(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: True peace isn't the absence of war or strife.
Shalom is the peace that comes from being whole in every area
of your life. Learn more today on the Believer's
Voice of Victory with Gloria Copeland and Billye Brim.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's Voice
of Victory. We're glad you're here today. Billye Brim's back
with us, and she's got some really great things for you to
learn and for me to learn. She's teaching me, too. BILLYE: And
me, too. GLORIA: I've got notes, and I'm ready to hear and grow
up more and more. BILLYE: You know, I wanted to--when you
asked me to do this program, you tell me what-- "You choose the
subject." And I hadn't taught on this in a long, long time. And I
thought, "I need to reinforce myself on it." We used to have a
pastor, Cooper Beaty, at our church in Collinsville. And he
would say, "When I point like this to you, I've got a thumb
going back at me." So that's how it is about--this is--you know,
faith comes how? GLORIA: By hearing. BILLYE: And hearing by
how? GLORIA: The Word of God. BILLYE: So, you see? I'm going
to be getting-- GLORIA: There's no other way that it tells us we
can get it-- BILLYE: No other way. GLORIA: --that I know
about. BILLYE: So I'm going to--I'm going to--I'm getting
it. I'm going over the word of it because me--our subject is
shalom, the Hebrew word "shalom." It means peace, but
not just the absence of war. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE: It means
the peace that comes because something is wholed--whole. It
has this--it has a root word to it. GLORIA: Yes, amen. BILLYE:
And the root word is "whole," be whole, w-h-o-l-e. GLORIA: All is
well. BILLYE: Jesus gave us--He said, "You have wholeness with
God. I came to give you wholeness." And we're going to
get to that later. GLORIA: Oh, that'll be good. We like that.
BILLYE: But right now we're back in the Old Testament because
there's where we find the Hebrew language and there where we find
the basis for knowing what Jesus said to us and knowing that the
angels didn't miss it when they said, "He's come to give
peace--" GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: "--on earth, good will toward
men." GLORIA: That's going to be great. BILLYE: So going just
into the Hebrew way the language is built, there are--there are
about 240, 240-some families or roots of--and it's a root wheel.
It's like a wheel. And I'm going to just read you this from
Horowitz's book, "How the Hebrew Language Grew." "We come now to
the central theme of all word building in Hebrew; it is the
central rhythm of the whole, vast, far-flung structure of the
Hebrew language." There's a rhythm to it. "Practically all
words in Hebrew go back to a root--and this root must have in
it three consonants." I think there are some with two, but
usually, it's three. "You can do anything you want to the root:
you can use it in any verb--any verb form or tense, you can turn
it into any one of ten or twenty nouns," the same root. "You can
make it an adjective, you can make it an adverb, and you can
make it a preposition, you can do anything you want to with
it." But here is the big rule, underlying thought, "No matter
what you do--" make it a verb, make it a noun, make it a
preposition, "No matter what you do you will always see staring
you in the face the three consonants of the root. You can
never escape them." You cannot use any form of this word
without seeing that it comes--we're going to take the
word "shalom." And the root word of it is "shalem." You can't use
any form of "shalom" without seeing in it "shalem," without
seeing in it "wholeness." What did Jesus say to the woman with
the issue of blood? "Your faith has--" TOGETHER: "--made you
whole." GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: And I can guarantee you He
didn't speak Greek to her. GLORIA: No. BILLYE: He spoke
Aramaic to her. And Aramaic and Hebrew, they have the same
letters, the same alphabet. He said, "Your faith has made you
shalom." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: There's nothing missing
about you. And we're going to get to her and what all she got.
Folks, we're going to even show you that she got her money back,
that--you know, the physicians, she spent all of her money on
them. So wholeness, you don't see anything-- GLORIA: That's
good. BILLYE: --any form of this word unless you see "whole." No
matter what you do with-- GLORIA: Nothing missing. BILLYE:
No matter what you do with the root-- GLORIA: Nothing broken.
BILLYE: --no matter what word you turn it into, that word must
carry in it something of the meaning of the root. GLORIA:
Amen. BILLYE: And now, Gloria, you can use this right here that
we've got. Right here. GLORIA: Is this this? BILLYE: That page,
yeah. GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE: We're going to look at the word
"shalem." It's a root word. It's one of the 240-plus root words.
