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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Experience The Five Benefits of Wisdom | January 15, 2026
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- Joseph prince: if the devil is bombarding you 24 hours, okay,
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- A day, 24-7, okay?
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- It's time for you to meditate on god's word.
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- Listen to god's word day and night.
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- And when you're not listening to god's word,
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- Meditate on what you have listened to.
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- Meditate on god's word, mutter it under your breath.
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- Male announcer: what if the answers you need to live well
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- And make the right decisions are already in front of you?
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- In today's message, joseph prince shares
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- How to make good choices that bring peace and prosperity
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- In every area of your life.
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- We all make hundreds of choices every day, and deep down,
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- We're all asking the same thing.
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- In his book, "god's way to making good choices,"
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- Joseph takes you on a 31-day journey
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- Through the book of proverbs,
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- Helping you discover the clarity, peace,
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- And confidence god wants you to have
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- As you make good choices every day.
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- Learn how to make strong, confident decisions,
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- Not based on fear or pressure, but on god's timeless truths.
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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: i believe that we are going through a season
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- Where we are seeing things happen all over the world
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- That is shouting out, lack, shortage, amen, recession.
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- And yet, god's people are worried, they are anxious,
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- They are troubled by what they are saying.
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- That goes to show that we are spending lots of our time
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- On social media.
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- We are watching the news.
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- We are hearing the reports of the world
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- Instead of spending time in the word of god.
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- And the word of god is the only place where you can find faith.
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- The bible says: "faith comes by hearing and hearing
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- By the word of god."
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- You cannot find faith anywhere else.
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- You know, if faith comes by hearing the word
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- And the word of god, then fear comes by hearing
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- And hearing the word of man, amen?
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- And the fear, that fear brings a snare.
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- That fear will cause bad things to happen.
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- So how?
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- How can we not be afraid, seeing what is happening
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- All over the world?
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- We can by listening to god's word.
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- When we look at the wealthiest man in the bible, solomon, amen,
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- We find that when he was a young man,
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- He had a big pair of shoes to fill.
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- His father david had passed on and god appeared to him
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- In his dream and god said, "ask what i shall give you."
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- And this is what solomon said: "'give to your servant
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- An understanding heart to judge your people,
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- That i may discern between good and evil.
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- For who is able to judge this great people of yours?'
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- The speech pleased the lord,
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- That solomon had asked this thing."
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- "the speech pleased the lord."
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- This remark here tells us that god is pleased
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- With people asking wisdom from him.
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- And what does wisdom give you?
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- God's wisdom, amen, not the wisdom of the world.
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- The bible is very clear.
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- In james, it says there's a wisdom from above
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- And there's a wisdom that is sensual,
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- That is fleshly.
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- But the bible says the wisdom from above
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- Is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated.
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- This is the wisdom from god.
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- And it's a wisdom that gives success in your life,
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- In every area of your life.
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- The bible says in proverbs chapter 3,
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- It talks about wisdom having 2 hands.
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- So wisdom here personified as a woman with two hands.
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- And it says: "length of days is in her right hand,
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- In her left hand riches and honor."
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- Notice, right hand is always the hand of prominence.
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- Most people use their right hand, okay?
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- So length of days is in her right hand.
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- That's a priority.
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- Would you agree that health, wholeness, amen, peace,
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- And longevity is a priority, amen?
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- Not riches.
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- Riches is in her left hand.
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- But notice what it gives, what wisdom gives.
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- In the right hand are length of days.
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- In her left hand are riches and honor.
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- "her ways are ways of pleasantness," ways of pleasure,
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- Noam in hebrew, which means it is pleasurable,
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- "and all her paths are peace," shalom.
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- So first of all, wisdom gives you length of days.
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- That is health.
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- Then after that, it gives you riches.
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- It gives you honor, esteem, amen?
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- The ways are the ways of pleasure.
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- So it gives you pleasure.
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- And all her paths are shalom.
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- It gives you shalom, peace.
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- Praise the lord.
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- It comes by embracing wisdom.
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- Just like it goes on to say later on, embrace wisdom.
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- And when we embrace wisdom, what happens?
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- When you embrace your wife, both her hands are behind you,
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- Supporting you, right?
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- Amen, so you have all the blessings of the hand.
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- But you don't go for riches on one hand
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- Or for the health on the other hand.
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- You go for wisdom, the wisdom of god.
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- And the bible says that the lord was so pleased
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- With the wisdom requests of solomon that god gave him--
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- And god says, "i'll give you what you didn't ask for."
