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Joseph Prince -The Darker The World, The Brighter His Grace

November 20, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince -The Darker The World, The Brighter His Grace
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince -The Darker The World, The Brighter His Grace | November 20, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: now god's system is always what?
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  • Beginning with what?
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  • The last and then to the first.
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  • Man's system is always first to the last.
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  • You know, the heroes of the parables of jesus
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  • Is always the last, the lost, the least.
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  • The lost, the last, the least.
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  • They are the heroes of the bible.
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  • God's ways are always different from man's ways.
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  • Don't be afraid to be what you are in the presence of god.
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  • He loves you.
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  • And you know what?
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  • He delights in the fact that you're willing to be weak
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  • In that area because it shows forth his strength,
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  • Announcer: are you praying for a second chance,
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  • Maybe a third or even a fourth?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince takes you
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  • Into the scriptures and unveils a god
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  • Who didn't come to just fix your past mistakes.
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  • He came to set you free from every mistake:
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  • Past, present, and future.
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  • Fired up by today's message?
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  • That unveil all of jesus in all his glory.
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  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: what is happening as we see the moral atmosphere
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  • Of the world gets lower and lower,
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  • Deeper and deeper into darkness
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  • As men don't even know how to discern
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  • Right from wrong and good and evil.
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  • It's like there is a moral depravity
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  • That is running rampant.
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  • And what are we bringing our children into, into a world of?
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  • But you know what?
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  • God is saying that during this time,
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  • His glory is going to shine on us
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  • But better than that, we're gonna be people
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  • Full of grace.
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  • There was a man like this, the bible says,
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  • In fact there are a number of them in the bible,
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  • They're full of grace but one particular one was stephen.
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  • The bible says, full of grace and faith,
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  • He did mighty signs and wonders,
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  • Miracles amongst the people.
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  • And god wants you to be strong in the grace
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  • That's in christ jesus.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Now grace is always what god does for us.
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  • It's not what we do for god.
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  • That is law.
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  • Grace is god doing it for us.
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  • Even the responsibilities in the new testament, amen,
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  • It is seeing god supplying us, working in us,
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  • And then through us, amen, as we work it out.
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  • Work out your salvation.
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  • It's not work for your salvation.
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  • Work out means god has given you salvation.
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  • Work it out in the way you live your life.
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  • Work it out in your relationships with others.
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  • Only when you have it in, can you work it out.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • So as the lord gave me this and the lord gave me
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  • Some fresh insights that he's going to bless you.
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  • I've never heard anybody teach this or preach this.
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  • The parable, yes, but not these insights
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  • That i'm going to share with you right now.
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  • I believe it's going to set you free,
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  • And set you free from depression, amen?
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  • Let's go straight away to the question
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  • That precipitated this parable and the answer from our lord.
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  • It's got to do with blessing in all its fullness.
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  • The hundredfold prosperity.
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  • So let's look at the question.
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  • Matthew 19: "peter answered and said to jesus,
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  • 'see, we have left all and followed you.
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  • Therefore what shall we have?'"
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  • What shall we have?
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  • We left everything, lord, and followed you.
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  • What shall we have?
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  • "jesus said to them, 'assuredly i say to you,
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  • That in the regeneration,
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  • When the son of man sits on the throne of his glory,
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  • You who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones,
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  • Judging the twelve tribes of israel.'"
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  • Now, he's obviously referring to the disciples,
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  • Amen, there and there.
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  • But the next statement is for all of us.
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  • "and everyone--" are you an everyone?
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  • "everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters
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  • Or father or mother or wife or children
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  • Or lands for my name's sake,
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  • Shall receive an hundredfold, and inherit eternal life."
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  • You are the righteousness of god in christ.
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  • Now walk it out.
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  • Act it out, amen.
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  • So it's always why that's more important to god
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  • Than the what that you do for god, okay?
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  • At the end of this parable, jesus reiterated himself
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  • But he adds something else in verse 16:
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  • "so the last will be first, and the first last.
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  • For many are called, but few are chosen."
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  • So jesus says, the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner.
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  • So he's answering the question, "what shall we have?
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  • We left everything."
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  • Then he answered by saying you will receive a hundredfold.
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  • Yet he felt he needed to teach them
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  • How to receive a hundredfold.
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  • Then he starts sharing this parable.
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  • "for the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner
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  • Who went out early in the morning
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  • To hire laborers for his vineyard."
