The Danger of Transactional Faith: A Critical Analysis of ‘The Life of Faith’

• Definition of Faith 00:02:30 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor defines faith using Hebrews 11 and Merriam-Webster, describing it as the 'title deed' of things hoped for and the proof of things not seen, distinguishing it from wish or desire.
• Righteousness by Faith 00:01:15 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts righteousness based on the law with righteousness based on faith, which is imputed by God and brings right relationship to Him.
• The Abyss and Christ's Descent 00:06:44 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses the 'abyss' or 'deep' mentioned in Romans 10, linking it to the Jewish calendar timeline of Jesus' three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Speaking in Tongues and Interpretation 00:14:19 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the event of Pentecost and a personal anecdote from the Philippines to illustrate that the Holy Spirit provides supernatural understanding and interpretation of tongues.
• Defeat of the Devil 00:19:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that the devil was defeated at the resurrection, losing his keys and authority, and is now merely 'moaning' about his loss.
• The Anointing and Spiritual Ministry 00:20:23 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes a personal experience of receiving the anointing to minister to his wife, emphasizing that the devil has no power over this spiritual interaction.
• Peter's Transformation and Authority 00:22:54 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts Peter's denial of Jesus with his subsequent empowerment by the Spirit, highlighting his instantaneous knowledge of prophecy and his role in the early church.
• The Day of Pentecost and Restoration of Languages 00:23:53 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor connects the scattering of languages at Babel with their restoration at Pentecost, framing it as a divine reversal achieved through Jesus' sacrifice.
• Angelic Ministry and the Resurrection 00:24:41 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor cites Hebrews 1:14 to explain that angels are ministering spirits sent to help heirs of salvation, linking this to the resurrection and the release of captives.
• The Early Church and Communion 00:25:53 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses the early church's devotion to apostolic teaching and the breaking of bread, leading into a discussion on the logistics of large-scale communion.
• The Global Reach of the Gospel 00:41:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor concludes by referencing Matthew 24, stating that the end will come only after the gospel is preached to all nations, using modern technology as evidence of this fulfillment.
• The Great Commission and End Times 00:41:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor quotes Matthew to establish that the gospel must be preached to all nations before the end comes, linking this to the urgency of the current era.
• Moral Decline and Judgment 00:42:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor compares current societal openness to sin (specifically pornography) to the days of Noah, warning of impending judgment ('woe') for those who betray Christ.
• Financial Stewardship and Debt 00:46:24 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses tithing, the power to get wealth, and explicitly states that while borrowing is not inherently a sin, he personally avoids it to remain debt-free and avoid spiritual compromise.
• Prosperity Theology Correction 00:47:49 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor refutes the 'prosperity gospel' by citing Deuteronomy 8:18, clarifying that God gives wealth to establish His covenant, not merely for personal gain, and distinguishes between wealth and prosperity.

• Sermon Illustration 00:11:16 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts a personal story of waking up from a deep sleep next to his wife Gloria, realizing he had to preach, and recalling his mentors Oral Roberts and Kenneth E. Hagin.
• Sermon Illustration 00:15:39 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares an anecdote from the Philippines where he spoke in tongues, and a woman's daughter interpreted it as English, while the mother heard Tagalog, illustrating the supernatural nature of spiritual hearing.
• Sermon Illustration 00:20:44 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes a moment in Atlanta where he and his wife Taffy began speaking in tongues and interpreting for each other, demonstrating the anointing and unity of the Spirit.
• Sermon Illustration 00:20:44 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts a personal story of driving in Atlanta where he and his wife, Gloria, ministered to each other in tongues, receiving the anointing to interpret for one another.
• Sermon Illustration 00:27:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of Peter being a fisherman to explain why he had no money, contrasting the small sardines they ate with the large fish sold at market, and referencing the miracle of the net not breaking.
• Sermon Illustration 00:34:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares the history of establishing a worldwide communion service, detailing how Thomas Clyde McGee connected eight satellites to broadcast to an estimated 1 million people, fulfilling the vision of a global audience.
• Sermon Illustration 00:52:24 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts a personal story of leasing an airplane, which led to a financial crisis when the owner sold the lease. He explains how he resolved the debt by selling a liter of oil within 30 days, using this to illustrate the dangers of leasing/borrowing and the importance of staying out of debt.
• Sermon Illustration 00:56:06 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares an anecdote about leasing a Chrysler that had a dead battery issue, which he attributed to a demon. After returning the car, a man claimed to have cast the demon out, illustrating the spiritual consequences of violating God's instruction to avoid debt.

