(Singing) I know my God has made the way for me.
I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Today on the Believer's Voice of Victory,
Kenneth Copeland helps us examine what the Word of God
says we should be saying, versus what's actually coming
out of our mouths. Your words spoken in faith
have the power to bring things to pass.
KENNETH: Let's look at Mark. "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. Turn with me to
Luke--no, I haven't finished reading Mark 11:24, 25.
(Laughter) "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever you
desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall
have them. And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have
ought against any: that your Father which is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither
will your Father which is in heaven forgive you your
trespasses." Now, let's straighten that out. He's
already forgiven you your trespasses." He's not holding
anything against anybody. He said, "I, even I, am he that
blotteth out your transgressions, and remember
your sins no more, for my own sake." Then, of course, in the
book of Colossians, talks about Jesus blotting out the
transgressions and the note. What is that note, that--that
note that was held against us? Do you know? You remember the
sign that was nailed on that cross? Those were the charges
against Jesus. That was the process. You put the charges on
the cross. And every charge that was against us hung on that
cross and blotted out the--His blood blotted out the
handwriting. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Glory to God. Oh, I tell you, I can
tell the Spirit of God is really interested in us digging deeper
in the Spirit and finding out who we are and stop--and stop
this silly baby church kind of faking and talking and grow up
into Him! (Cheers & Applause) I refuse to say anything that's
unbecoming to Jesus and the blood that He shed. AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah. KENNETH: And I refuse to say anything that I
don't desire to come to pass. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And if
you have to, just slap the very daylights out of yourself. It'll
wake you up! Now, beating yourself won't help you. That's
penitence. But it don't hurt every once in a while just to
slap the snot out of yourself. (Laughter) You start saying
stuff and start raising your voice to your family, I mean,
it's--it's time for a jaw-slapping. AUDIENCE: Whoo!
KENNETH: And if you will slap yourself, then you don't get
slapped. AUDIENCE: That's right. That's right. KENNETH: The
proper way to say that, "If you judge yourself, you'll not be
judged," with the Word. (Audience Agrees) And you don't
"die prematurely--" (Audience "Amens) "--by
discerning--rightfully discerning the body of Christ."
Now then, your heavenly Father will not forgive your
trespasses. It isn't that He won't. It is that He can't.
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: You've already forgiven. Did you hear
Creflo last night? "oh, goody, everybody's going to heaven."
No, they're not. I wish they were. But what grace has done,
you're going to have to, by faith, receive it. (Audience
Agrees) You're not the righteousness of God. You're the
righteousness of God in Him. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: You had
to get in Him to get it. AUDIENCE: That's right. That's
right, amen. KENNETH: Amen. So, He is faithful and just to
forgive me my sins. When? When I confess. Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: You confess it and be like Him, forget it. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Confess it and forget it. Now, you're going to
have to walk by faith for a while because you kind of
get--you kind of get worried about yourself if you're not
mourning about this. Don't seem like you're all that sorrowful.
"Maybe I need to cry a little while." Crying don't impress
Jesus. (Audience Agrees) He's easily touched with the feelings
of your infirmities. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: But you still
have to, by faith, receive it, because His feelings won't heal
you. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: But His Spirit will.
(Laughs) I--whoa ho-ho. That done me a lot of good right
there. Glory to God. He's easily touched with feelings. So I plan
to take advantage of Him all I can. I'm going to walk in love
and keep the love commandment and just stay--keep my
figure--my finger on repentance all the time and raise your
voice just a little bit and say, "No, baby, I apologize. Forgive
me. I'm in training here." "Thank You, Lord. I receive my
forgiveness of that." AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: It's not
the time you screamed at your wife. It's everyday, day-in,
day-out conduct that causes trouble. AUDIENCE: Right.
KENNETH: You get in the habit of being loud and that kind of
thing. You have to be retrained. And you're--in some areas, you
are still such a baby. You may be well developed over here in
one area, but over here in this area particularly, walking in
the love of God and being slow to anger, slow to speak. Why?
Slow to speak. Some of you talk so fast all the time ain't
nobody can get anything to say. (Laughter) And it's a habit.
AUDIENCE: Yes, it is. KENNETH: Now, you may be like me and
you're naturally that way. Well, that don't give you any excuse
to talk all the time. AUDIENCE: Amen. (Laughter) KENNETH: Amen.
Shut up. (Laughter) Let somebody else say something. Amen. And
you may be like Gloria. She's dispositioned to never say
anything. She said, "Well, you know, you had more than enough
to say for both of us." (Laughter) Now, sometimes
there's some little silly little something like, "Would you shut
up and just listen to what she's got to say?" "Forgive me, sir, I
repent of that." Get back over on the love walk. I'm being
trained. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: I am being--can I say
that? I never thought that in my life until right then. Do I have
to say that? (Laughter) In certain areas--now, you heard
me, I didn't say this because I wanted to. (Laughter) In certain
areas, I'm having to be spiritually potty trained.
