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out of this. Your own feelings will try to talk you out of this. That’s why you need your soul
anchored deep in the Word of God, so that if something comes up, you’re not trying to decide
what you believe. You were already fully persuaded way back. You’re not hanging on to a third
of a verse that you thought someone said and weren’t sure what they meant. No, you have verse
after verse after verse.
How did Jesus overcome in the wilderness, when He was pushed, pressed, and tempted to the
hilt? What did He do? He said, “It is written…” (Matthew 4:7) Notice He didn’t say this is what
they teach down at the synagogue. Notice He didn’t say, “This is what we believe over at my
church, I think.” No, no, no. “It is written...” He knew what was written, and He was persuaded
of what was written. There was no questioning, there was no wondering, and there was no
wavering. He overcame and came out in victory in the power of the Spirit. He did it as a man.
You and I can do it by His grace and by His Word. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in
the world. (1 John 4:4) But you have to know what you believe. You have to know it—not what
your husband believes, not what your wife believes, but what
you
believe. Why do you believe
it? It is written. I’ve seen it for myself. I know it. I’m sure. That’s why we have 30 reasons
instead of 2. We just keep on. The pounding effect of the Word of God will push out all of the
unbelief.
We’re sure it’s God’s will for all of us to be healed today because my body and your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit.
I want you to notice something in Leviticus 14, when it talks about an individual who comes to
the priest and says he has a sickness in his house. Verses 35-39 say, “He that owneth the house
shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the
plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to
see the house: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the
house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; Then the
priest shall go out of the house, and shut up the house seven days: And the priest shall come
again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
house; and the priest shall…” come back out and say
Brother, the Lord has blessed you
tremendous
ly?
You might say, “Why do you say that Brother Keith?” I keep saying it because millions of
Christians are saying that sickness in the Lord’s house is a blessing in disguise, or in some way
it’s His will, and it pleases Him.
We may not understand it, but it pleases Him some way.
No! He
said, “No, this thing has spread.” Verse 40 continues, “Then the priest shall command that they
take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place
without the city. And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall
pour out the dust,” they take it out, put it out in the dung heap, in an unclean place. “And they
shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar,
and shall plaster the house. And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that
he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; Then
the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting