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Super Saiyan Jesus

Listen to My Beloved Son

Up on the mountain the light is so bright it hurts to look at. Moses is there. Elijah is there. Jesus’ clothes go white past the point of white, and His face shines like the sun. He glows up Super Saiyan in a way that would make Goku and every transformation on the roster look like base-form scrubs. Aura so thick it would make SSJ3 look like a nightlight. The camera should stay locked on Him for a multi-episode fight scene while dramatic music plays and everyone else becomes background. Then the cloud rolls in and the Father’s voice cuts through everything with the only instruction that matters: “This is My dearly loved Son. Listen to Him.”

You would think the next thing out of the Beloved Son’s mouth, once He comes down from Super Saiyan mode, would be something about how the glowing One is the one who is able. That the bright light is the point. That the Father’s attention is on Him for a reason, so watch Him flex. That is not what happens. Think about how odd that is compared to how everyone else would talk.

What is waiting at the bottom is a father in tears and a cluster of disciples who could not get the job done. A boy has been slammed into fires and water by a spirit for years. The disciples had the authority. They had the commission. They still could not cast it out. Jesus looks at the scene and the first words that come out of the mouth of the One the Father just told everyone to listen to are, “You unbelieving and perverse generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you?” He does not pat them on the head and tell them, “don’t worry, Super Saiyan Jesus is here to help.” No. What He does is call the failure what it is. Unbelief that curves the straight line of the Kingdom into spiritual porn. Faithlessness is spiritual OnlyFans. And those who peddle faithlessness are its top 1% earners.

Then He turns to the crying father who says, “If you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.” Jesus is irritated. “If I can?” The grammar has heat in it. Of course the One who just went Super Saiyan in the cloud with Moses and Elijah is able. That was never the question. The Beloved Son flips the whole thing around and puts it back on the man standing in front of Him. “Everything is possible for the one who believes.” Not for the glowing One. For the one who believes. The ability is not locked up in the Super Saiyan light. It is sitting right there with the desperate father if he will stop hedging and believe. The father gets it. He says he believes and asks for help with the leftover unbelief. The boy is healed.

Here is where it gets interesting. Jesus is the heavenly Super Saiyan. He is the glowing One. The Father’s attention is on Him; heaven is smiling at the Son. If you asked a room full of religious people what it means to be God-centered in that moment, they would tell you it means pointing the finger back at the Super Saiyan Jesus saying, “He is the one who is able because He is the bright light with God’s approval.” They would say the proper God-centered move is to keep the spotlight on Super Saiyan Jesus and wait for Him to flex again. Jesus does the exact opposite. He does the most ungodly thing you can imagine according to that kind of talk. He points His finger back at man and says, “No. This is on you. If you have faith, you can do anything. When you have faith, you become a Super Saiyan who can do impossible things.” That is the opposite of how religious people talk about God’s sovereignty. They keep pointing the finger at the Super Saiyan One and saying the variable is whether He decides to do something. Jesus points the finger at the crying father and the flunking disciples and says the variable is whether they believe.

Later the disciples ask why they could not do it. Jesus does not say the mountain was too big or the demon was a special kind that only the Super Saiyan version of Him could handle. He says they had so little faith. Then He gives the example so no one can pretend He was speaking in metaphors. If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Not for Me, the Super Saiyan One. For you. You open your mouth. You speak. The mountain obeys you.

Think about the sequence. The Father puts the spotlight on His Son and says listen to Him. The Son comes down from Super Saiyan mode and the first real teaching He gives is that the question is not whether the glowing deity is able. The question is whether you believe. If you believe, you become a Super Saiyan who can do any impossible thing. You will speak to the mountain and it will obey you. All things are possible for the one who believes. Say that again. All things are possible for the one who believes. That is what the Beloved Son says. That is what the Father told you to listen to. Super Saiyan Jesus does not keep the spotlight on Himself. He points it at you and says the real issue is your faith. That is the most God-centered thing that ever happened on that mountain, because God decided it was so.

