Kenneth Copeland - Faith for Your Family: The Power of Your Identity In Christ To Transform Your Home
— Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland, Kellie Copeland, John Copeland, and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. If the Word preached on this broadcast has helped you grow in faith, we want to hear from you. Share your testimony on kcm.org/story and let God goodness and faith. Now listen, it took two to get this one. You ready? I am so blessed by your teaching through the BVOV broadcast. I'm growing in the Word and putting my faith to work. Through his Word, God is working in my life, evidently and surely. GM, Kenya. They like the broadcast in Africa. Hallelujah goes right there. So they're watching it in Kenya. On BVOV there's a word of knowledge about someone who had a back problem and sciatica. I heard the Lord say to me, Get up and touch your toes. I obeyed, the pain went away and I've been healed ever since. W.E. in Michigan. Praise God. It's wonderful, isn't it? And let me tell you again that testimonies build, they don't bring faith as such, but they bring capacity for faith because someone says, whoa, if God do that for them, he'd do it for me. I believe it. Then faith came.
— Revelation says that the testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of prophecy. So when it happens somewhere else, that's prophesying to you and then you can latch onto his Word. That's for you. But when you hear it happen to somebody else, that's a prophecy to you.
— That's right. And let me say this before we get off the air. I want people to know that these are available. The Classic Amplified is now a Kenneth Copeland publication and the book on the Covenant and the Contradiction that Kenneth Copeland, Professor Greg Stephens did. This one, the Kenneth Copeland Word of Faith Study Bible of 50 years in the ministry. So this is eight years old, but the commentaries and this is done in the MEV. So it's my commentaries on faith and healing and so forth. And then the one we've been working about and somebody says, you're trying to sell these. Yes, I am. Thank you very much. But I want you to know that they're available. They're available in our bookstore. I mean, you can order them and so forth, but they are not... let me say something. These are not to get money in. These are things to get the Word out, to get it out. Then the money comes in. That's what the Lord told me years and years and years and years. Seemed like a lot of years ago. It has been a lot of years ago, but without the Word, without the covenant and knowledge of the blood, when you go through anywhere, you say it says precious promises. You just write in there precious blood backed promises, the blood of animals, the blood through circumcision, and the sinless blood of Jesus. This is a book of covenants. And a lot of times it says testament when it meant covenant, just a word. Now back to second Corinthians chapter five. How far did we get down? We got down to verse seven. We walk by faith and not by sight. No, we were before that. So let's come over to verse 14, the love of Christ, Christ... the Anointed One and his anointing. In Greek, Christ is anointed and means Messiah. In Hebrew, it is Messiah. Messiah means anointed. So we celebrate the Anointed One and his anointing. And it is his anointing that is in us. Amen. Verse 15, and that he died for all that they which should live not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again. Wherefore, know ye not after the flesh, yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, therefore, if any man, any person be in Christ, he is a new creature. One translation says a new species of being. We know what Jesus said in John 3:16, you must be born again. Nicodemus couldn't understand that. Can I get back into my mother's womb? No. He was talking about after he's raised from the dead, you become a new creature in him. A new species of being. Amen. Old things are passed away. That old sin nature is gone. And like with Gloria and me, it was gone. And we didn't know where it was in the Bible. We just knew it was gone because all of a sudden, every time we saw a church steeple, we wanted to get inside and see what they were doing. And so, and all that old, that old sin creature... old sin creature is called. All things become new. That's not it. And all things are of God. Everything about your new creature is of God because God did it. And God literally turned his back on his own Son, but read the 22nd Psalm. In the Classic Amplified, it starts out, "My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me"? And it finishes with, "It is finished". Hallelujah. And that's what he used in hell to defeat the devil. And the devil had to bow his knee to him. I can prove it to you in the book of Hebrews. Praise God. -To know that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing or holding against them their trespasses, committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, you be reconciled to God for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now I want to hear that, Kellie, in the Classic Amplified, please. That 21st verse.
— 5:21. Okay, hold on. There we go. That's okay. 5:21, For our sake he made Christ virtually to be sin who knew no sin so that in and through him we might become, endued with, viewed as being in and examples of the righteousness of God, what we ought to be approved and acceptable and in right relationship with him by his goodness.
