ART: I don’t have to worry about it. I don’t have to freak out. I’m not in trouble. I’m not in sin or anything. It’s not my responsibility to carry! It’s kind of hard sometimes to separate yourself from the symptom you’re feeling and just simply trust. So you know when it comes to trusting the body of Christ you know Paul said there are sick and dying and dead people among you. Why? Because you failed to discern the Lord’s body.
JAMIE: Mmm!
ART: And you know he’s talking in the context of communion so we think he’s talking about the bread but in the bigger context of that portion of 1st Corinthians 11 he’s talking about the body of Christ, the people! Like if we would discern that’s the body of Jesus there – you know in 1st Corinthians 6 he said don’t you know –
JAMIE: Phew! That’s huge, man!
ART: He’s like don’t you know –
JAMIE: That’s huge!
ART: That your bodies are members of Christ Himself!
JAMIE: That is huge! Whoa!
ART: That’s takes us beyond just the metaphor of the body of Christ and makes us literal physical extensions of Jesus! So like some people will you know travel for hours to show up at one of my meetings and I feel bad cause I’m like don’t you guys realize like you could have grabbed the shirtsleeve of the person next to you in church last week and you know they’re just as much the body of Jesus as I am. Touch the hem of their garment! You know? [laughs]
JAMIE: Whew! So hang on that for a moment.
ART: Yeah. [laughs]
JAMIE: This is – I’ve never heard anybody put it quite like that! So you’re saying when he says there’s some sick among you, some have even died because you have not discerned the Lord’s body rightly we’re talking about communion but in the same context we’re also talking about the power of other believers.
ART: Bingo!
JAMIE: And their touch!
ART: All the times when Jesus said your faith has healed you or as you believe be it so unto you realize like we know the end of the story. We know John 1:1. We know Jesus was and is God.
JAMIE: Yeah.
ART: But they didn’t know that! At best He was Messiah. Jesus, son of David have mercy on me. Some of them thought He was a prophet. Most of them rabbi, teacher. So if it was their perfect faith in God that healed them then they could have been healed without coming to Jesus cause they didn’t know He was God. So when He said your faith has healed you He’s talking about their faith in Him as a minister to actually deliver what God wants.
JAMIE: Wow.
ART: So the only faith really expected of the sick person is faith enough to let someone else minister to them!
JAMIE: Phew! This is huge! Okay. Healed people heal people.
ART: Okay.
JAMIE: Okay, you’ve been healed?
ART: Sure.
JAMIE: Right. You have this testimony. It’s available online. People can look this up. Right?
ART: Yup!
JAMIE: So have you seen skin diseases, skin irritations, that kind of stuff healed?
ART: Absolutely, yup! Skin conditions. I mean blind eyes, deaf ears. But I also like to encourage people like I was healed of degenerative disc disease in April 2011 actually at a meeting of a mutual friend of ours Will Hart.
JAMIE: Oh yes. Yeah!
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth