James Bailey - "The Power to Be Healed" (August 26, 1979)

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-	Duke University Chapel Service of Worship,	0:04
	August 26, 1979.	0:06
	(organ playing)	0:15
-	Christ invites us to confess our sin	15:39
	and to receive God's forgiveness	15:42
	and then to go and sin no more.	15:45
	Let us now begin that healing, redemptive process,	15:48
	by confessing together our sins.	15:53
	Almighty and most merciful God,	15:57
	we have aired and strayed from my ways like lost sheep.	16:01
	We have followed too much the devices	16:06
	and desires of our own hearts.	16:08
	We have offended against thy holy laws.	16:11
	We have left undone those things	16:15
	which we ought to have done.	16:18
	We have done those things, which we ought not to have done.	16:21
	But thou, oh Lord, have mercy upon us.	16:26
	Spare thou those, God, who confess their faults.	16:30
	Restore thou those who are penitent.	16:36
	According to thy promises, declared unto mankind,	16:40
	in Christ, Jesus our Lord.	16:45
	Grant, oh most merciful God,	16:48
	for his sake, that we may here after	16:51
	live a godly, righteous and sober life,	16:54
	to the glory of thy holy name.	16:59
	Amen.	17:02
	The Lord is gracious, merciful, slow to anger,	17:18
	patient, kind, a real source of steadfast love.	17:24
	God's promises are sure.	17:31
	We are reconciled to God and our neighbor.	17:35
	Peace be with you.	17:39
	We extend a hardy welcome to those of you	17:46
	who are worshiping with us this morning.	17:48
	It is our prayer that your worship with us	17:51
	will be inspiring and filled with joy.	17:53
	A special welcome to those of you traveling in this area.	17:57
	We hope that your travels are enjoyable	18:01
	and that you can return to your homes in safety.	18:04
	To new and returning students,	18:08
	who are with us this morning,	18:10
	welcome to and back to Durham.	18:12
	You certainly have a warm greeting this morning.	18:15
	May your time at Duke be exciting,	18:19
	challenging and satisfying.	18:21
	Especially this morning, we welcome to our pulpit,	18:25
	the Reverend Doctor Jim Bailey and his family,	18:28
	who is with us this morning.	18:31
	We thank him for sharing the word with us, this morning.	18:33
	Let us pray.	18:40
	Enlighten our minds, we pray you, oh God.	18:44
	By your Holy Spirit.	18:47
	That as we prepare to hear your word,	18:50
	as your son has promised, we may be led into all truth.	18:53
	Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.	18:57
	Amen.	19:01
	The scripture lesson for this morning,	19:04
	is a reading from the third chapter of the Book of Acts,	19:07
	beginning with the first verse.	19:10
	Now Peter and John were going up to the temple	19:14
	at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.	19:17
	A man lame from birth, was being carried,	19:21
	whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple,	19:24
	which is called beautiful,	19:26
	to ask alms of those who entered the temple.	19:28
	Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,	19:32
	he asked for alms.	19:35
	Peter directed his gaze at him with John	19:39
	and said, "Look at us."	19:41
	He fixed his attention upon them,	19:45
	expecting to receive something from them.	19:48
	But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold.	19:51
	"But I give you what I have.	19:55
	"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."	19:58
	He took him by the right hand and raised him up	20:03
	and immediately, his feet and ankles were made strong.	20:07
	Leaping up, he stood and walked	20:12
	and entered the temple with them,	20:14
	walking and leaping and praising God.	20:16
	All the people saw him walking and praising God	20:20
	and recognized him as the one who sat for alms	20:23
	at the beautiful gate of the temple.	20:26
	They were filled with wonder and amazement	20:29
	Here ends the reading of the lesson.	20:35
	(organ playing)	20:39
-	There are three things	21:52
	that Jesus commanded that we do.	21:54
	First, that we celebrate the Last Supper,	22:00
	in remembrance of him.	22:06
	That we baptize and make disciples.	22:11
	And thirdly, that we heal.	22:17
	Now the first two commandments,	22:23
	we have somehow institutionalized in the Protestant church	22:25
