(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: We know that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God. But how is it released? Find out today on the
Believer's Voice of Victory with Kenneth Copeland, and begin
operating in the "God kind of faith" that brings results.
KENNETH: Mark 11:22, "Jesus answering said unto them,
Have faith in God." Now, from now on, when you
see that, you say, "Have faith in God, Who is love."
So I'm going to have to have faith in the love. I just
read you the 16th verse, the 4th chapter of I John. He said, "We
have known and believed the love that he has for us." AUDIENCE:
That's right. KENNETH: "Believed the love." We're going to get
further into that before this meeting is over. "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 those things which he saith shall come
to pass--" Well, I must go over this again, particularly for the
benefit of those that are online and those that are just coming
into--to begin to study faith and so forth. I want you to
notice where Jesus put the emphasis. "Verily I say unto
you, Whosoever shall say--" All right, count with me. TOGETHER:
One. KENNETH: "--unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and
be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe--" Okay, there's one "believe." So we've
got one "say," and one "believe." "--that those things
which he saith--" two "--shall come to pass; he shall have
whatsoever he saith." AUDIENCE: Three. KENNETH: So where did He
put the emphasis, on the believing? AUDIENCE: No.
KENNETH: No, on the saying. (Audience Agrees) You can be
believing and not say it, and you haven't released the faith.
Faith is like money, you've got to spend it for it to work.
(Audience Murmurs) Amen. And so He put the emphasis on the
"saying" part. "Believe it in your heart." But then once you
believe something in your heart, you're going to say it.
(Audience Agrees) Amen. (Audience "Amens") Because out
of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So, say it,
say it, say it. Believe it. And, what are we believing? "Well,
I--I--I believe the Bible is true." I mean, that's wonderful.
I'm glad you do. But that don't work here. That's not what He's
talking about. "Well, I believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior."
That's wonderful. That's the reason you're born again. But
that's not what He's talking about here. He's talking about
spiritual law. He's talking about the spiritual law of
faith. Don't you remember that from the book of Romans, "By
what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith." This is the
beginning of spiritual growth. Did you know you can't grow,
spiritually without growing your faith? (Instinct Responses) Your
faith is going to have to be growing before you grow
spiritually at all. AUDIENCE: Wow. KENNETH: Here you get back
over into that mental assent stuff. Now--and that won't grow
you. That won't mature you at all. So, think now, and float
with me. "Have faith in God," Who is love. "Believe in your
heart those things which he saith shall come to pass; he
shall have whatsoever he saith." The beginning of spiritual
growth is when you realize and have revelation of the fact that
these are spiritual laws. This is not, "sometimes it does and
sometimes it doesn't." AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: You see,
a Spirit, Who is God, created all matter. And it was the
spiritual force of faith released in His Word by the Holy
Spirit, then all matter came to be. Now, that released into
being physical laws. Say it, "The laws--" (Audience Repeats)
"--of physics." Laws that govern the physical realm were created
by higher law that governs the spirit and physical realm. We
were born from above. Jesus was born from above. Are you
listening to me? (Audience Agrees) The new birth comes to
pass because of the spiritual law that governs it. Simply put,
you believe in your heart--huh? Not the mind, not the head. You
"believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, and
you confessed with your mouth Jesus is Lord! For with the
heart--" AUDIENCE: "Man believeth unto righteousness."
KENNETH: "--man believeth unto righteousness. With the mouth--"
(Indistinct Responses) "--confession is made unto--"
AUDIENCE: That's right. Yes. KENNETH: That spiritual law
released performed the greatest miracle known to heaven and
earth, the new birth of the human spirit; re-created a
spirit being. You can't do that-- AUDIENCE: No. KENNETH:
--but He did. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: You know why? Because
it happened to Jesus first. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
The Scripture says He was manifested in the flesh. When
was that? Bethlehem. That wasn't the day He was born. That was
the day He was manifested in flesh. AUDIENCE: That's right.
KENNETH: But He was made alive in the Spirit. That happened in
hell where He suffered. He was made to be sin. He didn't sin.
Don't you go tell somebody, "Brother Copeland said Jesus was
a sinner." I'll forgive you, but it may take me another 30
seconds. (Laughter) No. No. He was made to be sin. He never
committed sin. I never committed righteousness. He was made sin
with my sin. And thank God, the moment I received the new birth,
I was made a new creature. And I received His righteousness.
(Cheers & Applause) Now, if you wanted some goosebumps, that
should have done it right there. (Laughter) AUDIENCE: Amen, amen.
KENNETH: In fact, what did--what is it Brother Moore said?
Ha-ha-ha. "My goosebumps is double-parked, brother."
(Laughter) Hallelujah! AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: That's when
He was born again. He's the first--say, "First." AUDIENCE:
First. KENNETH: Not the only. Say it, "Not the only."
(Audience Repeats) "But the firstborn from the dead." "And
again, when he bringeth in the first begotten, and again, he
will be a Son to me, and again, I will be a Father to him." For
the biggest part of three days and nights, Jesus was lost in
the pit of hell, suffering there for the likes of you and me.
