John Hagee - The Power of The Blood (Absolute Power)
The preacher proclaims the blood of Jesus Christ as the ultimate, eternal power that redeems from sin, defeats Satan, protects believers, brings healing and victory, and is the only way to salvation, flowing from Genesis to Revelation and making Christianity powerful while rendering all other paths powerless.
The Crimson Stream Begins in Genesis
Remember, and write it down in stone, our God is a miracle-working God. In the Genesis of time, he breathed into a handful of dirt and man became a living soul. You are created in the image of God and that’s a miracle.
It’s a miracle that no doctor should be able to abort in the womb of the mother. He separated light from darkness. He is the light of the world. He flung the glittering stars against the velvet of the night to sparkle as celestial evangelists, proclaiming that there is an awesome God that created this. Man certainly could not have done it.
A speck of his glory escaped his fingertips, as he set the blazing sun aflame with flames that leaped 300 miles from the surface of the sun. The Bible says, “The heavens declare the glory of God”. They speak to every man on the face of the earth that there is a power that did this that’s greater than the power of humanity.
He holds the seven seas in the palms of his hand. Think about that the next time you look at the ocean: that God Almighty holds the seven seas of the world like you could a drop in your hand. He is the shepherd of the stars. He calls them by names.
He is the God of might and miracles. He is the God of grace and glory. He is the God of power and patience. He’s the God that brings hope and healing. He brings life and liberty. He is greater than the greatest. He is higher than the highest. He is wiser than the wisest.
He breathes life into the dead womb of Sarah at 90 years of age. And God gave her power with the relationship of a hundred-year-old man, Abraham, and they birthed a child. That’s power! Hallelujah to the Lamb of God!
God parted the Red Sea for Moses and the children of Israel to walk across on dry ground. That was a miracle. He drowned Pharaoh’s army and turned them to fish food, and said, “Your enemies you will see no more”.
Some of you in this audience need to say that prayer, “My enemies, I will see no more”. He rained manna from the heavens for 40 years for the children of Israel where there was not one sick nor feeble among them.
He gave them clouds by day to cool them from the sun in the desert. And at night when it became cold, he gave them a fire by night. He caused water to gush out of a rock, sufficient enough to give water for over a million people.
He held the sun still for Joshua, as Israel fought to defeat their enemies. He muzzled the mouths of lions when Daniel was in the lion’s den. He walked into a fiery furnace with the three Hebrew children, and they walked out without the smell of smoke upon them.
When our God sees his children in trouble, he doesn’t send someone: he shows up himself. Give him praise.
His son, Jesus Christ, was born in the womb of a virgin. Defying medical science, became the healing Jesus. And that healing Jesus, right now, is walking the aisles of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. He is the great physician! Nothing is impossible when the Lord shows up!
Jesus healed the lame. He healed the deaf. He healed the blind. He healed with one touch. He healed with two touches. He did with spittle in his hand. Why? Because the Jewish people believed that there was healing power in the spittle of the first-born son in any family. Jesus was sending the message to his audience, “I am the first-born Son of God the Father. I am the Waymaker. I am the Healer”. Hallelujah.
Jesus healed blood diseases. That signified leprosy, which was considered a death sentence when Jesus was on earth. He healed one on one. He healed in mass. He healed long distance. There is no distance in prayer. There is no distance in prayer.
For those of you who are watching on television today, and I pray for you over this network, that prayer can come right into your house and into your home, into your bedroom, as if Jesus Christ was standing right by your bed. Distance is no limitation to God. It’s no limitation to God.
Peter walked down the street and the sick were healed that fell in his shadow. That’s supernatural power.
Jesus said to his church at the end of his ministry, “Greater things than these shall you do”. Greater things than these shall you do.
He had only raised the dead and healed everything that came to him. But he looked at those who would follow after him and said, “This power is in you if you exercise your faith”.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. What he did by the Sea of Galilee, he can do today. “These signs shall follow them that believe,” he said, “In my name, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover”. And they shall recover.
Our God is still Jehovah Rophe, the God who heals all of our diseases. His son, Jesus Christ, is the great physician. He is the balm of Gilead. He is the conqueror of death, hell and the grave. Give him glorious praise, for he is worthy of our praise.
The Scarlet Stream Through Scripture
I hold in my hand the most powerful force that God has ever given to man. This is the word of the living God. Show me a people who have a Bible that’s falling apart and I’ll show you a people whose life is not.
This is a powerful force. It’s sharper than any two-edged sword. This is the bread of life. This is living water. This word spoken under the anointing of the Holy Spirit makes every demon in hell tremble with fear.
Secondly, you don’t have to understand miracles to have one. Say that with me. You don’t have to understand miracles to have one.
I don’t understand how a black cow eats green grass and gives white milk and produces yellow butter. But it happens every day.
