DIANA HUNT: And then I saw Jesus. He was waiting for me to
come right to the threshold. And then He said, "No, not
yet." And then the angels, on the sound of His voice, just
whipped me around and marched me back down the
corridor that I'd just come from, and I woke up in my body.
(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
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KENNETH: Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland. Let's
have a word of prayer, we'll get right into today's Bible
lesson. You are going to like it, I can tell you that. Father,
we thank You today for the Word. We thank You for
the Holy Spirit. Ho-ho, glory to God, hallelujah. And we give You
praise and honor for this mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God
that's taking place all over this world. It's happening in
the strangest places. It's happening in wonderful places.
And we just praise You for it, and we thank You for it. In
Jesus' name, amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Mm, that blessed my
spirit. Don't forget the downloads, amen, kcm.org/notes,
you need them. And, of course, they're free, just like
everything else on this broadcast. Isn't that good?
Amen. I want to go back here again today where we were
yesterday when we closed in II Corinthians 5. And I want to
read again where we were when we closed yesterday, that--and we
were talking about the righteousness of God. "Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things become new. And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, has
given to us the ministry of reconciliation; know that God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; has 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 who knew no sin was made
to be sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
Christ." "Made," not grow up into, but "made the
righteousness of God." The moment you were born again,
you're just as righteous as you're ever going to get. You
grow in holiness, but have been "made the righteousness of God
in Christ Jesus." Now, you remember I made this
illustration where I stood up, and as I stood up, I had--now,
this--see, you're not seeing me. You are seeing my physical body.
I--the apostle Paul said, "I keep my body." Get it? "I keep
my body." He wrote in the book of Romans, the 8th chapter, he
said--oh, well, in the 7th or 8th chapter, just right in there
where they coming together. He said, "There is no good thing in
me that is in my flesh." You are a spirit, you have a soul, and
you live in a body. Your soul is made up of your mind, your will,
and your emotions. And your soul is part of your spirit, and your
spirit and your soul live in this physical body. And the
Scripture--the apostle Paul--I mean the apostle Peter called it
his "tabernacle," the place where he lived, the house in
which he lived. It's called "clothing." We're clothed with
it. And I gave you the illustration that if my body
were to die--if you could see both of us standing here, we
would look just alike, only my spirit man's not fat, and he's
not old, and he's not--he's--my spirit man would look, to you,
if I stepped out, like it was about 30 years old because I'm a
grown man. Now, that's the way you're going to be when you get
to heaven, because this thing ain't going to heaven with you
until it's raised from the dead and your spirit and your body
come back together as a glorified body. Amen. Now,
that's another teaching that we don't have time to get into
today. I wanted to make that illustration to you again. Now
listen to this, Verse 6, "Therefore we are always
confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body,
we're absent from the Lord. (For we are not--we walk by faith,
not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." When
this--when this body quits, your spirit leaves the body, you
can't tell the difference except you just feel a whole lot
better. You can't tell you don't have a body. I have talked to
people, as I said yesterday, two people, one of them very, very
close friend of mine. He's gone on to be with the Lord now, but
he talked about it. And then another man that has become a
friend of mine said the same thing. He was killed in a car
wreck. And just a young man. And he--he went to heaven, and a
friend of his that had already gone home to be with the Lord
was leading him around and showing him things. And he
said--you know, he said, "Man, I felt great." He said,
"I don't remember anything about that car wreck." So this
is--this is extremely important information. Now then, I
want you to watch Don and Diana Hunt, and
pay careful attention to what Diana says right here.
DON HUNT: My name's Don Hunt, and this is my wife Diana.
