Kenneth Copeland - The Power of THE BLESSING Overcomes Division
— Hello everybody, I'm Kenneth Kellie and John Copeland. Amen. So, and we're talking about the blessing of the Lord. And I'm led to use the ones that are on my Partner Letter. So let's go to the 118th Psalm. It begins, Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endures forever. Let Israel say now his mercy endures forever. Let the house of Aaron say now that his mercy or hesed endures forever. Verse seven, the Lord takes my part with them that helped me. Therefore shall I see my desire upon that hate me. And I wrote out there, partners. Glory to God. Take together and very, the Lord is my strength and my song and has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is the tabernacles of his righteousness. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. The right hand of the Lord, the Lord Jehovah, the right hand of Jehovah is exalted. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. That's it. That's the Psalm when it said, and Jesus, they sang a Psalm. That's the one that Jesus chose. I will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord. Now, come on down. This is the day which the Lord has made. We'll rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. Blessing is the name. Therefore on the one who comes in that name, that's my note in the margin there. O give thanks unto the Lord for he says it endures forever. So, and now that, uh, that's the 118th. Now I want to go to, uh,
— I like that. He does valiant, valiantly. I love that word.
— Praise God.
— Our Savior. You're in Revelation.
— Uh huh. Well, let's go back there where we were yesterday. Just in the first verse, the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now I want to stop here. If you go back to the book of Isaiah, where it talks about Lucifer, son of the morning, he was not Satan at that time. And Jesus said, I saw him cast down like lightning. We don't have time to go there right now, but he was on this earth. It had to be flooded out. It had become so perverse and so horrible that well, the cave man, early man, Adam never lived in a cave, but since Lucifer was running this planet and I will be like the Most High God, he has so perverted this thing and the animals, he, I suppose, named them. But however, they were so grotesque. They were mean, the dinosaurs and all of that and the Neanderthal man.
— Imagine the curse with no offset of the blessing operating in that complete total chaos.
— And from what the Lord has said to me and the things that I learned from, from that name, I am totally convinced that it was given to Jesus by his angel. Lucifer was an archangel of music and Phil Driscoll let me know that everything was in there, but the trumpet, because the God's trumpet will sound at the last day.
— Can you clarify that? You said it was given to Jesus as... Can you clarify that a little bit, what you're saying?
— The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, servants signified it by his angel unto his servant John. I'm satisfied that Lucifer was his angel. He was an archangel. He was perfect in the day that he was created.
— So he thought he was serving the one he thought he could be like. Is that what you're saying?
— But iniquity was found in him. He's the father of the lie and he was cast down, but he fell like lightning and lost his name. And now he is Satan, the deceiver. I saw a painting of him in the Garden and his tail wrapped around. That is that... No, no. It says he was a serpent. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You don't know what that serpent looked like. Beautiful. Stood upright. He didn't have a tail wrapped around him. If he'd had that, she wouldn't have anything to do with him. He was very convincing. And he spoke to her, has not God said? Well, he knew what God said. He heard him say it. Now study the book of Luke about him. And Jesus said, I saw him fall like lightning. In other words, He and the Father literally kicked him out of Heaven. Therefore the Abraham's bosom, Jesus said today you will be with me in paradise. Paradise was a protected region of the upper regions of hell. It was protected there until Jesus came and led captivity captive. So this revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to show unto his servants, things which must shortly come to pass. He sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant, John. So it was the angel that was talking to John and who would that be? That'd have to be Gabriel. He's the one that announced to Mary and praise God. Well, I won't go now there. For sake of time, we will. Now, Daniel saw all of this and because he saw it after a fast, Daniel 10, In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, if the thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name is blessed are in the things... dah dah... In those days, I, Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no present bread, neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Uh, 10: And behold, a hand touched me and set me upon my knees and said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand for unto thee am I now sent. He had spoken this Word unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day... 21 days... for from the first day you were heard and set aside to understand, to chasten yourself before God. Your words were heard and I'm come for your words, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia, Iran, the prince, principalities, powers, the apostle Paul wrote, rulers of the darkness of this world and wicked spirits in the heavenlies. These are it. The kingdom of Persia withstood me for 21, for 20 days, but lo, Michael, the chief prince came to help me and I remained there with the kings of Persia. And then he said, Know, therefore I will come unto thee and will turn to fight with the prince of Persia. And when I'm gone forth, the prince of Greece will come. Now, Alexander the Great conquered Israel and it was split in two. Alexander the Great was, was Greek, of course, split in two. And it split the Sadducees from the Pharisees. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and they did not, they were split over that. And we don't, why do we not know that? I didn't know it either until I watched Revival TV with Gene Bailey. The apocryphal books, first and second Maccabees tells that story. That's part of this 400 years. That's not recorded here. So, and you come down to all of this and I'm bringing this up for this reason. When we see all kinds of trouble with politicians, this is reason why. Say one thing in the campaign. And I noticed this about President Trump, watched him. I mean, come on class. I go back to Franklin Roosevelt, which makes me, I was born December the 6th, 1936, December the 7th, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And that's what I do remember about it. It really messed up my birthday. And I had a little dog. His name is Jitters and perfect German shepherd head and little short legs and three hairs for a tail. He was my dog. So I took him to the canine corps. I wanted to enlist him in the army. So I handed him to the sergeant. He said, he took him and he said, "Son, I know this is a fine animal, but he's a little short for military duty". My dog didn't get to go to war. Now, the reason for all of this, this shows you, these are the war demons. Jesus, you'll always have wars and rumors of the wars because he was present when he and his good Father created this archangel of music. But Jesus turned it around and he said, he is the father of all lies.
— Well, I want to remind us that the blessing that Jesus left us as he ascended was one of the things that was, that we would take up serpents and that foul thing and that foul racism and how he's tried to put a whole entire group of people down and also put a entire group of people down by making them prideful. Either one is just as bad. It's division. He's a liar, but we have been told to take up serpents. And I really didn't equate that for a long time. It was talking about demons. You know, you see people with playing with snakes. No, we take them up. We warred and we've won already. He said, you can take them up, sling them off. We've won. He blessed us with raising the dead, healing the sick. That's who we are.
— So what is our job? Go into all the world and preach this gospel of the kingdom unto all nations with a witness and then the end. You think it isn't being done by television? Thank you, Thomas Clyde McGee. Well, who is he? He's the born-again, tongue-talking Christian that set that first satellite 24,000 miles away from this earth, set it in union with the earth. That was the first satellite. And because of him, we had a worldwide communion service.
— And you did it with the blessing.
— Yes, we did. We'll see you. We'll be back in a moment.