JULIE: God wants my best and, you know, God's same power--I'm
healed, I'm whole. He's not done with me. So if I get to
live to 120, that really gave me a lot of hope.
(Singing) I know my God has made the way
for me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: It is God's will for you to be well. Settle that
issue today as Kenneth Copeland equips you with the Word.
Jesus is you're healer and you can live healed pain free
and strong. Next on the Believer's Voice of Victory.
KENNETH: The healer's in the house today. (Cheers &
Applause) His name is Jesus. Father, we thank You for Your
Word this morning. (Audience Agrees) The 107th Psalm, you
said you sent Your Word and it healed them. (Audience Agrees)
And, of course, we know Jesus is the Word. (Audience Agrees)
Hallelujah. There can absolutely be no doubt whatsoever that it
is the perfect will of God that every human being on this planet
be healed and well and strong. (Applause) Amen. (Audience
"Amens") Oh, absolutely. "Oh, Brother Copeland, what about
those terrible, awful people?" Hey, this may come as a shock to
you, but Jesus' blood was not shed for just a lot of sweet
folks. (Laughter) AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: No, no,
no, no. The worst of the worst sins have been blotted out.
(Audience Agrees) Hallelujah. And all it would take is just a
few seconds to receive Him as Lord and Savior. Amen. But I'll
tell you something. He'll heal you and then you can get saved.
AUDIENCE: Amen. (Audience Agrees) KENNETH: Oh, yeah,
absolutely. Oh, I wish I had to go into--the time to go into
some things concerning that, but--and maybe as the morning
proceeds. Open your Bibles with me to the book of Genesis,
please. And let's look in the 6th chapter of Genesis, in the
please. And let's look in the 6th chapter of Genesis, in the
3rd verse, "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days
shall be a hundred and twenty years." (Audience Agrees) When
this was written, nobody was born again. AUDIENCE: That's
right. KENNETH: Everyone was spiritually dead. Now, when the
Bible talks about death, it never--unless it specifically
says so, it's not talking about physical death. It's talking
about spiritual death. Spiritual death is to be separated from
God, spirit separation. Now, you remember the Scripture said,
"And when we were dead in our trespasses and sins"? So the
three-fold chord of the curse is spiritual death, sickness and
poverty. That's the three-fold chord of the curse. It came on
Adam when he was what? Separated from God. And God told him, "The
day you do that, you'll die." Well, he didn't die physically
for 900 years. But that day, his spirit became dead to God. Why?
He separated from God. Well, you can't just be separated from God
because there's another spirit in this world. You separate from
God and you're going to be connected to Satan. (Audience
Agrees) Amen. So that's what spiritual death is, and it's
very important that--to understand that. Now, science
has declared over and over and over again that this physical
body should last 120 years. And they didn't get that figure from
the Bible. They finally caught up with the Bible, but that's
not where they--see, that's the reason the Bible is way ahead of
science. (Audience Agrees) And over the years, science is
finally catching up. And science thought they were way ahead of
the Bible, but they've been wrong more than they've been
right. (Audience Agrees) And this things turns out to be
right every time. Amen. Now--ooh, I wish we had time to
get into that, but I don't. What I wanted you to do now this
morning is realize, that is just as much the Word of God as, "by
His stripes you were healed." I mean, God said that. God said
that. So put--lay that as a base under what we're going to see
from the Word this morning, that it is God's perfect will for you
to live 120 years on this earth. (Audience "Amens") That is His
will. If it wasn't His will, He wouldn't have said it. (Audience
Agrees) KENNETH: Amen? AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now, see, that's
not a promise. That's a Bible fact. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH:
Actually, "He bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we...should live not unto sin, but unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed." That's not a promise. That is a Bible
fact. That has been done and we can lay hold of it any day of
the week, 24 hours a day, any day of the month. Hey, it is
there and it is established and it is a fact and it's for you.
(Audience "Amens") And it's for me. Now, there are three views
in general. One, really, doesn't even--isn't even worth
mentioning, but still, it's out there, that "God doesn't heal
anymore," and then blah, blah, blah. Well, you can throw that
out because, you--I can personally throw that out
because I've been healed, you understand? So that's gone. But
then there is another view that is held quite widely, that God
does heal, yes, but it's--that--on special acts of
mercy or some special act of faith and so forth, and
sometimes He does and sometimes He doesn't, and then
I'll--ha-ha--in my mind, I'll always hear what I've heard so
many people say, "Well, you just never know what God's going to
do. You just never know." Do you have a Bible? AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: You can know. AUDIENCE: That's right. (Applause)
KENNETH: (Laughs) Hallelujah. All right. Thank You, Lord.
