(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 Believers Voice of Victory.
Today Kenneth Copeland explains that God is love, and that love
will cast out all fear. Become aware of the love God has for
all of His children, especially you. Now let's join Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland.
This is the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. I--hey.
Whoa-hmm-hmm-hmm. Whoa-ho-ho. I'm telling you,
it's already on. See, you just got here. Amen.
We done had church before you showed up. Ha-ha-ha. Amen?
Did we not? (Audience Agrees) Glory to God. Hallelujah!
(Cheers & Applause) Oh, thank You, Lord Jesus. We thank You
tonight. We open our hearts and we open our minds for revelation
from heaven. And we bless You, Sir. And we thank You that the
greater One that lives within us, our teacher--oh, my, my. We
place ourselves in Your hands, Holy Spirit. We place ourselves
in Your mighty care and teaching. And we receive in the
mighty name of Jesus. Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Open
your Bibles with me again tonight to I John 4. Now, last
week, we were talking about believing the love. So let's
begin reading Verse 7 of the 4th chapter of I John. "Beloved, let
us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that
loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love." Say it with me, "God is
Love." (Audience Repeats) Say this: "God has faith." (Audience
Repeats) "But He is love. He has joy, but He is love." Amen. "In
this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us. God sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
"Propitiation" just simply means a sacrifice. He sent Him to be
the sacrifice for our sin. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we
ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any
time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love
is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he
in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen
and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of
the world." Now, Jesus is God's gift to the world. The Holy
Spirit is God's gift to the church. Very, very important
information. Jesus is God's gift to the world. Amen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. Amen. KENNETH: And the Holy Spirit is God's gift to the
church. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: You know why? Just
because He loves you. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Glory to God. I
tell you what. I just love saying it. Ha-ha-ha. Well, let
me-- "hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do
testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the
world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and
believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that
dwells in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." Now, we began
last week talking about most people, most people do not
believe that God loves them. Now, everybody that's a
Christian, everybody, agrees that God loves them, but they
don't believe it. "I do, too." (Laughter) Well, then you need
to be acting like it. (Audience Agrees) Just let your feelings
just get a little bit out of line. "I don't understand how
come God let that out on me. Don't you care?" Oh, that--hey,
that ain't going to work. See, his own disciples did that,
didn't they? When the storm--they said, "Sir, care--do
you not care that we perish?" Now, listen. James pointed out,
"The double minded man cannot believe anything." Let's go over
there to the 1st chapter of James. I want to show you that.
Don't lose your place there in I John. "James, a servant of God
and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when
you fall into divers temptations." Now, that word
translated "temptation" is translated "tests, temptations,
and trials." "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that you may
be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in
faith--" Do you hear that? "Let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think he shall
receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in
all of his ways." Now, the example of a double-minded
man--Peter said, "Master, Lord, don't you care?" See, called Him
"Lord," but then claimed He don't love Him. Why? He's in
trouble and Jesus is asleep. It don't look like He cared to me.
(Laughter) "Somebody wake Him up." "Really? You do it." "No,
you do it." "I'll do it. Master, don't you care?" In one moment,
he calls Him "Master," and the next word, he says he doesn't
care. So he's double-minded and he's not believing anything. And
Jesus said that, didn't He? "Where's your faith? How come
you didn't do something?" Well, it would be unjust for Jesus to
say that if He couldn't have done it. (Audience Agrees) Amen.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now, a double-minded person. So a
person with one mind says, "Oh, yes, I know God loves me." But
just let the pressure get on, because you didn't say that in
faith, you said it as a religious mental assent to that
fact, "because everybody knows God is love. I just don't
understand how a loving God could send somebody to hell."
You don't believe God loves you. "Yes, I do. See, I'm not going
to hell." (Laughter) Really? (Laughs) No, don't do that.
(Laughter) Okay. Yes, sir. (Laughs) Next time I'll pass
that opportunity up. Now--ha-ha-ha. You see what
a--what the apostle John here is referring to? "We have known and
believed the love." We've known it, but by faith, we believe it.
I believe He loves me if all of the natural, mental evidence on
earth says that He doesn't. AUDIENCE: Come on. That's right.
Yeah. That's right, He does. KENNETH: Yes, He does. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: And when you don't feel like He does is when
you better believe He does. (Audience Agrees) Have you
figured out yet your flesh will lie to you? (Laughter) Your
flesh doesn't have--it has no brain at all. It has no mind at
all. Now, your brain is part of your flesh, but your mind uses
your brain. But your flesh don't know anything. AUDIENCE: That's
right. KENNETH: All it knows is what it's been taught. AUDIENCE:
Yes. KENNETH: And we talked about that last week. It is
trainable. AUDIENCE: That's right. Come on. KENNETH: It has
to change. It has to have its mind changed and renewed so,
"Oh, oh, oh, yeah. So this is the way we talk now. Okay."
AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: But until that happens, until you
renew your mind that God is love, and He loves me and He
loves you-- AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: --and He loves you and
me just as much as He does Jesus. (Audience Agrees) That is
hard on the natural mind. "Oh, Brother Copeland, I just--I
just--oh. Well, Brother Copeland, after all, we're only
human." What did you say? (Laughter) What? We are only
human? (Audience Agrees) Father, I pray for every person in the
room that's not saved. They're only human. (Laughter) Amen.
(Audience "Amens") See, we're not human people anymore.
(Audience Agrees) We are born-again human people.
