Joseph Prince - Experience the Five Benefits of Wisdom

July 31, 2025 | 29:45

The Abundant Life: Walk in length of days, health, provision, honor, pleasantness, and peace today.

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  • Joseph prince: how do you have this wisdom to put two
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  • And two together 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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  • Joseph prince: you know, if the devil is bombarding you with
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  • Depressive thoughts and dark thoughts and negative thoughts
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  • All day long, "you will not be well,"
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  • "this disease is gonna kill you,"
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  • Okay, 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, meditate on what you
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  • Have listened to.
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  • Meditate on god's word. mutter it under your breath.
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  • Announcer: tired of overthinking
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  • And second-guessing yourself?
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  • Coming up, hear joseph prince unpack powerful truths about
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  • Making choices that bring peace, purpose, and good success.
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  • There's no shortage of advice out there.
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  • Everywhere you turn, there's a new article or video telling
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  • You how to live your best life.
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  • But when it really matters, when it involves your family,
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  • Your future, your peace, we all ask the same thing.
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  • In "god's way to making good choices,"
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  • Joseph guides you through 31 days of practical,
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  • Scripture-based wisdom from proverbs,
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  • Giving you the clarity, peace, and confidence
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  • To face every decision.
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  • Build a daily habit of turning to the lord so you're not just
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  • Making better choices, you're becoming someone others
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  • Can trust for steady, god-led decisions.
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  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: i believe that we are going through
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  • A season where we are seeing things happen all over the world
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  • That is shouting out lack, shortage, and then 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 seeing.
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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 instead
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  • 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 by
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  • 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 and hearing
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  • 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, he had a big pair of shoes
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  • 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, that i may discern
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  • 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, that solomon had asked
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  • This thing."
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  • The speech pleased the lord.
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  • This remark here tells us that god is pleased with people
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  • 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 and there's
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  • A wisdom that is sensual, that is fleshly.
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  • But the bible says the wisdom from above is pure, peaceable,
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  • 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 two 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, in her left
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  • 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, "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, amen.
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  • So you have all the blessings of the hand.
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  • But you don't go for riches on one hand or for the health
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  • 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 with the wisdom,
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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 to discern
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  • Justice,'" god says, "behold, i have done according to your
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  • Words; see, i have given you a wise and understanding heart,
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  • So that there has not been anyone like you before you,
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  • Nor shall any like you arise after you.
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  • And i have also given you what you have not asked: both riches
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  • And honor."
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  • Can you see that?
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  • "so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings
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  • All your days.
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  • So if you walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
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  • Commandments, as your father david walked, then i will
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  • 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, "i'll give you what
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  • 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 that same night
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  • That when god appeared to him in a dream, amen, and god asked,
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  • "what i shall give you?"
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  • That same night, he asked god for wisdom, god gave him already
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  • 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
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  • Comes 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, like for example, you're hearing
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  • 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, 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
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  • And for a hearing heart 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, they don't differentiate,
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  • All right, they'll say wisdom for quite a few things.
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  • But the main word for wisdom is chakam, but there's another
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  • River of wisdom from god called bin and then there's also madda
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  • And then there's also yada.
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  • Madda is actually from yada and madda is the same.
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  • There's also sechel, amen?
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  • If you look at what solomon asked god, he asked god
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  • For "an understanding heart to judge your people."
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  • And the word down there, "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
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  • The lord, 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: "then solomon awoke; and indeed it had been
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  • 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 was stand before the ark
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  • 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, right, that he did when he woke
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  • Up, after he has received wisdom from god, after he has received
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  • A hearing heart, amen?
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  • The very first thing was to seek god's presence, to seek
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  • 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 to seek
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  • 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
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  • Wisdom is that he cherished the person
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  • Of our lord jesus christ.
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  • He valued the presence of our lord jesus and he will come
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  • To the lord jesus.
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  • Anyone coming to the lord jesus is a sign that he has
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  • 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, into their
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  • 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
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  • To him, excels them all.
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  • He was wiser than all men, amen?