• Pastoral Charge 00:45:39 ▶️ 📄
  > Partner financially with ministries that preach the gospel in difficult places.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:00:00] I'm going to be using the, the AMPC for what I'm reading. And I want you to open to Romans chapter 10. Let me unpack here. That was what I was studying this morning. All right, in the book of Romans. And, and we will begin reading with, we begin with chapter 5. For Moses writes,
[00:01:15] That the man who can practice the righteousness, perfect conformity to God's will, which is based on the law with all its intricate demands.
[00:01:40] So they live by it.
[00:01:41] But the righteousness based on faith, imputed by God, bringing right relationship to him.
[00:01:51] let's, we're going to get some definitions. Let's go with the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews. I want to get this first that the, or excuse me, the sixth chapter. We'll get some, no, the 11th chapter. I'll be back in a minute. Now, I want
[00:02:30] you to get this definition because every time you see the word faith. This applies. Now faith, well, faith is now. Faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of the things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see
[00:02:56] and the conviction of the reality, faith perceiving as real fact, what is not revealed to the senses. Now from Merriam-Webster. Now I want you to listen to this. This is very interesting. We're talking about hope. A desire of some
[00:03:24] good accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it or a belief that it is obtainable.
[00:03:34] hope differs from wish. Now that's very important. Oh, I sure hope so. No, that's not hope. And you'll see the difference right here. Hope differs from wish and desire in this, that implies some expectation of obtaining the
[00:03:56] good desired or the possibility of possessing it. Hope therefore always gives pleasure or joy, whereas wish and desire may produce and be accompanied with pain and anxiety. Confidence in a future event, the highest degree of well-founded expectation of good. As hope founded on God's gracious
[00:04:20] promises, a scriptural sense. Well-founded scriptural hope is in our religion, the source of ineffable happiness. Glory to God. That which gives hope. Now, now listen to this.
[00:04:37] Faith, couple that with this.
[00:04:40] Faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed.
[00:04:44] I like that.
[00:04:46] The title deed of the things we hope for, a desire of good, something good.
[00:04:57] And it's not wish, because wish wind up with pain and anxiety.
[00:05:02] The things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see and conviction of the reality.
[00:05:09] a faith perceiving as real fact, what is not revealed to the senses. For by faith, trust and holy fervor born of faith, the men of old and divine testimony born to them obtained a good
[00:05:21] report. So now those two definitions are very, very important. Particularly, well, it's important. I mean, that's the base of the word of faith. So, but those two definitions are extremely important. So every time you see it, hope,
[00:05:40] Yeah. I expect to get this thing. I'm going to add my faith and it's mine. That belongs to me. Jesus bought it with his own blood. Praise God. All right. Now let's go back over
[00:05:56] here to the book of Romans. Now listen to this. Moses writes that the man that practices righteousness, let's go on down here. But the righteousness based on faith, which is the the title deed of the things we hope for. Imputed by God and
[00:06:25] bring in right relationship to him. Do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down or who will descend into the abyss. King James says deep, the abyss.
[00:06:44] Well, what is that? A bottomless gulf used also for a deep mass of waters, supposed by some to have encompassed the earth before the flood. Darkness was on the face of the deep or abyss
[00:07:01] as it is in the Septuagint. That puts the proper meaning of hell.
[00:07:14] Now we won't go there. Maybe we will before we get through. They came. Can you imagine somebody coming? Would you just do a miracle or something to prove what you're saying is right? I'm like Brother Hagin. I wrote my Bible. The Bible says it, I
[00:07:33] believe it, and that settles it. Amen. He went into the abyss three days and three nights, and Friday doesn't get it. Now, Professor Greg Stevens straightened me out on something.
[00:07:55] I really never thought about it until he ran the timeline. On the Jewish calendar, it's not midnight. It's when the sun goes down. It was a high Sabbath and it was on Thursday. Three days
[00:08:17] and three nights. He said, Jesus said, the only sign you're going to get is of the prophet Jonah. Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the big fish. So shall a son of man be
[00:08:36] three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Praise God. Now let me get back over here. So now in the 10th chapter of Romans here, I haven't done this sitting down all that often
[00:08:58] so, but I'm enjoying it. Now let's read on. I want to, I'm going to start down here about the 12th verse. No one for there is distinction between the Jew and the Greek, the same Lord
[00:09:16] over us, all of us. And he generously bestows his riches upon all them that call on him in faith, which is the title deed. Every time you see faith, that's the title deed. I own it
[00:09:32] now. It's the title deed and I see it in the spirit. I see myself with it. Hallelujah. I own this thing. I have a deed to it by my faith. Now, now let's, I want to see this, but how
