Chapter Four 

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The Linkage of Jesus' Name to The Healing, Prosperity and Well-Being
God Promised You in The Abrahamic Covenant

 Healing, prosperity, and well-being for your family members is contained in the Abrahamic Covenant.  But what is the relationship of the Name of Jesus to the Abrahamic Covenant?  Is there a relationship?  Is modern theology, even Charismatic theology, right in just pulling the Name of Jesus out of thin air and going after it?  Or is there a specific New Testament passage that links the Name of Jesus to that Abrahamic Covenant?  And if there is, what is the significance of that relationship?

 Well, there just happens to be one.  I'm prepared to say to you that as we move through this teaching you're going to see that you are authorized, as a Christian, to use the Name of Jesus to secure anything and do anything that's contained in that Abrahamic Covenant just like Peter did.  For apart from that Covenant, there is no Jesus, there is no salvation, there are no blessings, there is no healing, there is no prosperity; everything centers in that Abrahamic Covenant.  Look carefully at Peter's approach in the following scripture:

 Acts 3:1-11

 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

 We've heard many sermons preached from these Scriptures.  As the chapter moves on, the religious leadership gets bent out of shape because this man gets healed.  I don't know what it is about religious people that makes them fire-eating mad when somebody gets healed.  I've prayed for people in denominational churches and seen miraculous healings take place, but it made the leadership of that church mad.  I've had them get up and walk out of the building because somebody got healed; they resented it.  I don't understand that.  But the balance of this chapter in the Bible is a give-and-take between the religious leaders, because they didn't like it, they absolutely didn't like it.  And so verse 12 picks it up, and Peter asks,

 Acts 3:12-17

 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

 Notice that verse 13 makes the first reference to Abraham.  Now read verse 16.  We now have Abraham brought into this thing in the healing of a man using Jesus' Name.  And Peter said that God honored His Son, Jesus, and it's the same God who was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Then he goes on to say that in response to this honoring of His Son, Jesus, it was the Name of Jesus that caused that man to be made well.  I want to make sure that you begin to see this connection.  Now read verses 18 through 26.

 Acts 3:18-24

 18 But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

 Verse 19 says that you need to repent.  Verse 20 says that He's going to send this same Jesus whose Name caused the man to be healed.  He's going to send that Jesus back because He was preached before unto you, and verse 21 says that He's going to be in heaven until the times of restoration of all things which were spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets.  Verse 22 says that even Moses spoke about this Jesus.  Verse 23 says that the person that will not hear that prophet Jesus will be destroyed from among the people.

 Now look at verse 24; Foretold of what days?  The days in which there was a prophet to come that would be the fulfillment of the Scriptures.  The day in which through Him, people would be healed.  The day in which the God of Abraham would bless through that man and give power to His Name.

 But what does that Name have to do with the Abrahamic Covenant?  Look at the next two verses.

 Acts 3:25-26

 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

 Now, if you will follow the line of those Scriptures you're going to find that Jesus was prophesied about, and Peter finally links Him to that Abrahamic Covenant, because he quotes the last promise that God made to Abraham which is found in Genesis 22:18.

 Genesis 22:18

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. because thou hast obeyed my voice.

 So what Peter is showing here is that the healing of the man at the gate is a direct response to the promise of God to Abraham, and it's the Name of that supreme seed, Jesus, that did it.

 Where does this leave us?  It leaves us here - healing, prosperity, well-being for your family members - it's all contained in that Abrahamic Covenant.  Now we find the Name of Jesus being linked to that Abrahamic Covenant, which says to me that I can legitimately use the Name of Jesus to get whatever I need as a Christian, provided what I need is contained in that Abrahamic Covenant.

 Now you need to go back and reread this chapter.  For you're going to find that the healing of this man through the use of Jesus' Name is directly, according to Peter, based upon and linked with the Abrahamic Covenant.  Can you see this?  Therefore, God sent that prophet, Jesus, as the ultimate seed of that Abrahamic Covenant, and Jesus gave the use of His Name for us to secure the provisions of that covenant, then whatever I need in that Covenant I can get through Jesus' Name.

