KENNETH: Faith cometh by hearing, Romans
10:17. Hearing by the Word of God. Fear cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the lies of the devil.
(Singing)I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland for a special
Thanksgiving week on The Believer's Voice of Victory.
Today you'll learn the spiritual force of God's faith in you. It
doesn't quit. It doesn't give up. Develop your
faith to stand firm on God's Word.
KENNETH: Hello everybody, we're Kenneth
and Gloria Copeland. Welcome to The Believer's Voice of Victory
Broadcast. Father, we thank you today. GLORIA: Thank you, Lord.
KENNETH: Oh, we praise You, Sir, and we thank you for the
opportunity to teach and to preach and to heal like Jesus,
glory. GLORIA: Yes, Praise God. KENNETH: And we just worship
you, and praise you. We open our hearts, and we open our minds.
As You open our hearts, and You open our minds by Your Spirit.
GLORIA: Thank you. KENNETH: The entrance of Your Word bringeth
light. Your Word says. GLORIA: Praise God. KENNETH: Revelation
light of heaven, and Jesus, and this life of faith. We thank You
for it. GLORIA: Yes we do. KENNETH: We give you the praise
and the honor for it, Lord Jesus. And it's in Your name we
pray, amen. Glory to God. GLORIA: Amen. Hallelujah!
KENNETH: Good morning, Gloria. GLORIA: Good morning, Kenneth.
KENNETH: Amen. You look wonderful today. GLORIA: Thank
you. KENNETH: Thank you, Lord for ... GLORIA: You look good
yourself. KENNETH: Giving me this woman. We, Gloria and I, on
the 13th of April of 2019, will be married 57 years. GLORIA:
Think about it. KENNETH: And ... We have never, in 57 years,
we've never had a serious argument. GLORIA: Not really.
KENNETH: Ever. And it wasn't my fault, it was her. But, anyway,
she just ... Even Kenneth BC, I mean back before I know the
Lord, you know, and I had a pretty explosive temper and all
of that. She just always just calmed me down, and it was just
marvelous, this woman. GLORIA: I knew you'd turn out all right.
KENNETH: Had a lot of faith, did ya? GLORIA: I did. KENNETH: And
I just ... It thrills me to publicly testify that this woman
right here taught me how to love. GLORIA: Oh, praise God.
KENNETH: I'm so ... GLORIA: You're pretty sweet yourself.
KENNETH: Thrilled over it. Praise God. Amen. KENNETH: Now,
we're talking about the fundamentals of faith. The
basics. The very basic fundamentals. What is it? How
does it work? Where does it come from? How do you feed it? What
causes it to do what it does? And the very, very, bottom
fundamentals. KENNETH: When you get the fundamentals right you
have a solid base from which to learn. There are things
yesterday that I really would have liked to have said about
faith, because it's just firing through my mind. And once I
started, I started to use that little pumpkin, or whatever it
is there, and the Lord said, "Now, don't go off out in that
direction. Just stay with the fundamental." GLORIA: Calm down.
KENNETH: Okay. But now, let me show you how basic fundamentally
these things need to be. Back during World War Two, and they
were beginning to train pilots, they actually said, "Gentlemen,
this is an airplane." Well, everybody knew that. And let me
just take you through the drill. KENNETH: This is an airplane.
And they're standing there thinking. This is a propeller.
This is a wing. Now, everybody's following me, right? "Well,
Brother Copeland, that's stupid." Now, wait a minute,
wait a minute before you say that. This is an aileron. The
aileron is attached to the wing. This is the fuselage. This is
the empennage. This is the vertical stabilizer. This is the
horizontal stabilizer. This is the elevator. I lost most of you
after I ... GLORIA: I got the wing. KENNETH: I got the wing
part. But, see, this is just basic fundamental stuff. GLORIA:
Yep. KENNETH: And you have to start out knowing that. The same
thing makes a 747 fly that made that J3 Cub back there, or that
little yellow Tailorcraft back there in 1941, 42. Now ...
GLORIA: That's a good point. KENNETH: The basic fundamental
laws are the same. The spiritual law, the book actually says, in
the Book of Romans, "By what law, works? No, the law of
faith." Spiritual laws. A law can be depended on when you know
and understand the elements of that law. GLORIA: And it works
every time. KENNETH: It's dependable. GLORIA: Yeah.
