The Supernatural Ministry of Jesus (Part 1)

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   lord we thank you lord we sent your presence here today lord everybody just lift up your voices and and pray for just a minute and ask the lord to send his glory here this morning to send his presence and his power to speak to us to let the word build faith in us lord let your word stir us lord to step out into new areas of faith to step out on the water with jesus to do some things that are supernatural lord to minister life and healing and deliverance and salvation to people around us lord we we know god that you want the ministry of jesus to continue through your people lord we thank you for that lord i'm just praying over this whole congregation everyone here god young and old it doesn't matter all in between those listening today lord we just ask you lord god to move us god into a fresh anointing into a fresh infilling of the holy ghost into a fresh level of faith no matter what uh crazy stuff we've seen out there in the in the christian church world when it comes to healing and deliverance and the supernatural god you're still a supernatural god you're still oh god the same god who created the heavens and the earth you're still the same jesus who cast out demons and healed the sick and raised the dead and and caused the to walk and lord we thank you lord that you still do that today and lord god that you're going to touch and heal people god even in this room lord god we're going to believe for healing to flow and we're going to believe for your power to flow no matter how many false prophets are working out there no matter how many false demonic miracles are happening jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever and so lord we praise you and we invite you here and we thank you lord for your mercy and we thank you for your love and we thank you for your power that you will give to those who believe we pray that this morning in jesus name and amen hallelujah i tell you what i'm kind of fired up this morning it took a little while the devil does not like preachers to preach on what i'm going to preach on this morning or talk about it because guess what faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god amen and i believe this about every true christian every true born-again christian that's walking with god should walk in the supernatural you hear me every true born-again christian should be filled with the holy ghost and speak in other tongues every born-again christian should lay their hands on the sick and see them recover in the mighty name of jesus every born-again christian should cast demons out of people that

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   are having trouble with demons amen every born-again believer has the power and i'm going to show you this morning in the word every born-again believer has the power of god if we would just believe the word of god and act on it we have the power and authority through jesus to do the works that he did to raise the dead to see the crippled walk the blind see the death here to see cancer disappear and every other disease disappear because jesus christ has not changed and his ministry continues through his church that will believe now notice i added that we'll believe there's a great portion of the church world that does not believe this and the devil is always at war with our faith he's always trying to get even those of us that believe to to doubt or to get weak or to get so involved in the flesh or sin that we can't operate in the supernatural but that is not what god wants god wants us to move forward and set the captives free i don't care how many people that you've prayed for and maybe they didn't get healed or how many people you tried to minister to and they didn't get free that's not the issue god's word is still true no matter if we do it perfectly right every time or not amen yeah that's either we're going to believe god's word is true well i prayed for somebody and they didn't get healed well does that mean god's word is not true or what maybe there's something wrong with you maybe there was something in the situation that we didn't know about maybe just wasn't enough information but the bottom line is god's word is true i'm going to read something i found one of my old books that's been missing for over 20 years [Music] i found it out at my aunt's house stuck in a an old hutch i've been wondering where this book went off to this is a revival uh why revival terry's by leonard ravenhill was written in 1959 it's a classic on revival he's one of the great revivalists this guy was mentors to some of the greatest preachers that ever lived david wilkerson steve hill the evangelist of the brownsville revival dr michael brown this man was a mentor to those people he was close friends with a.w tozer matter of fact a.w tozer wrote the forward to this book um but he's got some great chapter titles in this book i want to give you a few chapter titles before i read the little excerpt i'm going to read with all thy chapter one with all thy getting get unction prayer grasp eternity where are the elijahs of god revival in a boneyard revival tarries because the chapter that i'm about to read a portion from unbelieving believers wanted prophets for a day of doom

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   fire begets fire the prodigal church in a prodigal world as the church goes so goes the world and of course the last one known in hell and there are many others it's a great book if you have never read it you would do well to read it but in chapter 8 the title unbelieving believers i'm just going to read the first paragraph because it's so powerful and this man was a man of prayer preached in many revivals he was british but he came to live here in america for many years he died i think it was in 1994. this is what he says one of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of god read it and believe it then the rest of us will be embarrassed we have adopted the convenient theory that the bible is a book to be explained whereas first and foremost it is a book to be believed and after that to be obeyed can somebody say amen i'm going to read that again he said one of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of god read it and believe it then the rest of us will be embarrassed we have adopted the convenient theory that the bible is a book to be explained whereas first and foremost it is a book to be believed and after that to be obeyed you hear me believe do we truly believe the bible see for the most part i'm just going to tell you most churches and most christians say they believe the bible but they do not believe the bible and most preachers today in some of these big churches who went to bible college should be ashamed of themselves because they want to talk about exegesis and hermeneutics and homiletics and all their fancy words and yet they don't apply them to the truth when it comes to the truth of the gifts of the holy spirit and the healing power of god and that jesus christ has not changed they don't apply it therefore they are intellectual hypocrites okay because my bible says and we're going to turn there to start out but hebrews chapter 13. turn there with me and pardon me i get a little fired up so those of you aren't used to that i'm sorry but i get a little fired up but if you're not passionate about about the bible then it's time to get passionate amen hebrews chapter 13. we're gonna look at verse seven and eight and nine let's just read those everybody with me i want you to see it for yourselves

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   i don't want you to think pastor dean's just making this stuff up all right everybody ought to know this verse but it seems like the theologians and most churches decided they don't believe this all right let's look at it go lay a foundation verse 7 remember them which has have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of god whose faith follow i still see people turning hebrews toward the back near james don't get there again it's important to look at the scriptures we've gotten spoiled with ipads and ipods and iphones and screens where people put the scriptures up for you but this church we need to look at them amen all right hebrews 13 verse 7 he says remember them which have the rule over you or your elders in the church who have spoken unto you the word of god whose faith follow whose faith follow that would be peter james john paul right he said whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation and what is the end of their conversation jesus christ verse 8 jesus christ the same yesterday today and forever boy if you don't have that verse memorized and you don't have that verse underlined in your bible you said jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever now listen folks we're going to look at this in in in depth today but i want to say this when jesus came and began his ministry after he was baptized and filled with the holy spirit he went out into the wilderness he was tempted of the devil 40 days fasting it says he returned to galilee in the power of the spirit and he began to do three things he began to teach the word of god with the anointing and power of the holy ghost that brought conviction he began to heal the sick every manner of sickness and disease and he began to cast out demons that is what jesus christ did and he said that the cross was about destroying the works of the devil right that's what it says in the book of first john right that jesus came to destroy the works of the devil now i'm going to show you some scriptures but i want these things to seek in he says what jesus christ the same yesterday today and forever and then the next verse he says

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