[Kenneth Copeland]
Every believer has
a voice and it's the Voice
of Victory. ♪ ♪ [Kenneth Copeland singing] Hello
everybody. I'm Kenneth
Copeland. Let's have a word
of prayer and we'll get right
into today's Bible
lesson. Father, we just
thank You and
praise You. So we seek You, Sir, for
revelation knowledge, knowledge revealed,
revealed knowledge, not just sense knowledge,
and we thank You for it. Revelation from Heaven. Oh my, we love You
so and we thank You. And we ascribe all
of the glory to the sweet name of Jesus. And it's in His
name we pray, amen. Glory to God, open your Bibles
to the sixth chapter of the book of Ephesians. Now those of you that were with
us yesterday, we're from here. I reversed the order a bit at
the instructions of the Lord to give you this from the sixth
chapter of Ephesians. And then we'll go back over to the fifth chapter of the book
of Mark, because there,
there's a connection here that's extremely important. (speaking in tongues) Yes Sir, I'll do that.
All right. Ephesians, chapter
six, verse 10. "Finally, my brethren, be
strong", how? "in the
Lord and in the power of
His might." Strong in the
Lord. Now this is not just
talking about physical
strength, but it has to do with physical
strength, but strength, first of all, must come
into the inner man. The spirit being,
the human... I'm not going to stop right
here just for a second. People, you know, get, oh,
hung up, on sons of God. Well, now wait a minute. We are called mankind. The man was created first. We know that. Well, I don't understand that,
well just read the book and go, but women are equally
as important to men. Now, the Scripture says to treat
your woman as a weaker vessel, it did not say
she's a weaker vessel. It said, treasure her and
treat her as though she is. I do my best to treat Gloria
like she's very fragile because she is a...
she's my treasure. She's the first person that
ever loved me unconditionally. And in just, hey, we've
been married 59 years and it's just been
heaven on earth because she made it that way. So she's my treasure. You talk about
somebody that's strong. There ain't no way, girls. If I could I
wouldn't have a baby. Dear God. I stood there and didn't,
she's going through all that, and I'm standing there at
the bed, crying like a baby, and she's here. She's strong. She's strong in the Lord. And then the power
of His might. Now, where does
that go? The joy of the
Lord is our
strength. And that will come over
into this physical
body. When you feel like you've been
pulled through a keyhole and you can turn, ah, ha and just ha ha
yourself right on out. Amen? Put on the whole armor
of God. You have to put
it on. Nobody can shoot you up,
but you, you have to put it
on. That you may be able
to stand, stand against the
wiles of the
devil, for we wrestle not
with flesh and
blood, but against
principalities, against
powers. Now you can see here
and... now I don't mind
telling you where I got
this, my mentor, Kenneth Hagin, my father in the
faith Oral Roberts. And, but a short time after I enrolled at Oral
Roberts University, I was 30 years old, but Gloria and I were
scriptural illiterates. We didn't have
anything to unlearn. We didn't know
anything to start with. The first thing we
ever heard was faith. And we hit it like a, like a
chicken hitting a bug, man. Whew, man, glory to God. So, and he was in
a pastor's home. He was preaching in his... Teaching, more in his church. And his little girl came in. She was about 11 years old. And so after the service that
night, he and the pastor were, and he was staying there in
the home with the pastor. And so they were discussing
the Word and so forth over a sandwich and a glass of
milk before they went to bed. And the little daughter
came in and said, "Daddy, I got to go to
school in the morning. You come pray with me." And so
it's about 11 o'clock and she, and he said, "Oh, I forgot. Let's just kneel down here and
Brother Hagin and I'll pray." Well, that is good
enough for her. And so Brother Hagin
turned around and just facing the chair there. And when he did suddenly,
he was in the spirit. And the Lord said, he saw
Jesus right up there. He said, I'm going to
teach you about demons, evil spirits, and
demon possession. Now he talked to him for
something like an hour and a half about this. Well, I listened to it
again and again and again. And he told him these
things now that, so, and you can see it here
because you start at the bottom and go up to rulers and
then go up to heavenly places. So look at this, we wrestle
not against flesh and
blood, but against
principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this
