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Kenneth Copeland — God RepentedPosted by admin on February 24th, 2010

The book of Exodus provides more
insight into the strength of the covenant
through what took place among
the Israelites in Egypt and then during
their wanderings in the wilderness.
Exodus 2:23-25 says, “And the children
of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage,
and they cried, and their cry came
up unto God by reason of the bondage.
And God heard their groaning, and God
remembered his covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob. And
God looked upon the children of Israel,
and God had respect unto them.”

God remembered His covenant
with Abraham and in behalf of that
covenant found a man named Moses
herding sheep on the backside of the
desert. God called him to lead the
Israelites out of Egypt.

After the Israelites were set free and
journeyed into the wilderness, we find
another situation so critical that Moses
went on his face before God for forty
days without food or water. This is the
only fast in the entire Bible where a
man goes without drink. It had to be a
supernatural existence because Moses
would have died without liquid. But
he just refused to let go of God. Exodus
32:9-10, “And the Lord said unto
Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now
therefore let me alone, that my wrath
may wax hot against them, and that I
may consume them: and I will make
of thee a great nation.” God wanted to
destroy Israel and start a new race with
Moses as He had with Noah after the
Flood. In verses 11-14 it says:

Moses besought the Lord his God,
and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath
wax hot against thy people, which
thou hast brought forth out of the
land of Egypt with great power, and
with a mighty hand?…Turn from thy
fierce wrath, and repent of this evil
against thy people. Remember Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants,
to whom thou swarest by thine own
self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply
your seed as the stars of heaven,
and all this land that I have spoken of
will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit it for ever. And the Lord
repented of the evil which he thought
to do unto his people.

God repented! Why? Because of the
covenant He had made with Abraham
so many years before.

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Kenneth Copeland — Abraham’s CovenantPosted by admin on February 17th, 2010

Let’s look at Genesis 17:1-5 for a
moment and examine this agreement
God made with Abram:

And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the
Almighty God; walk before me, and
be thou perfect. And I will make
my covenant between me and thee,
and will multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face: and
God talked with him, saying, As for
me, behold, my covenant is with
thee, and thou shalt be a father of
many nations. Neither shall thy name
any more be called Abram, but thy
name shall be Abraham; for a father
of many nations have I made thee.

Notice particularly that God said,
“As for me….” You see, Abram did not
have to accept God’s deal. He was not
being forced to do anything—it was
his own free choice. God laid out His
proposition and Abram accepted it. It
gave God access to the earth and gave
man access to God. At this time man
had no real knowledge of God’s nature.
People only knew what their fathers
had passed down to them. After
Adam died and several generations
passed, no one really knew much
about God anymore.

You need to understand the authority
that was placed in the covenant. This
was an absolute agreement
between God and Abram, sealed on
both sides. God sealed His side of the
agreement by swearing by Himself
(Genesis 22:16). In other words, there is
no higher state that God can swear by,
so He swore by Himself. Technically, if
He ever broke the covenant, He would
have to destroy Himself.

The Hebrew word covenant means
“to cut where blood flows.” This is the
strongest agreement in any language.
A covenant is a contract, or agreement,
made between two parties and sealed
by the shedding of their blood. Once
this is done, the covenant can never
be broken. Every heathen tribe on the
face of the earth has a blood covenant.
The blood covenant between God and
man was marked and sealed in man’s
flesh through circumcision (Genesis
17:10-14). In other words, circumcision
was “the cut of the covenant.”

From that time forward, Abram was
a covenant man with God. God even
changed his name to Abraham. In
Genesis 18:17-33 we find God consulting
with His covenant man about the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Can you see the strength of this covenant?
It was powerful!

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Kenneth Copeland — After The Fall Of AdamPosted by admin on February 10th, 2010

After the Fall of Adam, God was
in a peculiar position. He had given
Adam unquestionable authority over
the earth. But when Adam committed
high treason against God and bowed
his knee to Satan, spiritual death—the
nature of Satan—was lodged in his
heart. Actually, Adam was the first
person ever to be born again. He was
born from spiritual life to spiritual
death. God had said, “But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die” (Genesis 2:17).

