Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Releasing God's Healing

July 5, 2026 | 27:29

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Releasing God's Healing | July 5, 2026

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Tony evans: a lot of people want divine healing
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Who don't want relationships.
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They want to show up for their blessing,
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But no relationship.
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They want god to fix it, heal it, straighten it,
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Reverse it, clear it up.
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What he was telling israel is, "if you want my healing,
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I want your relationship.
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And the closer we are in relationship,
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The more you can expect your healing."
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Tony: there has been or will be a time
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In all of our lives when we will need to be healed.
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Many of us have already experienced
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Sickness or sorrow from which we need relief,
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Where the pain of life, in whatever form it has taken,
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Has caused us to hurt.
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The concept of healing assumes there's something painful
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Going on in your body,
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In your mind, in your soul, in your circumstances.
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Where do you find the way out of the hurt
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That you can't shake through your normal,
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Natural processes?
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And this brings up the question of healing.
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There are two extremes that you will regularly hear
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When it comes to the doctrine of divine healing.
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One extreme makes it almost something
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That you can't take seriously.
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They will talk about, "god doesn't heal anymore,"
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Or that is not to be a vivid expectation.
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And so if you buy into that emphasis,
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You don't even look to god seriously for healing.
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The other extreme over here says,
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"god guarantees healing," that god promises,
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In every circumstance, you will be healed,
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And it is out of god's will for you to ever be sick,
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In life, in health, or in circumstances,
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And therefore healing is a guarantee for your life.
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The problem with that extreme is it leads
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To spiritual disappointment, 'cause if you believe in god
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For healing and he doesn't heal,
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Then the question is, can you trust him?
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Because you believed, because you were told,
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Or perhaps something you read,
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That that is a promise that you can expect
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Every single time.
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And so, many christians find themselves bewildered
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When they believed god, trusted god,
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And things didn't change.
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Now there are many passages that refer to god
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Being a healer.
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We're introduced to the lead passage here
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In exodus chapter 15.
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Israel has just come through the red sea.
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They have seen what he can do with water,
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Because he's opened up the red sea
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And he performed two miracles.
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One miracle is when he opened up the red sea.
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The other miracle is when they crossed on dry land,
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'cause how can the land be dry
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If it's been underwater all this time?
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So there were two miracles.
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He opened it up, he dried it out
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So that two million people could cross it.
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So israel had seen what he could do with water.
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Three days later, we're told in this passage,
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They had gone without water in the wilderness.
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So three days after they saw what he could do with water,
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They had no water.
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In other words, their circumstance
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Had now changed.
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After three days, they come upon water,
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But they can't drink it because it says,
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"the water was bitter."
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In other words, it was contaminated water.
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So it was undrinkable water.
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So we now have the two opposite situations.
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We got a deliverance through water,
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And now we got the bitterness of water.
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And between the deliverance of water
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And the bitter water is a slice of ground
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Called the wilderness.
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A wilderness is a dry place.
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The wilderness is a place that doesn't offer you
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The refreshing that you're looking for.
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And so they find themselves complaining.
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They find themselves not happy with god or moses,
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Because things are not going as well as they did
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Three days earlier.
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Why did they run into bitter water?
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Well, we're told.
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Because the end of verse 25 says, "and there
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He tested them."
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Oh, he tested them there.
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It says, "he tested them."
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What did he test them with?
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The same problem he brought them through.
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And god came out of nowhere and opened up the red sea
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And dried the land so that they could come through.
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They got their praise on.
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Three days later, they got another water problem.
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Now the water is bitter.
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But instead of learning the lesson of the red sea,
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They forgot it.
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So when they faced a new water problem,
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They didn't get their praise on, they got their complain on,
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Because they didn't learn the lesson of the test.
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So, one of the reasons god will allow bitter situations
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In our lives is to test us.
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He wants to know, do you really believe it
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When the waters are bitter?
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Do you really believe it when the times are rough,
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When the body is hurting, when the mind is disturbed,
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When the circumstances are overwhelming?
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He wants to know, now that you are
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In the test of marah,
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The bitterness of the polluted situation,
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Different situation, but do you believe
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He's the same god that you saw at the red sea?
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The bible is full of illustrations of god
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Using negative, hurting, painful situations
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In order to test or develop his people.
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In john chapter 9, verses 1 to 3,
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There's a blind man.
