Kenneth Copeland - The Power That Fuels Your Victory
Now, turn with me to the book of Hebrews, please, chapter one. God, who at sundry times and in different manner spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all… How many things? All things. What is it you don’t understand about all? All things. All things. What are all things? Everything he created. Well, I won’t turn there now, but you need to. He said that night in that meal, talking about the Holy Spirit, the comforter, the standby, the advocate. I like that word, standby. I’m old enough to remember when you had to shift gears, and when you got in high gear, that’s it, partner.
Some of you don’t have any idea what that other pedal was in the floor. You get behind somebody that’s slow, so you’re going to have to shift gears. Now, if you don’t put the clutch in, this thing’s going to stall. I’m going up a hill. Now, I’ve got a problem here. My left foot’s going to have to use for the clutch and the brake and the accelerator and the gear shift. So what do you do? You’re going uphill. Man, I’m telling you, you don’t want to roll backwards. You need three feet. Man, what am I going to do? Here’s what I got to do. Get that clutch. Get to another gear. A standby gear. And General Motors came out with hydramatic drive. I want you to know, sweetheart, Mrs. Copeland’s young boy at 14 years old got his driver’s license, and I didn’t have to shift the gears.
I knew how. But, oh, isn’t this wonderful? I didn’t have to shift. Just put it down there, and it just chugged along on its own. And then they came out with what they called the passing gear. What in the world was that? Well, no clutch. How wonderful. And you’re up in the mountains. Oh, here we go again. And you push that thing all the way down, and it would shift on its own. And General Motors called it the passing gear, so you could pass. It shifted down one on its own. And if you went… It would keep down shifting until it got all the way down as far as it’d go. The passing gear. Power from on high. Power. Who being the brightness of his glory, express image of his person, upholding all things by the Word of his power.
Now, not the power of his Word, by the Word of his power. He had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of Majesty on high. Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Well, you go to the second chapter of the book of Philippians, and you find it there. He exalted him and gave him his name, which is above every name of names in heaven, names in earth, and names under the earth. And every knee shall bow before Jesus and confess that he is Lord. These are the words that raised Jesus from the dead, and you can see it. Being made so much better than the angels, he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my son, this day I have begotten thee, and again I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. Again? Again? Ah ah ah… What happened?
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It is finished. The 22nd Psalm. He went into hell, but unto the Son he said, thy throne O God is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above your fellows. And thou, Lord, in the beginning hath laid down the foundation of the… Hey, you see it? I read it over there in the book of Genesis, Elohim. And thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth. Now, can you see this? God the Father. That’s enough. Three days and nights in that place is enough. Boom. And again I’ll be a Father unto him. You turn him loose. It did not begin on Friday. Jesus said, «The only sign you’re going to get is Jonah. Three days and three nights in the belly of the big fish. So shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth».
So it was a high Sabbath. John records that. So it started on Wednesday night, not Friday. Just so you know. You loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even your God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above your fellows. And you, Lord, in the beginning laid down the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but you remain, and they all wax old as a garment. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. But you are the same, and your years shall not fail. But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them that are heirs of salvation?
There were no heirs of salvation until he was raised from the dead. That rushing mighty wind, they heard it right there on the day of Pentecost where they were sitting, got their attention. And they, flames of fire, came down and sat on them. They didn’t know what Jesus was talking about. And he introduced the Spirit of power. And that’s what I’m introducing tonight, especially to those of you that don’t know him in this level. He is with you. He will be in you. And he breathed on them and said, «Receive the Holy Ghost». Oh, glory be to God. I’m going to get to the bottom line of this message. 2025, take these written words and become God-insight-minded. Not God in the sweet by and by. We need him in the rotten here and now.
So minded so that when you pray, you don’t even think about heaven. I used to. That’s all I knew. He’s right here. And you develop a conversation with him all the time. A lot. Just a lot. A lot. Just about all the time. And over the years from these things I learned years ago, and there are times that I just have to apologize. I say, and I have a tendency to do this, you know, when there’s Christmas and all that going on. But I don’t, there’s never a good day goes by that he and I don’t have a conversation. I talked to him. And continually, I opened my eyes and I say, «Glory to God. This is my receiving day. This is my receiving day. I’m supposed to be healed today».