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- "god said to him: 'because you have asked this thing
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- And have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches
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- For yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies,
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- But you have asked for yourself understanding
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- To discern justice,'" god says, "'behold, i have done according
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- To your words; see, i have given you
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- A wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been
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- Anyone like you before you, nor shall any
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- Like you arise after you.
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- And i have also give you what you have not asked:
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- Both riches and honor.'"
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- Can you see that?
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- "'so that there shall not be anyone like you
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- Among the kings all your days.
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- So if you walk in my ways, to keep my statutes
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- And my commandments, as your father david walked,
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- Then i will lengthen your days.'"
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- Now notice this one comes with a proviso, okay?
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- It comes with a condition.
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- Notice we've established that god says,
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- "i'll give you what you have not asked."
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- He actually asked for wisdom.
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- He didn't ask for riches and honor.
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- But with wisdom come riches and honor.
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- So god says, "i have given," all right?
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- I've given what?
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- "both riches and honor."
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- That's the left hand, right?
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- That's the left hand we read just now.
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- But notice the right hand has not been given yet.
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- God says, "i have given you."
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- So riches and honor has been given.
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- That same night that when god appeared to him in the dream,
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- Amen, and god asked, "what i shall give you,"
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- That same night, he asked god for wisdom,
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- God gave him already, riches and honor, amen?
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- That was the beginning of it.
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- Praise god.
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- But notice that god did not give him the right hand yet.
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- The right hand comes with a requirement, amen, a condition.
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- "so if you walk in my ways, to keep my statutes
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- And my commandments, as your father david walked,
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- Then i will lengthen your days."
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- Notice the length of days comes— health and length of days comes
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- With the right hand.
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- Another way you receive wisdom is by meditating
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- On god's word, amen?
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- The word that you receive when you read,
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- Like for example, you're hearing this sermon right now.
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- Take what speaks to you, that particular aspect,
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- And meditate on it.
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- Take the verse that speaks to you, amen,
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- That sort of lights up to you.
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- And meditate on that verse.
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- Memorize that verse and start to meditate on it.
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- You know, solomon asked god for wisdom and for a hearing heart
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- As well, amen?
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- And also he says that i may discern.
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- That's another river of wisdom.
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- There are many rivers.
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- In the hebrew, there's the word "chakam" for wisdom.
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- And sometimes in the english bible,
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- They don't differentiate, all right?
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- They'll say wisdom for quite a few things.
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- But the main word for wisdom is chakam.
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- But there's another river of wisdom from god called bin.
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- And then there's also madda.
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- And then there's also yada.
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- Yada and madda is the same.
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- There's also sakal, amen?
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- If you look at what solomon asked god,
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- He asked god for an understanding heart
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- To judge your people and the word down there,
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- "judge your people," all right,
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- Is that it's a good judgment.
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- Notice the bible says that the speech pleased the lord
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- That solomon had asked this thing.
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- If we keep on reading, this is the very first thing
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- That solomon did.
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- It's a sign that he has received wisdom, all right?
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- In verse 15:
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- "then solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream.
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- And he came to jerusalem and stood before the ark
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- Of the covenant of the lord."
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- Notice the very first thing he did
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- Was stand before the ark of the covenant of the lord.
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- "he offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings,
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- And made a feast for all his servants."
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- Notice the very first thing, all right,
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- That he did when he woke up,
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- After he has received wisdom from god,
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- After he has received a hearing heart, amen?
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- The very first thing was to seek god's presence,
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- To seek the lord jesus christ.
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- And that's why wise men will always seek him.
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- Just like the wise men from the east came
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- To seek the baby jesus.
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- Today, wise men will still seek jesus, amen.
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- Are you seeking the lord, amen?
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- Especially seeking the lord for wisdom, amen.
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- So the very first sign that someone has received wisdom
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- Is that he cherish the person of our lord jesus christ.
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- He valued the presence of our lord jesus.
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- And he will come to the lord jesus.
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- Anyone coming to the lord jesus is a sign
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- That he has received wisdom.
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- What happens to a man after he receives wisdom?
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- First of all, he values the person of my son.
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- Number two, he becomes humble and he surrounds himself
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- With people that he can tap into their advice,
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- Into their counsel, into their wisdom.
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- All the wisdom you can find in this world today,
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- Solomon's wisdom, which is the wisdom of god given to him,
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- Excels them all.