KENNETH: But, you have to know the different pieces and the
parts. See, a 747 would have flown in 1918, 1718, 1618, just
the same as 2018. GLORIA: Yes. KENNETH: If you'd known the
laws. And each element of that law. GLORIA: And applied those
laws. KENNETH: And you applied them correctly. If you don't
apply them correctly. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: You stick
it up like a dart. GLORIA: Or you stay on the ground. KENNETH:
Or you, yeah. But, see, what I'm pointing out here is step, by
step, by step, you get the basic fundamental laws of faith. That
same law works in the law of love. It works in the law of
righteousness. It works in the spiritual force of wisdom. It
works in all of these different areas. Because Jesus said the
whole kingdom, this is big now, get your catchers out, the whole
kingdom of God is as if a man puts a seed in the ground.
GLORIA: Seed in the ground. KENNETH: He goes to bed. He gets
up. Night and day. The seed comes up. He doesn't know how,
he just knows it will. But, he has to know water, air, and
sunshine. GLORIA: And dirt. KENNETH: Or it won't grow.
GLORIA: What about soil? KENNETH: Well, if you've got the
soil. GLORIA: Oh. KENNETH: You still have to have that basic
elements, the basic fundamentals to make anything grow. You've
got the soil, and it has to be good soil. It's good. And he
compared that. He said the sower sows the word. This is bad soil,
bad soil, bad soil, good soil. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH:
But it's the basic fundamentals is what I'm ... And you start
off with the fundamentals of faith, because it's impossible
to please God without faith. You can't get born again without it.
You can't live a life of a Christian life without it. You
can't fight the good fight of faith without faith. So, now,
let's go back to Mark 11:22. GLORIA: You can't live in the
supernatural without it. KENNETH: Impossible. GLORIA:
That's right. KENNETH: "Have faith in God. For verily I say
unto you that whosoever," so this is a Word for anybody,
"whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou removed and
be thou cast into the sea,' and shall not doubt in his heart, in
his inner man, but shall believe." Believe what, Jesus?
Believe that you're the Son of God? That's good, but that's not
so much what he's talking about here. "Believe that those things
which he says shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he
saith." GLORIA: Amen. KENNETH: That is the basic fundamental
law of faith. It's the basic fundamental law of fear. Fear is
faith. When Adam ... Adam had faith. When he fell, everything
about him turned into the opposite. Love turned into hate.
All the spiritual forces of Satan because Satan became the
god of this world at that time. Now, what had been faith turned
into fear. Because you remember, Gloria, the Scripture says,
"Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." So
you hear the Word of God, faith comes and it draws you to him.
When Adam heard the Word of God he ran and hid. He was separated
from God spiritually. And then God entered a covenant with him.
Killed an animal, shed blood. GLORIA: Covered the
disobedience. KENNETH: And then He had a relationship with him
again through covenant. Now, it is so vitally important to
understand these are basic fundamental laws. Faith cometh
by hearing. Romans 10:17. Hearing by the Word of God. Fear
cometh by hearing. And hearing by the lies of the Devil. You
listen to him, you'll say what he says, and when you say what
he says fear is the result, and it'll cause the very thing you
fear the most to come into your life. GLORIA: Yes. KENNETH: Now,
"'Therefore," Verse 24, "I say unto you,' Jesus said, 'what
things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you
receive them and you shall have them. And,'" now listen. And is
a conjunction. Joining together what was said to what's about to
be said. "'And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have
aught against any, that your Father also, which is in heaven,
may forgive you your trespasses.'" That is the very
basic, fundamental foundation of faith. Let me read this to you
again. What I shared with you yesterday. "Faith is a
spiritual force generated in the reborn human spirit, released
through the mouth with words, faith-filled words dominate the
laws of sin and death. Spiritual forces are the most powerful
forces on earth. Love, hate, faith, fear, all are released by
words." Then, Deuteronomy 30:19, "I place before you blessing,
cursing, life, death." GLORIA: You choose, it says. KENNETH:
Yeah, you choose. You have the choice here, in all of this.
