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The Power Gifts Of The Spirit Pt. 8 | Pastor Craig Field | Wed. May 14, 2025
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We were talking about promptings versus leadings. Do you remember that? And I'll give you a very, very brief overview in case you weren't here or the two weeks has proven difficult for your memory. But we were saying that how Jesus, many times, what did he say to people? Remember, we're learning also on evangelism in this capacity. He said, according to your faith, be it unto you. Which means some of the folks had to have faith. But then he went to the pool of Bethesda, he didn't say anything like that. And he said in that vision, in September 2, 1950, in the throne room of God, when he caught Kenneth Hagin away, he talked about that experience at the pool of Bethesda. And he said, I was inspired or prompted by the Spirit now. And he said, I'm quoting the vision here. He said, now when that happens, that doesn't always happen, but when that happens. So your job as a believer is to start to question, if you're smart, and I know you're all smart, you should start to question, when am I prompted? Is this a prompting? When's the last time I was prompted? Have I ever been prompted? Did I recognize the prompting? If we want to be skillful with the gifts of the Spirit, we got to understand how they work. We're going to talk, obviously, as the course continues, all the details and the ins and outs of those power gifts. But if you don't even understand how, how the Lee. How there is a. Something is going to prompt you so that they're going to operate, you're going to miss it every time. Almost every time. So he said, when? When? In that case, there. And then he also equated Elisha with the widow. And then he also equated, sorry, Elijah with the widow and Elisha with Naaman the Syrian. But he's he both times saying there were many people, many widows, many lepers. But he was prompted or inspired. He was sent basically to one. Then he said there were five porches full of sick folk. But I wasn't prompted or inspired to minister to any of them. So people might stumble and say, well, doesn't God want to heal everybody? Well, at times Jesus had meetings, and the Bible says everybody that touched him got healed. And at other times, it says that he ministered. It doesn't say that they touched him, but he touched them. And it says all were healed. So we know there were times where everybody was healed, but not every time was everybody healed. And in Nazareth, there was no gifts operating. Now you're becoming scholars. Now by faith. So if there's no gifts operating, what is required of the people to receive healing? Thank you. And if there are gifts operating, is faith required of the people to receive healing? Very good answers. Excellent. You're doing excellent. You all get three gold stars. We're going to do a star system from now on. Jenny, you're going to be covered in stars when you leave. Okay? So that's right. So now Jesus said, Apollo Bethesda, he said, I was inspired. And he said, when that happens, he said, you don't need to teach or preach. Why? Because faith comes by teaching and preaching. And the person doesn't need faith at that moment if the gifts are going to manifest. You still with me? He said, you don't need to get them to believe because faith doesn't require gifts, don't require faith. That anointing of healing power requires faith. How? God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost. That's the spirit of God manifesting through him through gifts and power. That's the anointing of healing power. That faith is required for that to hook onto. And you'll get the same result, but they're two different operations. We've said that many times. I think hopefully you're getting it. He said, you don't need to teach or preach, you don't need to get them to believe, and you don't need to lay hands. That doesn't mean that you can't lay hands, but you don't need to, do you understand? Because you're not. You're not transmitting healing power when you. He said lay hands on the sick. Remember Mark 16. So what was that? Let's play games a little bit tonight. I'll mess with your mind a bit. What does that imply? What does Mark 16 imply? Healing power or gifts? Because there is a laying on of hands, which means there's a transmission, which means. Now let's take this a step further. Which means that in many cases it's going to be the anointing of healing power. Because he didn't reference gifts in the Great Commission. And the Great Commission is the base standard for every believer of winning souls. So the base, the more common area is going to be not gifts when you're winning souls. Because a Great Commission is that command Both in Matthew 28 and Mark 16. And in neither of those cases is the gifts particularly mentioned. Now, when you say you cast out devils, well, that could be a gift, depending on where your faith is at, but it's not guaranteed. Now, if you drink any Deadly poison. That is the gift of the working of miracles. But you may not even know you drank the poison so you couldn't work the miracle necessarily. Do you understand? So, yeah, that would be. But it's not on the same playing field because we're not talking about working that you know something in advance. He said lay hands. Lay hands does not imply gifts. Lay hands implies get them to believe. So let me just say it this way. The majority of times when you're out there witnessing, it's going to be a laying on of hands and trying to get the person to just release simple faith. And you have to have simple faith. That is what the majority of the time is going to be. So we've spent time talking about that so that you're not discouraged if that's the operation God chooses, because most times he will. Now, how do we know that this is a scriptural precedent? Is because most times in Jesus ministry it was by faith. Faith, they had to have faith. So there was less often the gifts operated than it was the person having faith. So if Jesus operated more frequently in having to get the people to believe, don't you think us who are less than him, although one with him, but you know, we're not greater than the King. If the king had more examples of having to get people to believe, probably in my ministry and your ministry, whether you're a layman or a preacher doesn't matter. You're going to have more examples of having to get people to believe. And that's why the gifts are not mentioned explicitly in the Great Commission. It's talking about laying hands, which is basically, if you're going to lay hands, you're transmitting something. If you're transmitting something, the only way it goes in is if that person believes. Do you understand? So let me just help you because I had to learn this very with bitter tears over years. If you've got somebody you're witnessing to and they outright, outright tell you outright, I don't want it there. Don't lay hands on me. I don't believe. I don't want you to think, don't waste your hands and lay hands. Because there's not going to be any power that goes in. Just say, okay, well, enjoy your cancer. See you later. No, I'm serious. There's nothing you can do for that person. Now, John Lake had a man that came to his healing rooms in Spokane, Washington and he said he wasn't rebellious. He just said, I just don't have faith for this. Now there's a difference between somebody kind of doing that to you and then somebody coming humbly and saying, I just know I don't have faith for this. There's a difference there. That's why you got to be led by the spirit as you minister to people. And God prompted him to say, don't worry, I've got faith for the both of us. Do you understand? Now, the million dollar question, which I don't know the answer to, is in a situation where the person admits they don't have faith and you say you have faith, well, if you're going to lay hands, that power has to hook onto something. And if they've got no faith, you can't just take their place. It doesn't work that way. So typically when that happens and they've got no faith and they're telling you they've got no faith, I try to get them to start having faith. Well, don't say that. Let's talk about this for five minutes. Faith will come quite quickly. But if, for whatever reason you don't have time or whatever, or they don't want to hear five minutes of simple Bible faith building teaching, if they don't have faith, the anointing of healing power has nothing to hook onto. So there's no point you laying hands on them because they're not going to get healed at that point. Either you have the gifts, you're inspired to minister by the gifts, or you walk away. In that case, with John Lake, it was actually the gifts of the gifts of healings that operated through him when that man didn't have any faith, even though he laid hands on him. God doesn't mind the God's not legalistic. He doesn't mind you laying hands. And even you will see later that Jesus did lay hands and the gifts operated through him. So there's nothing wrong with laying hands. It's just that you don't need to lay hands when it's the gifts. But John laid hands on him. But I'm just telling you, that wasn't the anointing of healing power. The man said he had no faith. There was no faith. That was, that was the gifts of healings. Or it could be, you know, John Lake, well, with devils, you know, you don't have to have the gifts to cast that out. You can have your own faith. That person doesn't necessarily have to bring faith to it because they're tormented. So I'm not. Listen, we're trying to divide the rainbow here. I don't want to confuse you, okay? But if you're talking to somebody and there's no faith, but you feel prompted in your heart to lay hands on