Glen Hartline

Sin and Reconciliation – excerpt from my divine healing manual

Matt 10:34-36

34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household. (NKJV)

1. Jesus Himself said not to think He came to bring peace.
   
2. He came to set a man against his father, daughter against mother, daughter – in-law against mother-in-law.
   
3. A man’s enemy shall be in his own household.
   

Matt 24:6-8

6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all* these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,* and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (NKJV)

1. Wars and rumors of wars
   
2. Nation against Nation
   
3. Kingdom against Kingdom
   
4. Famines
   
5. Pestilences
   
6. Earthquakes
   
   

With these verses it is impossible to come to the conclusion that Jesus came to bring peace on the earth between people. To do so would mean that you either do not know scripture or that you are intentionally being deceptive. If Jesus did not come to bring peace between men, then what do these verses say?

Luke 2:14

4 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
(NKJV)

The angels were announcing peace on earth and goodwill between God and man. Before Jesus there was enmity between God and man. Basically God was at war against man’s sin. The angels were proclaiming that the war was over; there was now peace between God and man. God was no longer pouring out wrath on man because of his sin.

2 Cor 5:17-19

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (NKJV)

1. Reconcile – To make friendly or to bring back into harmony.
   
2. God reconciled the world to Himself through Jesus.
   
3. Imputing– Accounting term means to hold against
   

Paul is telling us that God was in Jesus reconciling man back to Himself and not counting our sins against us, and not only ours but the sins of the whole world!

Rom 5:13

3 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. (NKJV)

1. Law – Sin imputed
   
2. No Law – Sin is not imputed
   

1 John 2:2

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (NKJV)

Heb 8:12

2 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” (NIV)

Heb 10:17

“Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” (NIV)

Ps 103:12

2 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. (NKJV)

God is not angry at us. He is not judging man because of sin. Jesus took all the sin of the world on Himself on the cross and paid the price. This is the good news! This is the message we are to declare to the world. Jesus has paid the price for your sins and all you have to do is receive that payment! God has reconciled Himself back to man through Jesus, now we just need to be reconciled to God. That is not saying that all are saved or that nobody will pay the price for sin. You will not receive the benefit of Jesus’ sacrifice if you don’t accept it by receiving Jesus as Savior and Lord. There will be eternal punishment if you refuse this free gift. It is not God judging you. You were already judged because of your sin and because you chose to remain the servant of satan, God is just allowing you to have what you have freely chosen. (Free Will)

Grace and Love

    Talking to a friend the other day they were frustrated with their walk as a Christian. They were telling me they felt like a hypocrite. They were tired of telling people that they needed to love God with all their heart, soul, and body, when they themselves didn’t love God the way they felt they should. They were tired of teaching that we are to love one another when they didn’t love others they way they felt they should. They were saying, “I know I’m to love people and do to them how I would want them to do to me, but sometimes when the phone rings and someone needs help, I don’t want to answer it. I just want to go off by myself, away from everyone else.” They wanted to give up on ministering to others because they didn’t want to be a hypocrite. Now I know this person and they love the Lord tremendously and give themselves to others, but why was something wrong. And as I asked God for wisdom, I knew His answer was as much for me as for my friend.

    The problem was that my friend was trying to live up to an expectation of how much they should love God. Now loving God is a good thing but when you use how much you love God to measure your relationship with Him, then you are going back under the law. And under the law there is never freedom, only bondage and condemnation. Anything that points to your ability or focuses on you in any way is works and the law which brings death. We are called to live under grace which produces life. You see our spiritual maturity and health is not based on how much we love God but is dependent on the knowledge of how much He loves us. When we walk in the assurance of His love for us we will be able to overcome every obstacle, and endure every challenge, but when our relationship is based on how much we love God we will not stand and when challenges come (and they will) we will fall and possibly even deny Him.

    In John chapter 13 we get a picture of these two forms. On one side we see John reclining against Jesus declaring that he is the one Jesus loves. On the other side we see Peter not allowing Jesus to serve him because works serves God, and declaring that he would lay down his life for Jesus. When it was all over Peter who declared his ability and his love for Jesus denied Him three times, while John who rested on the fact that Jesus loved him, was standing at the cross before Jesus and agreeing to take care of His mother.