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  • So he went out early in the morning, before 9, all right,
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  • Early in the morning to the marketplace
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  • To hire laborers for his vineyard.
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  • Obviously, this landowner is our lord jesus
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  • Because this is the parable of the kingdom of heaven.
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  • For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a landowner.
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  • So he went out to the market to hire laborers for his vineyard.
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  • And then it says, "now when he had agreed."
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  • Say, "agreed."
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  • Say it again.
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  • One more time.
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  • What is agreed?
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  • You come to a settle, amen.
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  • Both bargain.
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  • A barter.
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  • The whole principle of capitalism
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  • Is built on barter system, right?
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  • We agree for such and such.
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  • I'll pay you this amount.
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  • I work for you, you pay me this amount.
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  • It's an agreement, isn't it?
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  • It's very understandable to us.
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  • He's speaking our language,
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  • Even the language of the people of his day.
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  • We understand that, right?
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  • So there's an agreement.
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  • In other words, he went out early,
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  • Very early in the morning, we know it's before 9 a.m.
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  • And he saw this group of people and he told them,
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  • "go work for me," and they said, "how much will you pay me?"
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  • He said, all right, i'll pay you a denarius.
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  • A denarius, a denarius a day, a denar,
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  • Even today in the middle east,
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  • In many places you go, it's called denar.
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  • But in that day, a denarius is a full day's wage.
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  • A full day's pay, all right?
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  • Daily wage.
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  • So they agreed.
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  • The landowner and the laborers agreed.
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  • Say agreed again.
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  • Okay, so he sent them.
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  • And he went about the third hour,
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  • And by the way, all this third hour,
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  • Sixth hour, ninth hour,
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  • Jesus was crucified at the third hour
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  • And he died at the ninth hour.
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  • In those days, they reckoned by hours, right?
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  • They divide their time with hours.
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  • The third hour will be 9 a.m., okay?
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  • Jesus died at the ninth hour, which is 3 p.m.
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  • So third hour is 9 a.m.
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  • So it's 9 a.m.
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  • And he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
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  • Obviously, the first group that agreed with him
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  • Is before 9 a.m., right?
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  • Okay, so now he went back to the market and at 9 a.m.,
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  • He saw others.
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  • He says, "go also into the vineyard,
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  • And whatever is right i will give you."
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  • So any agreement?
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  • No, no agreement.
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  • They had to go based on his word, right?
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  • Whatever is right, go ahead guys,
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  • Go and work for me and whatever is right,
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  • I will give you.
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  • So there's no agreement.
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  • No denar, nothing, right?
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  • So go.
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  • So they went.
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  • "again, he went out about the 6th,"
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  • The 6th would be 12 p.m. noon,
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  • "and the 9th hour which is 3 p.m.
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  • And did likewise."
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  • So he went out again and got more laborers.
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  • "did likewise" means what?
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  • No agreement.
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  • "based on whatever is right, i will give you."
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  • "so he went out, and he found them, he says,
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  • 'why have you been standing here idle all day?'
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  • They said to him, 'because no one hired us.'
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  • He said to them, 'you also go into the vineyard,
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  • And whatever is right, you will receive.
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  • Go ahead.'
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  • So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard
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  • Said to his steward,
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  • 'call the laborers and give them their wages,
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  • Beginning with the last to the first.'"
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  • Now god's system is always what?
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  • Beginning with what?
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  • The last and then to the first.
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  • Man's system is always first to the last, right?
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  • You know, the heroes of the parables of jesus
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  • Is always the last, the lost, not the found.
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  • And not the mighty, but the least.
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  • The lost, the last, the least.
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  • They are the heroes of the bible, amen?
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  • God's ways are always different from man's ways.
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  • Don't be afraid to be what you are in the presence of god.
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  • He loves you and you know what?
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  • He delights in the fact that you're willing to be weak
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  • In that area because it shows forth his strength,
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  • His power, his miracles.
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  • Okay, back to this.
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  • "when the first came," okay,
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  • Beginning from last to the first.
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  • Last to the first.
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  • You know, this parable is really telling people, how many of you
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  • Have ever been in that place where maybe during school,
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  • Back in school, you were one of those that always
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  • Were called upon last?
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  • How do you feel?
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  • Like when you play games, you know,
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  • They divide you into groups, right?
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  • And people start picking out different ones.
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  • And then guess what?
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  • You are either the second last or the last.
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  • How do you feel?