Love did that for you. Don't you ever forget it. (Audience
Agrees) Amen. But you can read in the 1st chapter of Hebrews
what happened. I mean, the Word of God, that all the angels of
God worship Him. Amen. God called Him "God." Those words
went down into the bowels of this earth, into the deepest
part of hell. No man but Jesus has ever borne all of hell. That
would be unjust. But Jesus bore it all because He bore all sin,
all sin. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: I said all of it.
(Audience Agrees) Amen. All of it. And when Satan thought he
had Him wiped out--read it in the 22nd Psalm. It's described
in the 22nd Psalm. And in the Hebrew text, it begins with "My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And it ends with,
"It is finished." Now, what they heard on the cross was Jesus
locking onto that Psalm. He locked onto that Psalm and every
other Psalm and every other scripture about himself, and He
locked onto it, and He went into hell, and He suffered there, but
He never turned loose of the Word. He never quit praising
God. That's what you and I need to learn how to do. He never
quit praising God. He just kept praising God. All that hell
tried to do, I mean, they hurt Him. They hurt Him. They hurt
Him bad. Bad, bad, bad. There are no words in the human
vocabulary to describe. He didn't look like a man anymore.
He was so twisted and marled, He didn't look like a human! That
began while He was still hanging on that cross! AUDIENCE: That's
right, that's right. KENNETH: But, all of a sudden, those
words, the power--huh--the power! of the Spirit of the
living God! (Agreement & Cheers) The one who hovered over little
Mary! AUDIENCE: Yes, sir. Yes. (Audience Agrees) KENNETH: And a
holy thing was conceived. (Audience Agrees) That same Holy
Ghost--(Cheers)--hovered over Him in hell! And a new holy
thing was born. He was born again. One born-again human
man defeated all of hell by Himself!" (Cheers & Applause)
That's our big brother! (Cheers) We have his spiritual DNA!
(Cheers) We've got the same Holy Ghost! AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
We have a measure of the same faith! (Audience Agrees)
AUDIENCE: Yes! Hallelujah! KENNETH: Oh, God. (Cheers &
Applause) Hallelujah! All of a sudden, that emaciated, scrawny,
suffering, unrecognizable Spirit of a miserable lost human being
began to get up. (Cheers) That's all it took. I mean, demons
bouncing off the walls of hell. Whew. That place shook.
AUDIENCE: Oh, yes. KENNETH: In the upper region of Sheol where
paradise was. See, the Scripture paints a picture in the book of
Hebrews. Adam's sin went all the way to you, but not including
the throne of God. Jesus said, "No man had gone up to heaven."
Now, that refers to "no man--" talking about men and women,
"--had died and gone to heaven." Two men have gone to heaven, but
they haven't died yet. They're still in their natural bodies.
(Audience Agrees) MALE: (Indistinguishable Shouts)
KENNETH: Well, they're not now, but they--they were then,
because they got born again when Jesus raised from the dead.
Amen. Now--no, sir. No, sir. I said it right the first time.
They still have their physical bodies. They haven't died yet.
They're going to, the two, Enoch and Elijah. AUDIENCE: Ha-ha!
KENNETH: Ain't that sweet? AUDIENCE: That's right. Yes.
KENNETH: But see, up until then, the Scripture says the heavenly
utensils of worship had to be sanctified with the blood of
Jesus. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Heaven wasn't fit for men in
God's view. It was not perfect. That's shocking, isn't it? But
it's true. So what was the bosom of Abraham or the upper region
of Sheol or hell? I said, "Lord, you're going to have to help me
with this. I--I'm struggling with this." And after--now,
I said this like it all happened in about 10 minutes. What I just
said, I said over a period of about 35 to 40 years. (Laughs)
And He was helping me as time went by. But there was a moment
that He just really opened my eyes to it. And at that moment,
He said, "Kenneth, don't allow your natural mind to put the
confines of the center of the earth around that," upper region
of hell which is at the center of the earth. Oh, okay. He said,
"Kenneth, in the Spirit, I can put the state of Texas in a
clothes closet." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: He said, "You could
walk into your closet to pray and all of a sudden have a--an
open vision of the whole state of Texas or the whole United
States, and it would be so real you--when you came back to
yourself, you would think, 'I have been there.'" And He said,
"In the Spirit, you would have been there." I think I began--I
began to see what He was talking about. He put--it's like
a--a--it--compare it--I'm trying to come up with something the
mind can get hold of. Compare it to a hologram. A hologram is
three-dimensional. Now, come on, all of you saw Star Wars. What's
the matter with you? (Laughter) Well, paradise was a mirror of
heaven itself. They were in heaven. They were actually
located in the upper region, the protected region of hell where
there was no suffering, there was no torment. But you remember
when Abraham spoke to the rich man in hell? Now, how did that
happen? Abraham was looking into hell through a spiritually
allowed portal. All those folks were not looking into hell. No,
no. No, no. That's the reason you don't get much--much
revelation of it in the Bible. You get less than that
revelation of heaven because you get to looking at that, and it
makes you want to go now. AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: And you
have every right to go now. You've already been lifted up
and seated with Him in heavenly places. And the Scripture very
simply says you are a citizen of heaven right now.
Right now. Your spirit is seated there right now.
And the more you get your heart and
mind on heavenly things, the more powerful you become.
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