[00:09:59] Now everyone that calls upon the name of the Lord, invoking Him as Lord will be saved.
[00:10:06] Now that's also in Acts 2.21.
[00:10:10] Now, but how are the people to call on Him whom they believe and whom they have no faith?
[00:10:20] They don't see that they own it, they're just hurting.
[00:10:26] What do they need?
[00:10:27] Somebody tell them.
[00:10:29] It's that simple.
[00:10:31] On whom they have no reliance.
[00:10:34] And how are they to believe in him and adhere to and trust in him and rely on him who they haven't heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? Now that's my job. That's my job.
[00:10:52] And let's go back. The only time in next April, Gloria will be on our 65th wedding anniversary. How many times have I ever raised my voice and said, I don't know, he's in this little,
[00:11:16] this little house we had rented from the mother of a friend of mine in high school. And, uh, I don't, I don't mind. And I just stopped. Glory, Gina, baby, I'm sorry. I would not have said
[00:11:31] that. And so I just walked over there and flopped down on this old green couch. And I went into such a deep sleep that I felt like I'd slept around the clock. Now I opened my eyes on my side,
[00:11:46] open my eyes and she was right here. I said, oh, Gloria, I got to preach. She said, I know it. Well, I didn't have any idea what, let's just do this thing. But we had two very strong
[00:12:03] mentors, Oral Roberts and Kenneth E. Hagin. Yes, amen.
[00:12:12] Gloria said, uh, I didn't marry a preacher. I married an airplane pilot and he just turned out to be one. Well, really, that's the truth. Okay, let's go ahead with this. For with the heart, a person believe and adheres to it. Now I want
[00:12:32] you to see this. And when they have no faith on whose reliance and how we believe in him and here to and rely on him of whom they've not heard. And how are they going to hear without a
[00:12:47] preacher? I've got my faith on the line for 1 million partners. They're the senders. They're the senders. We've touched our assignment to preach this non-compromised word of faith from the top of the world to the bottom and all the way
[00:13:17] around the middle. Amen. It's in a place right now, of course that first came in the fourth chapter of the book of Ephesians and Gloria and I were doing by ourselves, back when we had the
[00:13:38] kitchen set. Some of you remember that? And I said, Gloria, Gina, and I saw it. One million joints. And I knocked them a cup of tea. I said, we'll clean it up in a minute. I got
[00:13:52] so excited and I heard it in my spirit. You're going to be the biggest Holy ghost gang on this planet. Amen. Now, well, no, I don't, I don't want to say that just yet. So now we've got this.
[00:14:13] So let's go down to Acts chapter two. Let's go to the beginning.
[00:14:19] Acts 2, 2. And on the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place. And suddenly they came a sound from heaven, like the rushing of violent tempest blast. And it filled the whole house in which they were sitting
[00:14:54] and there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which separated and distributed and settled on each of them. And they were all filled and diffused throughout their souls and the Holy Spirit began to speak and listen to this, began
[00:15:17] to speak in other different foreign languages and tongues as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression in in each tongue and appropriate words. Now we were in, we were in, uh, in the Philippines and we, we were there twice, but
[00:15:39] this was the first time. And I was preaching and, uh, this, uh, woman's daughter was interpreting in Tagalog and I stopped and spoke in, in, in, in tongue, just kept on. And her daughter said, would you shut up? She said, mama, he's
[00:16:05] speaking English. No, he isn't. No, he isn't. He's speaking Tagalog. Well, see, that was the same miracle. Now that's not, that's not the only time that's happened over the years. And a number of times in different places and stop and say different
[00:16:28] things and have someone come up and say, do you know what you said? I said, no, do you? Well, yeah, because that person heard it in another language. You hear how they heard, they heard
[00:16:50] different things. So now you have to look at that through the eyes of faith and understand how faith works. As they began to speak as the Spirit gave them utterance, they heard it in their language. Now did you get that? They heard it in their
[00:17:16] language. Well, as they were speaking in tongues, they were hearing different languages and you have to get, you have to get the supernatural part of that because there are times, well, it's just like that with Tagalog. In cases there, I was
[00:17:42] speaking English. She heard it in Tagalog. Now I know you have to really take hold of that with your faith, but that's what she heard and the spirit of God in her saw to it that she heard
[00:18:04] heard without hearing through an interpreter. And her daughter told her, mama, will you hush? She said, he's speaking English.
[00:18:14] She said, no, he's not. So the point is they heard it that way.
[00:18:19] And when you're dealing with the supernatural, you have to put it as the spirit gave them utterance. He was working with their ears at the same time. So he saw to it by the spirit that
[00:18:39] heard what he wanted them to hear. All right, we're almost there. Now, get strong in here, isn't it? And they appear to them. Now, and I want to go here. Therefore, those who accepted and welcomed this message were baptized and there
[00:19:19] were added that way that day, 3000 souls. And the devil said,

