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Joseph Prince - Don't Let Your Feeling Define Your Faith

January 8, 2026 | 27:29

Come discover the secret to success without striving: God’s unmerited favor!

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Don't Let Your Feeling Define Your Faith | January 8, 2026

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Joseph prince: with god, even when you fail,
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That position is eternal.
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That position is secure forevermore.
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The bible tells us that we are highly favored
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In the beloved.
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That's our standing before god.
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Your state changes every day.
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Your standing doesn't.
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Your standing before god is settled.
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Your standing before god as righteous,
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As holy, as blameless,
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God's opinion, good opinion, of you resulting
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In praise never changes, never changes.
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God's view of you is--as righteous,
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As holy in christ is eternal, is divinely settled.
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Your standing never change before god.
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Your state changes.
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Sometimes you feel up, sometimes you feel depressed,
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You feel down, you feel low.
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There are times you feel angry, there are times you feel loving,
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There are times you feel joyful, times you feel sad,
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There are times you want to give,
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There are times you want to keep everything
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You have.
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Your state fluctuates.
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Your state is temporal.
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Your state is transient.
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Your standing before god is eternal.
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Your standing is settled. your standing is divine.
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In god's eyes, your state cannot alter your standing, cannot.
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Because your standing was accomplished by christ,
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Not by you.
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Therefore you cannot undo your standing, all right?
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So the best way to-- now are we saying
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Forget your state?
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No, you deal with your state, judge your state,
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By your standing.
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Because i am close to god, because i am righteous
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In god's eyes by what christ has done,
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Because i have influence with god,
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Because i am highly favored in the beloved,
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I can ask god to help me
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With this bad temper on the road.
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I can judge my state by my standing.
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But our state changes.
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Sometimes we don't feel like we are highly favored.
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Sometimes we feel lousy.
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Sometimes we feel bad. we feel even negative inside.
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We have bad thoughts about people, amen?
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But that state can never alter your standing, okay?
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Does it mean you don't judge your state?
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No, you need to judge your state.
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But how wonderful it is to judge your state
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Knowing you're always righteous with god,
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Knowing that you are highly favored with the lord.
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Then you are in the right bible position
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To judge your state.
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That's why people that are not assured of this,
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How can they judge their state, amen.
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Are you with me, church?
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All right, so is there correction
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In the body of christ?
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Yes, there is, god corrects us because god loves us.
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Announcer: let's kickstart the year
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With the right attitude, the attitude of rest.
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In today's message, joseph shares how life
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Isn't about fighting to survive.
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It's about living under god's unstoppable favor for you
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And your loved ones.
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People say that in life you've got to want it,
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You've got to earn it, you've got to deserve it.
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But what if there's a better way?
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In joseph's book, "unmerited favor,"
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Learn to let go of what the world says
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About success, and discover the kind of victory
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Your heavenly father wants you to enjoy.
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Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: god operates in the light.
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And the bible says light always swallows darkness, amen?
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You don't have to fight the darkness,
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You don't have to curse the darkness,
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Switch on the light, amen?
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All the people said: amen.
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So i like this phrase, "the gospel, the good news,
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Of the glory of christ."
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Now the word "glory," the word "glory,"
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I'm going to share with you
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The word "glory" in the greek.
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Our new testament is in greek.
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The word "glory" from the old testament,
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The hebrew word, what is it?
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Kavod, right?
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Today we look at the greek word "doxa."
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We get the doxology for example, glory words, all right?
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The hymns of doxology, alright?
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The prayers of--you know, so doxology comes from doxa.
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Look at the word "doxa."
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In the new testament, the first definition, a,
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In the new testament,
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Is always, say "always," always a good opinion
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Concerning one, resulting in praise, honor,
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And glory.
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Now all the other three, b, c, and d,
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You all know, right?
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Splendor, brightness of the moon, sun, stars,
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You know this.
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I mean, that's glory, glory. you know glory.
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In fact, everyone know instinctively what is glory.
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Glory is like the glory of the sunset.
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When the sun sets, you see the glory.
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You know what i'm saying?
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The glory of the moon, the glory of the sun,
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The glory of the stars,
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The glory of the king.
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All right, there's majesty, the kingly majesty
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Which belongs to god as supreme ruler.
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Magnificence, brilliance, radiance, amen.
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Dignity, grace, preeminence.
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All this we understand.
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Except for the first one, a.
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In the new testament, it's always a good opinion.
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Always a good opinion.
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Now i studied vine, another expositor
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Of greek words.
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He's a great greek scholar.
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And vine also said the same thing,
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That during the time when the bible was written,
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All right, there was some secular greek literature,
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All right, and they used the word "doxa" for glory.
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But for them, glory can be positive, can be negative.
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But in the new testament, in the bible,
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In the new testament, it is always a good opinion.
