And, by the way, Richard, the person that can hurt you the worst is the person that’s closest to you. We expect the world to do us wrong, but what about another minister? What about another believer? See, that’s what David said. It wasn’t an enemy that reproached me. Then I could bear it. David said, “I expect my enemies to hurt me.”
RR: The world would say you only hurt the one you love.
J: Yes, that’s what the world says, that’s right.
LR: You know, for us to be the body of Christ, if the hand starts pounding on the other hand, it has to hurt worse because everybody in the body gets hurt. You know, if an outsider comes and hits you in the hand, that’s one thing. But when your hand hits your other hand, you hurt all over.
RR: Now what does medical sciences say about offenses? What does medical science say about unforgiveness?
J: Well, medical science literally has found out that there is connected to bitterness and unforgiveness, connected with it is rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Now not all cases, but it can be. There is actually one medical doctor that I know of that is prescribing the Bait of Satan book to his patients, rheumatoid arthritis patients and cancer.
RR: Are you serious?
J: I’m not kidding. He buys them en masse from our ministry and then actually writes on the prescription, Bait of Satan book, and says to the people, “You have to read this book.” And people are getting healed. See, in meetings God has had me preach on offenses. I’ve preached it all over the world, Richard, for the last four, five, six years. In every service I have preached it, fifty to eighty percent of the people respond fifty to eighty percent in every congregation I’ve been in all over the world! They respond, saying, “I’m holding an offense.”
And in those services we have seen many times people come up to us, saying, “I was healed of this. I was healed of that. God totally delivered me. I’ve believed for years to be healed of this sickness. I’m healed of it.” And there’s a scripture, listen to this, in Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 14, the Bible says, “The spirit of the man will sustain him in sickness.” Now if your spirit is weakened because of offense, if it’s wounded because of offense, it cannot sustain you because out of the spirit, out of the heart flow the issues of life. And so many are poisoned by the root of bitterness. And bitterness is a root. It fuels that sickness in that body.