(Audience Agrees) Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH:
Hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: And when
you begin to see that, hey, this changes everything. The first
time I ever read that, I was a student at Oral Roberts
University and I'm reading through the great--the great
love chapter, the 17th chapter of John. Let's turn over there
because there's something there I want you to see, 17th chapter
of John. Big John, we've been reading little John. (Laughter)
AUDIENCE: Big John. KENNETH: 17th chapter, moments--just
moments before Jesus went to the cross. Now, notice Verse 20,
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their words." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH:
Now, directly or indirectly, every person in this room, every
person on the air, every person that's--that's watching or
hearing this broadcast anywhere, by any means, every one of us
that have been born again came either directly or indirectly
through the lives of these men. AUDIENCE: That's right. Yeah.
KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. That's good. KENNETH: So He's
praying for us. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: That's good news, isn't
it? (Audience Agrees) Particularly when you realize
that any two of you on earth--He was on earth when He prayed
this. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: So let's get in agreement with Him.
(Audience Agrees) Amen? AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "Any
two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the
midst." AUDIENCE: That's right. That's right. KENNETH: Amen.
(Audience Agrees) Well, that's what I was doing that day. Now,
I want you to know something. I said, "Wow, He's praying for me.
Glory to God." "That they may all be one--" Oh, isn't that
wonderful? "--as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have--"
What? I never heard that. The only thing I ever--the only
thing I ever heard is, "Don't touch the glory, don't touch the
glory, don't touch the glory." (Laughter) I was singing in a
Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship one time. This--I
hadn't been born again all that long. And this guy came up. I
don't remember how many times he said this, "No flesh glory. No
flesh glory. No flesh glory. But that sure was good singing. No
flesh glory." Okay. That sounded good to me. No glory. No glory.
I ain't going to touch it. You going to touch it? "No, I ain't
going to touch it." No, no. But look at what he said. AUDIENCE:
Yeah, that's right. KENNETH: Well, I had all of that--see, I
didn't--man, I was a scriptural illiterate, you understand, when
I got to ORU? And I didn't understand all these things
about the glory and that stuff, but here's one guy telling me,
"No flesh glory," and here's Jesus telling me He's going to
give me the glory. (Applause) I was like, "I don't know if I'm
going to agree with that or not." (Laughs) It wasn't because
I didn't believe he said Jesus said it, but I just couldn't
bring myself to cross my religion, what little of it I
had. And it's just ignorance more than anything else. I ain't
going there. In my case, there still is. Boy, what--I've
learned a little bit over the last 50 years. But the more I
learn, the more I find out how precious little I know. Oh, I'm
the hungriest man. I'm going to tell you a little, little story
just for a moment. Is that all right, boss? I can do it? Okay.
So, first time I spoke at Oral Roberts University, and after I
had gone out in ministry full time, you know, and we were--we
were doing well, and Brother Roberts invited me back to
speak. And I spoke several times then during the day. And at
lunch, he said, "Come on," to Gloria and me. He said, "Come
on, we're going to our house and we're going to have lunch
together." So I thought, "glory to God," you know, I'm going to
finally get him cornered in one place and I'm going to find out
what he's got to say, you know? And he's--he kicked his shoes
off and sat down on the floor. He said, "Kenneth, take your
shoes off and sit down right there." I said, "Yes, sir."
"Gloria, take your shoes off and sit down right there." So she
did. He said, "Evelyn, take your shoes off and sit down." She
said, "Oral, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to sit in this
chair." He said, "Okay." (Laughter) So he had his Bible.
He always, always carried a legal pad with him and a blue
flare pen. Wrote his partner letters, everything, with that.
And he had that pen and sat down there. Man, I got my Bible and
got my notebook, you know. And he said, "Now, Kenneth, now
teach me about faith." (Audience Murmurs) (Laughter) My mouth
fell open. I just stuttered. I said, "You've got to be kidding
me." He said, "No, sir." He said, "You boys have learned
some things about faith that I don't know, and I'm the most
hungry man you've ever seen for the--for the Word of God."
AUDIENCE: Wow. Amen, amen. KENNETH: I did the best I could,
you know. AUDIENCE: Which is good. KENNETH: Amen. I
mean--and--but that--see, that's a true man, true prophet. And he
didn't care where it come from. He wanted more. AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: And that's what I'm talking to you about tonight.
AUDIENCE: Yes, yes. Glory to God. KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: If you get to where you're thinking, "Oh, man,
I've heard that. How many times is Copeland going to preach on
Mark 11:22-23?" Till you get it. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE:
Exactly right. KENNETH: But see, if you're only hearing it the
first time, it's seed. Then you hear it again and again, it's
being watered. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Amen.
(Audience "Amens") So now, I want you to notice this. "And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: I in them, thou in me, that they may
be made perfect in one; and that the world may know--" Now notice
this. I mean, draw a red box around it. This is written in
red. Point at it. Put arrows, stars, whatever it is you do in
your Bible. "--that the world may know that thou hast sent me,
and hast loved them, as you have loved me"! AUDIENCE: Amen. Amen.
Glory. KENNETH: People don't believe that! They do not
believe the love! I stood there--my knees were literally
shaking because I had already told God, "I'm going to believe
this. I'm going to set myself in agreement of this. I'm believing
every word of it." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And, I mean, it
struck me. I was shaking all over. I didn't know whether I
dare said that or not. And--but I couldn't get over that 20th
verse. He's praying this thing for me. See, I didn't know what
I had in the new word. That was coming. I was learning. But at
that point, I really didn't know--I really didn't know what
I had. And--but I said, "He said it, I'm going to say it."
(Audience Agrees) And I'm walking around that little old
room. I had my Bible. Whew! "And hast loved them, as thou hast
loved me." AUDIENCE: Wow. KENNETH: I was trembling all
over, but my insides, my spirit man was saying, "You've finally
given me something to eat. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on." (Audience Agrees) KENNETH: Believe the love.
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