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Kenneth Copeland
I move by what I feel. I don't live by what I see because my God has made a way for me now. How? This is Kenneth Copeland and the know his name but Craig Stevens. Amen. And 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. I don't know their names, but they're here on. Yeah, I know Eric's name. But anyway, we love you. And the words of Jesus are always in red, not blue or some other color because they represent his blood. And I know I have when the Amplified Bible was first done, it was done. And I have a New Testament, the classic Amplified. Before they had the rest of it done, well, it was just black print, black and white. So I went in there and underlined them in red until the rest of it came out the classic. Now this is the classic Amplified of course here, but then they fixed it and like my dad said, if it isn't broke, don't fix it. But anyway, that gave us the opportunity to put it back in print. So it's the KCM and KCM publications now. But right now we only have the paperback. But as you get and of course as we have the leather bound and so forth, it'll be as. But anyway, you know what I did.
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Craig Stevens
On the computer a few years back? I took all of the red lettering and I copied and pasted it to a page in each book of the Bible and I would read it out, did it for over a year. I would read his words only out loud to myself because I needed to know what he sounded like.
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Kenneth Copeland
Praise God, I made my own Bible. Greg, that is outstanding was just his words.
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Craig Stevens
And I would write on there, I typed in there, this is chapter 11 of Mark. And here he's at Bethany Jerusalem.
- [02:35]
Kenneth Copeland
Yes.
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Craig Stevens
And so I would know where it was happening, but I read it outside to myself so I could hear his voice and know what he sounds like.
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Kenneth Copeland
The most powerful revelation of the Bible is the power of words. 99% of the human race thinks they're for communication only. They're not all words contain something. They are spiritual containers. I mean, look what words of hate can do. I mean containing that if once you speak out a hateful word and put some power behind it, you can't ever get it back and you can destroy somebody's life with it.
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Craig Stevens
That's right, that's right. It's called the evil tongue in Hebrew, Lashon hara. Yes, and once you've done lashon Hara, interesting thing, this is something that Jewish kids were taught that Christian kids were Never taught is a true statement said about somebody that causes harm, brings down their reputation, can't get it back. Benedict Arnold's example. I never knew Benedict Arnold. What I know about him, he's a traitor. Based on what? What somebody said. Now, that happens to be true. But if you're a relative, a descendant of that, you understand, I can't get it back once I've said it.
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Kenneth Copeland
They're called arrows. Yeah. Today they're called bullets. There have been people that have been killed with a gun that didn't intend to die, but they're dead nevertheless. And my dad used to tell me, kenneth, that bullet doesn't have any brains. You better have some.
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Craig Stevens
The same principle, Brother Copeland, is this. I'll defend my friend. Right there is Mike. If somebody says something about Mike and I say, I don't care what you say about Mike, I know this about him. Well, I've said something nice, I've defended him. But I implied that there is something there and that's just as guilty of this. This is why James talks about confession so much. The rabbis go on and say, it's not just your words, it's your body language. If you roll your eyes.
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Kenneth Copeland
Or you could be like the little nine year old girl in the invalid tent. And so she was paralyzed and the family obviously had to rig this thing up. And they had a two by eight piece of lumber on this wheelchair and had her strapped down to that like this. Well, Brother Roberts had preached the point of contact now when we pray for you. And of course I related it and move something if it isn't anything but your little finger, she started doing her eyes.
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Craig Stevens
Amen.
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Kenneth Copeland
And she said, mama, get me out of this chair, I'm healed. She said, baby, I said, get me out of this chair, I'm healed. They unstrapped her, Whoa, I'm healed. She running. She said, I told you I was healed. And just rolling her eyes. But there's two different. She did that in faith, not in hate.
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Craig Stevens
Now, yesterday you started talking about faith. And you were at the city of Faith, at the door, when a man.