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:19:31] oh no, nobody ever got out of my place before. I had him in there. There's more of them and they talking something I can't understand. Oh, shut up devil. You were defeated right then. I

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:20:00] mean when Jesus got through with you in the abyss and he took your keys away from him. He took his keys and literally destroyed him. Took his authority away from me. He has none. All he has
[00:20:23] has is what somebody will give him. That's all he has. And he's been moaning about it ever since. Praise God. Now, Gloria and Taffy wanted to look around at houses and we were there in
[00:20:44] Atlanta and I was driving and all of a sudden I turned around there and I said, he's answered with, we talked to one another tongues, I'd say probably 15, 20 minutes. Can you do that? No, you
[00:21:10] can't do that. Why? You had to ask. Anyway, the point is that anointing just came on me and it turned out we ministered to one another in our own place where we were at the time. The two of
[00:21:33] us ministered to one another. And then as we began to talk with one another. Then the anointing came on the both of us. And then we began to interpret back and forth. Amen.
[00:21:49] Do you understand? Do you understand amen right there? Now what you think the devil thought about that? I don't care what he thinks. He didn't get in on any of it. He's just sitting there moaning about it. Well, I'll get them later. No. Now I
[00:22:13] I said all that to say this, he foreseeing this spoke by foreknowledge of the resurrection of Christ the Messiah, that he has not deserted in death and left in Hades in the abyss that's place for the departed spirit, nor did his body now decay or see destruction. Now this is the man
[00:22:54] that had denied Jesus three times.
[00:23:05] But then when the Spirit of God rose up in him, here's a man, a fisherman, that instantaneously knew this was the prophet Joel.
[00:23:20] How does a fisherman know that?
[00:23:22] He probably didn't before today.
[00:23:25] On the other hand, he is a man of God.
[00:23:29] Amen.
[00:23:30] And we have to understand, he didn't know he was writing the new covenant.
[00:23:37] He didn't know that.
[00:23:40] He was just taking up where they left off.
[00:23:42] And this group established that.
[00:23:50] Now, 3,000 people.
[00:23:53] There were 3,000 souls in the first covenant that were destroyed.
[00:24:08] I believe it was in Babylon.
[00:24:13] And they scattered and their languages were scattered.
[00:24:16] We got it back on the day of Pentecost.
[00:24:21] We got the languages back on the day of Pentecost.
[00:24:25] We have it.
[00:24:26] And Jesus shed his blood to get it.
[00:24:29] Now, are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those that are heirs to salvation?
[00:24:41] That's Hebrews chapter one, verse 14.
[00:24:44] You remember Jacob's letter going to and fro, to and fro?
[00:24:56] On that day, Jesus paid the price for Adam's failure.
[00:25:07] He paid the price for it.
[00:25:10] And all of those angels came back in here at one time.
[00:25:16] And he led captivity captive.
[00:25:19] I'm convinced, I don't care where you were on this planet, you would have heard the same thing.
[00:25:26] It did not happen right there in Jerusalem alone.
