(Singing) I know my God has
made the way for me. I know my God has
made the way for me. ANNOUNCER: Today, Kenneth
Copeland reveals why there is no fear in love. Place your
full trust in God's love, and your spirit man can grow to full
maturity. Grow in God's Word today on the Believer's Voice
of Victory. Here's Kenneth. KENNETH: Let's go back
over here to I John Verse 16, "And
we have known--" now, that word "known" is the
word--the Greek word "ginosko," which has several different
contexts in which it's used, including the most
intimate of relationships. And it is--this is talking about,
we've known the love. So this is--this is a very intimate
relationship with God. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: You can't get closer to anybody than getting
re-created by Him. (Audience Agrees) Amen. Ha! It defies
natural understanding words. You can say it in tongues and
finally get satisfied after a while, but you can't do it in
your natural mind. You can just say, "I love You, I love You,
I love You," and it just ain't ever enough. I mean, it--oh,
to--do you remember what the apostle Paul said? Same
word, "Oh, to know Him, and the power--" AUDIENCE: Come
on! KENNETH: "--of His resurrection." AUDIENCE: Yes.
Hallelujah! Amen. KENNETH: To know it. And the moment we
got born again, we know God. AUDIENCE: Amen. That's right.
KENNETH: We know God. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And He is
available to know more closely. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH:
Go to His Book. He's begging us. (Audience Agrees) "You draw nigh
to me, I draw nigh to you." (Audience Agrees) "Well, now why
isn't it the other way around? God draw nigh to me and then see
my--I'll get goosebumps about a quarter inch tall, and then I
can draw nigh to him?" Because it doesn't work that way.
He's already drawn nigh to us. (Agreement & Applause) AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: He's already done that, brother. I mean, He's
living right there on the inside of you. AUDIENCE: Yes. Glory.
Amen. KENNETH: It's you and me holding back. AUDIENCE: That's
right. KENNETH: Hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Glory to God. KENNETH:
All right, now--glory to God. "We have known and believed the
love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him." Now, when we closed
yesterday, we were over in the 17th chapter of John. Let's
go back over there. There's one more verse there that we need to
see. And particularly when you realize that John wrote both
these accounts. Now, if you will take the account that we're
reading right here, and then put it up next to that letter, see,
you can see what he's referring to. He's going back to what
Jesus said. AUDIENCE: Yes, yes. KENNETH: Now, John calls himself
"the disciple that Jesus loved." AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
I questioned the Lord about that. I said, "Why did he
write that that way?" He said, "Because he believed what I said
in Mark 11:23." AUDIENCE: Glory. Glory. KENNETH: He confessed
that. He called himself that. Amen. And of course, there's
other reasons also, but that's what the Lord let me see.
Now, I want you to notice the closeness. John believed the
love, and he had no fear. He's the only one that didn't run.
AUDIENCE: That's good. KENNETH: Right here, when they were
having this supper, Peter--where was John? He wasn't next to him.
He was laying his head on his-- (Laughter) Of course, back there
then, people didn't sit down in chairs. They sat on the floor.
Tables were just high enough for--to be sitting on the floor.
And he's sitting there next to the Lord and he just
laid over there on him. Peter can't--Jesus is
talking about Judas. Peter came up and said, "Ask Him who it
is." (Laughter) Peter wouldn't ask Him. "Ask Him who it is." So
John said, "Who is it?" (Laughter) Or something like
that. Amen? See, he believed the love. AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH:
So he's very close to Him, said whatever's on his heart. But
when the time came, he's the only one that followed Him all
the way in court, all the way. He went all the way. He didn't
run. The only one that didn't run. May I give you something
else here? AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: He lived longer than
any of them. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Amen. Wow. KENNETH: He
lived longer than any of them because you got a target on you,
brother, when you start preaching faith. (Audience
Agrees) And Satan will put a stop to this thing if he
possibly can. And the way he gets through to most people,
they don't believe the love. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH:
And God gets blamed for putting sickness on people. God gets
blamed for all of that, while all the time you're spending
time thinking about that, even if you don't believe it. All the
time you spend thinking about it is wasted brain power. It's
wasted mental power. You could have just been laughing at the
thing and said, "Satan, I don't know who you think you are, but
you can't put that on me. My God loves me and I have no fear of
anything you've got." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "My--I'm telling
you. My Father loves me, you understand?" I don't care if
beads of sweat all over your brow and your--both knees are
shaking. You just come right up and just laugh at him because
the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Audience Agrees) And,
"I'm not going to let you put that on me." AUDIENCE: Amen.