And it is "shalem," and it means--right here on the front,
right there. On-- GLORIA: What front? BILLYE: --the front right
there. And it means, "Be whole, complete." "It probably never
occurred to you--" He's writing to high school students who are
studying Hebrew. They're Jews. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE: This is
a textbook. "It probably never occurred to you and it may
faintly amuse you to know that when someone says to you
inquiringly 'Ma shlomcha'--" "What is your peace?" And
Hebrews say it today. You greet someone--actually, people were
saying it down here at Eagle Mountain. I got off the plane
yesterday, and one of the young men that greeted me and took my
bag said, "Ma shlomech," which means, "What is your peace?"
GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE: So if I'm greeting you, I might just say
to you, "Shalom," but I might say to you, "Ma." That word is
"what," "What is your peace?" So they say that. They greet it
every single day. This is said almost by every person in Israel
to whomever they meet, "What's your peace?" He's actually
asking you whether you are whole, complete. GLORIA: What's
the answer to "What's your peace?" BILLYE: Tov, good.
GLORIA: Tov, good. BILLYE: Tov todah. GLORIA: Tov, okay.
BILLYE: "Good, thank you." Or you might say, "Baruch Hashem,"
bless the Lord, "Tov baruch Hashem," good bless the Lord.
And right on the streets, every single day, Israelis are saying,
"Baruch Hashem," bless the Lord, good. Or if you've really--you
might say, "m'tzuyan," which is "excellent." Or you might say,
"Beseder," "everything's in order." Or you might say,
"Beseder gamur," "everything is completely in order." GLORIA: Or
you might say, "Okay, if-- BILLYE: Yeah, yeah. Or you might
say, "Lo tov," "no good," "no good." GLORIA: Lo tov? BILLYE:
Yeah, lo tov. "Tov" is "good." GLORIA: Lo tov. BILLYE: Lo tov.
GLORIA: Tov, t-o-v, tov. BILLYE: T-o-v, yeah, sure. GLORIA: Lo
tov. BILLYE: So you're going to have an answer. They're going
to--and they'll answer you, you know. But usually, you're going
to get an answer, "Good," you know, something like that. So--
GLORIA: Well, we do the same thing. BILLYE: Yeah. GLORIA:
"How are you today?" "Fine." BILLYE: Yeah, yeah, right,
right. GLORIA: "Fine," "okay." BILLYE: But theirs always is
biblical. Their word's from the Bible. GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE:
Their word is "shalom," or "What is your peace?" And so I'm going
to put up that word wheel. We just put together a little word
wheel. And I certainly didn't put on this word wheel
every--every word that comes from the root word "shalem." The
root word "shalem," you see it there in the middle, in the
dark, "whole, complete." It means "whole, complete," period.
So go to the top. And up there, we've put the most--the word
"shalom" is taken from this word. Yes, it's taken from this
word. You see it at the top there, "shalom"? You can--even
in English, you can kind of figure out that "shalem" is
still in there. So that's the peace that comes from being
whole. Now, here's another idea of a word that grows from this
root. And you'll see it there to the right, "to pay," "shalem,"
"to pay." GLORIA: If you owe somebody? BILLYE: If you owe
somebody, you've got to pay it. Because why? They're not whole
without it. If you took an apple from the corner grocery store,
that grocer is not whole-- GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: --until
you pay for that apple. So the idea of payment is in there. The
word "payment" comes from this. GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE: Or "made
peace," or "entirety." All of these words come from that root
word "whole," "be whole." Now, it's a greeting that's in the
Hebrew today. I mean, you go down the street, Gloria, and if
you take a trip to Israel--we take trips to Israel. Lots of
people do. If you take a trip to Israel, you can go with me in
May. I'm going over there. You're going to hear people say
all the time to you, "Shalom." And you can even say--even if
you're an English speaker, "Shalom." You know, you're
saying to them, "Be whole." And so I'm going to read to you
from--this comes from--I think it's Strong's. He gives this
meaning of "shalom." It comes--it mean--you can mean,
"happy, well, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace,
health, be at peace, rest, be safe, be well, be whole." All of
those things are in that word. And the root--speaking of the
root word, "shalem," Strong's says, "It's a primitive root,
and it means to be safe in mind and body or estate," in your
mind, in your body, or your estate; to be whole in your
mind, to be whole in your body, to be whole in your--in your
goods, in what belongs to you. GLORIA: Nothing missing. BILLYE:
Nothing missing. It means "to be completed." It can mean "to be
friendly." It means "to repay, pay again, recompense, render."