[00:25:31] It's all over the world.
[00:25:33] It was all over this whole atmosphere that all of those angels, innumerable numbers of angels came back into this earthly atmosphere.
[00:25:45] Verse 41 here.
[00:25:53] Therefore, those who accepted and welcomed his message were baptized and there were added that day about 3000 souls and they steadfastly preserved devoting themselves constantly to the instruction and fellowship of the apostles to the breaking of bed and bread, including the Lord's supper and prayers.
[00:26:21] a sense of awe, reverential fear that came upon every soul. And many wonders, signs were performed through the apostles, special messengers. Oh yeah, Brother Copeland, but they were apostles. All that means they were sent. So let's move over
[00:26:43] here in the third chapter. Now, Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, three o'clock in the afternoon when a certain man crippled from birth was being carried along, who was laid each day at the gate of the
[00:27:06] temple, which is called beautiful so that he might beg charitable gifts from those who entered the temple. So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for a gift. Peter directed his gaze intently at him. And so did
[00:27:22] John and said, look at us. And the man paid attention to them, expecting that he was going to get something from them. Peter said, silver and gold money, I don't have. What happened to all of it? Well, he was a fisherman. And by the way, I'd like to ask you, what image do you have
[00:27:48] in your mind? And they were fishing. And he said, how many fish do you have? This lad has two.
[00:27:57] And then there were a thousand, thousand of them. Can you, can you see them eating a big fish like this raw? No, they were sardines. Now you know. This lad had two small fishes. Well, it
[00:28:23] was his lunch. They didn't eat the cooking. You just salt them a little bit. And that's what my dad and I used to eat going fishing. I still do. I just have me a nice fish dinner and it's
[00:28:39] sardines. That's what they were fishing for. Now they caught other fish that were large and those larger fish then were sold at market. But the ones that they ate in those large crowds were sardines. And the Galilee being so clear, those little
[00:29:14] fish to school in the, just the millions, but they see the net in the daytime. No, Jesus said, throw it over here on the other side. Now it wasn't a sardine that had money in its mouth. It
[00:29:33] wouldn't have been over, the money would have been so small.
[00:29:35] So there are some big fish in the Galilee. There's some big fish in the Galilee. And right there at the last, the scripture actually says that they were big, but did you notice the net
[00:29:54] didn't break? I was preaching about that, that net breaking.
[00:30:05] Read the scripture. When Jesus walked up there, they were cleaning their nets and Jesus wants to go fishing in the middle of the day. Well, he's thinking they're not going to get anything. So he just got him an old worn out net, not
[00:30:40] not expecting. And he's reading. He said, department meant for me.
[00:30:44] I'm a sinful man. He knew what he did and he got that old rotten net. And it's the only time that one ever, ever broke. Amen.
[00:31:02] There's my baby doll over there. Gloria, Gloria Jean, stand up