	and have converted into what we call sacraments.	22:32
	But somewhere, somehow, sometime,	22:37
	we have forgotten	22:42
	to adhere to the third commandment,	22:46
	which is to heal the sick.	22:49
	I don't want to sound heretical,	22:56
	but I want most of all to be biblical	22:59
	and according to the Bible,	23:04
	healing should be a sacrament of the church.	23:09
	I wonder how many days or weeks,	23:16
	maybe even months it's been,	23:20
	since someone was healed in the name of Jesus,	23:23
	here in Duke Chapel.	23:29
	How long has it been?	23:34
	Now the Bible, from the beginning to the end,	23:41
	reaffirms that healing	23:44
	is a part of God's nature.	23:48
	In the 15th chapter of Exodus,	23:52
	it says that God promised the children of Israel,	23:54
	that if they would keep his commandments,	23:59
	that they would not have the sicknesses	24:04
	and the diseases that came on	24:07
	the children of Egypt upon them.	24:11
	In the 27th chapter of Exodus,	24:16
	it already says again, "I will take away all your sickness."	24:20
	It also implies that for the 39 years	24:28
	of their wandering in the desert,	24:32
	that from the time they seriously committed themselves	24:36
	to the covenant with God, that there was no sickness	24:40
	like that in Egypt.	24:45
	But then it goes on to imply	24:49
	that as they turned away from God and his ways	24:51
	and faith and attitudes,	24:55
	that they became sick like all the others around them.	25:00
	Now the New Testament affirms	25:06
	that man in his natural state,	25:08
	does endure sickness.	25:13
	It doesn't quite say why.	25:19
	But it does say that now	25:23
	in the new covenant in Jesus Christ,	25:24
	you and I have a new power of healing,	25:27
	beyond that which God gave even to the children of Israel.	25:30
	The same power that raised Jesus from the dead,	25:36
	now can heal in his name.	25:39
	The same spirit, or the same powerful kind of personality	25:44
	that went about healing others, now, can heal us.	25:49
	In fact, you remember	25:56
	when Peter was asked	25:57
	to explain in a few words who Jesus was by Cornelius,	26:03
	he described Jesus' life this way, in the 10th chapter.	26:10
	God anointed Jesus of Nazareth	26:15
	with the Holy Ghost	26:19
	and with power and he went about doing good	26:22
	and healing all those that were oppressed of evil.	26:27
	Now this is in the old church calendar,	26:35
	the first Sunday in Kingdomtide	26:38
	and the last of the season of Pentecost.	26:41
	Pentecost is the season of the study of the power	26:46
	of the Holy Spirit within the church.	26:50
	Kingdomtide was the study of the church,	26:53
	as it began to move, having received the Holy Spirit.	26:56
	And so the Scripture assigned for this Sunday,	27:01
	is a rather appropriate one.	27:03
	It is the Scripture explaining how the Holy Spirit	27:07
	came upon the church and the characteristics	27:11
	by which you could determine whether or not the church	27:15
	had the Holy Spirit.	27:17
	Which was, if it had the power to heal.	27:21
	Now since healing is according to Acts in the New Testament,	27:29
	the criteria by which the church	27:34
	can measure its authenticity.	27:37
	Whether it can measure that it has received	27:40
	the Holy Spirit, which makes you and I the church,	27:44
	then it has to be important,	27:49
	that you and I be able to at least examine ourselves	27:51
	and the fellowship to which we belong.	27:56
	But let's look at the Scripture.	27:59
	You all know probably,	28:03
	that the third and the fourth chapter of Acts,	28:04
	is the older account of Pentecost.	28:07
	Most of us are more familiar with the account	28:10
	in the first and second chapter.	28:12
	But like the account of the creation in the Bible,	28:14
	there are two accounts of Pentecost.	28:18
	They both basically contain the same things,	28:21
	almost the same wording, but in a different order.	28:26
	But this original account says,	28:29
	that the way the church knew	28:33
	that it had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit,	28:36
	was when Peter and John on their way into the temple,	28:40
	heal a man who had been lame from birth.	28:45
	That that was the criteria of determining	28:51
	whether or not the Holy Spirit had come upon them.	28:54
	Note, there's no previous evidence in this account	29:01
