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Walking in Healing by Love, Part 3

Sound of Faith / Sharon Hardy Knotts and R. G. Hardy
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July 8, 2021 8:00 am

Walking in Healing by Love, Part 3

Sound of Faith / Sharon Hardy Knotts and R. G. Hardy

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Greetings friends and listeners and welcome to the sound of faith. I'm sure not thinking of returning it today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Today's message is very important and pertinent to anyone who has struggled with the need of physical healing. This message is not something I read about or heard about the one I have lived through and still apply every day for my own physical healing. Walking in healing by love working today.

If you mess last week. I'll give you a quick recap were talking about walking in healing not only the old but the state healed. Amen. And we learned that in order to walk in healing.

Obviously, you gotta walk in faith because we walk by faith and not by sight. But we learned that faith is only one side of the coin, the other side of the coin is love because faith works by love and we concluded that we must walk in healing, we must walk in faith. Therefore, we must walk in love. So regardless of how much work you know, and I believe that most of us your faith tabernacle know a lot of word and we know how to minister to our faith. Our faith is minister to regularly and always has been. We found out last week that you can even have mountain moving faith. But if you don't have love is the motivator we are nothing.

We can be using the gifts of the spirit, even working some healing workings of miracles. But you got love is the motivator is as you profit nothing. Amen.

And then we learned that there were three things that abide most of all in God's kingdom and that faith, hope and love but that the greatest of these is love because we found that when we get to heaven we won't need faith because we will have site and we won't need help because Paul said what you hope for that what you've already got but we will always need love and so we learn to do that this walk of love has a vertical dimension and the horizontal dimension vertically and this was so important for me. You have to know and believe that God loves you generic God loves me personally know and be convinced that God loves you and therefore he wants to do good for you. Yasin wants to heal you.

He wants to heal everyone of us because he loves us and we learned that only perfect laws which is mature love casts out fear. And if you had fear you're not mature in love. You've got to work on that. Getting that understanding that God loves you. I even shared with you a breakthrough that I had through a phenomenal episode in my life where first I heard the voice of the devil say that God hates you, and that how God brought me out of that. The next day was floating on air, overwhelmed by the knowledge of how much God loves me again if you were here last week you might get the CD for that and so one of the best ways to deal with unbelief is to minister not only to our faith, but also to our love. Amen. Walking in love, we learn also that we have a horizontal dimension to that love that it is imperative that we walk in love towards one another and that if we don't, we can open the door for the enemy to attack us. We talked about how Miriam and Aaron murmured against her brother Moses the servant of the Lord and she was struck with leprosy and then we know that because Moses was such a wonderful loving man and younger brother.

He pray for her and she was healed now. We didn't she say that to try to threaten anybody with God's going to strike you with sickness. I don't believe that and I'll get on that in a moment, but we did it to show you because the Bible says in Old Testament examples are for learning and admonition.

We can learn from and the big big big thing we learned from that is number and complain and speak evil against people because when you do not all that's in the mix you open a door for the devil to get in. Amen. And we concluded last week by asking the question, if you actually done all that you knew to do to minister to your faith and get your faith built up and edified and inspected. You could feel with in years written man because faith is a spirit, God doesn't give it to your brain gets into your spirit and you could feel that your spirit was getting increased faith was being built up and it was getting strong and yet you have received your healing and someone said to you, you know you've been carrying unforgiveness in your heart against someone so it could go back to your childhood that you're upset about things your parents did to you were someone else, or work through your whole life and even though you say that you've gotten over it as soon as you hear that person's name mentioned, or if you think about that event you get that same old law feeling in your heart.

Amen. And someone said to you if you will forgive that person totally and absolutely you'll get your healing. We said would you do it. We asked the question if you have a tendency to be critical of other people and you speak evil things of other people and you know you might be a nitpicker you may be a fault finder and you may specially put your finger and you don't like this minister and you don't like that one. Amen. And if you had that tendency, and God said to you if you will get over that judge mental spirit. You will get a breakthrough immediately what you do it and guess what the hotel said amen.

