JEREMY PEARSONS: So you need to understand that there are some
things that are coming in your life and mine, get excited about
it, get to a place where you're expecting it. But you need to
also recognize and ask the Lord, "Am I ready?"
(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Kenneth and Gloria Copeland welcome their grandson,
Jeremy Pearsons, to host today's Believer's Voice of
Victory. Learn how you can be "fit" for the fight of faith
and prepared for every good work. Now here's Jeremy.
JEREMY: The one thing I want to be more than
anything else is fit for my Master's use. That's why we've
been looking at what Paul wrote to Timothy in II Timothy 2, and
talked to him about being a vessel that's sanctified. That's
Verse 21, a vessel that's "sanctified and useful to the
Master." I want Jesus to look at me and say, "Yeah, you, I can
use you," to be fit for His use, to be in shape, to be in a
condition where He can use me to get something done in this
world. And that should be the beat of your heart too, because
you know He loves you, or you better know that. That better be
the bedrock foundation that your whole life is built on: God
loves me, Jesus loves me. And on top of that, you need to realize
that He's called you, and there is a grace and an anointing on
your life to do something in this world for Him, to have an
impact on this world. But you've got to understand that just
because He loves you and just because He's called you doesn't
necessarily or automatically mean He can use you maybe in the
shape you're in, maybe in the shape I'm in. And that's why the
Lord spoke to me some months ago and said, "Jeremy, I want you
fit by 40." So I'm sitting here as a 37-year-old guy,
realizing--doing the math, okay, I've got two and a half, three
years left at this point, because something's coming. When
I turn 40, I am--I'm fully persuaded that there is a new
phase of life in ministry that's on its way. And like I said to
you a couple of days ago, I'm excited about that. That stirs
me up to think that way. But right on the other hand, it's
also very sobering to realize that what He's saying to me is,
"I can't give it to you right now. You're not ready for it. I
can't bring that next phase, that next step into your life,
not in the shape that you're in." But that's why God is so
gracious and He's so merciful to give me two, three years to get
ready for it. That's the mercy of God. And you need to learn to
realize sometimes that the thing you wish you had right now or
the thing you think you need right now, oftentimes you don't
have it because of the mercy of God. And God's standing there
saying, "Look, I've got it for you, but I can't give it to you
because you're just not ready for it." I remember when the
Lord brought Sarah and I together. It's an amazing,
miraculous story. I won't get into all the details. It's just
one of those stories that will make you believe in God. He did
it. He did it. But before He did it, I mean, He had this timing
with it. There were some people in our family, well before Sarah
and I ever even met each other, that they knew her, and they
were trying to set us up and trying to get us together. And
they had invited her to come down to Fort Worth, I think it
was for a New Year's Eve service. And it was New Year's
Eve '06, going into '07. And they invited her to come, but
she was already committed to lead worship at the church she
was a part of. And so she didn't come. And you might ask
yourself, "Oh, wow, don't you wish you had met her sooner?"
Because, see, we didn't end up meeting for another three
months. You might think, "Didn't you wish you had met her
sooner?" No! Absolutely not! Because I remember that night
specifically. I remember what was going on in my life that
night. I remember being just kind of in some turmoil with
some friends and relationships, and stuff was just not clicking,
just a lot of drama; probably that I had let in. I was not
ready to meet Sarah. And had I met her, I don't know that I
would have eyes--would have had eyes to see her, to see the gift
of God and what He was doing for my life. So God had her, and she
was ready. He was ready to give her to me, but I wasn't ready.
He had His timing. So you need to understand that there are
some things that are coming in your life and mine. Get excited
about it. Get to a place where you're expecting it. But you
need to also recognize and ask the Lord, "Am I ready? Am I in
shape, ready for You to bring this thing?" And that's what
Paul said, "You need to be useful to the Master, fit for
His use, and prepared for every good work." And what is the good
work that you're to be prepared for? It's the thing that He's
called you to do. That may look different for you than it does
for me, but that's for you to find out. And you need to
understand, you will never be more satisfied doing anything
other than the thing He's called you to do. You'll never be more
blessed doing anything other than the thing that He's called
you to do. That's where your prosperity is, that's where your
peace and your joy is. That's where your healthy relationships
are, is in the thing He's called you to do. So ask yourself, "Am
I in shape, and am I ready?" The reason this has been such a
strong thought in me over the last several months is because I
had to get a healthy dose of correction from the Lord on it.