	of the in-dwelling, or the in-filling of the Holy Spirit.	29:05
	This was the beginning.	29:10
	The power to heal.	29:13
	Note that the lame man had chosen for his place	29:17
	to make his stand, or the ground of his being,	29:21
	or the spot to beg, whichever you choose.	29:24
	He had chosen the door outside of the temple.	29:27
	To me, that's probably one of	29:34
	the greatest compliments of the church.	29:35
	In the city in which I live,	29:37
	or the city in which most of you live,	29:38
	where do people go when they wanna beg?	29:41
	When they have needs?	29:45
	They go to the church.	29:47
	Most of the time, not in the church,	29:49
	but right outside of the door,	29:51
	because they know that they've got a better chance,	29:54
	of being helped at the door of the church	29:58
	than they have at the door of IBM,	30:01
	or General Motors, or Liggett Myers.	30:03
	I think that's a compliment to the church.	30:09
	But notice also, that it says	30:12
	and the now spirit-filled church,	30:16
	the first characteristic of the spirit-filled church	30:20
	was that it took notice of those	30:25
	that were crippled by life's events.	30:29
	Those with burdens and infirmities they could not bear.	30:34
	People crippled by fear and self-consciousness.	30:38
	By mistakes and hate and resentment	30:42
	and built in bitternesses.	30:46
	People crippled by memories they can't forget,	30:48
	or blot out all kinds of malignant diseases.	30:51
	Now, the lame man, it says,	30:57
	asked for something.	31:00
	That's what it says in the translation, something.	31:03
	He didn't know what it was he needed, precisely.	31:06
	All he knew was that he had needs.	31:10
	He asked simply, for something.	31:16
	Maybe he was implying alms.	31:20
	But Peter, knowing what he needed,	31:23
	did not treat his symptoms.	31:29
	But he gave him what he needed,	31:33
	knowing that what he needed was Christ	31:36
	and the power of the Holy Spirit flowing in his life,	31:39
	Peter said to him, "Silver and gold have I none.	31:44
	"But what I have and what you need, I'll give you.	31:48
	"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."	31:53
	Notice he gave him walking and leaping	32:00
	and dancing and singing,	32:05
	instead of crawling	32:08
	and crippledness	32:12
	and realistic despair.	32:15
	Instead of resentment, he gave him praise.	32:20
	But let's look at the Scripture.	32:26
	First, it says that the crippled world	32:30
	looks to the church for help.	32:33
	That is a fact.	32:36
	Whether you see them or don't see them,	32:39
	that the crippled world, looks to us for help.	32:41
	They ask for something.	32:46
	They don't usually know what they need.	32:49
	Or something.	32:58
	The real ultimate question I guess,	33:01
	has to be, are we delivering?	33:02
	Right?	33:05
	If they ask for bread, do we give them a stone?	33:06
	Or for fish, are we giving them serpents?	33:11
	If they ask for healing, are we giving them diagnosis?	33:15
	If they ask for meaning, are we giving them psychoanalysis,	33:21
	to which just is another method of diagnosis?	33:24
	If they ask for Christ, are we giving them religion?	33:28
	Most people don't know what they need.	33:38
	That, according to the Scripture, is the role of the church.	33:41
	We are supposed to know what it is they need.	33:45
	Now, the church during the scientific age	33:50
	in which we've lived, has lost the ministry of healing.	33:53
	You know, prior to the 19th century,	33:59
	healing was perhaps the greatest	34:01
	and most essential priority in the church.	34:03
	Unquestionably.	34:07
	But you and I in the 19th and 20th century,	34:10
	have refused to accept, even the possibilities	34:13
	of spiritual healing.	34:17
	So much so, that we will repudiate science,	34:19
	before we will admit the possibility of spiritual healing.	34:23
	For example, penicillin heals	34:27
	and we don't doubt that.	34:32
	We say that medical science has proven	34:35
	that penicillin can do such and such.	34:40
	But if there's a spiritual healing	34:44
	of which there is no explanation	34:49
	and you can't explain it away.	34:53
	What do we do?	34:55
	We say, "Well X-rays aren't too accurate.	34:57
	"Microscopic analysis is faulty.	35:03
	"Medicine is really sort of quackery."	35:10
	And we'll even call doctors,	35:14