Most people still sit around waiting for the Super Saiyan light to flex again. They keep asking “if You can” while the One the Father loves already told them the real variable is their own faith. Unbelief is perversion. Faith is the straight line. Tell the sickness to go. Tell the demon to leave. Tell the mountain to move. It will obey you. That is what Super Saiyan Jesus said after His glow-up party. Listen to Him. Jesus wants you to glow as the next spiritual Super Saiyan.

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God’s nature is not to withhold. He is a God who loves to give. The Father gave you His only Son. He then gave you His Spirit, in the baptism of the Spirit for power. There is nothing greater that He could give. He is not threatened when you go Super Saiyan. In fact, it glorifies Him the more you aura farm and the more you flex with His unstoppable power and faith.

And if no one has ever told you, I think you look awesome with heaven’s aura and power all over you. Would you mind doing it more?

Miracles Are The Message

The miracles of Jesus are not the trailer for the gospel. They are the movie. Vincent Cheung nailed it when he said miracles “were not merely signs to authenticate the message – they were the message. The kingdom of God is a kingdom of power, and the gospel is a gospel of blessing and deliverance” (The Answer to All Your Problems, Borders Vol. 3). This is why they keep coming. Signs point? Sure. But the reason they’re such a perfect sign is because they are the thing itself.

Think. Everything the gospel delivers when it crashes into your life is a miracle. Forgiveness of sins? Miracle. Healing? Miracle. Prosperity? Miracle. Baptism of the Spirit? Miracle. The whole package is supernatural from top to bottom. When the finished work lands on a person, reality bends. That’s not an accessory. That’s the product.

Cessationists love their little song: “Signs are miracles. Signs have ceased. Therefore miracles have ceased.” That’s the same brain-dead logic as “Dinosaurs are animals. Dinosaurs have ceased. Therefore animals have ceased.” Both arguments are equally stupid. One just happens to get preached from pulpits and called “sound doctrine.” People would never be so careless in normal speech as to say something that irrational, yet they will dare to play those games with God’s word. The cessationist brain is a fossilized fossil arguing fossils don’t exist.

The issue with sign miracles is that they are both signs and the message. They are such good signs because they are the message. Why do I need to explain that to adults? The grand opening of a sourdough bread shop, giving away free slices, is a good sign of the message (the bread) because it is the message. Some miracles are more directly seen as signs, such as Jesus saying “that you may know…,” but that still does not stop the sign miracle from being the message itself.

Even if, for the sake of argument, some “sign gifts” clocked out when the canon closed, it has zero logical relevance to healing and miracles on the demand of faith. Just because a pizza does not have olives does not mean it stops being a pizza. Abraham’s blessing, secured by the blood, still stands. Jesus still said whoever believes will do the works He did and greater ones (John 14:12). That is common discipleship, not a limited-edition apostolic promo. The only way common miracles stop is if God rips Abraham’s blessing out of the DNA of Abraham’s children. He hasn’t.

Why is healing such a perfect sign of the kingdom and the gospel? Because healing is the gospel. “By His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). Matthew 8:17 confirms it’s physical: He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases. That is pure substitutionary atonement language. The same word used for the scapegoat carrying sins into the wilderness is used for Jesus carrying sickness. Thirty-nine stripes in exchange for zero sickness. Jesus took the curse so you get the blessing. If you want the cleanest picture of what the cross actually did, look at a healed body. Nothing is more gospel than that. Forgiveness is the appetizer. Healing by stripes is the main course of the substitutionary feast.

Same deal with prosperity. Jesus became poor so that by His poverty you might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). Same with the Spirit and miracles. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:13-14). Paul defines that blessing as the Spirit and miracles. The age of the gospel of Abraham is the age of miracles. They are interchangeable. If this gospel stands, it is an age of miracles.