We would be willing to do it. Amen. So that was a recap of last week.

Now today let's turn in our Bibles to Exodus 15 and 26 for part two. In order to walk in healing, not just to get healed. But this year we've got a walk in faith. And then we must walk in love.

If we don't, we can give our adversary an advantage over us, you know. Second Corinthians 211 says to forgive one another. Lest Satan should get an advantage over you. That's a very powerful verse and you rarely hear it quoted word says don't give Satan an advantage over you. We tend to use it for other things and there's nothing wrong with that. To say you know don't don't go if you got a problem with immorality, don't go driving a car with somebody that's married man that you are infatuated with or you got, the drugs don't hang around people are doing drugs or alcohol don't hang around people to drink and we use it for that. But if you take it in its context to say you need to forgive one another. Lest Satan get an advantage over you, and I don't want to give them any advantages. Amen. I'm sure that throughout my life I have given an advantage. I didn't do it on purpose.

Often it was through ignorance and then look back and see him now you know now I see I opened the door for that. Amen. And so we don't want to give it advantage. So let's find out what God's word says about our healing and I'm bringing you. Exodus 1526. Because this is a verse that we often quote this is our healing covenant and I know it's Old Testament I will say to that remark. If it's going in the Old Testament and Hebrews tells us in Hebrews 86 that Jesus is the guarantee on they better than it based on Mrs. then when I read this I understand that not only does this work for us but we are promised because guarantor is not our guarantor is Jesus Christ.

But annexes 1526 we read and he said that I will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord my God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments and keep all his statues. I will put none of these diseases upon the which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that he let's see and hear. We had one of the Jehovah covenant names Jehovah Ross I am the Lord your healer.

Jehovah is God's covenant name you don't see Jehovah used in the very early parts of your Bible of Genesis and much you see that its use regularly. Once God makes a covenant with man and the word Jehovah means the God who was and is and evermore shall be from everlasting to everlasting.

So he said here's the condition. This is my part in your part.

If we will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord and do that which is right in his right not in the sight of man, but in the sight of God. And I say this because if you try to do what's right in the sight of man, here's what you can run into over here you got people that are super lenient. You know Grace covers it all. Do whatever you want go wherever you want, you can go to the nightclubs, you can go to the dance hall you can drink and socialize with the ungodly.

You can do all of that. Grace covers it all. So if you go by their standard you're going to be in sin, but then you got the folks over on this side we got those folks are too legalistic there. The Pharisees walking around. Amen. Looking for specs in people's eyes when a catalog and there's something you're going to be over here becoming a Pharisee and so you can do what's right in the sight of men. You gotta do what's right in the sight of God and if you are truly your heart is like an honest and you go before God and say Lord is this right or wrong for me and you are sincere. He will convict one way or the other. And once he convicts you don't talk yourself out of it is that's how people get deceived they let somebody else come along and say yeah, but in support this other thing, when the Holy Ghost checks you your check.

You only nobody else to come and tell you that that's wrong I don't that one was for. Amen. So we don't want to be too lenient and we don't want to be too harsh, but we always always want to speak the truth."

Ephesians 415 we want to the truth in love see that the whole thing speaking the truth in love. Sometimes it's not easy. You have to tell people you know you're going down the wrong path. The enemy is deceiving you. But you have to tell them just make sure you do it in love. Amen. Because if you don't do it in law.

The enemy seizes upon that contentious way and then the person gets focused on that and the not mixing today are not listening to the truth. They need to hear because the enemy is good about doing that. Amen. Don't give them anything to work with, so he said if you will give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes and keep all his law. This is my part. This is your part. Amen. He says then on the remove the sickness and disease, from the midst of you, I will not let those diseases that come on the whenever we see Egyptians. Let's just think the ungodly, who were not in a covenant relationship with God. It doesn't mean that we hate them, we doesn't mean we want them to be sick doesn't mean we think are getting what they deserve. The simple fact is that you do not have a covenant relationship with God.

