[Kenneth Copeland]
Every believer has
a voice and it's the Voice
of Victory. ♪ ♪ [Kenneth Copeland singing] Hello everybody,
I'm Kenneth
Copeland and this is The Believer's
Voice of Victory
broadcast. Father we thank
You today for
the Word. Oh God, You are so good to
us and we love You with all of our hearts
and all of our soul and all of our mind and
all of our strength. And we thank You
and praise You. We just praise You, Jesus
for being Yourself, for loving us so. And we thank You. We are blessed beyond measure
because of the Word of the Living God and the blessing of the
Lord is ours. Amen. Let's go right back over
here where we were in the fifth chapter of
the book of Mark. Now we're talking about faith
prepares for what it expects, our beliefs will take
place, will happen. Faith praises
before it happens. Now this madman of
Gadara, he never sleeps. He screams and carries on
night and day and that demon would come on him. That ruler of the
darkness had him completely totally possessed. Jesus called him,
said, "Come out of
the man, you unclean spirit."
One spirit, say one
spirit. [Class] One spirit. [Kenneth Copeland]
One demon. We read in the sixth
chapter of the book
of Ephesians, "We wrestle not
with flesh and
blood, but with principalities
and powers and rulers of the
darkness of this
world." That ruler had him
completely demon
possessed, spirit, soul
and body. He even had hold of his voice. That was that devil that
said with a loud voice, he saw Jesus
afar off, ran and worshiped
him in cried with a
loud voice, "... Jesus, you torment
me not." I know they talk like
that because I've
heard them. I was with a friend of mine
first time I ran into this, Charles Rogers. Lord, I love him. And he had more experience
than I did because like I told you before, Gloria
and I didn't know anything we were scriptural illiterates
when we got born again. And T.L. Osborn said, "Copeland, you
were born free." He said, "You didn't have
any religion to unlearn. The thing you ever
heard was faith." That's the first thing
we ever heard. We had to find out
about all this other. And people would say, "Why God
can't heal anymore." I thought how stupid is that? If He ever did you
think He can't? I mean what, what? I had to find out what
all that unbelief was from somebody else. Anyway, "He said,
'what is your
name?' He answered and
said," now a
Legion, a Roman Legion was
from three to
6,000. He had one ruler of the darkness
of this world possessed him. Anyway, I was with
Charles and this woman, and I was in a
meeting with Charles. I was just sitting there,
I didn't know anything. So she said, "Would you
come pray for my mother? I don't know whether
she's saved or not." So he said, "Sure." Well
I went with him. Back in those days I
was way overweight. I weighed about 230 pounds. This morning I
weighed 164 so you... Anyway, I'm just standing down
here looking at the foot of
the bed. Charles is right here at
the side of the bed, the woman was
laying there in
the bed. And then they're just
standing there
talking. And she
just... And she sat up in that bed
and looked at me and said, "Sick boy, sick boy,
sick." Scared me, I mean every hair on my
body stood to attention. I just walked outside that
hospital door and I thought you big dummy. That little 75 or 80 pound
woman ran you out of the room. I'll never run from
another one, never. I'll never run
from another one. Then again in Jamaica, I
won't go into all the story, but this woman,
bless her heart. Oh, anyway, it was
very, very sad. And they asked me to
go by and pray for her. And I said, "What's
wrong with her?" He said, "Brother Copeland,
she's mad." I said, "Mad?" He said, "Uh-huh, she's crazy." I got in there and we were
back up in the mountains. I mean there was no
electricity up there where we were. And I got back in the back room
there that's all several out
the front and looked to me like
they qualified. But anyway, got back there
in that back room and there she was. And just an old mattress. No bed, clothes on or anything. And she squatted down in that
bed and had a little stick and a little bandana tied around
it and had everything she owned in that little bandana. I found out later that she got
into a meeting and got saved. She was so frail. She was a waitress and she
just fell in love with Jesus. And so she got her
a new dress and decided she'd go to church. So she went and had her hair
fixed and had it trimmed up and she painted her fingers
up real nice and went. They wouldn't let
her in the door. No, you have cut your hair
and look on your fingernails. You can't come
into this church. There's no way Jesus loves
anybody that's cut their hair and paints their fingernails. That got on her heart and mind
to the point where she finally just let that devil
take her over. So we walked in there. There's a man, the