Yes, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. That's right. Amen. KENNETH:
You have to believe the love. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: If you
start yielding, every little bit of ground you yield to fear,
Satan's in there. Now, Verse 26 of the 17th chapter of John, "I
have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that
the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I
in them." They had no understanding of what He's
talking about, not until after He--not until after He was
raised from the dead. They had no understanding of what He was
talking about. But my, my, my, that's what the cross was all
about. Romans 5:5, "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit." Amen. That's what He's talking about.
That love is inside you and inside me right now. And it
never fails. People fail it, but it never fails. Never. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Love has never failed. Love has never made a
failure. But there's only one way to walk in a place of
freedom from fear, not just managing fear. People manage
fear. You can take a guy that rides bulls for a living. I
never could figure that out, but-- (Laughter) Here's a guy
that would crawl on the back of a 2500-pound Brahma bull and not
have any fear of it. AUDIENCE: Come on! KENNETH: But he's just
managing the fear. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: He goes
and gets his truck and he's driving to the next rodeo and
he's sitting there worried about his finances, worried about his
wife, worried about his kids, and worried about everything.
He's broke and can't get by. And he's hurting all over, broke
every bone in his body. So fear is eating him up. AUDIENCE:
Right. KENNETH: He's just managing it. AUDIENCE: Right.
KENNETH: But, perfected love--I John 4:16, "Perfected love
casteth out fear." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Violation of the
commandment of love, bam, and Satan is right in there and fear
is on the spot. You repent? You've--particularly, you know
your rights. Amen. We have a dream team of advocate and
counselors. AUDIENCE: Amen. Thank You, Lord. KENNETH:
Brother Dennington and I, and Lori and I and Gloria, we've
been--we've been studying on something that the Lord brought
up. First I heard about it was from Chip Brim, and then through
him, got acquainted with Brother Henderson that wrote the book
that Chip got ahold of. Whew. I'm not going to get--I'm not
going to get all that far in it, but it's oh so interesting and
very scriptural. I'm just not ready to teach it yet. But this
part is extremely important. Jesus is the righteous judge.
(Audience Agrees) We know Him as Savior and all these things, but
we've never stopped to think about Him being judge. He's also
our advocate. But then you find in the word "paracletes," the
comforter, the teacher, the helper, there is also--that word
also means "counselor" and "advocate." Well, you get over
into I John, we've already read that over there. If we do sin,
we have an advocate with the father. That's an attorney.
(Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Folks, we've got
a dream team. (Applause) Amen. We can take that rascal to
court. I mean, you just stand up there and repent. "I repent in
the name of Jesus, and I receive my benefits." (Audience Agrees)
"I receive my forgiveness from all uncleansing, from all
unrighteousness. I receive it right now. And I bring this case
to court in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ right now. And,
Satan, you shut your mouth!" (Cheers & Applause) "You ain't
got a word to say in this court." (Audience Agrees) "You
just shut up." But you're going to have to believe the love.
Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. Yes. KENNETH: But the more you
function in this area, the more fear loses its grip. (Audience
Agrees) Now, I have--I've actually experienced not having
fear, not just manage it. But now, you have to walk in this
because I'm telling you, you start judging people a little a
bit and I mean it'll come back on you. You ought to stay in it
and stay with it. But you have to begin when the symptoms of
fear are all still there. Now, years ago, Gloria was learning
how to fly in a little single engine Cessna. And we flew that
airplane on a Sunday afternoon down to this little country
airport. And we got down there, and wasn't anybody on the
airport. And so--but we knew what we wanted to go see and we
did. And we came back to the airplane, I mean, the thing's
just running fine. And so I got in the airplane. I was flying
home. She's in the right seat. Pre-flighted, everything's fine.