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- He was wiser than all men, amen?
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- And all this man here now is referring by name to people who
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- Were the wisest men during the time of his father, david, amen?
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- And yet, he excelled them all.
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- So this wisdom is preeminent.
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- It's superior against all the wisdom
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- You can find in the world and anyone else as wise.
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- So friend, ask god for wisdom.
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- Wisdom is not intellect.
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- It can involve intellect and many a times it does,
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- But the wisdom is a wisdom from god.
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- It comes as a flow.
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- In fact, you will find the holy spirit is involved.
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- When you are filled with the spirit,
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- You are filled with wisdom.
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- So friend, a sign that you have received wisdom
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- From god is that you surround yourself with people
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- Who can speak into your life.
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- You know, today we have a generation of people:
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- "don't correct me.
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- Don't tell me what i did wrong.
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- You know, i don't want to hear it.
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- And i know what to do."
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- In fact, the younger they are, the more they know what to do,
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- You know, our children even especially.
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- And they believe they know what to do and it grieves us
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- Because we look at them and we know
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- That there's a better way of doing that.
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- There's a better way of doing this.
- 00:11:18.319 --> 00:11:19.988
- But yet, they want to go on their own way.
- 00:11:19.988 --> 00:11:23.491
- And usually, they fall flat on their face.
- 00:11:23.491 --> 00:11:25.660
- It's the same thing even for adults.
- 00:11:25.660 --> 00:11:27.729
- Many a times, you know, the rebuke comes and the bible says,
- 00:11:27.729 --> 00:11:30.331
- "open rebuke is better than secret love,"
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- From the book of proverbs again.
- 00:11:32.300 --> 00:11:33.868
- Open rebuke is better than someone
- 00:11:33.868 --> 00:11:35.336
- Saying they love you secretly.
- 00:11:35.336 --> 00:11:37.305
- No, god wants you, if you love someone,
- 00:11:37.305 --> 00:11:39.007
- You see them going down the wrong path, correct them.
- 00:11:39.007 --> 00:11:42.076
- That is someone who loves you, amen?
- 00:11:42.076 --> 00:11:43.978
- Someone who's not out for your money.
- 00:11:43.978 --> 00:11:45.914
- Someone who's not just out to benefit themself.
- 00:11:45.914 --> 00:11:48.883
- They care for you.
- 00:11:48.883 --> 00:11:50.385
- Surround yourself with people like that.
- 00:11:50.385 --> 00:11:51.986
- And when they see you going on the wrong path,
- 00:11:51.986 --> 00:11:53.788
- They'll tell you, "look bro, i love you enough
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- To tell you this is not the way to go.
- 00:11:56.057 --> 00:11:58.159
- This is not the way to do it," amen.
- 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.328
- And time and time again, we see in our counseling and all that,
- 00:12:00.328 --> 00:12:04.699
- Families break down because of the father, you know,
- 00:12:04.699 --> 00:12:09.838
- All of a sudden going on the wrong path, amen.
- 00:12:09.838 --> 00:12:12.106
- It might start with a little flirtation and then later on,
- 00:12:12.106 --> 00:12:15.243
- It became an affair.
- 00:12:15.243 --> 00:12:16.711
- All because no one came in.
- 00:12:16.711 --> 00:12:18.646
- When they saw that thing happening,
- 00:12:18.646 --> 00:12:19.981
- They saw them flirting and all,
- 00:12:19.981 --> 00:12:21.316
- No one came in and said, "bro, what are you doing?
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- You are saying those kinds of things to a girl
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- Who is not even your wife.
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- Come on!
- 00:12:25.854 --> 00:12:27.188
- What's happening, bro? i can see it," amen?
- 00:12:27.188 --> 00:12:28.857
- You need people like this in church.
- 00:12:28.857 --> 00:12:30.592
- You need people to tell you straight, amen.
- 00:12:30.592 --> 00:12:32.360
- Because they love you.
- 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.062
- Friend, the bible says: "blessed is the man
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- Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly."
- 00:12:36.731 --> 00:12:40.969
- Notice the ungodly, they have counsel.
- 00:12:40.969 --> 00:12:44.672
- It's not that they don't have counsel,
- 00:12:44.672 --> 00:12:46.207
- But the bible says what?
- 00:12:46.207 --> 00:12:47.675
- "blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel
- 00:12:47.675 --> 00:12:50.311
- Of the ungodly."