pastor had come with me and another man that
was helping me. Walked up to that bed
and she wouldn't look up. Directly she said, "You must
be Brother Robert." He was a radio preacher Brother
Robert, good one too. He said, "No, ma'am." "You must be Oral Roberts." "No ma'am, I'm not." And I was standing
right in front of her. One of them was here and
two other guys were here. "I know who you are and
you're afraid of anything that's not flesh and blood." I said, "I fear no
man or no devil. And in the name of Jesus, you
come out on her right now." Now see I didn't
know that story. Then I just heard
the Lord say this, "She's down." Funny she looked
up I said, "Baby look at me. Look at me, look
at me." I said, "I just want to tell you
that Jesus loves you. Come on baby, look
at me, look at me. Jesus loves you and He sent
me here to tell you how much He loves you." And her eyes
came back. Her eyes
came back and I had to leave. I can hardly wait till I get
to heaven to meet her for real. Anyway, the important
thing here is this. Now follow me. "My name is Legion,
we're many. And he besought him much
that he would not send
them away out of that
country." Now this shows you that
demons are assigned and
localized. "Now there was there now
on the mountains a great herd of
swine feeding and all the devils
besought him." Now everybody
there heard what
that man said. They heard that. Jesus heard all
of these devils. They didn't hear them. And everybody's
standing around there, I mean their hair's
sticking straight up. They don't know what to think. And it kind of settles
down for a minute. Then they hear all of the, they
don't hear all of the devils besought him. So evidently there was kind
of a lull in this thing. "That we may
enter those
swine. Forthwith, Jesus
gave them leave and the unclean
spirits went
out, entered into the swine
and the herd ran
violently down a steep place
into the end of
the lake. There were about
2,000, they were
drowned." 2,000 screaming
hogs. Now my grandfather used to
raise three or four hogs or five and they make enough noise just
three or four of them make you want to
just get out of the way, the nasty and the
nasty sound in there. And I think back on that,
when I was a little boy and we kept a five
gallon bucket, a slop bucket at the
end of the table. And all of the leftover food,
they'll eat anything that's not metal. And just pour that
in a slop bucket. Come out and then
you go slop the hogs. That there makes me, I
don't want to eat slop. I don't want to eat
anything that eats slop. (laughs) So now are you ready for this? Now all the region, there's
frightened people so. 2,000 are so real, a herd,
a whole herd of pig hogs, obviously full grown hogs. They were food for
the Roman army and the people that were
keeping those pigs, they don't know what's going
to happen to them. They may get blamed for
all their food drowning in
this lake. And what are we
going to tell them? They're never going
to believe what nah. And it scared everybody there, frightened everybody
in the place. Now remember, faith prepares
for what it expects or believes what will
happen ahead of time. "They that fed the
swine fled and told it in the
city and in the
country. And they went out to
see what it was that
was done. They come to Jesus and
they see him that was
possessed with the devil,
one devil and had the
Legion, 3 to
6,000 devils. So now what does
that mean? That ruler was boss
over all those others. That place was
so full of fear. This man had everybody in
that whole region upset. He never sleeps, he must
be some kind of a god. I mean what is this guy? What, who, we had no
idea, what is this? Possessed with the devil
and had the Legion. Now understand this television
radio audience and class, understand this. The devil has nothing new, he
just perverted what already was. Move that over to
the angel forces. That's what these devil
are, fallen spirits. Huh? We know from what Jesus said, every child has an angel. We know that from
what He said. What makes you think when you
got grown that your angel quit? No, no, no, no, no. How much time we got Tim? [Tim] 30 minutes. [Kenneth Copeland] Oh perfect. I'll just turn over
there and read it because I want to go
right back to this. First chapter of the
book of Hebrews verse 13. "But to which of the
angels said he at any
time, sit on my right hand until
I make thine enemies thine
footstool, are they not all,"
say all. [Class]
All. [Kenneth Copeland] "Are
they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister for them
that shall be heirs of
salvation." Sent forth to
minister for
them. That would include
ministering to you because they
ministered to Jesus. Amen. I was in Beaumont, Texas,
little of small meeting there. I was there for three weeks
and just all I knew how to do is just teach Mark 11:23, 24