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:31:08] sweetheart. Just stand up and wave at the people, baby doll.

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:31:16] When the Lord dropped it in our heart to have a believer's convention, this building wasn't finished. And so we went to the West Coast and they said, go to church six days a week. No, we'll
[00:31:58] give you the California room. And so we said, well, do it, you know, an area impact. They called us and said, you'd like to have a big convention center. So that was the first one. We
[00:32:13] were at one time doing three a year, West Coast, East Coast, Southwest. Amen. Well, that went out there on the West Coast. At the times that we had it every year, it really got to a place
[00:32:32] where the Lord said, I want you to get out of here and don't go back until I tell you. And I was in a meeting then and they were building this building here and it was finished about 1968.
[00:32:41] So it wasn't but about 12 years old, the first one of these we had.
[00:32:46] And here's what I heard the Lord say.
[00:32:49] They think that they are building a convention center.
[00:32:55] No, they are not.
[00:32:57] They are building for you to be a cathedral of faith and total immersion.
[00:33:09] Because I read an article about a total immersion language school out on the West Coast.
[00:33:14] and they were developing interpreters and so forth so that they were not tied to interpreters that might have an ulterior motive because they were praising their own.
[00:33:31] And the way they did it in about six weeks, they were fluent and six, eight months, they had someone they could interpret.
[00:33:40] And I heard the Lord say, I want total immersion in my word, total immersion in the word of faith and faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
[00:33:53] And so that was, that was the whole reason for it. And then we had the East coast, but then the Lord said, you just stay with that one in Southwest until I tell you to quit.
[00:34:05] Well, we had to quit because we're tearing it down Saturday night after we leave here.
[00:34:10] Amen. So we got in, we started it and then tore it up, I guess. But the thing that stands out in my mind, the Lord said, I want you to have a worldwide communion service. This place
[00:34:37] had 15,000 people in it. And that's where the little plastic communion came from.
[00:34:47] Because there's no way you're going to have glass around in here. So we went to the grape juice people and they said, oh yeah. And they've done very well since. There's so many people that use it. That's where that little thing came from. And Thomas Clyde McGee, it's good
[00:35:10] for you to know this, a born again, Holy Ghost baptized tongue talking believer set that first satellite out there. So every time you turn your nav on and the car says, thank you brother Tom. And the code name for it was birds. And a friend
[00:35:31] of ours and brother Mack Hamlin starts to get down in front of him and say, birds, come out birds. Glad you know what they're ... Yeah, I know what they're doing. That was a code name for
[00:35:42] satellites. Without computers, just engineers, slide rules, so forth. And so I called him and I said, we want to have a Worldwide Communion Service. And can you do that? Yeah. I said, how? He said, I don't know. But you know what Philippians 4
[00:36:01] says, you need it, I can do it. With Jesus' help, he connected eight satellites together. And the scene that I remember the most, I was standing up here on the platform and there was Dr.
[00:36:22] Yonji Cho over here in the corner. I looked like I was about that tall. And we had communion and they estimated 1 million people took communion at that time. That it was the largest media event in history. Not to our credit, Jesus credit.
[00:36:50] Amen. And I'm serious. Every time you turn your nav on, you go to the satellites, you know, and say, Brother McGee, we just thank God for you. And his wife, are you familiar with the
[00:37:05] Blackwood brothers back in the day? I'm telling you, they were gospel rock stars. People would drive miles to hear that. His wife was a Blackwood. And so that's where they came from. And now all gospel music. Oh, but you know what his goal was? What
[00:37:29] was motivating him. People said, there is no way the book of Revelation cannot be true because it says right here, the whole world's going to see it and there's no way to do that.
[00:37:45] Well, there is now. I mean, you watching the 700 Club, they're sitting there talking to Jerusalem every day. So God used Clyde McGee to settle the argument in the book of Revelation. Praise God. Now then, remember, Acts 2.2 is the
[00:38:13] gateway to the supernatural. Peter begins to preach. This is a man that had no power, but this is the reason Jesus kept talking to him. When the comforter come, amen. The comforter. So, all right. And we'll see this in, in right