- 00:12:50.311 --> 00:12:51.713
- They will tell you how to spend your money,
- 00:12:51.713 --> 00:12:53.181
- How to invest your money.
- 00:12:53.181 --> 00:12:54.515
- But if there are people who are not filled with god's spirit and
- 00:12:54.515 --> 00:12:57.051
- You don't bear witness, even they are christians telling you
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- To do that, but you feel like there's a check in your spirit,
- 00:13:00.355 --> 00:13:04.025
- Check with someone who doesn't have a private interest, amen,
- 00:13:04.025 --> 00:13:08.863
- In this venture.
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- Ask someone who can be neutral, who can ask the lord for you,
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- So that together you can confirm that this is of god.
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- Someone you respect.
- 00:13:16.771 --> 00:13:18.339
- Like we established just now, all right?
- 00:13:18.339 --> 00:13:19.974
- Surround yourself with people like this,
- 00:13:19.974 --> 00:13:21.309
- Your care group leaders, your pastors, amen,
- 00:13:21.309 --> 00:13:24.479
- Before you make a major decision.
- 00:13:24.479 --> 00:13:26.648
- Especially one that involves a lot of money
- 00:13:26.648 --> 00:13:28.716
- Or change of location or change of career, amen?
- 00:13:28.716 --> 00:13:31.886
- It's important you listen, and listen to the wisdom of god
- 00:13:31.886 --> 00:13:34.689
- In them, amen?
- 00:13:34.689 --> 00:13:36.424
- So the wisdom that we're talking about
- 00:13:36.424 --> 00:13:38.860
- Is a wisdom from god, my friend.
- 00:13:38.860 --> 00:13:40.728
- It's a wisdom from god.
- 00:13:40.728 --> 00:13:42.063
- Remember joseph.
- 00:13:42.063 --> 00:13:43.398
- The bible tells us that when joseph was a slave in egypt
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- And he was thrown into prison because of false accusation
- 00:13:46.801 --> 00:13:51.472
- And in prison, he interpreted a butler's dream
- 00:13:51.472 --> 00:13:54.542
- And he reminded the butler,
- 00:13:54.542 --> 00:13:55.944
- "when you are released, don't forget to mention me,
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- All right?
- 00:13:58.947 --> 00:14:00.315
- I'm still in prison.
- 00:14:00.315 --> 00:14:01.716
- Mention a good word about me so that i can be released
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- From this place because i'm thrown here
- 00:14:03.985 --> 00:14:06.754
- Because of a lie."
- 00:14:06.754 --> 00:14:09.023
- But that butler forgot joseph.
- 00:14:09.023 --> 00:14:11.426
- But god never forgot joseph.
- 00:14:11.426 --> 00:14:13.594
- Praise the lord.
- 00:14:13.594 --> 00:14:15.063
- And god will never forget you, amen.
- 00:14:15.063 --> 00:14:16.531
- And joseph heard the dream and this is what joseph said.
- 00:14:16.531 --> 00:14:20.702
- "and the dream was repeated to pharaoh twice
- 00:14:20.702 --> 00:14:23.204
- Because the thing is established by god,
- 00:14:23.204 --> 00:14:26.307
- And god will shortly bring it to pass.
- 00:14:26.307 --> 00:14:28.876
- Now therefore, let pharaoh select a discerning
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- And wise man, and set him over the land of egypt."
- 00:14:32.246 --> 00:14:35.550
- Do you remember that joseph, earlier on in his life,
- 00:14:35.550 --> 00:14:39.654
- He had dreams from god but he was not able to interpret.
- 00:14:39.654 --> 00:14:42.590
- Many of us in the place where we feel like something significant
- 00:14:42.590 --> 00:14:44.859
- About a dream, a prophecy or something
- 00:14:44.859 --> 00:14:47.028
- That god spoke to us but we are not able
- 00:14:47.028 --> 00:14:48.696
- To really interpret it or, you know,
- 00:14:48.696 --> 00:14:51.666
- Make sense of it in a way that we can understand.
- 00:14:51.666 --> 00:14:55.770
- So what is happening here?
- 00:14:55.770 --> 00:14:57.505
- At one time, joseph was not able to interpret.
- 00:14:57.505 --> 00:15:00.274
- He had a dream and he was not able to interpret it.
- 00:15:00.274 --> 00:15:03.111
- And he just told his brothers, i saw you all bowing before me
- 00:15:03.111 --> 00:15:06.080
- And all that.
