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Scriptures Referenced
2 Corinthians 12:9
King James Version
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Timothy 5:23
King James Version
23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
2 Timothy 4:20
20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
Philippians 2:25-27
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ. Praise Jesus Christ. Indeed. This is BJ FM believing Jesus for miracles.
00:07 We are talking about three instances where Apostle Paul could not heal or maybe healed and the issues came back. First of all, Paul himself. That means there are four cases.
00:17 Paul himself had an enemy buffeting him, a demon buffeting him. And he went and called Lord Jesus Christ three times. That Jesus said, your my grace is sufficient for you.
00:30 And Paul took it. But there were cases, there were always arguments among theologians whether that was a spiritual attack or with a physical attack. But Apostle Paul himself said the churches would have happily, gratefully, gladly given their own
eyes to him if it’s possible.
00:47 That means there was some issue of eye. So there are some historians who say that the eye of Paulus so grotesquely, maybe pus and all that, you know. So it’s very scary to look at because he’s suffering.
01:00 Now, leaving Paul’s own healing. We’re looking at three instances here. Now we start off with Timothy.
01:07 Timothy was told by Paul, Apostle Paul that have a little wine for your stomach sake, for your frequent infirmities, I mean, frequent infirmities. Now let’s look at that. Apostle Paul was healing people left, right and center.
01:23 Even his handkerchief was given away and people touched the handkerchief. They healed. So what was happening here? That is why always remember, Almighty God is sovereign.
01:30 Almighty God is sovereign. Almighty God is sovereign. Everything he can decide.
01:40 So now, of course, by his stripes we were healed, but there will be cases where we were healed, but there’ll be cases because there may be something that we are doing or the environment issue or the Satan is doing something like nowadays, you know,
the frequency sent by the cell phone and all that is affecting people. So. Or people took untested injections and all that and causing problems and all.
02:08 So we must understand this. Yes, I personally have been healed by Jesus. I personally have been witnessed healing.
02:17 I personally, by the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ, have been ministering healing and people have been healed over the last 30 years. But there are cases also. Even in my case, I pray for people and it didn’t heal.
02:30 Very rare, but it has happened and it will continue to happen. And I will only leave it to Jesus Christ. I’ll invoke the name of Jesus Christ in the healing and leave it to God.
02:42 I’m just merely a messenger that each of us might understand. We are merely messengers. Do not try to now figure out and, and do this and that.
02:51 So these cases I’m putting here, so you understand your frailty as a human being, you are Just a mere person, mere human being. So having said this, now listen so this Timothy, some theologians or historians say that the city that Timothy was in,
the water was bad and so he is frequently having these stomach ailments. So Apostle Paul, when he told take a little wine, drunkenness is sin, but taking wine for medical purposes or taking wine is not sin.
03:23 I want to understand this. I have made a covenant with Jesus Christ because I was a drunkard. When I then heard the scripture that he said, I will not drink from the fruit of his wine again until I see you in Father’s kingdom.
03:35 It went on my spirit to make a covenant with him that I don’t want to drink a drop of any of these things. But if Jesus let me say, take some like for instance, you have herbal wines for her health and all. If it tells me to take, I will take it.
03:50 So that’s not the issue here. But for 30 years I have not taken a single drop of liquor all these years by the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ, by Jesus, let me take some herbal stuff. I will take not, not the issue now.
04:04 So therefore it’s not a dogma, but it’s my and secondly, I was such a drunkard, I dare not go back there. So having said this, now Timothy’s case, he’s a disciple. He’s also like apostle, he’s a disciple.
04:18 Apostles are people who have walked with Jesus, who have seen Jesus now. So of course Paul would have. Apostle Paul would have prayed for Timothy repeatedly, isn’t it? Of course Apostle Paul would have laid hands on Timothy because he is like a son
to him.
04:33 But why is Timothy keep on and on and on, have a frequent, frequent infirmities. Then maybe the theologians, the historians point is right, the water there is polluted and all that so polluted. So he said take a little wine for your stomach’s sake.
04:49 So now the next case. The next case is this. A person called Profinus Trophinus is from Asia.
04:57 And second Timothy 4, 20 says that Paul says he left trophinus behind in Miletus sick. He left him sick in a town called Miletus. Now Paul left Trophinus sick.
05:14 That means Paul was with him the first ball with him. But Paul couldn’t heal Miletus. Looks like left him sick.
05:21 Whether Melatrophinus recovered later or not, I’m not sure. I I checked around, I cannot find it so but I believe he would have recovered now. But Apostle Paul couldn’t instantly heal him.
05:34 He was with him for some time now the same thing with another case. Another case. Epaphroditus.
05:42 Epaphroditus. I hope I’m pronouncing the names properly. It is in Philippians 2, 25, 27.
05:51 Epaphrophatus was wanting to meet all of you. Apostle Paul writing this in Philippians because you heard that he was sick. And Paul says in 27 Indeed, he was sick almost unto death.
06:06 Almost unto death. But God had mercy on him. And not only on him, but on me also.
06:12 Apostle Paul also. So remember this. There are cases where Apostle Paul couldn’t heal.
06:15 There are cases Apostle Paul has left behind and moved on in the ministry regarding profanes and of course, his own Son in the Lord. Timothy was having ailments and he told him to take wine, herbs. Wine is medicinal.
06:36 Thank Jesus Christ indeed. So let’s look at it. Almighty God is sovereign.
06:40 Keep that in mind. Do not have a doctrine and somebody oh, I prayed, I prayed, I prayed, I prayed. Now have you when the time when God is sovereign, when he decides, somebody has to come home to him, God decides, not you and I. So let’s have the
humbleness to understand.
06:56 We’ll pray with full fervor, full belief, full conviction in the belief in Jesus Christ. But what happens? We will then just give, rejoice, we thank Jesus Christ and move on. Ministry not discouraged, not this way, not that, not argument about it.
07:15 Let it go. Because a whole lot of reasons could be happening. Like disciple Timothy’s water matter, isn’t it? Thank you, Father.
07:22 In Jesus name, amen.