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I move by what I feel. I don't live by what I see because my God has made a way for me. Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland. This is Greg Stevens. Let me. Ambassador Huckabee. Well, he wasn't ambassador then. He was interviewing a man that said most Christians cannot quote over five of the Ten Commandments. And most of them, three. And I vote. Huh, let's see here. So that's the reason now, Ambassador Huckabee. And so anyway, that's where it came from. So I began to study them again. And. And he was right. I know. I missed two. And you got them a bottle.
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Anyway, to your point, I did a little news research for us here. My victory news card. I found the polls. YouGov poll, Pew Poll, Barna Research. 60% cannot name five of the ten. 90% of Americans believe certain commandments are relevant. Murder, stealing and lying. The others are not.90%. Many believe the Golden Rule is one of the Ten Commandments. Fewer than half of all adults can name all the four Gospels.
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Oh, come on.
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No, I'm serious. Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels. Now it's changing. Louisiana became the first state with Governor Landry requires the display of the Ten Commandments in all schools. And they be taught from kindergarten all the way up through high school. Now officially displaying these other states that have come on board. Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, north and South Dakota, Indiana, Tennessee and Mississippi. So it's going to change.
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Yes.
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Amen.
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Yes. Praise God. Yes. Thank you, Jesus.
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You know, I do this, Brother Copeland at the Bible school, I hate to say this, and there's some former students in here. I do this with them in their first year when they first get there. And when we get to Exodus 20 testament survey. I asked him about the 10 commandments. I said, what's your favorite one? Do you remember? Any of you remember this?
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I do.
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What's your favorite one? What about number four? Do you like four? Do you like seven? What's number six? I do that with you? Did I not do that? And many of them can't do it.
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They don't know.
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By the time they come to Bible school, they don't know.
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Well, let me tell you this. And that's the way I did it. Well, I put it up there on my mirror right before my. I went through it this morning, but as just the way I used to do in the old days when there was no simulator to flying. So I did it the same way I did back there then. And I'd read them number One, I'll have no other gods before me. Number two, I make no graven image. Number three. I do not take his name in vain. Yes. And. And brings me to tears. I honored my father in my life all the days of my life. Yes.
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Remember the Sabbath. Keep it holy.
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Yes. And I just put this on today.
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We're going right now. So do you want to pick up.
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No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Just a minute. And I tell people I had a drug problem when I was about six or eight years old. What? My mama drugged me to church every. I wanted to go.
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Yeah.
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I'm so glad she did. And I have the memory of this in my mind. We left. We left first. We left University Baptist Church and went downtown. The First Church. First Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas. They had a balcony. And my mother noticed one morning that. Wait till he gets home.
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Yeah, I can put that back in.
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I was laying down on the balcony. Oh. But I absolutely honored my father and my mother because she honored me when we got home. And somebody said, you know.
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Most.
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Homes now have switches, except the children. Come on. My mother was a switcher. My little legs just.
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My grandfather was the pastor, the preacher, and he'd be right in the. He just. He wouldn't even look up. He'd just be reading the deal. He'd go, gregory. And that was it.
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I'm like, how did he know?
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I don't know how he knew. He would always say, well, the Holy Ghost tells me that's what he'd always say.
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John said, daddy, how you always. How do you always know what I'm thinking? I said, john, that's easy. I thought it before you. And let's get down to business.
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We covered commandment one fairly well yesterday. If you missed it, go back and watch it. I am the Lord. Your God brought you out of Egypt. Have no other gods before me. And then the second one is like unto it. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing in heaven above or in the earth beneath, nor in the water of the earth. Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God is jealous.
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God.
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Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third, the fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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Yes.
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There are four prohibitions listed in that verse. We don't make any three dimensional graven images because we are created in his image. He's three parts. Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We're three parts. I'm a spirit, I have a soul. I live in a body. It's three dimensional. I can't be worshiping a statue that somebody made. Three dimensional statue.
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Gordon Robertson was. He really did not want to go to the mission field and so forth, but he was in India and he saw this woman praying to a rock. That's all she knew. He said, well, that did it for me.
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Nor are we to worship anything that he created the rock or a bird or a fish or the sun or. Or the moon or anything like that. That's what Abraham was when he was Abram.
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Now you really hit it when you talked about the moon, the half moon.