- 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:07.582
- But he was not able to interpret it, okay?
- 00:15:07.582 --> 00:15:09.517
- But later on, he was able to interpret dreams.
- 00:15:09.517 --> 00:15:11.919
- What was the difference?
- 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.421
- The difference was this.
- 00:15:13.421 --> 00:15:15.156
- The ability to interpret came after he said no
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- To potiphar's wife with all her seductions, right?
- 00:15:18.693 --> 00:15:22.697
- He said no.
- 00:15:22.697 --> 00:15:24.132
- And there is something about this.
- 00:15:24.132 --> 00:15:25.566
- There's something about walking with god and not sinning.
- 00:15:25.566 --> 00:15:30.138
- Any man can have a dream from god.
- 00:15:30.138 --> 00:15:32.040
- God can give a man a dream even though he's not a believer.
- 00:15:32.040 --> 00:15:34.575
- And yet, the ability to interpret it
- 00:15:34.575 --> 00:15:36.644
- Is only for those who will walk with god, amen?
- 00:15:36.644 --> 00:15:40.048
- So we find that joseph said no to the fleshly lust, amen.
- 00:15:40.048 --> 00:15:43.885
- And after that, he was able to interpret,
- 00:15:43.885 --> 00:15:45.520
- Even though he was in prison, all right, that came to pass.
- 00:15:45.520 --> 00:15:47.789
- I thought there's an important note for us to take account of.
- 00:15:47.789 --> 00:15:51.793
- And over here, you find that joseph said
- 00:15:51.793 --> 00:15:54.762
- About the two dreams.
- 00:15:54.762 --> 00:15:56.431
- They are actually one dream.
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- He told pharaoh and that means the fat cows and all that
- 00:15:57.965 --> 00:16:01.502
- And the fat years of grain, all right,
- 00:16:01.502 --> 00:16:05.506
- Signify seven years of plenty, all right?
- 00:16:05.506 --> 00:16:08.342
- There'll be seven years of plenty.
- 00:16:08.342 --> 00:16:09.911
- The harvest will bring forth plentifully.
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- There'll be a bumper crop.
- 00:16:11.979 --> 00:16:13.614
- And for seven years, it's going to be just a wave
- 00:16:13.614 --> 00:16:16.784
- After wave of bumper crop.
- 00:16:16.784 --> 00:16:19.587
- After that will come, all right, seven cows, scrawny and ugly.
- 00:16:19.587 --> 00:16:24.792
- And they will eat up the cows.
- 00:16:24.792 --> 00:16:26.194
- In other words, there'd be seven years of famine.
- 00:16:26.194 --> 00:16:28.496
- And the famine of joseph was such that all the seven years
- 00:16:28.496 --> 00:16:32.100
- Of plenty was forgotten.
- 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:34.168
- But then, god never gives a dream without giving us wisdom
- 00:16:34.168 --> 00:16:38.139
- To apply it in our lives.
- 00:16:38.139 --> 00:16:39.674
- Every time god gives a dream to an unbeliever, only a believer,
- 00:16:39.674 --> 00:16:43.845
- A man who is filled with god's spirit,
- 00:16:43.845 --> 00:16:45.246
- Is able to interpret it.
- 00:16:45.246 --> 00:16:46.914
- And then that gives you a connection there.
- 00:16:46.914 --> 00:16:49.050
- At the same time, during famine,
- 00:16:49.050 --> 00:16:51.085
- God's people always rise to the top.
- 00:16:51.085 --> 00:16:53.321
- And god will give them the wisdom
- 00:16:53.321 --> 00:16:54.822
- And the word for that season, for that time.
- 00:16:54.822 --> 00:16:57.825
- And this is what happened as well.
- 00:16:57.825 --> 00:16:59.193
- When joseph gave the interpretation to pharaoh,
- 00:16:59.193 --> 00:17:03.064
- Joseph says, prepare yourself, all right?
- 00:17:03.064 --> 00:17:05.633
- Let pharaoh do this.
- 00:17:05.633 --> 00:17:07.168
- Now in a way, joseph was not recommending himself yet he was,
- 00:17:07.168 --> 00:17:10.838
- All right?
- 00:17:10.838 --> 00:17:12.173
- He said, "let pharaoh select a discerning
- 00:17:12.173 --> 00:17:13.641
- And wise man and set him over the land of egypt.
