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The Power Gifts Of The Spirit Pt. 25 | Pastor Craig Field | Wed. Jan. 7, 2026
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So we're continuing now. Listen, I just. I love the Holy Ghost because he is so incredibly faithful. And I guess I actually thought he was taking a break because I'm so skillful that he don't listen to my preaching anymore because he just knows it's going to be perfect. You know what I mean? That's what I just figured. But thank God, Jenny, that he still listens and he still catches me when I trip up. And so I tripped up on something the last time, and. And when I was saying it, I had a. I'm just teaching. This is a little side thing, and it's free. But I was just. When I was teaching something, I had just a tiny little. Just a tiny little scratch. So small. But I sensed it, but I didn't know what I was saying wrong. So I just kept going. When you don't know, just keep going. Because I wouldn't be able to articulate what was wrong. So I just kept going. But I got in the green room and I said, holy Spirit, what was that scratch on the inside when I was talking about that thing? And he said, you said it wrong. Go study it again. So I said, what? I mean, Lord, you're talking to your servant here who has studied this for many hours. I'm kidding. I didn't say that. But I went back and I studied it again. And so, you know, I realized I had. I had misspoken on something. And so I want to make that correction. So let's just not. We're not going to read the Scriptures again. But just put up that first screen just so that, you know the first thing that Jesus did, you remember what he did. And it was real wine. Remember, we talked about that so all the religious folks don't freak out. Jesus did do a sauvignon, or whatever you call the wines. I don't know, Cabernet. I don't know what it was, but he did it and it was real. And that's okay. And that was the first miracle. And the second screen, what was that? Member, what was the second screen? Not the second number. What was this operation? Here, Come on. I'm gonna make you run outside. I swear, I'm gonna make you run around the church. Thank you. And because it was worked through Jesus, he had to have the gift of faith in order to work. Nobody else worked that miracle. They poured it, but he still worked it because he gave the instruction. Do you understand? So this is that. Now, number two, you know that this is the healing. The nobleman's son. Do you Remember that? And this is where the Lord said, you made a mistake on this. So I said, shock. I know you can hear the shock and the unbelief in the room in a good way. Unbelief. Okay. And so I went back. Let's read it one more time, please. Because I had originally put up the next screen. I had originally said I had not got the right thing here. Put up the app. It is the Gifts of Healings. But I had originally said it was. What did I tell you? The anointing. The ahp. The anointing of healing power, meaning faith had been released. Right. I don't know if you remember that. Maybe you weren't here, or maybe you've been in a coma since then. It was December 17th. It's been a long time. But I was telling you that that was really the anointing of healing power because it said he didn't believe. But then it said he did believe. And because he believed, we could say he had faith. So he was drawing on that anointing. And the Lord spoke to me back there, and he said, you got that wrong. Read it again. Thank God for the Holy Ghost, Jenny, because it means that he doesn't want us to make a mistake. And even though I try my best not to, sometimes we do. And that was what I had taught at the Bible school and Pastor Nancy's Bible school. So I hadn't really kind of looked closely at it. I was repeating some of those things that I have said many times. But can we read it one more time? So this is. What is this? John 4:43. You got your Bibles? Okay. And it says here John 4:43. Now, after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country. Then when he came, was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they also went unto the feast. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made water, wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. Capernaum was his home base. That's also where Peter had his house. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said so obviously, he said, come and heal my son. He's dying. Then Jesus said unto him, except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe what's he saying, unless you see me do something for you, you won't believe. If you see me do it, then you'll believe because I already did it. That don't take much faith to believe when it's already done. The whole point of faith is believe. When you don't, it hasn't happened yet. So he's saying, unless you see that I do this for you, meaning you have no faith, you don't believe. So that's clearly, without doubt, telling the guy. This is telling us and telling the guy that he doesn't have faith. Do you see that? Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe the nobleman. Watch this. Now, the nobleman said unto him, sir, come down ere my child die. He's saying it again. He obviously said it once. Now you're reading it. You can't hear the man's tone when he read it, but when they put the word ere, ere in there. This is a pleading kind of a phrase, sir. He's already asked him, but now he's saying it with heartfelt, sir, come down ere my child die. Now. This is still not faith. You can ask Jesus to do something that doesn't mean you believe. He already asked him and he didn't believe because Jesus told him, you don't believe. You're only going to believe if you see after I've done it. Nothing's changed with the man. He still doesn't believe, but he's desperate and he says, lord, come down ere my child die. So there's still no faith at this point. Watch what Jesus says at this point. Then Jesus said unto him, sorry, ere my child died. Verse 50. Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth. At that moment it's done, healing power is released. The child is going to be delivered. So when Jesus said, he's healed, there was no faith released. Do you see that? So how could it be the anointing of healing power, Pastor Craig, which can only work when faith is released. But when he released power, there was no faith. Do you understand? Then keep going. And it says, and the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him and went his way. So when Jesus said, your son's healed, the man says, I can believe that, but that's after power was released. If he had come to him before power was released, like the syrophoenician, I believe, give me a crumb like blind Bartimaeus. I believe, cast away my garment like the centurion. Don't even come to My house. I believe if you speak, it will work. See, that's faith before the power, which hooks onto the power and causes the power to flow. Now, this is no faith, yet power goes. And then he says, well, I can believe that power is gone. Anybody can believe that power's gone. There's no point believing now because it's already been done. Now, I understand the man. I'm not attacking the man. I'm just saying he comes with no faith, but he's desperate. Jesus does it out of the goodness of his heart. Now the man says, I can believe what you said. Well, that's nice that the man can believe what he said after he said it. But the whole point of faith is to believe before he said it. Do you understand? So really his faith was not putting a demand on that healing power, was it? Now he believed after it was already released. But that's kind of. That's. That's so I had said yesterday. And listen, it sounds so good. It sounds so religious because I listened to my. I listened to it again. I listened to what I said about this thing again. After the Lord corrected me, I listened to it and, and I. And I heard what I was saying. And I was. And I. What I said was, and it sounds good, but it's wrong. And I'm humble enough to tell you when I make a mistake, but it sounds good, but it's wrong. Because what I said is, even though he believed afterward, God was just giving him, Jesus was just nudging him a little bit so that he'd believe, but that's not really what it says. Jesus didn't nudge him so he'd believe. Jesus released power when the man had no faith, which means the gifts of healings were in operation, not the man's faith. Drawing on the anointing of healing power, he did it because the Holy Ghost saw fit to release that gift despite the man having no faith. Do you understand? Just like the man at the pool of Bethesda. Same rule. He didn't have faith. In fact, when Jesus asked him the question, he didn't even answer the question. Do you want to be healed? All you have to say is yes, but he just complains about the fact that he can't get in the pool. There's no mention, no hint, no nothing, no whiff of faith about the man in the pool of the basset. But the gifts of healings were operating as a gift to the man and went right through him. He said, stand up and walk. And Jesus, when dad Hagin 9-2-1950 was in the throne room of God. Jesus used that pool of Bethesda story to teach him how the gifts of healings operated. And that wasn't the anointing of healing power. So we know Jesus said it to that hagin in the throne room of God that this is not. Remember that man had no faith. So just like the pool of Bethesda guy had no faith. But in the Holy Ghost divine plan, he released that anointing, the gifts of healings. Do you understand? And it healed that man, even though he didn't technically deserve it because he didn't have any faith. It's the same thing here. This man did not have faith. From that perspective, he's not putting a demand on power. He doesn't deserve it. But I believe because of this plea of the heart doesn't say he had compassion, but I believe that he had compassion because of the plea of the man's heart. My son about to die. And I believe it doesn't say he had compassion, but I believe that, that the Holy Ghost chose and willed. Okay, you don't have faith, I'm gonna give you a free one this time, buddy. And then Jesus says it as he says it. The gifts of healings are released. Go your way, your son is healed, then he can believe. But that believing didn't come before. So God was not nudging him to believe. He didn't believe. Gifts of healings operated. Then he believed, that's fine. But that has nothing to do with the power being released. Because the power was not released because of his faith. It was released because the Holy Ghost had mercy on him and allowed the gifts of healings to operate. Hallelujah. I'm making. I know it's small, but I want to make that correction. Because if we talk about stuff, I want it to be. I want it to be right. And I love the Holy Ghost that he wants it to be right. He doesn't. He doesn't want us to just say stuff and then, you know, you come back later and go, well, I don't know really about that and just act like everything was great. I want to do that. I want to be right. I know it's a small thing, but the Lord said, you make that correction and just let them know that's not what it was that he actually spoke to me. He said that was my gifts of healings. That wasn't the man's faith. Now it's nice that the man had faith because if you notice, it says here, the nobleman said unto him, sir. Okay. 51. And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, you, son lives, verse 50. 52. Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him. So we know it was a fever. So the Father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house. So he didn't have faith for the healing, but he could latch on to that. When Jesus said, it's done, then he believed. But that's not what released the power. It was the gifts that released the power. But his faith still bore some good fruit because he gets home, his baby's better, and everybody in his house gets saved. So his faith still brought something to the table. Salvation. But it did not release the healing power of God. That was Jesus in his mercy. And we're going to talk about another guy coming up real soon that had the exact same scenario with Jesus. No faith yet Jesus just out of his goodness. That doesn't mean he's not good to others. It just means some people the Holy Ghost chooses. Why does he choose some and not others? I don't know the answer to that. I just know that God's perfect. And the Bible says the judge of the earth will do what is right. And God looks at every minute that you've lived. He looks at every experience you've gone through. And you can't even do that because you don't even remember every experience that you've gone through. But God is beyond your comprehension. He can look at every moment of your life, everything, decision you've made, every opportunity you've had and rejected, every word that you've heard and believed or not believed. He weighs it. He's the supercomputer of the universe. He weighs it in a microsecond to see, based on everything that even you don't know about yourself. Can I. Is it right? Because he's fair. He is no respecter of persons. He cannot do it for one and not for another. But when he weighs it in your life, in that moment, he knows God. It's only God that knows. I'm going to give him a gift or no. There could be unforgiveness. You could just be familiar. Remember, the people of Nazareth were familiar. You just don't show honor enough. You've had an opportunity. You won't believe. No, no. No gifts for you. You believe. And if you don't believe, you don't get nothing. But God is the only one in his majesty, in his genius that can make that determination. And in this case, he decided this man qualified, but not because he had faith, just because of God's mercy. Are you with me? Okay. So that's the gifts of healings. Okay, number three. I also made a small mistake on number three. It was a small mistake because when I fixed the big mistake, which was number two, and I said, thank you, lord. And he said, there's one more. I said, no, there's no more. I haven't made any other mistakes. I But this is just a small one. Number three, which is Jesus. Well, there's actually three mistakes. Number two was wrong. Three was wrong. And four was wrong. Praise the lord. As you could tell, I was Christmas shopping and stressed. All right, but number three was small. It's just that I had put originally. Go to the next screen, please. I had put originally that it was gof the gift of faith. But as I was talking, I heard the holy ghost on the inside of me saying, that's not the gift of faith, but it said the gift of faith. Because. And in my mind, I said, why, lord? I didn't tell you I'm talking to God. I just talked to you as though I know everything. But I said, why, lord? And he answered me while I was preaching. He said, is this a big devil? This little guy crying out in the synagogue isn't a big devil. Now, the gadarenes, a big devil, 6,000 of them. It still could have been Jesus own faith with the man in the gadarenes. But dad hagin said it is likely, because of the magnitude of the fight in the gadarene man, that it was his faith and the gift of faith kicking in where his faith ended. That's what dad hagin taught. That's what I believe. Dr. Sumrall said, no, it's just your own faith. But they had a disagreement. That's fine. I believe dad hagin's approach on that. But that's a big fight with that gadarene man. This is just a small little thing. Hey, we don't like you. We know who you are. Don't bug us. Leave us alone. This is not. There's no indication this is a big deal. This is rather a small deal. So I don't believe Jesus needed the gift of faith, even though I put that before. And the heart of the holy ghost said that's not the gift of faith. This was a small enough deal that Jesus has built his own faith that he could have dealt with that thing and said come out. I can't say definitively, but I'm just saying because the Bible does not. Anytime there's a casting out of devil, the Bible does not tell us if it's the gift of faith or not. So you have to speculate in every case. But I. So I've always put gofgof GOF because I don't know if it's his faith or if he needed the gift of faith. But in my case this is not doctrine. I'm just telling you my opinion because I can't prove it to you. But I heard the Lord say to me that was not the gift of faith, that was Jesus own faith. Because that's not a big deal and he could handle that. Do you understand? Plus there's another little indication. Normally when it's a gift of faith, it's not an every time guaranteed rule, but it's a theme, it's a trend that you can track. Normally when the gifts are in operation, often there is a mission orientation. God has sent him somewhere there is a particular thing he's gone to. And like the man in the Gadarenes, he said, let us go over, he was on a mission. And many times gifts will operate when there's that mission if they're needed. Whereas this is just a normal church service. He's not sent on a mission, he's just at church and the guy calls out, come out. I don't think that was like the Gadarene