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  • And all these man here now is referring by name to people who
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  • Were the wisest men during the time of his
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  • Father, david, amen?
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  • And yet, he excelled them all.
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  • So this wisdom is preeminent.
  • 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:54.330
  • It's superior against all the wisdom you can find
  • 00:10:54.330 --> 00:10:58.901
  • In the world and anyone else that's wise.
  • 00:10:58.901 --> 00:11:01.337
  • So friend, ask god for wisdom.
  • 00:11:01.337 --> 00:11:02.972
  • Wisdom is not intellect.
  • 00:11:02.972 --> 00:11:04.340
  • It can involve intellect and many a times it does,
  • 00:11:04.340 --> 00:11:07.576
  • But the wisdom is a wisdom from god.
  • 00:11:07.576 --> 00:11:09.044
  • It comes as a flow.
  • 00:11:09.044 --> 00:11:10.379
  • In fact, you will find the holy spirit is involved.
  • 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:12.181
  • When you are filled with the spirit, you are filled
  • 00:11:12.181 --> 00:11:13.983
  • With wisdom.
  • 00:11:13.983 --> 00:11:15.317
  • So friend, a sign that you receive wisdom from god is
  • 00:11:15.317 --> 00:11:18.320
  • That you surround yourself with people who can speak
  • 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:21.457
  • Into your life.
  • 00:11:21.457 --> 00:11:22.825
  • You know, today we have a generation of people,
  • 00:11:22.825 --> 00:11:25.127
  • "don't correct me," "don't tell me what i did wrong," you know?
  • 00:11:25.127 --> 00:11:27.863
  • "i don't want to hear it," and "i know what to do."
  • 00:11:27.863 --> 00:11:30.833
  • In fact, the younger they are, the more they know what to do,
  • 00:11:30.833 --> 00:11:34.537
  • Our children even, especially.
  • 00:11:34.537 --> 00:11:36.405
  • And they believe they know what to do and it grieves us
  • 00:11:36.405 --> 00:11:40.009
  • Because we look at them and we know that there's a better way
  • 00:11:40.009 --> 00:11:42.578
  • Of doing that.
  • 00:11:42.578 --> 00:11:43.946
  • There's a better way of doing this.
  • 00:11:43.946 --> 00:11:45.281
  • But yet, they want to go on their own way.
  • 00:11:45.281 --> 00:11:48.484
  • And usually, they fall flat on their face.
  • 00:11:48.484 --> 00:11:50.553
  • It's the same thing, even for adults.
  • 00:11:50.553 --> 00:11:52.688
  • Many a times, the rebuke comes and the bible says, "open rebuke
  • 00:11:52.688 --> 00:11:56.158
  • Is better than secret love," from the book of proverbs again:
  • 00:11:56.158 --> 00:11:58.828
  • "open review is better than someone saying they love
  • 00:11:58.828 --> 00:12:01.397
  • You secretly."
  • 00:12:01.397 --> 00:12:02.765
  • No, god wants you--if you love someone, you see them going down
  • 00:12:02.765 --> 00:12:05.134
  • The wrong path, correct them.
  • 00:12:05.134 --> 00:12:07.236
  • That is someone who loves you, amen?
  • 00:12:07.236 --> 00:12:09.138
  • Someone who is not out for your money.
  • 00:12:09.138 --> 00:12:10.840
  • Someone who's not just out to benefit themself.
  • 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.843
  • They care for you.
  • 00:12:13.843 --> 00:12:15.211
  • Surround yourself with people like that and when they see you
  • 00:12:15.211 --> 00:12:17.580
  • Going on the wrong path, they'll tell you, "look bro, i love you
  • 00:12:17.580 --> 00:12:20.749
  • Enough to tell you this is not the way to go.
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  • It's not the way to do it," amen?
  • 00:12:23.452 --> 00:12:25.387
  • And time and time again, we see in our counseling and all that,
  • 00:12:25.387 --> 00:12:29.692
  • Families break down because of the father, you know,
  • 00:12:29.692 --> 00:12:34.964
  • All of a sudden going on the wrong path, amen.