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  • Or you found out that in the birthday invite
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  • Or some invitation to a party or whatever,
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  • You found out later on,
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  • Somehow you found out that your name was mentioned last.
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  • And the invitation was given to you last.
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  • How do you feel?
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  • It's not a good feeling around, right?
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  • Well, this parable is for you.
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  • It's for all those who have ever felt that way before.
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  • And how they can end up winners.
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  • And not only that, they get the fullness of the blessings.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Okay, so here we go.
  • 00:10:30.940 --> 00:10:32.475
  • "and when those who came who were hired by eleven hour,
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  • They each received a denarius."
  • 00:10:36.245 --> 00:10:37.980
  • Now he starts with the last hour, who only worked one hour.
  • 00:10:37.980 --> 00:10:41.383
  • He starts with them first and then he gives them
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  • The full day's wage.
  • 00:10:46.222 --> 00:10:48.891
  • In other words, would you agree that they got a hundredfold?
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  • Complete blessing, am i right?
  • 00:10:52.294 --> 00:10:56.365
  • "but when the first came," the very early in the morning,
  • 00:10:56.365 --> 00:10:59.368
  • "they supposed that they would receive more
  • 00:10:59.368 --> 00:11:02.238
  • And they likewise received each a denarius."
  • 00:11:02.238 --> 00:11:07.076
  • They supposed they would receive more.
  • 00:11:07.076 --> 00:11:09.044
  • Why?
  • 00:11:09.044 --> 00:11:10.513
  • They worked the whole day, right?
  • 00:11:10.513 --> 00:11:11.947
  • But did they agree for a denarius?
  • 00:11:11.947 --> 00:11:15.050
  • Yes.
  • 00:11:15.050 --> 00:11:16.619
  • So, they supposed they received more
  • 00:11:16.619 --> 00:11:17.953
  • But they received each a denarius.
  • 00:11:17.953 --> 00:11:19.789
  • And when they had received it,
  • 00:11:19.789 --> 00:11:21.157
  • They complained against the land owner.
  • 00:11:21.157 --> 00:11:23.859
  • You know why we complain now?
  • 00:11:23.859 --> 00:11:25.227
  • You think they are complaining?
  • 00:11:25.227 --> 00:11:26.662
  • Yeah, come on.
  • 00:11:26.662 --> 00:11:27.997
  • Just complaining.
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  • Nothing wrong with that.
  • 00:11:29.431 --> 00:11:30.766
  • But do you know in the old testament,
  • 00:11:30.766 --> 00:11:32.134
  • When the children of israel complained, bad things happened.
  • 00:11:32.134 --> 00:11:33.536
  • And bad things don't happen until they complain.
  • 00:11:33.536 --> 00:11:35.171
  • But when they complain, bad things happen.
  • 00:11:35.171 --> 00:11:37.273
  • 1 corinthians 10, verse 10 says: "neither should we complain."
  • 00:11:37.273 --> 00:11:42.111
  • And the word "complain" in the greek is the same "complain"
  • 00:11:42.111 --> 00:11:44.013
  • Here in matthew 20.
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  • Same greek word.
  • 00:11:45.815 --> 00:11:47.216
  • "neither should we complain as they did,
  • 00:11:47.216 --> 00:11:49.151
  • And were destroyed of the destroyer."
  • 00:11:49.151 --> 00:11:53.422
  • Complaining makes you devourable,
  • 00:11:53.422 --> 00:11:57.193
  • According to 1 corinthians,
  • 00:11:57.193 --> 00:11:58.527
  • New testament scripture, verse 10.
  • 00:11:58.527 --> 00:12:00.663
  • So what is it that causes us to complain?
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  • I'll give it to you right now.
  • 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:06.969
  • Comparing yourself with others.
  • 00:12:06.969 --> 00:12:12.875
  • Instead of them looking at the goodness of the landlord,
  • 00:12:10.539 --> 00:12:15.711
  • "wow, this landlord is--he's a very kind, generous man," amen?
  • 00:12:15.711 --> 00:12:19.648
  • If their eyes was on jesus, they would not be jealous.
  • 00:12:19.648 --> 00:12:25.154
  • They would not be complaining.
  • 00:12:25.154 --> 00:12:26.655
  • So you see, man's heart is never satisfied.
  • 00:12:26.655 --> 00:12:29.024
  • Even with every convenience, every breakthrough,
  • 00:12:29.024 --> 00:12:31.794
  • You just have to realize that.
