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The Power of Faith and Love To Heal

so come on in class and take a seat and get your Bible.

Don't you come in here without your Bible.

Don't you be doing that.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so excited.

I'm excited about this college, I'm excited about the students, and I'm excited about all of the people all over the world that are watching; and learning more about Jesus, more about the ministry of Jesus, more about the life of Jesus, more about his ideas and his thoughts that are written in this book of covenants; and we thank You for it in his name, and we believe we receive the anointing again today in his name.

In the matchless sweet name of Jesus, we pray and consider it done because of the authority in that name.

Amen.

So, open your Bibles today to the book of Hebrews.

As students of ministry, it is an absolute necessity.

Jesus taught on faith.

The apostle Paul taught on faith.

He is the one by the Holy Spirit that wrote in a letter, "Faith works by love".

Well, of course it does.

God is love.

Now, I want to remind you of this.

The apostle of love, the apostle John is the only one they couldn't kill.

He's the one that wrote in 1 John 5, there's certain words throughout that little book of first John, you need to take time to... just for a time just to read that book every day.

It's not long.

Doesn't take long to read it, but devour it.

Just read it and live it.

We've known and believed the love that God has to us.

God is love.

Perfected love casts out fear, because fear has torment.

And in that book, he made this statement.

Let's just turn over there.

Hold your place there in the book of Hebrews and turn over to 1 John 5. Come down to the 17th verse, "All unrighteousness is sin.

There is a sin not unto death.

We know".

Say we know.

"That whosoever is born of God sinneth not".

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah.

What do you mean by that?

Now, wait a minute.

What did he start this little book with?

Right there in the first chapter.

"If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, or righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness".

Now, the forgiveness is there all the time, but it's when we confess it that we get rid of it.

I heard the Lord, you've heard me say this before, years ago, and I was in a meeting that... Anyway.

And then the Lord said to me, Kenneth, when you confessed that sin was not when I found out about it.

Did you ever think about the fact that all of our praying and so forth has not informed God of anything, but we need to do that because it is our communion with God.

We are family, and we come to him as the father of the family and we ask and we receive, we knock and it's open unto us.

Amen.

We seek...

That word actually means research.

We research him in his Word, and we find and we search out the scriptures that cover our situation and we take those scriptures that cover our situation and we pray those scriptures.

We pray those words.

And we pray those words back to God.

And then we, in that prayer we're, "Thank God it's done.

I have it now, and I forgive if I have ought against any".

But now, notice this, come on back over here at that fifth chapter.

"We know that whosoever is born of God".

He's already said...

He introduced the fact that God is love.

We know that whosoever is born of love, sins not.

He doesn't continually practice sin, but he that is born of God, keeps himself.

How?

In love.

"And that wicked one touches him not".

Touches him not.

So you just tell the devils, you don't touch me.

I walk in love and I practice love, according to John chapter 13, what is called the last supper right before Jesus went to the cross.

And of 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 chapters of John are all in that upper room.

And he said, "I give you a new commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.

And all men will know that you are my disciples by the way you love one another".

That's a commandment.

It is not a strong suggestion.

It is a commandment and it covers all of the other commandments.

Jesus said it, the apostle Paul said it.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

If there be any other commandment, he said, it's covered by love your neighbor as yourself, because love does no ill to his neighbor.

Amen.

So, now to the book of Hebrews.

We're going to talk about faith, what it is, and how it works.

Now, I'm going to read this to you.

In fact, we can put it up on the screen, and Hebrews 1 in the Amplified.

Now, faith, you see that?

When is faith?

Now.

Now.

Faith is now, because this is the faith of God.

The power of faith that we have in our spirit beings was the faith of God.

And you know that.

We won't take time this morning to go through all of the...

We can find it in the book of Ephesians and so forth.

Now, faith is the assurance.

Look at this: the confirmation.

Now, we're talking about healing and the importance of divine healing in every ministry, to teach it and preach it if you're a follower of Jesus.

Now, faith is the confirmation, the title deed of the things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see and conviction of their reality.

Faith perceiving as real fact, what is not revealed to the senses.

So, we walk by faith and not by sight.

That's what the apostle Paul said.

We are totally convinced, and we know that the apostle Paul also wrote in the book of Romans 10.

Amen.

Well, keep your place there in the book of Hebrews, and we'll go back to Romans 10:4, "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law that the man which does those things shall live by them.

But the righteousness which is of faith speaks".