Can you explain electricity? Nobody really can. But I’m not going to turn off the lights until I do understand it. I’m going to turn the light on so I might not stumble over the furniture.
Would you rather sit in darkness until you understand it? Do you understand how food is converted into energy when you eat it? No one really does, but I’m not going to stop eating until I understand all of that.
Point: are you will to experience only what your mind can understand? If you do, you are limiting an awesome God into absolutely nothing.
Do you need a miracle? When you want what you’ve never had, you’ve got to do what you’ve never done. Have faith in God. Nothing is impossible.
If that was the only verse in the Bible, it would make Christianity the most exciting adventure on the earth. Nothing is impossible with God.
Faith starts out before you know how it’s going to turn out. The Bible says, “Faith is the victory that overcomes the world”. The Bible says, “Without faith, it is impossible to please God”.
It says, “By faith, Noah built an ark to save his household”. “By faith, Abraham looked for a city whose builder and maker was God”. By faith, David picked up five smooth stones and he destroyed Goliath. By faith, Daniel slept with the lions. By faith, the three Hebrew children walked into the fiery furnace and they walked out without the smell of smoke upon them.
They didn’t bend. They didn’t bow. And they did not burn, because nothing, nothing, nothing is impossible to those that believe! Give the Lord a praise!
By faith, a simple Hebrew girl, at the age of 16, 17 or 18 named Mary, gave birth to Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, and said, “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit doth rejoice in God my Savior”.
That boy grew up and said, “For by grace are you saved through faith”. By faith, when you have lived your life and you know you are living your last minutes on this planet, you can look straight into the eyes of God and say, “Open up the Pearly gates. I’m coming home. I have faith that there is a God. I have faith that there is an eternity. I have faith that I have victory over death, hell, and the grave. I have faith that I have a mansion just over the hilltop. I have faith that, on the other side, my relatives are standing there, shouting on the hills of glory! By faith, I believe that”! Give him praise and glory!
Is faith important? How do you explain creation without faith? I sat through three secular universities, listening to brilliant men try to explain how we all got here. And they finally have latched onto this “Big bang” theory!
Let me ask you a question, dear professor. What caused the big bang? Faith says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. It’s that simple.
I know: you’re far too intellectual to believe that. You believe that in the beginning, millions of years ago, the sunlight shone upon a pool of algae, and something in that pool of algae started to wiggle about in the slime.
And a few million years later, it crawled out of the slime and got onto the shore. And it learned to breathe on the land. And it climbed into a tree and hung by its tail a few million years later. And that’s your great, great, great grand daddy!
You believe that. I don’t believe that! Look at the universe. Look at the stars that are in the heaven that declare the glory of God. Look at the sun blazing in all of its fury. The moon reflecting the glory of the sun, the seasons that follow one another, the birds in constant migration, all of this speaks of a master plan.
If there’s a master plan, there is a master planner! Who is it? I know. You believe that this matchless, marvelous, miraculous-functioning universe is the result of an ecological accident.
It’s something like finding a Rolex watch on south Zarzamora street, and saying, “The beveled glass blew in from Pittsburgh accidentally. And the delicate spring leaped from the steal mills in Ohio accidentally. And the gold migrated alone and unassisted from South Africa by accident. And the Jewels were dropped out of the pocket of a south Zarzamora Jewel thief”. And all of these ingredients leaped together. And with a twistomatic band, they tell the date and perfect time!
Do you believe that? If you do, I have some ocean-front property in Arizona I want to sell you. I don’t have faith enough to believe that! I believe that in the beginning, God created the heavens and earth! Give him praise and glory!
Some critics infer that they doubt, because faith is too emotional. Let me tell you something. Nothing is more emotional than doubt. I want to say that again. Nothing is more emotional than doubt.
Doubt drags you into a tunnel of darkness. Doubt drags you into the abyss of depression. Doubt is the key that opens the door for fear to consume your mind.
Doubt is a nightmare where weeping hearts hide behind smiling faces. Doubt is where shallow laughter hides the aching soul. And I want to tell you something. That’s emotional. Nothing is more emotional than doubt! It’s true.
We as Christians sometimes get deceived because we believe too much. But it is more true that we get cheated because we believe too little.
God is still waiting for the man, the woman, the church, the nation that will have faith in him according to the authority of God’s word.
Living without faith is like driving in a fog, going through life like Mr. Magoo, blind as a bat, hoping that everything will come out alright some way.
Wake up, mister. Wake up, lady. Faith is victory that overcomes the world! Faith is the substance, the solid rock upon which the church is built. Faith is the thing that will help you maintain your sanity and maintain your progress! When everything else fails, faith in God will endure the storm! Give him praise and glory!
Without faith, how do you face the future? Remember you’re not going to get out of life alive. Think about that a minute. You’re not going to get out of life alive. No one ever has.
