Kenneth Copeland - There Is Power and Authority In the Name of Jesus
— Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland. This is Greg Stephens, professor at Kenneth Copeland Bible College. That's still kind of strange to me, Kenneth Copeland Bible College. Isn't that something? Anyway, thank You, Jesus. And this is the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. We're going into another week on the command authority of a follower of Jesus Christ, the authority of the believer, in the beginning God. Let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. And what I've learned over the last 58 years, and I learned from my spiritual parents, Oral Roberts, Kenneth E. Hagin, and then T.L. Osborne, and T.L. Lowery over the years, that this is an untaught subject.
— It's true.
— Oh, God, can't you get the devil off me? No, he can't. Just go look at what the apostle Paul said. He said, "I did that three times and he wouldn't do it". But the covenants of God are real. Now, I brought this Pilote's operating handbook for a reason. This book is the Beechcraft Barren serials. The one that we have. They don't build this airplane anymore. But if you're going to fly it, this has to be in the airplane itself. But this is just one I keep at home. And I can go back through it and refresh my memory about things. But it has to be in the airplane. That airplane is illegal without this in it. And if you get ramp checked, and they check you and you don't have this in the airplane, they'll violate you. And the FAA has a right to do that because they're boss of this. You go by this. It is specific to the E55 Barren, not the E55A. That doesn't work on our airplane. And emergency procedures, limitations. Oh, you mean you're limited. You better know about it. You exceed those limitations, you can kill yourself and a lot of other people. Stick that thing up like a dart someplace, that's just no fun at all. Section two, limitation, table of contents. Airspeed limitation, airspeed indicator markings, power plant limitation, engine, fuel, oil, propellers, starters, time for cranking, power plant instrument markings, oil temperature and so forth. Then you come over to emergency procedures. Determining one engine operation, engine failure during takeoff, engine failure after liftoff, in flight, air start, engine fire, engine fire in flight. Hey, I'm not using this as a bragging point, but I know what to do in all of those. I'm already trained, but I don't want to do it from memory. The checklist is in the airplane itself. I do know what to do. I know how to determine if one engine is not producing power. Pilot's operating handbook, approved flight manual, part number 965001010, volume one of one. I know the emergency procedures in this, but do I qualify? My son, attend to my words. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart for they are life to those that find them and medicine to their flesh. I quoted that, Proverbs chapter four. But do I just have it memorized or do I know where it is in the book, in the life manual? I spend time in this and in a simulator. This is my life in simulator. This tells me what to do and what not to do and the consequences of both. So Father, we thank You today. We give You praise for the authority that You have invested in us and praise You and thank You for it. Now then class, in the book of Acts, we're coming now into the second covenant. And the third chapter, Peter and John went up together to the temple of the tower of prayer been at nine o'clock. A certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, to ask an alms of them that entered the temple, who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asking alms, Peter fastening his eyes upon him with John and said, look on us. He gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something from them. Now, expecting to receive something from them. Why? Why did he expect to receive something from them? What caused that expectation? It's happened before. Yes. Jesus went right by their time and time and time again and again and again. I like to go back and just, the time he went into the temple, the time he went into the temple, the time he went into the temple. And every time, are you kidding me? Every time Judas had something for him, every time Judas had something for him, every time he put money in there and he expected to receive something. So his expectation was high.
— That's right.
— Why? Because Jesus always saw to it that he had something. Well, why didn't Jesus raise him up? Now, wait a minute, class. Now, wait a minute. Hold it. What have we studied up to now, Professor?
— He only did what his Father told him to do.
— I only say what I hear my Father say, and I only do what I see my Father do. Well, this man wasn't suffering. He just couldn't walk. And the priest had checked him out. He was, I mean, man, he had a... whew, he had a prime spot. He was making a good living. He just couldn't walk, but he never had walked.
— Well, now the Father will heal him, just not with Jesus. He's going to do it through Christ's followers.
— Yes.
— In time, in time, Brother Copeland, it's a timing issue.
— Yes, it is.
— And so many times we get ahead of God or way far behind him, but it's his timing. This is why Paul will write, I plant, Paul waters, but God gives the increase. God's still healing. He just didn't heal him by the hands of Jesus, yet he did Christ in you. And so they're operating in that authority of a Christ follower
— And he's headed somewhere with it. So, now Peter said, it introduced the power and the authority in the name. And look at this, Peter said, Silver... and Peter said, uh, isn't this the guy that denied something just a few, 50 days ago or so?
— That's exactly right.
