(Singing) I know my God has made the way for me.
I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Are you ready to activate your faith and
take a stand against fear? Join Kenneth
Copeland today on the Believer's Voice of Victory
as he shares God's instructions on how
faith is activated by your words. Now here's Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland.
Welcome to the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. Let's
pray. Praise God. There's one fellow who said, "What are we
going to do now?" And the other guy said, "Let's pray." He said,
"Has it come to that?" Now, they--that is not the way it's
supposed to be. You pray first. (Laughs) Thank You, Father. Oh,
it's going to be one of those days, Lord, and I praise You for
it and thank You for it. We love You and we worship You and we
bless You this morning. We open our hearts. We open our minds
for revelation from heaven, and we receive your presence in this
studio. We receive your presence throughout the entire Believer's
Voice of Victory Network. We receive your presence
every--everywhere the sound of my voice is going. And we praise
You for all of Your work, Your mighty glory being manifest. We
receive revelation from heaven, revelation of You, Lord Jesus.
You're precious in our sight. And greater is He that is in us
than He that's in the world, in Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God.
Welcome. It is amazing, all the things that are happening in the
earth. It's--whoa, I mean, oh, we could just--in fact,
we--we've got video, you know, of stuff that's just--oh, man!
It'll make--your hair won't want to lay down. You just get so
excited and scream and holler, and it's just going on and it's
going on and it's going on and it's going on. And say, "Well,
why am I not seeing it--any of it?" You ain't looking in the
right place. (Laughs) Amen. You need to be looking at Jesus. You
need to be looking at the Word, looking at Him. He is
everything. He is all and all. It is in Him, through Him, by
Him, and He is in you and me, ready for anything that we can
believe and--oh! And if it's in His Word, we can believe it. If
it's in His Word, we have it. If it's in His Word, it belongs to
us. In the name of Jesus, we--whoa. You can tell--hey,
I've been--I just--blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. (Laughs) I
just preached yesterday morning in Bill Winston's church, praise
God, and the night before. You can understand why I'm-- Yeah!
Ha-ha! I'm jacked up higher than a Georgia Pine. Praise God. And
they--the--at the time that these broadcasts are being made,
it was the Monday of the first--the first day of the
International Faith Conference going on all week. And, oh,
phew. Well, amen. I know--I know a bunch of it's going to spill
over into here, so--and I--oh, hey, hey, I'm going to tell you
to get online and get it. It's just magnificent. Oh, and before
I forget it, download the free broadcast study notes, okay,
kcm.org/notes. Now, I'll tell you why this is so important.
And those of you that are using these to study--and they're
already outlined. You can teach from them, preach from them.
"Oh, Brother Copeland, I want my own message." Well then, forget
it. Ain't nobody needs to hear a word you've got to say of your
own message. Did you realize that Peter, walking into that
beautiful gate that day at temple, he and John, that
crippled man looked up, the beggar man--Jesus preached in
the same temple. Peter and John were right there. They walked
right in that same gate. That man stayed lame all the way
through Jesus' ministry, all the way through that whole time. And
Peter had to preach right where Jesus had been. Well, hey--okay,
Lord. Yes, Sir. I hear You. Let's go over here to the 4th
chapter of Mark, and the 18th verse, "The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he has sent me to heal--" "He has anointed Me to
preach. He has anointed Me to preach. He has anointed Me to
preach." To preach what? Now, I want you to keep your heart and
mind on that, okay? All right. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor; he sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord." Now, let's go over to the book
of Acts. Oh, you're going to get something here, glory to God, in
the 10th chapter. And I want you to notice something that Peter
said here. Now, this is at Cornelius's house. Well, let's
just start with the 34th verse. "Then Peter opened his mouth,
and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with him. That word which God sent
unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus
Christ--" "Christ" is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word,
"Messiah." It is not Jesus' name. It's not His title. It had
nothing to do with that. He preached, "The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me." "The Word which
God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by
Jesus," the Anointed: (he is Lord of all)--now listen, "That
word, I say, you know, which was published throughout all Judaea,
and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John
preached--" That's when Jesus began to preach this sermon.
