(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Renew your mind to the Word today, on the
Believer's Voice of Victory, as Kenneth Copeland teaches the
basics of faith. Be encouraged as you learn the truth that
Jesus's victories were for you and have already been won.
KENNETH: 2 Peter chapter 1, first verse. "Simon Peter, a
servant and an apostle of Jesus the anointed, to them who have
obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Savior, Jesus the anointed."
We've all received exactly the same measure of faith. Go to the
twelfth chapter of Romans. We're going to be coming back over to
1 Peter in just a moment, so you're going to want to stay in
that vicinity, but I wanted you to see this from the twelfth
chapter of Romans. In the third verse, "For I say through the
grace given unto me, that every man that is among you,"
everybody in this Roman church. "Not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly according
as God has dealt to every man." Every born again believer has
the measure of faith. We all started out exactly the same.
The only difference in you, Peter, John, Paul, Creflo,
Jerry, Jesse is what you do with your faith. What you do with it.
We started out exactly the same. God is no respecter of persons.
And it was his faith, same faith Jesus used while he was here on
earth. There's not two or three different kinds. It's the faith
of God. Hallelujah. Now some of you, here you are on Friday, you
started out on Monday, and there's something big been
happening to your faith. Amen, for the last five days. Now,
then, let's go to Colossians chapter 1. Read these verses
very very carefully as we go by. Colossians chapter 1 and let's
start reading in the 19th verse. Or, no, 18th verse. "He is the
head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead." Jesus is no longer the only begotten
son of God. No, no, no, no, no. No, he's the firstborn. I said
he's the firstborn from the dead. Amen. Glory to God. And
you know, the beautiful thing about it, you know, the
firstborn gets everything. Well, all of us are firstborn. Oh,
yeah. You're created in him. Oh, listen, I'd love to get into
that. I wish I had time to get into it tonight. Maybe later.
"The beginning, the firstborn from the dead, and in all things
he might have preeminence for it pleased the Father that in him
should all fullness grow. And having made peace through the
blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself, by him, I say whether they be things in Earth or
things in Heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he
reconciled and the body of his flesh through death." Listen!
"To present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in
his sight." You're a new creature. Don't you ever kick
yourself. Don't you ever cut yourself in some, feel sorry for
yourself, moment. Oh, God, I'm just so unworthy. Oh, shut up.
God did not make any unworthy new creature. You were unworthy
before you got recreated. Hallelujah. And you didn't get
it, because you're worthy, you got it because he loves you,
that's why. Hallelujah. And you and I, either one, are still not
worthy in ourselves. Well, dear Lord. But we're not in
ourselves, we're in Christ. Woo. And he's in us. Our hope of
glory, hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Glory to
God. Now, now hold on to that and let's schlep back over now
to 1 Peter. And we'll look at 1 Peter 1:23. "Being born again
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed." Now, what
is that incorruptible seed, Peter? "By the word of
God which liveth and abideth forever." Now
this is what makes us all, every one of us,
this is what makes us all firstborn. Amen. Because you and
I, every born again believer, has the spiritual DNA of Jesus.
Amen. Amen. Spiritual DNA of Jesus. Think about it. Isn't
that wonderful? But now, our minds must be renewed to this.
We must get to the place where we're aware of this all the
time. And have a consciousness of it. You know what I mean by
that? There's a lot of religious people have "I'm so unworthy"
consciousness. Well that's what they've been taught. And
thinking that that will impress God into meeting their and
answering their prayers, thinking that that's being
humble. Now the scripture says, "Humble yourself." But it did
not say debase yourself. What does it say? What is true Bible
humility? "Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, casting
all your care over on him for he cares for you." That's Bible
humility. Amen. Hallelujah. Where all it says you're not to
think of yourself more highly than you ought to think. Well,
of course. Amen. But at the same time, it says, it doesn't the
say put yourself down, it says think of others more highly than
you do of yourself. Well, if you just keeping beating yourself
down all the time, you don't have to think very highly of
them. After all, you're so unworthy. And they're not much
to you either, you just a little more worthy than I am. We can
just all get together and talk about how unworthy we are. But
faith can't work in that environment. Faith begins where
the will of God is known. If you don't know that it's God's will
to heal you, how can you ever stand for your healing? You
can't. You're still in question about it. Amen. You need to come
to the place where you say, "Well, I'll tell you one thing.
If he's going to heal anybody, it's going to be me. Now I
believe he'll take care of you, too, but he going to heal me."
You know why I say that? Because I found out in his word he's
already done it. Amen. So that makes you bold. You can come
boldly to the throne of grace when you find out you belong
there. Oh, yeah. You've been made to sit with him in heavenly
places. Far above, not barely above. Far above. Far above.
That'd be a good time to look at that. Let's turn over to the
book of Ephesians real quick. Oh, praise God. Look in the
first chapter of Ephesians. Verse 16. "I cease not to give
thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. That the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge
of him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened
that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the
riches of the glory and his inheritance in same, and what is
the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe."
How many believers I have in here tonight? Whoa. According to
the working of his mighty power which he wrought or which he
worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all
principalities. Far above all power. Far above all might. Far
above all dominion. And every name that's named not only in
this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all
things under his feet and gave him to be the head of all things
to the church which is his body. Glory be the God. Hallelujah.
Well, hey. While you're there, just slip on over here to second
chapter, praise God. Oh, glory to God. Thank you, lord Jesus.
Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Look, see that
verse 21 there? "Far above all principality and power." Draw
you a little line from verse 21 down to verse 6 of chapter 2.
