Kenneth Copeland 6 of 10
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Now, in every place on earth this ought to be the last place where I have to go through this whole thing about what you're supposed to do when it comes to obeying a commandment. When I went in the military, the first… [laughs] I don't remember how many days and nights; I was a zero waiting for some place to take place. And the very first thing, oh man, I mean everybody I met for days talked about the general orders of the Army, man, over and over and over. You're supposed to obey it and if you don't you can forget about the orders of your superiors because if you don't obey the general orders of the Army, they're going to throw you away anyway! And you can sure forget about the 'orders of the day'; you'll never get to the orders of the day because they'll put you in the stockade. And the order of the day is the same every day: 'sit down, shut up' and whatever else!
We have a commandment from the Commander in Chief, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 'Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, all your soul your mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself.' In that order. There may be reasons why for you to break that commandment but you either fix them or you ignore them; that is a command. Now, settle it forever.
Now how do I go to war with it? Okay, God is a covenant God. There is no hate in God. God loves Osama bin Laden just as much as He does you. God is love. But now wait a minute. You have a covenant with God. Now that changes everything. God has covenant responsibility to you that He does not have to somebody that doesn't know Jesus of Nazareth as their Lord and Savior.
I have a covenant with Gloria. We have a marriage covenant between us that is patterned after the marriage covenant between Jesus, His Body and our Heavenly Father. That's where it came from. We are covenanted together in the Blood of Jesus. Now I don't have any hate in me, I love you. I love every last one of you, it's not because of what you do, who you are or what color you are or what color you're not. It has absolutely nothing to do with that it has to do with the fact that I'm under orders.
I love you because I'm told to; and I have a covenant with God in the Blood of His Son and He is responsible for me and I am responsible for carrying out His orders. And I love you, so there. I love you and I'm going to walk in that love; I'm going to walk in that love; I'm going to walk in it; I'm going to walk in it; so help me God I'm going to walk in it! If I don't walk in it then repent right now! But now I have a personal sworn responsibility where Gloria is concerned. I love you, but don't mess with her; I'll talk to you, if that don't do any good, I'll hurt you (and love you the whole time) because I don't hate you, but I'm responsible to her. Now to most audiences I couldn't say this but I can here, because of the nature of what we're talking about, if it come to it, where she's concerned, I'll kill you graveyard-dead. And preach your funeral! And do the whole thing without any hate.
Now that's where you have to be taught to be a man of war and taught how to conduct yourself above and beyond all reasonable conduct because there's nothing reasonable about this, this is supernatural conduct by the Spirit of the Living God. And when you go to war for His purposes, you come home guiltless and sleep every night like a baby and keep His commandment.
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