♪ ♪ I'm not moved by
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what I see ♪ ♪ Because my God has
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fundamentals of faith. Brother Hagin called
this the ABCs of faith. And actually it's what it is
but there's a little more to it when you look at it
as the fundamentals. Because anything worth doing
has basic fundamentals to it. When you learned how to drive
there are basic fundamentals involved in that. And then you learned how to
be safe and you had to be good enough at it t
o get
a driver's license. And what is amazing to me is
that they found out today. There was some guys
trying to steal a car that they didn't know how
to drive a stick shift and they ran off. (laughs) Of course, I learned how
to drive a stick shift. I wasn't but nine years old. I was on the farm with my
grandfather and he said, "Kenneth, get in the truck and
go up there to the tractor place and get me a clutch." I said, "Papa, I don't
know how to drive." - How old are you? I said, "Nine". He said
, "Come on". So we got in the truck and
got out there in the pasture. Man, I ground and made
noise with those gears. They were not synchromesh. There just old Ford gears. (making grinding noises) You know, come over here and
slap it down here and up and over there and up here
and then, like, that. Had to make the H. That's the way I
learned how to drive. But it was a basic
fundamental of that. And things progressed
over the years based on the basic fundamentals of
the people that invented it. So
you take... I've always been an
athlete all my life. My dad was a pitcher and so
he taught me in baseball and then I played football. But now the game of
baseball is a very old game. And for the big money, why
do they call it basketball? The clock's ticking. Well, anybody could
have come up with that. (laughs) It liked to have been
called box ball. You got it? They were looking for a game
between baseball and football that could be played indoors. So took a pole and stuck it up
and got a box an
d put up there and Spalding made the first ball
and they threw it up there in that box. But they had to go
up there and get it but he was looking
for more boxes and he found some peach baskets and
cut the bottom out of it where the ball would
fall through it. That was the first basic
fundamental of basketball. And it had a purpose. You could play it inside. So what do you see now? Masters of the Fundamentals. Nobody's ever mastered the game. Nobody has ever mastered
the game of golf, even at the
Masters, that
game will eat you alive. (laughs) I decided I was going to play
a little bit and I thought man, "I'm frustrated enough now. I don't want to get into this." I couldn't settle down at it I
was too competitive and finally I decided I wouldn't
do that anymore. But when you watch
the World Series, when you're watching the
Little League World Series, they're the masters of the
fundamentals at their age, what does it take? A lot of practice and learning
and going back over it and over it
and over it. Vince Lombardo,
arguably the best... had a losing season. He did not like to lose. So at the next training session,
he walked out there and said, "Gentlemen, this is a football. This is where we're
going to start." Well, I've always taken things
to aviation because I spent more time studying that
other than the Bible, I've studied that
more than anything else, because there was a time that
it was a huge part of my life. And well, it still is but
anyway, during World War II, the bas
ic fundamentals... It was
so basic that an instructor would walk up to the
airplane and say, "Gentlemen, this is an airplane. And beginning here at the front
end, that is a propeller. And that's the engine. This is the leading
edge of the wing," I'm going to go through some
fundamentals and I'm gonna lose you real quick. So far you're okay, right? Stay with me. We're going to walk around
the end of the wing. And this is the aileron. The what? The aileron. Okay, okay. Stay with me. This is the fu
selage. This is the empennage. This is the horizontal
stabilizer. And back here we
have the elevator. You mean an airplane
has an elevator? It does go up and
down, you understand. (laughs) Well, that's just not
hard to understand at all, that's just fundamental
as you can get. And all airplanes from a J-3 Cub
to a rocket ship started off on those basic fundamentals. And when they built the
Boeing 707, it was the... it was it. But when they went to the
747, Boeing had to revisit aeronautics to bu
ild that big of
an airplane because the wing had to have 15 feet of flex. 30 feet, I believe that's right. 15 up and 15 down. That thing so heavy. But it still, a fuselage, a
leading edge and ailerons and a horizontal stabilizer with a rudder and a
vertical stabilizer with an elevator in the
back that goes up and down and some of them had some on
the inside that went up and down it's so big. But that's fundamental. That's where it all started. So you take those fundamental
aeronautical laws and
you build on them. When you begin to
learn the laws of the Spirit, where you see a spirit created
the atmosphere in which the airplane flies. He
already knew that because there's been birds for as long as there
has been an Earth, and men couldn't help
but look and wonder. Why can't we do that? And now we can. As I told you earlier, the
ones that did it first, there was a German that
was right behind them, but the Wright brothers,
born-again Methodist and their dad founded the
Wright Methodist Se
minary
in Dayton, Ohio. And so the Lord had
an interest in it. And as I told you earlier,
they sent him a wire and said, "We have an audience
with the king. He said, "Wonderful,
don't drink her wine." So God was in the middle of that
all the time to get us off of the ground because his
preachers needed to go high and fast and get it
done for all things. But television wasn't created
to sell things to people. That's fine. There is some stuff on
there that is not fine, but all things were
created
for and by him. And a man told me
he said, "Can you help me?" And I said, "Well, you
know, I will if I can." He said, "You're on television." - Well, yeah. He said, "Our denomination
preached against it." And he said, "I know full well
that some of our ministers have them in their home, but they
don't dare talk about it. And he said, "We're losing out. We can't get on there now after
we shot our mouths off and preached against
it, what do we do? I said, "Repent, tell the
truth and get on there."