And so whenever they greet each other, they're always--always
within there is the idea of welfare, health, and prosperity.
Now, in the Bible, we see this used all the time, but you don't
see it in the English. Sometimes you can see it, but sometimes
not. For instance, this is coming from Exodus 18:7, "And
Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did
obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
welfare; and they came into the tent." GLORIA: Like we do, "How
are you?" BILLYE: Yes, exactly. GLORIA: "How are you doing
today?" BILLYE: But what word did they use? GLORIA: I don't
know. BILLYE: "Shalom." And if you can--if you can look in your
Hebrew Bible--I can. I can look over there, and I can see it's
"shalom." You can go on Strong's, whatever, it's
"shalom." Welfare, they ask for your welfare. They ask, "Are you
whole today, dear father-in-law? Is anything about you broken?
Is--did anybody steal a sheep last night?" You know-- GLORIA:
"Are you sick?" BILLYE: --so-- "Are you sick?" You know, it's--
GLORIA: "Do you owe a lot of money today?" BILLYE: "Do you
owe a lot of money?" Here's the thing, Gloria, God's--God's
will for us is wholeness. GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE:
W-h-o-l-e-n-e-s-s. GLORIA: Always has been. BILLYE: Good
welfare. GLORIA: Well, look at the garden. What did they lack
in the garden-- BILLYE: Nothing. GLORIA: --before sin came,
before they listened to the devil? Nothing. Everything was
there. It was provided for them. The food was on trees. You
didn't have to even cook anything. BILLYE: Glory to God.
GLORIA: Those days are gone. BILLYE: They didn't have to peel
the potatoes. GLORIA: Didn't have to peel the potatoes. Think
about it. BILLYE: Oh, my goodness. GLORIA: That's God's
will. BILLYE: That's God's will. GLORIA: It's still His will for
all of us, for you and me. Now, if we'll get in the Word, we can
get back into the will of God. And we can enjoy the things. We
can live in the garden if we will. BILLYE: Because it's what
Jesus provided. GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: He said, "I came
to give you peace." GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: "I came to
give you wholeness." GLORIA: Wholeness, that's right. BILLYE:
He came to give us wholeness. That's what the angels told us.
And we're going to see that as we go more in depth in the New
Testament. That's what He told us. GLORIA: That's awesome.
BILLYE: Ooh, glory to God. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE:
Hallelujah. GLORIA: I believe it. I believe it. BILLYE: You
don't have to beg God for things. GLORIA: Hmm-mm. BILLYE:
Bless the Lord. GLORIA: I believe it. BILLYE: Now, here's
another--a case in the Bible where it's shown a greeting. In
Judges 18 and 15, "And they turned thitherward, and came to
the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of
Micah, and saluted him." So you wouldn't--you wouldn't think
that was the word "shalom," but it is. In the Bible, they
saluted him. And they said to him, "Shalom," which means, "Be
whole." GLORIA: Peace. BILLYE: They said to that young man.
Now, here's another scripture that you might be more familiar
with, and it's I Samuel 17:17, "And Jesse said unto David his
son, Take now--" Now, this is when he--you know, remember
the--he's going to--he's going to be facing Goliath. This is on
page three. GLORIA: I couldn't find it. It's hidden. BILLYE:
Yeah, there it is right there. GLORIA: Okay, page three.
