Hello, everybody.
I'm Jeremy
Pearsons. This week on The
Believer's Voice
of Victory, we are sharing a
teaching that Brother Copeland did
on Mark and Trina
Hankins' TV program. And as they taught on how faith
speaks and how faith works and understanding faith's
purpose, we knew that this
was a word we wanted to also share with
you, our partners and friends on The Believer's
Voice of Victory. So, let's get started
today by joining in and learning about activating
the spirit of faith. [Mark Hankins] We're talking
about II Corinthians 4:13. [Kenneth Copeland] Oh, yes.
Praise God. [Mark Hankins] Where
the Apostle Paul
said, "We having the
same spirit of
faith according as it is
written, I believe, and
therefore have I
spoken." [Kenneth
Copeland]
According
to what? [Mark Hankins]
According as it
is written. [Kenneth Copeland] As to
what? [Mark Hankins] I believe and I
have spoken, of course
written. [Kenneth
Copeland] It
is written. [Mark Hankins]
Yeah, that's
good. [Trina Hankins] It is
written. [Kenneth Copeland] How
did Jesus defeat the
devil? [Mark and Trina] It is
written. - It is written. And again, it is written. - It is written. - And they left him for a better
time. - Oh, yeah. We got to get away from-- - We got to get out of here,
brother. [Trina] Get the devil out. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. (laughs) And they will run. The devil will run in fear. [Kenneth Copeland] Because of
the fundamentals of faith, you have to get rid of
phrases like I just used. You cannot, you must not, you
must not mix your language. Why do you need the
acts of God's enemy with which to express yourself? You do not. Well, I'm afraid not. You're going to the
meeting tonight? No, and I'm afraid not. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. Yeah. My feet are just killing it. [Kenneth Copeland] Yeah. [Mark Hankins] Well,
I'll see you all later if the train don't hit me. Ah ah! Listen, that's
deadly stuff. [Trina Hankins] Soon or
later the language of
faith, which is the spirit
of faith, certain
words. [Mark Hankins]
Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland]
Brother Hagin said this, and it was proven
out in my life. If you say something
long enough for it to get down in
your spirit, it'll control your life. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. You know he said that,
Brother Hagin said that, in Mark 11:22-23, which was
revolutionary revelation
for me, when he said the Lord told him,
"Did you ever notice Mark
11:22, have faith in God, verse
23, that whosoever shall
say unto this mountain be
removed and be cast into
the sea shall not doubt in
his heart. Believe those things which
he saith shall come to
pass. whatsoever he
saith?" And so, that was
revolutionary to
him. He said the Lord
pointed that out
to him. [Kenneth Copeland] He
only used believe one
time. [Mark Hankins]
Yeah. He said say
three times. [Kenneth Copeland]
But he said three
times. [Mark Hankins] So, dad Hagin
said this one time, he said, "That means you can actually
school yourself into faith with your own words." - But you're going to have to
get the death words out. [Mark Hankins]
Yeah, that's right. [Kenneth Copeland]
The fear words out. You have to get the
sick words out. I'm just sick of that. I'm just sick of hearing that. I don't use the word sick. That's not part of my vocabulary
unless I need it specifically. I don't use it to
express myself. I don't use death
to express myself. Now, after a while, when
you just stand on the Word, it goes away. Think about the fundamentals. We talked about that. [Mark Hankins] The
language of faith. [Kenneth Copeland]
The very fundamentals. Of course, Vincent
Lombardi, I guess arguably the greatest football coach, had
a terrible losing season. [Mark Hankins] Oh, okay. [Kenneth Copeland]
Green Bay Packers. He brought those guys
back in spring training. He said, "Gentlemen,
this is a football." [Mark Hankins] Okay.
This is a football. [Trina Hankins] Basics. [Mark Hankins] Basics. [Kenneth Copeland] That's
the way he started, and everybody gone... This is a football. Now, a 747, a Boeing 747 would
have flown in the Garden of Eden just the same as it'd fly in
the 20th and 21st century. Why? Nobody knew the fundamentals. That had never been revealed. They were there. In fact, it would have flown
better because the air was a whole lot
better than it is. [Mark Hankins] Yeah, I imagine. [Kenneth Copeland] But the
fundamentals were not known. And in World War II... I keep going back to the war
because the United States was so ill-prepared
for this thing, and I mean they took
kids in there that had never seen an airplane. And they had them out there. They started with the
very basic fundamentals, and you have to start at
the beginning everywhere on that little airplane. And it sounds like
that is stupid. The instructor's
standing out there. Now, one thing he's doing, he is
gaining command and authority because they don't know any... He has to think about, "I don't care if some of
them knew how to fly. Nope. Nope. No, you start over. We're going to the
fundamentals." And he's got this Piper, little Piper Cub, little
single engine airplane, little yellow airplane
sitting there. He said, "All right, what you
have before you is an airplane. And what you have
on the front end of this here airplane as
a propeller." Come on, everybody
out there knew that. And he started... "And behind that there
propeller is an engine." Everybody knew that. and coming around, "And this here's the leading
edge of the wing." Ho-hum. But then he comes
around and said, "This is an aileron."