	or scientists, charlatans,	35:17
	before we will admit the possibility of spiritual healing.	35:22
	Abingdon Press, who publishes my things,	35:31
	have some kind of a system that they pick up articles	35:34
	that have your name in it anywhere in the world,	35:38
	I don't know how they do that,	35:40
	but about every two or three months,	35:41
	they will send me photostatic clippings of book reviews.	35:43
	They sent me some recently on my book	35:50
	on the miracles of Jesus.	35:52
	And I put them aside and didn't read them for about a month.	35:56
	Last week, I pulled them out	36:00
	and started going through some of them.	36:02
	There was one in there	36:06
	by a distinguished Presbyterian theologian	36:07
	in Presbyterian Outlook,	36:10
	a very good church periodical.	36:12
	He paid this normal kind of niceties,	36:15
	but finally got down to ultimately,	36:19
	what he wanted to say	36:21
	and he said, "Mr. Bailey, in this book,	36:22
	"makes no distinction between	36:25
	"the supernatural and the natural."	36:29
	I wanted to write this gentleman and say,	36:35
	"How perceptive you are.	36:38
	"That is a very accurate, honest appraisal and criticism."	36:43
	Because I make no distinction in my own life,	36:48
	between the supernatural and the natural.	36:51
	To me, they are all the same.	36:53
	God, ultimately, is in control	36:56
	and whether or not it happens by naturalistic means,	36:59
	or the process of medicine,	37:02
	or the process of hospitalization,	37:04
	or the process of loving and healing, or rest, or time,	37:06
	or whether it's a supernatural kind of event.	37:10
	To me, there is no distinction.	37:13
	It all is done by him.	37:16
	I promised my wife, when I turned 40,	37:21
	that I'd go and get a physical examination.	37:25
	I hadn't had one since I enrolled here as a student at Duke.	37:28
	Four years ago, I went through the process.	37:35
	Had around 20 cardiograms, every way shape or form,	37:40
	standing on my head and every kind of (?)	37:44
	and finally, the head of the Department of Medicine there,	37:48
	brought my folder here to Duke	37:50
	and had the head of the department here to look at it	37:53
	and they concluded unequivocally	37:55
	that one side of my heart was dead	37:59
	and I was in the advanced stages of arterial cirrhosis.	38:01
	Well, it's not every day,	38:07
	your physician tells you,	38:12
	that you're dying and it's a matter of	38:13
	just a short period of time	38:16
	and that you ought to tell your family	38:17
	and you sit down and go through that process.	38:19
	But I really, I felt all right.	38:24
	But I wanted to know and I insisted	38:30
	that I have a catheterization,	38:32
	which they didn't do too many, in those days.	38:34
	But I was waiting for five weeks, I guess,	38:39
	before the catheterization.	38:42
	It was a Maundy Thursday service	38:43
	and the whole family were home, and we went to communion.	38:44
	As we were riding home, I said to them casually,	38:48
	"You know, as I was partaking of the sacrament,	38:50
	"I felt an assurance from God, that it was all right."	38:56
	And that's what I call healing.	39:00
	I came to Duke and they did the same tests	39:04
	and after that, they did the catheterization	39:07
	and discovered that my heart	39:09
	was beautiful and normal and healthy.	39:11
	My cardiograms and tests still showed the same thing.	39:15
	Now, I have never been presumptive enough to tell this,	39:20
	these four years, to a congregation,	39:25
	because I didn't want to be presumptive enough	39:29
	to conclude, or to analyze	39:31
	and diagnose how I was healed.	39:34
	Now, you can say, "Well, the tests were wrong."	39:39
	That's all right with me.	39:42
	I'm a pragmatist.	39:43
	You could say, "There was a supernatural kind of healing,	39:45
	"the moment that the Holy Spirit just touched	39:48
	"your whole body and being."	39:50
	That's fine.	39:51
	Or you could say, "Well, the tests show you've still got it	39:53
	"and I don't understand how you can still	39:56
	"maybe run five miles a day."	39:58
	That's all right with me too.	40:00
	All I'm concerned about is the outcome.	40:03
	I don't wanna delineate between	40:08
	the natural and the supernatural, it's unimportant.	40:11
	All I know is, that through the power	40:15