And I told you about sitting out there on that balcony that day
in summer of 2016 on vacation with Sarah, a hotel balcony just
looking out over the pool, the ocean, and the Lord speaking to
me and saying, "Jeremy, get fit by 40." He's given me this
window of time. But some of the things I'd begun to realize
shortly before that, and then subsequently from that, was that
there had been some opportunities that the Lord had
opened doors to in my life and ministry that I had to get
honest with Him and realize, I wasn't ready. For example, many
of you know that my grandparents, Kenneth and Gloria
Copeland, just in the last year and some, have launched the
Believer's Voice of Victory Network, this major arm of
outreach and ministry where it's just a network of faith teaching
and faith preaching 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And
before--shortly after they launched that and before they
invited other guests to be on it, my grandfather called me.
This would have been in, oh, July of two thousand--I'd say
15, I think. I may have that wrong, but I think that's about
right. And he said, "Jeremy, your grandmother and I want to
extend this invitation to you and Sarah to have your program
on our network." Well, that's wonderful. I knew that the call
of God on my life and on Sarah and I together was to be in
television ministry. The Lord had told us that years ago,
"Begin taking steps towards a television ministry." Now, six,
almost seven years ago, Sarah and I launched out from KCM and
started our own ministry, and now we're a partner ministry
with this one. And the Lord had instructed in our own, "I want
you to have a television broadcast. Use this outreach,
Believer's Voice of Victory, as an awesome example to us of what
it's supposed to look like and what it's supposed to
accomplish." So in my mind, we're taking steps towards this.
But he called me in July of that year and said, "Now, listen, in
September, we're going to start putting other ministries on
there." Well, that's just a couple of months. And I
realized, "Wow, I'm not ready. I don't have a program yet." So we
start hurrying. And I ended up speaking to somebody here at KCM
about it and they said, "Listen, you know, it's--it's just an
open invitation so that when you are ready, there's a place for
you here on the network." Okay, so that kind of makes me feel
better about it, thinking I don't have to have this ready in
a matter of days. So, September comes. We didn't have a program.
October, we don't have a program. November, December,
January. Just--just shortly after the new year that year, I
wake up to myself one day and realize, what am I doing? My
grandfather called, what, six months ago, five, six months ago
now, and gave me--gave me this golden opportunity that so few
people get, to go on television and preach the Gospel all over
the world, to do the thing God's called me to do, and I still
haven't done it? It's like I woke up. I'm like, the Holy
Spirit just shook me and said, "Pssh, pssh, what are you doing,
boy?" And I remember going to my staff somewhere about February
last year, 2016, and said, "Guys, are you familiar with the
term 'light a fire'?" Ha-ha. "Because that's what God's doing
under me, and that's what I want to do under all of you, under
us. We have got to get this broadcast out." And we got
serious about it. And just in a matter of days, just a matter of
weeks, we started making our own television broadcast. And it
might not have looked perfect right away, but we were working
at it. And everybody doing it, it was--it was all our first
time to do any of it. There was nobody there that was trained to
do it, nobody there that went to school for it. I had nothing but
a room full of willing hearts, and it was enough. And we got
going on it. But shortly after we got started, you know, the
Lord spoke to me, and He said, "Jeremy, you should have been
ready the day he called. You should have been ready to go
with that television broadcast the day your grandfather called
you." And, man, that came all over me. And I thought, "Lord, I
don't even know how I would have done that, but I should have
been." I should have been ready the day he called, and if I
wasn't, I should have got ready the day that door opened for our
broadcasts to go on. And still, I wasn't. And can I tell you
that I let six, seven months go by before we finally went on
air? And by the grace and the mercy of God, we got ready. And
by His grace, we're on today. But I have had to reconcile with
Him the fact that I let seven months go by. That's seven
months of preaching. That's seven months of being all over
the world making altar calls, giving people opportunity to be
born again. That's seven months of giving people opportunity for
their heart to resonate with what Sarah and I are doing and
partner with us in this. That's seven months of opportunity to
preach the Gospel and see people's lives changed by it. I
wasn't ready. And Sarah and I got together, and we got
together with our staff, and we made this our theme, not just
for 2017, but for the rest of the life of our ministry: "We
will be ready." I'll be ready when the door opens. So when the
Lord says to me, "Jeremy, I want you fit by 40," you better
believe, man, that when 40 gets here and the door of opportunity
swings open wide for whatever He's calling us into next, you
better believe I will be there with one foot in the air, ready
to step through that threshold. Never again will I stand at the
threshold of an open door for seven months, unable to walk
through because I wasn't ready. Now, what about you? What about
you? What will you do with this Word? Because I guarantee you,
something's coming. Something is coming in your life that you
need to be in shape and ready for. That's why we've been
looking at I Timothy 6:12 that talks about "fighting the good
fight of faith." The Wuest translation says, "Be constantly
engaged in this contest of faith." Don't disengage from it.