"What? An aileron? What is an aileron?" "Well, you'll find out
later." Then he comes around, "This is the fuselage." "Well, that looks like
the body of it to me." "No, it's a fuselage." And
you come back, "This is the leading edge of
the horizontal stabilizer." Boy, he's just got them
out in left field now. And he comes around,
"This is the rudder. This is the elevator." "The
thing got an elevator in it?" "It better have or you ain't
going up and down." The basic fundamental of
that little airplane is basic the same on the
Citation X that I fly today. That little airplane
did 80 miles an hour, and the Citation X will do 600, but it was the same
basic fundamental. It didn't have a propeller, but,
oh wait a minute, yes, it does. It has a fan in front of that
jet engine doing the same thing that little propeller did. [Mark Hankins] So, the
fundamentals-- [Kenneth Copeland] The
fundamentals are the same. [Mark Hankins] Yeah.
They're the same. And the spirit of faith,
Paul says, we have the same. It also means the spirit of
faith works the same in every situation. [Kenneth Copeland] It
works exactly the same. [Mark Hankins] Exactly the same. [Kenneth Copeland] Now, here's
the point that the Lord energized in my spirit. I have to have, not the
spirit of that instructor, I have to believe since that instructor knows
how to fly and I don't, I have to depend
on every word he says. Because if I learn
what he knows, then it'll keep me from sticking
that thing up like a dart
somewhere, banging it into
the side of a mountain, and I'm going to have to
follow those same rules as
long as I fly. I can't decide that I know more. I never will forget it. I mean... When we began to fly that four
engine JetStar and we're in... And I thought, "A
four engine jet, what am I going to
do with this thing?" Man. And he stood up there and he
held the flight safety
manual here, and he put this down
and he picked up the AFM, the manufacturer's manual. He said, "If anything in flight
safety's training manual disagrees with the
manufacturer's manual, then this one has prejudice." I thought, "I wish
preachers knew that." [Mark Hankins] That's the truth. [Kenneth Copeland] You
don't argue with this one. I don't care who you are. I don't care what you are. Don't argue with this book. [Mark Hankins] Yeah, it's
forever settled in Heaven. [Kenneth Copeland] You don't
want to argue with this. You question and you
ask, but this is right. This is right. Every time, all the time, and we'll be reading this
1,000 years from now and it'll still have
great revelations. Great. And it'll just go on and on. The last thing I want
to say about this, why didn't God execute Cain? Murder was not against the law. That's what this is. [Mark Hankins] He had
mercy on him, basically. [Kenneth Copeland] He
couldn't do anything else. It was not against
the law to do it. It was wrong, but it
wasn't against the law. So, then he had to form this
law book and write it down that it's against the law. What Satan did wasn't against
the law, but it is now. We have the law, and then we
have the greatest document ever formed in the language of
a man, the new covenant. [Mark Hankins] The new covenant. [Kenneth Copeland] I'll
tell you, we were doing
with Greg Stephens... He's a professor of
old covenant survey, and when he opened up his
Bible, and right here, when you turn from
Malachi over to here, he got this great
big arrow that he... Just great, big arrow, thick. And I said, "I got to get me
one." I thought it was-- - We're going this way. [Kenneth Copeland] Yeah. We're going this way. Come on. Come on over here. This is in the blood of God. This is in the blood of God. This is in the blood of animals,
then the blood of a man, then circumcision. Circumcision, one of the
biggest words in the Bible. One of the biggest
words in the Bible. But over here, the blood of God. [Mark Hankins] The blood
covenant through the blood
of Jesus. [Kenneth Copeland] That word
circumcision is the key to David's success. [Mark Hankins] So, when he
faced Goliath, I Samuel 17... Now we're still talking
about the spirit of faith. [Kenneth Copeland] Yes, sir. [Mark Hankins] Now here's
something that dad Hagin said about the spirit of faith,
and he said about faith, because when he had seven
incurable diseases laying on that bed and he said, "Lord, I
do believe." He said, "I believe, and if
you stood in front of me and said the promise I
don't believe I'd say, 'Dear Lord, Jesus,
that's not the truth,' because I do believe." And
Jesus said to him, "You do believe as
far as you know." In other words, the spirit of
faith feeds off of the spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of God. [Kenneth Copeland]
Oh, that's good. [Trina Hankins] The knowledge.