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Kenneth Copeland
Had made a confession, he said. And then he said, I told you he would be the first one. But that comes from this mark, 11:20 in the morning. As they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. Peter, calling to remembrance, saith unto him, master, behold the fig tree which you cursed is withered away. Jesus answering, said unto them, have faith in God. The cross reference says, have the faith of God. For verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea. And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say unto you where what things, soever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and you'll have them. Now, that's the way you got saved. You believed it in your heart and said it with your mouth. The apostle wrote it in the tenth chapter of Romans. Paul the apostle. Anyway, if you do not forgive, forgiveness is involved in this. But he believed that, and he said it, and the Lord arranged it. So I would be down there right at the time that that bell rang. He said, see there, Noemi, I told you. Now, here's what happened. Mother was in the hospital overnight. So we went over to Billy Joe Daugherty's church, praising God. Well, I started getting sick. My stomach. Lord, Lord, what is this? It came up in my spirit. Cancer. I said, I don't have cancer. I was at Grace Temple in a morning service, and a man walked in the morning service. Now, this, for those of you who don't know. This was our home church. And of course, this was before Emic. And I was preaching there. And Harold Nichols baptized Gloria and me and John and Kelly all at the same time. Because we had both been baptized as children. She in the church of Christ, and I was in the Baptist church. But it didn't take. So we wanted to be. We want to be baptized in water. Followed the Lord that way. And Harold Nichols baptized us both in John and Kelly. So we were all baptized at the same time.
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Craig Stevens
Praise God.
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Kenneth Copeland
Anyway, this man carried her in there. He said, brother Copeland, would you pray for my wife? She has cancer. Well, I laid hands on her, and I knew. Oh, man, I knew the anointing of God came all over me. And I took the scriptures of laying on of hands and so forth, you know, and laid hands very tenderly on her. And the power of God went out of me. But he questioned my mind about it. And it's happening right now for somebody in the heart business. Yes, yes, yes, it's happening for heart trouble right now. That's right, wherever you are, praise God. And so I didn't hear from him, so I called him, and here was his. The way he said, Copeland, he said, you know, now, he said, I'm not the worst looking guy in the world. He said, I played a little pro football, and I keep myself in good shape. He said, my wife is completely healed. He Said, no cancer left in her body. He said, she totally, completely healed. And he said, I just taking her food to her, and she was just getting stronger and stronger and stronger. And he said, just one morning, just here a few days ago, he said, I took her breakfast into her, and she looked up to me and smiled. She said, jim, you know how much I love you. He said, well, yeah, maybe. What has. She said, but. And he said, she reached up and caught a hold of my shirt and pulled me down a little bit. And she said, you know how much I love you. And she said, but I've seen Jesus and I'm going home. And he said, so she did. But he said, I'm going to tell you something, Copeland. If she's Jean Jesus, you ain't got a chance, right? But he said, okay. He said, I know that. And he said, now I'm closer to Jesus than I am.
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Craig Stevens
Let me ask you a question. Is it possible for us to think we're in faith, but we're in fear and we're holding people here? Yes, and we need to release them.
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Kenneth Copeland
Brother Hagin called that the jaws of death.
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Craig Stevens
Okay.
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Kenneth Copeland
And you just hang on and hang on. There was a situation in his ministry. This young man, well, in fact, his name was Jim now, he'd done some work for them there in their offices. And so Buddy Harrison was his pastor. And he went over into a coma. And they kept praying for him and praying for him, praying for him, praying for him, praying for him. And the word of the Lord came to Brother Hagin. Certain spiritual laws have been put into motion that cannot be reversed at this time. Young so he just went to the hospital. He's in a coma. And he just walked over there and said, jim, we release you. And he just smiled and left. Smiled and left. So he heard him. He smiled and left. So then he told his brother, well, he said, brother Hagin, I know exactly what that was. He said. He kept saying, I'll never see 40 years old. He said, when we. He said, we were so close together, we were like twins. And he said, we're very close. And he said, I remember out camping one time, he just turned around to me and he said, you know, I'll Never live be 40 years old. Why? He said, no, he said, I'll never live to be 40 years old. He said, I just know it. And so he said, mama, come over here and listen to what Brother Hagin said. She said, well, yeah. He said that since he was a little boy, that he had never lived to be 40 he died two months short of his 40th birthday. Because he had what? He said, right now he's a believer. Loves the Lord.
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Craig Stevens
Oh, he's in heaven. He's in heaven. But went too soon.
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Kenneth Copeland
And then I heard Brother Hagin say this. He said, even had I known what. Even had I known what he had done, he said, I don't think we could have reversed it. Because he'd done it so long, he had schooled himself into believing it. Now I remember that flashed across my mind that. That I'd never lived to be 50. And back when that happened, I mean, I didn't know anything. And that flashed across my mind two or three times. And I said, forget that. But here, you can't stop it from.
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Craig Stevens
Coming to your mind. No, but we all give it. We give it power. If we say it, begin to speak it.
