The Healing Power Of A Joyful Heart (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode
The Healing Power Of A Joyful Heart (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode
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You are watching the sermon, The Healing Power Of A Joyful Heart, preached on Aug 6, 2017 by Joseph Prince.
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How many of you would like to be in a place not to be sick? The root word of “sickness” is to be worn down in strength. The devil shoots you with something that grieves your heart, something that makes you worried. And you don’t understand why but you were undergoing a stressful period, you were worn down in strength.
“A merry heart doeth good” “like a medicine.” Do you think God is joking? It is a medicine that has no side effects! Even when things go wrong, rejoice in Him! Keep a merry heart! It’s a joy in the Lord that releases healing. “For the joy set before Him” “he endured the cross.” No wonder He fell and He got up and fell again.
He loved you, man! Hallelujah. To God be all the glory, Amen. Those are wonderful testimonies, and especially when you are going through things like this, you know, how in an instant, the Lord touch you, you are so grateful for what the Lord has done. It is not something that the world always has an answer for. Sometimes you can go back to the doctor again and again and…
Doctors are wonderful people. Alright, number one, you cannot just be a doctor that is cognizant of the different terms of all the chemicals that you have to handle and dispense of but you got to be a people person. You gotta assuage the fears, anxieties of your patients, you gotta listen to them. You gotta endure them.
Amen. Be long suffering with them. So we thank God for doctors. They are fighting the same enemies of mankind that God hates. Amen. And this is the real battle. Amen? It’s not fighting people. It is fighting these kind of enemies. So whenever you read in the Bible, in the Old Testament, and you read about destroying the enemies.
God commands the people to destroy the enemies because the enemies have done this, done that; abused their children and killed them and destroyed…and raped their women and pillaged their villages and all that. Those enemies even back then under the law was, they were real enemies but today, you need to apply them to your life and know them as spiritual enemies. Amen
And many of them even include sickness. So those stories there, the names, the names of those people, they are names that name, in the Hebrew as sickness, disease. So God teaches you from the Old Testament how to destroy them. Amen. Because 2000 years ago, Jesus hung on the cross and by His stripes, we are healed.
You know, one of the reasons Jesus went through the scourging before He went to the cross; Most of the sacrificial animals, they are first.., listen carefully, they are first killed. And the way they kill it is very humane. The way God ordained it, right. I read about this, if they have, they practice animal sacrifice; They find that vessel alright, on your neck and then, with a very sharp knife, they just cut it, real fast
And the enemy, and the animal is unconscious. Straight away unconscious and then, it bleeds, it dies. Ok. There is no shock. Whereas if an animal dies out of shock, it releases toxins into its blood. It releases toxin into its muscles even. When you eat those kind of animals, it’s not good.
That’s why the Bible says you shall not eat of anything that dies by itself. Amen. Because of disease or because of sudden shock or whatever. So the enemy, I say “enemy” all the time, it is first killed and then it is put on the altar. Our Lord Jesus, however, He suffered first. For the animal, there is no suffering.
For Jesus, He suffered first and then He was put on the altar, alright, to be crucified. Now why that is so? Because every pain, there is a verse I read last night, or yesterday evening, it says, “Wound for wound. Burning for burning. Stripe for stripe.” So for everything that you have gone through, Jesus bore it in His own body. Can I have a good amen? Alright, and He bore our sins in His body.
By the way, I just want to say this real quick, this is very interesting but it’s just for your own knowledge. The Bible never says that Jesus bear our sins in His spirit. Ok, I know that this is controversial for some people and all that, they will argue with that. He never bore our sins in His spirit. In all the scriptures that you read, “who bear our sins in his own body on the tree.
” Alright, His soul was involved. Who made His…God made His soul an offering for sin, but it’s never His spirit bore the sins. Are you listening, people? Amen. So, He, it’s not important for people to know exactly all these things but it does make a difference when people say that Jesus died spiritually. Jesus didn’t die spiritually.
I repeat, Jesus didn’t die spiritually. He cannot die spiritually because He is very God but He’s also very man. So being very man, He could die, but He could not die spiritually. Do you understand that? Ok, anyway, I won’t go into that. There’s a big thing, debate, last time, about people who believe Jesus died spiritually and all that.
But what is important is this; the animal that’s put on the, on the sacrificial altar, they first flay the animal. You know what is flay? Alright, they remove the skin. They remove the fur, of course, and then they remove the skin exposing the inward parts and then they put it on the altar. Ok, then becomes a burnt offering.
Now, when Jesus hung on the cross, His back was, in front even, was one bloody mess already. You could hardly see skin. In fact in Psalms, the messianic psalms, Jesus actually, literally said this, “My bones look and stare at me.” I believe Psalms 22, “My bones look and stare at me.
” So it was the scourging that caused his flesh to be stripped off him. He was flayed literally, before placed on the altar. Ok, don’t forget also He’s very man. As man, He felt tired. As man, He could feel pain. Just because alright, as deity put on human flesh, He never used His deity, alright, to stop suffering in His own body or in His emotions or in His mind.