[Kenneth Copeland] Yes, it does. [Mark Hankins] And so, every
breakthrough in faith comes from a breakthrough in
revelation knowledge. And so, when you-- [Kenneth Copeland] That
knowledge that is revealed,
it's-- [Trina Hankins] Revelation. [Mark Hankins] A different
kind of knowledge. [Kenneth Copeland] Yeah. Sense
knowledge, to me, is... Well, hand me your book. now, of course, this agrees
with the Bible, but now, say this was, oh, a textbook-- [Mark Hankins] Somebody
else's book, not mine. [Kenneth Copeland] Somebody
else's book, and you're reading, and a teacher is standing before
the class and teaching from a math book or something. Now you've got a problem. You've got a problem
with who wrote the book, and you have a problem with that teacher's
revelation of the book. And they're hearing it... You don't think in words,
you think in pictures. [Mark Hankins] Yes, sir. Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland] So, what do
you think if I say, "D-O-G"? [Mark Hankins] Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland] What? [Mark Hankins] Dog.
[Trina Hankins] Dog. [Kenneth Copeland] It could
have been depend on God. [Mark Hankins] Oh, okay. [Kenneth Copeland] But
you don't know that, and we have to get on
the same page here. But if the spirit of
God is the teacher-- [Mark Hankins] I now hear. Yeah. Now, David, David knew
something about Goliath, ah ah ah! that the other guys didn't know. They were better
soldier, but David's 17, and that's where the
spirit of faith comes from. That quote in David'
said, "I killed a lion. I killed a bear. I'm going to kill this
uncircumcised Philistine." [Kenneth Copeland] Revelation
had come to him out there, early in the morning,
late at night. ♪♪ The Lord is my shepherd ♪ [Mark Hankins] And meditating. [Kenneth Copeland] ♪♪ And
meditating on that ♪♪ What you have? This is
the Word of God. And faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. And he begins to realize,
"Hey, we've got an edge here. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. Yeah. And so, even Psalms
119 is where there's a
constant application
of, "I will meditate
in your Word. I'll meditate. The entrance of your Word
gives light." He has to
understand... Dad Hagin said the moment the
light comes, the faith is
there. [Kenneth Copeland] It's there. [Mark Hankins] And so-- [Trina Hankins] So, the Word
and the Holy Spirit were so
together. It was just one. [Kenneth Copeland] Yeah.
Yeah. They are the same. [Trina Hankins] So, when
the Word is spoken to you,
it's alive, and it's powerful
and it's operative. And David stepped out in
that spirit of faith-- - And he's
spending all... He's in totally immersion. He's praising and
he's worshiping. [Mark Hankins] he never thought
he could not whip Goliath. [Kenneth Copeland] No,
he didn't. Doesn't ever enter his mind. [Mark Hankins] That
never entered his mind. [Trina Hankins] Know he had
complete dominion because he was
meditating on this Word. - Now, Greg Stephens, he is a bonafide scholar
of the first covenant. Now, he asked me, we just were
taping here just a few days ago, he said, "Brother Copeland,
what's the difference... How do you quote
the 23rd Psalm?" I said, "The Lord is
my shepherd." [Mark Hankins] Yeah. I
shall not want. [Kenneth Copeland] No. He said, "The rabbi
says a Psalm of David, the Lord is my shepherd." - Oh, okay. I do not lack. I shall not want. - Now, why do they say that
differently, Mark? They've been studying
it for 5,000 years. [Mark Hankins] And they speak it
in their meditation process, so faith works by speaking. So when David faced Goliath,
he had to win the war of words before he could win
the fight of faith. Because Goliath is telling
the whole army that, "You're worthless and
I'll defeat you," and David's the only one
to talk back to Goliath. [Kenneth Copeland] Now, you
remember when Samuel came in to anoint the king,
David wasn't in there. Well, Eliab's the oldest and
the largest, so he's firstborn. Remember what the Lord said? [Mark Hankins] Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland] I
look on the heart. [Mark Hankins] Oh, that's right. [Kenneth Copeland] And then
Eliab showed his heart through his mouth when David
embarrassed him. [Mark Hankins] And when
David showed up, I mean, you got words flying. You got his older
brother telling him, "What are you doing here?" And then he's got King Saul
saying, "You're just a kid. You can't face this."