The key in the starter, all on. Nothing. And I thought, "Well,
that--how can that be?" My battery was perfect when I left
Fort Worth, and I didn't--I didn't lose my--I didn't lose my
alternator. So my battery should be good." But it's deader than a
hammer. There's nobody on this airport. There's no way to get
around. I don't like to do this and haven't done this very many
times. But--and each time was a time of emergency where--and if
you know what you're doing, you can do it. And so I went--I went
through all of the procedures with Gloria and told her, "Now,
here's the left magneto, here's the right magneto. And this is
on. Now, I want that key all the way off. I don't want this thing
starting while I'm moving the propeller before I get ready to
start the thing." I went through it two, three times. And I'm
standing there, looking at it, and I said, "You got it?"
"Yeah," she said, "I got it. I can do it." Brakes are set.
Little airplanes are easy to prop. But the prop's sitting
over here like this, and it needed to be moved right here to
get it on the stroke. When I moved it, it fired. That'll kill
you. And most people get hurt very, very bad under those
conditions. Thank God. Thank God. I just backed off. And the
thing's running. How could that be? I found out what's called
the P-lead between the magnetos and the starter was broken.
So it wasn't connected to the battery. The battery was fine.
With the switch off, the mags were hot. AUDIENCE: Ah. KENNETH:
That's my fault. I should have checked it when I landed while
the motor's still running. If I had cut it off and it kept
running, uh-oh. But no, I can't blame this on Gloria. I can't
blame it on anybody but me. Not bad luck, no such thing.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: Bad management. AUDIENCE: That's
right. KENNETH: Well, I went ahead and took off. We're flying
out of there and I'm flying along there. And I noticed that
didn't have any effect on me, because, usually, you know, I
mean, your heart's pounding or something. And a voice sitting
out here said, "You like to killed yourself." I said, "No,
I didn't." "Yeah, you did. You like to killed yourself."
I said, "No, I didn't. No, I didn't come nowhere close to
killing myself." "Yeah, you did. You like to killed yourself." I
said, "No. My God loves me and He takes care of me, and you
can't kill me without my permission." (Cheers & Applause)
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: There was absolutely no fear, and
that's the first time I had ever noticed that. I hadn't been put
in that position. And this is back there when we were--had
first begun to learn this and walk in these things. It wasn't
there. It wasn't that I was, you know, a little nervous and
settled down there in a little bit. It wasn't there.
Hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now, that--whoa. But
now let's get more serious than that. Our little granddaughter,
11 years old, I went upstairs to get her on Christmas Day, was
delirious. Took her to Cook's Medical Center in Fort
Worth, and diagnosed her with Neisserian meningitis. And
people--there was an epidemic of that among children. The
hospital was just filled to capacity with it. Some had
already died. An infectious disease specialist let Kellie
know that they didn't expect her to make it through the night.
Kellie told me, she said, "Daddy, there's just like a
black cloud or something, just a shroud kind of thing, just
coming down over me." She walked up to Terri and said--and Terri
said she could see it in her eyes-- "I refuse to fear."
(Audience "Amens") She said, "Daddy, it was amazing how weak
that thing was." She said, "It just vrrt." (Cheers & Applause)
She said, "I had no fear at all, no fear at all." AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: It was God. By then, we finally got into town that
night, late about 11:00 that night. It started early that
Christmas morning. We got in there and they had her in
the--in the isolation ward and all that. And flying home, the
Lord had given me exactly the words to say, exactly what to
do. Now, at that point, if I say anything else, those are idle
words-- AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: --and they'll cost me.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: If I do anything else, it's
not going to work. Way too much talk. Way too much talk. Not
enough reverence for God and His Word. "Oh, God, help me. Oh,
God, oh, God, oh, God! Oh, God, God, God, God, God!" Shut up.
What's happening? Fear just running out your mouth, your
faith hasn't got a chance. It can't do anything. AUDIENCE:
That's right. KENNETH: I walked up to the side of her bed. I
said, "Lyndsey--" I did exactly what the Lord told me to do.
I took my index finger, put it right on her breastbone. "--I
speak to the anointing that is in you. Rise up and put this
disease out of your body." She gritted her teeth and shouted,
"Papaw! I'm healed in the name of Jesus!" (Applause) Every
symptom left. Glory to God. She had--she had--she had some
hang-on of some hearing loss and she just stood on her faith with
that. Somebody'd call on the telephone. She would take it off
her good ear and put it over there and talk on that
bad one. She kept doing that and confessing
that and all that left. (Amens & Applause) Believe
the love! AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: Hallelujah.
