♪ Every believer has a
voice. And it's the
Voice of Victory. ♪ ♪ My God has made a way for me Open your Bibles. Now, remember what Jesus said
when that young man said, "Rabbi, good rabbi." Jesus
said, "Why you call me good? There's none good, but
one and that's God." Now why would He say that? Because Jesus would never,
ever take any praise that went to His Father. He said, "I can do nothing
of myself." John 5:30. That's a good
scripture to remember. "I can do nothing of myself. It's the Father within me. He does the works. I only say what I hear Him say. I only do what I see
Him do." That was Jesus. God is a good God. He is all good. Now in Healing
School this morning, I read from my favorite
Psalm, the 145th Psalm. Now you can see why. Praise God. In the 145th Psalm and I want
to go back to that again from the Classic Amplified. Men shall speak of the
might of your tremendous and terrible acts or awesome
acts and I will declare your greatness. They shall pour forth like a
fountain the fame of your great and abundant goodness."
You're abundant. You're great and
abundant goodness. Verse eight. "The Lord is gracious and full
of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in mercy
and loving kindness. The Lord is good to
all." He is a good God. My spiritual father Oral
Roberts said it all the time. God is a good God
and his theme song was a great Stuart Hamblen song. Stewart Hamblen is the one
that wrote Until Then. Now I messed around
with the verses a bit, but he's the one that wrote then
that he wrote ♪ God is a good Just an amazing
songwriter, amazing man. And that was Oral
Roberts' theme song. Every tent meeting, every
big auditorium meeting that was the song
that they sang. ♪ God is a good And he would say, "Something
good is going to happen to you today." A very good
friend of mine. And you know, Brother
Roberts went on television and so and he said that. He would say that right at
the top of the broadcast. "Something good is going to
happen to you today." And he said his
90-year-old mother was walking across
the living room and he was on the television. Oral said, "Something good is
going to happen to you today." And she said, "Well, let
her happen, sonny." Let her happen. Glory to God. People didn't like
to hear him say that. So much back then was
preached unadvisedly from the old covenant, from the
first covenant particularly on the curse of the
law, 28th chapter of Deuteronomy without reading
the 27th chapter of Deuteronomy. That's bad. This was a people that
had been in captivity for all of those years and they had almost zero
knowledge of their covenant with God. They had customs, but it wasn't
real and Moses needed to do something that would display. So he took them out
to two mountains and they had of the 12 tribes and it list them in
the 27th chapter. And there you have the
blessing of Abraham and the curse of the law. It was responsive shouting to
get across to these people what they had in their
covenant with God. And one group would shout, "All
these blessings will come on you and overtake you." And
all the others would say, "And if you don't have hearken
to the voice of the Lord, all these curses will come
on you and this blessing and this curse and this
blessing and this curse," but nobody did that. They just read the
28th chapter and said, "God will smite you in the knees
and hit you with the fever." So they preach that without
ever talking about the whole issue here. Well, and this
man came up to me. I found out later there was
more than one said this to Brother Hagin, but
this man came to me. He was a pastor. This was the days of Full
Gospel Businessmen were really, really big. Now they're still going now. And I believe the needs to be
a strong resurgence of that. I really love to see the
businessmen of this country just get on fire again for God. Hallelujah. I believe it will happen. Anyway, he come up to
me, Spencer and he said, "I wish he wouldn't say
that." I said, "What?" "God is a good God." I said,
'well, what's he going to say? God is a bad God?" "No, no, no, no, no, but he
gives people the wrong idea. It may not be good
all the time." Now I'm not talking
about hearsay. I was in the audience. Man's a good preacher, good man. I'm not downing him,
but I'm talking about the traditional ideas
of that time. He said from the platform, "God
will break your leg just to prove he can heal it." Well,
see, I didn't know any of that. I hadn't heard any
of that preached. I was a scripturally illiterate
when I got born again. I told you before,
I went to Gloria. I said, "Do you know the
Bible; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all
tell the same story? Isn't that something?" Then I got over there to the
11th chapter Hebrews and read that I went in there to her. I said, "Gloria, this
is what we got to have. This faith, this stuff. We got to have that. Look and listen to this. This is a hall of fame, sister. Listen to this. It's this faith thing. I don't know how
I'm going to get it, but I'm going to find
out how to get it. I got to learn this. I got to have this faith."
I told the Lord, I said, "I have to know how to do this." Now, you know this is
Cowtown, right? And I spent a lot of time
on my grandfather's farm. He was a farmer and
rancher and my dad came from a little ole town in Texas
called Coleman, Texas. And it was a farming community. And then all of his brothers and
sisters moved out to California, but my dad stayed here. Did you ever notice
you drive cattle? You lead sheep. You can't drive sheep. They'll just scatter
all over the place. Oh, but they'll
follow the shepherd. And God, Jesus is a shepherd. His blood was the
blood of the lamb. Amen. And He won't drive you. He'll lead you. He'll love you. And put up with way
more than he should. Ah, man. And finally there's
like one day he said, "Don't try to hide stuff. Just don't even go there because
all the praying you and I ever did, we didn't
inform Him of anything." And one day He said, "What are
you going to do about this?" In fact, I was holding
back on prophetic word. And this was back before I
had been separated to the office of the prophet. In fact, I'm
still in ORU, but he was wanting
me to speak out and I didn't want to do that. And finally, he just went
along there for a while, but I kept knowing it, I kept
knowing it and He said and he finally stopped me
one day, just stop. He said, "What are you
going to do about this?" I said, "What? He said, speaking out the
words that I speak to you to tell you to say." I said, "I
hadn't planned on doing anything about it." "Well, why not?" I said, you know why not?" "No, you tell me why
not." I said, "Lord, I don't want to make a mistake,
stick up my big bony finger and say, 'Thus sayeth the Lord
and this all in that and make some kind of mistake,
and get somebody into trouble.'" He said, "Kenneth, you're making
the big mistake now by not doing what I tell you to do." He
said, "You step out in faith and I'll fix it." Amen. And of course there's been
times I've missed it and I'd come back out of
that service and I said, "Lord, I missed it
tonight, didn't I?" He'll say, "Yeah, you did."
