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Our Bodies Are Living Sacrifices
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Say this out loud:
“I can be whole. I can be healthy. I can be strong.
It is the will of God. All things are possible to him that believes.
All things are possible to him that believes, and I believe.”
As I was teaching this in our services, I heard in my spirit that there will be testimonies, miracle
testimonies. Things that were missing, and things that people were born without are going to be
put back in them. God’s going to put it in them.
Some say, “Ah, I don’t believe that.” Then they believe God
cannot
do it. They believe some
things are
not
possible with God. We do believe it. Glory be to God.
“Well what if my body is in an unacceptable condition?” Now, did you hear how I said that? I
didn’t say
you
were unacceptable. I didn’t say your
body
was unacceptable. I said an
unacceptable condition. What is unacceptable to Him? It was the disease, the blemishes, the
deformities. He received sheep and goats all the time, but it was the disease that disqualified
them. The seed of Aaron served in priest positions all the time, too. He was receiving the sons of
Aaron, but what was unacceptable? The disease that was in them. The disease was unacceptable.
Now notice what Luke 17:11 says. “And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him
ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus,
Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them…”
just be patient boys,
and bear your cross humbly, for this is your lot in life, and the Lord has seen fit to bless you like
this. So, just let this be your testimony, that you love Him anyway.
No—it’s good to love the
Lord anyway, no matter what’s going on in your life, but it’s wrong to say He put it there. It’s
wrong to say He caused you to be that way. It’s wrong because these diseases are un-Godly.
They are not of God. They are not God-like. They are ugly. They are nasty. They make people
stink. They make them rot while they live. Is that of God? Is that Godly? They take this beautiful
thing that God has made in His own likeness and image and emaciate it and twist it and distort it
until it barely resembles Him anymore. How can He be pleased with it? He’s not. That’s why
when all this is fixed and restored, there will be no more of it. In the new heavens and the new
earth, there is not going to be one more headache, not one more ache and pain. There will be no
disease, there will be no hospitals, no cemeteries, and no mental institutions. Why? Because none
of that ever was of God; it was only here because of sin and because of the curse and because of
death. But soon and very soon, even death itself will be no more, and all there will be is life, the
abundant life that Jesus came to give us all.
But I for one want to go ahead and take advantage of the firstfruits of this, to take advantage of
the earnest, the first part of this, until we get the rest.
These men are full of leprosy. They have a terminal, incurable condition, and He said, “Go show
yourselves to the priests.” Have you read that? We were back there in Leviticus just a bit ago.
Have you read what He’s talking about? They were only to show themselves to the priest when
they were healed, but at this particular moment, do they look healed? Do they feel healed? They
are full of leprosy. They were only supposed to go search out the priest after they were healed