— The same man, bold as a lion. Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none". Now, see, they were poor. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even go there. Well, we could talk about it, but... "But such as I have give I thee, I have it. I have it. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. He took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up, stood and walked and entered into the temple, walking, leaping and praising God". Hallelujah. Now, if that doesn't stir you up, glory to God. Amen.
— Well, he didn't say, "Lord, if that be your will, I'm going to lay my hands on this man".
— No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not as the scribes taught. Jesus, now the name has the same authority. Amen. My earthly father, Aubrey Wayne Copeland, he went by A.W. His word was good. I personally saw him, and I've said this on the broadcast before, walk away from an immediate, immediate $3 million. In the life insurance business, the big money is in the renewals. I won't go into all that, but did Mr. So-and-so offer you money in that form of $3 million to go with him and help build him his company? My dad said, "Yes, he did". Case is over. That guy lost his renewals from National Oil Insurance Company, and he helped build the company. But he wanted to build his own company, and he wanted my dad, because my dad came in there under him. But he wouldn't... I said, "Dad..". that's what he said, "Kenneth, there's a lie, so what else is there"? But my dad went by the book. He had a business account, his personal account, and his tithe account. He didn't even let God's money get over here in his account. That's how strict he was. Anyway, let's get down to this. Now, this was power. Let's read on. Leaping up there, the lame man, which was healed, held Peter and John. All the people ran together in the porch where it's called "Solomon's, greatly wondering". Faith hadn't come yet. "Peter saw it. He answered the people, You men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness, we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son, Jesus, whom he delivered up and denied, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go". We are witnesses. Class, the command authority, the command authority. He is a witness. Now, listen to this. We are witnesses and his name, here it is, through, Professor, through faith in his name. It didn't work because it was just the name. Through faith in his name have made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yea, faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of all of you. Glory to God. And he began to preach. Praise God. Look at the 25th verse. "And you are the children of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, and in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first, God having raised up his Son, Jesus, sent him to bless you. And turning away every one of you from his iniquities, being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead". Verse four. "Howbeit many of them which heard the Word believed, and the number of men was about 5,000". Now that's a good meeting. Operation soul win.
— You had 3,000 on the day of Pentecost. And now 5,000. We got a church of 8,000.
— We're all ready. The mission needs a name. Now in the military, the mission had a name and it was such that the enemy could not figure out what it was. Then it was amazing. The Navajo Code Talkers. Praise God. I have been made part of the Navajo Nation and my name, Wambliho'asti. And it is very important to give these men, they were so important. They were so important. They were Marines and they spoke Navajo. Well, it seems to me just what I said right then. There's the certain accents and just grunts and groans. Turtle was the code name for tanks. Amen.
— But the Japanese couldn't understand them.
— No, no.
— So the Navajo could speak openly on the radio to one another in Navajo and they couldn't understand. They were so valuable that the sergeants and the different people that had a Code Talker, Code Wind Talker, Code Talker in their squadron, under no circumstances was that Navajo to be captured.
— No, no.
— Even if you have to shoot your own men.
— And they agreed to it.
— They did. They knew. They agreed to it. If capture is inmate, I sacrifice myself for my country. Now, that authority came down and like Greg and I said before, that oath hadn't changed from the day of George Washington. Defend the Constitution. It doesn't say defend the United States. It doesn't say defend the president. It says defend the Constitution of the United States. The law of the land. Against all enemies, foreign or domestic. Foreign or domestic.
— That's why each state had a militia.
— Yes.
— That's why each state had... and we still do that today, we have the Texas Army National Guard.
— Yes, we do.
— Air National Guard.
— Yes, we do.
— And all 50 states have one.
— Yes, we do.
— For that purpose.
— For that purpose. And now the state of Texas, since it was the Republic of Texas at one time...
— They have two.
— So that means that the state of Texas came into the union as a nation. And we're still something like about the eighth economy. In what?
— In the world.
— In the world. State of Texas. The state of Texas. Now the state of Alaska is a larger land mass. But the state of Texas is... it was a republic. And so its economy is huge. So the governor of the state of Texas is an extremely important person. Amen.
— Now, chapter four verse seven, there. And now the high priest is talking about what happened here with this guy that got healed. Everybody knew him. And when they had set them in the midst, the high priest did, they asked, by what power?
— Yes, yes.
— Or by what name?
— And they didn't like it.
— They didn't like it at all.
— They're going to try to stop the name. They're going to try to stop the name.
— So they commanded them. You go on down here to chapter four, verse 18, and they called them and commanded them. So they're going to use their command authority not to speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus.
— But they didn't have the authority to do that.
— They did not have the authority.
— And there's no way God's going to blank it and we're out of time. Blank it. Back it. We'll be back in just a moment.