  • 00:12:31.794 --> 00:12:34.163
  • That complaining is not in the person you are complaining--
  • 00:12:34.163 --> 00:12:37.333
  • There could be injustices here and there,
  • 00:12:37.333 --> 00:12:38.934
  • As there always will be.
  • 00:12:38.934 --> 00:12:40.636
  • But you have to judge it based in your heart.
  • 00:12:40.636 --> 00:12:42.805
  • When will you stop comparing yourself?
  • 00:12:42.805 --> 00:12:44.607
  • So all this caused--
  • 00:12:44.607 --> 00:12:45.941
  • Anyway, i didn't plan to stick on one particular topic,
  • 00:12:45.941 --> 00:12:48.043
  • But this complaint thing is one of the things
  • 00:12:48.043 --> 00:12:49.945
  • That the lord showed me.
  • 00:12:49.945 --> 00:12:51.614
  • And i've been reading this parable for the longest time,
  • 00:12:51.614 --> 00:12:54.617
  • Down through the years and i never saw it.
  • 00:12:54.617 --> 00:12:57.186
  • You know, sometimes one of the best ways for us
  • 00:12:57.186 --> 00:12:58.721
  • To stop jealousy that produces complaining,
  • 00:12:58.721 --> 00:13:02.825
  • Comparing one another, that produces this murmuring,
  • 00:13:02.825 --> 00:13:04.994
  • Is to learn from the last reference
  • 00:13:04.994 --> 00:13:07.196
  • To the five times that john used the phrase,
  • 00:13:07.196 --> 00:13:10.232
  • "the disciple whom jesus loved."
  • 00:13:10.232 --> 00:13:12.301
  • John knew that he was loved by the lord.
  • 00:13:12.301 --> 00:13:14.937
  • The lord loved all 12, but john believed in it,
  • 00:13:14.937 --> 00:13:17.606
  • John walked in it, john relished it.
  • 00:13:17.606 --> 00:13:19.808
  • And the last time it appears was this.
  • 00:13:19.808 --> 00:13:23.612
  • John was following jesus and peter asked jesus,
  • 00:13:23.612 --> 00:13:26.882
  • "what shall be done to this man?
  • 00:13:26.882 --> 00:13:28.450
  • What will this man do?"
  • 00:13:28.450 --> 00:13:29.785
  • He's asking about john's ministry, john's future.
  • 00:13:29.785 --> 00:13:32.922
  • His eyes was on jesus, but john, who practiced the lord's love,
  • 00:13:32.922 --> 00:13:36.859
  • Was following jesus.
  • 00:13:36.859 --> 00:13:38.460
  • His eye was on jesus.
  • 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:40.262
  • And there's a secret of caleb.
  • 00:13:40.262 --> 00:13:42.131
  • Caleb says, "i followed the lord wholly."
  • 00:13:42.131 --> 00:13:46.235
  • The secret of following the lord is to keep your eyes on jesus,
  • 00:13:46.235 --> 00:13:48.270
  • Not on others.
  • 00:13:48.270 --> 00:13:49.939
  • Not comparing your social media
  • 00:13:49.939 --> 00:13:52.241
  • With other people's social media.
  • 00:13:52.241 --> 00:13:53.876
  • Now social media is fine.
  • 00:13:53.876 --> 00:13:55.210
  • I'm not knocking--i'm not one of those social media bashers.
  • 00:13:55.210 --> 00:13:57.346
  • But keep it to the purpose for dissemination of information
  • 00:13:57.346 --> 00:14:01.116
  • Or to keep in touch with your friends.
  • 00:14:01.116 --> 00:14:02.718
  • But not to get approval.
  • 00:14:02.718 --> 00:14:04.620
  • I got no problem using tools.
  • 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:06.922
  • But a tool can use you.
  • 00:14:06.922 --> 00:14:09.058
  • Don't be used by the tool.
  • 00:14:09.058 --> 00:14:11.193
  • Don't get hooked to your phone all the time that you lose
  • 00:14:11.193 --> 00:14:14.797
  • A social touch in your family setting,
  • 00:14:14.797 --> 00:14:17.032
  • In a social setting with friends and all that.
  • 00:14:17.032 --> 00:14:18.867
  • Everyone is on the phone all the time.
  • 00:14:18.867 --> 00:14:20.336
  • You may have the same friends but moments like that,
  • 00:14:20.336 --> 00:14:22.271
  • Never come back.