Oh, he said, "I never
thought of that." (laughs) - Well, yeah just stand up and
tell the folks we're wrong. I mean, he's the overseer. Just get up there and tell
him, folks, we're wrong, we're losing out. We call this the one eyed demon
and it turned out to be God Almighty. And here we are on the
outside looking in. So now the
fundamentals of faith, faith is a spiritual force, and
it is the substance of things hoped for. So it is a spiritual
force and not mental. Of course, you
begin with Mark
11. Let's turn over there. I want to read this. The RFW translation
from the book of James. You don't need to turn there
because you know it very well, but we're going to
incorporate this in our study in the second chapter. "My brethren, while holding to
your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the glory... Who is the glory, do not show partiality. Suppose a man comes into your
meetings wearing gold rings" and so forth. Now come to the 14th verse. Well, I'll tell you what,
I'm going to turn t
here and compare it with the Standard version. in chapter 2 and verse 14. "What doth it
profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath
faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or
sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto
them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are
needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not
works, is dead, being alone. Now listen to this. "What go
od is it, my brethren,
if a man professes to have
faith, yet his actions
do not correspond? Can such faith saving... Suppose a brother and sister,
poorly clad or lack daily food and one of you
says to him, Fare-you-well, keep yourselves
warm and well-fed, yet you do not supply
their bodily needs. What's the use of that? So also faith, if that
unaccompanied by obedience is dead in itself. Hmm. Someone would
say, You have faith. I have actions. Prove to me your faith apart from corresponding actio
n,
and I will prove mine to you by my actions. You believe that God is one. And you're quite right. Evil spirits believe
that and shudder. But I don't boaster. Are you willing to be taught
that faith, apart from obedient, is worthless? Was it not because of his
actions that Abraham, our father, declared to be
righteous when he was offered up his son Isaac upon the altar? You notice that his faith was
cooperating with his actions and by his action, his
faith was perfected and the scripture was fu
lfilled. It says, And
Abraham believe God. His faith was accredited
to him for righteousness." Amen, that seems like
it just all of a sudden, action that corresponds. I preach for a pastor
one time and he said, "You're just way too
picky about words." I said, "No sir, I'm
very picky about words. My words. What you do
with yours is your business. But I'm going to give
you my testimony. That's all I can do and tell you
what Scripture says about it. But I learned the hard way. Well, not altogether,
because
I had so much advantage by listening to Brother Hagin and
Oral Roberts and the things that they had learned about
it and others too, T.L. Osborn, my oh my...
I talked to T.L. Osborn, he said, "Kenneth,
you're born free." He said, "You didn't have
any religion to unlearn." I didn't. The first preaching I ever
heard was faith, Gloria too. So we came up under that. And so Gloria and I began
to say to one another, "That's your confession
and I believe it." And the Lord began
to correct me.
