(Singing) I know my God has made the way for me.
I know my God has made the way for me.
(Singing) I'm not moved by what I feel. I don't live by
what I see, because my God has made the way for me.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Thanksgiving
Week Special here on the Believer's Voice of Victory
broadcast. Father, we thank You today for Your
Word. We come before it with expectant hearts. And we
receive from heaven. And we thank You for revelation--
GLORIA: Thank You. KENNETH: --of the Word. We thank You for
revelation of yourself, Jesus. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: We seek
Your face. GLORIA: We're grateful, Lord. KENNETH: In
Jesus' name, amen. Praise God. Good morning, Gloria. GLORIA:
Good morning, sunshine. KENNETH: You look so beautiful this
morning. GLORIA: Thank you. KENNETH: You always look
beautiful. GLORIA: Aw. KENNETH: I get up looking like this, and
you get up looking like-- GLORIA: No, you look great. I
like that blue shirt. KENNETH: Well, thank you very much.
GLORIA: It matches those blue eyes. KENNETH: I appreciate
that. Thank you. This week, we're going to be looking and
turning our attention to the Word in the renewing of our
minds-- GLORIA: Oh, my. KENNETH: --to the truth that God is love.
He doesn't have love, He is love. Amen. Now, we--we've got
to get ahold of this. We're going to grow in His wisdom--
GLORIA: Praise God. KENNETH: --concerning His love for us. So
don't miss any of these broadcasts. Let's get right into
today's message. Let's open our Bibles tonight to the book of I
John. I John, and we'll look in the 4th chapter. I John 4, and
let's read the 8th verse. "He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love." Now, this book of I John is the book that
reveals to us that God doesn't have love-- TOGETHER: --He is
love. KENNETH: He has faith. He is love. Now, it is extremely
important. I cannot emphasize how important it is. The Lord
has placed this in my heart some months ago. And it has just
been--oh, just such a glorious thing to have a renewed mind
concerning "God is love." Now, the word "God" actually--the way
you and I know it, is not a Bible word. It came out of
German theology, "Gott." And you do understand that God has
names? (Audience Agrees) Amen. And his name is not God. His
name isn't Christ. Ha-ha-ha-ha. That may come as a real shock to
some. For instance, He is God, English-ized "Jehovah." It's not
actually pronounced Jehovah. That's been English-ized for us.
Now, He is Jehovah, or I--I really enjoy spelling his name
in Hebrew because people actually, and for a large point,
don't really know anymore how to pronounce His name because the
Jewish people refused for centuries to pronounce it. And
over the years--I won't go into all that. But Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey,
the name, mm. The name. Say it. TOGETHER: The name. KENNETH:
Whoa. Hallelujah. He is Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey Rapha. He
is--that's one of His names, our healer. Huh? Now listen to me.
If healing passed away, God would have had to have changed
his name. (Audience Agrees) That isn't going to happen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Amen. The stars will fall out of the sky before
that happens, literally. Amen. Oh, this is so vitally
important. But we've just used the word "God" and used the
word, you know, "love." The reason, particularly with
English-speaking people--and I'm quite sure it's this way in
other languages. But with English-speaking people, I mean,
we love everything. "Don't you just love my new suit?" No, I
don't love your suit. (Audience Agrees) No. This--there's a lack
of reverence for Him-- "Love not the world, nor the things in the
world." So what are we talking about here? Well, you need to
reserve the word "love" for whom it was intended. "I love my God
with all of my heart, all of my soul, all of my mind and my
strength. I love my neighbor as myself. I love the brethren even
as He loves the brethren. I love my wife. I love my family. I
love the Word of God. And I love the brethren. I love you." I
don't love my clothes. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Come on.
KENNETH: I don't love food. (Audience Agrees) "Well, Brother
Copeland, what am I supposed to say?" Are you really
that--(Laughter) What does the Bible say? "I don't know."
(Laughs) Well, what did the apostle Paul write Timothy? He
said, "God gives us all--" TOGETHER: "--things richly to
enjoy." Yes. KENNETH: Now, think about that for a moment. Think
about what He just said now. He asked me one day, He said,
"Kenneth, do I give you things to meet your needs?" I said,
"Yes." He said, "No." (Laughter) Well, I knew then I'd been had
because I--at that point, I didn't have a clue what He was
talking about. He said, "No, son. I give you things richly to
enjoy, and they meet your needs." See, it wasn't my needs
that He had in mind. Huh? AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
Boy, you missed a place to say "amen" right there. (Audience
"Amens") God is a god of joy. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: The joy
of the Lord is our strength. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: I was
sitting on the platform one night, and the whole place was
shouting and going on. I finally just sat down. And while I was
sitting there, the Lord said something to me that startled
me. He said, "Kenneth, if it hadn't been for sin, I never
would have had a serious thought." He said, "What is
there to be serious about?" He said, "I got serious when death
came." And I--I grasped a snapshot of Him all of a sudden.
He is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness. Huh? (Audience "Amens") Can you see it? You
see--you see what He is? And if it hadn't been for that mess,
we'd all still just be dancing and a'singing. That's all
anybody'd ever do. AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: He's big on
dancing and singing. He--He commanded people to dance and
sing. Amen. He's big on that. It's us that have been so
stiff-necked, we--you know. AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: "Well,
Brother Copeland, you know, I just--I--you know, I'm just not
very demonstrative." (Laughter) "And I have a praise in my
heart." Not in abundance, you don't. (Audience "Amens")
Because if it was in there in abundance, it'd come out your
mouth--(Audience Agrees)--because out of the
abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Now, that works
all the time. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Ha-ha. The little twin
engine airplane I had, the first twin we had, it had tip tanks,
fuel tanks on the wing tips. And that thing--oh, that fuel tank,
it was a teardrop tank, and it came to almost a point in the
back where it was about--oh, it was about like that. And it was
just this high. And if you weren't looking, you could
really do some serious damage to your forehead if you weren't
looking, and bang your head into that tip tank. Well, I walked
into the maintenance shop one day, and they were working
around in there. And just as I walked across the hangar floor,
one of these mechanics hit that tip tank. He hollered. You could
have heard him out in the--you could imagine what he said.