(Laughter) Such a baby. Why? Because you haven't taken
authority over your own tongue. AUDIENCE: That's good. KENNETH:
Go to the book of James. "Well, Brother Copeland, it says no man
can tame the tongue." No, it didn't say that. You ain't
getting off that easy. AUDIENCE: Come on! KENNETH: It said, "No
man can tame the tongue with natural force." That goes on to
say that the Word of God will tame it. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
Amen. I've got six minutes and 33 seconds. I can read my text
anyway. Luke 5. Thank You, Lord. Luke 5. No, I've got a little
more time than that. I'm going to take a little more time than
that, okay? Because Jerry, bless his heart, he--he quit a little
bit early. I thank God he did. But I--you know, I didn't think
he was through, man. I'm back there, "nah, nah." I was so into
what he was saying. All right. Luke 5:17, "He withdrew
himself--And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was
teaching--" Now say, "Teaching." AUDIENCE: Teaching. KENNETH:
"--as he was teaching--" Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God. And "--there were Pharisees and doctors of
the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of
Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the
Lord was present to heal them." Well, certainly, it was. Jesus
was present. He said, "It's the Father that dwells within me, he
does the work." So the power was present to heal everyone there.
"And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a
palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him
before them--before him. And when they could not find by what
way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they
went up on the housetop, and let him down through the tiling
which, with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And when he
saw their faith--" Now, how do you see faith? Well, in the
first place, He saw what they did, their action. AUDIENCE:
That's right. KENNETH: Amen. Now, if you study this out, it's
in three different--it's in three different references. I'm
only going to take two of them this morning. But He was in His
house in Capernaum. It's referred to as the house. So,
I'm--I'm totally convinced of this. I thought--many, many
years, I thought He was in a hostile group, but He was not.
They were in His house. They came to hear Him. High-ranking
people came to hear Him. For a long time, I thought--but if you
carefully read this text, you'll see what I'm talking about. Read
all three of them. Now, they saw their faith. Well, how many
people without faith going to let somebody--you've got the
palsy, you can't walk, "They're going to let you carry me up on
top of the house? Dear Lord, I'm sick now." (Laughter) "You drop
me off this man's house, I'm in trouble." Now, I wasn't smart
enough to think that up. I got that from Brother Hagin. Praise
God. "When they--when he saw their faith, he said," Son--or
"Man, thy sins are forgiven thee." Now, Matthew 9, Jesus
said, "Cheer up! Your sins are forgiven." Cheer up! I'm saying
that to you this morning. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: I don't
know what you did early this morning. I mean, you could
have--you could have robbed a 7-Eleven store before you came
into this building. Cheer up! Your sins be forgiven you!
(Applause) Now, a lot of you--a lot of you, more than a few of
you have certain things wrong with your body and so forth, and
you keep thinking, "Well, it's because of my sin." Repent!
AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: Repent over it! Amen. "Well, I don't
know what it was." Well, then forget it. God's forgotten it.
You can cover that with the blood. Now, if it's something of
long continuance and you know you should have confessed that
before somebody, it may be something back there a long time
ago, and it's bothered you that did something to someone. And
it's important to you to go to that person and say, "I want to
repent of this. God's forgiven me, but the right thing to do is
to--is to ask Your forgiveness and I receive it." Oh, that's
healthy. I don't have to--that's--for additional CDs
by Kenneth--(Laughter) That's part of the love walk. But
anyway, "Cheer up!" He said in Matthew, "Your sins be forgiven
you. The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason,
saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can
forgive sins, but God alone? When Jesus perceived their
thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye you in your
hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee;
or say, Rise up and walk? But that you may know--" Now, look
at this. Now, read it carefully. "But that you may know that the
Son of man hath power--" "How God anointed Jesus Christ of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power" "--to forgive sins, (he
said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee--" Now,
He could have just said, "Rise, take up your bed, and go home."
No. He's activating power. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: He's
activating Mark 11:23. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "My Son--" and
He's demonstrating. Amen? (Audience "Amens") Everything He
ever did and said is an exact Word of God. The power, oh, the
power and the authority, the dominating power of faith-filled
words. The prophet Micah said there's going to be a baby born
in Bethlehem? 715 years later, right--and on time, right in the
right spot. The Word of God dominated men, dominated
nations, dominated armies, dominated everything that it
took, maneuvered everything that it took for 715 years. And
the--and Caesar just decided to have some taxes. Right? Yeah,
right. And He wasn't born in a manger because His parents were
broke. AUDIENCE: That's right. Amen. KENNETH: Broke people
don't have to pay taxes. AUDIENCE: Amen. Yes, preacher,
preach! KENNETH: He was in that manger because there wasn't any
room in the inn. (Audience Agrees) Wrong. He was in that
manger because that's where he was supposed to be born.
(Audience Agrees) I've been wanting to say that for a long
time. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Hallelujah. Where was I? Ha-ha-ha-ha. Thank
You, Jesus. "What is easier to say, Your sins be forgiven thee;
and Rise, take up--rise up and walk? But that you may know that
the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said
unto the sick of the palsy), I say unto thee, Arise, take up
thy couch, and go into thine own--go into thine house. And
immediately he rose up before them, took up that whereon he
lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God." Verse
26, "They were all--" How many of them? AUDIENCE: All. KENNETH:
"--all amazed--" and how many of them? AUDIENCE: All. KENNETH:
"--glorified God--" And how many of them? AUDIENCE: All. KENNETH:
"--were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange
things today." This was not a hostile crowd. Their religion
got ahold of their thinking, and they couldn't listen to Him
anymore. So faith didn't come because they're sitting there
thinking, well, about rules and regulations and laws and
everything. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: He's activating Mark
11:23. AUDIENCE: Yes, yes. KENNETH: "My son," and He's
demonstrating. Amen? Everything He ever did and said is an exact
Word of God. The power, oh, the power and the authority, the
dominating power of faith-filled words.
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