(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: In the face of any challenge you have the source of
spiritual power and authority in Christ. Join Gloria Copeland
and Billye Brim as they demonstrate how God's power
operates through you. Next, on the Believer's Voice of Victory.
GLORIA: We're learning today more about
the authority of the believer. This is
one--looking back at our history, probably yours, too,
this is one if not the most important thing. It is the most
important thing after being born again, filled with the spirit,
to know that we have authority over things in this life. We
don't have to wait till we get to heaven to take authority over
the devil. Jesus got Satan's defeat. BILLYE: Yes. GLORIA: Now
we just have to walk in that defeat and take authority.
BILLYE: That's right. Well--and enforce it. I did want to point
out in the last--yesterday, I ended with--I kind of--I kind of
muffed the scripture, and I want to go back and explain it to you
again. There are two words that are translated in the King James
Version "power," but they have very different meanings. One of
them is the Greek word "dunamis," and that means
"inherent power," the power of reproducing itself. From this,
we get the English words "dynamics, dynamo, dynamite." So
you can--you can see that that--what that word means. The
other word is "exousia," and it's authority or delegated
power, the right and liberty to put forth power, dunamis. So we
gave the example of a traffic policeman. They don't have the
dunamis to stop the traffic. They don't have that power, but
they've got the exousia. They have got the authority. GLORIA:
That's good. BILLYE: So a scripture where that is
used--both of those words are in one scripture--is Luke 10:19,
"Behold, I give you power--" GLORIA: Power. BILLYE:
--authority, "to tread on serpents, scorpions, and all the
power," dunamis, "of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means
hurt you." So Jesus said, "I give you--I give you authority,"
and it should've been translated like that, "to tread on serpents
and scorpions, and over all the dunamis of the power of the
enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." So He has given
us authority over the dunamis of the enemy, the power of the
enemy. You're no match for the enemy. GLORIA: Right. BILLYE:
Jesus--God, through Jesus, was, and He defeated him, but because
he backs up your authority. Now, we're going to talk today about
the source of our authority. Why do we know we've got it? And
it's--it's in the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians
tells us exactly who we are and how--I recommend to you that you
make the book of Ephesians one of your sources of meditation,
main sources of meditation, because it tells you who you are
in this end of days and the absolute authority God has given
you and what God expects out of you. So when Brother Hagin got
this information--and I think the light that he got on the
book of Ephesians actually started with MacMillan. And
Brother Hagin, then, he saw that we could make this a prayer
every day. And so I've prayed it every day, Gloria--not every,
every single day. I wouldn't want to say that, but missed
very few days--of my life, I've prayed it. So you got your Bible
there in front of you? GLORIA: Where is--what scripture is
that? BILLYE: It's going to be Ephesians 1 in Verse 17. We're
going to start with Verse 17. GLORIA: Ephesians 1:17. BILLYE:
And when I'm praying at home, I make it a prayer because it is a
prayer. It's a God-given prayer. Someone gave me a book that I
thought was good, and it was on the priestly prayer in the Old
Testament, you know, "The Lord bless you and keep you." And I
thought it was good--all of it's good. I liked it, got blessed by
it, but there was a subtitle I couldn't agree with. And it
said, "The only God-given prayer in the Bible." Well, that's not
true. GLORIA: Well, they just got it wrong. BILLYE: Because a
God-given prayer is right here in Ephesians 1. There's another
God-given prayer in Ephesians 3. There's a God-given prayer in
Colossians 1. And since this is a Holy Ghost-anointed prayer,
and Paul prayed it for believers, then it's still to be
prayed for believers today. GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: And I can
pray it for myself. I can pray it for other believers, too. But
this one is how I pray it for myself. So start at Verse 17. I
begin by saying, "God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, give unto me the spirit of wisdom and revelation." When
you start praying this prayer, and you keep at it--Brother
Hagin, when he first started praying this prayer, he lived
next door to the church. And he told his wife--he saw this power
in praying this prayer. And he said, "I kept over on the altar
at the church," the altar bench, "my Bible open to this. And I
told my wife, 'Don't bother me. I'm going to be praying. And if
I don't come in for--I know what time you serve meals. We eat
regularly on a certain time every day. I'll be over here.