Don't unhook your faith. Stay engaged in this fight of faith.
Why? Because something's coming that you need to be in shape and
ready to go for. That's the condition you need to be found
in at all times. And here is the good news: If you're not in
shape right now, get honest with yourself. Call on the mercy of
God, and you can get in shape. You can get fit for the fight of
faith. But when Paul said that to Timothy, he said, "Get into
this fight, be good at this fight, Timothy. Don't
just--don't just stand in the ring and flail your arms. Don't
just take blind swings. No. Have some technique to your fight."
"Be constantly engaged in the contest of faith, which
contest," he said, "is marked by the beauty of its technique."
Don't just be in the fight. Be good at it. Don't just run the
race. Run in such a way that you obtain the prize. Don't just get
in the--get in the ring, get in the fight and box the air.
That's not doing anything. You're not making any impact
there. Get in the fight and get some technique to your faith
fight. So, in the time that we have left, I want to go to
Romans 4. We're going to look at the life of Abraham. And this
man's life is the one that the Scripture uses to show us what
good technique looks like. And again, remember, the difference
between somebody who's just starting out in something and
somebody who's a professional at it is just a mastery of the
basics. When a kid's just learning a sport, they're
learning the very basics of that sport. But then you take
somebody who's a professional at it, and all that person is is
somebody that's grown in it and developed in it and become a
master of those basics. So you take somebody like Kenneth and
Gloria Copeland, who I look at, and many of us look at, and
think, "Wow, that is a--they are masters at the fight of faith."
Well, really, all you're looking at is somebody who has mastered
the basics. So, when we're talking about developing this
technique of faith, we're not going to jump into something
you've never heard. We're not going to talk about some facet
of faith that's never been talked about before. We just go
back to the basics of it, and we just remind ourselves and train
ourselves in these things until we become a master at these
techniques. Romans 4, this is the New Testament account of the
life of Abraham. And I want to begin reading in Verse 13. We're
going to read down through the rest of this chapter. Notice
what it says here beginning here in Romans 4:13. It says, "For
the promise that he," Abraham, "would be the heir of the world
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith." Now, I love this verse
because in one verse you have an explanation of everything that
God was able to do in the life of Abraham and now what He's
able to do in the life of those of us who believe in Jesus. He
said, "God didn't make this promise to Abraham. He wasn't
promised to be the heir of the world through the
righteousness--or excuse me, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith." Have you ever stopped to wonder why
the Spirit of God would have to use the life of Abraham in the
New Testament to try to preach what Jesus has just done for us?