(Audience Murmurs) Yeah, that's right. Just what you thought he
said. He got his head up here, and I walked up. "Oh, preacher."
Ha-ha-ha-ha. "Forgive me." I said, "Don't let me cramp your
style, brother. Glory to God. I ain't here to judge you." I
said, "When Jesus was on the earth, He said, 'Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.' We know what you're
full of." (Laughter) I didn't help him a bit. (Laughs) Amen.
Now then, to be aware and to respect that word, love is God,
and God is love. I enjoy things. Amen. But I reserve my
expression of love for the things that God loves. AUDIENCE:
Amen. Amen. KENNETH: And it starts off with Him. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Oh, yeah. Gloria
and I are fully aware, as much--my, my, as we love one
another, we are together almost all the time. I don't--I have no
remembrance of the last--any kind--any form of an argument
that we had. AUDIENCE: Aw. KENNETH: I mean, we've been
married 55 1/2 years, and it--now, back there, you know,
Kenneth B.C., I tried to fight with her. She never would do it.
You know you can't fuss by yourself? (Laughter) She
just--she just--she just wouldn't. She just always
ministered to me and changed my life. Absolutely changed my
life. We were in Hawaii. We had just come back from--from
ministering in the South Pacific, just back before the
days of our airplane being able to go across the ocean. And we
got in to Hawaii. We--I mean, we--we had been ministering just
a really extended period of time, in Australia and so forth.
Anyways... Oh, I was tired. I'll tell you, I felt like I'd been,
you know, pulled through a keyhole or something. I was just
"huh-huh-huh," just seemed like--just bone tired.
(Grumbling & Growling) (Laughter) Now, there ain't no
excuse for that. I don't care how tired you are. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience "Amens") And so we went down to
breakfast at the hotel where we were staying, little outdoor
continental breakfast. We went back down there. (Grumbling &
Growling) (Laughter) Just barking at everybody. And
I--ha-ha. I threw some money down there on the table. And
when I turned around, Gloria had come over around and behind me.
And when I turned around, she was standing right there.
(Laughter) And she looked up at me, and she caught me by my
shirt, and this little tear was coming down. She said, "I am
going to be a blessing to you some way." (Meekly) "Okay."
(Laughter) And then another time, some--some years later,
she walked around behind me. I was sitting in a church, sitting
in their study. And, oh, man, it seemed like--seemed like just
all the pressure you could imagine would come in there on
me. And here again I was really, really tired. She walked around
and put her hands on my back, and she began to pray for me.
And she said, "Sweetheart, I find no fault in you." That one
moment changed my love life forever. AUDIENCE: Wow. KENNETH:
It got through to my spirit-- AUDIENCE: Wow. KENNETH: --being.
It went in there like a bolt of love that--it just--it--it took
all of that out of me forever. I've not been gripey and
grumpy--well, maybe a little. (Laughter) But at least I've had
sense enough to stop it before I became as obnoxious as I was
back there then. Amen. Those words of love changed my whole
life. "I wish I had a woman like that." Well, you can't have
mine. (Laughter) You'd probably have if you'd treat her halfway
right. Well, I'm not going to go there right now, but--(Laughter)
Amen. We better get back--we better get back to our business
here. Now then, honoring the word "love," to honor God, to
renew our mind. And this takes a decision because you're in the
habit of saying these kinds of things. It takes a decision to
correct yourself. "No, no, I don't love my new car, I enjoy
it. Amen. I love--I love the Lord that gave it to me. Amen."
(Audience "Amens") "And He gave it for me to enjoy." AUDIENCE:
Yes. KENNETH: Hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now,
let's read this verse again. "He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love." Now let's go down to the 16th verse. "We have
known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God," who is love,
"and God," who is love, "in him." AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
Now, we're going to do some of these things in this service
tonight, but I just want to start you off like this: In the
beginning, love created the heaven and the earth. AUDIENCE:
Whoo! KENNETH: Love did that. In the beginning was the Word. The
Word was with God," who is love--" Can you see what I'm
doing here? See how that--that strikes your thinking, causes
you to begin to renew your mind? You start cutting new grooves in
your brain where the word "love" is concerned and where the word
"God" is concerned. You do the same thing with the word
"Christ," amen, the Anointed One and His anointing. Amen. So,
now, look at that 16th verse. "We have known and believed the
love--" Now, every born-again human being has had that holy
moment of knowing Jesus--(Audience "Amens")--by
the Holy Spirit. But most--most--almost all
born-again, Holy Spirit-baptized, healing,
believing, tongue-talking, faith-walking Christians don't
believe that God loves them. AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: "Oh,
yes, I do." No, you don't. You mentally assent to the fact that
He loves you. But how much love and faith are you putting in
that love? AUDIENCE: My Lord. KENNETH: "Have faith in God." I
just said, "Have faith in love." (Audience Agrees) Whether I
realized it or not, that's what I just said. "Have faith in
God," who is love. Have faith--not have faith
in His love. Have faith in love Himself.
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