- 00:17:13.641 --> 00:17:17.578
- Let pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land,
- 00:17:17.578 --> 00:17:21.015
- To collect one-fifth," that's 20%, "of the produce
- 00:17:21.015 --> 00:17:23.684
- Of the land of egypt in the seven plentiful years.
- 00:17:23.684 --> 00:17:27.922
- And let them gather all the food of those good years
- 00:17:27.922 --> 00:17:30.224
- That are coming, and store up grain," okay?
- 00:17:30.224 --> 00:17:33.327
- So here, the wisdom was to appoint a discerning
- 00:17:33.327 --> 00:17:38.232
- And wise man and set him over the land of egypt.
- 00:17:38.232 --> 00:17:42.270
- "so the advice was good in the eyes of pharaoh
- 00:17:42.270 --> 00:17:45.072
- And in the eyes of all his servants.
- 00:17:45.072 --> 00:17:47.542
- And pharaoh said to his servants, 'can we find
- 00:17:47.542 --> 00:17:49.810
- Such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of god?'"
- 00:17:49.810 --> 00:17:53.714
- Notice, a man who is wise and discerning.
- 00:17:53.714 --> 00:17:57.852
- Here pharaoh says something quite prophetic, right?
- 00:17:57.852 --> 00:18:01.022
- We know it is prophetic because he discerned correctly.
- 00:18:01.022 --> 00:18:03.624
- He says, "can we find such a one as this," pointing to joseph,
- 00:18:03.624 --> 00:18:06.794
- "a man in whom is the spirit of god?"
- 00:18:06.794 --> 00:18:08.796
- It goes to show that a discerning and wise man is a man
- 00:18:08.796 --> 00:18:12.333
- In whom god's spirit dwells.
- 00:18:12.333 --> 00:18:14.669
- "then pharaoh said to joseph, 'inasmuch as god has shown you
- 00:18:14.735 --> 00:18:18.239
- All this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.'"
- 00:18:18.239 --> 00:18:23.644
- And he goes on to say, "'you shall be over my house,
- 00:18:23.644 --> 00:18:26.280
- And all my people shall be ruled according to your word;
- 00:18:26.280 --> 00:18:29.383
- Only in regard to the throne will i be greater than you.'"
- 00:18:29.383 --> 00:18:34.322
- Wow!
- 00:18:34.322 --> 00:18:35.723
- Just in a short while, joseph who was brought out from prison
- 00:18:35.723 --> 00:18:39.994
- Is now the most powerful man beside pharaoh, okay?
- 00:18:39.994 --> 00:18:45.233
- Pharaoh says, "only in the throne
- 00:18:45.233 --> 00:18:46.767
- Will i be greater than you."
- 00:18:46.767 --> 00:18:48.336
- So he's the number two man in the whole realm of that kingdom.
- 00:18:48.336 --> 00:18:51.839
- And the kingdom of egypt at that time
- 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:53.241
- Was the most powerful kingdom at that time.
- 00:18:53.241 --> 00:18:56.043
- So with the wisdom of god, he rose through the ranks.
- 00:18:56.043 --> 00:18:59.013
- And friend, that's where you find god's wisdom
- 00:18:59.013 --> 00:19:02.116
- Will propel you into a place of promotion.
- 00:19:02.116 --> 00:19:04.352
- I'm not talking about for pride, you know,
- 00:19:04.352 --> 00:19:06.821
- For proud reasons and all that.
- 00:19:06.821 --> 00:19:08.789
- Would to god that we stop praying just for a job
- 00:19:08.789 --> 00:19:11.058
- And pray for a position, a position of influence,
- 00:19:11.058 --> 00:19:14.195
- That we can impact many lives for our lord jesus, amen.
- 00:19:14.195 --> 00:19:17.098
- Don't just pray for a job.
- 00:19:17.098 --> 00:19:18.833
- Don't just pray for, you know,
- 00:19:18.833 --> 00:19:20.268
- Something that you just want to live by,
- 00:19:20.268 --> 00:19:23.904
- But pray that you might be a influence to many people.
- 00:19:23.904 --> 00:19:26.173
- Remember later on, joseph said to his brothers
- 00:19:26.173 --> 00:19:28.309
- That "god sent me here to save many people," amen?
- 00:19:28.309 --> 00:19:31.746
- To save many, many lives, amen.
- 00:19:31.746 --> 00:19:33.914
- So he realized he has a greater call than just fulfilling a job.
- 00:19:33.914 --> 00:19:37.685
- So friend, that's you and i as well.
