- [Kenneth] Father, we
do thank You tonight we praise You (praying in tongues) THE BLESSING of the
Lord has been manifested and will continue to do so for the things and
the rich things of the heavenlies have been
made known to the earth realm and things that have
happened have been released from heaven through the
earth to you this week. And it'll grow and it'll grow
and it'll continue to grow and grow and grow and grow and become sweeter and
sweeter and sweeter. No, for you do not have to wait until the sweet by and by. You can have the sweet by and by in the rotten here
in now. (laughs) Glory, come on give Him praise. (congregation clapping) Thank you, Lord Jesus. Yes, Amen. Professor Greg Stephens, (congregation claps) KCBC instructor. I've learned so much from
this man about covenant and the covenant of blood, the
different kinds of covenants. And the Lord directed me
to demonstrate some things I need that little Ziploc
bag, can we have that? So that the next time
you take communion, this will be in your mind's eye. Instead of just, what is this? I don't know. Oh, that's perfect, that's exactly what I want. Thanks, David, I
appreciate it very much. So now, Greg, talk to us about the Salt Covenant. - [Greg] The Salt Covenant is one of the most ancient
personal covenants between two people. Salt is the word, comes
from the Latin root, "sal" "salarium" means salary. It was the compensation
that Rome paid to a soldier, part of their
salary was in salt. And so that's where we
get the word salary from, from the Latin
word, "salarium"-- - [Kenneth] Well that
guy's not worth his salt. - [Greg] Not worth his salt. So what would happen is
I would have salt on me because they're in a desert. I had salt on me,
you had salt on you and we carried it in a bag. Once you put salt on a T-bone
steak, you can't get it out. - [Man] That's right. - It goes in, salt goes in so-- - [Kenneth] Now, now, now. Every covenant is
about making two one. - Yes, sir. - That's what the
thing all about in the beginning
of the (indistinct) - [Greg] Yes, sir, so
in the simplest terms, I have salt in a pouch on me, you have salt in a pouch on you. We're gonna come into a salt part of our salary,
covenant with one another, financial.
- Alright. - [Greg] So you've just poured
your salt into that bag, now, I'm going to pour my salt
from my pouch into that bag. And then the next
thing we will do, if you shake it up please, we would shake it. I've given you some of my salt and you've me some of your salt. Can you separate
your salt from mine? - [Kenneth] Absolutely not. (congregation clapping) We have become one, in this ancient simple-- - [Greg] It's life and
savory, season of our lives - [Kenneth] Jesus
talked about it, but I wanted you to see it, I wanted you to see it. Now, so this is your cup. - Yes, sir. - This is my cup. So, pour that in there great. - [Greg] That's the
cutting of the covenant and then I would do the same. - [Kenneth] Jesus
said, "Take this cup, "this is my blood of
the New Covenant." - [Greg] Now we've
mixed our blood. - [Man] That's right. - [Kenneth] Which is
his and which is mine? - [Greg] And we could
never separate that. - You can't separate that. (congregation clapping) - Amen. - That's it, praise God. - Amen, praise God. The Hebrew word for
that, for blood is dam, it's where the root of Adam. - [Kenneth] It's
Adam's name was blood. - [Greg] Genesis Chapter
four, Cain kills Abel and Abba says, "His blood cries
out to me from the ground." That word is not blood cries out we translated it into
English, it's plural. It's plural, it's two of them. - [Kenneth] I didn't know that. - [Greg] And it's bloods cries
out to him from the ground. And so Lord, why bloods? it was Abel and all of the seed that would've come
from Abel, cried out. - Bloods? - Bloods. This is why David had to find the blood of Saul
and of Jonathan. - [Kenneth] They actually
cut a blood covenant. - [Greg] They cut what
we did symbolically they did.
- They did that. - [Greg] And so he
was bound to find the bloods of Jonathan and Saul. That's what Jesus did to us, He cut a covenant
with the Father and became flesh and blood. This is why He said as
often as you drink this we've partaken of His covenant and I'm part of
that bloods in Him. It's good stuff. - Praise, praise God. - [Greg] So it's more
than just a ritual we do, it's a holy covenant. - Oh, listen and-- - Heals you. - [Kenneth] Now, let me
illustrate something else. Now, our blood symbolically
has been mixed here now at the Communion Table. - Yes sir. - [Kenneth] He said, "This is
my blood of the New Covenant. "All of you drink all of it." Judas had to drink that. - Yes, sir. - [Kenneth] So and I
want you to be this way every time you take communion and you ought to
take it a lot, a lot. Now, his blood is in my body. - [Greg] Yes sir. - It's in there, His blood
is mixed with my blood, can you see it? (congregation clapping) Western people
don't know anything about covenant,
Eastern people do. - [Kenneth] Now, before you go. - [Greg] Yes sir. - [Kenneth] I want
you to talk about looking down in his face. - [Greg] Oh, the
priestly blessing. - (laughs) Yes. - [Greg] THE BLESSING was
given to Adam, Adam was given then to Noah pretty much the
same blessing and then on down. And then he gave it to Abraham and Abraham was the first
person that the Father allowed to bless himself to bless. He made sure that it
went to the bloods, He said THE BLESSING to
Isaac and to Jacob as well, just like He'd said to Abraham. And then we get to Moses and Moses is allowed to give it to the Levites to
give THE BLESSING. And THE BLESSING, "May the Lord bless you and
keep you his face shine upon," you know that the
Levitical prayer. The priest would do
his hands like this, live longer and prosper. He'd do his hands like
this over the person. And in the Orthodox tradition, you would kneel
with your head down with your hands like this, because you would never
look up at the priest because the priest
represents God. And he's saying THE
BLESSING over you. But there's a phrase in that
blessing, Brother Copeland. - [Kenneth] Now let me tell
you what the advantage here is it's his knowledge of
the Hebrew language. And when I'm preaching, he's over there,
following me in Hebrew. and I'm thinking, I
hope I got this right. (laughing) - You do. - Thank you. - [Greg] The priest
will say that blessing, your head is in