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Kenneth Copeland
Now, when I was in Jamaica and the Lord had instructed me to go up into the mountains and preach and teach faith. And finally then I found out, I asked Deacon Lewis why he was there. He said, I quit my job to be here. I said, why? He said, because since I'm learning faith from you, I can get me a better job. He said, all of us that are involved in this, we've been fasting and praying a day, a week for somebody to come teach us faith. That's the reason I was there. Well, finally we were headed to the meeting, and the pastor that was in charge of me, he said, can we go pass by this place and pray for a woman? And I said, well, yeah. He said, better, Copeland, can we go by this, pray for this woman? I said, what's the matter with her? She mad? I said, what? Crazy. You know him. So we're up there where there's no electricity. This home, it looked like a scare house. It's a big house, but it was night and only lit with kerosene lanterns. Well, I saw some of them in there that looked like they qualified, but I. Anyway, we went on back, all the way back to the back. There was a young woman, just if you can imagine, this old cotton ticking tick mattress, no bed, shut clothes. She had a stick about this long and a red bandana and everything she owned in that bandana. And she's up like this in that bandana, like this. Well, there's a former Marine by the name of Earl that went with me on that trip. And we walked in there and the pastor, Earl and me. And so she's just down here, like. Then she looked over there at that pastor. She said, you Must be Brother Weber. Well, that was a radio preacher that was really big there in. In the Western Indies. They get them wrong. And she went like that. And she turned around, you must be Oral Roberts. He said, no, ma', am, I'm not. And she went to me, she said, I know who you are, and you're afraid of anything that is in flesh and blood. I said, I fear no man or beast. And in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you come out of her now. Right now. Right now. I said, look at me, baby. Look at, look at. Look at me. The Lord sent me here to tell you Jesus loves you. And I saw the change. And her eyes were no longer glazed over and a little smile. Waiting on me to preach. So I left and I asked him, I said, what happened to her? He said, she was a waitress, had a good job. And there was a group came into town and they were preaching Jesus, and she got saved. Oh, he said she was so thrilled and said she had her hair fixed and got her nails done and had her hair trimmed up a little bit. She's going to church for the first time in her life. And she started in the door, and they said, wait a minute. What is that on your fingernails? And it got. You have cut your hair. Now, see, here's what I didn't know. Jesus doesn't love any woman that cuts you. She left. She's just a little baby.
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Craig Stevens
Christian Pharisees.
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Kenneth Copeland
And she thought about it and thought about it and thought about it and thought about it until she yielded to that spirit so badly she could no longer hold down a job. She grieved and grieved and grieved. Because Jesus didn't love her anymore. And I'm quite certain that the Lord sent me for her and for the young woman that was raised from the dead.
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Craig Stevens
Amen.
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Kenneth Copeland
That's what happens in your thought.
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Craig Stevens
She became obsessed with it. Became an oppression and turned into possession.
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Kenneth Copeland
And so in these last seconds, let me say it to you like this. Somebody standing a little bit. God, don't let them die. God, don't let them die. God, don't let them die. God, don't let them. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God, don't let them die. Don't let them. Let them die. Just because you're afraid to die, don't let them die. Oh, God, don't let them die. Don't let them die. Don't let them die. That's none of your business. Fearfully crying out to God now If we're talking about a little baby here, that's still not the way to get it done.
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Craig Stevens
That's right. That's correct.
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Kenneth Copeland
No, you go before the Lord and you calm down and you roll all your care over on him. Glory to God, and we're out of time. I'll talk to you about it just here in a second or two. We'll be back in a minute.
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Kenneth Copeland
This has been a good week. You believe that? See you next time. Go to church Sunday. Praise God. Like I told you last week. Start a revival or a riot someplace, you know. Get out on the street and make them arrest you.
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Craig Stevens
That away you that away.
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Kenneth Copeland
That sound like Brother Hagin, didn't it? That's East Texas. I'm West Texas.
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Craig Stevens
Yeah, that's right.
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Kenneth Copeland
That away. They went that way anyway. They put you in jail. You get on the front page and you can tell them all about Jesus. Very serious about this. Amen. They threatened me with jail one time because I wouldn't give the government what they wanted. And I said, well, I preach in jails all the time. Go ahead, let's have it out. And they said later when you said that, he said, oh. They said everybody in his office got afraid. I don't put him. I'm going to put some preacher in jail. But that's who we are. We'll see you again. Until next time, this is Kenneth Copeland, Professor Greg Stephens and the entire class reminding you that God loves you and we love you and Jesus is Lord. Yes, he is. Hallelujah. Yes he is. Yes. Amen.
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Craig Stevens
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Kenneth Copeland
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Craig Stevens
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Craig Stevens
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Kenneth Copeland
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