And if I'm not here, don't send the children after me. I'm
praying that prayer.'" He said he prayed it thousands of times.
GLORIA: Over and over and over and over and over? BILLYE: Yeah,
over and over. He'd go there and pray it. GLORIA: I don't
remember that, about thousands of times. BILLYE: Yeah. GLORIA:
That's good. BILLYE: He set--you know, during the months that he
set apart and did some prayer and fasting, he said--here he
would pray, "God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of glory,
give unto me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him." He said that prayer started getting answered.
"I got more revelation on the Word of God than I'd had in
years." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And he said, "It made me
think, 'What in the world--' I told to Oretha, 'What in the
world have I been preaching?' It's a wonder the deacons had
to--didn't have to come out and get me to get in out of the
rain," because he was praying for the spirit of wisdom and
revelation. Who is that Spirit? The-- TOGETHER: --Holy Spirit.
BILLYE: He was praying for wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him. Him, Jesus, all the treasures of God are in
Him bodily. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: So he was praying for
the wisdom--the Holy Spirit that would give him wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. "Let the eyes of my
heart," it actually says in the Greek, "my understanding," "be
enlightened." You know, Gloria, there is knowledge that comes
from reading and meditating, but it really comes from the Holy
Spirit enlightening you. GLORIA: Right. BILLYE: There are--there
are people--oh, I'll tell you a funny thing that happened to me.
GLORIA: What? BILLYE: I was going to a denominational
church, and we were reading the Bible through. Every three
years, we read the Bible through, New Testament--or, I
can't remember which it was. But, anyway, I was in this
Sunday school class, and our teacher said to us, "Well, we've
come now to the book of Hebrews. The book of Hebrews," she said,
"is almost past our understanding. We really can't
understand it." And I thought, "Well, that's strange. I wonder
why God put it in there." In the mean time, I got baptized in the
Holy Ghost up at Brother Hagin's. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE:
I came back home, and I started reading the book of Hebrews, and
I could understand it. Why? The Holy Ghost wrote it, and He's
the Spirit of wisdom-- GLORIA: He enlightened you. BILLYE:
--and revelation, and He enlightened me. And we can
study--I'd read the book of Hebrews. We'd all read the book
of Hebrews, but we didn't get that enlightenment that the Holy
Ghost gives. GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. BILLYE: So this
prayer prays that the Holy Ghost will enlighten you. Now, folks
out there, wherever you are watching, I'm praying, Gloria's
praying that you'll get enlightenment. GLORIA: Yes,
Lord, enlighten-- BILLYE: The Spirit of wisdom-- GLORIA:
--everyone. BILLYE: --and revelation will come in to you,
enlightening your heart, enlightening your understanding
for you to know the authority of the believer. Now, actually,
this prayer prays for us--prays that we'll get enlightenment on
three subjects. GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE: So we'll look at what
they are. GLORIA: Verse what? BILLYE: Okay, Verse 8--18, "The
eyes of your heart being enlightened; that you may know,"
number one, "what is the hope of his calling." Actually, that's
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Number two, "what is the
riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." In
the Body of Christ, there's a glory-- GLORIA: Yes, there is.
BILLYE: --and it's God's inheritance. We inherited Him.
He inherited us. I never get up before a congregation, Gloria,
that I don't think, "There sits God's inheritance, and in them
is glory." GLORIA: Oh, that's good. BILLYE: Yeah. In them,
it's God's inheritance that we might understand the riches of
the glory of His inheritance, God's inheritance, in the
saints. So that's the second thing, but that's not what we're
looking at today. Today we're looking at the one He gives the
most emphasis to, and it's number three. And it is, He
wants us to get enlightenment on "what is the exceeding greatness
of his dunamis to us-ward who believe, according to the
working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when
he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in
the heavenlies, far above--" GLORIA: Far above. BILLYE:
"--all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in
that which is to come: and he hath put all things under his
feet, and gave him to be the head over all to the church,
which is his body, the fulness of him which filleth all in
all." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: Now we're going back to
this man whose revelation so inspired Brother Hagin, John A.