Jesus showed the Father. “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). When you read the Gospels, two things dominate the record more than His sermons: healing the sick and working miracles. That is not coincidence. That is revelation. God is a healer by nature, not by contract or mood swing. Healing is who He is, the same way He is the Word, or Love, or Power. Satan victimizes through sickness (Acts 10:38). The Father counters with healing and miracles. Every restored body is the Father dismantling the devil’s work. If healing were optional, Jesus wasted daylight. But since it is central to God being God, those miracles were the message. Because the message comes from God and healing is God, the message is about healing, and so a few signs will be used to authenticate this message, which is about healing. If the gospel is brimming with promises of physical healing, deliverance from oppression, and resurrection power through faith, then how does it make sense to say the signs pointing to that message deliver more substance than the message itself? The pointer becomes mightier than the pointed-to. The banner becomes greater than the king. That’s a gospel that’s all sizzle and no steak—a cruel joke only Satan could have conceived.

Look at the paralytic. “Your sins are forgiven.” Then “get up, take your mat and go home.” Both are the message. Forgiveness is a miracle of the mind of God. Healing is a miracle of the body. Same blood, same substitution, same “it is finished.” Jesus wasn’t doing a two-for-one special with a coupon. Both were the exact same gospel cashing itself out. Forgiveness didn’t clock out when the canon closed. Neither did the rest of the finished work. The atonement is finished. The results keep landing. That’s the point.

Cessationism is the theological equivalent of looking at a fully stocked Costco of finished atonement blessings—forgiveness on aisle 1, healing on aisle 2, prosperity on aisle 3, Spirit power on aisle 4—and declaring the whole store closed because the “Grand Opening Sign” banner got taken down. The banner was never the product. The product is still on the shelves, paid for in blood, and the Manager (who happens to be the Son seated at the right hand of Power) keeps handing it out to anyone who walks in by faith and says “I’ll take that.”

Or it’s like someone who saw the “Open” sign on the store once, concluded the store closed forever after the grand opening, and now starves outside complaining the bread is only for the original customers. Jesus didn’t do a soft opening for the kingdom with a few demo healings and then lock the doors. The power is still on because the King is still on the throne. Miracles aren’t the movie trailer for the gospel; they’re the IMAX experience of the finished work slamming into reality. The samples were the product. And the product is still on the shelf, fully stocked.

The only thing that ceased is the unbelief that refuses to cash the check. Sickness is Satan’s glory. Healing is God’s glory. Accepting illness as “God’s plan” hands the devil a trophy Jesus already crushed. The Father is not glorified in your pain; He is exalted when faith claims the healing His Son bled for. “The prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up” (James 5:15). That’s not a lottery. That’s a guarantee on the demand of faith, the same way forgiveness is.

So go do the message. Reach. Lay the hand. Open the mouth. Command the mountain. The blood still speaks. The name still works. The Spirit still moves. Forgiveness keeps minting new saints every day. The same miracle package that includes healing, prosperity, and power keeps shipping to the same address: anyone who believes. The gospel isn’t a brochure that used to have miracle samples. It is the miracle. And it continues.

The Keys To Heaven Are In Your Pocket

Jesus didn’t hand the keys of heaven to a special class of super-apostles and then lock the rest of us outside the house. When Peter opened his mouth and said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God,” Jesus didn’t reply, “Nice try, now step aside while the professionals handle this.” He said, “On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

The rock is the confession. The keys belong to everyone who makes the same confession with the same faith that Jesus is the Son of the living God. Romans 10 says you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, and that is where the kingdom sits—inside people who agree with God out loud. Ephesians 1 says He adopted us into His family. Grown adopted sons get keys to the house. Heaven is the house. He did not give the Father keys to hand to the Son and then wait. Put your hand in your pocket. He gave you the keys, because you are a son in the house. The house is heaven.