world. Those are the ones that
come demon possess
people. Demon possession is someone
that is taken over spirit, soul, and body is completely,
totally obsessed. I mean, possessed
by a devil, a
devil. And spiritual, which
wickedness in high
places or wicked
spirits in the
heavenlies. Now those devils,
other than Satan
himself, those are the highest
ranking evil spirits, or unclean spirits that exist. I won't go into the background
of that and all that, but now you can see this. We won't turn there today, but you can see it in
the book of Daniel and just go back
and look at the 10th, 11th and 12th chapters
of the book of Daniel. Now, Daniel was
on a partial fast, and he had been there
for 21 days, three weeks. And you remember
what happened? The messenger angel
Gabriel said "Fear not,
Daniel for we heard you
the first day." So evidently he
began to think
there, they haven't heard
me. He didn't have
the name of
Jesus. Fasting was a weapon, but
now listen to this, for
that... Well, yeah, we're going
to have to go over there. I could quote it
to you, but... The 10th chapter of Daniel. "And Gabriel
said unto him,
O Daniel, a
man, greatly
beloved"... I'm looking at a
10th chapter 11th
verse. "Understand the words
that I speak unto
thee and stand upright for
unto thee am I now
sent. And when he had
spoken this word
unto me, I stood
trembling. Then he said unto to
me, fear not, Daniel
for, from the first day that thou
didst set thine heart to
understand, and to chasten
thyself before
thy God, thy words were heard and
I've come for your
words." It took me three weeks
to get here, but I'm
here. "But the Prince of the
kingdom of Persia or
Iran, Iran is the right way
to say it so I say
Iran, withstood me one and
20 days, but lo
Michael," one of the chief
princes, Michael, the
Archangel, Michael, the angel
of war. Now when David
said to Goliath, I come to you in the name
of the Lord of hosts, this is what he
was referring to. The angelic armies of God. That's what he
said to Goliath. So Michael obviously
was involved in this, but then look, "one of
the chief princes came
to help me. And I remained there
with the Kings of
Persia," 19th verse, "be
strong, yea
strong, and when he
had spoken
unto me, I was strengthened from
words, spoken by an angel
and said, let my Lord speak for
thou hast strengthened
me. Then said he knowest
thou whereof I came unto
thee and now will I return to
fight with the Prince of
Persia? And when I'm gone
forth, lo the Prince of Grecia
shall come." These are political
stronghold demons. I don't know about other
nations because I'm an American. I was born here, raised here. That's why politicians
get elected to office, go to Washington DC and do,
and say things they said they would never do and say. Right there, those
high level devils, they're the ones that
assigned to governments. And in some cases,
Satan himself. But the name of Jesus
has authority over the whole nasty bunch. Amen? So now let's go back to the fifth chapter of
the book of Mark. And now we get insight
and concept here of what Jesus was dealing with,
with whom He was dealing, and we can see
things in this... Well, I like to
say it like that. We go widescreen here
because we know things. Amen. So now that we know and
understand these things, we can, we can get a real
insight in what Jesus said, and that's what Brother... and Jesus, when he
appeared to Brother Hagin, he was just a little
higher than he was. And all of a sudden this
little demon came out and jumped in front of him and yakkity yakkity yak. Can you put out
something like
this? Like this black smoke and
Jesus here just kept on
talking. And Brother
Hagin said, "Why don't He do
something about
this." Doesn't He know I
need what He's saying. Why don't He do it? Why doesn't He do
something about this? And finally, he
got tired of that. he said, in the name of Jesus,
shut up, get out of the way. And that little devil
fell and ran off. Now, listen to me. Jesus said to Brother Hagin, if you hadn't done something about that, I couldn't. Brother Hagin said, no,
I'm not hearing you right. You said you wouldn't. He said, no. I said I couldn't. And then He gave
him scriptures. Brother Hagin said, "Well, I
don't know anything like that." He said, "Well, there's a whole
lot here that you don't know." And so he gave him one
scripture right after another. One of them, right
before He left. All authority has
been given unto
me, both in heaven and in
earth. Therefore you go [in
the earth] and you
preach and you teach and you
baptize. In my name you
cast out
devils. In my name if you
drink any deadly
thing it'll not
harm you. In my name, you'll