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The disciple says, "what did this blind man do
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To cause his blindness?"
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And jesus said, "this man did nothing wrong.
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This blindness is for the glory of god."
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Paul, in 2 corinthians chapter 12,
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Paul has a thorn in the flesh.
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The greek word "thorn" means to be needled.
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So something was sticking him, something was hurting him.
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It was a thorn that was affecting his wellbeing,
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And it was hurting him.
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And he says, "i prayed and asked god
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To deliver me," and god says, "no,
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My grace is sufficient," and he says, "i learned
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At that time more about god's power,
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In my affliction."
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So there are numbers of times in scripture
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Where god uses infirmity of various kinds
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For the purpose of development.
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So one reason that you can be hurting
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Is you're in a test.
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You are now being asked, "do you believe
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What you've been taught, what you've heard,
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And what god has said?"
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That's one reason.
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Another reason that we can hurt physically,
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We have a malady of health or circumstance,
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Is because of rebellion,
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That we have rebelled against god
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And we're getting
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The repercussions of our rebellion.
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Notice what he says.
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He says in verse 26, "if you will give earnest heed
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To the voice of the lord your god,
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And do what's right in his sight,
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And give ear to his commandments
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And keep his statues, i will put none of the diseases on you
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Which i have put on the egyptians,
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For i, the lord, am your healer."
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He says, "disease can come to you, god's people,
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'cause you're acting like the egyptians."
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Why did the egyptians have all these diseases?
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You remember the plagues,
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When moses was confronting pharaoh
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And all the things that took place,
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Illness and death and all of that,
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Because they rebelled against god,
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They adopted idolatry as their lifestyle,
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And disease was the result of their rebellion.
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So one of the reasons you can get sick is
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Because you are a rebel to god and his value system.
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Now there's another reason that we get sick,
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And that is because you live in this world.
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So, whether it's testing, whether it's rebellion,
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Or whether it is the natural result
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Of a contaminated world that's been infested
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And infected by evil, romans 8 talks about
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The groaning of the world,
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Which will be removed when jesus comes.
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It says, "in the millennial kingdom,
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A child will be a hundred years old,
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And still a child."
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So it's a--it will be a whole different ecosystem
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At work at that time.
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So any one of those reasons can bring about physical,
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Emotional, circumstantial illnesses, maladies,
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But the one thing that is common to them all
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Is that you are hurting, you're in pain.
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Over and over in scripture, god proclaims himself
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To be a healer.
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When john prayed in 3 john chapter 1, verse 2,
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He says, "i pray that you will be in good health."
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Over and over again, the bible talks
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About god being a healer.
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Jeremiah 30 verse 17, "god will heal your wounds."
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Psalm 103 verse 3, "who heals our diseases."
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Over and over again, deuteronomy 32, verse 39,
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"it is i who heals."
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So, over and over and over again,
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The bible affirms the healing work of god,
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So that we are to look to god for healing.
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So illnesses come, illnesses are allowed by god,
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But god is the healer.
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Now that we've established that, let's discuss what it means
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When god says,
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"i am your healer," because that's what he says
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To the children of israel.
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He says in verse 20, "for i, the lord, am your healer."
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I want you to catch this now.
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"i, the lord, am your healer," okay.
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Well, if he's your healer, that means
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You have something you need to be healed from.
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That means something is causing you an infirmity,
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Something is causing you pain, because that happens in life.
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But he says, "i don't want you to miss the fact that i,
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The lord, am your healer."
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So that means there's something to be healed from.
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Right now, the water is bitter, and i am complaining.
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I don't wanna hurt like this.
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I don't wanna feel like this.
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I don't wanna go through this.
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I don't wanna deal with this.
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I'm hurting.
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God says, "i, the lord, am your healer."
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In 2 chronicles, chapter 16, verses 12 and 13,
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There's a king named asa.
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And asa has developed an infection in his foot
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That is spreading throughout his body.
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He's developed this infection in his foot,
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And then we're told, "he sought the physicians
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But he did not seek the lord."
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The next verse says, "and asa died."
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But his death is said to have happened
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Because he left god out of the healing equation.
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God says, "i, the lord, am your healer."
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God is not against doctors.
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The book of luke was written by a medical doctor.
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The book of acts was written by a medical doctor.
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God is not against doctors.