MacMillan's book. And I'm going to be reading to you from page
five, "Our Source of Authority." And these are MacMillan's words.
"When the Lord Jesus, the captain of our salvation, was
raised from the dead, the act of resurrection was accomplished
through the exceeding greatness of His power--" GLORIA: Yeah,
mm-hmm. I like that. BILLYE: "--to us-ward who believe,
according to the working--" Now, that--for that word "power," the
first one is "dunamis." For this one, it's "energeia," "of the
strength." "Kratos," "of his might," and that's another Greek
word. "In this working--" Page six now. "In this working, there
was such a putting forth of the divine omnipotence--" You know,
the Bible said God raised Jesus from the dead. "In this working,
there was such a putting forth of the divine omnipotence,"
power, "that the Holy Spirit, through the apostle, used four
words of special significance to bring out the thought." We're
not going to go into those four words he says here. "But behind
their combination of these four works--words of might and power,
behind their--their combination signifies that behind the fact
of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, there lay the mightiest
working recorded in the Word of God." The mightiest working.
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: Well, you might say, "Well, I
think the mightiest working of God recorded in the Word of God
was creation." No, it wasn't creation. He wasn't resisted in
creation. In this, bringing forth Jesus from the dead when
all the sins of the world were on Him, He had become sin. And
there He was. The wages of sin is death. And there He is. He's
in their grasp, and they're resisting God. And so He uses
these four words describing His power that it took for Him to
bring Jesus forth from the dead. "Having been thus raised--" I'm
reading again from MacMillan "--from among the dead, Christ
Jesus was exalted by God to His own right hand in the
heavenlies. Then was seen the reason of such mighty working.
The resurrection had been opposed by the tremendous powers
of the air. All principality, power, and might and dominion in
every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in
that which was to come is--was exerted against the Father. The
evil forces, even of the age to come, had been arrayed against
the purposes of God. They had, however, been baffled and
overthrown, and the risen Lord had been enthroned far above
them, ruling with authority of the most High." GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: Gloria-- GLORIA: Praise You, Jesus. BILLYE:
--around about Easter time, I got thinking about what it takes
to get saved. You've only got to believe one thing to get saved.
You don't have to believe in tongues. GLORIA: No. BILLYE: You
don't have to believe in healing. You don't even have to
believe in authority of the believer. You've got to believe
one thing. You've got to believe that God raised Jesus from the
dead. And then with your mouth, you've got to agree with that,
Romans 10:9-10. So I thought, "What about that? What about
that? Why is that the only thing that we have to believe?" And
I've been meditating, you know, on the source of our authority.
Why do we have authority? You don't have authority based on
you in any way, shape, or form. GLORIA: Hmm-mm. BILLYE: But
you've got authority on, "God raised Jesus from the dead."
GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: Now, go over to the book of
Colossians. Save your pace--place there and go over to
the book of Colossians. You have to believe that God raised Jesus
from the dead. God the Father raised Jesus from the dead. And
though Jesus and God are one, Jesus, He--He humbled Himself.
(Sneezes) Excuse me. GLORIA: Bless you, my child. BILLYE: Oh,
boy, I got a blessing. Glory to God. I'm going to take it. The
One who raised Jesus from the dead was God the Father through
the Holy Spirit. GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: So we're going to
read here in Colossians, you're going to see that pointed out.
It's speaking of Christ, of course, the anointed One. And
we're reading from Colossians 2:12. "Buried with him in
baptism, wherein you are also risen with him." So, see,
we're--we're--this is who we are in Christ. We are joined with
Him. And so Colossians is telling us this. We also see it
in Ephesians. We're going to go back and put a nail in a sure
place. But in Colossians 2:12, we were "Buried with him in
baptism, we're also risen with him--" now, look at the next
phrase, "--through the faith of the operation of God, who raised
him from the dead." The--the source of the operation is God
the Father. We have joint--we're joined with Christ. We have been
buried with Him in baptism. We are risen with Him through the
operation, through the faith of the operation of God. What I
want you to see here is, and what MacMillan points out is
that the operator, the One doing the raising is God. You have to
believe--to get saved, you have to believe that God raised Jesus
from the dead. "Buried with Him in baptism, we are risen with
Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him
from the dead. And you--" God raised Him and you. When He
raised Jesus, He raised you. He raised Him, "And you, being dead
in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
has he quickened together with him--" God the Father, when He
quickened Jesus, quickened you, and God the Father forgave you
all your trespasses. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: Hallelujah.