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:39:13] about 17th chapter of John, I believe. In this 16th chapter of

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[00:39:53] the book of John 13, but he, the spirit of truth, truth giving spirit comes. He will guide you into all the truth, the whole full truth for him. He will not speak his own message on his own
[00:40:11] authority, but he will tell you whatever he hears from the father. He will give the message that has been given to give the message that has been given to him. And he will announce and
[00:40:24] declare to you things that are come that will happen in the future. He will honor and glorify me because he will take of, receive and draw upon what is mine and will reveal it, declare, disclose, transmit it to you. That's not the scripture
[00:40:46] that I was looking for. Anyway, as we begin to close this, here's

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[00:40:58] the thing. The bottom line is in the book of Matthew. Let me just

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[00:41:51] quote it to you. They asked him when the end comes. Jesus said, when this gospel of the kingdom is preached to all nations as a witness, the end will come. All nations, all of them have an
[00:42:21] opportunity to hear it. That's the reason why it is so urgent for us. Jesus says, for as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the son of man. Now, I don't know
[00:42:48] how many years ago, I never have looked it up, but there was a

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[00:42:52] time when pornography was highly illegal, but I understand now

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[00:43:00] they're having their own conventions. Oh yeah, they have their stars. This is not hearsay as it was in the days of Noah. Just open sin that not too long ago was terribly, terribly against the
[00:43:34] law. Praise God. Now then, in talking about all of these things, what happened to Judas? Jesus called him friend. That is a covenant. He called him friend and a scripture said he saw what he'd done, but rather than
[00:44:33] repent, he hung himself. Well, I'm not to judge. What did Jesus say? Woe to the man that betrays me. So we're at that time right now when there's a lot of woe going on, but this is on the
[00:45:05] of the side of the cross. Amen. And the way that I know these things is because some of the people that Kelly has interviewed and their ministry is to go right into the middle of those terrible,
[00:45:24] terrible places and just preach the gospel right out in the middle of it. Now it is our business.
[00:45:39] every time we see a ministry like that, every time you see a ministry like that, then we need to partner up. And frankly, that's the reason that the Lord told Gloria and me for a million partners, a million of us, so that the funds are there. And let me point this out to
[00:46:24] This ministry tithes everything that comes in.
[00:46:33] We tithe the ministry.
[00:46:36] And we tithe into other ministries.
[00:46:41] The Lord said to us, it's the twice-sown seed.
[00:46:49] So that now, that's what the Lord was meaning, the biggest Holy Ghost gang on this planet.
[00:46:57] Because as we all prosper, you'd think everybody would like to prosper, wouldn't you?
[00:47:04] Somebody came to Dr. David, Bishop David Oudipo, and he was, you're preaching that American gospel. He said, no, Jesus was not born in America. Well, I didn't choose that as a message. The Lord assigned me with it. He said, I want you to teach on prospering
[00:47:49] financially. The Creflo used a pie and there's just one little slice of it that's money. But you say prosperity, how much?
[00:48:06] Oh, all right. Now that we got off on that. I'm glad you

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[00:48:16] mentioned it. I want to show you something. Deuteronomy 8, 18.

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[00:48:45] But you shall earnestly remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant, which he swore

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[00:48:56] to your fathers as it is this day. Wealth. Did you notice he didn't say anything about

