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Immediately, the woman spit that cancerous tumor out at our feet. The devilish power holding that nasty, putrid thing in place fled and she was healed! That was my introduction to what the Name of Jesus can do! “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “it doesn’t seem to me the Name of Jesus always does that. I’ve heard lots of prayers prayed in His Name that did not produce those kinds of results.” Me too. But it’s not because the Name of Jesus didn’t work. It’s because most Christians don’t know how to put it to work. They don’t have enough revelation to use it the way Brother Roberts did. He understood the authority Jesus’ Name carries. His faith in that Name was so strong that when he used it, he fully expected the power of Jesus Himself to come on the scene and do what needed to be done. In other words, Brother Roberts used Jesus’ Name like the Apostle Peter did in Acts 3. When he and John encountered the lame man at the Temple gate and the man looked to them expecting alms, Peter said to him: “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God” (verses 6-9). When the astonished crowd asked by what power the lame man had been healed, Peter said, Jesus’ “name through faith in his name hath made this man strong” (verse 16). Notice according to that verse, Peter spoke Jesus’ Name by faith. He didn’t say it just hoping something might happen. He had a revelation of the power that’s in it. He fully believed that Name would do exactly what Jesus Himself would do in that situation. This is where we, as believers today, have often missed it. We’ve reverenced and loved Jesus’ Name, but we haven’t developed much faith in the power of it. We haven’t understood the kind of spiritual weight it carries and what it represents. Demons Bouncing Off the Walls of Hell Do you want to know who does understand what Jesus’ Name represents? The devil. The Name of Jesus absolutely terrifies him. Every time he hears it, he’s reminded of what happened to him in hell 2,000 years ago. It was the worst experience of his life, and it took place right after he thought he’d won his greatest victory. He and his demons had just succeeded in getting Jesus crucified! Seemingly having conquered Him, they’d dragged Him into hell and tortured Him for three days and nights. Then something horrifying happened that turned the tables. They heard the sound of God’s voice thundering down out of glory as He spoke to Jesus the words recorded in Hebrews 1:5-6: “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee[!] And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son[!]... And let all the angels of God worship Him.” Those words hit Jesus’ whipped, emaciated human spirit, that had taken on the sin of the whole world, and raised Him from the dead! His spirit filled with the righteousness and power of Almighty God, and He became the first Man in the history of this planet to be born again. While devils bounced off the walls, Jesus dethroned satan and took from him the keys of death and hell. He stripped him of his power, made a spectacle of him triumphing over him in it, and rendered him powerless (Colossians 2:15; Hebrews 2:14). Talk about a humiliating defeat! Jesus—one born-again Man—conquered hell all by Himself. As Hebrews 1 says, He “by Himself purged our sins.” Then, after reducing the devil to an absolute zero, He ascended back into heaven, “sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, [and] having become so much better than the angels…He…by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they” (verses 3-4, "New King James Version"). What is that more excellent name? The name of the Most High God! The name Jehovah, as we say in English. Jesus inherited that name from His heavenly Father the moment He was born again from the dead. It became His, not only as God’s Son but in honor of what He’d done. According to Philippians 2:8-11: “[Because] he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things [names] in heaven, and things [names] in earth, and things [names]under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” ***** article continues on p. 8 ****** 6 : BVOV

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