  • 00:14:22.271 --> 00:14:23.939
  • Time with your children and all that.
  • 00:14:23.939 --> 00:14:25.441
  • Okay, come back here again.
  • 00:14:25.441 --> 00:14:27.109
  • As john was following the lord, peter asked about him.
  • 00:14:27.109 --> 00:14:30.846
  • His eye was on john and jesus answered,
  • 00:14:30.846 --> 00:14:33.215
  • "let this answer be the one that rests your heart."
  • 00:14:33.215 --> 00:14:35.217
  • Jesus says, "if i want him to tarry until i come,
  • 00:14:35.217 --> 00:14:38.520
  • What is that to you?
  • 00:14:38.520 --> 00:14:40.222
  • You follow me."
  • 00:14:40.222 --> 00:14:42.858
  • Hear that?
  • 00:14:42.858 --> 00:14:44.193
  • You follow me.
  • 00:14:44.193 --> 00:14:45.527
  • And sometimes when i think about what other ministries are doing,
  • 00:14:45.527 --> 00:14:47.162
  • And all that, i hear the lord telling me,
  • 00:14:47.162 --> 00:14:48.897
  • "what is that to you?
  • 00:14:48.897 --> 00:14:50.232
  • You follow me.
  • 00:14:50.232 --> 00:14:51.900
  • You just do what i want you to do.
  • 00:14:51.900 --> 00:14:56.005
  • You don't have to do what others do.
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  • You just do what i tell you to," amen?
  • 00:14:58.474 --> 00:15:01.977
  • All right, matthew 20.
  • 00:15:01.977 --> 00:15:04.713
  • Yes, right.
  • 00:15:04.713 --> 00:15:06.181
  • So they complained.
  • 00:15:06.181 --> 00:15:07.683
  • "they worked one hour and we bore the burden
  • 00:15:07.683 --> 00:15:10.152
  • In the heat of the day."
  • 00:15:10.152 --> 00:15:11.487
  • Look at the response of the lord.
  • 00:15:11.487 --> 00:15:13.455
  • The response, drop down.
  • 00:15:13.455 --> 00:15:15.391
  • He answered one of them and said,
  • 00:15:15.391 --> 00:15:17.026
  • "friend, i am doing you no wrong.
  • 00:15:17.026 --> 00:15:20.896
  • Did you not agree with me for a denarius?"
  • 00:15:20.896 --> 00:15:23.232
  • Did they agree?
  • 00:15:23.232 --> 00:15:24.566
  • Did they both agree?
  • 00:15:24.566 --> 00:15:25.934
  • Yeah, so the lord did not do them any wrong.
  • 00:15:25.934 --> 00:15:28.303
  • So don't for one moment-- you see,
  • 00:15:28.303 --> 00:15:29.805
  • We all understand this early morning crowd.
  • 00:15:29.805 --> 00:15:33.208
  • We understand these laborers.
  • 00:15:33.208 --> 00:15:34.676
  • We have an affinity with them.
  • 00:15:34.676 --> 00:15:37.079
  • Who--which worker does not feel inclined
  • 00:15:37.079 --> 00:15:40.616
  • To be sympathetic to them?
  • 00:15:40.616 --> 00:15:42.051
  • We understand if you see other people working only one hour
  • 00:15:42.051 --> 00:15:44.353
  • And they get the full day's pay that you get.
  • 00:15:44.353 --> 00:15:46.722
  • But if the lord wants to be generous, what is that to you?
  • 00:15:46.722 --> 00:15:49.992
  • You got what you agreed.
  • 00:15:49.992 --> 00:15:52.061
  • He did you no wrong.
  • 00:15:52.061 --> 00:15:54.563
  • Because your relationship with him
  • 00:15:54.563 --> 00:15:55.898
  • Was based on a barter system, on a bargain, on an agreement.
  • 00:15:55.898 --> 00:16:01.270
  • That's called the law.
  • 00:16:01.270 --> 00:16:03.906
  • So the lord says, "many are called but few are chosen."
  • 00:16:03.906 --> 00:16:06.108
  • Who are the chosen ones?
  • 00:16:06.108 --> 00:16:07.443
  • Those who choose his grace.
  • 00:16:07.443 --> 00:16:11.313
  • Choose to give him the opportunity
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  • To show the goodness of his heart.
  • 00:16:13.849 --> 00:16:15.784
  • These are the ones the lord chooses.
