(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Believer's Voice
of Victory. Join Kenneth Copeland today as
he teaches about the spiritual force of faith.
The heart, not the mind, is where faith is
nurtured and developed. Now let's join Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland.
Welcome to the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast.
Let's have a word of prayer, and we'll go right into
today's Bible lesson. Father, we just praise You and thank You.
We worship You. Holy Spirit, You are so welcome in this place.
Your will be done today on these broadcasts on earth as it is in
Heaven. And we give You praise and thanksgiving for it in the
name of Jesus. Amen. Glory to God. Open your Bibles with me
today. Oh, don't forget to download the free study notes,
okay? Go to kcm.org/notes. Ha-ha. You need to do that.
They're free, and you can just use them to teach your Sunday
School class with. Hey, preacher, help yourself. "Well,
I don't want to steal anything." Well, are you kidding? I stole
it from Brother Hagin. He stole it from Jesus. I mean, come on
man. No, we didn't steal anything. He gave us the whole
thing. Praise God. You know, I'm glad you brought that up because
I want to say something about that. That's been something that
the devil has used to stop and inject pride in a preacher and
the preacher don't know it's pride. "Well, that's Brother
Copeland's message. I don't want--" It ain't my message.
Look, if it was my message, I--when--The moment I preached
it, I gave it to you. And here's the--here's the bottom line of
it: When you--you take--Well, just like right now. I am going
to begin on Mark 11:22, 23, 24, and 25. I mean that's--that's--I
learned that from Brother Kenneth E. Hagin. Well, when I
first began to minister, I first began to teach it and preach it,
I didn't know anything except what I'd heard him teach. But
when I began to teach it, the Spirit of God came up in me and
I would go into directions and things. I learned things that I
didn't learn from Brother Hagin. You understand what I'm saying
to you? So don't let the devil steal and rob you out of that. I
mean, if it'll help you, you need to stand up there like I
did and say, "I want you to know, I learned this from
Brother Copeland." Now, don't you be quoting me. You're
saying, "Now, Brother Copeland said--" Nah. Don't--don't start
that. You say, "The Word of God says, in Mark 11:22-23, 'Jesus
said--'" All right? Amen. Now, then, let's begin there in Mark
11. "Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God." But
then you come upon the cross-reference, and it says,
"Have the faith of God." Now let me touch on that for a moment
because we are born again by the Word of God which lives and
abides forever. That word, that word which we were born again,
when that came into our hearts faith came but its God's faith.
Amen. Hallelujah. Now, "For verily I say unto you, That
whosoever--" Let's stop right there. "Whosoever," that means
me, that means you. I'm a whosoever. Glory to God. I just
want to let that soak in on you a little bit now. "Whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that those things which he saith," or says, "shall come
to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith." Now, let's
take some close look at this. "Whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; shall
not doubt in his heart--" Let's touch on that a moment. He's not
talking about our natural blood pump. No, no. No, you couldn't
be--(Laughs) You couldn't believe God with your physical
heart any more than you could with your liver. How would that
sound? "Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and
shall not doubt in his liver." Or--er--No, no. No, you can see
where that is erroneous. So what is he talking about? The spirit
of man. You are a spirit being like God. You are in His very
likeness. You and Jesus have exactly the same spiritual DNA.
Both--that's another teaching. But Let's think about this very
carefully now. You are a spirit. You have a soul made up of your
mind, your will, and your emotions. Picture it like this:
If I could separate from my body and step out of my body, you
If I could separate from my body and step out of my body, you
would recognize me if you could--if you could see my body.
"Well, Brother Copeland, you think we're going to know one
another when we get to Heaven?" If you know me here, you'll know
me there. If you don't know me here, we've got to get
acquainted. You're not going to--you're not going to turn
into an angel no more than you'd turn into a toad-frog, brother,
sister. Come on now. No, you're you, always will be you. But,
hey, there's a whole lot better looking me and you that's coming
down the road. (Laughs) Hallelujah. Because this inner
man--once this inner man gets fed on the Word and starts
getting strong--praise God--and beginning to be edified, praying
in the Spirit, and so forth, whoa. And you begin to walk in
the Spirit. Now, I wanted to point this out. Here you can see
both my spirit and my body. The soul--mind, will, and
emotions--is inside my spirit, not just in part of my body. My
brain is part of my body. Ah, you want me to--Yeah, okay. You
understand I just work here? (Laughs) So listen to this now.
You remember the rich man that died and went to hell, and
Lazarus went into the bosom of Abraham and--and the rich man in
hell looked up and saw Father Abraham and Jesus told this
story. And--but listen to what Father Abraham said. Now, the
man's brain is in the ground up there. It's decaying away in the
ground topside, he--his spirit, see. The body's not the "he."
Amen. Now, he looks up and sees Father Abraham, and Abraham
said, "Son, remember." Ha-ha-ha. Isn't that good? See, his memory
was still intact. His brain wasn't there, but your memory is
in your spirit. Your brain is what your spirit uses to--and
your spirit and your soul use your brain to contact this
natural physical world. Okay. Now, this faith, this kind of
faith, the faith of God, is of the heart, not the head. So the
heart, the spirit man--amen. That's where faith functions.
It's born there, and that's where it comes from. Now,
therefore--well, let me go--thank You Lord. Let me back
up here again. What are we supposed to believe? "Well I
believe Jesus is Lord." Yeah, that's wonderful, but that don't
work here. "Well, you know, I believe He's raised from the
dead." I do too. That's what got you and me born again. Glory to
God. But that won't work here. That--now, notice what He said:
"Whosoever say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and
be thou cast into the sea; and not doubt in his heart, but
shall believe that those things which he saith," or says, "shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says." That's
where the faith is released and that's the control factor right
there, is believing in your heart. My faith is in my spirit.