	of the Holy Spirit, God heals.	40:17
	And he healed me.	40:21
	Most of us are like that crippled man,	40:24
	we don't know what's naturalistic	40:25
	and what's supernaturalistic.	40:27
	And we only just ask for something.	40:28
	The result is what matters.	40:32
	If you and I are the church and have the power	40:36
	of the Holy Spirit within us, we'll be healing people.	40:39
	In James the fifth chapter it says,	40:45
	"Is there anyone among you who is sick?	40:48
	"He should then go to the church elders	40:52
	"that they might pray for him	40:56
	"and lay on hands in the name of the Lord Jesus."	40:58
	Now this brings the second thing.	41:03
	"In the name of Jesus Christ,	41:05
	"I order you to walk," he says.	41:07
	Now there's power in that name.	41:10
	A name in biblical times, carried with it	41:15
	the power of the personality.	41:18
	And from that, we got the habit of saying,	41:21
	do such and such in the name of	41:23
	the king or queen of England.	41:25
	Or in the name of decency, for example.	41:28
	There's power in the name.	41:33
	There's something about Jesus Christ,	41:36
	that brings out the best, even the best healing powers,	41:38
	within our being, in our body.	41:43
	Last month, I was on a preaching tour in Canada	41:47
	and I was preaching for the annual evangelistic camp meeting	41:52
	for the United Church of Canada in Nova Scotia.	41:57
	They traditionally end that service,	42:02
	with a healing service, which was a little new to me.	42:04
	Of course the Anglican church, has for a long time,	42:10
	emphasized healing.	42:14
	But I was so elated at the kind of healing took place.	42:18
	They brought children and persons	42:23
	who were physically crippled.	42:26
	And I remember them and I can still see them,	42:30
	as I and some of the other elders laid on hands.	42:33
	But I can remember a college student	42:37
	coming and saying, "You know, I don't have	42:39
	"a good relationship with my dad, and I need to be healed."	42:41
	A youth came and said, "I'd like to be healed	42:47
	"of my resentment of authority."	42:49
	A girl came and said, "I'd like to be healed	42:55
	"of a sickness of adultery."	42:58
	Another person came and said, "I'd like to be healed	43:02
	"of memories I have that I haven't been able	43:04
	"to forget that are haunting my life."	43:07
	And I saw healing after healing,	43:13
	that in the name of Jesus, I could lay on hands	43:15
	and say, "In his name, be healed."	43:18
	And it says, "Then, he took him by the hand	43:25
	"and helped him up."	43:28
	Notice he said, "Look me in the eye."	43:31
	And Peter looked him in the eye.	43:34
	Have you ever passed a beggar on the street, hmm?	43:36
	Could you look them in the eye?	43:39
	Maybe you might be able to,	43:43
	but they then couldn't look you in the eye, could they?	43:44
	There's a shame there.	43:46
	A kind of a shame, or a guilt.	43:49
	He's saying, "Listen, man.	43:52
	"You don't need to feel guilty any longer.	43:53
	"Look me in the eye and in the name of Jesus,"	43:56
	he said, and when he took his hand and touched him	43:59
	he said, "Rise and walk."	44:01
	Now, touch, it's saying.	44:05
	There is power in human touch.	44:09
	Notice the New Testament says and the old,	44:12
	every time it advises us to heal in God's name,	44:15
	it says to touch.	44:18
	The laying on of hands, or the anointing of oil,	44:20
	or the handshake.	44:23
	There is a beauty and a healing power	44:25
	in just human touch.	44:28
	And it says, "At once, his feet and ankles became strong."	44:30
	I have almost 200 shut ins in my congregation	44:37
	and when I visit some of them,	44:39
	so many of them will have a stuffed animal on their bed	44:42
	that they have worn the wool off from hugging it.	44:45
	I have people that tell me time and time again	44:52
	that sometimes, 10 and 12 times in a period of 24 hours,	44:54
	they'll call time service, to hear just a human voice.	44:58
	There is power in touch.	45:05
	My favorite bumper sticker is that one,	45:09
	"Have you hugged your kid today?"	45:11
	I saw in a magazine in California, two years ago,	45:15
	an advertisement for college kids	45:20
	at 3.75 an hour to come in and pet rats,	45:23
	in a laboratory.	45:27
	3.75 an hour to be a mice petter.	45:31
	Even rats need human touch.	45:37