"--How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost,"
the Holy Spirit, "and with power: who went about doing
good, and healing all oppressed of the devil; for God was with
him." How was God with Him? In that anointing. Amen. Now, I
want you to--I want you to get this: He preached everywhere He
went. That was the text and title of His message. He
preached it everywhere He went. Peter just said so. "I am
anointed." Okay, we understand that. Now, what did Peter
preach? Christ. Oh, yeah. No, you don't get it yet. He
preached the same sermon. Why would you preach anything else?
They had never heard anything else. Now, remember something
there that Peter said. It began at the baptism which John
preached. Was John's last name "Baptist"? No, of course not.
Then why did they call him "John the Baptist"? We add the "the"
in there. In fact, it's written that way when that woman had her
daughter go out there and dance before the king. She said, "What
do I--what do I need to ask the king for, mama?" She said,
"Bring me John Baptist's head." Why did they call him,
"Baptist?" Because that's what he preached. When Philip
preached Christ, he preached that sermon right there, that
He's anointed. And he said--he preached the anointed One and
His anointing. Why? Because he had the same anointing in and on
him. Ha-ha-ha. Glory to God. When you're preaching--I'm still
talking about those outlines now. When I first--I mean, when
I--when Gloria and I went to Tulsa and I enrolled at Oral
Roberts University, she and I were both scriptural
illiterates. We--and we didn't know--but just little to nothing
about the New Testament or the Bible or anything. We were eager
and eager to learn, but we didn't know anything about it.
And so we began to listen to Brother Hagin. And I'm going to
ORU and I'm part of Brother Roberts' flight crew, and I'd go
to these meetings and I'd--well, man, I'm telling you, I'm locked
in on him. Well, I didn't know any other way to preach. I
didn't know anything else to preach. And I just--but then I
began to hear Brother Hagin. And I'm watching Oral Roberts. In
fact, what--the offering we're going to have on this is going
to come to this same revelation that I got right then. And it
just came up within me. This man uses faith on purpose. He uses
faith like a mechanic uses a tool. It just was amazing to me.
Then I began to listen to Brother Hagin. And now--now I
was watching Brother Roberts, listening to Brother Hagin--and
I'm, "Uh-huh. Oh, yeah." I'm watching him do it, listening to
him teach it, and I began to learn how to use the tool. Are
you following me? Now, here again--listen, well, don't
forget those outlines. I--I thought, "Well, this is--this--"
Yeah, the Lord let me know I'm supposed to teach faith. And
I'm--and so how'd I do this? Well, Brother Hagin came out
with a--that--hey, when I say, "mimeograph," there's a lot of
you haven't got a clue what a mimeograph is. But it was--it
was just--it was a hand printer, and they had mimeographed notes.
It was Brother Hagin's outlines. They weren't done insomuch as
outline form, but it was his teaching. They took the--they
took the tapes and just took the "uhs" and the "huh-uhs" and
stuff out and transcribed it where it was, you know, readable
and studyable like a book. And it was a thick notebook about
that thick. And in today's standards, it was very crude.
But--and the lessons weren't all that long, but oh, I thought,
"Okay, this is what I'm going to do." And I--but I'd heard
now--see, I'd heard all these on tapes, heard this whole thing on
tape again and again and again. So the message was in my heart.
So I thought, "Okay." Now, I had learned--I had learned, in
English class, how to outline. And so I remember--now--and I
want to show you something. I want to show you something right
here. Wait, let me get a more normal one. This one's not
normal that I'm going to be doing from today. Now, I
began--you--Brother Roberts used a blue Flair pen all the time.
So I got a--I thought, "The Lord just showed me how to do this."
I got the blue pen, and I put the red--his scripture notes. I
just--you know, the--I started doing this in 1967, then into
'68, set the points, scriptures, and so forth. The Lord showed me
how to do that. And so I--at night, I--my last study before
I'd go to bed, I'd read that lesson. I would outline it; one
point, two points, three points. And they'd go in there the next
morning and teach it. "Well, that's Brother Hagin's sermon."
No, huh-uh, not Brother Hagin's sermon. He didn't write Mark
11:23. I want you to listen to me now. He's my teacher.
