Day 40

➡ 0:00 - Matthew 17

➡ 5:45 - We'll have 2 question days.

8:20 - v.20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. - If it's a promise from Jesus, it's a promise from the Father. God is speaking. The Father speaks through the Son. Even Holy Spirit speaks only what He hears.

9:35 - Taming of the tongue. Must be possible. The more surrendered in the place of communion, the better our alignment will be with His thinking - in expression. Mature.

10:30 - Take this promise personally. He gave it to you. [Conversation with God scenarios]

11:05 - Don't get mad at God.

12:25 - v.19 - Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: - He's not throwing it back in your face. If you had had faith, they wouldn't have died. That's how we here it because that's how we talk to one another.

14:15 - What is the object of our faith in healing? - Faith works through love. He loves that person.

15:50 - Reasons men aren't healed - Christ the Healer - many insights but you don't nee the chapter - 22 Reasons Why Men Aren't Healed. That chapter will give you a mental excuse. It will rob you of faith that works through love. And there is another book out there - 30 reasons why.

19:30 - The voice Eve heard - That kind of reasoning is the same voice that Eve heard in the garden. Twisted something that was straight, true and direct. The day you eat from the tree is the day you surely die - Gen. 2:17. Is everybody really going to be healed? The reality is that not everybody is healed... The exact same language. It's the knowledge of good and evil. The day you eat from the tree is the day you surely die. "Aww... Did God really say...?" [extended comments]

22:00 - What do you think of "free will"? - Free will is one of the most deceiving topics on the planet because you start determining what is and isn't free will. I would say, throw it away and know that God loves all men and wants to heal all men. Forget about free will. Here's why... What a lot of people say is concocted through life and emotions and feelings. And it isn't even their real heart. They are just speaking through all they know.

24:40 - Raising the dead doesn't have anything to do with free will. It has to do with God wanting all of us to live.

26:35 - Are people who are raised from the dead also made physically whole? - I've never heard of anybody who was raised from the dead not being whole. I've heard of many unbelievers raised from the dead.

27:00 - Witch doctor - died cursing God - son saved for one month - son prayed for father.

28:30 - Participant testimony - raised from the dead.

29:25 - It's not about God putting on a show. It's about God loving people.

29:55 - Time-frame for Life - Is there a time-frame for length of life in scripture? - Drop the seventy years and just pursue long life. Run hard and fulfill all of the will of God. And one night when it's all fulfilled you can just go to sleep. Once 70 comes and you get cancer we permit it to kill someone because they are in their seventies. Cancer is not God.

31:25 - Honor your father and mother and you will receive long life.

31:35 - Set your love upon Him... and with long life He will satisfy you.

31:45 - If I had a predetermined time upon the earth, how could he promise satisfying me with long life.

32:00 - God doesn't give life only to take it. It's the thief who steals, kills and destroys. Any other thought subverts our confidence when we need the kingdom the most.

34:00 - Rationalizing in God - Why would God go to all of the trouble to give people life and then turn around and take people from the earth?

40:00 - How do you respond when people don't want you to pray for them to be raised from the dead? - Ask why? Where do you reserve the right to make that decision? I thought you were His. Sounds like you are still yours.

42:00 - When we behold Him every twist in our thinking during life will be immediately exposed. I don't want to be standing there all pitiful because I let life be bigger than Him.

42:30 - I think about this kind of stuff. I ask Holy Spirit to shake me free of all of that kind of potential.

43:00 - [continuing discussion surrounding the death of a 9 month old]

44:20 - We're the body of Christ. The embodiment of His power. He put the power of life and death in our tongue. Satan knows that we have that power and He loves it when we speak out doubts, excuses, etc.

45:20 - Does a Christian have to die? - Paul says that we're going to receive a brand new body that has never known sin. Some people teach that a Christian doesn't have to die. But I don't have faith for that. But if that is what they have faith for - I say go for it. And it doesn't change the big picture of manifesting Jesus to the world. If you are going to make that doctrine, somebody needs to manifest that doctrine.

46:20 - Franklin Hall also wrote a book - 100 reasons why a Christian doesn't have to die. When he was 85, he died.

46:45 - Never die guy - You need a deeper revelation. You've got religious spirits in you. We don't have to die. Death for the Christian is death to himself [conversation].

48:00 - What's your end times dispensation theology Dan? I don't even care to talk about it. I just know that when we run life well, I'll be in the right place.

48:20 - Participant Comment - On people telling her that she is just getting older - You can't accept that. Throw out the 70 year thing. There is something we let up on when we reach that goal. And we allow something that is not God to take us out because we have reached the age.