— Oh, that just says it all. The King James cuts it kind of close, but that's precious. That's absolutely precious. So that in him, in him, and so many times throughout, it says we are in right standing with him. Righteousness is an old English word, but that's what it means. That's not holiness. That's right standing. Where do you find the holiness? In the fruit of the Spirit. All of these things, goodness, kindness, meekness, faithfulness, against such there is no law. He said, You be holy as I'm holy. It is impossible for us to live a sinless life because anything that is not of faith is sin. And there's things you do. And I think of little dimwit things that I've done. And I mean, even back before I was born, I'll say, Oh Lord, I'll just repent of that. I know I'm forgiven of it, but you live a grateful life and a repenting life. Let's turn over there to first John. This is important. That repentance comes without faith, it won't work. Right in the first chapter of first John, that which was from the beginning, which we have heard and we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and with our hands have handled the Word of life for the life was manifested. And we've seen it and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the father and was manifested unto us. That which we've seen and heard and declare we unto you that we may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full. This then is the message, which we've heard of him. Stop right there. This is the message which we've heard of him. So if you've heard it from him, accept it by faith. I don't care how you feel about it. And of course, there's one time I'm thinking about right now where I've really learned this. God is light. Light be. He is light. And in him is no darkness at all. How can you fathom absolute love? So how am I going to do this to get a... So I just had, I just researched what is absolute cold, whether it's zero heat. Now it's that way in outer space, but I'm talking about here on the Fahrenheit scale. And it is so far below zero that because there's... I don't care how cold it gets, there's a little heat in the air. He's absolute love. You can't even calculate it. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood, say the blood... The blood of Jesus, the Anointed One and his anointing, his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sin, we make him a liar and the Word isn't in us. My little children, these things write unto you that you sin not. If any man sin, we have an advocate, a lawyer with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. And we've been made the righteousness of God in him. Well, Father, I repent of it. This happened to me one time. I repent of it and I renounce it and I receive my forgiveness, but I'm not going back over and preach. I'm not going. I'm not going. I am not going. I'm not going. He said, "Didn't you confess that before me"? Here comes a great revelation. I said, "Yes I did". He said, "Kenneth, when you confessed it is not when I found out about it". Are you listening class? He said, "When you confessed it is when you got rid of it". Wow... I said, "Sir, forgive me". Now I exercise my faith, not my feelings about this situation. My feelings. We have a lawyer. I don't care how you feel about it. A lawyer, an advocate. He is our attorney. Then I just have to envision him saying, "Father, he's okay. He's one of us now. He finally used his faith on this thing. So I've forgiven him". Now why did he tell his disciples to do it? Forgive. Well, how many times? Seven times a day forgive. It finally wound up being something like 400 times a day. If he keeps doing it, forgive him 400 times as long as he comes. What is that? That's the type of all of us. I don't care how many times he keeps coming, keeps coming, just keeps coming. Just keeps coming. The fact that you keep on coming is absolutely important thing, but there's going to have to come a time that your feelings are not telling you what to do. You just tell you, like the apostle Paul, shut up flesh. My two grandchildren were in the back of the car.
— My kid and his kid.
— Yes. One of his and one of hers, Courtney and Max. Shut up, devil. Shut up, devil. Courtney, what was the devil telling you to do? Well, the devil was telling me I ought to break Max's leg. No, you don't be breaking Max's leg. But she knew. She said, "Shut up, devil. I'm not going to break Max's leg". Well, in some ways that's funny, but...
— It shows how the devil operates.
— Well, and they knew better than to take it. These little children. They knew better than to take that. There's no way I can count the number of times that Gloria and I have taken authority over tornadoes and those things just go back up. Jesus said, "Peace be still". And I say, you better get back up there in the name of Jesus, where you belong. Ministering angels, you break that thing up. Jesse and Cathy have broken up hurricanes like that off of the Gulf. And Jesse said, "Just stick your finger in the eye of the thing". And we were just one great big thunderstorm. You don't ever get any closer than 25 miles to one of those things because they spit stuff out the top that you can't see. And Gloria's little brother, Stanley, was in the right seat. And I was flying a Cessna 421. And so I just flew around out there and that thing came and I just spoke to it. I said, "No, you don't. No, you don't. You get back. You get back up there. You get right back up there in the name of Jesus, where you belong. Ministering angels, you get it". Pfff! Well, I wasn't paying attention to him. And got on the ground and he's still kind of like this. Uncle Kenneth talked that tornado and it did it. And so one night it was looking really bad. And we were headed to church. We were living over there in Florentine. And I said, "Kids, this one's yours". Boy, I'm telling you, they got after that thing. And the two of them went right back up.
— Trained up child.
— Amen. It's not the size of the fight... dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog. And they took the authority because it's in the name of Jesus. The name is where the power lies. Here we are again. Teach and train your children. Now, Benny Hinn's son-in-law, Michael Koulianos, he came out to our hangar one day and we were discussing the things of God. Thunderstorm came across out there. I said, "No, you don't devil not on this property". I turned around. I said, are you coming? I really wasn't thinking about it. He just followed me out there and I started talking to it. I mean, it was just going. I just started talking to it and came on back inside and five, 10 minutes it just... And I said, "Well, now that's better". And it went on. I didn't pay any attention to it. Well, he was speaking somewhere else and he called me, the storm killer. I didn't kill it. The name of Jesus is the one that killed it. But now let me tell you one about him in an indoor stadium in Florida and they were having miracles. That's when that blind woman's eyes were opened in line. And then her friend introduced her to her husband because she was widowed and she is married and Kellie was there. He was laying hands on people and suddenly she said, "I can see". And this woman said, "May I introduce you to someone"? She said, yes. This man walked around there. She'd never seen him. And she said, "May I introduce you to your husband". When he spoke, she knew him and she grabbed him. In that same meeting, they told them if it gets to a certain temperature, we're going to have to close the top of this thing and it'll be too suffocating in here. We'll have to stop the meeting. They prayed and a little shower came nowhere but in there and drop the temperature low enough to finish the service. Now, Tallahassee, Florida, a tornado, there's healing school and I stayed, I was really exhausted that moment. I stayed in. I saw that thing coming and I began to speak to it while I was standing. I saw it. I began to speak to it as it did this. That tornado stopped at that convention center. It ripped open the top of the building and the Lord had said this to Jerry Savelle. The Lord said, "Stop saying that just blows me away". And Gloria said, "I'll never say that again. I never did say it in the first place because I'm standing on my words". It ripped the top. She said, "My Bible's getting wet". The elephant doors in the back, that thing, there was a policeman back there and there's a little boy running across here and he just grabbed him and moved over. Now listen to me, class. That big elephant door, when it blew open, hung by one hinge. If it had come off, it would have gone right across Gloria and right across that pulpit. They said, "Well, and John said, you don't know my mother". So they said, "Well, we have a bigger room". And so they took her down and they finished Healing School in the basement of that auditorium.
— They tried to get her to quit.
— The steel out there didn't even hit anyone's car. And we're out of time. Here we're out of time. But we are new creatures in Christ Jesus. And we don't say that just blows my brain or blows me away. We'll be back in just a moment.