Thank You, Lord. We praise You, Father. Now, the third view,
which is the Bible's view--and we're going to see this this
morning. Well, in fact, let's go back--let's just turn over there
and read that in I Peter 2:24 that I quoted there a moment
ago. Good to point your eyes on it. And notice this: "Who his
ago. Good to point your eyes on it. And notice this: "Who his
own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree." Now,
that--was that everybody's sin? AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Well, it
had to be, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, whosoever believeth on him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." Whosoever, amen. "He bore
our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
sin, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes
you were healed." Well, was all of that on the same day? Did He
bare our sins in his own body one day and then bore our
sicknesses and diseases some other time? No, no. AUDIENCE:
It's the same day. KENNETH: If you go to what Peter was
quoting, if you go back to the 53rd chapter of the book of
Isaiah, we know He bore our--He bore our griefs, He bore our
sorrows, He bore our sins, He bore our sicknesses, He bore our
diseases, He bore our weaknesses, and He bore our
pains, and He bore our poverty and fear. (Audience Agrees)
Hallelujah. All on the same cross at the same time. And then
He went to hell and paid the price for that curse. My, my,
my, my, my. I hadn't been here that long, I done preach me
happy. Glory to God. (Laughter) Thank You, Jesus. Amen. All on
the same day. Now say it, "It is the will of God--" (Audience
Repeats) "--for me to be well, for me to be strong, and pain
free, for me to prosper, spirit, soul and body, financially and
socially. He wants me well, and I take it. Hallelujah." Glory,
glory, glory. (Applause) Now then, let's go to the 91st
Psalm, please. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Psalm 91. Did you ever
notice there's something a bit peculiar about the wording of
the 91st Psalm? If you start--if you just set out to put "I" in
every one of those, it kind of gets crosswise of you. You have
to change it a little bit. Well, it's not written wrong. It's
right. It's a lack of understanding of what's
happening in the 91st Psalm. And so we're going to look at it
this way this morning. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of
the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I
will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God;
in him will I trust." Now, that's the way--that is the way
you enter into and dwell in the secret place of the most High.
You can't get in there without believing it in your heart and
speaking it with your mouth. And that's what that declaration is.
And you notice it says, "I will say. I will say it." Okay, well,
let's do that. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Now,
read that with me. TOGETHER: "I will say of the Lord, He is my
refuge and my fortress: he is my God; and in him will I trust."
AUDIENCE: Amen. Amen. Glory. KENNETH: "Surely he shall
deliver you." Well, now, whoa. Wait a minute. AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: Now, what's the matter here? "I will say of the Lord,
He is my refuge he is my fortress: he is my God; in him I
trust. Surely he will deliver thee"? Now, that's what I was
talking about. Now, here's what I want to point out to you. "I
will say of the Lord," that is you or me speaking. "Surely he
will say of the Lord," that is you or me speaking. "Surely he
will deliver you," is Jesus speaking. (Audience Agrees) I
said my peace. I'm like Jairus. We studied that last night,
"Man, I said my faith." Amen. "I say of the Lord--I say of the
Lord, He's my fortress: he's my God; and in him I do trust."
Now, who is the Lord High Priest over our confessions? AUDIENCE:
Jesus. KENNETH: Third chapter of the book of Hebrews. All right,
hold your place here and let's turn there because this is
what's happening in this Psalm. The Lord High Priest, Jesus
himself. Hebrews 3:1, "Wherefore, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle,"
or the one God sent, "a High Priest of our confession, Christ
Jesus," or the anointed Jesus. Now, I want you to pay really
close attention to the word "Christ" right there, and the
word "apostle." "Apostle" and "Christ" are both Greek words.
The word "apostle" means to be sent, or a sent one. And we
talked about earlier what "Christ" literally means. The
word itself in Greek just simply means, to pour over, to rub, or
to smear. But in the case of referring to Jesus, it is the
Greek translation of the Hebrew word "messiah," which means to
pour on, to rub, or to smear. But now, you put those two
together, and you have "The one whom God sent and anointed to be
High Priest." Can you see it there? Now, look at it again and
let's see what it's saying because it's telling us
something here about the anointing, the anointing of
Jesus. And this is part of that anointing. It's part of His
responsibility, His anointing as High Priest. (Audience Agrees)
Amen. And there's a lot involved with high priests. And that's
what the book of Hebrews is about. Jesus is our Savior.
(Audience Agrees) Remember the three-fold chord of the curse,
spiritual death? Well, the three-fold chord of the--of
redemption. Spiritual death, Jesus is our Savior. Sickness,
He's our healer. (Audience Agrees) Poverty, He's our
Melchizedek. (Audience Agrees) He's the High Priest of the
blessing of the Lord. He is the High Priest that receives tithes
in these days. And He's responsible for the opening of
the heavens and pouring out blessing that you can't find
enough room for it. (Audience Agrees) So say it, "He's my
Savior--" (Audience Repeats) "--He's my healer, and
He's my High Priest." Let's say it like this,
"He's my Savior--" (Audience Repeats)
"--He is my healer, and He is my Melchizedek."
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