	Jesus when he healed, it says always touched.	45:41
	Doctor Crieger, who is head of the Department of Medicine	45:45
	at the New York University Medical School,	45:48
	says that, in the last few years,	45:50
	he has taught 3,000 doctors and nurses	45:53
	how to transmit healing through loving touch.	45:56
	Or if you've ever been to Lourdes,	46:04
	that cathedral in Europe where so many healings take place	46:07
	and if you've watched the nuns as they touch the people	46:11
	who come there and they carry them back and forth	46:15
	from the pools to the hospital	46:18
	and there is that loving human touch.	46:20
	There's the power of the Holy Spirit,	46:23
	that moves through your body,	46:25
	to other people.	46:29
	Then he took him by the hand and helped him up.	46:33
	But last of all, it says that people in the church there,	46:34
	in the temple, were surprised at what happened.	46:38
	They were surprised.	46:44
	Probably most of you here, today,	46:46
	would be surprised if you actually saw someone healed.	46:49
	The problem is, you can't picture it, you see?	46:57
	They were astonished.	47:00
	You've got to at least be able to picture	47:04
	what you would be like healed.	47:08
	You know, biofeedback has proven the power of that.	47:14
	Biofeedback has proven that you and I	47:19
	can control the activity of the heartbeat.	47:21
	That we actually can control	47:26
	and it's scientifically measured.	47:28
	We can actually control a single cell in the spinal column	47:31
	and even determine whether it moves	47:35
	east, west, north or south.	47:37
	20 years ago, we would've called that witchcraft.	47:41
	Why don't you right now, visualize your body,	47:48
	or your mind,	47:55
	or your marriage,	47:58
	or your relationships,	48:01
	or your broken heart,	48:05
	or your bitter despairing kind of spirit,	48:08
	whatever sickness you suffer from.	48:11
	Imagine yourself whole.	48:13
	Picture your life healed.	48:19
	Don't be surprised.	48:27
	A lot of you say, "Well, I don't wanna	48:32
	"pose false hopes with people."	48:37
	Baloney.	48:43
	There is no such thing as false hope.	48:46
	Hope is still hope.	48:49
	I get on the building superintendent at the church	48:57
	every time they call the expensive engineers	48:59
	to come and look at the air condition system.	49:01
	When they haven't at least run a check	49:06
	of the basic things like, you know	49:08
	is the switch on in the power box?	49:11
	Have you mashed the reset buttons?	49:15
	Have we paid the light bill?	49:21
	It really bothers the Scotch in me	49:25
	when we pay an engineer $400 for a service call	49:27
	to come and say,	49:32
	"You didn't have it switched on."	49:34
	Now, I don't wanna one day,	49:38
	when I have to meet God face to face,	49:39
	I don't want him to say to me,	49:43
	"Well Jim, you know, I could've healed	49:45
	"I could've healed that broken heart.	49:49
	"I could've healed that ulcer,	49:53
	"or that tension,	49:56
	"or that depression,	49:59
	"or that bad attitude.	50:00
	"I could've healed your life,	50:03
	"if you had asked me."	50:06
	He'll be able to say and charge me with a lot of things,	50:10
	but one thing he won't be able to say to me,	50:14
	"Hey, I could've done that, if you had asked me."	50:17
	That's not a false hope.	50:22
	Because the assurance is, that he will heal, always.	50:25
	It happens to be like say, the cells are so damaged	50:31
	in the body that they're already dead.	50:35
	He'll heal us, one way or the other.	50:41
	And the assurance is, that is in this life,	50:45
	or the life to come, that he can make us whole	50:47
	and we don't have to stay sick.	50:51
	So I'd like to say to you, since this is the church,	50:57
	since we've been filled with the Holy Spirit,	51:03
	that you, in the name of Jesus are healed.	51:09
	Could we pray?	51:24
	Father, we'd like to lay on hands in loving touch	51:34
	and heal in your name.	51:42
	Let everyone here who listens,	51:49
	on the radio, or in this chapel,	51:54
	let them picture themselves whole.	51:59
	Their mind, their attitudes, their body.	52:03
	Then Lord, heal.	52:13
	That we may go forth, dancing and running	52:15
	and singing and praising God.	52:20
	In the name of Jesus of Nazareth,	52:28
	arise and be healed.	52:32
	(organ playing)	52:42
-	God has spoken to us in his Word.	55:53
