(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Let your faith speak through the words you choose.
Join Kenneth Copeland today on the Believer's Voice of Victory
as he shows that sowing faith-filled words produces a
harvest of victory. Now with today's message, here's Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast. I'm Kenneth Copeland.
And this is the joy time of the year, particularly
at the Copeland household and KCM and at EMIC. I
tell you what, it's a special time around here. And we want to
sow some really special gifts into your life, one every day
until Christmas. That's--ha-ha. Hey, that's nice, isn't it? Go
to the website, kcm.org/25days. Hey, that's good. And, well, of
course, you can find out how to start receiving your--but, hey,
also download your study notes. You know what to do with that.
That's a good thing. You need those, yeah, particularly in a
study like what we're doing on the words and all the different
scriptures. A lot of scripture going forth here. And so you
need all of those. You need them all outlined and neatly placed
just like with Gloria and Pastor George and all the outlines on
prosperity. Hasn't that just been--my goodness, what a
glorious treasure trove that is. Words. (Laughs) Hallelujah.
Father, we thank You today for this broadcast. We open our
hearts and minds to You, Sir, to receive revelation from heaven
in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, let's open our Bibles once more
today to Matthew 12. And Jesus said this, He said, "A good man
out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things: an
evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil
things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall
speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."
He'll give account thereof--are you getting that? He'll give
account thereof in the day of judgment. Mm, mm, mm, mm. "For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, by thy words thou
shalt be condemned." Now, we've talked about that this is a
Word-created, Word-upheld environment. God said, and it
was. And He's upholding all things by the word of His power.
And then we found that death and life are in the power of the
tongue. Words dominate time. "Your words are stout against
me," the Lord said. "We have believed, therefore we have
spoken," the apostle Paul said. Ah-ha-ha-ha. Amen. Now,
I--before we get over into the New Testament side of this, I
want to talk to you from the book of Genesis, the 11th
chapter, if you'd turn there with me, please. Genesis 11, and
let's read the first nine verses there. Now, watch carefully.
Words--say it, "Words. Words." Let me say it again. "Words are
the most important things in this planet." And that makes the
Word of God the most precious thing in this planet because
He's given us His Words to put in our mouth to become our
words. And so when we speak, we speak in His power. Satan is
stuck with that because he can't--he can't get out from
under it. He can't--he doesn't have any power unless you give
it to him by what you say. When you say something that is on His
side of the ledger, then He can move right in on that because
that--those are His words. When you speak God's Words and make
those the words of your life, then the Spirit of God is moving
there. The angel--your angel that God's assigned you is
moving--can move in your life because you're speaking the
words of God. The Scripture said that Jesus spoke the words of
God. Therefore, God gave Him the--His Spirit without measure,
not because He didn't sin. He didn't. Praise God. But He
was--He ministered here as a man anointed by the Spirit of God.
He said, "I can do nothing of myself, I only say what I hear
my Father say, and I only do what I see my Father do." But He
only said what His Father said and He only did what He saw His
Father do, His daddy. That's right, His Abba. Now, let's look
at this then. In the 11th chapter of Genesis, "The whole
earth was of one language, and of one speech." I have a
reference in the cross-reference there, "Hebrew words." All
right. The whole earth was of one language and of one words.
"It came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, Go, let us make brick, and burn
them thoroughly. They had brick for stone, and slime they had
for mortar. And they said--and they said--and they said, Go to,
let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth. The Lord came down
to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one." They
are one. They're in agreement. "And they have one language; and
this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do." As long as they're in
agreement, and as long as they're all saying the same
thing, there's no restraint to this. "Let us go down, and
confound their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there
upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the
city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel," or confusion,
"because the Lord did therefore confound the language of all the
earth: and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad on the
face of the earth." Now, the only thing that could stop those
people is to change what they were saying because anything
they could imagine as one people--in agreement, anything
they could imagine, communicate it and agree on it, there's no
restraint to them. Whoa. Boy, that says it all, doesn't it?
Now, of course, you remember James 3:16, "Where there is
confusion--where there is strife--" See, this brought
strife and schism. "Where there is strife, there is confusion
and every evil work." When you're not saying what God says,
I mean, you've just licensed the devil to tear the house down,
particularly if you're fighting and fussing and in strife. II
Timothy 2, my, my, my, my, my, such an eye-opening scripture.
It said, "Those that oppose themselves--" they--and they're
opposing themselves in strife. "A man of God must not strive;
must be gentle, and apt to teach, and so forth," so that
perhaps God will give them repentance. What do you mean,
"perhaps"? They can't hear Him. They're too busy fighting one
another. They're not hearing God or they wouldn't be fighting.