    So here is the answer. My friend, we need to quit basing our spiritual life and health on our love for God. That will only bring frustration and condemnation. We need to rest in the knowledge of His tremendous love for us. He has given us the most precious treasure of heaven – Jesus. He will freely give us all things and withhold no good thing. When we minister to someone we have His love for them as an assurance that He will withhold no healing or miracle from them. We don’t minister just out of our love but out of His love. We love because He first loved us. You are not a hypocrite if you operate out of His love instead of relying on your ability to love.

Be blessed!

Stop believing a lie

1 John 2:2

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

John 3:17

17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

2 Cor 5:18-19

18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Heb 10:17

then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Rom 5:13

3 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

1 John 2:2

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

Why do we keep calling groups to come together to plead with God and ask Him not to judge this nation because of sins of its people? It seems like the perfect plan of the enemy to get a bunch of Christians to get together and pray, feel good about themselves, and think they’ve done what they need to do. Unless you get out and change the hearts and minds of individuals, you are not doing God’s will! We, the Christians are the ones that will be judged for what we’ve done with Jesus, and what our intentions are, not the sinners. The sinners will be judged whether they have received Jesus or not.

Becoming who God called you to be #1

    First of all I want to make it very clear that I am not against prophetic words, experiences, or any prophets, or apostles, ect… Over the last 12 years, most of my times with the Lord have included prophetic words and experiences. These are very important and can be extremely beneficial to an individual. What I am trying to do is to break some mindsets that have become so pervasive throughout the church today. In a never ending attempt to “know what God’s will is” or to get a personal word from the Lord, Christians follow and are enamored with everyone that calls themselves a prophet or apostle. This is not the way God wants it to be! It has gotten to the point for many Christians that unless they hear a word from the Lord and have it confirmed three or four times they won’t do anything. Believing that this makes them more spiritual or as they call it, “doing only what they are led by the spirit to do.” In reality, most never do anything other than talk about what God has called them to do.

Heb 1:1-4

1 Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. 2 And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe. 3 The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven. 4 This shows that the Son is far greater than the angels, just as the name God gave him is greater than their names.

Here we see that God spoke to the patriarchs through the prophets, but in the last days (that’s right now) He has spoken to us through His Son. You see, the Old Testament patriarchs did not have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. They were not one with Christ. They had to rely on the few who the Spirit would fall upon to tell them what God’s desire was. These days every Christian not only has the Holy Spirit in them but also the mind of Christ.

1 Cor 2:11-16

11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

We have the ability to hear from God ourselves. Its o.k., especially in the beginning to use these gifted men and women to confirm what God’s will is so that you can gain confidence that you are hearing from God. But we must get to the point where we are not only able hear His voice for ourselves, but also to trust that we are hearing. Unlike man under the old covenant we have the ability to go directly to God for ourselves, we don’t need to have another man to go on our behalf. There is only one mediator between God and man and that is Jesus. Any other way is anti-Christ. It is essential we get to the point we know what God’s will is ourselves and act on it!

Another way to know the will of God is to look at Jesus.

Heb 1:3

3 The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.

Jesus is the express image of God’s person or character. The Old Testament did not reflect God’s character, but it did reflect God’s holiness and justice. It showed how God had to deal with man based on his sin, not how God wanted to deal with man. Through Jesus’ sacrifice we can see how God deals with man when sin is no longer an issue. If you want to know what God’s will is, look at what Jesus did. Jesus showed us that it is always God’s desire to heal and bless man even though we don’t deserve it. That’s the point, we don’t deserve it and we never will. It’s all by grace, it’s all Jesus. Nothing you can do can take away from it or add to it. We can never repent enough or act sorry enough to appease God. We either believe and receive or doubt and do without. Even your repentance doesn’t change how God views you; it just changes your view of yourself and shuts the door to the devil. His view of you is entirely based on Jesus. So if you are presented with an opportunity to pray for someone or bless them then do it! You don’t need to ask God if He wants you to do it, Jesus did it so He wants you to do it!

Finally, if you wait to mature before you step out, you will never do anything. First all, you cannot mature without doing what you are commanded to do. You cannot study or learn your way to maturity. In order to mature spiritually you have to move beyond spiritual milk and eat meat.