And in every case, David talks back and he
says, "My God is able to deliver this giant into my
hand." Matter of fact, David spoke back to Goliath,
and so in those words, he's speaking covenant words,
he's speaking words of faith, and he's speaking words that
when God says something, David talked back to him. [Kenneth Copeland] If you
can't find Mark 11:23 and 24 in David's life, then
it's not faith, because that's what
Jesus said it was. Let's go over there a moment. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. Let's go there. Mark 11:22 and 23. [Kenneth Copeland] No,
over here in I Samuel. [Mark Hankins] Oh, you're
going to I Samuel 17. - Yeah. I want to point out
some things here. [Mark Hankins] All
right. Show me. [Kenneth Copeland] Let's go back
because we brought up Eliab, let's talk some
things about him. In verse 12, and it
points out the fact that
Jesse had eight
sons. And 13the verse, "The
three eldest sons of
Jesse went and followed Saul to the
battle, and the names
of his three
sons, Eliab the firstborn,
Abinadab, and the third
Shammah." David was the youngest,
so he has to be under
20 or he would have
been in the
army. Now, the Philistines
drew near morning and
evening, twice a day for
six weeks. Twice a day for six
weeks. I want to point that out again. Twice a day for six weeks. You've been listening to
COVID-19 twice and three or four a time a day six weeks--
[Trina Hankins] All day. [Kenneth Copeland]
... it'll kill you. [Trina Hankins] It's a
narrative to kill you. [Kenneth Copeland] Yes. [Mark Hankins] Those words. [Kenneth Copeland]
Eyes, mouth, and ears. [Trina Hankins] Yeah.
[Mark Hankins] Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland] And
David was the youngest. So, in the 18th verse, "Carry
these and receive their
report." Find out what they're
saying. Verse 20, "David rose
up early in the
morning and left his sheep
with a keeper." There's no way he's going
to leave that flock of
sheep untended. Pastor, don't you leave
that flock unattended. [Mark Hankins] Oh, that's good. [Kenneth Copeland]
Don't you dare do it. Don't you do it. You better preach
faith to that flock, and you better do
it out in the open. Don't you put it
in the back room. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. That's
right. That's good. [Kenneth Copeland] Now, there's
going to be some tough stuff you're going to have to preach,
and some of them may leave. Well, bless them. Pray for them. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. [Trina Hankins] Preach
the whole counsel. [Kenneth Copeland]
But preach it all. Now, come on down. Verse 24, "All the men of
Israel when they saw the man,
fled. They fled from
him and were
afraid. And the men of Israel
said, 'Have you seen
this man that's come
up? Surely to defy
Israel, he's
come up. And it shall be
that the man who
kills him, the king will enrich
him with great
riches, give him his daughter,
and his father's
house, it'll be tax-free from then
on." David said, "What? Let me hear this again." [Trina Hankins]
There's a reward. [Mark Hankins] Yeah. [Kenneth Copeland] Now,
verse 28, "Eliab his
eldest brother heard when he spoke to
men, and Eliab's
anger was kindled
against..." He embarrassed
him. He got
embarrassed. He's a coward. [Mark Hankins] Yeah.
He's afraid. - He's afraid
of it. So, verse 26, "David spoke
to the men that stood by
him saying, 'What shall be done to the
man that kills this
Philistine and takes away the
reproach from
Israel? For who is
this on
circumcised... He doesn't have a
covenant, and I
do." [Mark Hankins] That's right. - How'd he find that out
singing out there? - Yeah, he learned the covenant. - He learned it. He learned it. [Trina Hankins] He learned
the God of the covenant. He was intimate with the Lord. He worshiped him. [Kenneth Copeland] He
had no fear in him. - Now, here's something about
the spirit of faith, that whoever kills his giant is
going to take away the reproach, and he defies
the armies of God. So, David said, "Is
there not a cause?" So, the spirit of faith must
have a cause or a purpose. So, the Lord said to me,
"With a spirit of faith, your cause must be
greater than your comfort. And your purpose must be
greater than your pleasure." In other words, the spirit of
faith makes you leave your
comfort zone, and David left his comfort
zone to face the giant. [Kenneth Copeland] And to
just kept working in him. [Mark Hankins] It's
the spirit of faith. [Kenneth Copeland] The more he
rehearsed it, the bolder he got. So, what happened? He gets over there
in front of the king, so he comes and tells here. "These words would you..."
"Now, he and turned from
them and spoke the same
manner, and the people
heard it." Hey, the king needs to find
out about this because look
what happened. Here's a little boy
that had entrance
into the king, the most powerful man, at
that time, in the world. His faith put him
before the king. [Mark Hankins] Wow.
That's very powerful. [Kenneth Copeland] Got the
attention of the king, and what did he say? Verse 32. "David said to Saul,
'Let no more man's
heart fail because
of him. Your servant will go
and fight this
Philistine.'" And then in the 34th
verse, he told
about, "I took my sheep out of
that lion's mouth, and I
killed him with my bare
hands. And I killed a
bear with my
bear hands. And they didn't
have any covenant,
and neither does
that giant, and I'll kill him." [Mark Hankins] He knew
his covenant. And I'm telling you, we're
running out of time, but the Lord said to me,
"Never run into a giant with your mouth shut and
the spirit of faith." ♪ ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