They're not hearing God or they'd be in love with one
another. No, they're fussing and fighting, "You did this and
that." And the Scripture says, "Satan takes them captive at his
will." Why? Because of the words that are coming out of their
hearts and coming out of their mouth. Oh, my, my. Now then,
let's go over to the book of Numbers, please. And this is in
the 14th chapter of Numbers. Now, the size of the people, the
number of people is somewhere around 2 million people in this
desert; came out of Egypt--whoa, big time, man--came across that
Red Sea and began to dance and praise before God. And that's
the last time they praised Him in 40 years. Now, that'll open
your eyes. Praise words. Oh, anyway, here we go. I want you
to notice something here. Oh, well, "Caleb stilled the
people," in the 13th--in the 13th chapter, 30th verse. "Caleb
stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once,
and possess it; we are well able to overcome it. But the men that
went up with him said, We are not able to go up against them;
for they are stronger than we are. And they brought up an evil
report of the land." Caleb and Joshua, two men out of 2
million, two men out of 2 million chose to speak what God
had said. God said, "I've given you the land." Caleb said, "It's
ours. God gave it to us. We're well able. Let's go over there
and take it now." Two million people could not overcome two
faith men because of their words. Caleb, the Scripture
says, was of a different spirit. Well, of course. It was the
spirit of faith. So now, let's go on down. Chapter 14, Verse 1,
"All the congregation lifted up their voice," all of
them, their voice. They were one voice. They were
in agreement. 2 million of them in
agreement together, "lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole
congregation said unto them, Would God we had died in the
land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land, to fall by
the sword, that our wives, our children should be prey? Were it
not better for us to return to Egypt?" Now, "Would God we had
died in the land of Egypt!" Now, they're thinking about going
back across that Red Sea. There ain't no way they're getting
back across that Red Sea. You can't do it. You can't walk
across that. It sure wasn't going to open up for them. "Or
would God we had died in this wilderness!" They kept saying
it. "We're going to die in this wilderness. We're going to die
in this wilderness. We are going to die in this wilderness. We're
going to die in this desert. We're going to die in the
desert! We're going to die in the desert. We're going to die
in the desert." Now, Verse 28, God said, "Say unto them, As
truly as I live, saith the Lord, as you have spoken in my ears,
so will I do to you." He had no choice. They said it. They're
His covenant people. They said it. He had no choice. It wasn't
His will. He's the--He's--God is love. They didn't--they didn't
believe He loved them. "Your carcasses shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to
your whole number, from twenty years old upward which have
murmured against me." "You said it and now that's what has to
happen because I can't protect you. I can't go any further
because you said it." My, my, my, my, my. It is so--it's such
vital--let's go to the 90th Psalm. Psalm 90, this is a
prayer of Moses, the man of God. "Lord, thou hast been our
dwelling place in all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth
the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday
when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them
away as with a flood; they are as sleep: in the morning they're
like grass that grows up. In the morning it flourishes, and grows
up; in the evening it's cut down, and withered. We are
consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou
hast set our iniquities before thee." You see, he's crying out.
He's interceding for them and he's crying out before God. "All
our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale that's told. The days of our years are threescore and
ten; and if by reason of strength they're fourscore
years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon
cut off, and we fly away." See, he--God--Moses said--Moses said,
"Our years have been cut to 70," or at the most, 80. What was
happening? They were not getting out of that desert alone--alive.
No. 80 is the maximum. 80 was the maximum. "You ain't getting
out of here if you're ever--you're in that group."
Well, see, we've taken that 70 or 80 years and are still living
by it. Words. Everybody says that. Well, but now wait a
minute. God didn't say that. Moses was crying out, "Yeah, but
Brother Copeland, God said they died." No. They said they would
die in the desert, and God said, "Okay. It'll have to be as you
said." Oh, but now you go back to the book of Genesis and you
go back to 6--the 6th chapter of Genesis, the 3rd verse, "And God
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." Now, God said his days will be 120. That's what people
should be saying because that's what He said. And medical
science will tell you today, "The physical body should live
120 years." "Well, why doesn't it?" Well, what have you been
saying? Huh? Now, when you begin to say what God has said--now,
let me show you how the Bible is constructed. We're right there
next to the 91st Psalm. Let's just move over there to it. And
let's go down to the 16th verse. "With long life will I satisfy
him, and show him my salvation." Oh, isn't that wonderful? Yeah,
but now, what is long life? See, you and I don't have any right
to make our own choice of what long life is because He's
already said 120 years. So once He said--see, He said that in
Genesis. So that follows through to Revelation. He's never
changed that. He never came back and said, "Well, you know, I
mean--" No, no. He said, "The days of man shall be 120 years."
The New Living says, "his normal lifespan," which means you can
live more than that. But that's the benchmark right there,
at 120. So when He's--all of the food laws in the book of
Leviticus, everything that's on the side that you're not
supposed to eat is because it will affect that time span. So
He's already said it, see? The--all of those--the foods
that are the ones you--that you should be eating and not the
other, it's all based on that 120, and He had to make it a law
to them. They wouldn't do it any otherwise. But if you'd follow
it, then you could do that. Are you seeing what I'm saying here?
The-- "Why do you say it like that?" Don't--don't--don't get
your gun out and start grabbing at me. I'm talking about words,
those words. That "120" will dominate your life if you will
allow it to. Now, I didn't catch onto it all that long ago, but I
saw through it. And the Lord said to me, "That is just as
much my word as, 'by my stripes, you were healed.'" Ha, and we're
out of time. And I'll be back in just a moment.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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