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Absolutely. Islam, it's on the flag, on everything they do. Here's the point of this. That was a betrothal. Judaism was born on that first Pentecost when they received these 10 Commandments. And here's the thing. Because they were already breaking them. We'll talk about that later. Because they were already breaking them. Three thousand died that day. Ground swallowed them up on the second Pentecost. Fulfillment of Pentecost, not the second Pentecost. There was one the next year. But when Pentecost was fulfilled in Acts chapter 2, 3000 were born again that.
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Day.
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For a reason. Because here's the point. God is completely committed to us and our relationship with him. He'll never be unfaithful to you. He'll never be unfaithful to me. See, this is the blessing side of the commandments. You can look at it as God's trying to restrict you and. No, he's trying to save you. He's trying to protect you. He's trying to protect your family. He's trying to protect. They thought they knew everything coming out of Egypt. They didn't know anything.
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Well, and think about what happened at Babel. Yes, the languages were confused. Now, that didn't mean immediately somebody was speaking French. No, no, no. Had that been the case, they could have learned the difference in a year. They just couldn't understand. It's anything they could imagine they could accomplish.
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Because they were in unity.
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And so the Lord dispersed them around the parts of the world. And when the explorers got over here, the Native Americans. Columbus thought he was in India. That's the reason they're called Indians. The American Indian, when they got over here, they had their own language.
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Some of them could write even.
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Well, the Cherokee developed an Alphabet looks.
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Very much like ancient Hebrew.
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Yeah. Wow.
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Well, looks very Much like it.
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When they. When they excavated the burial mounds in what is Cherokee, North Carolina, they found Middle Eastern alloy and these markings on there. And they took it to a language expert. He said, no, that's pale in Hebrew.
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How did they get that? Let me show you this real quick. Because many people get this wrong in verse five. Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them, for I, your Lord, your God, am a jealous God. Now, this part right here. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me. Pay attention to that.
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Yes.
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You got to pay attention to the words. And showing mercy. Chesed.
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Yes.
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Unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. So here's the point. So many think when he states he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, they think the wrong way when they see that God's memory is perfect, absolutely perfect. Lucifer's is not. But God's memory is perfect. He allows his children time to repent. He waits until the iniquity rises to a certain level. He's long suffering his mercy will. What he's saying here is, my mercy will extend to several generations. I'll remember this so that they can get. They can get. Right. Verse four proves it. The word thousands there in Hebrew, Alofim, is a double plural indicating 2,000 generations.
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Yes.
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So if his memory of all those that hate him is only three to four generations, his chesed memory is 2,000 generations.
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Whoo. Glory to God.
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So he only remembers a very short time. Those that hate him, but those that love him. It's a double. It's 2,000 generations that he'll remember that.
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And you go back to, what is it? Isaiah 40:3. I, even I am he.
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Blot out your transgression.
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Blot out your transgression. For my own sake.
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For his own sake. The reason he doesn't remember my sin any longer, thanks to Jesus, is because of his sake. He can bless me in that.
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Go ahead.
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See, everything changed at the cross. You're in a new covenant now. So when we look at these commandments, don't let yourself be condemned by the commandments. If you're in Christ Jesus, they have been fulfilled. Now I align my will toward this. Some people say, well, Paul teaches totally against the Ten Commandments. Yes, he does and no, he doesn't. If you're looking at the Ten Commandments for your righteousness to make you right with God, they won't.
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They won't do it.
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So here's the thing. What does he remember? He remembers what Jesus did. I should keep my faith in what Jesus did. And because I keep my faith in what Jesus did and love him. These all hang on love. All 10 of them hang on love. And I love him. Then I won't steal, I won't kill, I won't do these things. I'll keep God first. I'll remember the Sabbath.
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Now then, class, Genesis.
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Yes.
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One. And Elohim blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply till the waters in the sea. This is page two, very beginning of it. Do you see that in my Bible, I turn this over here and it says page two. In page two, the first thing any human ear heard was to be blessed. Yeah. So, and I read that and I read that and I read it and I read it and read it and read it and read it and read it and I wrote it and read up here at the top, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. The blessing.
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That's it. That's it.
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Hence came the book, the blessing of the Lord. It maketh rich. And he added sorrow to it. So if that's what he started here, if Elohim blessed, it's Elohim blessing all the way through. Absolutely true. And when you get over to here and right. Nine, five. And to them was given that they should not kill them, but that they. Whoa.
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Revelation.
