KENNETH: Hello everybody, I'm
Kenneth Copeland! This is the Believer's Voice of Victory
broadcast. Father, we thank you for today. We give you praise
and we honor you. We look for and are receiving revelation
from heaven, words that move heaven on the earth. And we give
you the praise and the honor and the glory. Lord, Jesus. And it's
in your name that we pray and we believe we receive it and thank
you for it. Amen. Glory to God. Give the Lord a praise. And we
want to welcome, we want to welcome all of you this morning.
We're right here in class at Kenneth Copeland Bible college
and having a wonderful time and sometime you need to come join
us here. Praise God. It's a good place to be. Let's open our
Bibles again this morning to the Romans chapter 4. We're talking
about God, the covenant, and the contradiction under the
fundamental heading of faith calls things that be not as
though they were. And as I said yesterday, that's really
difficult to a person's mind, until you learn that, that's the
way faith operates. Faith does not call things the way they
are. If you call things the way they are, they stay the way they
are. You can't call the cat and hope to get the dog. I remember,
Oh my special friend Charles Capps, bless his heart, he's in
heaven. Oh, we flew airplanes together. We just taught faith
together and had him and had a lot of fun. And I'm telling you,
Charles had a way of doing it and he went through this whole
scenario. Here dog, come dog, here puppy, and here dog. I
would say, what's the matter with you? Well, I'm calling my
dog. I said, well, your dog's right there at your feet. Yeah,
I know. What's the matter with you? Well, I'm trying to get the
cat to come. That's how confusing this is to people that
have not been taught. How can I say I'm healed, when it's
obvious I'm not. Whatever that is you're referring to, is not
the truth. It's fact. You keep saying the truth and it'll
change the facts. You keep calling things that be not as
though they were. I call my body healed. I call my body well, I
call my debts paid. I am debt free now. And the moment you
made the decision to be debt free from that moment forward,
God saw you debt-free. He has a covenant with you. Debt is under
the curse. I first saw it, um, you know, 53 years ago, owe no
man anything but to love him. Well actually that's, that's an
all encompassing word. And you can't build any revelation on
one verse. Don't even try. But when you begin to study it, I
began to see that in the curse of the law, you'll lend to none,
you'll borrow from many, lend to none. You'd be the head and not
the tail. In the blessing of Abraham, you'll lend to many and
borrow from none. You will be the head and not the tail. The
borrower is connected by covenant to the lender. And
we're talking about covenant here, right? God is a covenant
keeping God. And I went to the Lord, this, you know, number of
years ago, I said, I said, Lord, I don't understand this. You're
perfectly, I mean you believe in doctors. Come on, if it hadn't
been for doctors, most of the Christians would've died. Now,
his best, the top of the line is to believe you receive because
of the covenant you have with God. But Hey, how many times did
Jesus lay hands on people? I mean, laying on of hands. I
mean, God loves you so much. He got all kinds of different ways
to get you well. Amen. Get you healed. Now there's a difference
between being healed and being well. When you're well, you
don't get sick. I've been well a long, long time. The last flu
symptoms I had were, Oh man, I don't know, four or five ago at
the ministers conference, which is in January. And I'd say that,
I don't know, four-five and that this, all the symptoms of it
came. I was sitting right on the front row and um, I had, uh,
let's see, I forgotten. I think maybe it was night one, Jerry,
because he was the last speaker is probably Dennis Burke.
Anyway, and all of a sudden I started having chills. I started
hurting behind my eyes. So I just smile. You can't do that to
me. You can't put that on me. And you know you can't put it on
me and I'm sitting there doing this. Thank you Jesus. You can't
put that on me satan. I'm not saying it loud enough anybody
can hear me. What am I doing? I'm calling things that be not
as though they were, but I'm coming against the contradictory
evidence. All the evidence is there. All the evidence is
there. If I said, Oh no man. Oh no, not now. Not now. Not right
in the first day of this minister's conference. Oh no. Oh
God, no. There were some staff members that did that and were
in the bed for two weeks. It lasted on me about 15 minutes
and gone. Amen. That ought to get a bigger amen. Hallelujah.
And I hadn't been sick in so long. It's, you know, so anyway,
don't go into that and don't, don't, don't you misunderstand
me. I'm not bragging on myself. I'm considering Jesus who gave
himself, I consider him, I consider him the author and the
finisher of my faith. I consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself. I consider him less I
get weary and faint in my mind. I consider him like Abraham of
old, he considered not his own body now dead, neither the
deadness of Sarah's womb. Glory to God, but only that which God
had promised in his covenant. Ooh, I done preached me happy.
Glory to God. Thank you. Hallelujah. Praise God. I don't
have any idea where I was. Who cares? Glory to God. I don't.
God, the covenant, and the contradiction. Calling things
that be not as though they were. Now when when God said, I am the
all mighty God, I am El Shaddai. I am the I am the breasty one. I
am the all and all God. I'm the too much God. I'm the all
sufficient God. Now I'm going to ask you something. Who is God?