  • 00:12:34.964 --> 00:12:37.600
  • It might start with a little flirtation and then later
  • 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.402
  • On, it became an affair.
  • 00:12:40.402 --> 00:12:41.904
  • All because no one came in.
  • 00:12:41.904 --> 00:12:43.339
  • When they saw that thing happening, they saw them
  • 00:12:43.339 --> 00:12:44.907
  • Flirting and all, no one came in and said, "bro, what are
  • 00:12:44.907 --> 00:12:46.942
  • You doing?
  • 00:12:46.942 --> 00:12:48.310
  • You are saying those kinds of things to a girl who is
  • 00:12:48.310 --> 00:12:50.412
  • Not even your wife.
  • 00:12:50.412 --> 00:12:51.780
  • Come on!
  • 00:12:51.780 --> 00:12:53.115
  • What's happening, bro?
  • 00:12:53.115 --> 00:12:54.483
  • I can see it, amen."
  • 00:12:54.483 --> 00:12:55.818
  • You need people like this in church.
  • 00:12:55.818 --> 00:12:57.186
  • You need people to tell you straight, amen?
  • 00:12:57.186 --> 00:12:58.520
  • Because they love you.
  • 00:12:58.520 --> 00:12:59.889
  • Friend, the bible says: "blessed is the man who walks not
  • 00:12:59.889 --> 00:13:03.759
  • In the counsel of the ungodly."
  • 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.495
  • Notice the ungodly, they have counsel.
  • 00:13:06.495 --> 00:13:09.431
  • It's not that they don't have counsel, but the bible
  • 00:13:09.431 --> 00:13:11.667
  • Says what?
  • 00:13:11.667 --> 00:13:13.002
  • "blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel
  • 00:13:13.002 --> 00:13:15.471
  • Of the ungodly."
  • 00:13:15.471 --> 00:13:16.805
  • They will tell you how to spend your money, how to invest
  • 00:13:16.805 --> 00:13:18.641
  • Your money.
  • 00:13:18.641 --> 00:13:20.009
  • But if they are people who are not filled with god's spirit
  • 00:13:20.009 --> 00:13:21.944
  • And you don't bear witness with--
  • 00:13:21.944 --> 00:13:25.047
  • Even if they are christians telling you to do that.
  • 00:13:25.047 --> 00:13:26.382
  • But you feel like there's a check in your spirit?
  • 00:13:26.382 --> 00:13:29.385
  • Check with someone who doesn't have a private interest, amen,
  • 00:13:29.385 --> 00:13:34.056
  • In this venture.
  • 00:13:34.056 --> 00:13:35.691
  • Ask someone who can be neutral, who can ask the lord for you,
  • 00:13:35.691 --> 00:13:39.528
  • So that together, you can confirm that this is of god.
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  • Someone you respect, like we established just now, all right?
  • 00:13:42.197 --> 00:13:44.934
  • Surround yourself with people like this.
  • 00:13:44.934 --> 00:13:46.535
  • Your care group leaders, your pastors, amen, before you make
  • 00:13:46.535 --> 00:13:50.572
  • A major decision.
  • 00:13:50.572 --> 00:13:51.907
  • Especially one that involves a lot of money or change
  • 00:13:51.907 --> 00:13:54.343
  • Of location or change of career, amen?
  • 00:13:54.343 --> 00:13:56.912
  • It's important you listen and listen to the wisdom of god
  • 00:13:56.912 --> 00:14:00.015
  • In them, amen?
  • 00:14:00.015 --> 00:14:01.450
  • So the wisdom that we're talking about is a wisdom from god,
  • 00:14:01.450 --> 00:14:05.187
  • My friend.
  • 00:14:05.187 --> 00:14:06.522
  • It's a wisdom from god.
  • 00:14:06.522 --> 00:14:07.890
  • Remember joseph.