And when you're not a covenant relationship with God. You don't get the blessings and the benefits now. God in his great compassion and mercy and his sovereignty exam will give it to you anyway and I'm just good and the goodness of the Lord leads to repentance for his children. This is somebody made it without any said in Psalm 89, and neither will I alter the words born out of my mouth.

Amen.

So if we do our part.

Now let me tell you this setting of this verse that Moses delivered to the children of Israel guess what had just happened before it.

They had come to the wilderness and he hadn't gotten any water to drink for three days and they finally found a stream of water and boy were they excited and everybody's going for the water bed are nasty undrinkable they even named Mara, which means better. Amen. So you see that here God is telling them because this is the first instance where the murmuring starts murmuring even that word sounds murmur, you know, it's a fact that sound to it and later longshots that you had angered me 10 times and all that was murmuring and you know enforcement is a 10 chapter God says don't do like they did in the wilderness and one of the things he said was. Don't murmur, and so they had just acted in bad their behavior was bad so God interjects and says look I want to make a covenant with you, now let me just add point of finish what the point is, the water was bitter and God told Moses to get a tree and dip it in the water and when he did the water turn sweet and the people were able to drink all there so many little nuggets there. Amen and most obvious one is that it takes a tree to get the bitterness out of your life and make your life sweet that free is a prototype of the cross.

Amen. And so now God is telling them look I want to make a covenant with you so that you will not have to have the diseases that that were back there in Egypt and you know there's a spiritual and physical connotation here of course. Amen. But specifically I am the Lord that heals the he wasn't talking about healing your sinful soul. He's talking about your sick he's a healer. Amen.

In the present tense, that is built-in to Jehovah. I was I am. I will be.

Amen means that he wants to keep us healed. He wants to heal us and keep us healed so the conclusion is the condition for us to avoid disease and receive healing is to keep God's laws that were not just talking about the 10 Commandments were talking about and also you know he gave that many dietary laws which of course I won't go into but he gave that many dietary laws and he wasn't doing this arbitrarily to make them feel that in some way they would be deprived is like they could meet you know hot dogs or pork chop. There was a reason for the dietary laws because God made the body and he knows how to keep the body well so the dietary laws that they were to keep were also to keep them from getting diseases and you know back then that they didn't have refrigeration like we have in things like that.

Amen. And so you know they know sometimes I get mad at me and this is not in my notes know that pork is for worms know that they were full of parasites. They didn't know that you mean to tell me you live in 2016 and you don't know that I do some view Google later on. Not now. Later on, to the point is is a thing we wanted them to keep the 10 Commandments and the dietary laws plot to love one another. Amen.

Let's look at Deuteronomy 1012 and now, Israel, what does the Lord thy God require of the but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all my heart and with all thy soul to keep his commandments and his statues when I command thee this day for thy good.

Do you know that seven times at least seven their baby more but I found at least in times that God commanded the people to love him. God commanded. I said love me. I'm telling you to love me and love me with all your heart, with all your mind with all your soul, with all your strength and you know salmon is pretty much symbolic meaning of completion and aid and perfection.making a point. But here it begs the question, can you command somebody to love.

Some can you command a person to love. According to the Bible, you can ruin your quiet out there. Amen. Can lobby commanded because in the Bible is a decision it's not a warm fuzzy foo foo feeling decision. Amen. It's a common method that you made to honor his wife and to walk in obedience. Okay, I went to get the men mad at me.

Ephesians 2525 God said why the things to live lives think that's remarkable. I don't see where he says why love your husband but husbands love your amen because of course were wired differently. But then God is telling you to love your wife. You don't like the way she cooks your wife. Amen.

You, your wife, regardless of one thing that gets on your nerves. Amen. You live your life as your life changes. Amen. All of my and you know she's not given you several children and so you know she's not my friend.

Cute little thing that she was before she goes. Babies and teenagers.

