Joseph Prince - Experience The Five Benefits of Wisdom

January 15, 2026 | 27:29

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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.
  • 00:10:43.952 --> 00:10:45.386
  • In fact, you will find the holy spirit is involved.
  • 00:10:45.386 --> 00:10:47.288
  • When you are filled with the spirit,
  • 00:10:47.288 --> 00:10:48.623
  • You are filled with wisdom.
  • 00:10:48.623 --> 00:10:50.191
  • So friend, a sign that you have received wisdom
  • 00:10:50.191 --> 00:10:52.527
  • From god is that you surround yourself with people
  • 00:10:52.527 --> 00:10:55.597
  • Who can speak into your life.
  • 00:10:55.597 --> 00:10:57.766
  • You know, today we have a generation of people:
  • 00:10:57.766 --> 00:10:59.901
  • "don't correct me.
  • 00:10:59.901 --> 00:11:01.236
  • Don't tell me what i did wrong.
  • 00:11:01.236 --> 00:11:02.637
  • You know, i don't want to hear it.
  • 00:11:02.637 --> 00:11:03.972
  • And i know what to do."
  • 00:11:03.972 --> 00:11:05.640
  • In fact, the younger they are, the more they know what to do,
  • 00:11:05.640 --> 00:11:09.010
  • You know, our children even especially.
  • 00:11:09.010 --> 00:11:10.779
  • And they believe they know what to do and it grieves us
  • 00:11:10.779 --> 00:11:14.349
  • Because we look at them and we know
  • 00:11:14.349 --> 00:11:16.417
  • That there's a better way of doing that.
  • 00:11:16.417 --> 00:11:18.319
  • 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
  • 00:11:53.788 --> 00:11:56.057
  • 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?
  • 00:12:21.316 --> 00:12:22.784
  • You are saying those kinds of things to a girl
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  • Who is not even your wife.
  • 00:12:24.118 --> 00:12:25.854
  • Come on!
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  • 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
  • 00:12:34.062 --> 00:12:36.731
  • 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
  • 00:12:57.051 --> 00:13:00.355
  • 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.
  • 00:13:08.863 --> 00:13:10.598
  • Ask someone who can be neutral, who can ask the lord for you,
  • 00:13:10.598 --> 00:13:14.535
  • 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.
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  • The bible tells us that when joseph was a slave in egypt
  • 00:13:43.398 --> 00:13:46.801
  • 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,
  • 00:13:55.944 --> 00:13:58.947
  • 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
  • 00:14:01.716 --> 00:14:03.985
  • 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
  • 00:14:28.876 --> 00:14:32.246
  • 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
  • 00:15:15.156 --> 00:15:18.693
  • 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.
  • 00:15:56.431 --> 00:15:57.965
  • 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.
  • 00:16:09.911 --> 00:16:11.979
  • 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.
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  • Someone who is able to look at the true nature of things,
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  • And there's a-- he's a sagacious person,
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  • A person who is recognized for his prudence.
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  • He's able to see things before it happens, amen?
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  • Discerning, phronimos.
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  • Very interesting word.
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  • And chakam.
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  • Why is chakam in the hebrew?
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  • The greek is sunetos.
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  • Sunetos means literally someone who is able to take two and two,
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  • Bring it together to find the solution, amen?
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  • He's able to put two and two together and conclude.
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  • How do you have this wisdom to put two and two together
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  • When others are not able to even reconcile them
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  • And see the solution?
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  • God says by meditating on his word day and night.
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  • Another way of meditating, of course, is also to hear sermons,
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  • Amen, day and night.
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  • You know, if the devil is bombarding you
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  • With depressive thoughts and dark thoughts
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  • And negative thoughts all day long:
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  • "you'll not be well.
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  • This disease is going to kill you.
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  • And this is what happened to so and so.
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  • That's what happened to so and so,"
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  • And you don't keep your mind.
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  • How do you do that?
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  • If the devil is bombarding you 24 hours, okay,
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  • A day, 24-7, okay?
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  • Let me tell you this.
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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.
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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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  • 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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