  • 00:16:15.784 --> 00:16:18.687
  • Psalms 132 says: "for the lord has chosen zion."
  • 00:16:18.687 --> 00:16:22.858
  • Zion!
  • 00:16:22.858 --> 00:16:24.226
  • The mount zion.
  • 00:16:24.226 --> 00:16:25.761
  • Why is zion so close to god's heart?
  • 00:16:25.761 --> 00:16:27.563
  • It says, "he has desired it for his dwelling place."
  • 00:16:27.563 --> 00:16:30.065
  • You know the word "desire" has a very intense craving
  • 00:16:30.065 --> 00:16:32.601
  • Like some of you have for food.
  • 00:16:32.601 --> 00:16:36.271
  • You have this intense craving for food.
  • 00:16:36.271 --> 00:16:40.709
  • Ahav, where you get the word "ahava" for love.
  • 00:16:40.709 --> 00:16:44.646
  • Ahav, desire.
  • 00:16:44.646 --> 00:16:46.014
  • He desires for a dwelling place.
  • 00:16:46.014 --> 00:16:47.349
  • Why?
  • 00:16:47.349 --> 00:16:48.684
  • Zion compared to sinai.
  • 00:16:48.684 --> 00:16:50.018
  • Sinai is the mountain of the ten commandments.
  • 00:16:50.018 --> 00:16:51.587
  • Right after israel says, all that god commands us, we can do.
  • 00:16:51.587 --> 00:16:54.323
  • The very next chapter, exodus 20,
  • 00:16:54.323 --> 00:16:56.325
  • God gave them the ten commandments.
  • 00:16:56.325 --> 00:16:59.194
  • I'll bless you now based on your agreement with me.
  • 00:16:59.194 --> 00:17:02.030
  • You keep all my ten and i'll bless you.
  • 00:17:02.030 --> 00:17:04.500
  • If only they had not agreed on that, right?
  • 00:17:04.500 --> 00:17:10.539
  • So zion, on the other hand-- sinai means law;
  • 00:17:10.539 --> 00:17:13.575
  • Zion, grace, the mountain where god dispenses grace.
  • 00:17:13.575 --> 00:17:18.480
  • The place where god ministers grace.
  • 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.884
  • Because law is demand, exacting.
  • 00:17:21.884 --> 00:17:26.054
  • Grace is dispensing, supplying, giving.
  • 00:17:26.054 --> 00:17:30.459
  • When you say you are not under law but under grace,
  • 00:17:30.459 --> 00:17:32.928
  • Do you wake up every day knowing that god is supplying you?
  • 00:17:32.928 --> 00:17:35.364
  • God is giving to you?
  • 00:17:35.364 --> 00:17:36.698
  • Even as you are serving him, even as you go to work
  • 00:17:36.698 --> 00:17:38.400
  • And all that, you don't see demands as demands.
  • 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.903
  • You see the supply for the demand.
  • 00:17:40.903 --> 00:17:42.471
  • The greater the need, the greater the demand,
  • 00:17:42.471 --> 00:17:44.540
  • The greater the supply.
  • 00:17:44.540 --> 00:17:45.974
  • You see god supplying all the time.
  • 00:17:45.974 --> 00:17:48.043
  • You see god supplying for you.
  • 00:17:48.043 --> 00:17:49.845
  • God ministering, dispensing grace in you.
  • 00:17:49.845 --> 00:17:52.047
  • God working through you.
  • 00:17:52.047 --> 00:17:54.183
  • You're seeing god all the time.
  • 00:17:54.183 --> 00:17:56.451
  • Do you see that?
  • 00:17:56.451 --> 00:17:57.786
  • If that is what you see, then effectively you are under grace
  • 00:17:57.786 --> 00:18:01.490
  • And when you are under grace and not under law
  • 00:18:01.490 --> 00:18:03.158
  • Sin shall not have dominion over you.
  • 00:18:03.158 --> 00:18:06.228
  • I love grace, i love zion, the lord says.
  • 00:18:06.228 --> 00:18:10.532
  • I have desired this as my dwelling place.
  • 00:18:10.532 --> 00:18:13.302
  • "this is my resting place forever; here i will dwell,
  • 00:18:13.302 --> 00:18:16.471
  • For i have desired it," he repeats.
  • 00:18:16.471 --> 00:18:18.707
  • "i will abundantly bless her provision,"
  • 00:18:18.707 --> 00:18:20.475
  • In the place of grace.