Stop and think about what He actually handed you. Not keys to the garage. Not keys to the family cabin. Not keys to some distant relative’s condo. Keys to heaven itself. The place where the throne sits. The place where the Father dwells. The place the angels call home and the saints call the final destination. He looked at the ones who confess His Son and said, “Here. These are yours now.” That is not a metaphor for “feel encouraged.” That is the Owner of the universe putting the master set in your pocket and telling you to start using them. Adopted children eventually get house keys. He treated you like a son who has come of age. The kingdom is His house, and He just gave you access…and receiving in faith, you just banked reward in heaven. Unlocking her healing unlocked more of that for her too.

Think about how ridiculous the scale is. Imagine if God had walked up and dropped the keys to the Andromeda Galaxy in your hand. Two and a half million light-years of stars, wonder, and systems. “Here, rearrange this if you want. Call me if you get lost.” Or the Sombrero Galaxy—edge-on, dust lane and all, a hundred thousand light-years across—and He just slides the key across the table and says, “Go play.” You would lose your mind. You would tell everyone. You would not spend the next forty years asking Him to unlock the front door of your own house while those galactic keys sat in your pocket. Yet that is exactly what most believers do. He gave you something a hundred million times greater than Andromeda or the Sombrero. Heaven is not a galaxy. It’s something much, much greater. And God gave you the keys to it. Heaven is the throne room. The place where the decrees are issued. The place where what is bound stays bound and what is loosed stays loosed. He put those keys in your hand.

Think about what that means the next time you see a sick Christian. Jesus looked at the woman bent over for eighteen years and called her a daughter of Abraham—something He did not casually throw at the crowd whose father was the devil. She was already in the covenant and still bound by Satan. Ignorant believers can still get chained. The one who knows he holds the keys does not stand there begging God to unlock something God already handed over. He speaks. “Be healed.” That is not asking the Owner of the house to use His own keys. That is the son using the keys the Father placed in his pocket. What you unlock on earth is unlocked in heaven. Free that woman from the chains and she now has energy, time, and clarity to pursue the promises, store up treasure, and expand the kingdom. Every time you receive a blessing by faith—health, provision, open doors—you are not merely collecting stuff on earth. Because you did it the spiritual way, by asking and receiving in faith, you just banked reward in heaven. Unlocking her healing unlocked more of that for her too.

Some people still pray like they are standing outside the house knocking. “God, would You open this door for me?” He already gave you the keys. He is not going to open it while you hold them. Moses stood at the Red Sea with the Staff of God in his hand and started a monologue about how the Lord would fight for them. God interrupted and told him to stop crying out and use what he already held. The same thing happens when you treat the keys of heaven like a souvenir. Next time you catch yourself asking God to unlock something, picture Him looking back at you and saying, “I gave you the keys. You unlock it.” He gave you keys to heaven itself. That is a hundred million times bigger than if He had handed you the keys to the Andromeda Galaxy and told you to go rearrange stars. And He expects you to use them.

The kingdom is not expanding because God is hunting for volunteers willing to beg. It expands because sons who confess the Son of God pick up the keys He already put in their pockets and start unlocking things. Stop asking the Owner to do the job He assigned to you. Take the keys. Unlock the healing. Unlock the provision. Unlock the door. If a weapon is formed against you, lock it up on earth, and God will lock it up in heaven. Think about it. God did not say to Himself, “What I lock on earth, I will lock in heaven.” He said it to you. It’s your responsibility to lock and unlock, and God will back you up.

What you unlock on earth is unlocked in heaven. That is not a suggestion; it is your responsibility as a child of the house. That is the house rules for the adopted. You hold the keys to the place where the throne sits.

Next time you pray, see heaven’s keys in your hand. Pull them out of your pocket and see yourself unlocking or locking something. Don’t worry. God gave you the keys to use them. He likes to see a son using the family keys.

You Have Not, Because You Ask Not

If you have them, you can’t be tempted to get them.

James drops it plain in chapter 4: “You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.” The context is not some ethereal spiritual hunger for more invisible holiness or a better prayer life. He’s talking about people who want stuff—good sex and marriage, a solid house, property, money, success, relationships that actually work. They want the good material things that make life livable, and because they don’t have them, their lack of self-control sends them into murder, adultery, envy, and coveting, whether they do it with their hands or just in the secret chambers of their hearts. That’s the setup. The problem is lack, and the lack is driving the sin.