this position down. This is why you see people in
other countries come up to you and kneel in front of this. That's why, it's a reverence,
it's an honor, head's down. But the scripture says, "And the Lord will lift up
his countenance toward you." If my head's down, how does
He lift up His face toward me? And the Rabbis teach this, what happens is that Abba
picks us up like a toddler and holds us up and you
are high and lifted up. And he lifts up his face to you when that blessing
is set over you. Amen. - [Kenneth] You've done
that with your children. (congregation clapping) And he looks up
in your up in face and you look down and he's
smiling and your smiling. Don't you wish you could come be a student at KCBC for a while. (congregation laughing) And something, I am going
to do this, I'm gonna... (laughs) We're sitting there
and he has his Bible open and he opens it to
the book of Malachi. And this blank page that
goes into the notation, he's got this great big
arrow across that blank page. - [Greg] Pointing to the right. - [Kenneth] I said, what
are you doing?(laughing) - [Greg] It's a reminder
that all of this was for over here where I live and it keeps me
grounded in my covenant and everything that
Jesus purchased for me. - [Kenneth] Left
the curse over here, and THE BLESSING over here. - Yes sir, amen. - Professor thank you, sir. - Thank you. - Well done, I needed
to see this myself. - Thank you David. (congregation clapping) Glory to God. - [Kenneth] Get all the
furniture back where it belongs. Now then, well, let's go home
dear Lord I mean.(laughs) Did that bless you? - [Congregation] Yes! - It blessed me so, I
saw this in the Spirit and I got two, very,
very, very strong things. I got this before we
came to this meeting because I've known for weeks
and weeks and weeks and weeks that my part of this
entire convention would be on healing in some way or other. And then I saw this but right before the convention that we could demonstrate this, particularly that Salt Covenant, because you can't separate it, amen. - [Congregation] Amen. - And you're in a blood
covenant with God. Now, don't go be out and finding you somebody
to cut blood with that is extremely dangerous. Don't you be messing with that? We already have a blood covenant and it's in the blood of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth. (congregation clapping) Amen. But I know two men very
well, very, very well, very, very well. And they just loved one another, just so strong with another. And they were about
knee deep in the surf, out in the ocean. And it just came all over both of them at the same time and one of them grabbed
the other one's hand. Now, the word, the root
word to the word, covenant leaves the suggestion a
cut where blood flows. Everything in the
Bible is about blood, everything, without
blood nothing happens it's just another book. These two men, oh,
probably in their I don't know, twenties maybe. And both of them heard
me teach this strong and one of them just grabbed the other one's hand
out there in that surf, and just grabbed one another. And they literally said it, "Today before God,
we cut the covenant. "We are friends from life." And they are even today. They just do anything
for one another. Without having a
revelation of this Christian people are at a
serious, serious disadvantage. Open your Bibles to
Ephesians chapter two, let's begin with
the fourth verse. "But God who is rich in mercy," He's rich in "Chesed" "For His great love
where with he loved us. "Even when we were dead in
sin has quickened us together "with Christ by
grace are you saved "and has raised us up
together, made us sit together "in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, "that in the ages to come "He might show the exceeding
riches of his grace "in His kindness,
in His "Chesed" "toward us through Christ Jesus "for by grace are you
saved through faith "and that not of yourselves. "It is the gift of God. "Not of works lest
any man should boast "for we are his workmanship
created in Christ Jesus "unto good works which
God has before ordained "that we should walk in
them wherefore remember "at that time remember
you being in time past," now we're his workmanship but before that, before
you got born again, "At that time you were
without Christ being aliens "from the common wealth
of Israel and strangers, "strangers from the
covenants of promise, "without hope and without
God in the world." There's incalculable numbers of born again, Holy
Spirit baptized, tongue talking,
Word of Faith people that are still not
covenant-minded. They've never seen a
demonstration like that well, a lot of them have
now all over the place. That's really nice. You need to see
something like that, so that the next time
you take that little cup. The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th chapters of John we're in the middle of the night in the covenant meal, what's been "Gentilized" called the Last Supper. (congregation laughing) It wasn't in the Last Supper anyway, the table with
Jesus in the middle and all 'em sitting behind it. Exceptionally wrong,
they were not at a table, they were on the floor. They weren't just all sitting
there, John was in his lap, maybe a he had a little
table or little cushions. There was no table there,
a Gentile painted that. - [Congregation] Yeah. - And somebody, some Dodo he's funny though
but he said it. He said, "We need
a place for 26." What? "Yeah, we need us place for 26 "'cause there's 13 of them "and they're all sitting on
the same side of the table." - [Man] Yeah. (congregation laughing) - That's pitiful ain't it, I almost didn't
have nerve enough to tell that in
a mixed audience, but really that's
how the non-covenant
minded Gentile artist now I'm not putting that down. But I'm pointing out the fact that the Gentile's
mind doesn't see it. - [Man] Yeah. - The covenant of blood
doesn't mean anything, but it does to this bunch. It is everything. - [Congregation] Amen. - And you see promise, I'm okay, but why is it called God's Word? Why isn't it just Bible? It's His covenant bond, this is two blood sworn oaths. One in the blood of animals then in the blood of
men through circumcision and then through the
blood of God at the cross, which is the Word,
which is bond. He said it and
it's forever true, to us it's not the
Bible, it is His Word. (soft music) ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