experience where it was a bigger thing on a mission and probably the gift of faith. Can you understand that? So I'm changing. If you did write notes, take GOF out and just put jf Now, JF is not Jennifer Field. She wants you to believe that I'm telling you about it. But this is not Jennifer Field. This is Jesus faith. Nice initials, but different. Okay, so that was the second mistake and now onto the third mistake, number four, the mother in law deal with Peter. And it just, I had put before that this was the anointing of healing power. But really, if you really study it out, I'm putting that in brackets now because it really is just Jesus faith. This again is not a big, strong, powerful devil that would have required the gift of faith. But we know even though we read all those verses, none of them say it was a demon. So I am speculating that it was a demon. But the word rebuked in the Luke version is the same word as the guy with the lunatic son in the Greek. It doesn't say that it implies that it is an entity, but it doesn't say that it is an entity. The emphasis is not on what you're rebuking. The emphasis on the Greek is that you are having dominion over that thing, whatever that thing is. Do you understand? So it doesn't say it's an entity. It implies it, but it doesn't say it in the English. In none of those scriptures, it says it's an entity. But why do I believe it was an entity in this case? Because it says, and we read it in Luke 4. I won't read it again, but you can read it later. But I said all this the last time. It says very clearly, he rebuked it and it left. The fact that it left a microorganism doesn't leave you, it just dies within you. And usually that takes time, although it could be instant. But when something leaves you, the implication is that it's a spirit that was there and gone. Whereas if it's a virus, it's a microorganism that's there, and then the power of God is killing it and it's dying. But dying isn't leaving. It's a different word. It's a different idea in the Greek. So it doesn't say it. But I'm saying one and one makes two. I'm giving pretty solid proof, although it's not 100%, because some of these things aren't. We just don't know. But I'm saying I'm pretty sure that in that case it was an evil spirit and Jesus was rebuking it and it left. In other words, that evil spirit left. Remember it said he raised her up. I gave you the story of Dr. Sumrall and that pastor's wife who wouldn't get up and get on the bus, Remember? And he said, that thing will come back if you don't listen. Why? Whenever Jesus gets somebody free, including the spirit of death, with that girl raised up, the little girl, Jairus daughter, there's a demon spirit there, you understand? You're also casting a devil out because that demon spirit, that spirit of death's got a hold of them. That has to be cast out when they. When they get raised up. Notice when Jesus cast that out or raised her from the dead, immediately he said he lifted her up. In other words, he wants you. Get moving. Don't lie down and wallow in your. I don't feel good. I don't feel this. I don't feel that you're free. Get up. And normally, when there's freedom like that, it implies there could be a spirit involved. So I believe that this is simple demon issue. Although it's a fever and Jesus doesn't need the gift of faith, it's his faith and he does it. Now ahp is there because it could partially be that. Why would it could, why could it be the anointing of healing power which requires somebody to have faith? Well, let's put it this way. If it didn't say Jesus rebuked it and it just said Jesus laid hands on her and said be healed, then we would know that. Is anybody drawing on that power? Well, Peter is the one that said please pray for my mother in law. And Peter, unlike the average person, is around Jesus 20, 24 hours a day. He has just come from hearing him preach in the synagogue and he's just seen him cast out the devil. So his faith is strong. So when Peter, if, when Peter asked him, he is releasing faith and he's putting a demand on that power. So if all we see is Jesus say be healed, then we'd know Peter's faith drew on that power and healing power went and healed the mother in law. But Jesus didn't just say be healed. It wasn't just that simple thing. It was more of a demon issue that he was casting out, rebuking and saying to go. So I'm not saying that there was no draw being put on him, but in this case, unlike the Syrophoenician's case, remember it draws great attention to her faith. Jesus even said great is thy faith. And then we know that anointing of healing power drew on him, but it was manifested through him casting that spirit out with his word. But it was still her faith that drew on him because there's emphasis given about her faith. Here it mentions Peter asked him, but there's no emphasis drawn to Peter's faith. Now he might have been pulling, but this is not primarily Peter pulling and Jesus then healing her through casting it out. This is primarily him asking Jesus looks, stands over her come out. So it could be Peter's drawing, but I think it's more, it's just Jesus delivering somebody from a demon that manifested as a fever with his own faith done. Although Peter could have been drawing, but I don't know how much that drawing would have influenced it because no emphasis in the Bible is put on Peter's faith. Whereas with the Syrophoenician there's great emphasis put on her faith. So you got to watch also not just what is said but what is not Said if something is not emphasized in this case Peter's faith, even though Peter probably did have faith, it's probably more just Jesus operating in this situation more than somebody drawing on him. Do you understand