Do-do-do-do-do. He's my teacher. He was--Peter--Jesus was Peter's
teacher, John's teacher. He was Philip's teacher. Why would they
preach any other sermon except what they heard Him preach? Now,
Peter preached it at Cornelius's house 10 years after the day of
Pentecost. They're still preaching it. I'm preaching it
today, 2,000 years after that--after that day. This is so
important. You take--in fact, I knew--I knew a man back in those
early days, and I tried to get him--I tried to encourage him to
"Get in here and do this." "No, no, no, no. I don't want to get
over--I don't--I don't want to--" da-da-da-da. But he was
timid about reproaching what someone else had preached. Now,
hey, I'm not criticizing him. I'm just--I'm using this as an
example because I remember it. And I thought, "Well, okay." I
didn't know--I didn't know any more than he did. But I noticed
in--not--because I'm--I've never heard any more of his ministry
since back--since those days. But I have noticed others in
this that would go in that direction, and they just wanted
to get something on their own, just wanted their own. That's
good unless you're timid because--and for whatever
reason, it won't--the growth won't be there unless you're
willing to humble yourself and go--and now, this is what God's
called you to preach. And you have the witness in your spirit,
this man as your teacher. You follow that--you follow that
person and grow there. And as you--you're not going to preach
the same message. It's going to come out different. What I'm
pointing out to you, don't have fear of it. I--that--I finally
said what the Spirit of God has said. Don't be afraid of that.
Don't be timid of preaching. "Well, somebody will hear me
preaching your sermon." Well, who cares? Amen. They came
in--Brother Hagin--listen, I used the same titles to my
sermons as he had on his. Why change it? I mean, they work.
And he said to me one day, he said, "Kenneth, the least you
can do is change the titles." I said, "Nuh-uh." (Laughs) "No.
Don't change those titles. Hey, they worked for you, they work
for me." He laughed. Well, of course, I eventually did. I
didn't know anything else to call them till after I learned a
little while. What I'm--what I'm saying to you is, "Be bold in
faith. Be--" If that's what God's called you to preach, you
get in there and preach it because it's--you can preach the
same sermon, it won't come out any--it won't come out the same
way twice. Now, Brother Roberts said this, he said, "You haven't
preached a sermon yet until you've preached it at least 25
times." Now, I've noticed that. In fact, the message that the
Lord has directed me to go into today was--follows right down
this same line. But I've preached this now. I've preached
pieces of it for the last 50 years. But the Lord brought it
together and it began to flow in a--He brought what I had
said--what I heard Jesus say, over the years here and there
and there and there, and he gelled it up into one message.
And you can flow like flowing down a specific path after 9/11
on 9/12. I was on my way to the--to the venue that night to
preach, and--in Woodbridge, Virginia, right there in the
suburbs of Washington, D.C. And of course, I had--I had
something lined up there that I'd been studying and planning
on doing and so forth. I was on my way. I was on my way to the
meeting. And the Lord said, "I want you to strip the fear out
of the Body of Christ, and they have no business with it. You
start the war on fear tonight." Now, I had preached and taught
on the love of God as a flowing subject, oh, back several years
before that. I don't remember just exactly. And I preached on
it, oh, I don't--over a year, I know that, just on the love,
flowing on the love. Now, during that time, of course, I got over
into I John 4:16, 17, and 18, "Perfected love casteth out
fear." But now can you see the emphasis? The emphasis was the
love of God, and I wound up on "getting rid of fear." But here
the Lord said, "I want you to strip the Body of Christ from
fear. They have no business with it." So now the main line was,
"Get rid of fear," which brought you to perfected love. But there
were a lot of things that opened up. I learned new things and
insights and ideas and concepts where fear was concerned. This
took me all over the Bible. Can you see the difference? Now,
we're out of time. I'll--I'll say this to you. Help me, Lord.
Take those outlines and teach them. Take those outlines and
meditate them, all those outlines, oh, that Gloria and
George have produced on the laws of prosperity. Are you kidding?
They took what I taught and expanded that and expanded--I
didn't know you can get that many outlines-- (Laughs) --out
of the law of the prosperity! Woo-hoo-hoo! Now I'm going back
and studying what George outlined there and what
he and Gloria said. I mean, they said things
I never dreamed of. I'll see you in a minute.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember, Jesus is Lord.
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