And then get out of bed. And you think about it. Your life began when your eyes opened up today. Yesterday is dead and gone. And tomorrow’s out of sight. I’m not going to try to help you make it through the night. That’s not my business, but that’s where that song goes. That’s your business. My routine. Very simple. Good night, my love. I love the Lord, my God, with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind, and all my strength. I love my neighbor as myself, fulfilling all the law and the prophets. But the Master said in the 13th chapter of John, I give you a new commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. So where does that lead me? Where does it leave you? Love, love, love, love, love. And you go over to 1 John, you find out God is love. He doesn’t have love, he is love. And he uses his power in behalf of his love.
So years ago, I don’t even remember now when, love, John, is the curtain rod upon which all blessings hang. Love never fails. So now I’m going to make my point here before I close. I won’t keep you much longer. I have no other gods before me. I make no graven image. I never take his name in vain. I remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. I honor my father and mother all the days of my life. I don’t murder. I don’t commit adultery, and I don’t steal. I don’t bear false witness, and I don’t covet anything but… That means I’ve preached long enough. Well, I was ready to close. First Corinthians 12. Chapter 11, in order to show you what I’m saying now. Chapter 11, Where if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened… That’s communion. Chapter 12. Now, does that sound like a subject change to you?
Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I will not have you ignorant. For you know that you were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse, and that no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now, there are diversities of gifts, the same Spirit. There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. There are diversities of operation. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. One is given the Spirit, a word of wisdom. Another word of knowledge is from the same Spirit. Another faith, or special faith, by the same Spirit. To another, the gifts of healings, by the same Spirit. To another, working of miracles. To another, prophecy. To another, discerning of spirits. To another, different kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
Those are the gifts of the Spirit that minister to people, supernaturally. All these worketh that one and selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will, for as the body… Now, we go… For the Spirit, we all baptized into one body. The foot shall say, Because I’m of the hand, I’m not of the body. You come along here, and so, and whether one member, and now the Body of Christ, members in particular, and God has said so in the church, first Apostle, secondary the prophets and teachers. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love, I become as a sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I’m nothing. And though I bestow all of my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me not. Love suffers long and is kind.
Love envies not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but whether they be prophecies, they will fail. Knowledge, they’ll fail. We know in part, when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but the faith, so forth. Now abides faith, hope, and love, these three, love. Greatest of these is love. Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, and you just continue to read. I would that you all speak with tongues, but rather that you prophesy. For greater is he that prophesied than one that speaks with tongues, except he interpreteth that the church may receive edifying.
Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, shall I prophet you? I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine. Even the things without life giving sound were given a pipe, a harp, and to give a distinction of the sounds of how it shall be. For the trumpet shall give an uncertain sound, and likewise, and so forth and so on. There may be so, and you know, so even as so the spiritual gifts, seek that he may excell, let him speak in an unknown tongue. By praying in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays. What is it then? I’ll pray with my spirit, I’ll pray with understanding also. I’ll sing with my spirit, I’ll sing with understanding also. Else when you shall bless with the Spirit, how then occupies the room of the unlearned, say amen at the giving of thanksgiving, you say for he gives thanks well, but the other’s not edified. I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all yet in the church. I’d rather speak with my understanding, my voice teaching, and so forth and so on.
If any man speak in the prophets and so forth, and may prophesy, and he goes on. Wherefore brethren, forbid not to speak in tongues. Moreover, brethren, I declare you to the gospel. Now in this, if you continue to read he refers to this coming a time, tongues will pass away, prophecy will pass away. Well, you see there, it passed away. No. You keep reading. It hasn’t stopped yet. As it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a… The last Adam… show you a mystery. The corrupt among us, but oh death, where is your sting? But thanks be to God, give us thus a victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be as steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, insomuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Now, concerning the collection, speaking in tongues is the only subject in the Bible that got a whole chapter. I command you to go get it. The apostle Paul said, «I speak in tongues more than all of you put together». But don’t forbid to speak in other tongues. The tongues will pass away. Prophecy will pass away. But that which is perfect is come. That which is perfect is come. That which is perfect is come. What is the mystery here? There is no mystery here. There’s coming a new heaven and a new earth and the millennial reign of God. And you find it in the book of Revelation. And I like what the King James Version says, the end. So read the back of the book, we win. And we’re going to win all the way through 2025. And 2026, no one is strong enough to walk in the fullness of life without the Spirit of life himself living on the inside. Speaking in tongues is the gateway to the supernatural.