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And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels prevailed not. Oh, Jesus Christ, Nazareth. The same yesterday, today and forever the temple was filled. Oh, glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Oh, what do we, what do we overcome them and all these things. Ah, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. The end. Boom.
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All the way through. It's all the way through. Now, if I was created in his image, why do I need another image?
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And in this case, in this case, it's wonderful to read the back of the book first. Yes, sir.
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Yes, sir. You know, I've had people come up to me and I'm not condemning you. I'm not saying you're in sin. I'm not saying you're not going to go to heaven. I'm not saying God doesn't love you and he hadn't blessed you. But I had somebody asking me about a tattoo and I said, well, you know, you do what? And then said, well, I was thinking about getting one of my family member that had dyed their face. And I said, don't do that. No, they're with him. You're making a Graven image of a person. Now, I'm not going to get in. Whether you shouldn't get tattooed or not get tattooed. I know that Jesus, when he returns, will have something written on his leg. I don't know if that's a tattoo or not, but he's got something, you know what I'm saying? So I'm not. And I know what Leviticus says and I know that you're under grace.
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I don't know what it went as. Well, not too long ago, I said, did that hurt? He said, well, yeah.
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Yeah, but my name has been written. I was created in his image. I told my daughter, she was talking to me about it. I said, well, you're beautiful like you are. You don't need pain on you to make you beautiful.
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And I don't know why I got.
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Off on that, but I just feel the need to say, have any graven images?
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And in that case, that's exactly what that would be. You're.
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Well, they're getting grief because they're still.
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That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're putting your grief on your body permanently.
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So I advise them, don't do that. If you're going to do a Bible verse or something like that, that's between you and God. I'm not going to tell you what to do. But I'm cautious about graven images like you were with flying that had become that with you. And it can be anything, guys, in our lives. And this is why you live a fasted life. If you feel something controlling you, get rid of it.
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I hadn't thought of this in years and years and years. When I was a little boy, you know, the war was going on and you could do these tattoos, they'd just.
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Stick on your arm, take them off.
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That's my dream. So I'm glad I didn't have any money. I tattooed one on me. But the whole bottom line is this.
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Before they get on you, they have to be in you.
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Yes, that's right.
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Go ahead, sir.
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Well, we have five minutes here. Why don't you wrap it up?
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So when you begin to look at these things, remember this is God's betrothal. First one, he introduces himself to them. The second one he says, because you and I are one, we're betrothed now. You're going to be a special people to me because he says, you're not going to have any graven images. You're not going to cheat on me. So here's the point. He won't cheat on you. Because here's what I wanted to get you to understand. All 10 of these. And there were the others. They all hang on, love. They all hang on the blessing. He's committing himself the way he's committing us. He won't break these. He won't break a single one of them where you're concerned. So he's going to be faithful to you and he's going to remember because you love him and keep his commandments. He's going to remember to 2000 generations, your children and your children's children. That's your inheritance of the Lord. And it's all because of the Ten Commandments.
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Glory to God. Glory to God.
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And if we would teach people this, if we would teach the nation this, we wouldn't have the problems we have. But praise God, there's a revival coming.
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Yes. We've got a preaching president, and he's.
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Got an office of faith in the White House itself.
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And whether you like it or not, in Air Force One, yes, he flew over the Gulf of Mexico and changed it. With news media in there to the Gulf of America. With news media there, it is that forever. Until somebody else changes. So all of the maps, all of the globes of the world have to be changed because of our presidency.
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So how did it become Gulf of Mexico?
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The Spaniards did it thousands of years ago. Nobody really knew.
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Because they were explorers. Yeah, they named it that.
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They named it that. Well, our explorer was exploring right over the top of it and named it that. With news media there to record it, it is done forever.
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With the stroke of pen, with just one word, with one vow. We'll start with commandment number three, and this is a big one. Tomorrow. That thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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It actually says he will not carry.
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That's it.
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The name. Right.
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That's exactly right. That's what it says in the Hebrew. Very good.
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Hallelujah. We'll be back in just a moment.