Heb 5:12-14

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

John 4:32-34

32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work

As long as you are just learning, and not doing you are taking in milk only. I don’t care who told you they were giving you meat, they can only give you milk. It becomes meat as you put the revelation to use. Another way I like to explain it is found in James.

James 1:22-25

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it — he will be blessed in what he does.

When we hear or read the word and don’t do it it’s like looking in a mirror and seeing who we are. As we go away and don’t act like the image we saw, that image in our mind dims and we forget who we are. But if we view that image and when we turn away start acting and being who we were shown we are, that image is reinforced in our minds. Our minds are renewed and we become that image. When we become who He says we are, then we will have fulfilled what He called us to do.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image

Ex 32:4

And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.

Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!” -NKJV

    Israel’s desire was to worship God. They were not trying to form an idol and worship the gods they had known in Egypt, but desired to worship the One who had led them out of Egypt and out of bondage. They were doing things the only way they knew how, the way they had been taught. They created an image of God to worship and give them an idea of who He is. Unfortunately it was not a true representation. They had created false image that misrepresented God.

    Before we look at Israel with judgment, we need to put the stones down. The vast majority of those that profess to be Christians are doing the same thing Israel did thousands of years before. They may not have fashioned an idol with gold, but have attributed characteristics to God based on what they have been taught and what they think rather than what the Word of God says. Our traditional beliefs and mindsets are fine as long as they are consistent with who the Word of God says He is, and most of what is taught about God today is wrong. I call these areas of wrong theology, traditions, and mindsets that have been created by modern Christianity “Sacred Cows”.

    Now to grow strong we need meat to eat. So in order to grow strong, let us kill just a few “sacred cows” and eat steak!

1. God will not forgive our sins unless we confess them. Jesus entered into the holy place one time and sprinkled the alter with His blood. He does not enter in every time we confess a sin. (Hebrews 9:12) He paid the price, not only for the sins of those that receive Him, but the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2, Titus 2:11) Jesus paid the price once and for all so that God would be reconciled back to man. (2 Corinthians 5:18-19) The price was paid and the old requirements of the law were fulfilled. We are no longer under the law but under grace, and under grace God does not impute sin unto man. (2 Corinthians 5:19, Romans 5:13, Hebrews 8:12, Hebrews 10:17) So, does that mean everyone is saved? Of course not, we must accept the payment for our sins, reconciling us back to God. God is already dealt with the issue of sin and reconciled Himself back to the world, but that doesn’t mean man has been reconciled back to God. God has forgiven sin, but have we received that payment? One drop of Jesus’ blood was sufficient to pay the price for every sin that was committed or will be committed. Sin is not an issue with God, but it will be with you if you continue in it. Even though sin doesn’t change God’s relationship towards you, it will change your relationship towards Him. It opens the door to satan, allowing him to destroy your life. Sin will bring self condemnation and the hardening of your heart towards God. God will not turn from you, but eventually you will turn from God. So confessing your sin and repenting doesn’t get God to forgive that sin, it does close the door to satan and keeps your own conscious from condemning you. This is really good news! You no longer have to be in bondage to guilt and condemnation! Satan is the one that stands condemned; you have been given eternal life!
   
   
   
2. Sometimes God doesn’t heal because He is teaching us a lesson. First of all, let me just make a personal statement. God is my father, He loves me, I am madly in love with Him, but I wouldn’t want a father that wants to watch me suffer or even die from a disease! Jesus bore the stripes on His body so that we would be healed. (Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, Matt. 8:17) The Bible says that when we confess Jesus as Lord we will be saved. The word saved is “sozo” and means to be completely whole, spiritually and physically. It includes healing as part of being whole. Just as Jesus paid the price for all sin, He also paid the price for all sickness, disease, and anything else that steals our happiness and joy in life. God does not use something to teach us a lesson that caused Him to send His Son to die. Satan is not God’s “messenger boy” he is God’s enemy. I don’t have time here to teach on healing or how to receive but I will say this. Twelve years ago the Lord clearly spoke these words to me. He said, “There is no difference between getting healed and getting saved. You receive your healing the same way you receive salvation.” Just as Jesus has already paid the price for your salvation, He has already healed you. You just have to believe and receive. Just as he doesn’t use sin to teach us a lesson, he doesn’t use sickness or disease.
   