It's a spiritual force. Believing what the Word of God
says, put it into my spirit, and believe it, and then say it with
my mouth, it will come to pass. Now, "Whatsoever thing you
desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you
shall have them. When you stand praying, forgive, if you have
ought against any--" Faith will not work when you have an air or
a presence of unforgiveness about you. It--unforgiveness is
a strong spiritual force, and it creates fear because it
activates Satan, who is the spirit of fear. Now then, let's
take a look here in the book of Romans 12, and let's look in the
3rd verse. "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
every man that is among you--" Who was this--who was the book
of Romans written to? Okay, let's just see. "Paul, a servant
of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the
gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets
in the holy scriptures.)" And he says to-- "Concerning his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh; declared to be the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of
the dead--" Verse 7, "To all that be in Rome--" all that be
in Rome "--beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace unto
you." That--if it is for everybody in Rome, it's for
everybody in Fort Worth. It's for everybody wherever you live.
Amen. So now notice what he said here. Now, he's talking to
born-again, Holy Ghost-baptized, tongue-talkin', healing,
believing Christians in Rome. "I say, through the grace given
unto me, to every man that is among you--" every man that is
among you "--not to think of himself more highly than he
ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has
dealt to every man" among you "the measure of faith." Because
the apostle Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica, and he
said, "all men don't have faith." He said, "wicked" and
"unreasonable" men--"unreasonable" men do not
have faith. So you've got unsaved people, and they may be
good and wonderful people, not wicked and unreasonable men, but
never accepted Jesus as their Savior, never been born again.
They don't have the faith of God in them. They have natural human
faith. Everybody has natural human faith. You have to have. I
mean--ha-ha--you wouldn't know what to--what chair to sit down
on. "You--whoa. You think that thing will hold me up? Oh. I
don't know whether I want to sit down or not." No, no. You've got
to come to a point where you believe something, but that's
natural human faith. We're talking about the faith of God
that changes things, the faith of God that removes mountains,
the faith of God that heals the sick, the faith of God--hey, you
understand? Ha-ha. I know you do. Now then, this faith, as I
said, is of the heart and not the head. It is not a mind
force. It is a spirit force. I remember in I Thessalonians 5,
the apostle Paul used this--this phrase, that "God make you
whole," your whole spirit, soul, and body. A lot of people, if
you were to ask them, "What is the difference between the
spirit and soul?" And there was a time I thought they were the
same thing. Did you know most people think they are the same?
But they're not. Now--also remember what the Word of God
said in the book of Hebrews, that the word of God is sharper
than any two-edged sword dividing asunder the soul and
the spirit, huh? So they can't be the same thing. So let's go
back over that again. Your soul is made up of your mind, your
will, and your emotions. It is part of your spirit man. So
it's--say it with me, "spirit, soul, and body. I am a spirit, I
have a soul, and I live in a physical body." Say this: "This
physical body is my earth suit." Now, you know when astronauts go
into space, they have to have a space suit. Why? Because there's
no environment out there and you can't live out there. Without
this physical body, you can't live in the earth. The moment
your physical body dies--ha-ha-ha. Listen to me
now. The moment your physical body dies, your spirit's going
somewhere. It's going up or down; your choice. Did you know
God's never sent anybody to hell? He created hell for the
devil and his angels. He has never sent anybody to hell. He
never, ever made that choice. He gave Jesus. He made a way. The
only sin today that'll send you to hell is by not believing that
Jesus Christ is Lord. Amen. That's another teaching that
I'm--whew!--I wish I had time to get off into that but I don't
right now. Maybe later. Now notice, He said, "according as
God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." Two things
here: One, every child of God, the moment you accepted Jesus
Christ as your Lord and Savior, we--each one of us received the
exact same measure of the faith of Jesus, the faith of God, the
very same measure. Now, it's up to you and me whether that
measure grows or gets weak. It can become strong. Faith, now,
is a spiritual force. Always remember that. It's not of the
mind, not of the body. It is of the Spirit, dealt unto you at
the time you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. It doesn't
go and come. In other words, it doesn't leave you and have to
come back. It doesn't come by praying for it. It's not dealt
by prayer. "Well, then how'd we get it?" Well, just back up two
pages here, Romans 10:17. "So then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God." It is the Word of God that dealt
that measure to you to begin with. Praise God. Now, let's go
over here to the book of Ephesians a moment because I
want to touch on this a moment here, in the 2nd chapter of
Ephesians, and let's look at Verse 10. "For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them." So there
was a new creation happened here, II Corinthians 5:17-21.
"--any man that's in Christ, is a new creature: old things are
passed away; and all things become new. And all things are
of God." Now take that, then, and back right up here, in Verse
7, "That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God." Amen. This faith is not of
ourselves. It is the gift of God. When did He give it to you?
When you accepted Jesus. It's all part of the package. That's
when you were born again. Amen. That's when that faith came in
there. Praise God. Isn't this wonderful? So He "has dealt unto
every man the measure of faith." "Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by--" what? "--the Word of God." Now, how does faith
grow? Think about that a minute. How does it--how does--what
causes faith to grow? Let's turn over to the book of Mark,
Chapter 4. Now, remember now, in Mark 4-- let's look at--now,
let's look at Mark 11 again because we have to keep this--we
have to keep this just--just right up here in front of us.
Thank You, Lord. "Jesus answering said unto them, Have
the faith of God. For verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, be thou cast into the
sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe--"
Believe what? "--believe that those things which he says shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says."
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