We live in Sooke, in Canada. DIANA HUNT: Brother Copeland
was preaching at the Convention Center in Surrey, and
the Lord so strongly put in my heart I was to go. And I was
only able to take in one afternoon, so I got there on my
bike. He had to--one session, he was already preaching for half
an hour, and I went way up high in the farrest balcony and sat
down. I said, "Okay, Lord, I'm here. I'm ready. I'm going to
receive a word from you today, and I'm all ears." And I sat
down, and I just was waiting. And as soon as I sat down and I
said that, Brother Copeland stops. And he just--he goes over
to Brownie Bounds, starts prophesying over her. And he
says, "And for you and your company--" And I went, "That's
me. I'm the company." And he said, "Out of--out of this--what
I'm doing in your midst--" and he said a lot of things. He
said, "I want you to continue to believe to raise the dead, and
great ministries of miracles and signs and wonders, healing and
prosperity will come out of this." But as soon as he said,
"raising of the dead"--the Lord had been speaking to me about
that, to believe Him for that. So I just said, "Oh, okay. I
take that. Thank You. I'll continue to meditate and
receive that." I just didn't know I'd be the first
one--(Laughs)--literally. So, I meet with a few ladies, and we
do intercessory prayer every Friday, and we changed it for
Dominion Day, July--July 1st, on a Wednesday. And we were
praying, and then we were--it was quite a shift--a Spirit of
intercession and authority that came on us, and things were
shifting in the heavenlies. And I stopped, I said, "Heather, you
know, I just really sense there's going to be an attack on
our life." And I said, "We better deal with it now." Well,
little did I know four hours later that this accident would
occur. So I'm on a second floor balcony, and I was pitching
countertops and bookcases off, and there was no railing. So
my--I was unwisely up there without a railing, and I
got--either fell, pitched, I wasn't sure, something hooked my
arm. Went straight down towards the ground, and I saw the rocks
down below, and I was going to hit it with my head, and I knew
it would be bad. And before I hit the rocks, I just--out of my
spirit--because of the Word that's sown into us, you just
never know what's going to come out in a pickle. Ha-ha. So
anyway, out of my spirit, I just screamed, "Jesus, I claim
healing!" And I hit the rocks hard, and I heard this crack,
and a blinding light, and then it went dark. When I was down
there, two angels picked me up, a big one on the left and the
right, and they escorted me down this corridor, and it was like
gravel with grass and flowers, and then I saw a bright light.
And I thought to myself, "Oh, lots of people have a bright
light experience," right? And then it got clearer and more
detailed and more detailed, and then it became sharp, and it was
like the kingdom of heaven came into view, and I got closer and
closer as these angels are literally escorting me there.
And I saw Jesus. He was waiting for me to come right to the
threshold. And then He said, "No, not yet." And then the
angels, on the sound of His voice, just whipped me around,
and they marched me back down the corridor that I'd just come
from, and I woke up in my body on the ground, in excruciating
pain. And I was screaming, "My head, my neck!" And the
paramedics, when they come, they strap you like, you know, you've
had a--severed your neck, and put me in the ambulance. And as
they raced to the hospital, I heard them saying, "Oh, we've
lost her. She stopped breathing. Quick." And they said, "Get the
gas on her." And they said, "Diana, stay with us." I just
stopped breathing, and everything got calm, and
thing--things started to go dark, and I started going
backwards. And I knew I would just turn around and see Him,
and I go back, and I went, "Oh, great, I get to go back!" And
then I heard Jesus say, at my left shoulder, right there--he
was right there. And He said, "It's My breath in your lungs."
And He said it again, "It's My breath in your lungs." And I
just remember thinking, "Okay." And I just took my first breath,
and I said, "It's Your breath in my lungs, Jesus." And they went,
"What's she saying? She's back." And they took the mask-- "Take
the mask off." And they--and I just kept saying it, "It's Your
breath in my lungs, Jesus," all the way to the hospital. So it's
really a thank You to the Lord, first for being such a wonderful
Savior, and for His love. And, you know, heaven is a wonderful
place, and it's just all about Jesus--(Laughs)--and that--and
that the Word's sown in us, you know. The partner letters that
we get from Brother Copeland and Sister Gloria, they mean a lot
to us. I just want Brother Copeland and Sister Gloria to
know that, that we take those letters, and we read them, we
pray over them, we thank God for them that--that Brother Copeland
and Sister Gloria honor their spiritual father, Oral Roberts',
mandate to "take good care of your partners." Well, they take
good care of their partners. And when you plug into ministries
that God leads you to, to partner with, get ready for
radical stuff to happen, signs, wonders, breakthroughs, things
that were stuck get unstuck. It's the blessing. It's just the
love of God, the favor of God in these ministries
that--that are--God's honored and is honoring us by
allowing them to sow into our lives. And we're so
grateful and thankful. Our lives have been so touched
and changed. And we're just getting our feet wet.