   
   
3. If we don’t repent as a nation God will judge us like Sodom. First of all I realize most of this will sound repetitive, but then it should because it all goes back to Jesus. He did it all, it is all what He did plus nothing. It’s either grace without works or it’s not grace at all. (Romans 11:6) In Luke 2:8-14 we read where the angels are proclaiming Jesus’ birth. Then they praised God and proclaimed peace and goodwill toward men. Some versions say peace among men but this cannot be accurate. Jesus Himself said that He did not come to bring peace between men, but to bring variance between a man and his father, a daughter and her mother, and so on. (Matthew 10:34-36) He declared there will be an increase in wars toward the last days. (Matthew 24:6-8) So the angels couldn’t have been declaring peace among men. They were declaring peace from God to men. Since the law, God had been pouring out wrath and judgment against man’s sin. The angels were declaring that the time of judgment was ending and we were entering an age of peace between God and man. In John 12:28-33 Jesus clearly states that when He was lifted up, He would draw all judgment to Him. I realize that it says all men will be drawn to Him, but men is italicized. That means it wasn’t in the original and was put in by man to try to be grammatically correct. They had enough integrity to italicize it to let you know it had been added by man. If you take men out it reads that He will draw all unto Him. The subject of the previous sentence was about judgment, and that is what He was talking about. The next sentence it says that He said this signifying what death He should die. Jesus was saying that when He is lifted up, like the serpent on the pole, He would draw all judgment to Himself. Romans 8:1-4 it states that sin was condemned in Jesus’ flesh. The word condemned means judged. God poured out the judgment for all sin on Jesus. Jesus took all the judgment, not just some. God will not judge this or any nation for sin because it would say that what Jesus did wasn’t enough. He would be saying that we need to add to Jesus’ sacrifice. It’s either by grace or it’s by works of the law. It can’t be both.
   

Jesus’ sacrifice was sufficient for all sin. God’s wrath and judgment against sin has been satisfied! (Isaiah 53:11) Nothing we do can take away or add to what Jesus has done. It is no longer a question of is He willing. The question now is, “what are you going to do with it?” You can believe and receive, walking in what He has provided; or doubt and do without. We can allow misconceptions of who He is and what He has done keep us in bondage or allow His true nature (TRUTH) set us, and those we come into contact with, free.

The Gospel

Last night I went to a revival to support a few of my friends. These are people who love the Lord with all their heart and have a real desire to see their city and nation changed for God. They have experienced the goodness of God for themselves and desire to see the lives of others changed for the better. But we have been praying and doing revivals, asking God to move on our behalf for years with little or no results. Why do we believe if we keep doing the same thing over and over we will, all of the sudden, get a different result. Will we be able to twist God’s arm or convince Him to move on our behalf by the sheer volume and intensity of our prayers? As you have already guessed; I have a problem with the way things are being done. I do believe in prayer, but prayer done properly, and with authority. The bible never tells us to beg God and hope He delivers. It tells us that He loves us and desires to give us good things. God wants this country revived more than we do. It is not God that is holding back, it is us. He has given all authority and dominion to man. He expects us to administrate His will in this earth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We will NEVER get revival by asking, we will only get revival by DOING. Revival is not a spirit, I AM REVIVAL and so are you if you will do what our Lord has commanded you to do. I’m tired of seeing people come to a meeting, get prayed for, and see them leave the same way they arrived. They are told to repent and they ask God to intervene in their lives and meet their need. They yell, holler, and shout that God is going to judge this country if we don’t repent. They tell people unless you repent you are under a curse. They’ve been saying these things for years and sin is more abundant, even in the church. That’s because they know they are sinners, even the unbelievers know that, but condemnation will never bring true repentance. It is the love of God that brings true repentance. Jesus paid the price for their sins, He became the curse for them, and by His stripes we were healed. That is the gospel. That is the good news. Sin is not a problem for God; His Son has already paid the price for all sin, and not only for those saved but for the sin of the whole world. Now I realize we must accept that payment, but it has already been paid. I understand we have to accept the healing, but we’ve already been healed. You can choose to live in sin and allow the devil to destroy your life but that doesn’t mean God is mad at you or is going to punish you or this country. We need to stop condemning people and this country and bring the good news of Jesus to them. Heal the sick, cast out demons, and raise the dead. Show them Jesus loves them and that is what will bring true repentance and revival. Go out and BE REVIVAL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzoIKkqGbXo

God, send your glory?