them and to release your faith even though they've got none. Technically, that anointing has nothing to hook to. But let me just tell you, the rules are the rules. And we divide the rainbow, but ultimately the Holy Ghost is the boss. And sometimes there's mercy extended that you don't even fully understand. And sometimes you'll just, well, I don't understand, but I'm just going to lay hands on you anyway. And then they get healed. I'm just telling you technically. And they listen. Sometimes they may say they don't have faith, but they actually do. They just don't understand what faith is. So they don't think they do, but something in them is pulling. And so you think, well, I don't understand. God violated his own rules. They have to have faith for the power to go in. But I felt the power go in and they got healed. Well, it could be they don't even know what faith means. Do you understand? Or it could be the gifts operated and you thought it was the power. But I'm just saying as a general rule, they have to have faith. And so Jesus is teaching dad Hagin and teaching the body of Christ that you don't need to teach or preach when that's the gifts. You don't need to get into the belief. You don't need to lay hands. You don't need to be remember these words. You don't need to be systematic or have formalities. What you would traditionally do. It is always a spontaneous thing. Jesus didn't know that he was going to minister to that man at the pool of Bethesda ahead of time. It was spontaneous. Now I said, and these are very critical things that if you can grasp them and remember them, they'll really help you. I said to you that there is a leading and then there is a prompting. And they are different. And most people don't know the difference. In fact, I didn't know the difference for many years until the Lord started to teach me theoretically. But now theoretically is one thing, but actually practicing it in real time, real life is something totally different. So you have to learn to get skillful with it. And that will take time. But technically, if I could, and I said this to you two weeks ago, I said, when you have a prompting, it rises up. Now listen, promptings and leadings are in your spirit because they're by the spirit, but they operate differently and you've got to try to learn to sense how they operate differently. If it's a prompting, prompting equals the word inspiration. Just remember that prompting always equals inspiration. Leading does not equal inspiration. Prompting equals inspiration. So if there is a prompting, it comes out of your spirit, just like a leading does. But it rises and there's an inspiration quality attached to it. It's stronger, it's more forceful, it's more authoritative, it moves you. That's a prompting. You don't know what's about to happen. Neither of them you know what's about to happen, whether it's leading or prompting. But when it's a prompting, something rises up and inspires you to do something and that you didn't know you were going to do, but you just know have to do it. And there's like you're inspired, like it lifts you. I don't know how to explain it, but it's like it lifts you. Whereas a leading, it still comes out of your spirit, but it does. It's not dramatic like a prompting is. It doesn't rise up. It's a knowing in here. And it's not. Doesn't inspire you. It instructs you. Can you understand? I have a leading. Go talk to that person. That's not a prompting. By my explanation of the definitions and by Jesus's use of these words because he said the word prompted an inspiration in that vision. So I'm taking it from his language, his semantics. Okay, but you can know inside to do something, and that's an instruction out of your spirit. But it's simple, it's basic, for lack of a better word. You just know it. But when you're prompted, when you're inspired, it also is out of your spirit. But it's more than just I know to do something. It's something moves you, something rises. I'm inspired to do this. And you just know you have to do it. Now, if you can, practice learning the difference between the two, okay, because you're led on many things, but you're usually only prompted when gifts are going to operate. Do you understand? So you may now just bear with me here because it can get complicated. But let's say there's somebody there that's sick. You have a leading, go pray for that person. But that it doesn't seem to be inspirational prompting. Well, then go and pray for them. Just remember, under those second most times, I'm not saying never, but according to theoretics, the gifts aren't going to operate under that thing. It's the leading. So now you're going to go, and you're going to do the formalities or the systematic approach. You're going to have to teach or preach. You're going to have to get them to believe. You could lay hands or you could just speak, but there's going to have to be faith in that person even slightly, to hook onto the power that's in your hand. And you're going to minister that to them whether you speak it or whether you lay hands on them. But that leading is more simple. It's more basic, and it's more common. But when there is a prompting, when something rises up, when there's an inspiration and you're like, you see somebody that's sick and you can't manufacture this, you can't conjure this, this comes by the Spirit, but it rises up. It's not just a leading. Go pray. Do you understand? It's not just horizontal. It's more vertical. If I could explain it, it kind of builds within you, and you're like, what is that? Lord, I feel inspired to do something. I know I have to do this. And it's more emotional, for lack of a better way to say it. It kind of rises up. And when that happens, you know that now you're prompted to minister to that person, but just let something in your brain click over that. Because of that prompting versus the leading, there is a good chance gifts are going to operate because Jesus said when he operated in the gifts, he was prompted and inspired by the Spirit to minister at that moment. So if that happens, pay attention. You don't need to get them to have faith. You don't need to teach or preach. You just need to let the Holy Ghost prompt you. If he's prompting you to do that, he'll prompt you what to say. He'll prompt you how to say it. He'll prompt you if you lay hands or don't lay hands. You don't need to, because you're not transmitting. He's manifesting through you. But let the prompting continue. You may have it to start, but don't turn off your radar. You might have it to start, but what are you going to do when you stand in front of them? You're going to need the prompting to know what to do, how you're going to speak, what you're going to speak. Jesus said you want to be healed? Yes. I don't have anybody. He didn't ask that question. By the way, the guy's adding a bunch of answers. Jesus didn't ask him why. Why aren't you healed. What he answered is, why I'm not healed. Jesus didn't ask him, why are you not healed? Well, I don't have anybody that can put me in the water. He just said, do you want to be healed? Because he doesn't need him to have faith. He doesn't need to know all the details. The gifts of healings are about to operate, and he is prompted. And all he needs is a yes, an agreement. He doesn't need all the reason why he didn't get healed. He just wants to know, do you want to get healed? Yes, you're healed. So he gave that instruction, take up your bed. Now. That anointing, that gift would have gone into that man and healed him instantly. Do you understand? Now he still had to do an action. He had to take up his bed. But let me say this. The man born afore that was not the gifts of the Spirit. He saw his faith. He said, take up thy bed. Will their sins be forgiven thee? You know the story. Take up thy bed. That man now, because it's that healing anointing, that healing anointing is working in him. But it's different to the gifts that man by faith, do you understand? He's there, he's lame, he's on a bed. But he here, he's got faith. And he hears Jesus say, you're healed. That means healing, whether Jesus didn't lay hands in that case, but he transmitted it by his words. That power went into him. And whether he felt something or not, he had to grab that bed and by faith, stand up. But that man at the pool of Bethesda, it wasn't like that because he spoke it. That gift went into that man, and that man would have instantly been healed instantaneously. He still had to obey and take up the bed. But he wasn't really doing it by faith, because he didn't need faith, because he was healed before he even touched the bed. Do you understand? That healing anointing will heal you as you do it, as you go. That healing anointing will work in you. And it can work very quickly, or it can work over a space of time. But that healing anointing requires faith, not just words, but many times, actions. But those gifts don't require faith. So when Jesus said, take up your bed and go, he didn't say it for the man to release his faith. He was already healed before he touched his bed. It was just basically like a statement, like, you can go. The other one was, do this by faith. But to that man, it Was, you can go. He just worded it like, take up your bed, don't leave your bed, but you can go. In other words, you don't need to release any faith. Pull a Bethesda man, you're done. Your goose is cooked. Everybody else is looking, but I wasn't sent to anybody else. I wasn't inspired or prompted to pray for anybody else, to minister to anybody. God picked you for whatever reason. Today is your blessed day. It goes in, go, take, go. But he didn't take that bed up by faith because the gifts don't require faith. You could see two men taking up beds. One is by faith and one is