"Well, what am I going to do? Am I going to go back and tell
those people I missed it?" "No." He said, "What
you said wasn't wrong, it just wasn't what
I said." He said, "You better listen
better." Amen. And I've had numerous
experiences like that, but the mistake is
not trusting Him, not stepping up because
He's a good God. He's a good God. Genesis 1. That's not hard to find. Are you there? "In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form
and void and darkness was upon the face of the
deep." Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, there is an
untold amount of time. God did not create
this planet flooded. Noah's flood wasn't
first, this flood was. "The spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters and God said, 'Let there be
light' and there was light. And God saw the light that it
was good." Verse six, "God said, 'Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, let it divide the waters from
the waters.' God made the firmament, divided the
waters and so forth. And it was so. God called the firmament heaven
and so for the second day. God said, 'Let the waters under
the heavens be gathered together in one place, let the dry land
appear' and it was so." Verse 10. "And God saw that
it was good." Amen. Verse 12. "And God saw that it was good."
And then he kept speaking and he kept and then he
said, "And God saw," in the 18th verse, "That it was
good." And the 21st verse. "And God saw that
it was good." Well, how could it
be anything else? He's a good God. And He's creating
things that are good. Glory to God. And verse 25. "And God saw that it was good
and so forth and so on." And then you come down
to that 31st verse. "God saw everything that He
had made and behold it was very good." But
now wait a minute. There's something not good. Let's go to the second
chapter, the 18th verse. "And the Lord God said, 'It is
not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate out
of the ground.' The Lord God formed every beast and so forth. And to see what Adam would
call them." He had the same. He was exactly like God. Now he was calling those, but God was transferring
thought to him. He was exactly like God. He was as smart as God. God breathed His life into him. Everything that was in
God came over into him. He was in God's image. That was before he fell. And so He named them all. How long do you
suppose that took? There's 500,000 bugs. I mean, he named in them all. He named every living thing. Glory to God. "And I will make a
helpmate for him. And Adam gave names to all the
cattle, the fowl of the air, every beast of the field. But for Adam, there was not
found a helpmate for him. The Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam and he slept and He took one of his ribs,
closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the
Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought
her to the man. And Adam said, 'This is now bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman
because she was taken out a man.' And Adam said, "This
is good." Don't you know, I mean, do you have any idea? No. There's no way to know how
absolutely gorgeous she was. She's handmade. There's no way to know how
fine looking this man was. But they had never seen
their physical beings. They were crowned
with His glory. And we see in the Word that He
is a fire from his loins upward from the appearance of his loins
downward with that glory. Amen. Hallelujah. Isn't that wonderful? And I know, I know
his love for her. This is the love of God
that was working in him. His love for her and
her gorgeous beauty. He couldn't turn her loose. He couldn't turn her loose. And I dare say he worshiped her
and he chose her instead of God. Amen. And we of course
we know the rest. And the light went out
and they saw their bodies. Well, they'd never seen a
bad looking body or a good looking body. It just looked so dumb
after being able to see the glory of God and have
the glory coming out from the inside of them. Do you ever stop and think
all the other animals are clothed from the inside out? Well, man was too and so was
the wife by the glory of God. When that light went out, then
they had to have protection. So God, the first
covenant with God, the first animal shed his blood
to provide covering skin for their bodies. Don't you know those were some
good looking suit of clothes? But they came out in
their little fig suits, fig leaf suits. And you know the Lord
said, "Oh no, now. This will never do. This will never do."
Well, what was this? This was the first example of
man trying to meet his own needs without God and it didn't work. It was terrible. But he was trying
to cover himself up. He was trying to provide
his own clothing. And it said they
sewed fig leaves. How'd they know what sew was? And the first thing that
came, their faith in God turned into fear. And when He spoke, they ran from
Him because they were afraid. So what had been faith and
trust in God became fear. And that's what you
and I know today. That's where it came from. That first covenant was
God providing clothes for His family. Praise God. He's a good God. Now then, God has
never created anything that's bad. Well, what about the devil? Well, what about him? Let's check it out. Let's go to Ezekiel chapter 28. No, wait a minute, hold it. Before you go there I want
to show you something else. And in the 33rd
chapter of Exodus, Moses is speaking
with God face-to-face. Verse 11, "The Lord spoke
to Moses face to face as a man speaks unto his friend and he turned again
into the camp, but His servant, Joshua, the
son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of
the tabernacle." Now come on down to the
18th or 17th verse. "The Lord said unto Moses, 'I
will do this thing also that thou has spoken for thou
has found grace in my sight. I know thee by name.'" I believe
Moses just blurted this out. "I want to see your glory." He
wasn't even talking about glory. I want to see it, but they're
talking face to face as friends. That's huge. I wish I had time to
get over into that. And He said, "Listen, I
will make all my goodness pass before thee. And I will proclaim the name
of the Lord before thee and will be gracious to whom
I will be gracious and will
show mercy on whom I will show
mercy." He said, "I want to see your glory."
He said, "Then God said, I will." Huh? "I will make all." He
said, "Glory." He said, "I will make all my
goodness pass before you." His goodness is His glory and
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