May for my daughter's graduation. Can you do it then? He said, absolutely. It'll just take a few minutes. We'll do it then. Honey, I'm gonna go back there and let him pull out this thing that used to be solid, but now it's liquid. And maybe, maybe when I get back in May, he might tell me that ain't there. I don't know what God will do, but the fear of it turning into a cancer, he'd say, oh, no, it has liquefied on its own. I said, God, thank you. But not only that really blew me away. I was texting Pastor Sarah, my friend, and telling her about it, and she said, well, you know, I just watched you a few weeks ago declare a healing anointing was in the room, and you prayed for everybody to be healed. And when I tell you, I burst into tears because on that day, my own thyroid didn't cross my mind. But he knows what you need before you heal. Ask. And so as you came down here, you may be aware of a need you came to ask God for, but there's another need that's not even on your mind today. He's going to answer the prayer you're bringing. And the prayer didn't cross your mind. God is going to make you not just cleansed, but whole. Father God, in the name of Jesus, make them whole. Heal them to the bone. Spirit, heart, mind, body, relationships. Heal them to the bone. In the name of Jesus. The thing that they have decided to live with. Make it intolerable. They're not going to live with it no more. They're going to be changed. The areas where they have become numb, let them be sensitive again so that they are aware of the ways in which you made them whole. And so that they won't go in the direction of that injury again. Father, reveal to them the damage so that they will know how much you just did in healing them. And they won't go in the direction of that damage again. That in their gratefulness to you, they will only run towards you for the rest of their days. Heal their broken hearts in the name of Jesus. I come against crippling fear and anxiety. I come against depressive episodes. I come against fibroids and thyroid problems, arthritis and lower back, lower back problem. I curse that. In the name of Jesus. Unravel those knots in their back in the name of Jesus. The enemy is trying to keep somebody from what God has for them to do with pain in their body, but he's healing right now. Make them entirely whole in the name of Jesus. Seal off the addiction that tries to overtake them again. That even when they try it, it won't work. That the thing that addicted them won't even fulfill them when they try. Because they're whole now and so it has nothing to attach to make them witnesses and testimonies. Let each person right now who's receiving this prayer multiply lives attached to them, salvation. They're going to share this with them and see other people saved, brought into the kingdom, brought into the movement. I thank you that every person here that is receiving this prayer is also multiplying because we receive from you to show others who you are as well. So we're not going to stop by getting what we've asked for. We want to be your ambassadors in the earth. So heal us, make us whole and then let us go far and wide sharing our testimony so that others might know that if they just say, look, Lord, have mercy on me, that you will in Jesus name, in Jesus name say, I am whole now and forever. Amen.
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Hey family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L led with myself, Terre Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.