just, I'm already healed, so I need to leave. I'm not leaving my belongings behind. Can you see the difference? Are you with me? I'm trying to help you to learn. When you just got a simple leading, then just be prepared. God can change it up on you and all of a sudden those gifts could come through. But I'm saying, traditionally, typically, theoretically, you're going to have that simple leading and you're going to go and you're going to talk to them and then you're going to do Mark 16. You're going to lay your hands or speak, and that little bit of faith going to hook on and that power is going to heal them. But when something rises within you, when there's an inspiration, I'm inspired to do this. I don't understand why, but I'm inspired to do this. When I walked to that hospital with my son Quinn, and he was having some very difficult times at that back then, and he would act out sometimes in a way that would be embarrassing and possibly even depending on what he was doing or not doing, could possibly even call security. People could. You know what I mean? He just was not. He doesn't do that anymore. But back then there was devils in operation there. And I saw that boy in that wheelchair when we're almost at the door, and he's way back lagging because he won't listen to me and he won't follow me and he's being rebellious. But I saw that boy. Now I'm stressed because of him. I'm wondering, my God, is somebody going to call security? Because he could be vocal and he might just go into a store and mouth off to somebody. He was very erratic thinking about him. The last thing I'm thinking about is healing the sick. Do you understand? So probably it wasn't the normal way of the power because I wouldn't have responded to that. But as soon as I looked at that boy, I felt a. I'll talk about it in a second. But a supernatural. It's not natural. A supernatural compassion came up out of my spirit and rose up into my throat. And at the same time of that compassion, that there was an inspiration. I don't know how to. It's like it rose up within me. And I said, I have to pray. I have to pray now. That's the gifts about to operate. But just as that happened, he starts freaking out. So I turned to look, because you don't play games in the hospital. There's security and different things. But you see, I'm trying to explain to you now the devil was working to abort that scenario. And he did abort that scenario, I'm ashamed to say. But I did not know how to handle him and that. And maybe I should have handled it better because God already took into account him. And if God knew that it was impossible to minister, he wouldn't have given me those gifts. So I made a mistake because I was torn between. And then he just freaked out and started running out into the street where there are cars. And I'm trying. What do I do? I had started walking toward the boy. All I had to do was speak because those gifts were about to operate. But because he was distracting me so badly, I kept looking. And I said, lord, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. And he's out on the road. I had to run out in the road and physically stop him. And then I'm thinking, well, he didn't want to come in. He's fighting me. I want to come out. He's starting to make a noise. So I'm thinking, well, do I put him in the car and lock him in the car and come back? Do I come back and say, sit there and shut up while I deal with this. I don't know what to do. And I said, lord, I know that there's healing for that boy. I could feel the gifts of the spirit were about to pop, but I don't know what to do. And so I had to get him to the car, get him in the car and get him home. And that opportunity was lost. But afterward I said, lord, you know, why did you do that? Almost like I'm chastising God a little bit. You saw the problem. And he spoke to me and he said, yeah, I saw the problem. And I factored that in. I said, what should I have done? He said, ignore your son. That when that Happens, it trumps everything. Ignore that problem. Ignore what you think might or might not happen. You're not asking you to go and spend 15 minutes to build their faith. It's the gifts. Now, I didn't even know this back then. I thought even with the gifts you still had to get people to receive. So I thought it was going to be a 10, 15 minute thing. If I'd known as much as I know now, I probably would have gone, well, this is going to be quick. And while he's going into the street, angel, watch him, the blood of Jesus deal with this thing. And then within two minutes I'm gone back there. But I thought I'd have to sit and engage and do all this stuff. And he said, how can I leave him out on the road? This is on University Avenue. You can't leave him out on the road. Do you understand? But I didn't know. If I'd known what I know today, I was ignorant. With ignorance you lack, you perish for lack of knowledge. But if I'd known, I would have. See, that's why he said I already factored it in. But he knew something I didn't know. He knew that it was gifts and how they operate. I didn't know. That's why he said I already factored it in. Don't worry, my angel will watch over that boy. When that comes, you do not look at anything else. God has come to you. And God has put gifts of the Holy Ghost to manifest through you to save somebody's life potentially. And you don't turn a blind eye because you're tired, because you're distracted, because your kid is crying. Let them cry. Listen to me. Let them run in the road. I know that sounds like a bad parent, but you don't know God. God said to me, I already factored it in. And you let me down in that. And part of it is because I didn't have the knowledge. I thought it was going to be a 15 minute experience and he would not expect me to have my son in the street for 15 minutes. But when it's the gifts you speak, then you leave. You don't even have to wait to see if it happened, what happened, just leave. But I didn't know that. But you see, there was this inspiration. I could feel it rise up like a storm. Do you understand? First it was compassion, which doesn't. You usually have both, but. But they're a different sense. But there was an inspiration, a prompting. Do this now. And no anticipation. Didn't know it was Coming. But I knew it wasn't just a simple little box that I know. Do this. That's instruction. This is a sh. That's an inspiration. That's the only way I can describe it. It's different. It's stronger. Learn. When that happens, I'm trying to teach you. You won't get this teaching anywhere else in Toronto. So you should be happy you're here tonight because very people know this. Learn when the inspiration and the prompting is happening, and learn when the leading is happening. That doesn't mean if it's a leading, the gifts can't operate. It just means traditionally, typically, it will be. You've got to engage the person. But when that thing happens, learn that you don't really have to engage the person for very long. God wants to do something through you. And that person doesn't even have to understand what's happening. They don't have to be a Christian. They don't have to know nothing. God has selected them at that moment to heal them, and they do not deserve it at all. But for whatever reason, he's looked at their whole life in a microsecond, and he says they qualify. He can't do it without us. So he's looking, who can I use? Who can I use? Which of my servants, which of my children can I use to operate and manifest through? But if people are ignorant and they don't know nothing, he'll find it hard to find somebody to use. That day, he found me. But my ignorance of how the gifts operated prevented me because I thought it was going to be something different than it was. And I often think about that little boy. He was about 8 years old. 7. 8 years old in a wheelchair. I often thought about what would have happened to his life if I had had the knowledge, because I didn't have the knowledge, and I was trying to be a good father. You with me now? Can I read this about compassion? Are you with me? Compassion at times can equate to the leading of the spirit. It can equate to it. I didn't say compassion is the leading. But sometimes, just like Pastor Nancy says, that anointing will flash in her hand. And it acts like a word of knowledge, although it's not a word of knowledge. It's letting her know there's healing going to happen tonight. Well, when compassion comes into your heart, it can. It can act like it's not the leading, it's not the leading, but compassion can act like a leading. Does that make sense? A leading is a leading. It's simple, it's basic. And prompting an inspiration is more emotional, it's more different. But compassion is something that can equate to the leading. In other words, when the Holy Spirit causes a swell of compassion to rise within you, it's often him prompting, inspiring you that the gifts will operate. Sometimes when compassion comes, it feels exactly the same as that inspiration. Other times compassion doesn't come and it's just an inspiration. But either one is going to usually put you on the road to the gifts. You say, well, how could you say that? How do you know that you can't just make a statement? Well, I've looked at. There are 12 times in the four Gospels that the word compassion is used in the ministry of Jesus. There's other times in the New Testament, but I'm looking at the ministry of Jesus, so I want to look at some of them with you if you would be okay with that. Are you alright with that? Matthew, chapter 14, Matthew, chapter 14 and verse 14. And it says, and Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion toward them. And he healed their sick. He healed their sick. Now notice what it says here in what was that again? That was what