- 00:19:37.685 --> 00:19:39.887
- But i want to point to you this thing in closing.
- 00:19:39.887 --> 00:19:43.090
- Joseph recommended a man who is discerning and wise.
- 00:19:43.090 --> 00:19:47.194
- That's what he advised pharaoh.
- 00:19:47.194 --> 00:19:49.196
- Now pharaoh says, "well, who can find a better man than you?
- 00:19:49.196 --> 00:19:54.368
- A man in whom is god's spirit and a discerning and wise man."
- 00:19:54.368 --> 00:19:58.506
- And he became--he was promoted.
- 00:19:58.506 --> 00:20:00.875
- This word "discerning" in the hebrew is the word "bin."
- 00:20:00.875 --> 00:20:05.946
- And the word "wise" is the word "chakam."
- 00:20:05.946 --> 00:20:10.151
- Now why am i showing you this?
- 00:20:10.151 --> 00:20:11.786
- Because it's very interesting that this word "bin" was also
- 00:20:11.786 --> 00:20:15.323
- Used in the prayer of solomon: "that i may discern," okay?
- 00:20:15.323 --> 00:20:22.196
- He says bin.
- 00:20:22.196 --> 00:20:23.597
- It's the same word in the hebrew, that i may discern.
- 00:20:23.597 --> 00:20:26.600
- Discerning man.
- 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:27.935
- Wise, chakam, chakam.
- 00:20:27.935 --> 00:20:30.438
- But also remember that there is a translation
- 00:20:30.438 --> 00:20:33.741
- Of the old testament in greek.
- 00:20:33.741 --> 00:20:36.377
- Your old testament is actually in hebrew,
- 00:20:36.377 --> 00:20:39.246
- Translation in hebrew.
- 00:20:39.246 --> 00:20:40.581
- And your new testament is written in greek, right?
- 00:20:40.581 --> 00:20:43.017
- But there's old testament translation of greek
- 00:20:43.017 --> 00:20:46.687
- Which is the septuagint version.
- 00:20:46.687 --> 00:20:48.656
- If you look at the septuagint version, it says--
- 00:20:48.656 --> 00:20:50.825
- Where it says, "a discerning and wise man," the word "bin"
- 00:20:50.825 --> 00:20:54.428
- For discerning is the word "phronimos."
- 00:20:54.428 --> 00:20:59.033
- And the word "chakam" for wise is the word "sunetos."
- 00:20:59.033 --> 00:21:03.804
- Now phronimos is very interesting because phronimos
- 00:21:03.804 --> 00:21:06.807
- Means someone who is sharp, all right, in his discernment.
- 00:21:06.807 --> 00:21:11.011
- Someone who is very discerning.
- 00:21:11.011 --> 00:21:12.747
- Someone who is able to look at the true nature of things,
- 00:21:12.747 --> 00:21:16.250
- And there's a-- he's a sagacious person,
- 00:21:16.250 --> 00:21:18.953
- A person who is recognized for his prudence.
- 00:21:18.953 --> 00:21:22.656
- He's able to see things before it happens, amen?
- 00:21:22.656 --> 00:21:25.159
- Discerning, phronimos.
- 00:21:25.159 --> 00:21:27.495
- Very interesting word.
- 00:21:27.495 --> 00:21:28.829
- And chakam.
- 00:21:28.829 --> 00:21:30.164
- Why is chakam in the hebrew?
- 00:21:30.164 --> 00:21:31.732
- The greek is sunetos.
- 00:21:31.732 --> 00:21:33.267
- Sunetos means literally someone who is able to take two and two,
- 00:21:33.267 --> 00:21:37.538
- Bring it together to find the solution, amen?
- 00:21:37.538 --> 00:21:41.375
- He's able to put two and two together and conclude.
- 00:21:41.375 --> 00:21:43.911
- How do you have this wisdom to put two and two together
- 00:21:43.911 --> 00:21:47.047
- When others are not able to even reconcile them
- 00:21:47.047 --> 00:21:49.884
- And see the solution?
- 00:21:49.884 --> 00:21:51.419
- God says by meditating on his word day and night.
- 00:21:51.419 --> 00:21:55.222
- Another way of meditating, of course, is also to hear sermons,
- 00:21:55.222 --> 00:21:59.326
- Amen, day and night.