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So let's interpret that, okay?
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For example, last week we finished off
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With jesus's prayer in john 17
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Where he prayed a high priestly prayer,
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All right?
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And he prayed like this: "father, the glory you gave me
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I have given them," my disciples, all of us.
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So let's apply meaning a, all right?
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"father, the good opinion you have of me, resulting in praise,
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Honor and glory, that good opinion you have of me,
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I have given to my believers."
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To all those, all of us have received the same good opinion
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From the father, all right, that jesus has with him.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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Come on, give him praise, hallelujah.
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That is beautiful.
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It's always a good opinion.
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It is always a good opinion, amen.
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And brightness of the moon, splendor,
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All that is wonderful but notice it's b,
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All right, translation, radiance, brightness, amen.
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And in the new testament, this good opinion for example,
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In romans 5, we look at romans chapter 5, verse 1,
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It says: "therefore, having been justified
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By faith, we have peace with god."
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How many know that we are justified by faith?
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We have all been made righteous.
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The word "justified" is made righteous with god
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By faith, not by our performance,
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Not by our works, all right?
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We have been justified by faith.
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Now that we are justified, we have peace with god.
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That's where it all starts, folks.
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Once you have peace with god, you have peace with yourself.
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Then you have peace in your relationships.
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Then you have peace with the world around you.
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Money cannot buy peace, amen.
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True peace is in the heart.
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And that one, i'm telling you, comes from knowing
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That you have peace with god.
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We have peace with a wonderful, glorious, good, holy,
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Righteous god.
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We have peace with him because we have been
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Made righteous by faith.
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Not only that, "we have peace with god
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Through our lord jesus christ,
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But through the same christ, through whom also
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We have access."
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Like, for example, you have access
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Through your phone through a password.
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You have access through your computer
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Through a password, right?
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Now through jesus, "we have access by faith
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Into this grace in which we stand."
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Now this grace, do you know something?
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This place called favor.
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This unearned, undeserved favor, this place of favor is something
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That all the saints of the old testament were longing to have.
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They were kind of hoping that they can be in a place
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Of unearned, undeserved favor with god.
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But the bible tells us that not only
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We have access, the word "access" there,
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We have access.
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It's actually in the perfect tense in the greek, which means
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It has been done for us once, it never needs to be repeated.
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We always are standing on favor ground.
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Because the old testament, their dreams,
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Is our reality [humming] hallelujah.
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You can't preach the gospel, the good news,
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Without feeling a poetry coming, a song coming.
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So we have this favor ground that was the dream
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Of the old testament people.
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We have it unabated.
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We have it all the time.
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We have it forever.
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And i'm telling you, whether you realize it or not, you have
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Favor with god not because of the job you're in,
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Not because of the family you're born into,
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Not because of the accolades to your name
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Or your accomplishments or whatever.
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You have favor with god through christ.
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You have the password.
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Jesus christ and you have access.
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Now you are standing on this favor ground.
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Don't forget the tense.
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It's perfect tense which means you don't go in and out.
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In the greek, it means you are here permanently.
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It will never be repeated.
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It's done once and for all, the perfect tense.
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And that's why i can see, i've seen for myself.
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I've said this before but i'm telling you
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This is worth repeating.
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You might say, "pastor prince,
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This is such a small illustration,"
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But i'm telling you church,
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I have seen our ladies in our church
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Walk into a boutique, there's nobody there,
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Maybe just one or two.
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Next thing you know, people start coming
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Into the boutique.
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I've seen our guys go into a food court,
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Maybe just a few people there, sparsely populated.
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Pastor mike is laughing because he knows
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What i'm referring to.
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And before you know it, the crowd start coming in.
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I'm telling you why.
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Because the favor of god went into the boutique.
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The favor of god went into the food court.
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Now you may or may not realize
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That you are a carrier of god's favor,
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But i'm here to tell you, church, amen,
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That you are god's favor going everywhere to happen.
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It's best that you are conscious of it.
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It's best you are aware of it.
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The bible says one of the things that jesus did for us,
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Ephesians chapter 1, is here in verse 6:
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"to the praise of the glory of his grace."
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Notice something is so good that we got to praise
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Not just his grace, the glory of his grace.
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Why?
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"by which," by that grace, "god made us accepted
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In the beloved."
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The beloved here is jesus.
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God made us accepted in the beloved.
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Now i'm going to give you the greek.
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The greek here for accepted is the word "charitoo,"
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All right, from the word "charis" for grace.
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Charitoo, the longer word, means highly graced,
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Highly favored.
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And it's only used one other time in the new testament:
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For mary the mother of jesus.
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When the angel gabriel appeared, the angel gabriel says to her,
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"hail, thou art highly favored."
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Literally in the greek, one word, "charitoo."
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"blessed art thou among women."
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Notice, among women, not above women.
