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This is an I Heart podcast.
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Can I tell you thank you for saving my life in Sturgis?
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Is that you?
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No way.
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What? Disco. You gotta be joking.
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Like, I can't eat. Four years of this pain and throwing up. I don't know. Like, I came to Sturgis to hang out, buy bike parts, then I found Jesus. And it's a whole different thing here, right? We got lots of medical doctors, but there's only one big physician. Only one. I don't got it anymore. Like, I don't know where it went. I've eaten today. I ate part of my boyfriend's burger.
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You made my whole year.
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I had two heart attacks after that, actually. I prayed about it, and I just believed. I have this force of God that just can't quit. And I don't know how to explain it to you. I went to my doctor and I said, I don't need your medication anymore. I don't need you anymore. And I have been healed by God. And he said, I don't got another explanation. He knew.
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I have.
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I was taking 13 medications. I'm on zero medication. Zero. I have nothing wrong with my heart. Nothing. This man is for real. For real. Bikers don't play. And he's for real.
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Jesus did it.
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Yeah. Jesus did it. Don't. He didn't do nothing.
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That's right. I did nothing.
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I love you.
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I just said you made my year. Three years. Three years and one month since we met. That was in August.
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Thank you so much.
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You're very welcome. You're in Washington. Watch your step there. I love you, Disco. God bless you. God bless you. We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a family in Texas that don't just know about God. They know God. They've handled his power. They've seen his power flow through them. You're coming out of here today carrying fresh fire, fresh anointing, never to take another backward step. If you have your Bible, open it with me to Galatians, Chapter one, verse six. Welcome, everybody that's in Fort Worth. I miss you. I wish I was down there with you. We love you. Was great. Praying till the wee hours of the morning together. Pretty great to have churches that are four and six months old that had over 100 people show up to pray through the night. I'm happy. Galatians, Chapter one, verse six. I'm so glad that you're here today because I want everybody that's a member or attendee of this church to hear what I'm going to preach. Galatians 1:6. I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the gospel, but it's not the gospel at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ. Now that's everybody's favorite verse that wants to just talk about a ministry that they don't agree with. And that that's a different gospel. But what was Paul talking about? I mean, if you read the ministry of Paul, to take that verse and say a different gospel means signs and wonders and miracles, you. You get an F in Bible interpretation. So if that wasn't what he was talking about, what was he talking about? Galatians, chapter 5, verse 1. Same book, same letter. So Christ has truly set us free. Everybody say jesus has made me free. I'm believing to get my healing. You don't have to get it. Jesus got it for you already. Everybody say Christ has made me free. Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. So when Paul's talking about another gospel, of course specifically he was talking about people that were giving people a hard time for not following the Levitical law. And there were Jewish Christians that wouldn't fellowship with gentile Christians who were uncircumcised, which the fact that you were checking makes you weird. I always wondered how that was even a controversy. How about just wear underpants and come to church? But then specifically was a loose crowd today. Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Christ has made us free. But now there's going to be an attempt of the devil to yoke you again to the bondage of slavery and take away your freedom. Where do you see this acted out in the Bible? I'm going to give you two places. Go to Luke, chapter 13. Luke the 13th chapter, verse 10. One Sabbath day, as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for 18 years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over to her and said, dear woman, you are healed of your sickness. Then he touched her and instantly she could stand up straight. Oh, how she praised God. But the leaders in charge of the synagogue were indignant that Jesus had healed her. On the Sabbath day. There's six days of the week for Working. He said to the crowd, come on those days to be healed, but not the Sabbath. Who gets mad when they see somebody get healed? You know, but that spirit never went anywhere. There's people that watch the testimonies that we play, and if we post them online, as sure as the sun will shine tomorrow morning, they'll post there, oh, that's that. That's that health and wealth gospel. That's it. You know, why is your reaction when you see somebody healed of cancer to be angry? You're like a demon when you get mad. When good things happen to people, you have problems, can you say amen? And that's. Religion is a. Is a hating. Religion without Christ is a hatred spirit. I've told you this before. It wasn't a collection of prostitutes and cartel members that nailed Jesus to the cross. It were the religious leaders of the day. The people who got the legal trouble started in Pittsburgh for this church was another church that's down to 30 people that saw that we had a lot of people and they took photographs and turned it into the city. We didn't get turned in by bar owners or strip club owners. We've actually had some pretty bad people come here and get saved and join the church. They've never caused us any trouble. But religion, There's a spirit of religion that hates the power of God. Let me see. Second Timothy, chapter three, verse five. On the screen, a sign of the last days. Timothy is they will have a form of godliness. Second Timothy 3. 5. They'll have a form of godliness, but deny the power that would make them godly. Have nothing to do with people like that. So there's churches that masquerade as churches, and they have the steeple. They have everything. But there's the services there look nothing like Jesus's meetings. They look nothing like Peter's meetings. They look nothing like Paul's meetings. There's no crippled people getting up and walking. And so a lot of times in those churches, they'll just make stuff up. Well, those people teach that. But no one ever gets healed. That's why we play you those videos. It's not like we have one or two. It's like new videos every week or so, and those are just the ones. If you go by the ratio of Jesus, 10 lepers got healed, how many came back to say thank you? Yeah, so you don't even find out about all of them. In fact, the one video we have of that lady whose child was legally blind, worse than 2400 vision. We got the testimony five years later I was preaching in Tennessee and she said I wanted to come see you. I saw you in Kentucky before the pandemic and my daughter, you were laying hands on everybody. She went out under the power and when she got up off the ground, her eyes were more blurry. Well, you're not a very good minister if you pray for the blind. And they not only get, don't get healed, they get blinder. So I didn't like how this story was starting. I was thinking, geez, time to resign, she said. So we took her to the optometrist and they checked her eyes to get a stronger prescription. And the stronger they made the prescription, the more blurry her eyes were. So then when she was taking the glasses off one time and looking, she read it without the glasses on. And they realized the reason it was blurry wasn't because her eyes were getting worse, they were getting better. I found out about that. I told the lady. Couldn't you have told me sooner? You'd have helped my self esteem so much more if I'd have known about that. So people have to, they call it cognitive dissonance. They have to invent a reality to help them deal with, with how they believe the world is. You know, if you, if you hate somebody that you've never met, it's kind of hard when you meet them and they're kind of nice. You wish they'd get mad and they won't get mad. And so that's what they do in churches. They, instead of understanding what they don't know, many times they'll just criticize it, but they don't know what they're talking about. And then if you, if you put what people say and test it with scripture, the Bible says in the book of Acts, the berean Christians in the original language were a better breed of Christians. Some English translations say stuff like more noble because they took what Paul said and went home and examined it themselves in the Bible to see if it was true. Never in this church adoles myself whoever's preached my father last week. You've never had anybody come up here and say, now I know that's not in the Bible, but I'm your pastor and, and I saw an angel when I was 8 and I expect you to just believe what I tell you. You would have a hard time packing more scriptures into a meeting that we have here because the Bible is the baseline. So what does the Bible say? Well, I'm examining a part of it that Paul said after people get free, there is an attempt from religion to put them back into bondage. And you see that that happened in Jesus Day. So she's healed. But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her. On the Sabbath there are six days of the week for working. He said to the crowd, come on those days and be healed. Not on the Sabbath. But Jesus said, you hypocrite. You woke up on the Sabbath and untied your donkey from its stall to lead it out for water. So why is it wrong for me to untie this daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound these 18 years? Isn't it right that she be released even on the Sabbath? This shamed his enemies. But all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things that Christ did. And that's why Jesus wasn't speaking out in the wilderness. Because he couldn't afford to