For years I have watched and listened to people cry out for God to pour out His glory (I was one). Crying out and spending hours pleading to God for Him to visit us (I was one). After many years of waiting, and watching and not seeing His glory, I started thinking. If what we are doing is not getting the results we want, then something must be wrong. And if we are not seeing the glory of God manifested after all these years then were does the fault rest?

1. Is God not pouring out His glory because He chooses not to? Does He not want to touch or manifest His presence through signs and wonders to His children? If this is true then He must be saving up this outpouring for a time and place that is unknown to us, and if this is true then no matter how much we pray, fast, and beg, it won’t happen until that appointed time. Or maybe He is waiting for a time when we are more unified and have fasted and prayed enough; When the sum of all our prayers have tilted the scales enough to allow God’s glory to fall.
   
2. Maybe we’ve got this all wrong. Maybe the fault doesn’t fall on God. Maybe it’s our fault and we haven’t been doing things God’s way. If this is true then we need to see what God says about it.
   

Acts 2:16-21

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,

That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

Your young men shall see visions,

Your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days;

And they shall prophesy.

19 I will show wonders in heaven above

And signs in the earth beneath:

Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,

And the moon into blood,

Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

21 And it shall come to pass

That whoever calls on the name of the Lord

Shall be saved.’

Here Peter, quoting the prophet Joel and is declaring that God has poured out His glory. If he is saying that they were in the last days, then we are definitely in the last days. If God poured out His glory then, He doesn’t need to pour it out now. We also read in John 17:22 where Jesus says that the glory the Father gave Him, He gave to us.

John 17:22-23

22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Here we read that not only has the Father already poured out His glory, but that Jesus has given that glory to us who believe! We already have it in us! We can stop asking and begging God to do something He did over 2,000 years ago!

    So you may be asking; “if we already have His glory, how come we aren’t seeing more manifestations of it?” That’s because the glory is in YOU. If you’re not allowing it to flow out, nothing will happen. It’s not about God pouring it out; it’s about you letting it out. The glory of God is here for us to manifest the kingdom of God on this earth. We have been created in Christ Jesus to do good works. (Eph. 2:10) These works will manifest the glory of God on this earth. Out of our bellies should flow rivers of living water (glory). So if you desire to see God’s glory, to see your life and the lives of the people in your community revived, stop asking and begging God. Step out and you manifest the glory of His kingdom on this earth. Then you will see His glory “poured” out, and then you will see REVIVAL.

Gospel of the Kingdom

Gospel of the Kingdom

Rom 1:16-17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,* for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”*

Jesus is the sole mediator between God and man, and His sacrifice is all we need. It completely and totally (past, present, future) paid the price for all sin, including the sin of the whole world. (1 John 2:2) Because Jesus paid the price, God is not imputing our sin against us. (Romans 5:13) We don’t go to Hell because of our sin; we go to Hell because we don’t accept Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. God is not mad at our nation or this world. He is not about to judge this nation or this world. All the wrath of God toward man and his sin was poured out on Jesus at the cross. Jesus took it so we would not have to. If God were to judge the United States for its sins, then He would have to apologize to Jesus. It would mean that Jesus’ sacrifice was not sufficient to pay the price, and that we must also pay. Either Jesus’ sacrifice paid for it all or it paid for none. We are either saved by grace, and that a free gift, or by works which is of the law. I don’t make light of sin but have an understanding of the completeness of Jesus’ sacrifice. It is this revelation of His love and the price He paid that draws men to repentance. (Romans 2:4) It is this love that compels us to hit the streets and proclaim the Kingdom of God to all who are sick, and under the bondage of our sworn enemy, Satan. Jesus Himself said that we were to heal the sick, cast out demons, and cleanse those who have leprosy. (Matt. 10:8; Mark 16:17) He also those that love Him will do all that He commands (John 14:15). If you’re not doing what He has commanded in His word, do you really love Him? I know it can be hard and because of fear we don’t do what we are commanded. Perfect love will cast out all fear. If you know you can heal them, wouldn’t you pray for them? If you understand how horrible hell is, wouldn’t you tell them about Jesus? If you’re reading this you probably say you love Jesus. So if you love Him, then get off your sanctified butt and start acting like the person you are – A SON OF GOD!