49:00 - Don't write people off because they have reached a certain age. Someone might come to know Christ if they live a little longer.

49:15 - But Dan, we've got to die of something - shows shallow understanding of spiritual things. You are saying we have to die of disease. What if your body just runs it's course. What if you just go to sleep and don't wake up. That's what my grandfather did - 99.5 years - not sickness.

49:40 - Participant comment on Elijah and Enoch - They are going to have to come back and die? They didn't die. - I don't know. I have no answer.

50:30 - Death of Moses.

50:40 - Don't accept the aging thing. I'm going to be a living epistle on this.

51:20 - The promise of 70 years. But then don't give up once you reach that mark. Don't let your language change.

52:00 - Participant's comment - mother always quoted that 70 year promise and died the day after 70. But there was no promise.

53:00 - We make doctrine the big issue. If we really believed that 70 year thing we would probably run a whole lot harder in our 40's and 50's and leave a better legacy. We get indoctrinated and let it take the place of truth. We debate. We let knowledge puff us up.

56:00 - Tangent issues - don't be distracted. A lot of these things are distractions. We are debating lesser things and ignoring the greater things.

56:50 - You shouldn't be just waiting to die. We've got this little tiny window called life. It's here and gone. So if you believe you only have a certain amount of time, that can inspire you to run well. If you are going to live forever, then for what? Just for the sake of living forever? Or to be more effective and sow more and see more fruit.

➡ 58:25 - We got on the free will question and I took you to Mt. 10 and I just wanted you to see something real quick and then we'll get back to Mt. 17...

58:30 - Matthew 10 - v.7 - And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. - This is command form. There are no if, and's or but's. It's plain. Preach that the kingdom of God is at hand. And because it's at hand...

58:50 - v.8 - Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. - When Jesus is teaching... He is Lord. He is truth. There are no qualifiers, no exceptions, no excuses. Heal the sick - end of discussion. Don't add to it. THE sick.

1:00:30 - When Jesus says heal the sick, our minds come up with reasons why it might not happen. We need to bring everything into alignment with Jesus' command.

1:02:00 - THE leper.

1:02:30 - Mt. 10:8 - Why does Jesus distinguish leprosy from the rest of the sick? - Leprosy was out of control - colonies. Under the law it made you unclean to touch them, He was turning that around. Bill Johnson says under the old covenant you would touch the leper and it would make you unclean. Under the new covenant you can touch a leper and he is clean. Jesus was breaking that. They wouldn't have put them in the category of the sick. They would have avoided them all together. But because the kingdom is here and it's in you, you can touch them. And you won't break the law - except the law of sin and death.

1:03:50 - In their minds, leprosy and sickness would have been two separate things because of the culture.

1:04:00 - You're not vulnerable - Girl coming down with flu - People would line up at the altar for Dan and his wife to pray. Covered mouth. I didn't think I should come. I don't want to give it to any one. Vulnerability - it troubled me. "Tell the girl to breathe on you.".

1:07:10 - Vulnerability is the same as fear and it's rampant in the body of Christ. When you preach faith people will say, "I hear that but you've got to use wisdom."

1:12:00 - Don't we come into the kingdom of God as little children? - We come into the kingdom with sincere hearts but very scarred from the world. We need to become children. We don't come in as children. We come in as people who have lost their innocence and scarred by the world - but all things become new.

1:15:30 - v.8 - Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. - It doesn't say anything about - unless their free will says they don't want to be cleansed. We have to chop that language out of our heads. Because if it stays in your head it will seep to your heart.

1:16:35 - Is there a time-frame for raising the dead past which you shouldn't go? - David Hogan prays right up until they have to put the ground over that person. Not three months later. I don't have a strong answer. It's all about faith there. Don't get technical.

1:18:30 - In this country - they take them away quickly. They embalm them.

1:19:00 - Don't get caught in spiritual language way above what you are really believing. The fruit has to be there. Otherwise it's just cliche to the world or doctrine to us.

1:21:30 - I don't want what I am believing to just be a spiritual language. I want it to be a demonstration. If Jesus didn't do the works of His Father they had permission not to believe. But if I do, even though you are having a hard time with me, let the works settle it.

1:22:00 - It's not our language but our actions...

1:22:00 - Cast out demons. That's all it says. There is so much out there about demons. Like - people have to want to be free.

1:23:40 - Is there a time-frame for raising the dead past which you shouldn't go? - Is 10 years too long? -

1:23:55 - Once they are buried I don't pray for for the dead to be raised. When I bury someone, I commit their body to the ground and commend their spirit to the Lord. I personally let go at that point. You need to resolve and move forward and trust your loved one to Jesus.

