TRACI: I said, "Sickness and disease is under the curse. I've
been redeemed from the curse of the law and released to the
blessings of Abraham. You said there's no good thing You will
hold from me if I walk uprightly before You."
(Singing) I know my God has made the way
for me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: No matter what you're facing, healing belongs
to you. You have Jesus's Word on it. Today Kenneth Copeland
talks about Jesus's spiritual DNA in the born again believer
and hows that applies to living a long, satisfied life.
KENNETH: Let's go back over there to the 91st Psalm
now. "He'll cover you with his feathers, and under his
wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and your
buckler. You'll not be afraid of terror by night; nor the arrow
that flies by day; nor for the pestilence that walks in
darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at
noonday." Pestilence is all part of the curse of sickness and
disease. All kinds of sicknesses, all kinds of strange
warfare could be put underneath that; chemical warfare,
biological warfare. And the 61st verse of the 28th chapter of
Deuteronomy, which is the curse of the law, says all sickness
and all disease that's not written in this book of the law
is under that curse--(Audience Agrees)--and will come on you.
Amen. (Audience "Amens") See, all of it. I don't care how many
new diseases they come up with. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: They
can't find one that's not covered in there. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: I mean, because--ha-ha-ha-ha--the devil
can't come up with anything new. He's not a creator, you
understand this? He doesn't have anything new. (Agreement &
Applause) Amen. (Audience "Amens") He can't do that.
(Audience "Amens") I mean, when you get on this Psalm, I'm
telling you right now, you've got him by the nose, and there
ain't nothing he can do about it. You just give it a good
twist and say, "Get on your knees." (Cheers & Applause)
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: But now, here's another thing:
Whatever you're believing for--in this case, we're talking
about healing, right? Don't go into this--don't go into this
battle without being well armed in the Word. (Audience Agrees)
Now, this is part of your--this is part of your weaponry right
here. And our "weapons of our warfare are not carnal." They're
power. They're "mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds." Amen. So you let the Word fight its own fight.
(Audience Agrees) Amen. A lot of people, you ask them, you know,
"What Scripture are you standing on for your healing?" "Well, you
know, all of them, I guess." (Laughter) No, you're not. Amen.
There's no use pulling an empty gun on anybody. (Laughter) No.
They just laugh at you. But let me tell you what, sweetheart,
you pull that sword on him--amen--and you let him run
up on that a few times. (Audience Agrees) He comes
storming in there over you, and you just start quoting that 91st
Psalm to him. (Audience Agrees) You just start quoting I Peter
2:24. Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Just stick it in him
and twist it. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah. AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah. KENNETH: Amen. Say, "Satan, this is who I am. This
is what I have. Glory to God. I'm not trying to get this; this
belongs to me. Jesus is my Lord and Savior. He's the Lord, high
Priest over this Psalm. Glory to God." Now, notice this: "You
will tread upon the lion and the adder, and the young lion and
the dragon you will trample underfoot." Amen. (Audience
"Amens") You believe that? AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Well, of
course you do, because--now, suddenly, we've changed persons
again. Ha-ha. From Verse 14 on is the voice of your heavenly
Father. (Audience Agrees) Look at this. "Because he--" "he" is
me. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "Because he--" Well, to whom is
he speaking? He's talking to Jesus about me. Whoa. "Because
Kenneth has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
him: I'll set him on high." Do we sit on high? AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: We've been raised up together and made to sit
together with Him in heavenly places, far above all
principalities and powers! Far above! Far above! Far above!
(Audience Agrees) He is the head. We are the body. The feet
are in the body. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah. Far above
principalities and powers. He set His love on me. And just so,
so much--I do this a lot. I begin to praise God and I say,
"Father--" I like to--I like to make a combination of the--of
what was said in the Old Covenant and bring it over into
the New Covenant. "I want to praise You, Lord. I want to
praise You, my heavenly Father. I love You with all of my heart,
all of my soul, all my mind, and all of my strength. I love my
neighbor as myself because that pleases You, and I--" Now, here
I come over to the new covenant. "--and I love the brethren even
as you loved the brethren and gave Yourself a ransom for us
all. Gave Yourself for us, gave Yourself to us. Then, Father, in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose I am and Whom I
serve, I place my love upon You today. Hallelujah. I bless You
today with all my heart and all my soul. Hallelujah." "Because
he set his love upon me, I'll deliver him: I'll set him on
high, because he hath known my name." (Audience Agrees) Now,
that is referring to covenant authority of the believer. "In
my name" indicates authority. Amen? (Audience "Amens") In
other words, he understands and knows his authority in Me, and
he uses it. Amen. (Audience "Amens) "Because he's put his
love upon Me, and he has known My name, he'll call on Me, and I
will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver
him, and honor him. And with long life will I satisfy him,
and show him my salvation." (Audience Agrees) Amen.
(Applause) Now, wait a minute. Erkk! Hold it. Back up just a
second. Kkk-kkk. Erkk, erkk. (Laughter) What does "long life"
mean? We--it's sitting on the rock base, right? God's
referring to the 120 years. (Audience Agrees) He established
that long before. He established that back here in book number
one. Ha-ha-ha-ha. "With long life--" What life? 120 years.
