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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God Can Only Fix What You Don't Hide | November 13, 2025
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- Joseph prince: if you are a sinner and you justify yourself
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- Like the pharisees, all right,
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- "i don't need any saving, you know.
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- I'm pretty okay, i'm moral."
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- You are justifying the wicked, you are justifying the sinner.
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- God says you're a sinner.
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- And no problem, if you're a sinner, guess what?
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- Jesus says, "i'm a savior."
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- Male announcer: in today's message from joseph prince,
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- Discover how god's amazing grace
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- Transforms weaknesses into strength,
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- Failures into victories,
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- And doubts into unshakable faith
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- Through different characters in the bible.
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- Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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- With today's program.
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- Joseph prince: of all the sins that jesus publicly rebukes
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- And exposes in the gospels, it is not,
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- You know, he never, you can never find--
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- You can never read anywhere, he rebuked the tax collectors,
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- The social outcasts, the prostitutes of his day.
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- You cannot find anywhere in the gospels that he rebuked them.
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- But he rebuked the pharisees, the self-righteous ones,
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- Because hypocrisy, all right, brings out that anger in him
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- And we're about to see why that does so in our lord.
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- And when you find it, you will see how lovely he is.
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- It's because he loved them, okay?
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- And before that, i just want to share a video
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- That i've been preparing for the longest time to show all of you
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- Because it's based on a revelation that god gave me
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- Many years ago in israel.
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- And it's about jesus at the mount of beatitudes
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- And right after the mount of beatitudes,
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- He's preaching at the sermon on the mount,
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- He cleansed the leper.
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- I just want to share the background of this video.
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- I feel like this video portrays to a certain extent
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- The loveliness of our lord jesus christ.
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- You know, everywhere we go in israel,
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- I always encourage people: look for jesus.
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- The guides can tell you the facts and the details
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- Of that place and give you the historical background.
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- He can even be very knowledgeable
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- About the historical jesus, right?
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- But many of them are not saved.
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- But it's your part to look at all those places
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- And see jesus, amen.
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- See his beauty, his glories, his excellencies, amen.
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- So one of my favorite places is actually the
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- Mount of beatitudes.
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- You can see a picture of the mount of beatitudes here.
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- And this is the place where--this is confirmed--
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- The exact location, okay?
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- And there are studies along these lines and all that.
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- And not only that, it is almost acoustically perfect.
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- In other words, we have done it before.
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- Our pastors, when we are there and all that,
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- You see where the banana plantation is?
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- That banana plantation down there?
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- That is where the people would have been, the multitudes.
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- And you see where these rocks are?
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- That's where jesus would have seated.
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- Now, he might have sat on one of these rocks.
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- There are not too many rocks there in this location
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- But he might have sat on one of them.
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- The bible says he went up a mountain
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- And he sat down and then he preached to the people:
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- "blessed are the poor in spirit
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- For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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- Blessed are the peacemakers," right?
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- Up there on that mount, this is the place.
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- When we did this video, i was wanting to really present
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- The beauty of my lord, the way i saw him,
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- The way he revealed it to me.
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- The holy spirit showed me about jesus in that story,
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- And he confirmed everything.
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- Topography must be accurate.
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- In other words, jesus facing the people and going this way,
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- The multitudes will follow him.
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- He healed the leper before the multitudes came.
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- In other words, the multitudes did not see a leper.
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- They saw a cleansed man.
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- There's no need to stone him, right?
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- And not only that, this location goes straight to capernaum
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- And the next miracle was the centurion's servant
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- Being healed in capernaum.
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- So everything is in line.
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- So sit back, dim the lights, enjoy.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jesus: blessed are the poor in spirit,
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- For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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- Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
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- For they shall be filled.
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- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.
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- Blessed are the peacemakers,
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- For they shall be called sons of god.
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- No one can serve two masters,
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- For either he will hate the one and love the other,
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- Or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
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- You cannot serve god and mammon.
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- Therefore, i say to you, do not worry about your life,
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- What you will eat or what you will drink,
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- Nor about your body, what you will put on.
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- Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
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- Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap
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- Nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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- Are you not of more value than they?
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- Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
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- So why do you worry about clothing?
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- Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
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- They neither toil nor spin and yet i say to you
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- That even solomon in all his glory
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- Was not arrayed like one of these.
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- Boy: abba!
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- Abba!
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- Jesus: now, if god's word clothes the grass of the field,
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- Which today is, and tomorrow is gone unto the earth,
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- How much more will he clothe you, oh ye of little faith.
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- Leper: [weeping]
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- Jesus: and the rain descended, the floods came,
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- And the winds blew and beat on that house,
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- And it did not fall, and it did not fall,
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- For it was found on the rock.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Leper: lord, if you are willing,
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- You can make me clean.