 Peter was not the only guy that is allowed to use Jesus' Name.  Jesus gave us the right and power of attorney to use His Name before He went back to heaven.  But since He linked the use to that Abrahamic Covenant means that I can only use the Name of Jesus to secure the things promised me in that Abrahamic Covenant.  So, what's promised to me in it?  Healing, prosperity, well-being for my family, in addition to the salvation of my soul.  When I don't have money enough to pay my bills, there is a way that I can get my money; because prosperity is promised to me in that Abrahamic Covenant.  Therefore, if Jesus' Name is linked to that Covenant, and that Name can be used to secure the provisions of that Covenant as this passage so clearly teaches, then I have the authority to go after my financial promise using Jesus' Name because finances are promised to me in that Covenant.

 For the benefit of those who have not heard this teaching before, God made a Covenant with one man, Abraham, and He promised him some things.  He included his seed in those promises.  He promised Abraham and his seed healing, prosperity, well-being for his family, in addition to salvation for his soul. And you and I, as Gentile Christians, have been grafted into that set of Abrahamic promises; therefore, what was said then applies to you now, because Paul says in Galatians 3 that you and I are the seed of Abraham.

I'm prepared to say to you that there is not one thing missing from the promises God gave Abraham.  If that Covenant included healing and prosperity and well-being for my family, in addition to the salvation of my soul, I want to ask you a question.  What else is there for me to want or need?  If I'm sick and I'm promised healing in the Abrahamic Covenant, and God delivers me through the Name of Jesus, that solves that problem.  If I'm broke and God promises me prosperity in the Abrahamic Covenant to be secured by using the Name of Jesus, that solves that problem.  If I have a problem with one of my family members and God promises me well-being for that family member in the Abrahamic Covenant, provided I go at it using the Name of Jesus, does that not also solve that problem?  Then what else is there? When you get right down to it, what else is there?

 What I'm saying to you is that we are authorized as Christians to use the name of Jesus, provided what we use it for is contained in that Abrahamic Covenant.  And there is no Jesus, there is no blessing, there is no salvation, there is no healing, there is no prosperity, there is nothing apart from Abraham's Covenant.  That is the bedrock of everything.

 Have you ever heard a teaching which links the use of Jesus' Name with the healing of the man at the Gate Beautiful to the Abrahamic Covenant?  I never have.  And yet you can plainly see from the Word of God they are linked together.  When you begin to read it and study it you will be amazed at how modern theology has absolutely eliminated the Abrahamic Covenant from their preaching and their teaching and even their believing.  It's just not there.

 And yet it IS there.  Read Acts 3 again, and then read chapter 4. Think it through.  You're going to see that the man was healed by Peter using Jesus' Name.  You're going to also see that the healing happened in response to the God of Abraham.  Now, God only made one deal, and that was with Abraham and his seed.  ARE YOU AWARE THAT GOD IS UNDER COVENANT TO NOBODY IN THIS WORLD EXCEPT ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED?

 You can talk to me about the New Covenant all day long, and I've heard all the arguments about Old Testament versus New Testament.  But, bless God, the New Testament is nothing more than the ratification of the Abrahamic Covenant by the blood of Jesus Christ.  There is ONE covenant that God made with the human race to bless people, and that's the Abrahamic Covenant.  And it applies to only one group of people - Abraham and his seed.

 But you, Gentile Christians, have been grafted into that system so that everything those Jews were entitled to, you also are now entitled to.  If you can get a handle on this it'll make anybody shout - if he's got ears to hear.

 The power to get the Abrahamic blessings is contained in the Name of Jesus, because the Name of Jesus operates in and through and because of the Abrahamic Covenant.  I challenge you to go back through these Scriptures, I challenge you to look over these Scriptures, I challenge you to read through these Scriptures.  There is a link-up between the Name of Jesus and God's Covenant with Abraham.  The sooner you see that and know what belongs to you in that Abrahamic Covenant, the sooner you will find yourself with a holy boldness to use the Name of Jesus.