  • 00:18:20.475 --> 00:18:21.843
  • "i will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • 00:18:21.843 --> 00:18:23.979
  • I will also clothe her priests with salvation,"
  • 00:18:23.979 --> 00:18:26.882
  • Yesha in hebrew which is,
  • 00:18:26.882 --> 00:18:29.117
  • I will clothe you with protection.
  • 00:18:29.117 --> 00:18:30.852
  • Not only will you have protection,
  • 00:18:30.852 --> 00:18:32.221
  • You are clothed with safety.
  • 00:18:32.221 --> 00:18:35.424
  • "i will cause her saints to shout aloud.
  • 00:18:35.424 --> 00:18:38.360
  • Her saints shall shout out for joy."
  • 00:18:38.360 --> 00:18:39.795
  • The word "saints" there in the hebrew is chassid,
  • 00:18:39.795 --> 00:18:43.599
  • The chassidim, the ones full of grace.
  • 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:48.003
  • Are you getting this, church?
  • 00:18:48.003 --> 00:18:52.274
  • And something else the lord showed me.
  • 00:18:52.274 --> 00:18:54.676
  • I was blown away when i saw this.
  • 00:18:54.676 --> 00:18:56.245
  • His son, i went out to them.
  • 00:18:56.245 --> 00:18:58.180
  • They didn't come to me.
  • 00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:00.682
  • Every one of them, i went out.
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  • Say "went out."
  • 00:19:02.584 --> 00:19:04.152
  • I went out to them.
  • 00:19:04.152 --> 00:19:06.255
  • Early in the morning, they were standing there, right?
  • 00:19:06.255 --> 00:19:07.956
  • If no one came for them, they would still be there.
  • 00:19:07.956 --> 00:19:10.993
  • The lord went out.
  • 00:19:10.993 --> 00:19:12.394
  • Just like the leper, i taught you all
  • 00:19:12.394 --> 00:19:13.729
  • From the book of leviticus,
  • 00:19:13.729 --> 00:19:15.063
  • The leper can never come into the camp.
  • 00:19:15.063 --> 00:19:17.799
  • But the priest went out to where the leper was.
  • 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:25.274
  • So here we find the word "went out" in this parable.
  • 00:19:25.274 --> 00:19:30.646
  • And you know he went out how many times?
  • 00:19:30.646 --> 00:19:32.914
  • Let's count together, okay?
  • 00:19:32.914 --> 00:19:34.283
  • Early in the morning, matthew 20, verse 1.
  • 00:19:34.283 --> 00:19:36.618
  • "he went out early in the morning," right?
  • 00:19:36.618 --> 00:19:39.454
  • One.
  • 00:19:39.454 --> 00:19:40.889
  • Verse 3, "he went out at 9 a.m.," right?
  • 00:19:40.889 --> 00:19:47.262
  • Verse 5, "he went out about 12 p.m.," right?
  • 00:19:47.262 --> 00:19:52.467
  • And he went out about 3 p.m., 4 times.
  • 00:19:52.467 --> 00:19:57.172
  • Not only noon, but also 3 p.m., right?
  • 00:19:57.172 --> 00:19:59.775
  • He went out, right?
  • 00:19:59.775 --> 00:20:01.476
  • And finally, the 11th hour, 5 p.m., it says, "he went out."
  • 00:20:01.476 --> 00:20:08.150
  • Five.
  • 00:20:08.150 --> 00:20:10.118
  • Five is very interesting to new creation church.
  • 00:20:10.118 --> 00:20:14.823
  • God is bringing the fullness of the teaching
  • 00:20:14.823 --> 00:20:16.191
  • Of the bible all back.
  • 00:20:16.191 --> 00:20:17.592
  • Significance of names and numbers
  • 00:20:17.592 --> 00:20:18.960
  • And it's very interesting, right?
  • 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:20.629
  • There's a revolution going on.
  • 00:20:20.629 --> 00:20:22.130
  • So five times, just like the prodigal son, the father.
  • 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:25.300
  • He saw him, the father ran, the father embraced,
  • 00:20:25.300 --> 00:20:28.036
  • The father fell on his neck, the father kissed him.
  • 00:20:28.036 --> 00:20:30.005
  • There's five responses, number of grace.
  • 00:20:30.005 --> 00:20:34.876
  • The final one i want to show you is this,
  • 00:20:34.876 --> 00:20:36.378
  • That i think is going to bless you.