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- Jesus: i am willing.
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- Be cleansed.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Joseph prince: oh, you like the last part?
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- The heart shape?
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- I thought of putting that down
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- Because it's like a heavenly wink, amen, from god.
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- I just want to tell you that when jesus cleansed the leper,
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- There is something that happened here we need to understand.
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- And that's my message here today.
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- That the church is in a divine enigma,
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- A divine paradox.
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- I want to talk about this paradox today.
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- And i think this is what is causing some confusion
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- In the body of christ.
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- When jesus touched the leper, under the old testament,
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- A person touching a leper would contract defilement.
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- But jesus did not contract defilement.
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- He banished it.
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- Under the law, the unclean touching the clean
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- Will make the clean unclean.
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- But under grace, jesus the clean touched the unclean
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- And the unclean became clean.
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- So that's grace.
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- Law is completely different from grace.
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- Law demands, grace supplies.
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- The law says: "take off your shoes.
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- The place you're standing is holy ground, lest you die."
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- Under grace, the prodigal's father says,
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- "put shoes on my son's feet.
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- He has a right to stand in my presence," amen.
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- Under law, god gave the ten commandments on mount sinai
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- On the first feast of pentecost israel ever celebrated.
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- Three thousand people died.
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- Under grace, god gave the spirit and 3000 people were saved
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- At mount zion.
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- They that trust in the lord shall be as mount zion.
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- The challenge we have today, like what i said earlier,
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- Is that we don't understand why hypocrisy is such a sin
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- That jesus is angry with.
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- I asked the lord one time, i said,
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- "lord, why do you hate hypocrisy so much?"
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- Of all the sins, like i said just now, he didn't even rebuke
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- Or condemn the prostitutes, the tax collectors,
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- The social outcasts.
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- But he was very strong against hypocrisy.
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- The religious leaders of his day, the pharisees,
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- Had this self-righteous attitude and jesus was angry with that.
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- So he is the same yesterday, today, and forever, right?
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- So i asked the lord one time, i said,
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- "why are you so strong against hypocrisy,"
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- A number of years ago.
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- And you know what he said to me?
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- "because i love them.
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- I love the people."
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- Because he loved the pharisees.
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- And yet, i couldn't fully understand.
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- He says that you will never know that you are loved
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- Until you know that i know all about you and i still love you.
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- Because when you are playing the part of a hypocrite,
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- All right, now i look up
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- The dictionary definition of hypocrisy.
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- I know what it means but just to see what the dictionary says.
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- It says: "play acting.
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- Pretending to be what you are not," okay?
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- Play acting.
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- You are not that character but you are play acting
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- That character.
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- In other words, you're pretending
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- To be what you are not.
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- Are you listening?
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- The reason why jesus was strong against hypocrisy
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- Is that the pharisees, as long as they put up that facade,
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- That veneer, they cannot feel love.
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- They cannot feel the love of god.
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- It's like, you know, you're hiding away from the--
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- You want to get a sun tan,
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- But you are hiding away from the sun.
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- No, you got to remove every veil, every hindrance,
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- Every blockage to the sun.
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- So jesus in his rebuke will remove all that so that they
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- Will know that he knows them as they are and still loves them.
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- Nicodemus, a pharisee, found that out.
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- That jesus knows all about him and loved him.
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- And he allowed the love of god to penetrate his heart
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- While the others didn't.
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- Are you with me so far?
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- As long as you pretend to be what you are not,
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- You cannot feel the love of god.
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- And the love of god is the only thing
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- That will cast out your fear and transform you, amen.
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- Now i want to show you something that is causing confusion
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- In the church.
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- And because of that, people start writing
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- Against extreme grace, you know,
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- "pastor prince is preaching extreme grace"
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- And things like-- because they don't understand
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- This divine paradox.
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- Let me explain.
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- In proverbs 17, verse 15, it says this:
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- "he who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just,
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- Both of them alike are an abomination to the lord."
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- You know what's an abomination?
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- There is sin.
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- We are all born in sin.
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- Even before we do anything, we are born in sin
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- Because of adam's sin.
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- It's in the blood, okay?
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- Then we--there's also transgression.
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- When you break a known law,
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- That's transgression or trespass.
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- Then there's iniquity that's passed down
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- From father to child.
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- Iniquity, a perversion in the nature.
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- There's abomination.
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- Abomination is the worst kind.
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- Abomination is like, it's abominable.
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- It's not snowman, okay?
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- It's abomination!
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- It's terrible, the worst kind, okay?
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- Now according to this verse,
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- What's the worst kind that's an abomination to the lord?
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- Both, this.
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- If you "justify the wicked," let's say a person
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- Is a wicked person, a sinner, but you justify him.
