I had the amazing honor of speaking at Presbyterian College’s FCA last Wednesday. The main thought I was conveying was about keeping Jesus at the forefront of your focus, and appropriately enough it spilled over into a tangent that begin with “I want to squash a bug real quick.”

I proceeded to exaggerate the best I could the goodness of God and with Jesus being our main focus and the exact representation of God, how there’s no way God gives sickness to to teach us a lesson. God is too awesome, amazing, mighty, all sufficient, and extraordinarily creative to use something as non-uplifting and bland as sickness. Everything Jesus did illustrated the exact character and nature of God. [Hebrews 1; Colossians 1] So if Jesus never used sickness to illustrate a point or lesson, neither does God, now.

After I said this, you could hear people breathing it was so quiet. Here’s why I’m sharing this: The world needs to know that God REALLY is as good as He says He is, and that Jesus REALLY did accomplish what He said He accomplished.

Therefore, EVERYTHING shifted after Jesus. Meaning, a fatal system of laws stopped when a life bearing force of grace stepped onto the scene. Read and study Matthew 11 and Luke 16.

Yesterday, Bill Johnson taught on the same concept, and he’s a much better teacher than I am. I’ll share a two quotes, but you should definitely watch the teaching yourself.

“Yesterday’s anointing is like yesterday’s Manna. If our thinking doesn’t shift with the season (from Old Testament thinking to New Testament thinking), we continuously try to duplicate Old Testament anointing.”

“For two thousand years we’ve been using the previous generation as a standard for the ministry of Jesus, but it is so morphed from the original example that two thousand years ago all sickness is from the devil, and today, many believe that it’s (sickness) sent from God to make us better Christians. We have to return to the original standard.”