	Let us now affirm what we believe.	55:56
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating,	56:00
	who has come in the truly human Jesus,	56:06
	to reconcile and make new.	56:09
	Who works in us and others by the Spirit.	56:12
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church.	56:17
	To celebrate life and its fullness.	56:22
	To love and serve others.	56:25
	To seek justice and resist evil.	56:28
	To proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen.	56:32
	Our judge and our hope.	56:36
	In life, in death.	56:39
	In life beyond death,	56:42
	God is with us.	56:44
	We are not alone.	56:46
	Thanks be to God.	56:49
	Please be seated.	56:51
	The Lord be with you.	56:58
	Let us pray.	57:03
	Almighty God.	57:07
	Through the healing waters of holy baptism,	57:09
	you made us your children in your kingdom.	57:12
	Enable the church, which you have gathered	57:16
	by your Word and Spirit to be a faithful witness	57:19
	to you in all the world.	57:23
	Lord, in your mercy, bless the church	57:26
	with faithfulness.	57:28
	Hear our prayer, oh Lord, for the nations of the earth.	57:32
	Breathe on them the spirit of peace and understanding.	57:36
	Grant your protection and support	57:41
	to all those in troubled places of this world,	57:44
	who fear the loss of life and home.	57:48
	Give wisdom to all in authority	57:52
	and inspire in them a desire for peace and harmony.	57:55
	Lord, in your mercy, bless the world with peace.	58:02
	Holy God, we pray for ourselves.	58:08
	Strengthen us with the bread of life,	58:11
	to be kind and tender hearted to each other	58:15
	and to praise and honor you, the creator of us all.	58:19
	Lord, in your mercy, bless us with growth and faith.	58:24
	Merciful God, you have born the pain of the world.	58:31
	Look with compassion on all who are sick or suffering,	58:36
	or in distress.	58:40
	Especially those family and friends	58:43
	who we name in our hearts before you.	58:45
	In your great mercy, grant healing and peace	58:51
	and surround them with your love and care.	58:56
	Lord, in your mercy, bless the sick with your presence.	59:00
	We thank you, Lord, for all those who have gone before us	59:06
	and who now dwell with you in life eternal.	59:10
	Grant us grace to follow them,	59:14
	as they followed Christ, that we too	59:16
	may live in you eternal presence forever.	59:20
	Lord, in your mercy, accept our thanks and praise.	59:24
	For into your hands, oh Lord, we command all	59:28
	for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy,	59:32
	through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord,	59:36
	who has taught us to pray with him.	59:39
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	59:43
	hallowed be thy name,	59:47
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	59:49
	on earth as it is in heaven,	59:53
	give us this day our daily bread	59:56
	and forgive us our trespasses,	59:59
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	1:00:02
	and lead us not into temptation,	1:00:07
	but deliver us from evil,	1:00:10
	for thine is the kingdom	1:00:13
	the power and the glory forever,	1:00:15
	Amen.	1:00:19
	(organ playing)	1:00:26
	Go out now, to live in the world,	1:10:37
	what we believe in our hearts and proclaim with our lips.	1:10:41
	That Jesus Christ is Lord.	1:10:46
	To the glory of God.	1:10:49
	Depart in peace.	1:10:51
	In the name of God, creator, Son and Holy Spirit.	1:10:54
	Amen.	1:11:00
	(organ playing)	1:11:04

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Title:

James Bailey - "The Power to Be Healed" (August 26, 1979)

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Sermon start time: 21:52. Sermon end time: 52:36.
Healing is part of Christian ministry, both of physical ailments and emotional/mental ones, both in supernatural and natural ways. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: If you and I are the church and have the power of the Holy Spirit within us, we'll be healing people.

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August 26, 1979

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Bailey, James

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Acts

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Acts 3:1-10

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