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- You talk about him as if he's a justified man, a righteous man,
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- That's an abomination.
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- On the other hand, "he who condemns the just,"
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- Let's say a just person,
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- A righteous person, you condemn him,
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- That's "an abomination to the lord."
- 00:14:31.189 --> 00:14:32.690
- Are you listening, people?
- 00:14:32.690 --> 00:14:34.425
- Now, we always think in terms of other people, right?
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- But what about yourself?
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- If you are a sinner and you justify yourself
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- Like the pharisees, all right,
- 00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:43.868
- "i don't need any saving, you know?
- 00:14:43.868 --> 00:14:45.703
- I'm pretty okay, i'm moral.
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- I keep the law.
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- I don't do bad things and all that,"
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- You are justifying the wicked.
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- You are justifying the sinner.
- 00:14:51.442 --> 00:14:52.777
- God says you're a sinner.
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- And no problem, if you're a sinner, guess what?
- 00:14:54.345 --> 00:14:56.280
- Jesus says, "i'm a savior."
- 00:14:56.280 --> 00:14:59.217
- "but, lord, you don't understand.
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- I'm a bad sinner."
- 00:15:00.551 --> 00:15:01.886
- He says, "i'm a great savior."
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- "but my sin goes deep," and he says,
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- "my love goes deeper still."
- 00:15:08.326 --> 00:15:10.628
- "you don't understand, my sin is great!"
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- He says, "my grace is greater."
- 00:15:12.663 --> 00:15:17.368
- So only when you acknowledge you're a sinner, god--
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- Jesus says, "i'm a friend of sinners.
- 00:15:19.537 --> 00:15:21.239
- I'm the savior of sinners."
- 00:15:21.239 --> 00:15:23.007
- But you say, "i'm okay, i'm okay."
- 00:15:23.007 --> 00:15:25.076
- "i didn't come for the okay people.
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- I came for those who say they are sinners."
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- I think he said, "those who are well don't need a doctor."
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- He said, "those who are sick," jesus said.
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- So when you take this position, you are justifying the sinner,
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- Even it's yourself,
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- That's an abomination when you're not yet saved.
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- On the other hand, now that you are saved,
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- The blood of jesus has cleansed you, amen.
- 00:15:47.598 --> 00:15:50.768
- And the bible says, what are you now?
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- 2 corinthians 5:21 real quick.
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- You all know this verse by now: "god made jesus at the cross
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- Who knew no sin to become our sin," right?
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- "that we might be made-- that we might become--"
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- That we might become what?
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- "the righteousness of god in him."
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- So what are we now?
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- The righteousness of god in him.
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- But if you condemn the righteous,
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- Even the self-condemnation, you condemn yourself.
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- When god has made you righteous, you condemn yourself.
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- You say, "i'm a lousy sinner.
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- I'm this, i'm that," you condemn yourself,
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- It's also an abomination to the lord.
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- Have you ever considered that?
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- What god has cleansed, don't you dare call unclean.
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- Including yourself.
- 00:16:34.512 --> 00:16:38.049
- The problem is that this is hypocrisy,
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- Pretending to be what you are not.
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- He's a sinner but he refused to admit he's a sinner.
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- So he puts layers of morality and good works
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- And good standing, family standing,
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- Try to be somewhat in society
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- Or whatever just to cover up the fact he's a sinner.
- 00:16:52.563 --> 00:16:54.966
- But god says, "you're a sinner but no problem.
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- I sent jesus to be your savior."
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- Jesus is the savior of sinners.
- 00:16:59.737 --> 00:17:03.908
- If you're not a sinner, you don't qualify, amen.
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- You don't qualify for his saving power.
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- The leper has all title to him,
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- To his grace because the leper is a leper!
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- Huh?
- 00:17:16.988 --> 00:17:18.523
- In fact, he knew the lord was able.
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- He just wasn't sure the lord is willing to use his power
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- On his behalf.
- 00:17:23.694 --> 00:17:25.029
- That's why he says,
- 00:17:25.029 --> 00:17:26.364
- "lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."
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- He didn't doubt his ability.
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- He doubted his willingness.
- 00:17:29.667 --> 00:17:31.502
- And the lord confirmed that once and for all.
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- "i am willing."
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- By the way, jesus touched him, right?
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- Jesus didn't have to touch him.
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- He didn't ask the lord, "if you are willing, touch me."
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- But jesus always exceeds our expectations.
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- He always over-answers our requests, amen.
- 00:17:46.684 --> 00:17:54.325
- So hypocrisy is pretending to be what you are not.
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- There's a woman of canaan.
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- Say "canaan."
- 00:18:01.132 --> 00:18:02.833
- And she came to jesus and the bible says this, that she said,
- 00:18:02.833 --> 00:18:06.604
- "lord, son of david, have mercy on me, for my daughter
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- Is severely demonized."
