The Supernatural Ministry of Jesus (Part 2)

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   we worship you lord we worship you lord we thank you for your presence again we thank you lord for your word god lord we thank you for the written word god that's exalted above everything else but lord we thank you that the holy spirit still speaks today lord you said god that your sheep would hear your voice and they would know you and follow you lord and we just thank you god and we we thank you for the gifts of the spirit flowing this morning and we just pray for more more of of you more of your gifts more of your revelation and direction lord you said the sons and daughters of god are led by the spirit of god that is what it's about let us be filled with the holy spirit and and be led by the spirit lord especially in these last days and it's in jesus name we pray amen and amen hallelujah praise god good to worship the lord praise god you know just as we were worshiping there and we have people listening and we just uh welcome those listening by our internet radio to uh fire and grace church and i'm pastor dean odle and we're just glad to have you and we're glad for everyone here and we just uh we thank you we thank the lord for his presence because he's speaking um and i don't know maybe i'm going to be shifting the message a little bit this morning because of course last week i preached on the on the supernatural ministry of jesus and how that that ministry of jesus the supernatural ministry of jesus uh continues in his church even though there's many churches and ministers and seminaries and bible schools and bible college professors that try to say that tongues have ceased and knowledge has vanished away and you know when the bible came all that was done away with and of course that's about the most foolish thing i've ever heard in my life because we went through that last week you know hebrews 13 verse 8 there when it says that jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever he rose from the dead and he's alive and well and if he lives if he lives in us and he lives in his church then he hasn't changed and we went through those scriptures last week that what did jesus do he went about teaching the word of god he went about casting out demons he went about healing the sick and doing miracles and that the church is to continue on with that and um and and i say that because you know there's a lot of faults out there right now and you guys know that that i believe that i'm not naive a christian here i know there's a lot of false gifts of the you know that people are saying

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   are the gifts of the spirit and they're operating in spirits of divination kundalini spirits there's all kinds of counterfeit out there but folks i've said it before and i'm going to say it again if there's a counterfeit dollar bill that means there had to be a real dollar bill amen and i'm not going to let the devil stop me from be being hungry and thirsty for the real just because the devil slipped in some counterfeits that would be like you saying you know you've been using money your entire life and somebody you know by accident by no intent of your own you you got a counterfeit hundred dollar bill and then you got hassled a little bit by the secret service and you went through a little problem and then they figured out well it wasn't you but you know one got slipped in there and you know that'd be like you saying well since i got a counterfeit hundred dollar bill i'm never gonna use money again i'm through with money and that's not what god wants us to do he wants us to dig in his word and know the word of god and then say okay lord what is for us let us get filled with the holy spirit let's have the real gifts of the spirit let's have real healings in jesus name let's let's see people delivered from demons because guess what people still have demonic problems and they need deliverance from them and christians are supposed to set people free the church of jesus christ is supposed to be a place where they get the truth of the word of god and they get their spiritual needs met by the supernatural ministry of jesus christ that's the way it's supposed to work amen so let's let's just i want to review a little bit before we dive into the rest of this but of course what did i base this on last week and and we based it on first of all the gospel of john chapter 14 and verse 12. go ahead and turn there because this this verse needs to sink in and i'm only going to review for a minute somebody say reviewing is good amen if you don't have this verse memorized as a christian you should because to me it's one of the most awesome things that jesus ever said and i think as as the church in the still in the world that we're still trying to figure out how to walk in this okay we need to figure out how to walk in this more and more individually and corporately as the church of jesus christ um but anyway i'm going to review a little bit i i think that's a good thing all right what the verse here john 14 and verse 12 jesus said this verily verily or truly truly i say unto you he that believeth on me the works that i do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because i go into my father and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will i do that the father may be glorified in the son if you shall ask

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   anything in my name i will do it now of course this has to be coupled with the verses in first john 5 when he says we ask anything according to his will problem is a lot of people don't believe it's god's will to heal so they don't ask or they don't believe for it but it is god's will to heal people jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil jesus healed many many people he cast out many many demons out of many many people and he said that the works that he did we shall do also let's read that again let it sink in is there any um conditions on this no the only condition is he that believes on me and the word believe there is the greek word pistus apistuo which means to rely on to trust in to cling to and to be constant in that profession in that relationship with jesus christ to trust him not only for salvation but everything provided in salvation you know i don't understand how these bible school scholars and teachers and preachers can talk about the atonement for sin like they go to isaiah 53 and they talk about the atonement for sin that he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities they'll talk about that part some of them a lot of them don't talk about that anymore they'll talk about the part of isaiah 53 and the atonement of jesus christ when he shed his blood they'll talk about he was bruised you know for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him but they don't want to talk about in the same verses there in in isaiah 53 5 it says very clearly and by his stripes we are healed so jesus shed his blood by taking the the whipping upon his back for our healing and people say well that's just spiritual healing well is that all that jesus did in the new testament no if that was all he did in the new testament he never healed anybody physically then we could say that but we cannot say that and listen if the if your church out there or your pastor or your bible school or your seminary if they say that jesus doesn't heal people anymore then they're saying that jesus christ has changed and that is a false doctrine it's a false teaching and as a matter of fact paul told timothy if you hear that nonsense to turn away from it and run as fast as you can all right let's turn to that let's turn to that i this was one we looked at last week but i want to look at it again and this is second timothy but isn't that amazing why you're turning that amazing she said the works that i do you shall do also and greater works than these you know just this week you know i

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   preached that last sunday tell this little story while you're turning to ii timothy but just just last sunday i preached the first part of this message you know the supernatural ministry of jesus and how it continues or should is supposed to continue the church today for those who will believe it and step out in it and talked about how peter stepped out on the water you know and and even though he got out on the water and sank and and messed up a little bit he cried out to jesus to save him but how i talked about i'd rather be a wet water walker than a dry boat rider amen all right so we we we learned that sometimes stepping out into this realm and trying to to step out in faith for for jesus to heal people and to set people free we're not going to do it perfect because we're not jesus okay he did it perfectly because he was god in the flesh and had the holy spirit in him without measure we're just kind of trying to limp along in this and learn and do the best we can so we're not going to do it perfect just like peter jesus was out walking on the water did it perfectly peter got out there and walked on the water for a little while just like jesus did the same work jesus was doing the same miracle but then he got his eyes off jesus a little bit started sinking and and uh got a little scared that's normal you get out here in this realm and start trying to pray for people that are sick and dying and and you know what people are doubting and people are fighting you and people are you know giving you false teaching and you know and people in you know in traditional churches are giving you grief over over stepping out into this realm and so you can get your eyes off jesus and start doubting or start fearing what people think and you start sinking in this and you can you cannot do it ever again you can step out and not do it ever again and just to give you an example i mean sunday i preach on this monday we're on the job in phoenix city where we're doing an addition on a house and the the homeowner's little girl that's about two and a half to three years old somewhere in that range burning up with a fever 104.8 i've been burning up all day they were trying to give her you know the advil the tylenol it wasn't even making a dent which i believe that that shows that there was some kind of spiritual attack going on in that situation but kevin and patrick were inside working and they knew about it i was outside working i didn't even know and so they talked to the mom about you know you need to you know you need to uh ask the pastor to come in and lay hands on this child and jesus will heal this baby and touch this baby you gotta you gotta remember this is kind of a divided house because some you know they got the grandparents there and and some of them believe and some of them don't and uh you know some of them are not living for jesus more you know so you gotta you got a little different you know thing and so she was a little hesitant the mom was just because you know she'd seen some of the counterfeits and the extreme people that are on tv and she's like i

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