Self-control is good. It is a fruit of the Spirit, and we reach for it hard because God said it is. We want the Spirit’s fruit, not a limp version of it. But the same God who lists self-control right there in Galatians is the same God who looks at the man murdering in his heart over a wife he does not have and says, “Ask Me for the wife. I’ll hand her over. Then the temptation dies because you already have her.” One is Spirit fruit. The other is God removing the lack that makes the fruit fight an uphill battle every single day. The monastic crowd wants you fasting in a stone box until desire flatlines like a dead car battery. God wants you with a full fridge, a solid marriage, and a bank account that doesn’t make your neighbor’s house look like a target.

What’s wild is that James doesn’t pivot to the usual religious script. He doesn’t say, “Stop wanting the bigger house. Stop wanting good sex in marriage. Stop wanting more success. Get more self-control and lock yourself in a cold monastery tower until the desire dies.” No. He says ask. Get those material things from God, and the temptation evaporates because you actually have them now. You can’t be tempted to steal a car when the keys are already in your pocket and the title is in your name. You can’t be tempted to murder your neighbor for his wife when God has already given you a good marriage that satisfies. The logic is brutal and simple: if you have them, you can’t be tempted to get them through unlawful means. That’s the argument. God is not calling you to become a monk who freezes in some stone tower while muttering about contentment. He’s saying, “I know you need those things. I know you want those things. Ask, and I’ll give them to you.”

God’s only real warnings are the ones He actually wrote down. Directly in the James passage, don’t ask for sinful things that break a commandment—murder, adultery, the actual violation. And then the basic excess: ask for all the good foods you want, just don’t be a glutton. Asking for steak isn’t the sin. Being the guy who eats the whole buffet then hides in the bathroom like a raccoon in a dumpster—that’s the excess. Same thing with money. The only rule is don’t love it as your true god and provider. Look to God to provide it. Job had it. David had it. Solomon had more gold than a dragon’s hoard, and God never once wrote “loved money too much” on his problem list. Turns out you can swim in abundance without drowning in idolatry. Who am I to add more rules than God already gave? Ask for the good things. Just don’t turn them into the commandment-breaking version or the glutton version.

This is the opposite of how the faithless and the religious operate. They treat material desire as the enemy and self-control as the only weapon, so they end up producing a generation of people who are constantly fighting their own legitimate wants instead of receiving the supply that kills the fight. God’s response is to remove the lack. Nathan told David the same thing after the adultery with Bathsheba. God had already given him his master’s house, his master’s wives, the kingdom of Israel and Judah—multiple wives, which meant multiple sex, multiple good relationships, multiple children, military victories, fame, and success in everything. Then God said, “And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.” If David had wanted more wives, more kingdom, more gold, more everything, God would have given it. After having the more, the temptation would have been gone because he would have had it. That’s how God thinks. The faithless reverse it and act like wanting more is the sin, when the real sin was taking it by murder and adultery instead of asking the One who already proved He was willing to hand it over.

Jesus seals it in the Sermon on the Mount. “Your Father knows you need these things. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you.” The “these things” are exactly what the pagans seek after—wealth, health, food, clothing, material prosperity at the level that makes unbelievers chase them like gods. Jesus doesn’t say those desires are wrong. He says seek the kingdom and the things the pagans are running after will be added to you. The point is not that you stop wanting them. The point is that God is so concerned about them that He guarantees they will be supplied when you put Him first. It’s not based on some bare-minimum need calculation. It’s based on your wants, and He wants to give them to you so you are not sitting around being tempted by the absence.