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He just doesn't want you to think they are
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The final decision-maker about the thing
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Causing the pain or the hurt or the need for healing.
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So let's talk about this, "i, the lord, am your healer."
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This is made up of two greek words,
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That phrase.
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You know the word well.
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Jehovah-rapha, the lord that healeth thee.
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So the name jehovah-rapha, the lord that healeth thee,
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Didn't just come out of nowhere, it came because of a situation.
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The water is bitter, the people are complaining,
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He wants to teach them a lesson,
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So he gives them a name for their situation,
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Jehovah-rapha.
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"rapha" refers to healing.
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We all want rapha, but he says
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It's not just rapha, but jehovah-rapha.
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See, people want rapha who don't want jehovah.
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And it's a compound name.
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In other words, you can't have
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The second part of the name if you leave out
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The first part of the name.
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When god created the world, he used the name elohim.
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"in the beginning, elohim created the heaven
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And the earth," genesis 1:1.
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That means the strong one, the creator god.
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But when he created man in genesis chapter 2,
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Beginning in genesis chapter 2 verse 4,
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He uses capital l, capital o, capital r, capital d,
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Yahweh or jehovah, because now
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He's creating relationship.
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In chapter 1, he wasn't creating relationship
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Because there were no humans.
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In chapter 2 verse 4, he's creating relationship,
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So now you read "the lord god, the lord god,
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The lord god, the lord god, the lord god,"
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Which is why, when satan shows up
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In genesis chapter 3, satan asked eve,
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"hath god said," not, "hath the lord god said,"
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Because he doesn't mind you having god
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As long as there's no relationship.
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So he says the way you get healed
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Is not just rapha, but jehovah-rapha,
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Which means we are in covenant relationship.
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You see, a lot of people want divine healing
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Who don't want relationships.
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They want to show up for their blessing,
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But no relationship.
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But if he is jehovah-rapha, the one you are
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In relationship with, he is also your healer,
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And therefore a greater
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Expectation of divine deliverance.
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So, they've got a problem.
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What does moses do?
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Well, we're told in verse 25, "then moses,
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He cried out to the lord."
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Okay, he cried out to the lord.
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He's desperate. he's crying out to god.
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"and the lord showed him a tree.
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And he threw it into the waters,
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And the waters became sweet," became drinkable.
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He cried out to god, because he has
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A problem he can't fix.
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You know when we need god most?
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When we recognize we need god most is
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When there is no human solution to it.
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In other words, the beautiful thing
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About jehovah's ability to heal is he's got medicine
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That you don't know about.
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He's got options that you are not familiar with,
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That can provide an unorthodox way of easing your pain
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From the bitterness you are experiencing
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Or the diseases of egypt.
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And so he cries out to god, and god shows him something.
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But not until he cries out.
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So now we know what's critical for healing:
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Prayer.
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The bible says, "you have not because you ask not."
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Over and over again, healing that god allowed
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Was reversed when there was prayer.
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He tells you in james chapter 5, "you pray for the sick."
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So prayerlessness can keep you sick.
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And the greater the intimacy,
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The greater the potential responses from heaven.
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So you should want to be healed,
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And if you're in relationship, expect to be healed
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When you've met the conditions,
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As long as it's not an unconditional situation.
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For example, when it's time for you to expire
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And translate to heaven,
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God's not gonna answer your prayer for healing
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On earth.
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He's gonna answer your prayer for healing,
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But it won't be on earth, because his will
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Is appointed unto a man once to die.
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Once you hit that appointment date,
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It doesn't matter what doctor you go to.
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It's appointed unto a man once to die.
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You can't escape that calendar date.
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But on your way there, you can experience healing.
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You can experience help. and that's what happens.
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And so he prays, and he calls on god,
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And when he does, god answers.
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Now, it's an interesting story.
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Let me--let's talk about this story,
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Because it's one i love, and it relates to healing,
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And it's in 2 kings chapter 20.
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"in those days, hezekiah became mortally ill.
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And isaiah the prophet, the son of amoz, came to him
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And said to him, 'thus says the lord,
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"set your house in order, for you shall die
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And not live."'"
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Now if god says you dead, you dead, okay?
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He says, "you shall die and not live."
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This is god talking.
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"then he turned his face to the wall
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And prayed to the lord."
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Okay, so god says, "you're gonna die,
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Get your affairs in order.