and 25 and corresponding
action. And I didn't know that
phrase back there
then. And I'm just going
along, going along. And we had had a lot of
Southern Baptist people that had come over
into that meeting. Little small church but man,
it was so packed out and we were having morning
classes and night classes. And in the morning time
I was teaching on faith. Well there was a man that
had come there I mean every service and he set right
on the front row and he was... And then all of a sudden he
wasn't there for about
three days. And I thought to myself, I
wonder what happened to him. I just didn't pay
attention and went on. And then he came back to a
morning service and at night the little building
is just packed. We had people standing
outside with the windows up. But in the morning of
course it wasn't that full. And he sat right
next to the door. Everybody else's up front. And I saw him back there and I
thought, I'm thinking, well, he's back. That's good. But he's sitting
there like this, that's the way he
finished the service. So after the service he
came around and he said, "May I speak to you?" I said, "Yeah,
please." He said, "I really got mad
at you." He said, "Because of
something you said." I don't know whatever it was and all that Baptist, I don't know to this
day what I said. But I probably said something
about Jesus going to hell. That couldn't be, that's what? That still upsets
a lot of people. But he did. If He hadn't, we would. Spent three days and
nights there. Anyway... And all of a sudden he
said, "Brother Copeland, do you know you
have an angel?" Well, I knew that. That's one of the
first things I heard. In fact, it was on the first
tape I ever heard of Kenneth
Hagin's. He read that verse in
the book of Hebrew. And back there then, really? And he had gone into
some of these things. He said, "Brother Copeland,
he is huge." I said, "Yeah?" He said, "You know that
commercial, Mr. Clean?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "He
kind of looked like him only he was huge, he was
just stuck to you. He was just right
on top of you, just right
everywhere you went. And he said, "You'd kind of
calmed down a little bit." And he said, "He'd lean
over and say something and off you'd go again."
I've never seen him. But now that picture of all
those other demons working for that one ruler, they all are
under the control of Satan and the wicked spirits
in the heavenlies. Oh, I wish I had time to
get into all of that because it's real,
maybe sometime. But now think about it. Every person in this
room has an angel. I'll tell you something. A very, very close
friend of mine, Ed Dufresne. he's in heaven today. Now still Nancy pastors a church
here in Murrieta, California and she's really
close to Gloria and me and I go out there every January
and preach in her church. And now Ed was in
a building program and he didn't have the money and he needed $500,000,
but he had to have $300,000 right now or the bank
wanted that property. It had become more valuable and they were not going to
give him any extensions. And he had to have
$300,000 right now. And they just finally
come to the end of it. They didn't know what
they were going to do. He and his attorney they're
just walking the floor. A few days before that, Ed
had gone somewhere to preach. He's in a hotel. This was back when they
actually had keys. And he's dressing for the
service that morning and he hears the key in the
door and he looks at it. And when he turned
around and looked, the ceiling had disappeared. And these two huge angels
were standing there. He said, "Who are you?" They said, "We are your
prosperity angels." And he just stood there, "We've come to help you
get that money." He said, "Well, what
are you waiting on?" And he said the command,
he said, "Go," they
went. There was a lawyer
jogging, showed up at
his office. His secretary said, "There is
man out here you need to see." He said, "I won't see
anybody." She said, "You need to see this one." He
said, "I've heard you preach, I don't like you, you scare me." But he still had his
jogging clothes on. But he said, "I just
had to bring you $300,000." One of those big angels. And we're out of time. Come on Jeremy,
help us here boy. (clapping) Thank you
Pawpaw. Let me ask you today,
what are you preparing
for by faith? Maybe it's related to the
healing of your body. Maybe it's something
financial or the restoring of relationships or protection. Maybe it's just peace of mind. Well today we learned how
faith in God expects by believing before you see it. Faith prepares for
what will happen, but it prepares ahead of time
and faith praises God before the manifestation
ever comes. ♪ [Narrator] Richard
Francis Weymouth was a noted Christian
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