BILLYE: He's going to go down because his--Goliath has
challenged the armies of Israel. And David, he's the shepherd boy
at home. GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: And the father sends him down
there to see about his brothers. So we see what he asks. I Samuel
17:17, "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy
brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten
loaves, and run to the camp to thy brother--brethren; and carry
these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and
look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." Verse 22,
"And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his
brethren." So here we find, in Verse 18, the father says to
David, "Find out how your brethren fare," King James
English. That's not what he said. He said, "Find out their
peace." This word is "shalom." The word "shalom" here is
translated "fare," f-a-r-e, "How do your brethren fare?" "What is
their welfare?" in other words. He's asking, "What's their
shalom?" GLORIA: "How are you getting along?" BILLYE: Yeah.
He's asking them, "Are you whole? Did the Philistines last
night come and rob you? Do you have enough to eat?" You know--
GLORIA: That's good. BILLYE: -- "Did they put a siege on you?
Find out about it. Find out if they're whole." GLORIA: Yes.
BILLYE: So I Samuel 17:22, "David left his carriage in the
hand of the keeper, and ran into the army, and came and saluted
his brethren." So he said to his brethren, "Shalom." GLORIA:
Shalom. BILLYE: That word "saluted" is--actually, there's
two words here, "sha'al shalom." He asked of their peace. He
asked of their peace. He said to them, "Ma shalom." But here it's
using, you know, this tense that says he asked of their peace.
GLORIA: They-- BILLYE: He asked, "What is your shalom? What is
your wholeness?" So this is the common Hebrew all through the
Bible. This is what they said. GLORIA: And we say, "How are
you?" which is-- BILLYE: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. GLORIA: --amounts to
pretty much the same thing. BILLYE: Not--kind of. But
without giving that strong Hebrew, you know, "God's will is
for you to be whole." That's God's will for you. Now, I want
to go in a wonderful story in II Kings. And this just blesses me.
I absolutely love to read this, knowing this. II Kings 4, and
this is the Shunammite woman, we say, but it's really pronounced
"Shunami," so I'm going to say that because I'm used to saying
that--and--and Elijah the prophet. So this is II Kings 4,
and we'll start with Verse 8, "And it fell on a day, that
Elisha," or Elijah, I'll say, "passed to Shunem, there was a
great woman; and she was constrained--she constrained him
to eat bread." The Bible does not put down women. Deborah was
a prophet. Esther was used to save Israel. And this Shunammi
woman is described in the Bible as a great woman. So Elijah
passed by her place there in Shunam. And she told him, "Come
in and eat." And she told her husband--she said, "This is a
man of God and we need to fix him a place to stay when he's in
this area." So they build a room. They build a chamber for
Elijah the prophet to say in. And he did. As he came through
ministering, he would--he would go there. So one day, he says to
his--in Verse 12, he says to his servant, "You know, this woman's
been so good to us, this great woman. Let's see what she needs.
Let's see if we can bless her." Because there's a blessing for
blessing prophets. Even in the New Testament-- GLORIA: Yes,
that's right. BILLYE: --it says, "You should give them a cold
water. You get a blessing." So "He said to Gehazi his servant,
Call this Shunammi," "and see what she needs and what can we
do for her?" "And she said, You can do nothing. She said, I
dwell among my people." And so he asked Gehazi, "Did you notice
anything she needs?" And, "He said, Well she doesn't have a
child, and her husband's old." So he called the woman in,
Elijah, in Verse 16, and he said, "About this season,
according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son." Verse
17, "And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elijah had said unto her, according to the time of life."
Well, the son grows up. One day, he's out in the fields with his
father and his head begins to hurt. Probably I would think
sunstroke, something like that. And he said, "My head, my head."
And the father, knowing of the mother's great faith, he says,
"Take him to his mother." So he goes to his mother and she holds
his head in her lap and then he dies. And so what--notice what
she did after he died. Verse 21, "She went on, and laid him on
the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went
out. And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me one
of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man
of God, and come again. And the husband said, Well why are you
going to the man of God? it's not the new moon, or it's not
the Sabbath. She said--" Verse 23-- GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE:
--King James says that, "She says, It is--it shall be well."
That's not what she said. GLORIA: She didn't want to say
what was wrong, though. BILLYE: No, she didn't want to say what
was wrong. She said one word. And if you had a good reference
Bible, you can look in your center reference column, which
Gloria's got one. She said, "Shalom." What does that mean?
