(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Jesus has compassion for you, and He's provided
everything you need. Receive from Him today. Join Kenneth
Copeland on the Believer's Voice of Victory as he shares how the
power of God is present to heal and deliver you.
KENNETH: Matthew 8, "When he came down
from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying,
Lord, if you will, you can make me clean." Now, here is a guy
that did not know whether it was his will or not. Now, this man
believed that He could. Now, the man that brought his lunatic son
didn't know that He could. He said, "If you can do anything."
So he wasn't--the reason he wasn't all that sure is because
His disciples didn't get any results. Amen. But now, this man
believed that He could. He just didn't know whether He would or
not. Now, put yourself in this leper's position. We know, from
Luke's account--Luke's a physician. He said he was full
of leprosy. He's--he's hours before dying. Stinks. Those
nasty running sores. Filthy, filthy, dirty clothes. Nobody
will get--can't get anywhere close to him. It's been a long
time since anybody has said to him, "I will," anything. We're
going to see something about Jesus here. Are you ready?
(Audience Agrees) Oh, I love You, Lord. Thank You, Lord.
Jesus put forth his hand and touched him before He said, "I
will." There ain't nobody touched him. Nobody has touched
him. Now, we find, from one of the other accounts, that the man
was on his face. He wasn't on his knees, he was on his face.
Jesus got down there in the dirt with him and got in his face and
said, "I will" as He touched him, and then He said, "I will."
AUDIENCE: Amen. Hallelujah. KENNETH: Oh,
ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. Oh, my, my, my, my, my. And you have
some idea that He's not willing to get in your deal with you?
He's already in there if you'll just-- "Well, Brother Copeland,
I just don't know what else to do." Well, that's praising time
is when you don't know what else to do. (Agreement & Applause)
Are you spending enough time with Him? Which are you spending
the most time on, the television or Jesus? You're going to have
to ask yourself that question. I mean, whether you're sick or
not, you're going to have to ask yourself that question, because
if you're not spending any time with Him, sickness is coming.
Amen. There's a difference between being healed and being
well. You can get healed from a situation and still not be well.
Well, I wish I had time to dig around in that, but no.
Immediately, the leprosy departed. Now, Mark 1. Mark 1
and 40th verse, "There came a leper to him, beseeching him,
kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If you will, you can
make me clean. Jesus, moved--moved with compassion--"
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Compassion creates a feeling,
but it is not a feeling. It is a person. Compassion is a
manifestation of love Himself. Compassion moved Him. AUDIENCE:
Yes. KENNETH: Hallelujah. That same God--the Scripture says in
the Psalms, "He's filled with compassion." In many cases, the
same word translated "mercy" is translated "compassion." So many
cried out to Him and said, "Have mercy on us," and it's healing
they were crying for. "But I don't know. I just fouled this
thing up. I don't know what's wrong." Well, hey, sweetheart.
Mercy's what you're looking for. That's the word you're looking
for. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: And the 4th chapter of
Hebrews is where you're looking for. "Come boldly--" (Audience
Agrees)--where? AUDIENCE: Amen. To the throne. KENNETH: "And
obtain--" AUDIENCE: Mercy. KENNETH: It doesn't same, "Come
and cry." "Come and obtain--" (Audience Amens) What? Grace and
mercy. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "Come obtain." What did David
say? "Mercy. Mercy follows me." AUDIENCE: All the days--
KENNETH: All the days. It's just following around after you all
the time. Well, I've got some news for you. Mercy's living in
you. AUDIENCE: Amen. (Applause) KENNETH: It was following him.
I--we keep plugging these things in here because we're still
settling the question forever that healing belongs to you,
deliverance belongs to you. AUDIENCE: Amen. (Applause)
KENNETH: Praise God. The ball is in your court. AUDIENCE: Yes.
Hallelujah. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience "Amens") And it's not
the trying to get Him to, it's the receiving from Him.
(Audience Agrees) Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. All
right, now then, Luke 5, same case. There are--for the benefit
of your study, there are 19 individual healings in Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John. Now, it looks like there's a lot more
than that, but like in this case here, it's recorded three
different times. And each one has a little different insight.
And you put them all together and you have the picture of it.
So, of course, there are an incalculable number of people.
We only have--in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we only have
this little snapshot of three and a half years of ministry.
And what we have and what we're studying is only right at 30
days. So John said, "If it was all recorded, the world couldn't
hold the books." (Audience Murmurs) But when we get to
heaven, we can read them all. (Laughs) (Audience Agrees) Got
plenty of time. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: I want to see them all,
man. Amen. (Audience "Amens") Yeah, thank You, Jesus. Now,
here in Luke 5:12, "It came to pass, when he was in a certain
city, behold a man full of leprosy: seeing Jesus fell on
his face." "Well, now, Brother Copeland, one said he kneeled
and the other said he fell on his face?" Which is true? Both.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Both. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus.
(Audience "Amens") Just so you know. (Cheers & Applause) And at
my age, you have to be healed to do that, you know? (Laughter &
Applause) So--ha-ha-ha. "If you will, you can make me clean. He
put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou
clean." Now, a more literal and more expressive translation of
that in each case is, "Well, of course, I will." Their
translation is translated that way. He didn't just say, "I
will." He said, "Well, of course, I will. That's why I'm
here, bubba." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "That's what I came to
do. I didn't--I didn't--that's why I came. I came here just for
you." AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "I came here to put my hand on you.
I came here to get down here in the dirt with you. I came down
here to get this leprosy off you and give you your life back."
AUDIENCE: Amen. Glory to God. Amen. KENNETH: "That's why I
came. That's why I'm here." Amen. (Audience "Amens") And
that's what He's doing today. That's why He's here this
morning-- AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: --is to get right here
in the dirt and the mud and the tears with you and me this
morning. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Oh, the glory's here.