what I'm saying? I know I'm splitting hairs. I'm taking that rainbow and I'm dividing it real by a fine hair. And most people will say, who cares? The girl got healed, the mother in law got healed, who cares how it happened? And that's fine in general, who cares? But if you really want to understand and you are a student of the Bible and you want to tear it apart and really find out what actually happened here, then I do care. But in the bigger picture, it doesn't really matter. But in the little picture, the nitty gritty, it's good to know. Most likely by adding all these dots, connecting all these dots and looking at what we've learned from other experiences, what really happened here. And I believe it was just, in this case, Jesus was just operating. Although we know that Peter did bring something to the table. Okay, so there, that was also a small thing. So you got all those right now, Right. So the only one I got right was number one. Okay, number two again, put number two on the screen. You know number two. So that would be screen four. Okay, so that's gift of healings as a nobleman's son. The next one casting out the devil in the synagogue is just Jesus faith in that situation, not the gift of faith. Number four, the mother in law was Jesus faith. Possibly Peter's drawing on that healing power, but most likely just Jesus faith. Okay, number five, let's try to get them all right from now on, don't distract me, Jennifer, because I will blame you if there's anything further that's wrong. Jesus heals many sick and casts out many devils in a crowd. The emphasis is crowd outside Peter's house. Can we read it together? Matthew chapter 8, Matthew chapter 8 and verse 16 and 17. And when evening was come, remember this is right after he healed the mother in law. And when Jesus was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils. And he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sick that it might be fulfilled. Which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities and bear our sickness. Just a side note, we always quote this Matthew 8, 17 from the looking through the cross. He died on the cross and bare our sickness. Well, how does it say it took our infirmities and bear our sickness? And that's correct because on the cross, he did take it. But notice what the Bible. The Context of Matthew 8:17 is not talking about the cross. The Context of Matthew 8:17 is talking about a healing service outside Peter's house. Because he hadn't had the opportunity to die yet. So just by him laying hands on people or just speaking to people, devil's coming out. Everybody present in that service was healed just by him doing that. He, he is bearing their sickness and he is taking their infirmities. Now in this case, he didn't take it on himself. He just took it away from the person, sent it back to hell. But he still took their infirmities and bear their sickness. Yet it's not because he died, it's because he ministered to them. Do you see that although the ultimate of Matthew 8:17 is the cross, because here he only took their infirmities and bare their sickness to whoever, the few hundred that were there. What about the rest of us? Now the cross covers everybody. He bare our sickness and took our infirmities. But the context of that is Peter's house. It's important that you realize that, because most people quote that through the cross and it applies to the cross, but that's not how it was originally quoted anyway. So when he saw the great multitude, verse 18, and when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to departing. They said, okay, so you see here that he laid hands on people. Does it say that bought many that were possessed with devils? And it doesn't say he laid hands, just said he cast the spirits out with his word and healed all. So that means everybody that came in that service, 100% were healed, which is pretty neat. And that was outside Peter's house. So this is a crowd. Do you understand? What's the other scripture that talks about this? Mark one. Can you go to mark chapter one, verse 32? Remember, we want to see how each thing is explained. Mark chapter one and verse 32. And at evening when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased and them that were possessed with devils. Now why do you think they did that? Because the word got out. Peter's mother in law just got healed. My God, something's happening here. And everybody comes out. Wow, that's interesting. And all the city listen to that. So the word got out pretty quick about Peter's mother in law. And all the city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew Him. Interesting. So it's in this. The other one said all were healed. This says many were healed. Well, I'm just going to take the other one because it's better. Okay. Because it says all this says many. They're not contradictory. It said all. It said they're gathered together. It says all the city here was here. So we see this is a crowd again. The whole city of Capernaum is. There could have been hundreds, maybe even thousands of people. Who knows? What is the last scripture reference here? It's the book of Luke, chapter four, verse 40. Can you look there? Luke, chapter four, verse 40 dot and it says now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him. And he laid his hands. So this time it says he laid hands. The other time it said he spoke. See how you got to read all of them? And he laid his hands on every one of them. You know how long that takes if there's hundreds of people? That means you need ushers. That means, you know, you got to organize them. You can't just put them in a big ball because you won't know who you prayed for. You've got to have some kind of organized