God said that Adam would die the
very day he ate the forbidden fruit, yet
he lived several hundred years longer.
God was not referring to physical
death. He meant that Adam would die
spiritually—that he would take on the
nature of Satan, which is spiritual death.

This process is reversed when you
make Jesus the Lord of your life. You
are born from death into life. The law
of spiritual lordship is our way back
into the hands of God. You take on
a new Lord and receive the nature of
your new Lord which is eternal life
(John 3:16). This is why Jesus went to
the cross. First John 3:8 says, “For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works
of the devil.” Jesus turned to the most
religious men of His day and said,
“Ye are of your father the devil” (John
8:44). By going to the cross as the sinless
Son of God, Jesus took away the
dominion Satan had over mankind.
First Corinthians 2:8 states that had
the princes of this world known, they
would never have crucified the Lord of
glory. This was a trap that the Father
and Jesus had set for Satan. He walked
into it, and it cost him his lordship
over the earth.

After Adam’s Fall in the Garden,
God needed an avenue back into the
earth. He needed some way to break
the union between Satan and mankind.
Since man was the key figure in
the Fall, man had to be the key figure
in the redemption, so God approached
a man named Abram. He re-enacted
with Abram what Satan had done
with Adam, except that God did not
sneak in and use deception, as Satan
had. God offered Abram a proposition
and Abram bought it.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Law Of GenesisPosted by admin on February 3rd, 2010

In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. Genesis
1:26-27 says:

And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth. So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female
created he them.

From the dust of the earth, God
formed a man, named him Adam, and
placed him in the midst of the Garden
of Eden. This man Adam was given the
awesome authority of lordship over
God’s creation on earth. God gave him
dominion over every living thing on
the face of this earth. He was to
subdue the earth and replenish it. He
was given the right to be the father of
God’s family. He was to sire the human
race. What a privilege!

God set a law into motion at creation
which I call the law of genesis—or
the law of beginnings. According to
this law, every living thing was created
by God to produce after its own
kind. Man was no exception. God is a
Spirit, and Adam was created in God’s
own image and likeness—a spirit being.
They walked in close fellowship
and communion together, and Adam’s
descendants were to live in harmony
with God, their spiritual Father. But
something happened in the Garden
that caused a great and terrible change
to occur. Satan approached Adam’s
wife Eve and deceived her into disobeying
God’s command. Then Adam
willfully followed her in this rebellion.

According to the law of genesis,
man takes on the nature of his
spiritual father or lord. God was
Adam’s spiritual father. But when
Adam disobeyed God and bowed his
knee to Satan, he changed spiritual fa-
thers. Satan became the illegitimate
stepfather of mankind. Adam committed
high treason. At that point, all
the dominion and authority God had
given him was handed over to Satan.
Suddenly, God was on the outside
looking in.

Until this time, Satan did not have
any authority on earth. All his authority
had been taken away when
he led the rebellion against God in
heaven (Isaiah 14:12). He came into
the picture absolutely void of authority.
But by deceiving the woman, he
manipulated man’s authority into his
own hands and became the god of this
world (2 Corinthians 4:4). In Luke
4:3-7, when Satan tempted Jesus in
the wilderness, he took Jesus up on a
high mountain and showed Him all
the kingdoms of the earth. He said,
“All this power will I give thee, and
the glory of them: for that is delivered
unto me: and to whomsoever I will I
give it. If thou therefore will worship
me, all shalt be thine” (Luke 4:6-7).

Some people think this was just
one of Satan’s lies. But if it had been a
lie, it would not have been a temptation
and the Bible says that Jesus was
sorely tempted. This was real temptation,
brother! Satan had it to give.
Jesus was tempted, but He used the
weapon for which there is no defense.
He said, “It is written…” and Satan had
to flee from Him!

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