He is whoever he says he is. Ah, he can do whatever he said he
can do. He will do whatever he says he will do in that covenant
right there. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Now I'm going to
take my Liberty with El Shaddai. All right. In order to impact
your thinking and in order to grow your, uh, your
understanding and your sense of the God that dwells on the
inside of you. To be calm and to develop a God in me now
consciousness. I'm conscious of the God. The El Shaddai, God.
The almighty God, the everything I need God, the creator of
heaven and earth God, the God of gods. Hallelujah. And he's right
in here, Bubba. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus.
Woo! Yeah, oh yeah. Praise God. Hallelujah. Who is God? He's who
he says he is. He knew what he says he can do. He will do what
he says he will do. I am El Shaddai God. All right, John the
14th chapter. That's in the new Testament, isn't it? Yeah. Glory
to God. You can't shout over that your woods wet. With verse
one. Now I'm taking my Liberty here with, with El Shaddai. All
right. Let not your heart be troubled, You believe in El
Shaddai, believe also in me. So who is Jesus? Who is Jesus? Let
not your heart be trouble. Don't let it. Oh, Brother Copeland,
I'm trying not to. He never told you to try, he said, don't do
it. Well I can't do it. If you say so. No, considering your
body. You're considering the contradictory evidence. You've
got your body on your mind. You have your mind on your mind. Get
your eyes off yourself. Consider him. It's really- Consider, what
does it mean to consider? It means to focus on that. You got
all this other stuff. Get your heart and mind on that. Get your
heart and mind on Jesus. Turn with me to the book of Hebrews
chapter 12 well, I'll tell you what, we'll read from the third
chapter first since we're using that word and we need to analyze
this verse anyway. Chapter three verse one, Wherefore, Holy
brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. Consider
Abraham considered not his own body now dead, but only that
which God had promised. He only considered his covenant with
God, not the contradictory evidence in his physical body or
the body of his wife. Consider the apostle or the one God sent
and high priest, the administrator of our profession.
Same word translated confession, the anointed Jesus. Amen, the
anointed Jesus. Now the 12th chapter, consider him faithful.
He goes on to say he's faithful. Now the 12th chapter, wherefore
seeing we also are encompassed about was so great a cloud of
witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight and the sand was
does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us looking unto Jesus, looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher, the word finishers developer, the
author and the developer of our faith who for the joy that was
set before him, endured the cross despising the shame and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him
that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
you be wearied and faint in your mind. This is the way like
Abraham, you become fully persuaded the the foundation of
being fully persuaded is blood, blood, blood covenant. There's
blood between us, the first covenant blood ever shed, not
considering in the in the garden of Eden, but I'm talking about
covenant with man. Mankind through Abraham. What's
circumcision? Now look at the nature of that Mark of the
covenant. God did that in a way that it could not be held in
pride before other people. The only way you could tell that
Abraham was in covenant with God. You couldn't keep him from
succeeding. He was a success whatever he did, and and, and,
and study his life. Look at his life it said God's said, and
told him about the circumcision and Abraham went and did it. He
told him to go over here and Abraham went and did it. He told
him to do this and Abraham went and did it. You see it? I mean,
whatever God told him to do, he went and did it. Now, what made
him so fully persuaded because he had a blood covenant with the
El Shaddai God. He was persuaded. Now I'm going to show
you something that'll knock your hat in the Creek. 11th chapter
of the book of Hebrews. Oh Jesus, verse 17. Are you there?
Thanks Tim. By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
Isaac and he that had received the promises, now you know what
promise he's talking about, the covenant glory to God. That it
had with all mighty God El Shaddai. Offered up is only
begotten son, of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy
seed be accounting that God was able to raise him up even from
the dead, from which also he received him in a figure. He saw
it in the spirit man. He wasn't a bit afraid about that. He in
fact he- I think the man was a little bit disappointed because
he fully intended to kill him, burn him, and watch God raise
him up from those ashes. He was fully persuaded that God was not
only good, but he was able to do what he had done. And there's no
record of him ever raising anybody from the dead at that
point, but his covenant partner believed it was because he had a
promise. I don't care how he does it, but bless God he got to
do it. He has to do it. He has to do it. When Jesus said to
that fig tree, nine words, no man eat fruit of you again
hereafter forever, turned around and walked off. He didn't care
how it happened. He don't care if lightning hits it and burns
it down, not his business. He said the father that's within
me, he does the works. I'm just a man anointed of God, and I
said it. Ain't nobody ever gonna eat of that thing again, turned
around and walked off. He didn't pay any more attention to it.
Whosoever shall say this what his response, Whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, be thou removed, be thou cast into the
sea. Nine words, same number of words that he said to the fig
tree. Now let me ask you something, which is the larger;
a mountain or a fig tree? Neither! Greater works than
these shall you do because I go to my father. Put your stamp on
that sister. Glory to God. Whoo. That went widescreen, glory.
What was it Tim? Thank you. Glory be to Jesus
forevermore. Hallelujah. Well, this book's pregnant
isn't it? With your life in the name of Jesus. So
Jesus is El Shaddai's representative in the earth.
Praise God. Now who are you? We'll talk about it
tomorrow. ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