The atonement already purchased this package. Jesus became poor so that through His poverty you might become rich—not spiritual poetry, but the same substitution that took your sickness and your sin also took your material lack. The blessing of Abraham, which was mainly material favor, land, increase, and success, has come on the Gentiles through faith. You are predestined to ask and receive. So ask. Ask for the good sex and marriage you want. Ask for the house, the land, the money, the success. Ask bigger than the monastery version of Christianity ever allowed you to imagine. When you have them, the temptation is gone. That’s how God designed it. That’s how His love works. Stop treating lack like a spiritual badge and start treating the promises like the finished reality they already are. You have not, because you ask not. Ask, and watch the temptation die because the thing you wanted is now in your hands.

To Reject Healing Is To Reject The Kingdom

Jesus did not hand the seventy-two a clipboard titled “Repent of Your Sins or Burn” and send them out as traveling guilt machines. He told them to walk into the house and drop an authoritative pronouncement: “Peace to this house.” If a son of peace is there, the blessing stands. If not, it returns to you undiminished. Stay. Eat their food. Heal the sick who are there. Then announce, “The Kingdom of God has come near to you.” Matthew stacks the power works right after the announcement—heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received; freely give. The direct words Jesus gave them do not open with “tell them to repent of their sins.” Mark later summarizes what the disciples actually did, but the commission itself packages the spoken blessing, the healing, and the Kingdom announcement as the entry point. That is the picture.

The rejection that gets the dust wiped off the feet and Sodom-level judgment is rejection of that package. The messengers brought an authoritative peace that touches material life, demonstrated the Kingdom by healing the sick and breaking Satan’s oppression, and announced that the Kingdom had drawn near in connection with those works. People get offended at God wanting to bless them with physical wholeness and material goodness. Think about that for two seconds. The faithless preach the opposite. They act like the core charge is “repent of your sins or you’re toast,” and treat healing and material blessing like optional extras or even spiritual dangers. But in the text, the Kingdom comes near by healing the sick and casting out demons. The authoritative peace is loosed over the house. What you bind on earth is bound in heaven; what you loose on earth is loosed in heaven. You go in and loose the blessing of God for healing, goodness, and prosperity in that life. If they reject that, they reject the King who brings those things.

Jesus answered John’s disciples the same way. They asked how they would know it was Him. He did not send back a hellfire pamphlet. He said, go tell John what you see and hear: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Then He added, blessed is the one who is not offended because of Me. He was not warning people against being offended at a sermon about sins and hell. He was warning them against being offended at the good things—the physical and material blessings God was doing. The faithless get particularly unbelieving right there. They can talk about spiritual goods all day, but when God shows up to heal the body, cast out the demon, and speak material peace and wholeness into a life, they flinch. That is the offense. And the judgment still stands.

The gospel is a whole package. Good things, both spiritual and material. Forgiveness is in it. Righteousness is in it. The blessing of Abraham is in it. Healing is in it. By His stripes you were healed. The same blood that purchased the removal of the record also purchased the removal of the curse, including sickness and poverty. God wants to give these things more than you want to receive them. The initial breaking-in is the healing and the blessing. You demonstrate that the Kingdom has come near by the power works. Then you tell them, you see all these good things—the healings, the peace, the demons fleeing—you cannot have the fullness of this unless you repent and believe, and then all those good things are yours. Enter in. But the proof that the Kingdom has drawn near is the healing. The way the Kingdom proves it has come near a person is the sick rising and the demons leaving.

Our responsibility is still to do it. Go pronounce “your peace” in authority. Heal the sick. Cast out the demons. Announce that the Kingdom of God has come near. If a ministry refuses to do this, boycott it. Reject it. They are a ministry of the faithless doing faithless things. They are not advancing the Kingdom; they are stalling it while Satan uses the body as a middle finger at the finished stripes and the enthroned Christ. The dust is for those who reject the package. For those who receive it, the peace sticks, the sick rise, and the Kingdom expands in power, not just words.

Speak the peace. Command the healing. Receive the good things God already purchased. The Kingdom has come near. Do not be offended at it.

Oshea Davis

Systematic Theology. Logic. Faith. Healing. Power.