God's provided it. We have the choice. Just before we went on
air, Gloria said, "Kenneth, faith is not an option. Because
it says here, have it." It didn't say try have it. It
didn't say pray for it. It's a waste of your time to be praying
for faith. "Oh, Brother Copeland! I've been praying for
faith for 10 years." Well, how'd that work out for you? See when
you're born again, you already have it in your spirit. KENNETH:
Did you get that? Well, we just talked about that. I mentioned
it yesterday, from Ephesians 2:8, we're saved through grace
by faith, the gift of God. What is that gift? He has dealt unto
every man the measure of faith. You know, that's powerful,
Gloria. Think about this for a moment. In fact, I want you to
say this after I comment on it. We have, since the day we got
born again, we have in us a measure ... Now, every one of
us, the moment we got born again, got exactly the same
measure. And like Gloria said yesterday, you know, but now
what'd you do with it? KENNETH: We start off exactly the same. I
have, Gloria has, you have, a measure of the same faith that
put the stars in the heavens, and slung this universe across
the eons of time. GLORIA: Amen. KENNETH: I've got that same
faith in me. Now, Gloria and I have been using our faith and
exercising our faith for over 50 years. And we've had some great
victories, and we've got our teeth kicked in a few times.
GLORIA: But, not permanently. KENNETH: We didn't ... No, no.
See, we got knocked down, run over, kicked and hit, and every
other kind of thing. But you just come up swinging. I mean,
just praise God. GLORIA: We don't quit. KENNETH: I remember.
GLORIA: You just don't quit. KENNETH: You don't quit. GLORIA:
That's what you have to do. KENNETH: That's what an Olympian
does. The fundamentals of faith, you develop those fundamentals
and they get bigger, and bigger, and bigger, but they never
change. I remember, and this is years and years ago, it was
right back in the very beginning of our ministry, I was preaching
in a small church in Oklahoma City. And we were staying in the
home of a very close friend of ours. She was a widow woman,
named Lavinia James. Lavinia ... Lavinia was a case.
GLORIA: There was only one Lavinia. KENNETH: There was only
one Lavinia. Oh, Lord, every time I think about her I miss
her. She's in heaven. And we were staying in her home. I had
a morning service at the church, and we were in teaching all week
long. And when I woke up that morning I had the flu so bad I
couldn't get out of bed. I couldn't raise up. And I ... The
picture that I have in my mind is Gloria, up in the bed, with
Lavinia James' electric shaver, no way I'm gonna turn her loose
with a blade while I can't ... GLORIA: Ah. KENNETH: She had me
by the head, like the hair of the head, like she's holding me
up and shaving me. And I'm just kinda out of it, you know, I'm
just sitting there, "Glory be to God. Glory be to God." Well.
"Well, Brother Copeland, why didn't you just call out ..."
No! This Book says by His stripes ye were healed. I'm
preaching! GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: I'm going. Amen.
GLORIA: Don't quit. KENNETH: Don't quit. Some people say,
"I'm just too sick to go to the healing meeting." Well, now,
that's ignorance gone to seed. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH:
As Brother Hagin used to say. So, I mean, she shaved me.
Lavinia left the room, and Gloria dressed me. Mostly in the
bed. I was that sick. The two of them just hoisted me up and got
me in the car, and here we went to the church. Got up there, and
I stood up in that pulpit and I caught ahold of the podium, and
... Boy, the room started going around and around. I said, "I'll
be right back." The choir practice room was right behind
the, just on the other side of the wall there. I went out and
went in there. And I had a talk with Satan. And I expect
everybody out in that auditorium heard me. I hit him with every
Scripture I could think of. And shook that off, went back out
there, and caught ahold of that podium. And it's still kinda
swirling around. KENNETH: Glory to God, I preached on healing
for an hour and 15 minutes. Praise God. Walked out of that
place that morning, every symptom gone, and stronger than
I was the day before. GLORIA: Praise God. KENNETH: Now, that's
the way it works. You don't quit. GLORIA: Yeah, you don't
quit. KENNETH: "Brother Copeland, what if you'd have
died?" Glory to God! The other side of that is stunning! Whoa.
Yeah. The next face I see would be the face of Jesus, and I'd go
through that gate, saying this is Mark 11:23. GLORIA: You know,
when you think about it, the fear of death has paralyzed a
lot of people where faith's concerned. Because you can't
have the fear of death and faith at the same time. KENNETH: No,
you can't. GLORIA: So, if you're believing for healing from a
terminal disease, you can't mix fear with it. We have to just
stay on your faith. Keep the Word pumping in your eyes, in
your ears. Saying it with your mouth, believing it with your
heart. You'll come out, if you do it. KENNETH: And keep faith
messages. GLORIA: Yes, amen. KENNETH: Going all the time, 24
hours a day. Don't take a news break. Don't take a TV break.