Matthew, Matthew 14:14. Notice what it says here that it says and Jesus was moved with compassion when he saw the multitude. Did you see that? He was moved with it. Now the Greek word for compassion, if you want to know what the Greek language means when it says the word compassion, it means yearning. Bo okay, your bowels are your innards. Bowels is like the deepest part of you. Now when there's a yearning in the deepest part of you, do you understand? That is not sympathy. Sympathy is in the soul realm. Compassion is out of the spirit realm. And I want you to notice that it says Jesus was moved. Now this is a very important word that you can't miss. When compassion is operating versus sympathy, compassion rises up out of your spirit. You can feel it. When sympathy, even deep sympathy is operating, you don't ever feel a rise out of your spirit. It's up in this area, in your mind, in your emotional realm. So some people tell me, pastor, I felt compassion. Well, if you're going to tell me that, I have to believe you. But do you even know what compassion is? Because a lot of people say they feel compassion, but it's not compassion. When you look at somebody and you feel great, oh, I feel so bad for that person. Look at that person. I feel so bad for them. I feel, I feel, I feel. And there's a. That comes from Here. And it's not a bad thing. You can feel deep sympathy, but that's not spiritual the way you'll know it's spiritual. Something comes up out of. You can actually feel it come up. I mean, it's tangible. It's very. When compassion, true compassion is happening, you actually almost can't miss it. Just like when true promptings are coming, inspiration, you can't miss it. You can miss the leading because it's quiet and it's simple and it's very simple. But when they're prompted and inspired, you can tell something's happening. And when there's compassion, it literally comes out of your belly, which is where your bowels is, and they're yearning. Yearning is a deep, very powerful word. It's like a. It's a yearn. It's not just a. It comes up out of your spirit. It rises up. And you can always know it's compassion because you feel the rise. So the next time you feel sorry for somebody, you feel sympathy for somebody, but you think it's compassion, look to your spirit. Is something rising up out of your spirit? If it is, that's the compassion of God. If it's not, if it's just I feel so bad for the person, that's okay. But that's not compassion. So you don't always act on that. Now, the second, that's the first thing that rises up. Very simple. Two things about compassion. And nobody taught me this. I've never heard anybody preach this. The Holy Ghost taught me this by trial and error. Okay, so you're learning what it's taken me a long time to learn. You're learning very quickly and very easily. Didn't cost you anything. Cost me something. But let me tell you, compassion rises up out of your spirit, and it's unmistakable. The second thing about compassion, compassion compels you. It compels you to act. If you don't act, you feel like you're going to die. Do you understand? I have had deep sympathy for people that did not rise up. But I'm telling you, I really feel awful for this person. But that awful feeling, that sense of sympathy does not compel me to act. I can look at them and go, oh, I feel so bad, but I'm okay to walk away. I'm not being mean. I'm just saying I feel. But I can leave. But when compassion, it's. I am moved. It rises within me, and it feels like you could fall to your knees and weep for that person. You cannot walk away when that happens. It is overwhelming. It's a compulsion to act. That's how you know the difference between compassion and deep sympathy. When that happened in the airport, in the hospital, I was compelled to act. But the devil saw what was going to happen and that demon stirred him up. And now I'm compelled. But I'm also compelled to protect my child in the street. You see how the devil operates? He's very sneaky. He was fine, by the way, that entire time in the hospital. Just when we're walking down that hall, that devil started to rent him. And that's exactly when I saw that kid. I mean, it's just like the devil knew. Exactly, to some measure. He knows the future. Not a whole lot, but a little bit. And he knew what was about to happen. And so he tried to abort that. And I didn't have enough knowledge or I wouldn't have let him abort it. Are you with me? So what have we learned about compassion? Number one, it rises up out of your spirit. It's not part of your emotional realm, although it is emotional in its feeling, but its origin point is not the emotional realm. Origin point is the spiritual realm. But you will feel it, okay? Number two, when it comes, it demands you to act. Sympathy does not. Now, you can abort compassion. You can say, I'm not acting, and you walk away. But you just grieve the spirit. And if you look, the Holy Ghost will be grieved with you because he put it in you. He put it in you. You didn't put it in yourself. So Jesus was moved with compassion, and what did he do? He healed their sick. Now, did you notice here, you got to look at these Bible stories and you got to kind of be a little bit of a Nancy Drew or a Hardy Boy detective, okay? Now, I don't see anywhere in here. Look at this. Now, he saw the multitude. He was moved with compassion. He healed their sick. Not one mention about teaching. Not one mention about preaching. Not one mention about laying hands. He just had compassion and he healed. This is not 100%, but it is strong, strong evidence that that compassion produced gifts. Because nothing was mentioned here about having people release their faith. Which is why I believe, and dad Hagin believed, that this was the gifts in operation and the Holy Ghost was letting him know gifts are about to work. Compassion was the indicator that gifts are about to work. In fact, every single time in my life that compassion, true compassion, not sympathy, has risen up within me and I've acted. Gifts have operated. Never one time has it been, I'm not saying it can't be. I'm just saying in my experience, I've never had true compassion and then had to teach them how to have faith. When compassion comes, that's God letting you know gifts are about to operate. Move. Do you understand now you can have the. Now listen. Now, are you still good students of healing? Now you can have the prompting and the inspiration and no compassion. You can just. I don't know, I just feel my God, Jesus, something I need. Would you want to be healed? And there's no compassion. But the prompting was the instruction. But you can also have no prompting or what you don't recognize to be a prompting, but there's a deep compassion that is acting the same thing as the prompting, that is telling you. Gifts are about to operate, and you can have them both operate simultaneously, but because they're both very strong spiritual emotions. Can I put it that way? They come from your spirit, but they affect your emotions. You feel them, but they come from your spirit. They don't come from your emotional realm, but they affect your emotional realm. Both are very strong spiritual emotions, and it's very hard to tell the difference between the two. But you technically can. I've had that prompting come up, that inspiration, but then all of a sudden compassion will hit me, and it's compassion is even stronger than the prompting. Compassion overwhelms the prompting. But I've had both operate parallel to each other. Almost like God is trying to get my attention and say, hey, I want the gifts to operate. Here's a prompting. Here's a compassion. Oh, right, I forgot. You're ignorant. You don't understand nothing. So all this stuff is wasted on you. Serious. God wants us to come into knowledge, revelation knowledge, so that when this happens to you on the job or on the street or in the grocery store, you're not wondering and going, well, I don't really know if there's a deep sympathy, but it doesn't rise up or compel you to act. That's okay that you have sympathy, but that's not from God. That's just you. You might be a very emotional person. You might have a big heart for people. Having a big heart's got nothing to do with the gifts. But when that inspiration of prompting comes or that compassion lifts up inside you, you'll know when it's compassion. You cannot deny it. That's why a lot of people say, pastor, I was moved with compassion, but when I talked to them by discussing it, they realized it wasn't compassion, it was sympathy. Because nothing Compelled them to act and nothing rose up within them. They just felt so sorry for the person. That's fine. And you can. Sympathy can be used in the right direction. It's just not spiritual. You can turn something into something spiritual by saying, well, check your spirit. Lord, do I have a leading to talk to that person? Because I feel sorry for them, but I need a leading. You don't need the leading. You can just go talk to them. But you'll be more accurate if you have the leading. So sometimes I feel real sorry for people, but I'll check my spirit. I'm trying to get you to learn to look to your spirit. I'll check my spirit and I'll just look down there and it's just flatlined. There's nothing there. So I might feel sorry for you, but I'm not led to do anything. So now I can. I'm permitted to go to you. And sometimes I do just because I feel so sorry for them. But very little fruit happens when that happens. But when there's a leading, even if I have sympathy, God don't care about the sympathy he's looking for, wants you to follow that leading. But if you've got the sympathy and you've got the leading, what are you obeying? You're not obeying the sympathy, you're obeying the leading. But compassion is not