  • 00:14:07.890 --> 00:14:09.224
  • The bible tells us that when joseph was a slave in egypt
  • 00:14:09.224 --> 00:14:12.628
  • And he was thrown into prison because of false accusation
  • 00:14:12.628 --> 00:14:16.565
  • And in prison, he interpreted a butler's dream and he reminded
  • 00:14:16.565 --> 00:14:20.269
  • The butler, "when you are released, don't forget
  • 00:14:20.269 --> 00:14:22.972
  • To mention me, all right, i'm still in prison.
  • 00:14:22.972 --> 00:14:27.076
  • Mention a good word about me so that i can be released
  • 00:14:27.076 --> 00:14:29.578
  • From this place, because i'm thrown here because of a lie."
  • 00:14:29.578 --> 00:14:34.149
  • But that butler forgot joseph.
  • 00:14:34.149 --> 00:14:36.618
  • But god never forgot joseph.
  • 00:14:36.618 --> 00:14:38.954
  • Praise the lord.
  • 00:14:38.954 --> 00:14:40.322
  • And god will never forget you, amen.
  • 00:14:40.322 --> 00:14:42.191
  • And joseph heard the dream and this is what joseph said:
  • 00:14:42.191 --> 00:14:46.228
  • "and the dream was repeated to pharaoh twice because the thing
  • 00:14:46.228 --> 00:14:49.365
  • Is established by god, and god will shortly bring it to pass.
  • 00:14:49.365 --> 00:14:54.203
  • Now therefore, let pharaoh select a discerning and wise
  • 00:14:54.203 --> 00:14:57.873
  • Man, and set him over the land of egypt."
  • 00:14:57.873 --> 00:15:00.809
  • Do you remember that joseph, earlier on in his life,
  • 00:15:00.809 --> 00:15:05.014
  • He had dreams from god but he was not able to interpret?
  • 00:15:05.014 --> 00:15:07.916
  • Many of us in the place where we feel like something significant
  • 00:15:07.916 --> 00:15:10.019
  • About a dream, a prophecy or something that god spoke to us,
  • 00:15:10.019 --> 00:15:13.055
  • But we are not able to really interpret it or make sense of it
  • 00:15:13.055 --> 00:15:17.926
  • In a way that we can understand.
  • 00:15:17.926 --> 00:15:21.096
  • So what is happening here?
  • 00:15:21.096 --> 00:15:22.731
  • At one time, joseph was not able to interpret.
  • 00:15:22.731 --> 00:15:25.367
  • He had a dream and he was not able to interpret it.
  • 00:15:25.367 --> 00:15:28.604
  • And he just told his brothers, i saw you all bowing before me
  • 00:15:28.604 --> 00:15:31.540
  • And all that.
  • 00:15:31.540 --> 00:15:32.875
  • But he was not able to interpret it, okay?
  • 00:15:32.875 --> 00:15:34.710
  • But later on, he was able to interpret dreams.
  • 00:15:34.710 --> 00:15:37.112
  • What was the difference?
  • 00:15:37.112 --> 00:15:38.480
  • The difference was this.
  • 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.049
  • The ability to interpret came after he said no to potiphar's
  • 00:15:40.049 --> 00:15:44.820
  • Wife with all her seductions, right?
  • 00:15:44.820 --> 00:15:47.890
  • He said no.
  • 00:15:47.890 --> 00:15:49.258
  • And there is something about this.
  • 00:15:49.258 --> 00:15:50.592
  • There's something about walking with god and not sinning.
  • 00:15:50.592 --> 00:15:55.097
  • Any man can have a dream from god.
  • 00:15:55.097 --> 00:15:56.899
  • God can give a man a dream even though he's not a believer.
  • 00:15:56.899 --> 00:15:59.601
  • And yet, the ability to interpret it is only for those
  • 00:15:59.601 --> 00:16:03.238
  • Who will walk with god, amen?
  • 00:16:03.238 --> 00:16:05.040
  • So we find that joseph said no to the fleshly lust, amen.
  • 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:08.744
  • And after that, he was able to interpret, even though he
  • 00:16:08.744 --> 00:16:11.313
  • Was in prison.
  • 00:16:11.313 --> 00:16:12.648
  • That came to pass.
