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Victorious Living by Kenneth Copeland Repent—And Receive the Glory! “[Moses said to the Lord], Show me thy glory. And [God answered him saying], I will make all my goodness pass before thee.” Exodus 33:18-19 Good overwhelms evil—and God’s goodness and glory are one and the same. That’s why God made all His goodness pass in front of Moses. It was the glory Moses was wanting to see. If you’ll read the entire passage in Exodus 33, you’ll also find that God told Moses He would have to hide him from that glory, because if he saw God’s face, he would die. Why? Because as an un-born-again man, Moses had sin in him. His heart had never been born again. Sin is darkness. God doesn’t have to try to kill darkness. He doesn’t have to lift His mighty right arm and bash it in the head. When God walks on the scene and His goodness is released in its full force, it is so powerful, it just blasts evil into nothingness. That’s the reason God and man had to be separated after the Fall. He had to protect man from the power of His glory. But I want you to know, God isn’t separated from us any longer. He is dwelling inside our reborn, human spirits—and, in these last days, He will break forth and overflow from there to touch once again the flesh of men. The Holy Ghost on flesh! Think about that. The flesh is the domain the devil thought he had locked up for himself. He’s dominated that area for thousands of years and because of it, we’ve had to learn how to walk by faith and not by sight or by manifestations of the flesh. We’ve had to learn how to ignore the flesh and control it, walking by faith in Almighty God’s WORD. But the time at hand is one in which God will start affecting people’s flesh. You’ll still have to walk by faith, but you need to be prepared for physical manifestations. Because when this fire of God’s glory starts affecting the flesh, some people won’t know whether to run and hide, or jump and shout. They’ll quickly realize that you just can’t play around with this glory. It is sure power. It is the kind of power that forces sickness and disease to disappear from human bodies. It’s the kind of power that makes the devil pack his bag and flee! It’s the kind of power that will bring in the end-time harvest, and God is ready to pour it out in fullness. That’s the reason He is calling on us to get the sin out of our lives. That’s why He is saying, 'Repent, so I can manifest the glory!' If He pours out the fullness of that glory and you’re hanging on to sin, it will destroy your flesh. So get the sin out! Cleanse the temple! The fire of God wants to come forth! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * cont. from p. 27 * * * * * * * Even though they were being rebellious at the time and complaining, He spoke to them through Moses and said He’d give them meat to eat, “not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month” (Numbers 11:19-20, "New King James Version"). Moses, although he was generally a faith man, couldn’t figure out how God was going to do that. It sounded impossible to him! “Just the men of Israel number 600,000!” he said, “not to mention women and children. Even if we slaughtered all the livestock we have and caught all the fish in the sea, it wouldn’t be enough to feed this bunch of people for a month.” “And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not” (verse 23). The Bible says in verses 31-32, “Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp” ("NKJV"). God provided so much meat for the Israelites, the scripture says, that eventually it became loathsome, or repulsive to them (verse 20). God kept His Word. He proved that His arm wasn’t too short to miraculously provide. He proved that time and again to the Israelites, sometimes taking them from poverty to prosperity literally overnight! Take what He did for them in 2 Kings 6-7, for instance. It tells about a time when the Israelite city of Samaria had been surrounded by the Syrian army for so long that their food supply had completely run out. Because they weren’t seeking God for help, the situation had gotten so bad the Israelites had been reduced to eating dove droppings and paying two ounces of silver per dropping for the privilege! Can you imagine? 28 : BVOV

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