The Abundant Life: Walk in length of days, health, provision, honor, pleasantness, and peace today.
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Experience the Five Benefits of Wisdom | July 31, 2025
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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.
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- It's superior against all the wisdom you can find
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- In the world and anyone else that's wise.
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- So friend, ask god for wisdom.
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- Wisdom is not intellect.
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- It can involve intellect and many a times it does,
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- But the wisdom is a wisdom from god.
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- It comes as a flow.
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- In fact, you will find the holy spirit is involved.
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- When you are filled with the spirit, you are filled
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- With wisdom.
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- So friend, a sign that you receive wisdom from god is
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- That you surround yourself with people who can speak
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- Into your life.
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- You know, today we have a generation of people,
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- "don't correct me," "don't tell me what i did wrong," you know?
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- "i don't want to hear it," and "i know what to do."
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- 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
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- You secretly."
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- No, god wants you--if you love someone, you see them going down
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- The wrong path, correct them.
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- 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
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- Enough to tell you this is not the way to go.
- 00:12:20.749 --> 00:12:23.452
- 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?
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- 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
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- 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.
- 00:13:39.528 --> 00:13:42.197
- 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
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- 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.
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- The harvests will bring forth plentifully.
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- 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
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- 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
- 00:21:36.671 --> 00:21:39.341
- At the true nature of things, and there's a--he's a surgesis
- 00:21:39.341 --> 00:21:43.378
- Person, a person who is recognized for his prudence.
- 00:21:43.378 --> 00:21:47.849
- He's able to see things before it happens, amen.
- 00:21:47.849 --> 00:21:50.552
- Discerning, phronimos.
- 00:21:50.552 --> 00:21:52.721
- Very interesting word.
- 00:21:52.721 --> 00:21:54.089
- And chakam, wise.
- 00:21:54.089 --> 00:21:55.424
- Chakam in the hebrew, the greek is sunetos.
- 00:21:55.424 --> 00:21:57.993
- Sunetos means, literally, someone who is able to take
- 00:21:57.993 --> 00:22:01.630
- Two and two, bring it together to find the solution, amen.
- 00:22:01.630 --> 00:22:06.635
- He's able to put two and two together and conclude.
- 00:22:06.635 --> 00:22:09.204
- How do you have this wisdom to put two and two together,
- 00:22:09.204 --> 00:22:12.774
- When others are not able to even reconcile them and see
- 00:22:12.774 --> 00:22:15.310
- The solution?
- 00:22:15.310 --> 00:22:16.678
- God says, "by meditating on his word day and night."
- 00:22:16.678 --> 00:22:20.348
- Another way of meditating, of course, is also to hear
- 00:22:20.348 --> 00:22:24.352
- Sermons, amen, day and night.
- 00:22:24.352 --> 00:22:25.687
- You know, if the devil is bombarding you with depressive
- 00:22:25.687 --> 00:22:28.390
- Thoughts and dark thoughts and negative thoughts all day
- 00:22:28.390 --> 00:22:33.061
- Long: "you will not be well,"
- 00:22:33.061 --> 00:22:34.663
- "this disease is going to kill you,"
- 00:22:34.663 --> 00:22:36.298
- And "this is what happened to so and so," "that's what happened
- 00:22:36.298 --> 00:22:38.400
- To so and so," and you don't keep your mind, how do you do
- 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:42.337
- That if the devil is bombarding you 24 hours a day, 24/7, okay?
- 00:22:42.337 --> 00:22:47.342
- Let me tell you this.
- 00:22:47.342 --> 00:22:48.710
- It's time for you to meditate on god's word.
- 00:22:48.710 --> 00:22:50.479
- Listen to god's word day and night.
- 00:22:50.479 --> 00:22:52.714
- And when you're not listening to god's word, meditate on what
- 00:22:52.714 --> 00:22:55.150
- You have listened to.
- 00:22:55.150 --> 00:22:56.485
- Meditate on god's word.
- 00:22:56.485 --> 00:22:57.853
- Mutter it under your breath, because the devil is
- 00:22:57.853 --> 00:22:59.621
- 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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