 I thank God that I learned two things in my transition out of the denominational church I was in; I learned who I am under the Abrahamic Covenant, and I learned that the Name of Jesus was not just a mental period at the end of a public prayer in a denominational church.  The Name of Jesus Christ has power in it, glory to God.  And when you learn that the Name works in conjunction with the Abrahamic Covenant and that Covenant covers everything we need, you'll begin to use that Name with boldness.  It's not just a cliché, it's not just fine, sweet sounding little theological niceties, but the Name of Jesus Christ will blow the hinges off any door that you need opened.  Hallelujah!  And it's all linked up to the Abrahamic Covenant.

 Let me show you in the Greek text the different ways in which Peter says this man was healed.  He said that the man's ankle bones received strength.  That is the Greek word "stereao" which is a dead ringer for our English word steroid.  The passage also uses the Greek word "eaomai" which always means physical healing.  It uses the Greek word "therapeuo" from which comes our word therapeutic.  All these words are used to explain how this one man got healed by the use of Jesus' Name based on the Abrahamic Covenant.  Twice Peter said that the man was made whole.  "Made whole" comes from the Greek word "sozo" from which comes our English word saved.  Saved in the Greek text contains healing.  Why shouldn't it?  It's based on the Abrahamic Covenant and that contains healing.

 There is a great problem in today's teaching and preaching.  Healing and prosperity have been eliminated from it, but it's because the Abrahamic Covenant is not being taught and preached.  But when you put that Abrahamic Covenant back in your theology, you're going to find that healing and prosperity never was eliminated from it.  It's all included in the term salvation or saved.

 My wife and I were in a restaurant the other day, and there was a lady in there who wanted me to pray for her eyes.  We went outside in the parking lot on the edge of one of the busiest streets in that area with cars going up and down on both sides.  I laid hands on that woman and prayed for her, and began to use the Name of Jesus.  When the Name of Jesus began to hit that woman things began to change in her system.  When we finished her eyes were not hurting.

 I prayed for a lady with lupus, whose back was almost eaten up with that disease.  She wanted to be prayed for because she was hurting.  I laid hands on her and began to use the Name of Jesus over her; and the Name of Jesus began to bombard the cells, and nerves, and bones and cartilage in that woman's back.  She began to straighten up and said, "The pain in my back is easing up."  I asked her, "On a scale of one to ten, if you were hurting at a ten when I started, how much are you hurting now?"  She answered, "No more than five."

 I prayed for her again; I think I prayed for her three times because I don't get embarrassed.  Brother, it's God's Word, not mine.  I'm not on the spot one bit.  He said it, I didn't.  I just preach it and do what He says.  And if it doesn't work, bless God, we'll all quit this mess, get out of here, and go make some money!  But, bless God, IT DOES WORK!  So, I laid hands on her again, and she began to straighten up some more.  She said, "It's feeling better by the minute.  I said, "On a scale of one to ten, where is it now?"  She answered, "No more than two."  I talked to her sister-in-law the next day, and she reported to me that the woman felt so good, that she was in the kitchen baking, something she had not been able to do in a long while.  The sister-in-law said, "You're healing is holding."  And I said, "Well, honey, it's not my healing; that's why it's holding."  It's the Name of Jesus!

 Modern theology, even full gospel theology, pulls all this stuff right out of its context and isolates it.  I liken the Word of God to a pearl necklace.  Every verse is a pearl.  If you clip the string the pearls fall to the floor and roll around at random and come out in a different order than they were.  They're stiff pearls, but they're not in order.  All the Bible is composed of pearls.  The Abrahamic Covenant is the string upon which the pearls are strung.  This gives order to the whole thing.  If you clip the string and remove it you still have pearls, but those pearls are jumbled.  They are no longer in their order.

 Again, modern preaching and teaching, even full gospel preaching and teaching, does not see the fact that the Abrahamic Covenant is embedded as deep in Scripture as it actually is.  When you begin to read Acts 3 and 4 and see exactly what Peter is saying and see how God honors the Name of His Son, Jesus, you will begin to see that you can use the Name of Jesus to receive any provision contained in the Abrahamic Covenant that belongs to you.  And when you really see it you won't be timid in using that Name.