rent a room or because he couldn't get any bookings. He was barred from all. After stuff like this, they just made a plan to kick him out of all the synagogues. Then the crowds followed him into the wilderness. Then they made a plan to take him out completely. That's what they're finding out at some of our campuses at Revival today. Church, pass whatever laws you want. There are people that are drawn to the power of God and you can't stop the move of God no matter what. Can you say Amen? Yeah, it's the power of God. Let me tell you something. Praise God for everybody that's been healed of cancer. Praise God for all these miracles we're sharing. It's a sign of the power of God to have an overfull church when everybody knows the Steelers are playing at 1pm and everybody knows the preacher is long winded. Some of you already texted people, I'll be there in the second quarter because this guy doesn't shut up. And you knew that and you came in. See, see everything that we're told that you can't do, well, you know, it's. You're going to have a church in Pittsburgh on Sunday, especially if the Steelers are playing, then you better. You better cut your services down or people aren't going to show up. Yeah, the kind of people you're looking to attract won't show up. I'm not having people come to our church that worship the Steelers. I'm having people come that watch the Steelers but worship Jesus and give him his day. It's a testament to the power of God that you're able to knock down the idols that are in that Land. Can you say Amen and then turn to John 5? I also want you to notice out of that Luke 13 the strong reaction that Jesus had against. He didn't say, well, you know, it is this guy's synagogue, and maybe, no, he rebuked that guy in front of his own congregation. Jesus not only contended for God's power to move for people, he went hard against people that were trying to block it. John, chapter 5, verse 1. Afterward, Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the sheep gate, was the pool of Bethesda with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people, blind, lame or paralyzed, lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill a long time, he said to him, would you like to get well? I can't, sir, the man said, for I have no one to put me in the pool. When the water bubbles up, someone always else gets in there. Someone else always gets there ahead of me. Jesus told him, stand up, pick up your mat and walk. Instantly, the man was healed. He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking. But this miracle happened on the Sabbath, so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cared, you can't work on the Sabbath. The law doesn't allow you to carry that sleeping mat. But he replied, the man who healed me told me, pick up your mat and walk. Who said such a thing as that? They demanded the man didn't know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. But afterward, Jesus found them in the temple and told him, now you're better, so stop sinning, lest a worse thing come upon you. What does that show you say out loud? Sin opens the door for all kinds of trouble.
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Hi, Revival today church. I'm Jennifer Hutchinson from Port Charlotte, Florida, and I'm here to share a couple amazing testimonies. So I have been diagnosed with stage four cancer a couple years back and believed God for my healing. I got my healing, but ultimately the cancer had come back. It came back. It was really strong. I stood in faith again. I said, I'm not going to, you know, use any of the medications. I'm just going to believe God to do if he did it once before, he'll do it again. So in November, on the mentorship call, Pastor Jonathan prayed for the cancer to be gone. Actually, he said, I hope it blasts out like a drug addict standing outside of a Wendy's at midnight. And so I just really laughed and I received it and I'M like, man, that is awesome. And I believe it's blue. Blasted out in the name of Jesus. So in February, I went for my blood work, and on February 13th, all of my blood work came back clear and normal. And so, praise God, Cancer free today.
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Yeah, it's not God. It's not God that brings sickness. Jesus said, listen, I got you better now, quit sinning or it's going to open the door back up for the thing to come back. And then the man, instead of listening to Jesus, went back and informed to the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who healed him. People have interesting loyalties. Can you imagine those religious leaders walked by that guy for 38 years and never helped him one time. Then Jesus comes and heals him, and he allows the people that he used to be with that never helped him to tell him to sit down, it's illegal to carry your sleeping mat. And then he stayed loyal to him over Jesus. He's the opposite of the man in John chapter nine, which I want to get to the rest. But you can see it there. A man born blind, the man can see. The Pharisees don't like it. Are you the man or just someone who looks like him? No, I was blind. Who healed you? It was Jesus. It couldn't be Jesus. We don't like him. No, I'm telling you, it was Jesus. And so then Jesus went back and found him. And this time the guy, the guy actually mouthed off to the pharisees in John 9 and then joined with Jesus. There are