sympathy. Now, almost every time you see compassion listed in the ministry of Jesus, gifts always followed. So I've got biblical proof for this now. Mark, chapter five. Are you still with me? You're okay? You're not bored, right? I don't think you're bored. I hope you're not. Because to me, this is so helpful, even for me to hear it again for my own self, it's so helpful. Now this is when he's just cast the devil out of the Gadarene demoniac. And we believe. Well, Lester Sumrall and dad Hagin didn't agree. But Dexter Sumrall said that wasn't the gift, that was just Jesus faith. And dad Hagin said, no, that was the gift. Because when there's 6,000 demons in somebody, it's going to probably take more than your. Your ability. And the gift of faith is going to come on you to get that person free. It doesn't really matter. But I personally agree with dad Hagin that it most likely was the gifts of the spirit. Anytime there's a strong devil, very intense demonic situation, you normally need the gift of faith to help you because your faith will go so far. But then it will run out, and you need God's faith to come and help you the rest of the way. So I believe this was the gifts of the spirit, wasn't the gifts of healing. It was the gift of faith. But notice what Jesus said. Again, you see gifts operating and you see the word compassion. Now, Jesus said in verse 19 of Mark 5, howbeit Jesus allowed him or suffered him not, but said, go home to thy friends. He said, I want to stay with you. I want to stay with you. I want to be with you. And Jesus said, no, you can't stay with me. Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee and hath had compassion on thee. Now, in that case, just like the other case we just read, there's no indication that that man had any faith. There's no indication that Jesus taught or preached in either case. And when a man is insane like that, they can't have faith. And you can't teach them because they're not in their right mind. They're not even going to understand what you're saying. So it's either going to be your faith or it's going to be the gift of faith. But the person is not responsible for their faith. Now, we won't get into all of it because I do it in my demonic course series, but let me just say this little point. Dad Hagin said, and it's right, Scripturally, that you can't cast the devil out of somebody who doesn't want to be free. Many times when they're crazy, when they're out of their mind, how do you know that they want to be free? Sometimes you need the word of knowledge for God to show you that they want to be free. Other times they may do an action to show you that they want to be free. In this case, it wasn't the word of knowledge. How did Jesus know that man wanted to be free? Because the Bible says when he saw Jesus afar off, he's crazy. He's naked, bleeding crazy. He ran to Jesus and worshiped him. Now, those demons were not worshiping Jesus. People have to understand that the man was worshiping Jesus. He was taken over by darkness, but something in him. There's always a part of a human being. No matter how possessed they are. There's a part, a secret part out of their spirit, man. Even if their spirit is lost unto God. But deep within them, they have a choice. No matter how far gone they are, they always can express, even if it's small amounts of resistance. But they always can resist. Now they can't resist to the point of getting free themselves, but they can inside want to be free. They want to resist this. Now, that lady in Clarita, in the prison there, in the Bilibid prison that Dr. Sumner went to, those that those two spirits that had possessed her, he asked her after she was free, and he said, did they? Especially the big one, there was a big, very tall one, and then there was a little smaller one. And they would both do awful things to her. We won't get into that. But he said to her, after she was free, were there times, even though you were possessed, were there times where it asked you to do something that you didn't want to do? And if so, what did you say? And if so, what happened? And she said, oh yeah, the big one would want to do sexual things and whatever. And she said, once I put my foot down and I said, no, you're not doing that now. She's possessed. The devil is coming, is possessing her. But also appearing to her, saying, I want you to do this, all this vile sexual stuff with the demon. And she said, no. And that thing backed down, she's possessed. But something in her still had the ability to resist. Do you understand? So Dr. Sumrall taught that even though you people can be possessed, there's always a place in which the devil can't ever get everything. He can even possess their spirit. If you're possessed, it's in your spirit, soul and body. But something in them, even if they don't have enough to get themselves free, but they can, a desire in them can say, I don't want this. I don't want this. I don't know how to get rid of it, but I don't want this. That is called passive resistance. And if you can find out if they have passive resistance, you can cast the devil out of anybody. But if they don't have passive resistance, you can't. Sometimes you need the Lord to show you. Other time the person will do an action. Like if they come to the front and say, please help me, please help me. Well, that is passive resistance. That man came and worshiped the man, not the demons. The man came to worship the Lord. That's his way of saying, I need help. Hallelujah. So he. That was a bunny trail. He passively resisted. That qualified him for freedom. Most likely. According to Kenneth Hagin, this was Jesus faith and then the gift of faith that added. But when those. Either way, there was no teaching for the man to release his faith. So there's no transmission of healing power. Do you understand? Same in the previous scripture. No mention of teaching, no mention of the people's faith, but it said compassion. And then it said, they're free. Are you with me? So he said, I've had compassion on you. That meant that when Jesus saw that man, what I've just said to you happened to him. Compassion rose up within him. And because Jesus knew the Holy Ghost, he knew, ah, when that compassion is here, that means the gifts of the spirit are here. Now, this boy doesn't need gifts of healings. I mean, if he had a disease or if he had broken bones or he had something because he was crazy, maybe that was needed as well. But that gifts of healings don't set you free. What you need is the gift of faith to cast it out. But when that compassion rose up within him, Jesus would have known, ah, the gifts are going to come if I need them. And when those, those, all those things started to scream out, he could speak to them. And if, if we don't know, the Bible doesn't say if his faith ran out because he was a man anointed by the Spirit just like we are, and he had to grow in his faith just like we do. So if his faith ran out, that gift would have come. But either way, he did not teach the man or have the man release faith. So it couldn't be the anointing of healing power. It had to be the gifts. And once again, we see gifts and compassion listed in the same sentence. Okay, what about Luke chapter seven? Luke chapter seven and verse 13. And it says, look, verse 12. Now, when he came nigh to the gate of the city, Nain, I've been there. I've driven through that. In Israel, behold, there was a dead man carried out the only son of his mother. And she was a widow. And much people in the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her. Compassion. That means that thing rose up within him by the Holy Ghost. And he said to her, under compassion, weep not. Obviously you're going to weep when your only son is dead, but that's the Holy Ghost trying to get involved here. Weep not. And he came and he touched the bier or the coffin. Now with the girl, he touched her. Tabitha, arise. Now with the coffin, he doesn't touch the body, he touches the wood. Now with Lazarus, because he had three dead raisings, he didn't touch anything. He said, come. You see the progression. The first one, he needed that touch. That's where his now, those gifts are still operating, but they're also working with what you can believe God for. He needed to touch that second one. He needed to touch, but not the skin. Third one, he didn't need to touch anything. He just spoke. Can you see the progression of power in his ministry? Also, can I say this if you're not too bored with Tabitha. She had just died. He's on his way when the lady with the issue of blood interrupts him. And they said, she's dead. Don't trouble the master. And he said, all things are possible. Only believe Jairus. By the time he got to his house, it might have been 15 minutes, 20 minutes, half an hour. He was walking to the house. She had just died. That's a lesser miracle, if you want to put it that. Because it's real quick. And he touched. Now Jewish, just like the Muslims, you have to bury them before sunset the same day. They don't have a lot of time to prep for funerals. In Jewish culture, when you die, you have to be buried the same day before sunset. So we know that they're burying that boy. He had to have died that day. But think about it. If he had died, they still had to get a coffin. They still had to tell everybody. Or the mourners came up and signed up, we're going to mourn today. Because a lot of it was a show. They actually sometimes even. Anyway, I won't get into all that. But it wasn't always real mourning. It was a show. But anyway, they had to tell people, we're going to do the burial. We need to get the casket. They had to put them in the casket. They had to get. And now they're walking to the grave site. That all took more than 30 minutes, but it was within the same