- 00:21:59.326 --> 00:22:00.761
- You know, if the devil is bombarding you
- 00:22:00.761 --> 00:22:02.096
- With depressive thoughts and dark thoughts
- 00:22:02.096 --> 00:22:05.032
- And negative thoughts all day long:
- 00:22:05.032 --> 00:22:08.068
- "you'll not be well.
- 00:22:08.068 --> 00:22:09.470
- This disease is going to kill you.
- 00:22:09.470 --> 00:22:11.305
- And this is what happened to so and so.
- 00:22:11.305 --> 00:22:12.807
- That's what happened to so and so,"
- 00:22:12.807 --> 00:22:14.175
- And you don't keep your mind.
- 00:22:14.175 --> 00:22:16.343
- How do you do that?
- 00:22:16.343 --> 00:22:17.678
- If the devil is bombarding you 24 hours, okay,
- 00:22:17.678 --> 00:22:19.346
- A day, 24-7, okay?
- 00:22:19.346 --> 00:22:22.149
- Let me tell you this.
- 00:22:22.149 --> 00:22:23.584
- It's time for you to meditate on god's word.
- 00:22:23.584 --> 00:22:25.453
- Listen to god's word day and night.
- 00:22:25.453 --> 00:22:27.655
- And when you're not listening to god's word,
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- Meditate on what you have listened to.
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- Meditate on god's word.
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- Mutter it under your breath, because the devil
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- Is not playing fair.
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- He's bombarding you all day and night.
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- You need to meditate on god's word, day and night.
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- Praise god.
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- This is one of the greatest pleasures
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- In my own personal life.
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- I've done this for many years.
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- Take a verse to meditate on.
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- You know, when i wake up in the middle of the night
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- And i don't care whether it's because i ate
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- The wrong kind of food or too much coffee
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- Or the devil is trying to disturb my sleep.
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- But if i wake up in the middle of the night,
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- One of the things i always do is always to meditate.
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- Meditate on god's word.
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- Or i pray in the spirit.
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- I don't stay up there and worry about not having enough sleep
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- And what's going to happen in the day.
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- You know, many a times in the dark moments of the night,
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- You find your thoughts going astray.
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- You find your thoughts getting very dark,
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- Just like the darkness around you.
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- But friend, that's the time you need to focus on god's word.
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- You need to make your mind focus on god's word
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- And start muttering it, amen?
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- Muttering helps to control your mind to focus on something.
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- Now, people do not know how to focus nowadays.
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- There are so many distractions all around them.
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- And meditating on god's word will make you focus:
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- Focus on that one verse, focus on a word in that verse, amen.
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- It will help your concentration, which is a key to success
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- In life, which is sadly lacking in today's generation,
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- In today's world, because they are so pulled
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- In so many directions.
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- And there's a lot of distractions out there.
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- So friend, meditation will give you what?
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- Sunemi, amen.
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- The ability to put two and two together
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- And see the wisdom of god in it.
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- It's one of the branches of god's wisdom.
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- Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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- With a special prayer to close today's program,
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- Right after this.
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- Announcer: and now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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- Joseph prince: father, in jesus's name, i thank you
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- For everyone that's hearing this word right now, father.
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- I pray, father god, that you will raise discerning
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- And wise men and women out of this sermon, lord.
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- I pray you'll prosper them, lord,
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- In all that they undertake.
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- May their lives make a turn right now
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- Because as they receive your wisdom, father,
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- I pray they'll continue, lord, to walk with you
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- And to continue that wisdom, lord.
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- Not as solomon did, lord, but as jesus did, lord,
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- To the end of his life, the author and finisher of faith
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- And prosper their journey.
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- Prosper all the way until we see you, lord jesus, face to face.
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- In jesus's name i ask, amen.
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- Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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- I was so excited.
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- Male announcer: church.
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- It's not a place. it's a people.
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- Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
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- Female: hello.
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- Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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- How in the world do you do an online church?
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- And we gather in our living room and we sing and we praise
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- And then we sit there and we take in the word
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- And then afterward you can talk about it.
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- Announcer: church is not four walls.
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- It's one body of christ.
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- Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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- It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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- You know, doing the online church.
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- But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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- And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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- Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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- Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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- In the chat house, and when i was sick,
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- I had people praying for me.
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- I had people taking communion for me.
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- They're right there when you need it.
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- Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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- It's who you meet.
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- Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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- From people we can't see
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- And we're not in the same room as.
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- It helps us to make that connection,
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- That i can't see god
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- And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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- Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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- Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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- A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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- To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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- Even online.
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- Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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- Or text church to 71239 today.
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- Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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- Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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- From the lord.
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