Now let me read it to you. "Far above all principality and power
and might and dominion. Every name that's named, not only in
this world but also in that which is to come, and has raised
us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus." Where? Far above. Far above. Far above all
principality. All power. Glory. All dominion. Quit just sitting
around down here. Get up there and take your place. Glory to
God. Hallelujah. Don't come talking to me about that
unworthy business. No, no. You can come boldly to the throne of
grace because that's where you sit. Every time I read that
scripture I kind of see myself on my face crawling up to the
throne of grace. I don't know, just kind of image I have of
that. And there's nothing wrong with you falling on your face,
you understand. But he didn't say anything about crawling up
to the throne of grace. He said come boldly. Come boldly and
obtain. Come boldly and obtain mercy and find grace to help in
a time of need. Well, actually, when you get right down to it,
you don't have to go far, because you're already sitting
there. Raised up to sit together with him in heavenly places. Oh,
my, my, my, my, my. Glory be to God forevermore. "That in the
ages to come he might show," oh, we going to the show. "That he
might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness
towards us through Christ Jesus." Oh, thank you, Father.
Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Now, then let's go to 1
Peter 1:23. We were there already. Let's go finish our
assignment there. 1 Peter 1:23. "Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but in incorruptible by the word of God
which liveth and abideth forever." Say that's me.
CONGREGATION: That's me. KENNETH: Praise God. Now go to
the second chapter, the ninth verse. "You are a chosen
generation. A royal priesthood. A holy nation. A peculiar people
that you should show forth the praises of him who have called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light." Oh. Now back
to the book of Colossians again. We're talking about the renewing
of the mind with the fact that you are a new creation. You're a
new creature. You ought to talk about being a new creature all
the time. And things that have been bothering you, you say,
"No, no, no. I don't do that anymore, I'm a new creature."
I'm a new creation. I'm part of a royal priesthood. Glory to
God. I am royalty, you know. Colossians chapter 1. Oh, my
goodness. Verse 12. "Giving thanks unto the Father which has
made us meet," or made us able, "to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light." Now here's what happened
to you and me the moment you invited Jesus into your heart
and received him as your Lord and Savior. "Who hath." Has
already. "Who hath delivered us from the power." Look that word
up. It means authority. Dominion. "Who hath delivered us
from the authority of darkness and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son." The word dear, translated dear is
the word agape. The love. We've been translated into the love
kingdom. Hallelujah. Whoa. Glory to God. Children of the light.
Born of the light. We put on the armor of light, and we walk in
the light as he is in the light and his blood cleanses us from
all sin. That's enough to shout about right there. Dear Lord.
But when the pressure's on, and it seems like nothing's working.
I'm confessing and confessing and nothing's happening. And the
devil's ripping around roaring saying " ... You didn't really
think that was going to work for you." I mean, it worked for
Copeland and them, but you know. Look at you. Who do you think
you are. Mr. Devil, let me tell you who I think I am. You know,
I think I'm royalty. I think I'm born of a royal priesthood. I
think I'm a new creature in Christ Jesus. I think I am a
twin brother to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And while we're at it,
let's talk about your sorry future. Look what you did.
You're the idiot that thought that you could overcome God.
You're the one that thought you could overthrow the almighty
one. Well, you see what happened to you. You got stomped, kicked,
whooped, beat, lost everything you had. No, don't flee yet. I
ain't done with you. And it's going to be one of these days
they going to make a sail cat out of you, buddy. They going to
sail you off into the very very hot world of the lake of fire.
And your sorry self is going to cook forever and ever and ever
and ever and ever and ever. And I'm going to be walking the
streets of glory. I will be one of the glorified ones with the
my Lord and my Savior. And besides all of that, Satan, let
me tell you something else, I have a measure of the same faith
on the inside of me that God used to set this universe into
motion. Now, wait a minute, don't flee yet. I ain't done
with you. Just sit around there and get depressed and
discouraged. In the early years of my life I yielded to that
spirit of depression. And it'll kill you. But you going to have
to speak up to get it out of the house. Let the redeemed of the
Lord say so. CONGREGATION: Say so. KENNETH: When they came in
and told Kelly that Lindsey had neisseria meningitidis an
infectious disease. The doctor that looked at her spinal fluid,
he let them know that they didn't think Lindsey'd make it
to morning. Kelly told me, she said, "Daddy, that is the
blackest thing came down over me." She said, "it seemed like
it was so heavy." She turned to Terri. Terri said, I'm telling
you she had fire in her eyes. She turned to Terri and she
said, "I refuse to fear." She said, "Daddy, when I said that,"
she said, "that thing flew off me." She said it was amazing how
weak that thing was. There's been time I just jumped up on my
feet, and just screamed, "Praise God." Just as loud as I could
and out the door it went. But you're sitting there, you feel
like there's a knot down in there somewhere and you can't
swallow it and you can't spit it up and you just feel like
something's just dogging you. Just moaning, "Oh, nothing's
working." Shut up. Put on your armor. I'm telling you, strap
that belt on, and take that sword in hand. I come at you,
Satan, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You
take your hands off of me. You get out of my presence. You
leave this place. I resist you. James 4:7 says, "I resist you,
you flee!" You flee. You flee. You go now. I'm a new creature.
I am new creature. I am born of the Christ himself. There's
greatness in me. The greater one lives in me. He's in me right
now. Don't mess with me, devil. Don't mess with me, devil. Don't
you mess with me. You're messing with the King of kings. You're
messing with my Lord. You're messing with my Savior. You're
messing with the power of the Holy Ghost. Don't you mess with
me. Don't you mess with my Savior. You take your hands off
of my family. You take your hands off of my past.
You get your hands off my life. You get out!
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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