fashion. So it says he. He laid hands on every one of them and healed them. And devils came out of many, crying out and saying, thou art Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuking them, suffered them not to speak, for they knew he was the Christ. Look at that. So we see here. One says he spoke, but that was in the context of casting out devils. He cast out the devils with his word, but then people that were sick, not devils. He laid hands on everyone. And one says, many were healed. And the other says, all were healed. Praise God. So what is this category that we're talking about here? This is the fifth. This is the fifth time. Now, I'm. We're not gonna. Actually, we are gonna read it because I told you I like to go slow. Luke 6:19. Just look a little bit. Page one, page over Luke 6:19 and the whole. Let's look at verse 17. And he came down with them, Luke 6:17. And stood in the plain. And the company of his disciples. And a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And they that were vexed with unclean spirits. And they were healed. And the whole multitude sought. This is a group. This is a crowd. And the whole multitude sought to touch him. For there went virtue out of him and healed them all. And then he tells what he preaches in verse 20. Now, this is a crowd, right? Now, how do we know that this crowd was the anointing of healing power? We know 100%. That doesn't mean gifts weren't working as well. But we know the majority, if not all, was the anointing of healing power. Why? Because their faith was released for that power. Does it say they had faith released for that power? No, but it gives us something else that's very important. It said virtue went out from him and touched them all. Did I read that correctly? Where is that verse 19? And the whole multitude sought to touch, and there went out virtue and healed them all. Anybody that touched got healed. Now this is a. This is a big crowd versus one person in Mark 4 called the lady with the issue of blood. There was a crowd, but nobody was touching in faith. But notice when the touch of faith unlocked the healing that was in the fabric of his garment, he knew the Bible even says virtue went out of him. And he stopped and said, you touched me. Everybody's touching you, but not everybody's touching me in faith. One person is touched in faith. Why? Now listen, I'm trying to help you understand something. Paul, Acts 19 says, Bring me aprons, handkerchiefs, lay it on my body. Why that healing anointing of power goes into the fabric, impregnates the material, the physical material, because he has a tangible healing anointing. Not every minister does, but Paul did, and Jesus did. I do, to some measure. Dr. Frain did, dad Hagen did. Many other ministers do, but many don't. But that anointing went into those cloths. Now, the person taking the cloth, not the person receiving the cloth, because the person receiving the cloth might be insane. They might be in a coma. How can they release faith? But the person taking the cloth is believing. Their faith unlocks that anointing in that fabric. When they lay it upon the sick one, it goes into them. Now, if the one that is there could also have faith, that would be good too. But it really is requiring the person bringing it. They have to believe when they put it on that person, that anointing will be released by their faith. Just like the woman of blood, issue of blood, that her faith unlocked the power in the fabric of Jesus garment. Now, these people, a whole crowd, not one woman, a whole crowd, are all believing because they're touching his garment. He's being thronged. And everybody, unlike the woman with the issue of blood, everybody that's touching. Virtue, Virtue, virtue, virtue. And Everybody, it says 100% got healed. Because when you bring your faith and that faith reaches out as a hook and it draws that anointing of healing power into you, that virtue into you, you're always healed 100% of the time. This is a crowd, and it's the anointing of healing power. We know it because the way it's worded, the crowd at Peter's house was a crowd. Now, we know there could have been gifts operating, but we know that. And it doesn't say he taught them, but it does say he laid hands on all of them. He said he cast out devils, but because why did they gather? Didn't say he preached to them. But why did they gather? They gathered because they heard Peter's mother in law, who was dying, is instantly healed. I've got a problem. My son's demon possessed. Let's go. They show up at the door, knock, knock, knock. It's getting dark. We're not leaving till we get healed. That's called faith. Now, I'm not saying gifts didn't operate, but the primary mode would have been at Peter's, outside Peter's house, would have been the anointing of healing power because they came believing the primary mode in another crowd, Luke, what we just read, we know was the anointing of healing power because as they touched him in faith, virtue came out of him. So we see here both crowds had faith. In other words, you can be in a crowd and have faith. You can also be in a crowd and not have faith. And then if you don't have the gifts operating, nobody's going to get help. Okay, but you're still okay. Now the next one is Matthew, chapter 4 and verse 23, Matthew, chapter 4 and verse. Are you okay here still? I'm just taking my time because I want to do a thorough job. And it's a Bible study. This is not preaching. This is teaching. Okay, Matthew chapter four is another crowd. All right, Matthew 4:23 doesn't give a whole lot of details, but let's just read it. And Jesus went about All Galilee teaching. What does that imply? What does it imply? Come on, be a good