Not if you're fighting some disease. GLORIA: Not for your
life. KENNETH: No, praise God, don't you do it. I'm talking to
somebody right now. Gloria is talking to somebody right now.
You totally immerse yourself in this Word. GLORIA: And you say
what it says. KENNETH: Yes, you do. Praise God. GLORIA: Amen.
KENNETH: You don't ... See, what you're doing. Man doesn't live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of God. This is faith food. This is you feed this in
there. GLORIA: This is ... KENNETH: I don't ... GLORIA:
Food to live by. KENNETH: Yes. GLORIA: Words to live by.
KENNETH: Yes. GLORIA: That's what this is. KENNETH: F.F.
Bosworth said, "The reason your faith is so weak. You feed your
flesh three hot meals a day, and you feed your spirit one cold
snack on Sunday." GLORIA: Yep. KENNETH: Well, you go to a
church like the MIC, you go to a church like World Changers, you
go to a church like Bill Winston's church, and all, and
Jesse Duplantis' church, all these powerful faith men and
women of God. Mark and Trina Hankins, praise God. You go to a
church like that, you gonna hear faith. I mean they don't teach
and preach anything else. GLORIA: Yeah, but you can't go
from Sunday to Sunday without feeding your eyes on the Word of
God. KENNETH: And that's my point. That's just ... What you
should be doing on Sunday. GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: And then
you feed all week long. GLORIA: All week long. KENNETH: You
don't eat once a week. GLORIA: No. KENNETH: You eat seven days
a week. Amen. And you just feed that faith. Meditate on it.
Think about it, think about it. We were listening last night to
a message of Brother Hagin's, and he was talking about the
woman with the issue of blood. GLORIA: He probably taught it
what, 30 years ago, 40 years ago? KENNETH: It was ... But the
thing of it is, we listened to the same thing. I've heard him
teach on that thousands of times. And last night I got
something ... I got something new. KENNETH: But why? Because
you're still growing, you're still going. GLORIA: Yeah.
KENNETH: You're still feeding your faith. GLORIA: Expectant.
KENNETH: You're still ... And like Gloria said, faith is not
optional. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: He didn't say ... He
didn't say pray for it. You're wasting your time if you praying
for it. Have it, He said. Have it. Okay, I take it. I have it.
GLORIA: What happens? You develop it. That's the way you
develop. KENNETH: Yes you do. GLORIA: That's the way it grows.
KENNETH: And you're talking about fear. First John Chapter
Four, 16th Verse. You fear perfected love. Growing love.
Now, you grow it the same way, on the Word of God. When you're
studying faith you're growing love, because faith worketh by
love. If you're not dealing with that, the faith isn't working
anyway. GLORIA: They go together. KENNETH: But when that
is being developed in your life. And I love the Lord, My God,
with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind, and all my
strength. I love my neighbor as myself, fulfilling all the law
and the prophets. I love the brethren, even as you love the
brethren, Lord Jesus, fulfilling your commandment in the New
Testament, the commandment of love. Glory to God. GLORIA:
Praise God. KENNETH: And I'm using love by faith. And when
you develop that, it casts out fear. It gets rid of it. It
doesn't just manage it. GLORIA: Or cover it. KENNETH: Yeah. It
literally flushes ... That word cast there, is the Greek word
for flush. It just flushes it out of there. It finally just
comes on up in there, and come on, and just balls that fear
out, and it's gone. Praise God. GLORIA: Praise God. KENNETH: You
can stand right in the face of the Devil with your knees
knocking, and say, "Satan, in the name of Jesus, I adjure you
by Almighty God, get out of my house and off my body!" GLORIA:
And guess what'll happen. KENNETH: He flees. James 4:7.
GLORIA: He has no choice. KENNETH: It says, "Submit
yourself to God, and resist the Devil, he'll flee from you."
GLORIA: That's the Word. KENNETH: And we're
out of time. GLORIA: Already? KENNETH: Already.
Gloria and I'll be back in just a moment.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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