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The angel told her, you are blessed
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Among women because you are highly favored.
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What she has, you and i have.
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We are all charitoo.
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We are all highly favored.
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But god, almost like he is not satisfied
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With the entire verse,
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God puts in the word, instead of accept
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Highly favored in the lord jesus,
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Instead of jesus, he put down there,
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"in the beloved."
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It's still jesus, but jesus as the beloved.
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That's how accepted you are.
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It's almost a picture of god is hugging you
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And you feel so loved and then god says,
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"you are highly favored."
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And it's not just for the moment.
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It's not just transient.
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It is eternally you are like this before god.
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Praise god.
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This is good news.
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All right, praise god.
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Now we go back to romans 5.
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We have this grace, we stand on this favored ground
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And "we rejoice in hope of the glory of god."
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Not only we are on favored ground,
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What can we expect every morning when we wake up?
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What can we expect from the day?
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More of your boss's nagging, more of your people around you,
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Your colleagues, complaining, more of bad news?
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No, you can wake up every day in hope.
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Just let you know that the bible word for hope is not,
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I hope it happens, which the way we say it
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Today is uncertain.
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Perhaps, maybe.
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Bible hope is certainty, all right?
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It's the word "elpis."
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Just think of elvis, turn the v to p, elpis.
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Elpis means confident expectation.
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Confident, not maybe, of good happening
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In your future, all right?
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So you have a confident expectation
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Of the good opinion of god.
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Every morning when you wake up, you might not know
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What the day holds, but you know one thing:
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This day, the whole day,
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God has a good opinion of me, amen?
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See, many of us, when we fail,
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We always think that when we fail,
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Someone does not have the good opinion of me anymore
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Because i just failed him, i just failed her.
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Therefore, she no longer has the same good opinion
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That she used to have.
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But with god, even when you fail,
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That position is eternal.
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That position is secure forevermore.
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Can i have a good amen? are you listening, people?
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All right, now listen carefully.
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I'm going to share with you something
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That you better put it somewhere in your special pocketbook
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Or whatever, or in your safe somewhere,
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Because this is going to come back to bless you
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Again and again and again in the years to come.
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All right, you need to know that this difference.
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The bible tells us that we are highly favored in the beloved.
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That's our standing before god.
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Say "standing," everybody.
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Now, in our state, say "state."
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S-t-a-t-e, your state.
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Your emotional state, your physical state.
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Your state changes every day.
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Your standing doesn't.
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Your standing before god is settled.
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Your standing before god as righteous,
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As holy, as blameless.
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God's opinion, good opinion, of you resulting
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In praise never changes, never changes.
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God's view of you is--as righteous, as holy,
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In christ is eternal.
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It's divinely settled.
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Your standing never change before god.
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Your state changes.
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Sometimes you feel up, sometimes you feel depressed,
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You feel down, you feel low.
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There are times you feel angry.
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There are times you feel loving.
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There are times you feel joyful.
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Times you feel sad.
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There are times you want to give.
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There are times you want to keep everything you have.
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Your state fluctuates.
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Your state is temporal.
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Your state is transient.
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Your standing before god is eternal.
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Your standing is settled.
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Your standing is divine.
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Your state changes.
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Now remember this.
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If you forget anything in this sermon,
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Don't forget this.
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Always measure yourself by your standing.
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Never by your state.
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Never measure your standing by your state, okay?
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But always judge your state by your standing.
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In no way means, some people think, "oh man,"
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After they remember "i'm a christian."
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Some people are quite slow
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Remembering they are christian.
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"oh man, i just had that bad thought
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And i'm a christian."
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"oh man, just yesterday i volunteered for--
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To be an usher.
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Now god doesn't have a good opinion of me anymore.
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I had a bad thought just now.
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God no longer has a good opinion of me.
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In fact, if anyone asked me to pray for them right now,
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I'd say, come back tomorrow.
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I'm not in the right state."
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See, in other words, they are allowing
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Their state to touch their standing.
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But in god's eyes, your state cannot alter
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Your standing, cannot.
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Because your standing was accomplished
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By christ, not by you.
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Therefore you cannot undo your standing, all right?
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So the best way to--now, are we saying forget your state?
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No, you deal with your state.
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Judge your state by your standing.
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Because i am close to god, because i am righteous
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In god's eyes by what christ has done,
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Because i have influence with god,
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Because i am highly favored in the beloved,
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I can ask god to help me with this bad temper
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On the road.
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I can judge my state by my standing.
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But our state changes.
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Sometimes we don't feel like we are highly favored.
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Sometimes we feel lousy.
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Sometimes we feel bad.
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We feel even negative inside.
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We have bad thoughts about people, amen?
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But that state can never alter your standing, okay?
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Does it mean you don't judge your state?
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No, you need to judge your state.