I've always thought it was interesting that here we are
reading New Testament, but we've gone back to this Old Testament
person to find out what Jesus has just done. And I think the
answer is right here in this verse, Paul writing to these
people who have lived under the reality of the law for so long
and the requirement of the law and trying to measure up to that
law and trying to perform to a high standard to that law. And
they've lived all their lifetimes subject to the bondage
and the fear of death. Why? Because they know, "Man, if I
don't perform right, I've got death hanging over my head." So
Paul, trying to communicate to these people what's just been
accomplished through Jesus, he's saying, "Look, I've got to take
you back to a time before the law ever existed." That's what
Abraham is. He's per all that. He's prelate. He's--he's got a
relationship with God. He lived at a time when there was nothing
between God and man but God's word towards His man and man's
faith in his God. That's the only thing that was between
them. There was no law that separated them. There was no
consciousness of sin that separated him. And Paul's
saying, "I've got to somehow communicate to you what's just
been accomplished in and through Jesus. And to do that, I've got
to take you back to a time before the law ever existed and
the only thing between God and man was faith." That's it. And
Paul's saying, "Praise God, because of Jesus, now the only
thing between you and God is God's word to you and your faith
in Him." That's what Abraham is a picture of to us. In Verse 14,
"If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and
the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about
wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be according to
grace--" See, you always see those two working hand in hand:
Faith working with grace, and grace working with faith, grace
begets faith, begets grace, begets faith. Grace is God
speaking to you. Faith is you speaking to Him. And when you
get into that conversation with Him, then you answer back, then
He can have something else to say to you, and then you answer
that back. And faith is the only appropriate response to grace.
"Therefore it's of faith that it might be according to grace, so
that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to
those who are of the law but also to those who are of the
faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is
written, 'I've made you a father of many nations') in the
presence of Him whom he believed--God, who gives life to
the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though
they did." God, who called those things that be not as though
they were. We're talking about the basics of faith. Come back
to the basics. Some of you heard these truths decades ago, and
for whatever reason, you let it slip. For whatever reason, you
forgot to keep feeding on this. Well, I'm sitting here telling
you today, reengage with the contest of faith. Get back in
this thing and go back to that thing that so just got you so
excited decades ago, that thing where you found out there was
power in your words, and you could speak to things and it
would change, you could speak to situations, and they had to
change, you could speak to sickness, and it had to leave
because the very basics of faith are calling those things which
be not as though they were. This keeps going. Listen to this,
Verse 18, "who, contrary to hope, in hope believed--" Here
again, basics of faith. Let's unpack that sentence a little
bit. "Contrary to hope, in hope believed." The word "hope" just
means expectation. Abraham, according to the natural, had no
reason to expect a son, and yet he expected one. That's what
that means, "contrary to hope, in hope believed." There was no
reason naturally to expect this thing to turn out good, and
still, he expected. Still, he expected the promise of God to
come to pass. Again, Verse 18, "who, contrary to hope, in hope
believed, so that he became the father of many nations,
according to what was written, 'So shall your descendants be.'"
Verse 19, "not being weak in faith, he did not consider his
own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old),
and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver," he
didn't stagger, "at the promise of God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith--" He wasn't weak in faith, he was
strengthened in faith. What have we been talking about for days
now? Getting fit for the fight of faith. Abraham wasn't weak.
You've got to come to the point--ugh, I wish we had more
time on this broadcast. But you've got to come to the
point--and I suggest you do it right now--come to the place in
your life where you decide, "I'm done being weak. I'm finished
with weakness." That's the place I had to come to almost two
years ago. Like I said to you a day or so ago, just growing up
this skinny, scrawny kid, never really putting on muscle, I had
to decide, "I'm done being weak. I'm going to start working out.
I want to see what that does." And as you can tell, it's done
quite a--well, it's still a work, okay? Okay? We're--faith
has not yet become sight, but soon. But you've got to make the
decision that, spiritually speaking, you are done being
weak. You are done letting sickness walk all over you. You
are done being defeated. You are done living--living in
depression, living in oppression. You are done being
walked over. You're done being a skinny, scrawny spiritual
person. It's now time for you and I to get fit for this fight
of faith and begin developing and being strengthened like
Abraham, strengthened in faith. I want you to notice what that
does. "He was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God." Is
that what it said? "Strengthened in faith, giving glory to God."
Giving glory to God doesn't just mean you stand there with your
arms up and say, "I give you glory, give you glory, give you
glory, give you glory." No. Faith gives Him glory. When you
will stand in faith in the middle of the storm while your
sight is still unseen, and you'll boldly declare the Word
of God, you'll boldly speak what the Word of God has already
said, that gives God glory. He loves it. He loves it. So make
the decision right now before you do anything
else today. Say it out loud, "I'm done being weak.
I'm going to be strong in my faith." Amen?
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