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[00:49:08] prosperity? Wealth. Oh, what is that? Look it up. It is. He's answering what he promised to the forefathers. He made a covenant with, with Abram who became Abraham. He said, I I am El Shaddai. I am the God who is more than enough. Well,
[00:49:42] what good does it do to have a million dollars in the bank and you're too sick to do anything about it? And you have back traditions, which Jesus said your traditions make the word of
[00:50:02] no effect. You know, you keep him humble and we'll keep him wrote. And I know someone that's very close to Gloria and me. And that's what some of her families in the ministry, that's what
[00:50:28] they thought. Well, we're not supposed to have anything. I thought it was good news. That's not all that good news. Oh, but salvation. Well, when you don't have any money, you can't get it very far from you. And money is not the bottom line. Creflo said
[00:50:55] that's just a piece of the pie. But when you come to that place where you're prosperous, like before the end of 1967, we were debt free. So we just kept it that way. Somebody said,
[00:51:23] Copeland said, it's a sin to borrow money. No, it'd be a sin for me to borrow money. It's not a sin to borrow money. It sure is nice not to borrow it. It sure is nice not for somebody
[00:51:44] to call you every once in a while. When are you going to send that check? Oh, any day now. I'm telling you, it's just any day now. And do you see what God was doing? It is God that
[00:52:01] gives you the power to get wealth in order to, because of of the covenant that El Shaddai had with his people. Praise God. I'll close with this.
[00:52:24] There's a situation on an airplane that I won't go into all of it, but I knew right quick, I had an Ishmael in my hair. And the man that owned it said, Copeland, you know, I own the
[00:52:47] airplane. And anytime that you feel like you need to get out of it, just let me know. Give me two weeks. Well, I let him know. No, he said, I sold your lease. What's the difference in the lease
[00:53:04] and borrowing? None. So I called our bank and I told him what had happened. And I said, I don't mind telling you it's my fault. I should have, I won't go into the whole deal, but I need to come
[00:53:33] out. I need you to come over here and look at this contract. And I told him, I said, now, man, I'm going to tell you right now, this thing is my fault because I shouldn't have gotten
[00:53:45] anything in the first place. And besides that, the Lord didn't stay, tell me to stay out of lease. He told me to stay out of debt. And later he said, a lease doesn't do you
[00:53:55] any good. That's a funny way of borrowing money. And he didn't say anything to me until I got in trouble. So they looked at the contract and they said, well, we have the solution.
[00:54:16] I said, well, we just bought your lease.
[00:54:20] You did what?
[00:54:24] We bought your lease.
[00:54:26] Now you're not under any pressure.
[00:54:34] Now, and I went before the Lord and thanked him for it.
[00:54:41] Now folks, it was less than 30 days.
[00:54:47] A guy walked into our office.
[00:54:49] He said, understand you got a liter of 35 for sale and I'll pay this much no more.
[00:54:59] So of course we took it.

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[00:55:01] He got within 100,000 and I told them about that 100,000.

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[00:55:11] Ah, they said, go prepare whenever you want to.
[00:55:14] It took less than 30 days for that money to come in and I haven't made that stupid move again since.
[00:55:26] Amen.
[00:55:29] And here again, I want to straighten that out.
[00:55:32] I have never said it to anyone in my life.
[00:55:35] It is not a sin to borrow money.
[00:55:38] That's your decision.
[00:55:39] Now, for me, it would be. And I haven't gotten in that mess again. And then before that, I had at least one of the prettiest Chryslers you have ever seen in your life. And I'd go somewhere in
[00:56:06] and get back the battery to be dead. They couldn't find anything wrong with it. I'm closing with it.
[00:56:15] we need to get Brother Keith in here. And I said, so I called the man that I had leased it from and praise God. Oh, I got, I got the wrong page here. And yeah, Keith. So says George
[00:56:52] on standby for offering. Well, bless your darling heart. And so I called the man from whom I had leased those cars and I said, listen, now here's what we're going to do. I said, I
[00:57:15] want you to take these cars back. And if, if he said, so I said, nah, nah, here's the thing. I said, I want you to take them back. And then if you, if it comes out, you, you know,
[00:57:29] know, the way to just make the difference. Well, there was a man calling me. He said, Mr. Copeland, were you owner of this beautiful yellow Chrysler? Yeah. He said, it's amazing. I don't ever have any trouble with it. I said, Lord, he said, yeah, the
[00:57:51] demon, you've got it on. He said he got rid of it. Praise God.
[00:57:59] But you see what I did? I violated, I violated the basic of what the Lord told me to do.
[00:58:11] So, never again.
[00:58:13] Did you get anything out of that this morning?
[00:58:15] Good, praise God.