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Make sure your will is straight, your trust is straight.
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Tell the kids. you're gone," okay?
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But he turns his face to the wall
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And says, "remember now, o lord, i beseech you,
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How i have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart
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And have done what is good in your sight,"
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And hezekiah wept bitterly.
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He didn't want to die.
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And when you hear you have a terminal illness,
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You're gonna weep bitterly, because it's not natural
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To want to die under just natural human circumstances.
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But look at verse 4, "before isaiah had gone
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Out of the middle court, the word of the lord
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Came to him, saying, 'return and say to hezekiah,
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The leader of my people, "thus saith the lord,
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The god of your father david, i have heard your prayer.
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I have seen your tears.
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Behold, i will heal you.
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On the third day, you shall go up
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To the house of the lord."'"
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Wait a minute.
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God had just said, "you gonna die."
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Hezekiah prays.
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God changes his mind, tells isaiah
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To go back in to him and tell him,
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"i heard your prayer and i saw your tears,"
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Because god is very emotional, you need to know that about god.
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God is very emotional.
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The bible says he's jealous, the bible says he can feel pain.
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The bible says he can get sad.
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The bible says he can get glad.
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The bible says that he has joy of the lord.
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So god is very emotional.
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He says, "i saw your tears, but i also heard your prayer."
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But what was his prayer?
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His prayer was, "i've been following you,"
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You know, and he gave god a credit report.
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He said, "god, i want you to look at my credit score.
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I've been in relationship with you, i've served you,
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And i don't wanna die," and god changed his mind.
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But wait a minute, we got a theological conundrum.
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The theological conundrum is the bible says
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God does not change.
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It says he's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It says he is immutable, that is, he is changeless.
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But wait a minute, we just saw him change.
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"you're gonna die, you're not gonna die."
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Sounds like a change to me.
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So we've got a theological conundrum.
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We've got a god who does not change, changing.
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So he can be changeless while changing because we
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Have relocated where we are in relationship to him.
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So, how did hezekiah relocate?
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So in 2 chronicles chapter 32, here's what we read.
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Verse 24, "in those days, hezekiah became mortally ill."
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Okay, same thing said in 2 kings 20.
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"and he prayed to the lord."
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Okay, we know that, because he prayed in 2 kings 20.
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"and the lord spoke to him."
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Yeah, he did, and said, "you're not gonna die."
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"and gave him a sign."
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You can read that in 2 kings 20.
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He gave him a daylight savings time.
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That's what he did. he shifted the sun.
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You can read that
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In the first 14 verses of 2 kings chapter 20.
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So he gave him a sign about his healing.
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But now we get some new information
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That's in 2 chronicles that's not in 2 kings.
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It says in verse 25, "but hezekiah gave no return
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For the benefit he received because his heart was proud.
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Therefore wrath came on him and on judah and jerusalem."
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Ah.
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We find out he got a little heart problem.
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He's proud. he's proud.
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He's got pride that needs to be dealt with.
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Verse 26, "however, hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart.
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Both he and the inhabitants of jerusalem
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Saw the wrath of the lord did not come on them
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In the days of hezekiah."
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We got some new information.
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God heals hezekiah, but hezekiah has
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A heart problem.
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He's lifted up in pride.
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So the wrath of god comes on him because of his pride.
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Not until he deals with his pride
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Is the wrath of god removed.
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So one minute he's under god's wrath,
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But he humbles himself, so now he's under god's mercy.
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So since he's under a new aspect of god,
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Mercy can rain down here where wrath was raining down
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Over there, not because god has changed,
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It's because he's relocated who he's relating to
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In his relationship with god.
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So god is consistent, even though he changed his mind.
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So the good news today is that god does heal.
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He is balm in gilead.
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He told hezekiah, "in three days
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You're gonna go to my house."
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Balm in gilead, gilead means praise.
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"in three days i'm gonna give you
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A reason to praise me.
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In three days i'm gonna let you get your praise on.
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In three days," and the beautiful thing
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About it, he says, "and when he healed hezekiah,
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He healed him
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For the benefit of the whole nation."
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In other words, when you ask god to heal you,
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It would be in your best interest
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To tell him how you're gonna help heal somebody else,
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How he can use you to benefit somebody else.
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♪♪♪
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Tony Evans - Releasing God's Healing

July 5, 2026 | 27:29

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