How bright you are, how powerful, how wealthy, some day you’re going to die. What are you going to do when you step into eternity without faith in God?
Faith is the most important ingredient that you will find in the Word of God. Without faith, you cannot be saved, you cannot be healed, you cannot know the power of God.
Faith that you have, as a Christian, must be tested. Listen to this, child of God. How do you know how much strength your faith has? You do not know until you have been in the fiery furnace of God’s testing.
There are some whose faith is not strong enough to carry them to church on Sunday morning, but they expect that faith to carry them to heaven! You’re living in an illusion.
If your faith can’t move mountains, it at least ought to try to climb them. God sends the test to show you the true strength that you do have.
A little fat puppy grows up to be a tough bulldog, because it overcomes the test of life. When you’re going through a trial, don’t pound your chest and look at God and say, “Why me”? God has put you in the problem so that the problem will test the quality of the strength of your faith! Have faith in God!
A rabbi, a Catholic priest, and a Baptist preacher were out trout fishing on the lake. And the rabbi forgot his rod and reel, and he walked across the water to the shore and he got it, then he walked back.
The Baptist preacher’s eyes were bugging out. The Catholic priest left his tackle box, and he walked to the shore, retrieved his tackle box. The Baptist preacher was just mystified.
He said, “I know I have as much faith as they do. I’m going to walk to shore too”. And he stepped out of the boat and sunk and almost drowned. He couldn’t swim.
The rabbi and the priest drug him back in the boat, and he tried again. And they pulled him out again, as he’s spitting water and coughing. The rabbi says to the priest, “Do you think we ought to show him where the rocks are before the man kills himself”?
Why did God choose Abraham to be the father of many nations? Because God looked into the soul of Abraham and saw faith that would stand the test: faith that was willing to place Isaac, his only son, on the altar and lift the dagger, ready to plunge it into his heart: faith that said, if God takes him: God will raise him up.
I’m going to tell you something. When I read of the faith of Abraham, it makes my faith look sick. And I’ve got the whole Bible and thousands of years of Christian testimony to validate the power of God.
God is waiting to find a man, a woman, a church, a somebody, who will let him be God and demonstrate his power and his glory to these United States of America!
The pseudointellectual looks at Abraham and says, “That’s stupid”. God looks from the throne of glory and says, “That’s mountain-moving faith”.
The question is not: do I need faith? The question is: do I have the faith in God sufficient enough to salvage my life, my marriage, to endure the storm?
When my health gets into a trial, do I have faith enough to bring me the life-giving force of the healing power of the resurrected Son of God? I want to tell you this, mister. The storm will come. It will come.
I want to tell you this, lady. The storm is coming. When Jesus told the parable of the man who built the house, he said, “And when the storm came”. He didn’t say maybe it would come. He guaranteed it. It’s on the way.
And I want to tell you that without faith in God that’s vibrant, fresh and full of New Testament scripture, you’re finished. Is it important? You’ll not survive without it.
Faith demands action. “Faith without works is dead”. Say that with me. “Faith without works is dead”. Faith is the daring of the soul to go further than the eyes can see.
I want to say that again. Faith is the daring of the soul to go further than eyes can see, to do more than carnal logic says is possible.
I want you to hear this. If you have to understand it before you do it, you’ll never live by faith. If the only time you obey God is when you understand God, you will never spiritually grow.
A little Mexican mother, who attended my church, had two sons that she wanted to send to college. Her husband worked as a civil servant out here at Kelly, and she wanted to send her boy to college, and there just was no money.
So she got a trailer on the back of her car and started picking up the neighbor’s trash and carrying it to the dump. Several of the neighbors liked that, so she got two trailers.
More neighbors liked that, so she bought a truck and started doing it. When she got a truck, she got a man to help throw in the trash. You know men have to submit to the leadership of the woman. She was driving. He was throwing on the trash.
Then she got two trucks. Now she’s making more money than her husband. She got four trucks. She got eight trucks. She bid for the city contract in her town of live oak. She got that.
And the Gutiérrez garbage company was created that became worth millions of dollars, because one little Mexican mother said, “Jesus, help me educate my boy and send him to college”.
Nothing is impossible if you’ll believe God to get behind you and fill with you hope and inspiration to reach for the greatness that God has for you!
You can believe for anything. You can believe for anything! You can believe for marriage harmony. You can believe for your prodigal son or your prodigal daughter to come home.
You can believe that God can deliver you from addictive habits of drugs and alcohol and nicotine. And some of you are looking at me and said, “Not ever”. I assure you that there are dozens of people, who are in this room right now, who walked in here one day totally feathered by drugs and alcohol and nicotine, and they are set free!
For whom the son sets free is free indeed! Give him praise and glory!