  • 00:16:12.648 --> 00:16:14.016
  • I thought that's an important note for us to take account of.
  • 00:16:14.016 --> 00:16:17.086
  • And over here, you find that joseph said about
  • 00:16:17.086 --> 00:16:20.789
  • The two dreams.
  • 00:16:20.789 --> 00:16:22.157
  • They are actually one dream.
  • 00:16:22.157 --> 00:16:23.492
  • And he told pharaoh.
  • 00:16:23.492 --> 00:16:24.893
  • And that means the fat cows and all that and the fat ears
  • 00:16:24.893 --> 00:16:29.098
  • Of grain, right, signify 7 years of plenty.
  • 00:16:29.098 --> 00:16:33.268
  • There'll be 7 years of plenty.
  • 00:16:33.268 --> 00:16:34.937
  • The harvests will bring forth plentifully.
  • 00:16:34.937 --> 00:16:36.905
  • There'll be a bumper crop and for 7 years, it's going
  • 00:16:36.905 --> 00:16:40.309
  • To be just a wave after wave of bumper crop.
  • 00:16:40.309 --> 00:16:44.580
  • After that will come, right, seven cows, scrawny and ugly,
  • 00:16:44.580 --> 00:16:49.618
  • And they will eat up the cows.
  • 00:16:49.618 --> 00:16:50.953
  • In other words, there'll be 7 years of famine.
  • 00:16:50.953 --> 00:16:53.388
  • And the famine of joseph was such that all
  • 00:16:53.388 --> 00:16:56.525
  • The 7 years of plenty was forgotten.
  • 00:16:56.525 --> 00:16:59.261
  • But then, god never gives a dream without giving us wisdom
  • 00:16:59.261 --> 00:17:02.998
  • To apply it in our lives.
  • 00:17:02.998 --> 00:17:04.566
  • Every time god gives a dream to an unbeliever, only
  • 00:17:04.566 --> 00:17:08.270
  • A believer, a man who is filled with god's spirit is able
  • 00:17:08.270 --> 00:17:10.239
  • To interpret it.
  • 00:17:10.239 --> 00:17:11.607
  • And then that gives you a connection there.
  • 00:17:11.607 --> 00:17:13.909
  • At the same time, during famine, god's people always rise
  • 00:17:13.909 --> 00:17:17.045
  • To the top and god will give them the wisdom and the word
  • 00:17:17.045 --> 00:17:21.216
  • For that season, for that time.
  • 00:17:21.216 --> 00:17:22.651
  • And this is what happened as well.
  • 00:17:22.651 --> 00:17:24.086
  • When joseph gave the interpretation to pharaoh,
  • 00:17:24.086 --> 00:17:28.090
  • Joseph says, "prepare yourself," all right?
  • 00:17:28.090 --> 00:17:30.792
  • "let pharaoh do this."
  • 00:17:30.792 --> 00:17:32.127
  • Now in a way, joseph was not recommending himself,
  • 00:17:32.127 --> 00:17:35.364
  • Yet he was, all right?
  • 00:17:35.364 --> 00:17:36.698
  • He said, "let pharaoh select a discerning and wise man,
  • 00:17:36.698 --> 00:17:40.402
  • And set him over the land of egypt.
  • 00:17:40.402 --> 00:17:42.804
  • Let pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land,
  • 00:17:42.804 --> 00:17:46.041
  • To collect one-fifth," that's twenty percent, "of the produce
  • 00:17:46.041 --> 00:17:48.777
  • Of the land of egypt in the seven plentiful years.
  • 00:17:48.777 --> 00:17:53.182
  • And let them gather all the food of those good years that are
  • 00:17:53.182 --> 00:17:55.617
  • Coming, and store up grain," okay?
  • 00:17:55.617 --> 00:17:58.554
  • So here, the wisdom was to appoint a discerning and wise
  • 00:17:58.554 --> 00:18:03.926
  • Man and set him over the land of egypt.
  • 00:18:03.926 --> 00:18:07.196
  • "so the advice was good in the eyes of pharaoh
  • 00:18:07.196 --> 00:18:10.933
  • And in the eyes of all his servants.
  • 00:18:10.933 --> 00:18:12.534
  • And pharaoh said to his servants, 'can we find such
  • 00:18:12.534 --> 00:18:15.370
  • A one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of god?'"
  • 00:18:15.370 --> 00:18:18.974
  • Notice a man who is wise and discerning.
  • 00:18:18.974 --> 00:18:22.878
  • Here, pharaoh says something quite prophetic, right?
  • 00:18:22.878 --> 00:18:26.248
  • We know it is prophetic because he discerned correctly.
  • 00:18:26.248 --> 00:18:28.750
  • He says, "can we find such a one as this,"
  • 00:18:28.750 --> 00:18:30.619
  • Pointing to joseph, "a man in whom is the spirit of god?"
  • 00:18:30.619 --> 00:18:34.022
  • It goes to show that a discerning and wise man is a man
  • 00:18:34.022 --> 00:18:37.392
  • In whom god's spirit dwells.
  • 00:18:37.392 --> 00:18:40.195
  • "then pharaoh said to joseph, 'inasmuch as god has shown you
  • 00:18:40.195 --> 00:18:43.465
  • All this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.'"
  • 00:18:43.465 --> 00:18:48.503
  • And he goes on to say, "you shall be over my house,
  • 00:18:48.503 --> 00:18:51.673
  • And all my people shall be ruled according to your word;
  • 00:18:51.673 --> 00:18:54.543
  • Only in regard to the throne will i be greater than you."
  • 00:18:54.543 --> 00:18:59.348
  • Wow, just in a short while, joseph who was brought out
  • 00:18:59.348 --> 00:19:03.986
  • From prison is now the most powerful man beside pharaoh,
  • 00:19:03.986 --> 00:19:09.625
  • Okay?
  • 00:19:09.625 --> 00:19:10.959
  • Pharaoh says, "only in the throne will i be
  • 00:19:10.959 --> 00:19:12.628
  • Greater than you."
  • 00:19:12.628 --> 00:19:13.962
  • So he's the number two man in the whole realm of that kingdom,
  • 00:19:13.962 --> 00:19:17.199
  • And the kingdom of egypt at that time was the most powerful
  • 00:19:17.199 --> 00:19:19.534
  • Kingdom at that time.
  • 00:19:19.534 --> 00:19:21.270
  • So with the wisdom of god, he rose through the ranks.
  • 00:19:21.270 --> 00:19:24.206
  • And friend, that's where you find god's wisdom will propel
  • 00:19:24.206 --> 00:19:27.776
  • You into a place of promotion.
  • 00:19:27.776 --> 00:19:29.144
  • I'm not talking about for proud reasons and all that.
  • 00:19:29.144 --> 00:19:33.582
  • Would to god that we stop praying just for a job and pray
  • 00:19:33.582 --> 00:19:36.485
  • For a position, a position of influence, that we can
  • 00:19:36.485 --> 00:19:39.721
  • Impact many lives for our lord jesus, amen.
  • 00:19:39.721 --> 00:19:41.990
  • Don't just pray for a job.
  • 00:19:41.990 --> 00:19:43.759
  • Don't just pray for something that you just want to live by.
  • 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:48.797
  • But pray that you might be a influence to many people.
  • 00:19:48.797 --> 00:19:51.166
  • Remember later on, joseph said to his brothers that god sent me
  • 00:19:51.166 --> 00:19:54.202
  • Here to save many people, amen?
  • 00:19:54.202 --> 00:19:56.738
  • To save many, many lives, amen.
  • 00:19:56.738 --> 00:19:58.874
  • So he realized he has a greater call than just fulfilling a job.
  • 00:19:58.874 --> 00:20:02.678
  • So friend, that's you and i as well.
  • 00:20:02.678 --> 00:20:04.546
  • But i want to point to you this thing in closing.
  • 00:20:04.546 --> 00:20:07.949
  • Joseph recommended a man who is discerning and wise.