  • 00:20:36.378 --> 00:20:38.013
  • It's really what the lord said among christians now.
  • 00:20:38.013 --> 00:20:41.183
  • Now forget about the early morning crowd, the barter crowd,
  • 00:20:41.183 --> 00:20:44.753
  • The bargaining crowd, okay, the agreement crowd.
  • 00:20:44.753 --> 00:20:46.555
  • Let's forget them for a while.
  • 00:20:46.555 --> 00:20:48.056
  • Let's talk about all those who received by grace, right?
  • 00:20:48.056 --> 00:20:50.659
  • Even amongst them, there are those who receive more, right?
  • 00:20:50.659 --> 00:20:54.896
  • Am i right?
  • 00:20:54.896 --> 00:20:56.231
  • Look at this.
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  • Verse 3, the 9 a.m. crowd.
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  • "whatever is right, i will give you."
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  • That goes for the people of noon,
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  • "whatever is right, i'll give you,"
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  • And the 3 p.m. crowd,
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  • "whatever is right, i will give you.
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  • I will give you," right?
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  • "whatever is right."
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  • But the eleventh hour, he said,
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  • "whatever is right, you will receive."
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  • You know, i read this so many times.
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  • I never saw it until the lord just opened up to me, okay?
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  • You know what's the difference?
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  • Okay, let me help you.
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  • Third hour includes the noon as well as 3 p.m.
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  • And the 5 p.m., the most graced, favored, one, okay?
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  • "whatever is right," in 9 a.m. one,
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  • He says, "i will give you."
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  • The eleventh hour, "whatever is right, you will receive."
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  • Okay, what's the difference?
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  • "duh, pastor, it's the same thing."
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  • No, it's one thing for god to give.
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  • It's another for you to receive.
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  • The endtime generation will receive.
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  • Joseph prince: father in heaven, i thank you for everyone
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  • Under the sound of my voice.
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  • As they go forth, father, from this place,
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  • I pray for this coming week.
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  • Make this week, father, a week full of grace for them.
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  • And father, keep on sharing with them, speaking to them,
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  • Ministering to them your word.
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  • Your word of revelation, your word of liberty,
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  • Your word of freedom,
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  • Your word of health and healing to all their flesh.
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  • Minister to them, father.
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  • Let them not be conformed to this world,
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  • Thinking like common people, lord.
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  • But let them think, lord, according to your thoughts.
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  • That their lives might reflect that holiness,
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  • Lord, that setting apart, lord, of your people called by you.
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  • To show forth your glories and your brightness, lord,
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  • In the midst of a nation in the world, lord, that is lost.
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  • I pray, father, that the grace revolution
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  • Will spread all across the nations of the earth
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  • And that the name of jesus be exalted.
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  • I pray father that people be freed from depression,
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  • From self-hatred, lord, from being lost, lord,
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  • Rebellion, lord, and lawlessness, lord,
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  • And falling away from that glory you have called for us, lord.
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  • Thank you, father, for this grace revolution.
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  • I pray that everyone here become a vessel of it, in jesus's name,
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  • And all the people said, "amen."
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  • Amen, shine, church.
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  • God bless you, we'll see you again.
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  • That moves faster than ever.
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  • Values shift.
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  • Truth feels negotiable.
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  • What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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  • But through all the noise and the shaking,
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  • There is one who is still listening.
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  • In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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  • In the panic, he is still the promise.
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  • Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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  • He is still jesus above it all.
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  • Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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  • One of those habits that you picked up and,
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  • "ahh, you know, i really like this."
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  • For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
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  • Sitting under pastor's teaching so much
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  • I understood i needed a rhema word
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  • For my particular situation.
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  • So he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
  • 00:25:38.513 --> 00:25:43.618
  • I listened to that for probably about two weeks.
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  • That was the only thing i was listening to.
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  • And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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  • I knew there is no success without that
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  • Just coming up inside of you.
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  • Pastor's so good in teaching us our identity
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  • Of the old man and the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
  • 00:26:03.405 --> 00:26:05.907
  • Now after this did i still have the habit of like doing that?
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  • Because it was like a regular ritual.
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  • Yes, but every time i remembered, "that's not me,
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  • I'm created in true righteousness
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  • And holiness in christ."
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  • I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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  • The next morning i had no desire for cigarettes again.
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  • It was such the lord, the power of his love.
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  • What a beautiful work that jesus did and it's all him alone.
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