AUDIENCE: Dear God. KENNETH: Something happened just as I
said that. Oh, Lord Jesus. Whatever it is, just take it.
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Just take it, dear God. Take it.
Emphysema. (Heavy Breathing) Go on and breathe. (Heavy
Breathing) Glory to God. And you just--whomever that was just
said, "I never thought I'd--I never thought I'd see the day. I
never thought I'd see the day that I could breathe like this
again." Asthma's gone. Glory to God. Gone, it's gone. (Applause)
It's gone. Now then, as far as I know, this'll be the last one
that we talk about this morning, but let's go over to Matthew 9.
Matthew 9--now, each one of these, Matthew and Mark and
Luke, each one of them has something very, very important.
Matthew 9:2--well, we have to read the first verse. "He
entered into a ship, passed over, and came into his home
city--his own city." And that would be? AUDIENCE: Capernaum.
KENNETH: And He is at? AUDIENCE: Home. KENNETH: Home. "Behold,
they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed:
and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy;
Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Cheer up. I'm
saying this to you this morning, "Cheer up." (Cheers & Applause)
I don't--I don't care if you--you're a--if you're hurting
like you've been snake bit. Cheer up! (Audience "Amens") "I
don't have anything to be cheered about." Yeah, you do.
Jesus is here. Cheer up! (Cheers & Applause) "Well, what do I got
to be cheered about?" Your sins are forgiven, that's what you've
got to be cheerful about! (Audience "Hallelujahs") Your
sins are forgiven. He has forgiven you. (Agreement &
Applause) AUDIENCE: Woo-hoo! Hallelujah. KENNETH: All He's
waiting on now to you--is for you just to confess it and
receive the forgiveness. (Audience Agrees) He's forgiven
you. AUDIENCE: Yes. Amen. KENNETH: "You don't know what I
did." I don't know what you did. I don't care what you did. He's
forgotten it. Why don't you? AUDIENCE: Amen. That's right.
KENNETH: Just confess the sorry thing and go on about life.
(Audience Agrees) He said, "I, even I am he who is--for my own
sake--" not your sake. "For my own sake, I am he that blotted
out your transgressions." And I will remember your sins--
TOGETHER: --no more. KENNETH: If He remembers your sin, He can't
bless you. And He's all about blessing you. He has forgotten
it. It's been wiped out. Now, all you need to do is wipe it
out of your consciousness by laying hold of the blood of
Lamb! Hallelujah. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah. (Cheers &
Applause) Glory, glory, glory. "And while you stand praying,
forgive, if you have ought against any." That's the
nastiest sin of the bunch. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah.
That, and worry. Mark 2, "And again he went home after some
days; and it was noised that he was in the house." Where has
this been all this time that we've been reading Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John? It was there all the time. (Audience
Agrees) AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: But I--I really believe
this. It's just now time for us to begin to get a hold of some
things, lately. AUDIENCE: Amen. Yes. KENNETH: Get very personal
with Him. He's calling you to be very personal with Him.
AUDIENCE: Yes. Amen. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience "Amens") Why
don't you let Him come to your house? (Agreement & Applause)
Hallelujah. Thank You, Jesus. AUDIENCE: Thank You, Jesus.
KENNETH: Ha-ha-ha, thank You, Lord. Glory to God. "Straightway
many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room
to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he
preached the word to them." You hear that? Make note of that.
The first one, He said, "Be of good cheer, your sins are
forgiven." The second one, "He preached the word to them." Now,
I used to think this was a hostile crowd, but it was not.
He was not in their house. They were in His house, and they had
come from the whole countryside around there. Amen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: And, you know Jairus, His friend, the leader
of the synagogue in Capernaum, probably had something to do
with it. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord. So, notice here, "They
came to him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of
four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the
press, they uncovered the roof where he was. He saw their
faith, he said to the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be
forgiven thee." Well, we know He said, "Cheer up." Now--and get
the picture. He's standing here. (Laughter) You know He didn't
wait till they got on the ground. "Hey, boy, cheer up!
Your sins are forgiven!" And he's thinking, "I should have
known that." (Laughs) Huh? Come on. This was big in the eyes of
Jesus, and it's big in the eyes of this man because two out of
three recorded it. Cheer up! AUDIENCE: Woo! KENNETH:
Hallelujah. Glory. AUDIENCE: Glory. KENNETH: "But there were
certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their
hearts, Why does this man thus speak blasphemies? who can
forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus perceived
in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he
said unto them, Why reason you these things in your heart?
Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins
be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, take up your bed, and
walk? But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on
earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say
unto you," using words as healing tools--what'd He do when
He did that? He released His faith and anointing. He said,
"Arise, take up your bed, and go your way into your house.
Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before
them all; insomuch they were all amazed, and glorified God,
saying, We never saw it on this fashion." It didn't say they
immediately took counsel on how to kill Him. This was not a
hostile crowd. Oh, they were amazed. Oh. Amen. Now, Luke 5,
we're going to get another piece to this miracle. Verse 17, "And
it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching--" So
now we know that He preached and He taught, right? (Audience
Agrees) Say, "He preached--" (Audience Repeats) "--and He
taught the Word. Well, one said, "He taught," the other one said,
"He preached the Word." All right, "There were Pharisees and
doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every
town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem--" that's what we
mentioned a moment ago "--and the power of the Lord was
present to heal them." (Audience Agrees) Of course, the Lord--the
power of the Lord was present to heal them. Jesus was there.
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: The Holy Spirit, the healer Himself, was
there. Jesus said, "It's the Father that dwells within, he
does the works." What was the problem? How come they didn't
make the connection? Faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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