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RR: Now what does medical science 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 been believing 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.

RR: You may be watching tonight and you have an offense, you have a hurt that’s deep on the inside.  And first you were hurt, youwere crushed, and then it turned to bitterness and it turned to unforgiveness.  It turned to an anger.  It turned to a, you’ve just eaten up on the inside and there’s some things that are beginning to go haywire in your life because of it.

I was talking to one medical doctor, a well-known orthopedic surgeon, who said, “Many times I find that patients who are dealing with arthritis, they’re literally driven inside themselves.”  And he began to do like this.  He said, “Bitterness kind of makes you do like this.”  And he says, “Now look at the shape of my body,” when he did this.  It makes you turn in on yourself.  It makes you kind of roll up almost in a ball.