The point I anything you want if they will live his life the way God said, my goodness, that wife would say will reciprocate me me know. Give me when a man loves a wife, and loves the woman that way she will return.

I mean, you know there's some repugnant Christians I realize of people out the world. They got bad attitudes. They got little devil in him. Amen. But were talking about godly women are we so a lot can be command did God command system lock-in and to love one another because the whole law. So all of God from Genesis to Deuteronomy and with you.

The rabbis had determined altogether. There are 613 laws. We always think of the 10 Commandments but altogether there are 613 God gave Israel to obey.

That's a lot of laws. Amen. By God, made it easy. He made it easy because he condensed 613 laws all the way down to two and were going to see what that is. Let's turn to Matthew 22 and see what Jesus has to say about the laws was 613 laws in Matthew 22. Looking at verse 35 then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying one of them if we would read the verse before we see is a Pharisee anaconda referred to you what how Pharisees act.

A moment ago, and a lawyer is not a lawyer of a civil government.

This is a lawyer of the of someone who knows the Scriptures they know the law, the Scripture, that would be a PhD. If you know they had going to college.

They got a PhD in theology and such.

So one of them asked Jesus a question but really I brought out last week.

Some people's questions are not sincere. How many know that some people just want to ask questions because they're trying to make you look bad. They're not sincere. That's what this guy was about. So he said to him, asking the question master or the better way would be teacher because I think of master I'm thinking of your my master and I'm under you and I you know I own you, but it really should be teacher.

The word in greatest to DOS: it means a teacher. I don't know what it is here in Hebrew, but it means teacher teacher. This is great. I'm sorry master, which is the great commandment in the law, which is not all the 613, but I want to know which is the greatest. Out of those Jesus said unto him, now shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all lies will and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment. And thus it is just like it is like unto it – alumni neighbor as thy self on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. That is powerful to make it easy for you. You want to know what is the greatest one the greatest one will just take 613 will bring them down to two and the greatest life you must love the Lord my God with all my heart, my mind all night so all lies. And there's another one.

Number two is just like it.

Love your neighbor as yourself because I tell you, if you fulfill number one you will fulfill number two. That's what Jesus was saying if you are truly loving God, not just an intellectual thing, but with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. It's taking your whole being. You will do number two and you won't struggle to do it and you won't stumble to do it. Amen. You don't have to turn there, but James said in James 28 if you want to fulfill the law according to the Scripture.

Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. So here's how we walk in healing is by walking in love, keeping the commandments getting back to Exodus 1526. If we keep all his statues. All his commandments. Then we will not have these diseases.

Now we've boiled it down and made it simple to love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Amen.

So let's go back to the Old Testament and let's go to Deuteronomy and read a verse in 715, Deuteronomy 715 and the Lord will take away from the all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest upon the but will lay them upon all then and not upon the so again we see that he's saying that God will take away all disease. The reason why bringing you would Deuteronomy is because you know Deuteronomy means do means to honor Mimi's law so mean second law. Another words, it's the second confirmation because in the mouth of two or three every word must be established when you read Deuteronomy sometimes you feel like déjà vu. I did not read this before. Yes, you read it before Moses get ready to go to be with God.

This is his last words and he's going back and rehearsing what God has said amen for that second witness.

Now back to Exodus and this time a good look at chapter 23 and will look at verse 25 and you shall serve the Lord your God, he shall bless thy bread and I water wow do we need that blessing today and I will take sickness away from the midst of the there shall nothing cast their young or be barren in thy land, the number of thy days, I will fulfill on claim and that one. What about you. Amen. So he's saying that if you will serve me. I'm in a bless your bread and water. Now if that was important then it is a thousand times is important to us today because we are now just beginning to wake up and realize that since the 19th.

These are our foods had been radically changed. They're not just coming you know from a nice little farm somewhere to the store.

The farms now have a genetically engineered seed to grow the crops. Amen in order for them to keep turning over many many different crops because you don't still plant this plant and this is a harvested turnaround plan. Something else and a turnaround plan. Something else and you know in the Old Testament, God had a law that the seventh year the field had to lie dormant.