"Everything's whole, a peace that comes." GLORIA: I have a
note in my Bible that said, "She did not say, 'The boy is dead.'"
BILLYE: No, she did not say, "The boy's--" GLORIA: She
refused to rehearse it. BILLYE: She didn't say that that boy was
broken from her. She didn't say, "My son is gone from me." She
said, "Shalom. I have the peace that comes from being whole."
And she's not whole without that boy. So she goes to the man of
God. And the man of God says, "Gehazi, go and find out what
her--what she--what's--why she's coming." He sees her coming from
afar. GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: And so he said, "Run and find out
what she said." So he said, "Ask her--" Verse 26, King James
reads like this, "Is it well with thee? is it well with thy
husband?" GLORIA: "Is everything okay?" we'd say. BILLYE: "Is it
well with the child?" And see--but every time he says,
"What's the peace?" Every one of those "is it wells" is, "What is
the peace?" Find out. "What is the peace of your husband? What
is the peace of your child? What is your peace?" And her answer,
"Shalom." GLORIA: She stayed with it. BILLYE: Ma shalom? Ma
shalom of your husband? Ma shalom of your son? Ma shalom of
you? "Shalom. I have it, the peace that comes from being
whole." And he said, "The Lord hadn't revealed to me what's
wrong with this woman, something, something, though."
And he said, "You go and find out. You go and--go fast there
to her house and lay my staff on that child." And Gehazi did and
nothing happened. So finally he goes back. He goes to the child,
Elijah, the prophet. And he sees the child is dead on his bed. As
he goes in, Verse 33, and he shuts the door, just him and the
boy, and he prays unto Jehovah. And God showed him what to do.
He laid his mouth where the child's mouth was, his hands
where the child's mouth was, his flesh--he had stretched himself
out upon the child. And the flesh of the child waxed warm.
Then he walked up to and down--down to and forth--
GLORIA: He didn't lay hands on him. He laid body on him.
BILLYE: No, he laid his body-- GLORIA: His whole body. BILLYE:
--because that's what God showed him to do when he prayed.
GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: And then the child opened his eyes--
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: --sneezed seven times. "And he
said, Call the Shunammite." And take-- "Tell her she can take up
her son." GLORIA: Isn't that good? BILLYE: But what did it
come from? It came from her confession-- GLORIA: "All is
well." BILLYE: -- "I've got the peace that comes from being
whole." GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. BILLYE: I'm whole. My
household is whole. It can't be whole without my son. GLORIA:
Now, if she had started telling about, "You won't believe what
happened today," you know-- BILLYE: No. GLORIA: -- "I just
don't know what I'm going to do. My son is dead," there would
have been no faith in that. BILLYE: No. GLORIA: And there
would have been no miracle of raising him up. BILLYE: No, and
she would've been-- GLORIA: See, that's what we've got to
remember in our lives, our personal life, not just about
big things like death, but it also includes that. What do we
say? What are we going to say when the--when the pressure
comes? And what we say is what we get. That's a Bible--the New
Testament says you can have what you say, in so many words.
BILLYE: And she did. GLORIA: And she said it and she got it. You
can say it and you can get it. If you--you know, you're not
going to just never pay any attention to the Word of God and
not do anything about obeying your--about obeying God in your
life or make any changes that He's urging you to make and just
have--saying faith that works like that. No. You--that's a
lifestyle. You start--you say, from now on, what you want to
come to pass. And if you don't want it to come to pass, you
don't say it. Isn't that right, Billye? BILLYE: Amen. That's it.
GLORIA: And when you start taking your words seriously, the
words are serious whether you take them serious or not. But
they're serious for you or they're serious against you.
BILLYE: Yes. GLORIA: God hears what you say. That's your faith
talking. BILLYE: If she hadn't said, "Shalom," that story
wouldn't be in the Bible. GLORIA: No, it wouldn't. Hmm-mm.
No. My, my. They say we're out of time, Billye. How could that
be? BILLYE: You all are very stingy with your time.
GLORIA: We'll be back in a few moments.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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