He said, "Stop using the
vocabulary and words based in the law of sin and death
to express yourself," the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus has redeemed us from the laws of sin and death. I said, "How is that, sir?" He said, "Use biblical words
to express yourself, they
are there. That is wonderful and it's
marvelous in my eyes. That's the work of the Lord
and it's awesome instead of, "Doesn't that just
thrill you to death". What? That is a huge habit. Not in only English, but
in other l
anguages also. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my. My feet are just killing me. That's a lie. You didn't die. Then the Lord said, "When you
tell somebody you're going to be there at 3:00, don't
get there at 3:05. When you did you lied." Be punctual, be a man of faith. Be a woman of faith. And if there's going to
be a problem with it, let someone know. I had a man call me
one time and he said, "I want you to come hold me a
meeting" and so forth and so on. They said, "Will you do it?" I said, "Not till
I pray
about it." So I prayed about it
and Lord said, "No, I don't want you to go there" and so I didn't need
anymore than that. I did not need to know a reason
why unless I had a desire to go. But I just doing
what this man said. And so then he called me back. He said, "Are you coming?" I said, "No". - Well, why not? I said, "Well, two reasons. One, I don't want to, and
another when I prayed about it, the Lord said, 'Don't come'". He got mad at me and all I
did, I didn't say it ugly, but he's not use
d to anybody
telling him the truth. Well, you see, I'm already
schedule, blah, blah, blah. The whole mess would
have been a lie. I could have been
more tactful about it. But at the time I was learning,
no, I told him, I said, there's two things, I said,
"When I prayed about it, in the first place, I
don't want to come. I don't have anything in
my spirit that calls me to want too. But I told you I'd
pray and I did. And I spent time
enough to find out. But my answer was, 'Don't go'. That doesn't m
ean it
might not be in the future, but if I told you anything else
would be less than the truth." That's almost unheard of. But that's basic
fundamental in the Spirit. Because if you're
going to walk by faith, then these things have
to be part of your life. Now, let me tell you this. It took me a while
to find this out. The just shall live by faith. We live this way. Our lives are sustained by
our faith in his Word and by our faith in the
covenants that this Book
establishes. We live that way. N
o person that lives by faith
has to change his or her lifestyle because of the times. We walk by faith
when times are good, we walk by faith
when times are calm, we walk by faith when
times are terrible. Now let me share this with you. The largest fortunes in this
country have always been made in bad times, not good times. That's when the people that have
the funds to do so invest and take advantage of what
people dump out of fear. 99% of it is out of fear. Oh, let's get rid of this. And then af
ter it's over,
try to buy it all back at a higher price. You remain the tail and
not the head throughout that whole thing. And that is not what
the Bible teaches. What did the Apostle
Paul teach Timothy? Preach the Word in
season and in out. You just preach the
Word all the time. Good times, bad times. When it looks good, we
doesn't look all that good. And besides that, how would you
like to have the Apostle John and the mother of Jesus
in your congregation? That'd straighten your
day up, wouldn
't it. Look out there and say,
"What am I doing here?" That's the reason he said,
"Don't let anybody despise your youth." You're
pastor of that church, God put you there,
so pastor it, preach the Word. Don't preach your opinions and
your ideas, preach the book. Now, let's go back
here to Mark 11. This is where I learned
it from Brother Hagin. Now, I want to remind you
something now, he was born very, very premature to save the life
of his mother in August of 1917, in a very small town in
east Te
xas to start with. Back in 1917, Dallas
didn't have but what, something like
9,000 people in it. 1917. That's World War
I, you understand. And he was premature to start
with in a little small town in McKinney, which over
there close to Dallas. And he was so premature
that when he was born, the doctors thought he was
dead and his grandmother found a spark of life about him. Now, premature is one thing,
but 2 or 3 pounds is another. But he had a call on his life
and his grandmother fed him a littl
e milk out
of an eyedropper. His heart wouldn't work right. The day he was healed he weighed
89 and he got it right here in Mark 11, he said, "I knew my healing was there"
and he told the Lord, "If you ever get me
up off this bed, I'll come off here preaching." So one morning he
just been staying. He said, "I finally realized I'm
going to have to believe I have it before I have it
so I can have it." Now that's a basic fundamental,
you have to believe I have it before I have it
so I can have it.
That throws a lot of people. But he got it right here. So one morning the Lord said,
"So you believe you're healed?" He said, "Yes, I do", of course
he wasn't hearing it audible, but he's speaking out loud. "Yes, I do". And the Lord said, "Healed people ought to
be up this time of day." So he started getting up and he was paralyzed
from the waist down and he had to throw
his legs out of the bed. He's just like two chunks of
wood and draped around the bedpost and he said, "I want
to announce to A
lmighty God, the Lord Jesus Christ and
every angel in the room and every devil in hell, I am healed from
the top of my head to the soles of my feet." He said, "I didn't want
to leave out anything." And he said, "I hung there on
that bedpost and all of a sudden I started feeling in my
legs and those nerves started to come alive." He said, "It felt like 10,000
needles sticking in my leg. I began to cry. I began to cry because
it hurts so good. I could feel it." And he said, "Within..." what was it
Keith,
30 seconds or so, he was standing up straight
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