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The Believer's Voice of Victory Broadcast Study Notes will help you dive deeper into these powerful word based teachings. Get all 5 days of notes at one time. Use them during the week for your personal study time. Download them free@kcm.org notes create a special family devotional time to follow along with the notes as you watch the broadcast. Study the Scriptures with your children and begin instilling God's Word. Now use these notes to build your faith library and build up a heritage of faith. So Brother Copeland, what was the purpose? What was the purpose of this? Paul, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, explains it for us in Galatians 3:19 24 Wherefore serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed singular should come to whom the promise was made. It was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator that was Moses. They asked Moses to stand in the gap. Now a mediator is not a meteor of one, but God is one Is the law then, against the promises of God? And Paul says, God forbid. For if there had been a law given, which would have given life, verily righteousness should have come by the law. But Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise of faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Verse 23 but before faith came, we were kept under the law Shut up unto faith, which should afterwards be 3:19 through 24 should afterwards be revealed. Verse 24 wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ the Anointed One, and his anointing, that we might be justified by faith. That's the purpose of it, to be justified by faith he offered them the covenant of Abraham when they first came to the mountain. It's a covenant of faith. Abraham believed God. And they said, ah, we got this. And he said, all right, let me show you what's required.
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Now this is a case for Richard Francis Weymouth in Modern Speech. And this is the one that said, show me your faith. I'll show you my faith with corresponding action instead of works. So all of that. And so now it is a KCP publication. Amen.
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People can get this wuest New Testament modern Speech. I encourage them to do that. Jesus said, I didn't come to destroy the law of the prophets. I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. This will show you how it's fulfilled.
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And in his translation, instead of just making an explanation point, he just does it in all caps.
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That helps renew your mind. It's what you did with the blessing.
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That's right.
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All caps. Amen. That's good stuff. Praise God.
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Here we are. Praise God. Isn't this wonderful? We'll see you tomorrow. Until then, God loves you. We love you.
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And Jesus is Lord.
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Podcast: Believer’s Voice of Victory Audio Podcast
Episode: The Ten Commandments Reveal the Faithfulness of God 10/07
Date: October 7, 2025
Hosts: Kenneth Copeland and Greg Stephens
In this episode, Kenneth Copeland and Greg Stephens discuss how the Ten Commandments exemplify God’s faithfulness to His people. They reflect on these commandments' continued relevance, their impact on American society and personal spirituality, and how their deeper purpose extends far beyond legalistic application. With stories, scripture references, and memorable teaching moments, they explore the commandments in the context of a loving God who desires to bless and protect His children across generations.
Awareness Problem:
The hosts open with the observation that most Christians—and even Bible school students—struggle to list the Ten Commandments.
Shifts in Society:
Personal Practice:
Kenneth describes his method for retaining the commandments: “I put it up there on my mirror … I went through it this morning … as just the way I used to do in the old days … I’d read them: number one, ‘I’ll have no other gods before me.’ Number two, ‘I make no graven image.’ Number three, ‘I do not take his name in vain.’” (Kenneth Copeland, 03:31)
Parental Influence:
Copeland shares humorous and heartfelt stories about church attendance as a child, the value of honoring parents, and learning discipline and respect.
The Faithfulness of God:
Mercy and Judgment—A Balancing Act:
Greg illuminates Exodus 20’s “visiting the iniquity… third and fourth generations” clause:
Notable Quote:
Listeners are encouraged not to be condemned by the commandments but to recognize their fulfillment in Christ:
Walking in Love:
Commandments and Covenant:
Cultural & Linguistic Points:
No Graven Images:
Extending to Modern Issues:
Greg brings up tattoos as a modern example, cautioning against making permanent images out of grief or memorials, but not judging:
Memorable Analogy:
Living a “Fasted Life”:
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Highlight | |-----------|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:19 | Kenneth Copeland | “Most Christians cannot quote over five of the Ten Commandments. And most of them, three.” | | 01:38 | Greg Stephens | “60% cannot name five of the ten. 90% of Americans believe certain commandments are relevant.” | | 09:23 | Greg Stephens | “God is completely committed to us and our relationship with him. He’ll never be unfaithful to you.” | | 13:02 | Greg Stephens | “His chesed memory is 2,000 generations.” | | 13:11 | Greg Stephens | “He only remembers a very short time those that hate him, but those that love him ... 2,000 generations.” | | 19:44 | Greg Stephens | “Before they get on you, they have to be in you.” | | 14:22 | Greg Stephens | “All 10 of them hang on love. … Then I won’t steal, I won’t kill, I won’t do these things.” |
This episode weaves scriptural teaching, personal experience, and practical application, emphasizing the Ten Commandments not as restrictive rules but as God’s loving pledge to His people. The message is clear: God's faithfulness and mercy far outweigh His judgment; living within His boundaries leads to blessing for individuals and generations to come.