 There was a time, even as a Baptist preacher, I was not bold in using the Name of Jesus.  I was never personally timid about anything in my life, but I was timid about the Name of Jesus.  I never thought it was much more than a cliché.  Therefore, it didn't hold much power for me because I'd never been taught about it.  But the farther I go in my walk with God, the bolder I get.  I will absolutely charge hell with a squirt gun in the Name of Jesus if the Holy Ghost tells me to do it.  I've learned that there is power in the Name of Jesus.  And it doesn't bother me to pray for cancer any more than for a common cold, because the Name of Jesus is bigger than any other name you can name - whether it's lupus, cancer, AIDS, or the sneezes.  The Name of Jesus is THE NAME that is above every name, whether that name is in heaven, on earth, or underneath the earth.  I'm telling you, the Name of Jesus can get the job done. And it's all linked up to the Abrahamic Covenant.  I'm so happy that God showed me that.  I'm so happy that God showed me how to use the Name of Jesus, and I want to share it with you I want to challenge you, I want to motivate You, I want You to get bold and brassy, in your use of the Name of Jesus, because there is a lot of evil that's triumphing in the world today.  And it's happening because God's people either don't understand the power in Jesus' Name, or if they do they're scared to unleash it.  I'm saying that it's time for you to do battle with some of these ungodly strongholds and knock them down using the Name of Jesus.  Look at the first part of Acts 3.  You won't find Peter praying - not even in Jesus' Name.  He issued it as a command.  He told the man, "In the Name of Jesus, get up and walk!"

 There's a time to pray, and there's a time to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus.  Sometimes I'll pray, but sometimes I won't.  Sometimes I'll turn the big guns right in the face of the disease and say, "In the Name of Jesus Christ I command you to die, dry up at the roots, and come out of this body."  This is what Peter did.  There's not one word in these Scriptures that says he prayed one word.  I firmly believe that Peter was already prayed up, but I believe that he prayed himself up for himself and not for that man.

 And if you're already prayed up, you can do the same thing when called upon by the Spirit of God to do so.  Then Peter reached down and grabbed that lame man by the right hand, jerked him, made him stand on his feet, and the man began to jump up and down and leap dance and went into the temple with them.  It happened because of who he was - the seed of Abraham.  And the Name of Jesus linked to that Covenant gave that man what belonged to him to start with.

 The revelation of this is going to give you a wildness about your Christianity you never had before.  I want to see a bunch of people who are not scared of anything because they have the most awesome weapon there is at their disposal - THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.  Is it any wonder that those old prophets that Peter talked about here, as they looked down the corridors of time, could say, "No weapon formed against thee shall prosper."

 Listen, I've had people form weapons against me, but they have not prospered yet.  They have formed all kinds of weapons against me, but the Word of God says that no weapon formed against me is going to prosper, because I'm right in the middle of that Abrahamic Covenant and I have the Name of Jesus.  NO weapon formed against thee shall prosper.  I don't have to fear what man can do to me; I have Jesus' Name.  I don't have to fear what Satan can do to me; I have Jesus' Name.  I don't have to fear what demons can do to me; I have Jesus' Name.  And through the use of that Name linked up with the Abrahamic Covenant, we are more than conquerors.

 We have Covenant and Name linked up in one chapter as the reason for one man's healing.  How plain can you get?  Someone can say, "Well, the Abrahamic Covenant is Old Testament."  Baloney!  I just read it out of the New Testament.  Acts 3 is not Old Testament.  To relate this back to the Old Testament is foolish!  The Abrahamic Covenant is NOW!

 If you keep dividing up the pearls of the Word of God - you pick up the Name of Jesus pearl, you pick up the Abrahamic Covenant pearl, then you pick up some other little pearl, and keep them all separated so they cannot come back in their proper order like they should have been before the string was cut - you've still got pearls, but you have robbed yourself of the power in those pearls. Keep all the pearls on the string of the Abrahamic Covenant in their proper order, and you'll find yourself operating in more power than you thought possible.  And it's the Name of Jesus that will activate it in your behalf.

 In the next chapter we demonstrate from scripture that Jesus' Name will procure for you everything that you will ever need.  You will see that this main instrument of God's power, Jesus' Name, will come through for you.  You will see that it will secure for you and your family everything contained in The Abrahamic Covenant.

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