Hallelujah! Isn't that wonderful? (Audience Agrees) I
mean, hey, glory to God. Thank You, Lord. Now, I have--I
noticed, back when--oh, I had just--I was approaching 70. And,
of course, you know, the devil's trying to beat me around the
head about it. And I noticed some things with my physical
body and so forth and so on. And I spent some time praying about
it and so forth. And the Lord said this to me, He said,
"Kenneth--" Well, one other thing. I take after my mother's
side of the family. And my grandfather, grandmother,
great-grandfather, great-grandmother and the family
around that as I looked up the family tree and so forth, they
all died in mid to late 70s. And, you know, the devil's
trying to use that on me, too. (Audience Agrees) Well, the Lord
said to me, He said, "Kenneth, you're paying attention to your
natural DNA." (Audience Agrees) He said, "Don't you remember in
my Word, it says you're 'born again, not of corruptible seed,
but incorruptible, by the word of God, that lives and abides
forever'?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "You've got My
spiritual DNA." He said, "I'm your Father, son. And your DNA
and Jesus' DNA are exact." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "You're
exactly like Him. You're not a little like Him. You're like
Adam was when I created Him. He was exactly like Me in every
respect, in likeness and in image." (Audience Agrees) Whoa.
So I began to put pressure on that. And these other things
would show up, and I'd say, "No. No, no, no, no. That's the
natural side of the family. This is the supernatural side of the
family." (Audience Agrees) And I noticed this, as I my physical
DNA began to lead me down this way, my spiritual DNA came in
and arrested that. (Agreement & Applause) And in a lot of
ways--I'm talking about physically now. In a lot of
ways, I'm stronger today than I was 20, 25 years ago. (Cheers &
Applause) And so--now, this is very important. This is
extremely important. AUDIENCE: Yes, yes. KENNETH: Now, your
spiritual DNA was programmed to keep your body strong for 120
years. (Audience Agrees) Now, where is the problem? There's
really--let me--let me take this another step further. When you
turn over there to the book of Leviticus and so forth, and you
run into all of those food laws-- AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
--oh, people don't want to hear that. "Oh, no, this is New
Covenant. We can eat anything you want to." Not and live 120
years, you can't. (Laughter) God hasn't changed, His Word hasn't
changed, and pigs haven't changed. (Laughter) A pig is
still a pig, and he ain't fit to eat. AUDIENCE: That's right. Say
that again. KENNETH: Now, I know some of you will say, "Well, you
know, I think I'll go on home now." (Laughter) No. "Well,
Brother Copeland, that was under the law." Well, the reason it
was under the law is God made it a law to keep them from eating
pigs, because he didn't create the--He didn't create the swine
for food. That thing had another purpose. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
Now, all--all of the foods that are in the good column, that
whole thing is designed based on 120 years. It's not based on you
eating something you don't want to eat. AUDIENCE: That's right.
KENNETH: It's base on this physical body being nourished as
it should-- AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: --for that whole
120-year period of time, because that's the bedrock upon which it
sits, is that statement God made, "His days are 120 years."
Well, you ought to be healed for the whole 120-year period, too.
(Audience Agrees) That--the physical part of it, that's not
having correct spiritual food, not having correct mental or
intellectual food, and not having correct physical food,
because you've got to eat, spirit, soul, and body. And
Jesus made the statement, "Man can't live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." So the
spiritual food is important. Now, religion is not spiritual
food. (Audience Agrees) No. And it--religious tradition and so
forth won't feed your spirit. But the integrity of the written
Word will feed your spirit. And when your spirit is well fed,
you have faith. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Because faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. You can't get strong
spiritually by hearing someone say, "You never know what God's
gonna do." (Laughter) Well, tradition never knows what He's
going to do, but Word people know. (Audience Agrees) Because
He's going to do exactly what He said He's going to do. (Audience
Agrees) Amen? (Audience "Amens") So you can see the principle.
Now, the other thing that is terribly damaging is
unforgiveness-- AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: --not walking in
the law of love. AUDIENCE: Yes! KENNETH: And since it is a law
that we love the Lord our God and one another even as God
loved us, it is a law. It is not optional. And it is the key
issue to long life-- AUDIENCE: Amen. Amen. KENNETH: --that has
to be in place. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: You can have--I mean,
you can eat right and all that, but--you're feeding your
physical body right, but if you're not keeping the law of
love, then you're not feeding your spirit right. (Audience
Agrees) It can't. That's--that's poison-- AUDIENCE: Yes, it is.
KENNETH: --to the human spirit. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: It's
poison to the human brain. Fear and unforgiveness thoughts have
poison to the human brain. Fear and unforgiveness thoughts have
been--how many of you watched Caroline Leaf on our program?
AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: It has been proven scientifically that
fear and unforgiving thoughts damage the brain. Now, you hear
all kind--you know, all kinds of funny jokes and stuff about
getting old and can't remember anything. But the problem is not
with the brain, because the brain is the only physical organ
that gets better with age. (Audience Agrees) The problem is
what the thing is being fed both spiritually, intellectually, and
physically. And then it starts having all kinds of chaos,
particularly if there's fear and unbelief, because you get--the
brain gets into chaos, then the chemistry of the physical body
is not working like it's supposed to. Anyway, I said all
that to say this: We're supposed to be well. (Audience Agrees)
We're supposed to be healed. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah.
AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: Glory be to God. AUDIENCE:
Glory. Glory. KENNETH: Are you receiving this morning?
AUDIENCE: Yes, sir. (Audience Agrees) KENNETH: Well, this
whole--this whole time this morning has been spent
establishing the fact that healing belongs to you and me.
It is paid for, lock, stock, and barrel. And there was an
enormous price paid for it, and if you will just relax
and receive it, it's belonged to you for 2,000 years.
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