KENNETH: Now, did you hear what she said there? I
really--whoa, I hope you caught this. Let me read you
what--something that Jesus said. "O generation of vipers, how can
you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaks." Now, we've been talking about
total immersion, getting your spirit so full of the Word of
God--remember, we talked about that last week when I kicked
that big ottoman and broke my toe? Out of the abundance of my
heart, my mouth spoke, and I shouted, "Praise God! In Jesus'
name I'm healed!" If that hadn't been in there in abundance,
something else would have come out. It would have come out, but
we would have found out what is in me in abundance, because--and
you may be--you may be a sweet guy and all that, but if the
Word's not in there in abundance, sweetheart, it ain't
coming out, not at a time like that. There's going to be
something else coming to--come out your mouth, and you say,
"Did I really say that?" But now, you notice what she said?
She was falling. She saw that rock. She was about to hit. And
out of her mouth, she shouted! Amen. Did you catch that? She
shouted the Word of God. She shouted "Jesus!" Hey, it came
out. If it hadn't have been in there, it wouldn't have come
out. Oh, my. My dear. Because you got--ha-ha-ha. That's what
total immersion is all about. Glory to God. Close friend of
mine told me--they were up in the mountains together, he and
his son. And his little daughter, a few years before--if
I remember right, it's about nine years ago. This was many,
many, many years ago. And her--their little daughter had
died, and--and they couldn't figure out why. We prayed, "Why
did this happen? How did this happen? Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah."
But they came to one of our meetings, and we got into the
Word of God, and then they saw--they saw the problem
was, that they weren't full of the Word of God. They didn't
know how to pray when that baby died. And they didn't--they
didn't know how to stand against the devil. They didn't know
anything. But he said, "Glory to God, we got into the Word of
God, and we listened to those tapes--" Tapes back there then.
"We listened to those tapes," and so forth. Well, some years
later, he and his son were out in the woods. They were in
a--hiking. All of a sudden, that boy fell to the ground in a hard
seizure and banged his head on the ground and just looked like
it killed him. He screamed at the top of his voice, just
jumped out of him, "My God, you--in the name of Jesus,
Satan, you take your hands off my son right now! You get off of
him. You get away from him now in the name of Jesus! I rebuke
you. Now get out of here!" And his son suddenly snapped out of
that seizure, and he said, "Oh. Praise God, Daddy. Praise God.
What happened?" He told me later, he said, "Brother
Kenneth, I believe with all my heart," he said, "if that Word
hadn't have been in me, it wouldn't have come out of me."
He said, "The devil would have killed my son just like he
killed my daughter if I hadn't have known what to do, if I
hadn't been full of the Word of God." Out of the abundance of
your heart your mouth speaks. Amen. Ha-ha-ha. I walked
through--I walked through a hangar one day where my airplane
was, and--this small piston twin back in those days, and it was a
Cessna 310. And this model had fuel tanks, tip tanks on the end
of the wings. Ha. And the back end of that tank came down to
about that size. It was a big tear-dropped-looking tank like
this. And the back end of it was just this high when you're
walking around. And it's happened before, and it'll
happen again. Yeah, ho-ho. People not looking and walk up
and, "bang," just hit the rear end of that tip tank right
between the eyes. Well, I'm walking in the hangar, and there
are mechanics around in there working on my--they're working
on other airplanes. And actually, they were--well, I
don't remember. But I walked in there, and I heard this guy,
"wham." Oh, man, he banged his head into that--into that--that
tip tank. And you can imagine what he said. And then he looked
up, and he saw me, and he said, "Oh, I'm sorry, preacher." I
said, "Hey, Bubba, don't let me cramp your style." (Laughs) But
I said, "You know, Jesus said, 'Out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks.' Now we know what's in you big time."
(Laughs) And I just busted out laughing. He went, "Oh." I don't
think it helped him a bit. (Laughs) But see, that's what
happens. I've noticed this. I'm thinking about the worst air
disaster in the history of aviation that happened on the
island of Tenerife, two 747s ran together, burst open, and all
kinds of flame, and killed a bunch of people and all that.