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But how wonderful it is to judge your state
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Knowing you're always righteous with god,
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Knowing that you are highly favored with the lord.
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Then you are in the right bible position
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To judge your state.
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That's why people that are not assured of this,
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How can they judge their state, amen.
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Are you with me, church?
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All right, so is there correction
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In the body of christ?
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Yes, there is.
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God corrects us because god loves us.
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I want to show you a beautiful example of this, you know.
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In numbers, the children of israel
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Were going to the wilderness
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In the land of moab and the king of moab
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At that time, his name was balak.
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Balak, son of zippor.
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Zippor means bird and he's the king of moab.
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He should just have let israel go through.
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No trouble, find trouble.
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Good example, all right?
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Just let israel go through, all right?
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But instead of that, he invited
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A professional wizard.
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A male witch, wizard.
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Actually the bible calls him "prophet" in inverted commas.
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His name was balaam, all right?
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And he hired this balaam, the prophet, to curse.
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And he says this to balaam, "balaam, i know that whoever
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You curse is cursed, whoever you jinx is jinxed,
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Whoever you bless is blessed."
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So that's the reputation that this balaam has.
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So he hired balaam and it's very interesting,
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To cut a long story short, it spans a few chapters.
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He took balaam to three high mountain ridges, okay?
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And this is what the enemy did.
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The enemy made a mistake.
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He went high.
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When he went higher up, you go, you have
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The heavenly perspective.
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When he looked down, he saw the people of god
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And came like a cross, okay?
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And i have a whole message on that.
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And instead of cursing,
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God turned that prophet's mouth
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And he's a half-past-six prophet.
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He was hired, all right, to curse.
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He's paid money to curse.
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And he was about to curse and he says, "how can i curse
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Those that god has not cursed?"
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And he says, "god has commanded me
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To bless and i cannot reverse it."
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Let's read, all right?
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He says this: "god is not a man, that he should lie,
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Nor a son of man, that he should repent,"
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Or change his mind.
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How many times i hear this verse years ago
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Being quoted in the context of sin, judgment?
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But actually the context is blessing.
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"have god said, and will he not do?
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Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
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Behold, i have received a commandment to bless;
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God has blessed," the prophet says,
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"and i cannot reverse it."
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Hey-hey, did you hear that?
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You are blessed this year and no demon of hell,
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No man, can reverse it.
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Smile at your neighbor and say,
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"i have an irreversible blessing on my life."
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Smile at somebody else and say,
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"i have an irreversible blessing."
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Cannot be reversed.
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No black magic can reverse it.
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You're about to see that.
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All right, next verse: "god has not observed iniquity
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In his people, in jacob.
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Nor has he seen wickedness in israel."
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Now this prophet is now saying
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God does not even see their sin, their iniquity.
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God does not even see their wickedness.
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Now, it did not say there is no iniquity in israel.
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That would not be true.
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It did not say there is no wickedness in israel.
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That would not be true either.
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It says god does not see it.
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You know why god does not see it?
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Let me tell you this.
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In the middle of the camp, there is a place
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Called the altar of burnt offering,
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A picture of the cross.
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And every day, israel put a lamb on it,
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A picture of jesus.
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It's a reminder of the cross of jesus.
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God's eyes cannot squint.
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God's eyes cannot see sin on you.
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If god's eyes see the cross
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And his son carrying your sins,
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His eyes cannot see sin on you.
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Because god's holy eyes, righteous judicial eyes,
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See your sin on christ.
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When he see your sins on christ, righteously,
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He cannot see sin on you.
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Does that mean your state has no sin?
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No.
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You can sin in your state,
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But the eternal viewpoint of god is always glory,
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Good opinion, because of what christ
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Has done, hallelujah.
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Are you listening, church?
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Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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Announcer: and now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: i never take these moments for granted.
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I've had so many testimonies of people saying
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They are delivered from a car wreck,
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Children saved in the nick of time,
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All because they believe or that prayer prayed
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At the end of a service on sunday, amen?
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We're not praying prayers.
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We are praying to the one with whom nothing is impossible.
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We are praying to the lord of time and space
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Who is able to go into our monday, tuesday,
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Wednesday, thursday, friday,
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All the way, prepare the way for us
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And come back and walk us through it.
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This coming week, the lord bless you,
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The blessings of abraham,
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And the lord keep you.
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The lord make his face shine on you
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And be gracious to you.
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The lord lift up his countenance on all of you and grant to you
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And your loved ones his wonderful shalom peace.
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And the lord protect and preserve you
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And your families from accidents,
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From diseases, from infections, from all the powers of darkness,
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Through the blood of his son.
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In jesus's name, and all the people said:
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Amen, amen.
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God bless you.
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Joseph Prince - Don't Let Your Feeling Define Your Faith

January 8, 2026 | 27:29

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