  • 00:20:07.949 --> 00:20:12.154
  • That's what he advised pharaoh.
  • 00:20:12.154 --> 00:20:14.189
  • Now, pharaoh says, "well, who can find a better man than you?
  • 00:20:14.189 --> 00:20:19.294
  • A man in whom is god's spirit and a discerning and wise man."
  • 00:20:19.294 --> 00:20:23.498
  • And he was promoted.
  • 00:20:23.498 --> 00:20:26.601
  • This word "discerning" in the hebrew is the word "bin,"
  • 00:20:26.601 --> 00:20:31.540
  • And the word "wise" is the word "chakam."
  • 00:20:31.540 --> 00:20:35.577
  • Now why am i showing you this?
  • 00:20:35.577 --> 00:20:37.079
  • Because it's very interesting that this word "bin" was also
  • 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.649
  • Used in the prayer of solomon, "that i may discern," okay?
  • 00:20:40.649 --> 00:20:47.122
  • It says bin.
  • 00:20:47.122 --> 00:20:48.490
  • It's the same word in the hebrew.
  • 00:20:48.490 --> 00:20:49.858
  • That i may discern.
  • 00:20:49.858 --> 00:20:52.194
  • Discerning man.
  • 00:20:52.194 --> 00:20:53.528
  • Wise, chakam.
  • 00:20:53.528 --> 00:20:54.896
  • Chakam.
  • 00:20:54.896 --> 00:20:56.231
  • But also remember that there is a translation
  • 00:20:56.231 --> 00:20:59.634
  • Of the old testament in greek.
  • 00:20:59.634 --> 00:21:01.536
  • Your old testament is actually in hebrew, translation
  • 00:21:01.536 --> 00:21:04.740
  • In hebrew.
  • 00:21:04.740 --> 00:21:06.074
  • And your new testament is written in greek, right?
  • 00:21:06.074 --> 00:21:08.176
  • But there's old testament translation of greek which
  • 00:21:08.176 --> 00:21:12.114
  • Is a septuagint version.
  • 00:21:12.114 --> 00:21:13.915
  • If you look at the septuagint version, it says, where it says
  • 00:21:13.915 --> 00:21:16.518
  • "a discerning and wise man," the word "bin" for discerning
  • 00:21:16.518 --> 00:21:21.523
  • Is the word "phronimos."
  • 00:21:21.523 --> 00:21:24.259
  • And the word "chakam" for wise is the word "sunetos."
  • 00:21:24.259 --> 00:21:28.997
  • Now, phronimos is very interesting because phronimos
  • 00:21:28.997 --> 00:21:32.134
  • Means someone who is sharp, all right, in his discernment.
  • 00:21:32.134 --> 00:21:36.671
  • Someone who is very discerning, someone who is able to look
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  • At the true nature of things, and there's a--he's a surgesis
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  • Person, 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, wise.
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  • Chakam in the hebrew, the greek is sunetos.
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  • Sunetos means, literally, someone who is able to take
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  • Two and two, 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 and see
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  • 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
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  • Sermons, amen, day and night.
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  • You know, if the devil is bombarding you with depressive
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  • Thoughts and dark thoughts and negative thoughts all day
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  • Long: "you will 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," "that's what happened
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  • To so and so," and you don't keep your mind, how do you do
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  • That if the devil is bombarding you 24 hours 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, meditate on what
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  • 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 is
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  • 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 in my own
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  • 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 night and i don't
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  • Care whether it's because i ate the wrong kind of food
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  • Or too much coffee or the devil is trying to disturb my sleep.
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  • But if i wake up in the middle of 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
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  • Of the night, you find your thoughts going astray.
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  • You find your thoughts getting very dark, just like
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  • 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 and start
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  • Muttering it, amen?
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  • Muttering helps to control your mind to focus on something.
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  • You know, 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 the word in that verse, amen.
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  • It will help your concentration, which is the key to success
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  • In life.
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  • Which is sadly lacking in today's generation, in today's
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  • World, because they are so pulled 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: 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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