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Kenneth Copeland — The Bible Is A Code Book Part 1

February 17th, 2010
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Kenneth Copeland

God wrote the Bible as a code book. The
book of Proverbs says that God has hidden
godly wisdom for His people. That’s the way
He wants it. But in this portion of Scripture,
God goes an unusual step further and asks,
“Who is he that overcometh the world?” In
other words, God is spelling it out, so we can’t
possibly miss it. He is saying, “This is the way
I see it—whatsoever is born of Me overcomes
the world; and who is he that overcomes the
world, but he that believes that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the living God?”

This statement can also be read another way:
“None but those who believe that Jesus is the
Christ will ever overcome the world.” No matter
how smart, how strong or how rich you become,
you can never truly be a winner—you can never
really overcome the world—without Jesus as
your Lord.

That means this world will never be overcome
by a government, a political system or a monetary
system. Money will never overcome the world!
When the Bible talks about “the world,” it is
speaking of the dominion of darkness, the god of
this world, the evil spirit—Satan—that operates
in the world. Without Jesus Christ as their Lord,
no man or system will ever in any way, form or
fashion, be able to overcome the world. It simply
can’t be done.

But, on the other hand, if you are born of
Him, you have an absolute, perfect, God-given,
blood-bought right to overcome every aspect of
the world—everything it could possibly send
your way!

It doesn’t matter how much you feel like a
loser. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve
failed in the past. If you believe Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the living God, then you’ve
committed yourself to overcoming the world. And
you’ve been given the power to do it. You’ve
become more than a conqueror (Romans 8:37). If
you believe the Word of God, then you should
respond to every challenge by saying, “Well,
praise God, I’m an overcomer!” That should be
your attitude. Does having this attitude guarantee
you won’t have any more trouble? No! It simply
means you can go through that trouble and
emerge triumphant.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Winning Attitude Part 2

February 10th, 2010
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Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

But, you know what? You have an even better
reason to have a winning attitude than the general
did. God has guaranteed your success. Let me
show you what I mean. Imagine you’re about to
tackle a really tough job. Before you even get
started, God speaks to you right out loud and
says, “I just want you to know, I’m going to
personally see to it that this project you’re
working on succeeds.” Wouldn’t that give you a
tremendous feeling of confidence? Even if you ran
into some rough spots, you wouldn’t worry about
failing because you would have God’s word that
you were going to succeed. That would make it
easy to have a winning attitude, wouldn’t it?

Well, let me tell you something. You do have
God’s promise that you’ll succeed. He said in His
Word that you’re an “overcomer”! In Him, you can
overcome any problem the world throws your way.

Read 1 John 5:1-5:

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God: and every one that
loveth him that begat loveth him also
that is begotten of him. By this we know
that we love the children of God, when
we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that
we keep his commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous. For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son
of God?

God is being unusually explanatory here. He
doesn’t normally give such in-depth explanations
of things that are written in the Word of God. The
reason: He intends that we take what He says by
faith, go to Him, and allow the Holy Spirit to
reveal it to our hearts. That way the devil isn’t
tipped off to what it means.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Winning Attitude Part 1

February 3rd, 2010
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Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

You’ve probably heard it said, “It’s not whether
you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.”
Do you believe that?
I don’t!

Man was created to be a winner. The Bible
tells us so! In Genesis, for example, we read that
man was originally put on earth as dominating
lord (Genesis 1:26-30). God gave him dominion
over the earth and everything that crept, flew,
crawled and breathed there. In fact, man didn’t
even know what it meant to lose until he
separated himself from God through disobedience
in the Garden of Eden. It wasn’t until then that
man ran headlong into defeat. He was forced to
accept failure as his lot in life, lowering himself to
a subordinate position—a position he was never
meant to occupy.

It’s a sad story. But if you’re a born-again child
of God, I have good news. Your story has a happy
ending. Through faith in Christ Jesus, you’ve
been transformed from the inside out. You’ve
been made a winner once again!

You may be thinking, I don’t feel like a winner.
I feel like a loser—and I have plenty of failures in
my life to prove it. If that’s the case, don’t worry.
You just need a new attitude. And you can get it
from the Word of God.
In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul
told the Church to be renewed in the spirit of
their minds. That’s what you need to do. Renew
your mind to the Word of God—base your
thinking on the fact that Jesus has overcome the
world. Begin seeing yourself as a winner in Him!

I’m reminded here of something Gen. George
Patton said. He was a great commander of the
United States Army with a God-given insight into
war, and knew how vital a winning attitude could
be. Once while addressing his troops, he put it this
way: “Some of you men have come with your
minds made up to die for your country. That’s not
the way to win a war! The way to win a war is to
make your enemy die for his!” Patton had his mind
made up to win—and he knew dying wasn’t the
way to do it. He had a winning attitude.

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