people. That's why Paul wrote, after you're set free, make sure you don't become yoked again to slavery. The devil doesn't just go, well, they got away. No. When prisoners escape from prison, there's an attempt to pursue them and bring them back to prison. When you're set free from the prison of sin, the devil illegally makes an attempt to work out the course of events of life to bring you back to the prison that God set you free from. You can see it clearly right there. And Paul said, once you're set free, you have a responsibility to make sure I am set free. I am never going back to the yoke of slavery again. In Jesus name, I tell everybody in Texas, I tell everybody here, whatever you've been made free from, you will never go back under the bondage of that thing again. Can you say amen? Well, how. How does the devil bring you back into slavery? Do demons come and put you in some type of Brazilian jiu jitsu hold and drag you back into your old life? No, he works by unbelief. The first thing you have Satan on record doing in the Bible, he didn't come and stab Eve. He didn't come as a serpent and bite Eve. He didn't come as a serpent and boa constrict Eve and choke her out. He came and said, did God say what God clearly said in the Bible? Did God say, that's why you should be careful. Anytime somebody feels free to say, I know the Bible says that, but what? What? I know the Bible says that, but now you know, I know that tongues are in the Bible, but I believe it passed away. Where does it say it passed away? Because anything that's not in effect anymore. Let me ask you a question. Why aren't we sacrificing bulls and goats and lambs for our sins today? Because what did away with it, Is that mentioned in like one verse or is that mentioned in like chapters in the book of Hebrews? Yeah, anything that's been nullified, you don't have to cobble it together. It is clearly stated that we don't do those things anymore. So if it's not in the Bible, if the Bible doesn't say those things, then don't believe them. Go by what the Bible says. I'm going to give you a challenge. Read this book like no religious egghead ever explained anything away. And you're going to find that it's full of miracles. It's full of faith, it's full of mountain moving power. It's full of power to raise the dead. It's full of all kinds of promises about houses and food and clothing for your children. Don't let the devil strip the freedom that this book brings. Things you were taught in the Bible that are dead wrong. Say this. I refuse to be religiously brainwashed instead of New Testament taught. So I'm going to give you some things that people flippantly throw out from the platform that put people back under slavery. And you got to knock that out of your spirit. Don't go back and forth, you know, be here with me. And I have you say, I'm a new creature. I'm a new creature. Old things are passed away, then you go to another church. I'm a sinner saved by grace. Got to pick one brother. You can't speak out of both sides of your mouth. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let not that man expect to receive anything from God. The crowd that was here last night for communion, I told him I was talking to A minister a while back, over a year ago. Good guy. He was listening. He had bought my books on financial prosperity. And he said, I believe what you wrote, but my hesitation is this. And he brought up something he was taught, which is what I was taught growing up in traditional church, too. See, that's the difference between me and him. I decided I'm going to settle what the Bible says. And I said this last night, but I want to say it again. As long as you know scriptures on healing. But you kind of think Paul's thorn in the flesh was. Was eye cancer. You know the scriptures on victory. But then remember Paul. Paul was in prison and Paul died, and you don't settle it. And part of your mind believes God, and part of your mind thinks there's, like, a caveat where, no, he doesn't have to heal you. Now, this is probably not a good way to get the point across, but what else is new? If you study the Canadian Charter of Rights, that's their Constitution. My sister lives there. Going to Canada in two weeks. Again, another good reason not to use this illustration, but I'm using it anyway. If you read the Canadian Charter of Rights and you read the US Constitution, a lot of times when you talk to people in Canada, they'll say, like, we have freedom of speech, but they don't. If you read it, there's always a caveat at the end of every right. Like, but in a time of crisis, it basically gives an open door for the government to revoke any one of those rights when they feel there's an emergency or not. But what we found out during COVID is the US Constitution doesn't have those things. The Bill of Rights doesn't have those things. There is a right to freely assemble. And just because somebody's the governor, they can't just pop on Facebook and say, churches can't meet. Yeah, I proved it in court. Now, if you wanted to, you could just listen to what they said and shut your business down and shut your church down and do what you're told and not go to the gym. But if you knew what the Constitution said, you'd say, listen, nothing is higher than the Constitution. You don't have a right to shut this down. And if you challenge it, like Adalus and I did, you win. We had 1100 people on Easter Sunday