1:25:00 - David Hogan practice - praying for the dead - 24 hrs - must be buried.

1:26:30 - The answer is: It's what you have faith for.

1:27:00 - Faith for a new liver. Spiritual language?

1:27:50 - How much weight should we put on the verses in Mt. 10 that talk about not taking stuff with you? - I think the main thing in that for today's society is that you don't shift gears and use the grace of God as a "career." God meets the needs of His people. I live that way.

1:29:00 - I am concerned about some ministries - the appearance of things - but I don't try to figure out who is right and who is wrong. They will stand before God.

1:30:00 - Ministries that get off right motive. You can have the scriptural backing but the wrong motive. Finances / giving - we need to keep this place running.

1:30:45 - Conference - unsettling things going on. Criticizing - complaining and venting. Weep for the body. Prayer for mercy.

1:34:10 - Provision - I don't even pray for provision - finances. Most would disagree with me. I just know that He keeps me. My life is His. And my life will work out in Him. I have never in my Christian life prayed for finances. Never thought about that.

1:34:40 - I don't know how I could pray for provision with out getting conscious of my circumstances - start penny pinching. I seek Him first - His kingdom - His righteousness and all of these things are added.

1:37:45 - We're accountable for what we do with the blessing.

1:39:35 - Business man friend - "I never sow into your ministry because I know that you will just give it away anyway."

1:41:10 - Back to Mt. 17...

➡ 1:41:15 - Recap of Mt. 10 - What we saw in Mt. 10 is going to compliment what is said in Mt. 17. We saw in Mt. 10 - He told them to go and heal the sick with no limitations. Command form. Cleanse the leper, cast out demons, even raise the dead. You don't touch the leper because you would be unclean. They were under the law and now He is implementing grace. Now, go raise the dead... They weren't even allowed to touch the dead before that.

1:42:00 - Jesus raised the dead, cleansed the leper. Nothing He hadn't already done. You do it too. Because you are the body of Christ. It's so simple.

1:42:20 - We were created to do this. Recap of redemption and purpose.

1:42:35 - Heal THE sick, raise THE dead, cleanse THE leper, cast out demons - We are not deciding who is to receive the kingdom or not. We are to give it.

1:43:45 - We contrive explanations.

1:44:00 - Participant's comment - 33 Reasons Why Men aren't Healed

1:44:30 - Damage done by that type of book. Where were those road blocks with Jesus? There were none.

1:45:40 - One teacher - no truth outside of me. Not experience. Not loss of a loved one. Not emotions. Not human reasoning. Not natural wisdom. I'm your Teacher.

1:46:30 - He's the truth. What can be seen in Jesus' life is what can be known about God. You have to keep it that narrow or else you are letting something else teach you that is not Jesus.

1:47:15 - v.20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. - It's what you are failing to see. You don't realize who you are because of me.

1:47:45 - He puts it squarely on the disciples. Not dad. Not the demon. Not the people.

2:07:00 - v.7 - Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. - Jesus is the door.

2:07:05 - v.8 - All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. - Anybody that is a way apart from THE way... No one comes to the Father except through Him. He's the way, the truth, the life. Let's back up here...

2:07:20 - v.1 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. - Other way

2:07:35 - v.2-5 - But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. -

2:08:00 - Stranger's voice - the sheep won't follow another voice - people saying what He is not saying.

2:08:15 - v.6 - This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. -

2:08:25 - v.7-8 - Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. -

2:08:30 - v.9-10 - I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. -

2:09:00 - v.11-12 - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. - A hireling says things to save face, to protect self - inspired by other motives than truth.

209:30 - v.13-15 - The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. -

2:10:00 - Detrimental mindsets - Mentality of complaining and negativity does damage.

2:12:15 - A hireling is someone who is in it for pay, not for love.

2:12:25- A Christian can have a hireling mindset and save himself when he sees the wolf coming. He runs. Mad - offended - hurt - coming up with doctrine, explanations to defend their experiences - saving face - self-preserving - always about self. A hireling doesn't care about it's sheep.

2:16:45 - Don't read your Bible just to be right - to protect your heritage or doctrine or upbringing - to defend your feeling in a scenario of unanswered prayer. Be careful how you hear.

➡ 2:21:50 - I wanted to get back to Mt. 17 today. We will get to it. Let me just read this. I want you to hear how adamant this is and how closed this is to discussion. You need to read your Bible this way to get your mind captivated with truth and get the way that seems right to man driven out of us in every way.

2:22:00 - v.20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. - He's talking to them. He's talking to us.