The cockpit voice recorder--I mean, you--this is general
information. You can find it out on the Internet somewhere--the
captain of one of those airplanes, as it hit like that.
He--one airplane's on the--on the runway like this, and the
other one did this. And the nose gear of that 747 ripped this one
open, and fuel going everywhere. And they were right here. The
captain of this airplane--he shouted God's name in vain and
shouted, "We're all gonna die!" How much better it would have
been if he'd have been so full of the Word of God and so full
of the Holy Ghost. If that had been the case, he wouldn't have
made the stupid mistake that he did in the first place and
killed everybody. But if somebody had shouted, "Glory be
to Jesus, we'll live and not die, and declare the works of
the Lord!" a miracle would have--could have occurred.
Probably would have, because that come out of you, and the
power of the Spirit, the power of the Holy Ghost, when it--when
faith words come out your mouth without you having to call on, I
want you to know, they've got God's faith along with your
faith in them. That is a manifestation of the gift of
faith. Whoa. That's where you want to be all the time. You
want to do things God's way. Remember that's what we're
talking about? Let's go over there right quick. I want to
read that again. Isaiah 55, "My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord." Well, we want
to do things His way, and we want to have His thoughts, and
have His thoughts and His Word compounded into our spirit being
where it floods our--floods our consciousness, where our
emotions are controlled by it and we're on the perfect will of
God. I don't want any other will in my life but the perfect will
of God. And to get there, boy, there's times, I'm telling you,
that you have to get hold of your flesh and say, "Shut your
nasty mouth and sit down and be quiet! We're doing this God's
way whether you like it or not! Get on your knees, Kenneth
Copeland, and shut that unbelief up." I've done myself that way,
where you just--and there--I'm telling you, there's been times
I slapped my own jaw, hard! You remember that commercial, years
ago on television, I don't know, some shaving lotion, and the guy
slapped himself, and he said, "Ah, I needed that." Ha-ha-ha.
Well, listen, there were times I needed that. Amen. And I've done
it, where you just get before the Lord, "Your will be done,
Your will be done." "Oh, he might send me to China." Well,
then China is the best place you could possibly be. That's where
your grace is, that's where your thrill is. Your life would be so
marvelous if you're in the will of God. And he may be saying,
"Are you willing to go to China?" (Grumbling) Hey, you
better quit that. "Sir, I'm yours to command. I'm a soldier
in the army of the Lord. I'm willing to go anywhere. I'm
willing to do whatever You say. I'm willing." The Lord said,
"Good. I'm going to send you to China. I just needed to know if
you was willing." Listen, these things are real, my brother and
sister. This is life in the faith lane. Hee-hee-hee. Isn't
that good? Now, the love way, oh, absolutely so. Love never
fails. That's God. Love is--God is love. He has faith, but He is
love. The love way, the Word way. God and His Word are one.
"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." So love
and God and the Word, this is the Word of love, this is the
life of love. Whoa, glory to God. And you'll find, in I
Corinthians, 13th chapter, "Love never fails." There are people
that fail love, but love never fails. Anytime love is put to
work in a situation and held there by faith, held there by
grace, held there by the Word, it will not fail. Amen. You've
got God's Word for it. The love way, the Word way. God does
nothing without the Word of God. You think about this. On
creation day, love, Word, faith, Spirit. The love way, Word way,
faith way, "By my Spirit, saith the Lord." We've talked about
that, talked about that. That's the way this whole thing got
started. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth. The Spirit of God was moving on the face of the
green--face of the deep." Now, see, there was chaos and all
that on the face of the deep. Nothing was happening until God
said, "Light be." Then the Spirit of God, "Whoa!" "Light
was." Jesus said, "If my--the--I only say what I hear my Father
say, I only do what I see my Father do. It is the Father that
dwells within me," the Spirit of God, "he does the works." Oh,
glory. Glory, glory, glory. I said, "Glory, glory, glory." It
is that same Holy Ghost living inside you right now! Somebody
shout, "Amen." Glory to God. Something happens in this
physical body, and you just step out of it and say, "Whoo! I feel
good! Glory to--look at there, there's Jesus! What are you
afraid of?" There ought not be any fear in you to die because
He's given us the victory. I'll see--I'll be back in a minute.
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