lay hands on the
sick and they shall
recover. In my name you'll
speak with other
tongues." In my name, in
my name. Then in the book of
Ephesians, "Every knee will
bow to that
name. Heaven, earth
and under the
earth. The mighty name of Jesus,
the name of God in the
earth." Amen. Sean. Okay. Now, do we have our
spiritual equilibrium here? So we're right there. We're just right
there with Jesus. And so we have insight here
into what's about to happen. They came over,
Mark 5:1, "They came over into
the other side of
the sea, into the country of
the Gadarenes." Now that, that was just
on the other side of the
Galilee. "When he was come out of the
ship immediately there met him out of
the tombs, a man with an
unclean spirit," a ruler of the
darkness of
this world. Amen. All right. Now follow me now. "Who had his
dwelling among
the tombs. No man could bind him, no,
not with chains because that he had been
often bound with fetters
or shackles and chains, and the
chains had been plucked
asunder by him and the shackles
broken in
pieces. Neither could any
man tame him." Now, whoa. Now wait a minute. What is
happening here? That's Samson in reverse. Sampson was not, could not
have been a big burly man. No, he just looked like
everybody else until the power of God
would come on him. And it was the power
of God's might. Ah, now we know what the
spirit of God was referring to through the apostle Paul, be
strong in the Lord and then the power of His might. And he was so powerful. No, he wasn't. God was so powerful on him that he pulled that whole
temple down around him. Yeehaw! All right. Always night
and day. He did not sleep. You know he had to
be skin and bones. He didn't sleep. "He was in the
mountains and in
the tombs crying and cutting himself
with stones. He was a cutter. Very, very, very close friend
of mine was ministering to some young women and they had
cuts, scars on her arms. And he said to them, in
fact, it's Todd White. Oh, what a man
of God. And he said, no,
that's not who
you are. That's who you used to be. And he baptized them in water and they came up without
those scars. Isn't that marvelous? No that's Jesus. Yes. It's marvelous. Magnifical, amen. "But when he saw Jesus
afar off, he ran and
worshipped Him." Now class, let
me tell you
something. Have there been any
man on earth that the devil could have
stopped from worshiping Jesus, it would have been this man. He not only was totally
possessed by this one devil, but that devil had
operating under him from three to 6,000 devils. Couldn't stop him. Immediately, he fell
and worshipped Him. Immediately. How long did it take
Jesus to deliver him? About like that? You can be delivered like
that right now, right now, because He's the same Jesus
yesterday and today and forever. You can accept Him as your
Lord and Savior today. Yeah but, you don't, don't
start that yeah but. Jesus has done everything it
takes for you to be born again, except pray your prayer. That's the reason
it is so easy. He went to the cross, He went
to hell and suffered there like no man has ever suffered
or ever will suffer again. And He bore your
sins in His own body. He bore your sickness
and diseases. He bore your poverty because
He was made a curse for us and poverty is a
curse of the law. And today you can have Him. I'm telling you, I don't
care where you are or what you have done. Just Jesus, come
into my heart. Can it be that easy? Yes it is. You know why? He's easy. He is so easy. It's not what you've done. It's what He's done. And He loves you. He loves you when you
were acting like a fool. Yeah. Ask me how I know. (laughs) He loves you. He loves you when
whatever it was you did. And He loves you right now. Now follow me here,
"and cried with a
loud voice. What about I do with
Jesus thou son of the
most high God?" I adjure, that's that
devil talking, that's
that devil, I've heard him. I've had him
talk to me. And he said it, the
ones I'm just imitating
the ones that I have
heard. He cried with a
loud for, "Why... that thou
torment me not." For he had said, "Come
out of the man, you
unclean spirit. One devil, you get
out of him right
now. "For, he said into
him, come out of
the man, you unclean
spirit. And he asked him,
what is your
name? And he answered saying,
my name is Legion for we
are many. And he besought him
much that he would
not send him away out of
that country." He was assigned there
by the devil and he didn't want
to leave. ♪ How much time? Ooh, we're out of time. 10 minute broadcast
is, come on. Jeremy, help us, son. (clapping) Yes, sir. Thank you,
Pa Pa. Now faith prepares
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