Glory to God. God the Father raised Him. God the Father
forgave you of your trespasses. "Blotting out," Verse 14, "the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the
cross." It was God the Father that took your sins and nailed
them to the cross. GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. BILLYE: It was God
the Father that forgave them. Now, here's the point that
MacMillan wants to point out, and I read what he said about
it, and I read what Brother Hagin said about it, and he
agreed. It was God the Father who "spoiled principalities and
powers and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in
it." The Bible says that he put off, spoiled principalities and
powers. And the common thinking on this, and one way that people
say it is--and I've heard it said so much-- "Jesus put off
from Himself principalities and powers." But this tells us, when
we really examine this closely, it was God the Father who--who
spoiled those principalities and powers and made a show of them
openly. God the Father put a noose around Satan's neck
and--and marched him up and down as the defeated one. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: Well, of course, it's not so wrong to say
that Jesus put off from Himself principalities and powers,
but--but it was God the Father who was empowering everything
that was done through the Holy Ghost, everything that was done
through Jesus. He was the One. He is the God over all, and He
is the source of your authority and of my authority. GLORIA:
Jesus offered Himself. BILLYE: He offered Himself. GLORIA:
That's what He did. BILLYE: He said, "Here I am." GLORIA: Yeah.
BILLYE: He offered Himself. GLORIA: He's like--like we might
say, "Here I am. Take me use me." That's what Jesus did.
BILLYE: That's what Jesus--that was His part. GLORIA: That's
right. BILLYE: And, you know, Gloria-- GLORIA: There wasn't
anybody else. There was no-- BILLYE: There wasn't anyone else
who could do it. GLORIA: --substitute. Hmm-mm. BILLYE:
And when He said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
I really believe it was kept from Him from knowing how
forsaken by God He was going to be because He had to suffer
spiritual death for you and me. GLORIA: Yeah, He did. BILLYE:
And spiritual death is separation from God. And He knew
separation from God. And He suffered for us. GLORIA: He did.
BILLYE: He bore what we would have had to bear. But then God
the Father said, "It's enough." GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: And He
used His omnipotence in the greatest display of the power of
God that's ever been written in the Word of God. GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: And He brought Jesus forth. GLORIA: Amen.
BILLYE: He put off principalities and powers and
made a show, made a parade of them. The picture here is like
the Romans used to do those triumphal parades. He made a
parade. I hope we get to see it, Gloria. I hope there's a rerun
and we get to see--I'm thinking about my friend Francine, who is
a French woman, and she was in Paris during the time that the
Nazi--she was a little girl, six years old, in the time that the
Nazis, you know, were in Paris. And she said, "We were so
frightened of them. We didn't have food, and they were there
with their power and their helmets and their marching." And
she said, "I remember when the Allies came, and they took those
Nazis that we'd been so afraid of, those Gestapo, and they put
them in their open jeeps, and they made a parade through the
town. And there they sat in shackles--" GLORIA: Bound up.
BILLYE: "--like little whipped puppy dogs." GLORIA: They were
bound up. BILLYE: And she said, "We thought, 'Oh, look at
them.'" And that's what that parade is like. GLORIA: That's
good. BILLYE: That's Satan who had so proudly pranced, "We're
going to take over heaven. We're going to put our throne up
there." GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: God made a show of him openly,
and that's the power, that's the source of your authority--
GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: --in Jesus' name. GLORIA: Praise God.
Ooh, Billye, that's good. BILLYE: Ooh, woo!
GLORIA: Billye and I'll be right back.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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