They could not plan anything in the seventh year. What was the reason for that. The ground the earth was depleted and God wanted it to rest. He wants everybody to have their day arrest. Even the ground.

Amen. And so they had to let it lie often that seventh year and then they could go back to plain again. The eighth year while today they are not going to let a field lie dormant for years now that God has the money and you know we gotta sell these products. So what are they do… Put fertilizer in. Well, let's just put pesticides in that's just what insecticides and whatever we do to keep the crops growing and growing more and more and more.

Amen and think about our meat industry in our poultry industry the way they shoot him full of all the hormones in the antibiotics and all of these things. Amen. So we need God's blessing on our food and we need God's blessing on our water.

Look what happened to that town up there and think it was Michigan where they got the bright idea to switch from Detroit's water to her with Flynn's water. One of those places and what they ended up doing leaching high amounts of lead into the water and the people were drinking that water and getting sick and not only that, for children who knows what will do in the future. Amen. If you don't think your grace when you eat, you know, you better start doing it now is because you need to be thankful for God's given you food.

We'll think about that much because none of us ever go hungry for sure we need God's blessing on our food because honestly we don't know what's in it. We knowingly eat something bad but we don't really know. Do we and our waters are polluted and you know I remember when I was pregnant with Scott. I just love tunafish and I ate tunafish all the time all the time and back then nobody said you know I don't do that now. Motel women delete much tunafish don't need to know it's not too much mercury in there but hurt your baby and back then I think I a tune every day and I didn't know it at the time but later on I learned that the particular thing that to not supplies causes of the baby's brain to be more intelligent and I got a sense that's pretty smart. I don't know if he got from the to know if he got it from his mother, but hey, pregnant women don't eat to Noreen. Very little to.

You've got to have God's blessing on it. Amen. And I love the way it ends your and so you will fulfill the number of your days. That means whatever God is written in your book when he wrote your name down. The day of your birth. Amen. And according to Psalm 139, we will return there, but it says God knows all our days even before we were born. Amen that you will fulfill the number of your days.

Now, this says to me that it's not absolute. I will fulfill men as long as I'm walking in that blessing, and as long as the blessings all my food, but it might blatantly ignore the dietary laws and go junk food on and way too much sugar or something and end up with high blood pressure or diabetes, or other things. Amen. That wasn't what God's will was that we have to keep the laws.

Amen. Amen. What an insightful and invaluable work for us today walking in healing by love. You know that in the book of acts the Chronicle of the early church. The term love is not used once. However, the terms in one accord and in one mind are found 13 times in the first few chapters you see was not necessary to have to keep talking about love. When they were all walking in love is great teaching of the gifts of the spirit. At first Corinthians 12, and 14 Paul stopped midstream to write chapter 13 on the role of love in the operation of the gifts he made it clear that unless love is the motivator for the gifts I am nothing. I conveyed nothing and I gain nothing, not even mountain moving faith can operate fully without love, because at this is the key to getting healed and stayed healed. Faith works by love, Paul concluded that there now abides faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love because love never fails. But without love, faith, sales, and hope dies. This is why it is impossible to walk in faith and not walk in love and it is why some Christians do not receive their healing and or keep it walking in love is both vertical and horizontal. When we know how much God loves us.

We believe his word to heal us and we don't allow fear to paralyze our faith because perfect love casts out fear. We must also walk in love towards others in the body of Christ. So if you have done all you can do to purify and strengthen your faith and you feel your faith is rising, and yet still you have not received your healing. It's time to check your loved one where there was bitterness criticism judge minimalism jealousy a lack of faith is not the problem, but a lack of love.

I learned all these things on my journey to healing that I still must apply every day in this groundbreaking teaching is a two CD set can be ordered from love gift of $15 or more for the radio ministry to order walking in healing by love failed to sound the faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 four shop online and sound the faith that were also available on MP3s to next time. This share not saying