day. So the first one was maybe 30 minutes to an hour. He touched her. The second one was a number of hours, but it was not overnight. And he touched the wood. The third one, he's already. His flesh is rotting and he stings. He's been in there three days. It's the hardest, so to speak, case. And he just spoke, you see, because his anointing and his ability to trust God and work with the gifts of the Spirit was increasing throughout his ministry. So even Jesus had stronger at the end than he did at the beginning. Don't just think Jesus is Jesus. He's perfect all the time. He was a man anointed of the spirit, and he had to learn and grow just like we do. Although he had the spirit without Measure. He still had to learn. Do you understand? If he knew everything, why was he in the synagogue studying? Okay, so notice what he said here. He said he had compassion on her. And he touched the bier and they that bare stood still. And he said, young man, I say unto thee, arise. He that was dead set up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came fear on all. And they glorified God saying, this is a great prophet whose risen among us that God has visited his people. Notice that now we know dead raising requires all three power gifts. It's never faith. How do you get the dead person to believe? Some of you are dead, but I can get you to believe. But how do you get the physical dead to believe? You can't. They're dead. Do you understand? So why do you need the gift of faith when you're raising the dead? Because their spirit is already in another place. As soon as you die, the spirit leaves. If you don't know God, it goes south. If you know God, it goes north. But either way, it's in a spiritual kingdom. The gift of faith is required to call the spirit back from that other world. You do not ever have the faith in yourself to call a spirit back that is already in heaven or in hell. Hallelujah. And David said to his people, God, don't raise the dead. If they've gone to hell. That's it, they're dead, they're finished, they're toast, they're cooking. Their goose is literally and figuratively cooking and cooked. But that warlock that hated him and withstood him his whole life and then died. And those two boys of his, teenage boys, 19, 20 year old boys, loved their daddy. But they had become born again and were working with David and his dad. And their dad had turned against them because they were supporting David and he's a warlock, he's his greatest adversary. And he said, boys, let him go. He's in hell. You're just gonna have to get over it. Sorry. He didn't convert before he says he's in hell, let it go. And those two boys looked at him and said, we're just gonna, we think brother David's missed it. And the other one said, yeah, he's missed it. Well, according to your faith. But they didn't tell David because he wouldn't have said, according to your faith. He would have said, don't argue with me. So they went and prayed and fasted for three days. And then they said to that daddy, that dead warlock who's been Sitting there dead in that heat. And they said, we call you back from the hell. We call you back. Come in, Jesus. And his spirit was sucked out of hell. Came right back. He gave the testimony. He was in hell, being tormented. And he heard that voice of his son saying, come back, Daddy, in Jesus name. That takes the gift of faith. You can't call that back on your own. And he said it was like a suction. He was sucked out of hell and went back into the realm of the living and came back into his body and said Jesus, as a first, he wanted to get born again. He didn't want to take no chances of ever going back to that place again. And the warlock who worshiped Satan and black magic for decades, the moment he came back, Jesus, save me. And the gifts of healing. So whatever he died of would be healed or he'd die again. And the gift of the working of miracles, because things break down in your body and they have to. And they have to restart. But they took their daddy to David, fearing and trembling David, we know that if people go to hell, they don't qualify for raising their dead. That's right. You don't have to get over your dad. And the warlock walks in. Jesus is my Lord. And David said that day his doctrine changed. And now they start raising people from the dead that they know have gone to hell. But he wouldn't. He didn't want them to do that because he felt that was inappropriate. In other words, you've already had your chance and you've died. But look at the mercy of God. Kenneth Hagin was in hell at 15 years of age. On the first day that he went bedfast, he died and his mother on that tiny street that I've been on in the car. And even today it's a quiet neighborhood. Can you imagine 1933? What the kind of quiet neighborhood, hardly any cars. And she was screaming so loud in the front room that cars started to stop on the road to find out what the commotion was. Cars in 1933. There weren't that many of them. And there was a traffic jam outside the house of people. What is that screaming? What is that screaming? And that is. That was his mother in the front room crying out to God because she knew he was dead. And she don't know gifts of the spirit. She hasn't taken my course. She don't know nothing. She actually had mental torment and a lot of other things. Suicide. She was a mess. But she. Look, look at that. You don't even have to know everything. You don't even have to know everything. What you're being fed is extra. This is good that you know it. But, but, but in that moment she just cried out to God with compassion for her son and said, no, I won't let him go. No, I won't let him. And she go. And dad Hagin said, remember he said that evil spirit, that wicked thing. And he could see the fires on the walls. And it took his arm by his forearm to enter, bring him into the cavern of the damned. And he knew, if I go in, I'll never get out. And he's resisting. And you can't, he said, you can't resist that spirit. It's just leading me in. And he hears a voice. He doesn't know the language. To this day, he doesn't know the language. He hears a voice. It was the voice of God the Father. And he heard a voice, whatever that voice said. The thing shook hell. And that thing took his hand off his forearm and he said it was like a massive suction cup had gone on his back. And the thing sucked him like a vacuum backwards up into that, out of that atmosphere, back into his body. That happened a second time and it happened a third time. And on both times he was saying, but I'm water baptized. But I'm water baptized, I'm a Baptist, I go to the Baptist church. He's still going to hell because he's not born again. Which evidently you mean you can be a card carrying Baptist and not be born again. But on the third time as he came back into his body, he was saying into the spirit realm, Jesus, I confess you, his spirit was saying. And when he came back in his body, his lips picked up halfway through the sentence. Jesus, I confess you as my Lord. And he became the greatest prophet of our generation. Anyway, praise God. Hallelujah. So the dead raising requires gifts and notice, he said he had compassion. Now I won't read it for sake of time, but Matthew. Well, let's just read it. Matthew 15:32. Just quickly look at that with me. Matthew, there's other stuff I need to get to. This is taking far too long, but I'm hoping that you're getting something. Matthew 15:32. And Jesus called his disciples unto him and said, I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I will not send them away fasting lest they faint in the way. And then, you know, this is the feeding of the, of the thousands there. And they say, well, we don't know, we don't have anything. How many loaves do you have? 7. And a few fish. This is actually the healing of the of the 4000. This account. But it's the same thing on the 5000. And so in this case, Mark 8:2 says the same thing. Notice this is the feeding of the 4,000. Jesus had compassion. Now how do you multiply food? By the gift of the working of miracles. So the gifts had to operate, but compassion preceded the gifts. Can you see that this is not coincidence? That every single time the word compassion is used in the ministry of Jesus Christ without fail gifts are associated with it. Connect dots anytime. Jesus said, according to your faith, be it unto you. Never says he had compassion. Why? Compassion is coming up by the Holy Ghost to say, I've selected them, minister to them. But you can't take sympathy like it's compassion, because it's not. Okay, Mark, I'm going to just make sure that Mark doesn't say any. Give us any more details. I don't think it does. Mark 8:2. In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto them and said unto them, I have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint in the way. For divers of them have come from afar. Many of them have come from afar. OK, so that is the feeding of the 4,000. And then of course, now we also see Mark 6:34. Can I read that to you? This is the feeding of the 5,000. There were two different feedings, four and five. The five member had five loaves and two fishes. The four had seven loaves. And it says a few fishes. So we don't know how many a few is. It could be up to eight. But there was more food in the 4,000 than there was in the 5,000. Okay, now mark chapter six and verse 34. And it says here and when Jesus saw. And Jesus when he came out, saw much people and was moved with compassion toward them. Notice how it says moved, moved, moved with compassion. Your bowels move within you. There's a yearning to do something, but it's supernatural. It's not your mind. You can't create compassion. It comes from God because they were sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. But then that teaching wasn't for them to have faith for the multiplication. He was just teaching them the gospel. But he had compassion because they were hungry. And how did the hunger get satisfied with the gift of the working of miracles. So we see again, compassion is connected to gifts. You see what I'm saying here? There are no other words in Jesus. There are no other times compassion are mentioned other than these. These are the only times in the entire ministry of Jesus you'll see the word compassion mentioned. And every time connects to gifts. So we've got to connect dots. Connect. When the compassion of God rises within us, pay attention. Something is about to happen. Praise the Lord. Okay, well, this one, I don't want to get too detailed, but okay, Matthew 20:34. This one may. I don't have time to take on this one. Normally this takes a little longer to explain because it's a bit complicated. But anyway, I won't necessarily do all of that. I'll just say this. And Jesus stood still, verse 32, Matthew 20, and called them and said, well, let's just have a Look. Now. Behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, verse 30. When they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. This is just outside Jericho. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. But they cried the more, saying they cried, two of them, have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. And Jesus stood still and called them and said, what will ye that I do unto you? And they say unto the Lord that our eyes be open. So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed him. Now this, I'm not going to read it for sake of time, but if you want to do your own study, Mark, chapter 10, verse 46 and onward, talks about blind Bartimaeus. Some theologians believe this is the same story. Other theologians believe it's not. It doesn't really matter. The point is both were outside Jericho. Jericho was a big city. There were many blind people that begged. It could have been two separate stories, or it could be the same story, but either way it doesn't really matter. Don't get bent out of shape. In the book of Mark's account, it does not say two men. It says one man, and it lists his name. In this account, it says two men, but all the other details are exactly the same. They're crying out, saying the same thing. Jesus stops, Jesus calls, what do you want me to do? But now here's the out the different. The difference with the two stories is blind Bartimaeus cast away his garment, which was an act of faith. And Jesus said, according, if you look at it in Mark, according to your faith, be it unto you. Why? Because blind Bartimaeus had faith. And his faith latched onto that healing power. And Jesus didn't lay hands on him, just spoke it and his eyes were open. And most theologians believe because of his great faith that Mark decided to list his name. Whereas these two men are nameless because they didn't have faith. Some believe that there was two of them in the same occasion. One didn't have faith and the other was blind Bartimaeus. And that in this account it only mentions what happened to the guy without faith. But in Mark's account it mentions what happened to the guy that did have faith. Other theologians believe these are two separate stories. One was two men that didn't have faith. One was one man that did. It really doesn't matter which it is because they argue about it and they don't need to argue. The point is, you can clearly see with buying Bartimaeus, he had faith. And Jesus said, according to your faith, and he was healed. That's the anointing of healing power. But it's very clear right here. He said, what do you want me to do for you? And they said, to receive our sight. But there was not. He does not say according to your faith, like he did to blind Bartimaeus, because he knew he didn't have faith. These two men didn't have faith. So what does the Bible say that he did? He said, have mercy on us. Jesus said, call them. What shall I do to you? They said, and Jesus had compassion. If you look at blind Bartimaeus, there's no reference of compassion. Not one. Jesus had compassion. Why? They don't have faith. So now it's going to require the gifts of healings to heal their blind eyes. And he's checking this out. You don't have faith. If they did, he would have said according to your faith, like he did to blind Bartimaeus. But they don't. So now Jesus is faced with two blind men and they don't have faith, which means he cannot impart, transmit healing power, which means, are you listening to me? The only way they're going to get their sight is if God chooses them for the gifts of healings. But all of a sudden, while he's looking at them, and Jesus goes, ah, that's it. God has selected them and he had compassion. And he went and touched. He didn't need to, it was gifts. But he went and he touched their eyes. He didn't need to, but that's just what he was led to do. But he didn't need to, because he's not transmitting healing power. He touched their eyes and he manifested through him, and their eyes were opened. Whereas if you look at the other thing, it's very clear that that man had faith. And because I know some of you are shaking your head no, I don't agree. I'm in disagreement. That man didn't have faith either. And he came to Jericho. Mark 10:46. And he went out of Jericho, same location with his disciples. A great number of people, blind. Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side, begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus, he began to cry out the more, saying, jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace. But he cried out more a great deal, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still, see all the same details, and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise. He called thee. And he cast away his garment. That's his faith. Because he can't find that garment again, he's blind, and that gives him permission to beg. Without that, he'll starve. He's saying, I'd rather die, then stay blind. That's faith. Jenny, that woman with the issue of blood, I'd rather get stoned than stay with this problem. Because Jairus could have legally stoned her right there. He was the head. And so he, casting away his garment, rose. And Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said, lord, that I might receive my sight. See, exactly the same as the other passage, but here's the difference. And Jesus said, go thy way. Thy faith has made thee whole. He didn't have compassion. He didn't touch him. He said, go thy way, thy faith. And immediately he received his sight. So that anointing of healing power opened those eyes, but the compassion released gifts of healings to open the other eyes. But I'm just saying, do you see how compassion is mentioned with gifts? Again, you still with me? Praise the Lord. Last one, because there's actually only seven references. This is the seventh one. And then we'll close last one, where you see the word compassion. Working with Jesus in an individual setting. Okay. Is Mark chapter one and verse 41. This is a Bible study. So we're studying the Bible. I know we don't normally do this many scriptures, but this is a Bible study. And there came a Leper, verse 40, beseeching him and kneeling down to him, saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Let me ask you a question. If you have to ask that, do you have faith? Why you don't even know the will. Faith is based on the word. The word is the will. If you know his will, you know his word, you can have faith. He says, I don't even know what your will is. How can you have faith if you don't know the will? So that statement alone shows he didn't have faith, but he's a leper. And he says, if you will, that's a big flag saying, I don't got no faith. If you will, you can make me clean. In other words, you can, but I don't know if you will. And Jesus moved with compassion. Do you see it? Clear evidence the guy's got no faith. But God selected him for the gifts of healings. And the compassion rises up and gifts start to flow. Put forth notice here gifts. But he also touched him again. You don't need to touch, but you can put forth his hand, touched him and saith unto him, I will be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed. Seven examples. Those are the only times in the entire four Gospels the word compassion is used. And every single case, you see either direct or very strong circumstantial evidence to point toward gifts, not faith. Which tells me that compassion is something that God gives us as an indicator that gifts are about to work. So when you have compassion, pay attention. Pay attention. Can I? Because you all know that you're going to be here in these five more minutes. I mean, you're not stupid. I mean, you know it. I mean, you don't want to admit it, but you do know it. I just want to read this little story. Pastor Craig, this is our dear brother Danzo. You know, Danzo, there was a scenario in which I would be very grateful if more lights were thrown on it. As I drive Uber. He's an Uber driver. As I drive, drive Uber, sometimes the spirit will prompt me to minister healing and or salvation or a word of encouragement to the passengers. Now, prompting. So I've talked to him since and I've said, now, don't use that word prompting. Use the word leading. Because it wasn't a prompting. But that's just what people say. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just trying to make it clear. In one instance, I picked a certain lady up with a walking stick to drop in her workplace, she was a schoolteacher. In our conversation, she said to me that she's not been able to. That she's not. That she's not able to attend an in person church service. Neither has she been able to drive for a couple years. She set the ball rolling by saying that, see, he's looking for an open door. And that gave me a platform to minister to her. I asked her why she was no longer attending a church service in person and she said, quote, I had a fall and have injured my knee and I can what, not work comfortably since the COVID time I can only join online services. I saw one of her knees were wrapped with a bandage. I asked if she believed in divine healing and she said yes. So I began talking about healing and kept sharing healing scriptures with her to build her faith. As I kept speaking, the presence of God fell in the car. She was sitting in the passenger seat at the back. And I said, there's the power of God right here available to heal your knee right now. As I said that, she began to scream and said, quote, I feel burning heat in my knee. And I said to her, take it, sister, receive it. God is healing you right now. She said, I receive it. I'm healed. But all of a sudden, she turned her eyes away from God and began talking about the appointment I was driving her to, which was to prepare her for surgery. So I said to myself, lord God, this lady's missing the whole healing. I was contemplating whether I should ask to lay hands on her knee. But I also thought that I had shared the healing scriptures and that she was supposed to release her faith to tap into that healing power. But now she's talking about something else and she's missing it. I realized she was struggling to tap into that power and she had lost her focus because of the surgery preparation. And his question to me was, what happened? What was going on in that scenario? So I told him, was it a prompting or was it a leading? After explaining the difference, he said, it was a leading, it wasn't a prompting. I said, okay, so because he wanted to know, was that gifts or was that healing? I said, well, if there was a leading, that's a small, not the only, but a small indicator. It's probably going to be not the gifts, but there's a leading. And what did you do? I said, what did you do, Danzo? You talked the word. You talked the word. You talked the word. What are you doing when you talk in the word? You're building her faith. You don't need the building of faith when it's gifts. Okay? There was no compassion that rose up. He just felt sorry for her. Notice the difference now? Just talking the word and talking to her about the healing power of God and that it's real and that it's for her. And just that all of a sudden, the presence came. Now, he thought the presence was the gifts at first. And I said, when the presence of God comes. Listen to me, I'm trying to help you. This is real time testimony. This happened two weeks ago. When the presence comes, it's external. It comes. You can feel it outside you. When gifts operate, they go through you. I have said that before. The Holy Ghost manifests himself through you. You can feel the presence of. But presence does not mean gifts. Gifts is presence coming through you. Presence is just God's power is available in that atmosphere. So I said, when the presence showed up in that card, that's not the gifts. That's the power of God that has shown up. Why? Because you started talking about the Word. She started responding to the Word. Her faith started reaching out. And now the power of God was answering her faith. And it showed up in presence. But it's still the anointing of healing power. You didn't touch. You're driving. But that power came over her. In other words, her faith. You see, some of this happens in such fast pace, you can't almost even understand it. Like, we're trying to expand it now to explain it, but it's all happening in real time. He's talking. He's. He. I don't know. I don't know what's happening, but I gotta. I gotta build her faith. And all of a sudden, the power, it's here, Sister. Ah, I feel it. See, all that's happening in a matter of seconds. But that's not the gifts, because that was not a prompting. That was a leading to talk about the Word. The Word produced faith. Her faith started to reach out, and the power of God showed up in its presence. Her faith hooked onto the power in that presence, and it went right into her knee and started burning it out. Then she got distracted about the doctor's appointment because most people have not renewed their mind. Instead of saying, my God, I'm healed. Turn. Turn the thing around. I'm not going to the surgery anymore. But she probably don't go to a church that teaches her that. So her mental gets back in. Well, I got to go to the surgery. And, well, I hope this works. And I hope this pain doesn't come back. You see, she hasn't been taught. Right. But listen, the power of God went into her, and that would have only happened because he talked about it. That wasn't gifts. That was power. That presence was the anointing of healing power. But it showed up as presence. It can show up different ways. It doesn't just have to be you touching them and them not feeling anything. They can feel it come into the entire car. But it's healing power. That came in the car and it hit her knee. I think that's a wonderful testimony. That's a wonderful testimony. So then he said, well, how do I know I'll close with this? How do I know if it worked or not? Good question. I said, did you get her phone number? No. Well, how are you supposed to follow up if you don't have their phone number? You see, this can be practical. I said, next time, get her email, get her phone number, get something from her and say, sister, now I want you to go back, go into this hospital. Since you know you don't have to go there. We can just take you home. You're healed. Now, if she keeps saying, no, no, I got to go, I got to go, I got to do the surgery, because most people don't think right, okay, I want you here. Email me. I want you to tell me what the doctor says when he examines you. Now, if she listen, I'm trying to help you. If she then did that and replied and said, I'm not healed, everything's the same, then we would know that anointing of healing power that manifested as burning fire was healing her. But because she took her attention off it, it lifted. But if she said, yeah, it's better, but they still need the surgery, then we would know the healing accomplished something. But because she got distracted, it stopped. And if she said, I'm totally better, my God, I don't need the surgery, then we would know, in God's great mercy, he started it, she got distracted, but he kept doing it out of his mercy. Because she don't know how to get her mind right, what to think, what her attention should be on. But if you don't follow up with the person, you don't know if it was all healed, some healed or none healed, but it don't. But none of that really matters at this moment. The point is that the healing anointing came in the form of presence into the car because he simply talked healing scriptures. Her faith reached out for healing. And God is so wanting to heal people more than you want them even healed, just the Slightest. I'm on the way to the surgery, but I believe the power of God's right there. I think that's powerful. And I salute him for taking the risk, taking the chance, opening his mouth and taking an opportunity and looking for the open door. God, listen, I've been saying evangelism is our priority. If you will just look for the open door, God will cause you to hear something that is your in and you can start talking. Angels will bring people that are ready right across your path and they'll say something and you'll have your end. And other times they won't. But God would just prompt, not prompt, but God will lead you and say, open your mouth wide. Don't wait for an open door. Just. Just smack them. You need Jesus. Sometimes you just got to be bold. Other times you got to kind of be cagey and wait for that, that open door, and then you're in. Other times you just slam him. Just be led by the Spirit on every case. Hallelujah. But notice there was not a prompting. There was just a leading talk. Why? Because it's the anointing of healing power that's about to come. There was no compassion. He just felt sorry for her. That's his soul. Nothing wrong with that. But it's not a compassion. A compassion would indicate gifts. Hallelujah. Now he's got a second story, but I won't read it until next Wednesday night. But the second story is gifts based. But he didn't know what that meant because I hadn't got this far in the teaching. And so it didn't work the way he wanted it to work. But it was a great example of him stepping out and trying to learn what is prompting, what is leading, what is compassion, what is sympathy, what is gifts, what is healing? And I don't want you to get so mental that you've now lost the spirit of it, because now you're analyzing quickly. Happy, is this gifts or God? Ask Pastor if this is compassion. I don't know what it is. It might be indigestion. I can't tell you. No. If it's compassion, you'll know it. But we'll talk next week because he gave a second testimony that I thought was wonderful, and it's a great learning experience for all of us. Amen. Don't text me three in the morning to ask if it's compassion, brother, because I'll just ask you what kind of pizza you had the night before. If it's compassion, you will know it and no one will have to answer that question, you will know it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Out. And many of you have had compassion, but you didn't know how to handle it. Some of you have thought you've had compassion, but you haven't. You've had sympathy. And then you've tried to step out on that and it hasn't worked. And it's not because God doesn't work. It's because you misinterpreted what he was doing. We're trying to help. Bless them, Father, in Jesus name.