in person, April 2020, and there was nothing anybody could do about it. They sent cops to, like, intimidate us. By the 35th minute, the cops were like this. Yeah, because it knocked all the fear away. Can you Say Amen. So if you want to, you can let demons and unbelief and commercials that black men stand a one in six chance of getting prostate cancer and you're a black man. You start thinking, oh man, I better, better start getting checked. Once you hit 50, I'm a woman, I have a 1 in 2.7 chance of developing breast cancer. You can start letting those thoughts come in. But I want you to settle today. Don't have part of your mind that thinks you're prone to cancer and part that knows that the blood of Jesus was shed to remove all your diseases and destroy. Settle it. Be single minded. I am healed. I'm a new creature. I am blessed. I am an overcomer. Jesus lives in me and there's no two ways about it. If you receive that today, clap your hands with one more time unto the Lord. Somebody shout hallelujah. So I'm going to throw out some errors that you've probably heard if you've spent any time around Christianity, I've heard them all too. And then I want to show you what the Bible says. Number one, we dealt with it last night. Romans chapter seven. You know, these guys on Christian television tell everybody they're victorious and they're overcomers. But Paul said what a wretched man I am. Paul did say what a wretched man I am in Romans chapter seven. You know, I read it this morning when I was studying. I got up at quarter to six, very proud of myself and got a coffee from Dunkin Donuts delivered to my house, which did nothing. I think my tolerance for caffeine's like it just doesn't matter anymore. And I fought through it and was studying not in Pentecostal or Full Gospel or Word of Faith theology books in Baptist, Presbyterian, mainline evangelical theology books. It tells you Romans 7 is a chapter written to show the futility of trying to live for God under the law without Christ. So that's where he says in Romans 7, oh, what a wretched man I am. But then we read last night how many were here for communion or watched online. Romans chapter 8. What's the answer to this? Thank God the answer is in Christ Jesus. That those that are in Christ Jesus no longer have to follow the impulses of the flesh. They have the power of God's spirit that broke that law. Can you say Amen? That's, that's my daughter Camila. She has a beautiful new jacket that I bought her in Nevada that's, that's rated for 30 degrees or lower. And she likes it so much she had it on. I said, I don't think you're gonna need that today. She went, it's 60. Okay? So if you'll stand in faith with us, my Lord's gonna keep my daughter from hypothermia today. 20 things you were taught about the Bible that are dead wrong. Number one, that Paul said, I'm wretched in the sense that we're wretched. These people tell you that you're blessed and highly favored. Let me tell you something. You're wretched. No, you're not. Romans 8:1. Therefore there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 7 shows life before Christ's victory. Romans 8 is the believer's reality. I'm not wretched. I was wretched, but the blood of Jesus made me free from sin and free from condemnation. Can you say Amen? And I put that number one for a reason. You're going to read the Bible through two lenses. You can read it through a defeat lens. What about Job? What about Paul's thorn in the flesh? What about trophies that Paul left sick at Miletus? These people say that God wants everyone healed. But the Apostle Paul said that he prayed for Trophis and left him sick at Miletus. Really? That's what you want to gravitate to? 3 stories out of an 1100 page book? You're a loser. Paul was in prison? Yeah. For how long? The Bible says they put him in prison and he died there. No, he prayed and sang praises unto God the same night, and the other prisoners heard him. And suddenly there was a massive earthquake and the chains of every prisoner fell off and every prison door was open. Paul was put in prison at 11:15 and was out before midnight. By the power of God, this is not a book of defeat. This is a book of victory. And it would be much more similar to the US Constitution than to the Canadian Charter of Rights because there's no books by his stripes. I'm healed. Having said that, remember that sometimes there's pandemics and Jesus is up in heaven trying to figure out how he's going to cure it and if he shed enough blood to take that one out. Actually, when you read the Bible, people say, well, Jonathan, I know you preach healing, but this is Covid. You know, it's a new disease. It's a novel virus that no one knows what to do. And the Bible doesn't say anything about COVID Yes, it does. Deuteronomy 28 tells you that one of the blessings for serving the Lord is healing. And it lists like a ton of diseases. Then it says at the end of the chapter, even those diseases that aren't mentioned in this book, Covid is not mentioned in that book. I know. I got a verse for that, too. Even these diseases, if they're cooking up one now, if they're going to try to wreck the end of Trump's presidency the same way they did the first one, the same power that defeated the first one will defeat the second one. The devil has no new tricks, and the devil has no capacity to launch a plan to defeat the child of God. Foreign this is an I Heart podcast.