student. When you hear the word teaching, what does it imply? Teaching produces faith. So it's probably not primarily gifts, although they may have operated. It's probably them releasing faith in that healing, anointing. That's how you got to read this. You got to think. And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the gate and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame spread about throughout all Syria. And they brought unto him sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments and those which were possessed with devils and those which were lunatic and those which had the palsy. And he healed them. My God. Notice it says that he healed. Didn't it say all, all manner of sickness and all man. That doesn't mean he healed every sick person. It meant he healed every disease that was present or that was representative got healed. But that doesn't mean every single person got healed. But obviously there was a large percentage. But did you notice that? Why do we know? See, when people read that that are uneducated, they just say, oh, Jesus just healed everybody. Why won't he heal me? When Jesus, you went and healed everybody, don't you love me? Why won't you heal me? So you can read that and look, not look at it in the right way, but we know because he preached to them that would have produced faith. And that faith reached out for healing. And that faith that reached out hooked onto that healing anointing. And every manner of sickness was healed. All it needs is faith. That doesn't mean gifts didn't operate. But the primary mode was the healing anointing. Are you with me? There's one more, there's one more crowd related thing. So there's four in total, Peter's house. And then we read Luke 6 and now Matthew 3 and then the last one is Matthew 9. So can you just turn over a couple pages to Matthew chapter 9 and have a look with me at verse 35, Matthew 9, 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages. Oh, here we go. Teaching their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Now this is not just saying every manner, this is saying everyone, which is telling us 100% got healed. Now this could be Matthew's account of the previous one we just read because you notice the wording is almost identical. So this we don't know. Theologians assume, but they don't know. This could be Matthew's. Matthew 9 is very similar to Matthew 4 in the wording, but the reason I don't believe it's the same is because Matthew didn't have amnesia. If this was Luke, I would say it could be the same account. But Matthew said it in chapter four and the same Matthew said it in chapter nine, which means it's probably not the same account. Even though the wording is almost identical. At one point he's going about doing all of this, and then later on he's going about again doing all of this. And Matthew's repeating it because it happened more than once. Probably not the same scenario. Are you with me? But did you still see the same wording here? In Matthew 9:35, it says what. What is that wording that gives us a clue? Teaching and preaching and healing. Remember, Pastor Nancy always says teaching and preaching and healing. That's Jesus's job description. That's our job description. How do we know it's not primarily gifts, although they could have operated? Because the Holy Ghost is always helping people. But how do we know it's primarily people using their faith and Jesus healing flowing into them because of their faith? Because he taught and he preached, and the Word produces faith. If it didn't say he taught and preached, we couldn't assume he did. And sometimes it doesn't say he did, but in these cases it does. So what I. So those are four examples there of crowds. Now, why in my number of 37 items, do I only have one crowd listed? I've only got Peter's house. Okay, this is number five that we're on. This is not number five, six, seven, and eight. This is number five. Why? There's a reason why. Because theologians do not count crowds as numbered events unless there is a particular time and and place mentioned. If there's a particular time and place, it is an event that is recorded as an individual event, even though there were hundreds of people. But when? It just doesn't say a time and it doesn't say a place. Or if it says a place, but it doesn't say a time. Do you understand? Or it says a time, but it doesn't say a place. It's not recorded as an event, an individualized event. So number five is a crowd with probably hundreds of people healed. Not an individual like a nobleman's son, where only one person got healed, but it's still considered a supernatural event. Why Peter's house? That's the location at the time the sun set. That's the time. All of the others, the other three that I mentioned to you, it just says crowds. It doesn't say a time and it doesn't say a place. So it's not listed as an event in theological terms. Do you understand? So, but if you want to list it as an. If you want to list every one of these as an event, there would be thousands, not 37, okay? Because he did that many, many times. And Lots of people each time were being healed. But it's an event if it's a time and if it's a place. And most times it doesn't list a time or a place. So it's kind of just absorbed into the whole. But Peter's house, sunset, we know this is an actual event that happened. Not that. Not that it dismisses the others. It's just the others aren't included in the 37. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Okay, so this whole thing, number five here is. Is outside. We're on out. Still outside Peter's house. Right. So this is the anointing of healing power. Obviously we've explained that. Now, the gifts may have operated too, but we know they came hungry because they heard about the mother in law. They came believing and Jesus starts ministering to them. And this was their. This could be gifts too. But it's primarily the people's faith. Amen. I'm giving you this because remember dad Hagin made a statement which bothered me for a long time. He said there are more examples in the New Testament of people using their own faith to be healed than Jesus healing them by the gifts of healings. Because Jesus is more pleased when you use your faith than when you just get healed. Freebie. Although we want those gifts of healings. But he's more pleased when you use your faith. So that's why I did this study, because I wanted to see if he's right. And he is right. But there is more examples of people using their own faith than there are people being healed because God just had mercy on them with the gifts of healings. Which shows us it's not about you just getting free healing. It's about you releasing your faith. That's what pleases God. Without faith, you can't please God. Hebrews 11:6. Now what are gifts primarily for? They're not for you. Although God may do that because we can all receive gifts and operate in the gifts ourselves. But what are the gifts primarily for sinners because they can't have faith? What are they for? Baby Christians who haven't learned anything. Or veteran Christians who go to a church that didn't teach them anything. Now they could have been saved 60 years. And you who have been saved four weeks has more faith in them because of what you've been taught matters where you go to church. So older Christians, not age wise, but maturity wise. Older Christians that are immature, in other words, they've been saved long but they don't know anything. Or baby Christians that don't know anything. Either way, they're not going to have much faith. Or sinners that can't even have faith. The gifts work for those three categories, like popcorn. But when you come into the word of God, sit under the word of God, come into a church, whereas teaching you the word gifts won't operate in that church the same. And gifts won't operate for you the same. Because now you've graduated from baby mush. I'm not making fun. I'm saying the gifts is for babies. It's spoon fed. You can't do it, the baby can't eat. If daddy doesn't do this, the baby dies. So if the Holy Ghost doesn't say, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, they're not going to be helped. But as soon as the baby gets old enough, you've all had babies, you know they start putting it in, right? As soon as you start growing in the word enough and you can feed yourself, Daddy stops feeding you. Gifts stop operating the same way because you're expected to do something because you know how to do it. And now the analogy would be not going to feed you. Go to the fridge. Me feeding you is the gifts. It's a gift. You're a baby. But your faith working and drawing on that power is you going to the fridge of healing and saying, I want healing. I open it, I release my faith and I take it. It's mine. And God says, I'm proud of you. Here it is. Do you see the difference? That's why we don't often see gifts operate in our church as much as when I'm in other places. And when I'm in other places, I see them operate a lot more. Because you've been fed. Now, if I didn't feed you, then the gifts would operate more. Do you understand? Hallelujah. Now, there's sometimes an evangelist, sometimes you'll see when Brother Roberts, let's say he comes to our church of Pastor Nancy's church, you'll notice these are mature Christians, which technically, by definition, those gifts should not be operating because their faith needs to be operating. But the gifts pop like that. When he came here, they popped. When he goes to her church and other church, Pastor J's church and Pastor Dennis church, the gifts operate even though the people are fed. Why is that? It's the office. The office is always superseding everything because gifts are in his office. And evangelist always has gifts of healings and working of miracles because they need that equipment. That's their arsenal. But because they're Usually preaching to sinners or to baby Christians. But because that office is so strong and he's in a room and the people are should be believing. But because it's such an operation in his life, I believe, and I could be wrong on this, but I believe that God sometimes will just do it differently when an evangelist is in town, because those gifts are part of that ministry. And even if the people are believing, those gifts will. If their faith is strong enough, they'll get it by that anointing of healing power. And if it isn't, that gift will just pop. Whereas if you don't bring an evangelist in, just a normal minister, prophet, apostle, pastor, teacher, whatever, if you're not in that evangelist office, then yes, gifts will operate if people don't have faith. But if they do have faith, those gifts won't because their faith is expected to draw. That's the only thing I can come up with because it seems like an oxymoron. What we're saying is right. What I'm saying is what dad Hagen taught. If you have a strong church, gifts won't operate very much. But Pastor Nancy is a strong church. And yet when Brother Roberts comes, gifts still operate. Now, some of those people are drawing in their faith, and that's what's causing it. But others are the gifts of healings. And I'm not sure what the percentage is on their faith pulling or those gifts of healings, but it seems to me I could be wrong that the gifts seem to operate more when he's around than when somebody else is around. But I think it's because of his office. Hallelujah. So we're learning these things. Amen.