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- The word "severely" is there.
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- She used greatly in the king james.
- 00:18:17.048 --> 00:18:19.717
- Your new king james is "severely tormented by a demon."
- 00:18:19.717 --> 00:18:23.588
- So she has a daughter that's demon possessed.
- 00:18:23.588 --> 00:18:26.157
- And she came to jesus, says,
- 00:18:26.157 --> 00:18:27.858
- "son of david, lord, son of david."
- 00:18:27.858 --> 00:18:31.395
- Now she's coming on pretense that she's a jew.
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- She's not a jew.
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- She's a canaanite.
- 00:18:35.833 --> 00:18:37.168
- But she knew that the phrase, "son of david,"
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- Can only be used by the jews.
- 00:18:40.004 --> 00:18:43.241
- So the bible says, the lord answered her not a word.
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- Not a word.
- 00:18:45.610 --> 00:18:47.878
- And she came after the lord and the disciples said,
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- "lord, please send her away.
- 00:18:51.282 --> 00:18:53.584
- She's troubling us."
- 00:18:53.584 --> 00:18:55.286
- And she kept on telling the lord,
- 00:18:55.286 --> 00:18:56.721
- "son of david, son of david."
- 00:18:56.721 --> 00:18:58.723
- And then the lord said this:
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- "i'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
- 00:19:00.324 --> 00:19:04.695
- Now she's changed.
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- She dropped the "son of david."
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- She's desperate.
- 00:19:07.598 --> 00:19:08.933
- She dropped the son of david.
- 00:19:08.933 --> 00:19:10.268
- She stopped pretending and says, "lord!"
- 00:19:10.268 --> 00:19:12.737
- Now, everyone can claim him as lord.
- 00:19:12.737 --> 00:19:17.174
- She dropped the son of david.
- 00:19:17.174 --> 00:19:19.110
- "lord, please help me."
- 00:19:19.110 --> 00:19:23.080
- Then jesus turned around to her.
- 00:19:23.080 --> 00:19:24.415
- "woman, great is your faith.
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- For this saying, go your way.
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- The devil has gone out of your daughter," amen.
- 00:19:27.451 --> 00:19:30.288
- She went back, found her daughter
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- Lying completely well, peaceful.
- 00:19:31.622 --> 00:19:33.524
- The demon is out.
- 00:19:33.524 --> 00:19:35.493
- So what happened here?
- 00:19:35.493 --> 00:19:36.894
- Jesus gave her a loophole, all right?
- 00:19:36.894 --> 00:19:38.629
- But she says, "yes, i'm willing to take my place.
- 00:19:38.629 --> 00:19:40.464
- I'm willing to be real.
- 00:19:40.464 --> 00:19:41.932
- I'm willing to take my place."
- 00:19:41.932 --> 00:19:43.367
- And the lord says, "that's it.
- 00:19:43.367 --> 00:19:45.369
- You got it."
- 00:19:45.369 --> 00:19:46.871
- You see, in essence, he's telling his disciples,
- 00:19:46.871 --> 00:19:49.006
- "look, i cannot bless her"
- 00:19:49.006 --> 00:19:50.775
- When he didn't say a word and they said,
- 00:19:50.775 --> 00:19:52.109
- "send her away, send her away."
- 00:19:52.109 --> 00:19:53.544
- The lord is saying, this is what the lord showed me.
- 00:19:53.544 --> 00:19:55.546
- He's in essence telling her, telling them, the disciples,
- 00:19:55.546 --> 00:19:58.082
- "i cannot bless her on a pretense,
- 00:19:58.082 --> 00:20:01.385
- But neither can i send her away without a blessing."
- 00:20:01.385 --> 00:20:06.324
- So he gave her a loophole.
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- What i'm saying, church, is this.
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- We cannot pretend to be what we are not.
- 00:20:09.694 --> 00:20:12.797
- That's hypocrisy.
- 00:20:12.797 --> 00:20:14.699
- Can you understand that?
- 00:20:14.699 --> 00:20:16.334
- So now you are saved by the blood of jesus.
- 00:20:16.334 --> 00:20:19.070
- Are you saved?
- 00:20:19.070 --> 00:20:21.238
- Everyone who is saved shout "hallelujah!"
- 00:20:21.238 --> 00:20:24.742
- Say "glory to god!"
- 00:20:24.742 --> 00:20:27.244
- Now that you are saved, what are you?
- 00:20:27.244 --> 00:20:29.714
- You are now the righteousness of god in christ, right?
- 00:20:29.714 --> 00:20:34.885
- Now, what's an abomination now?
- 00:20:34.885 --> 00:20:36.654
- For you to condemn the righteous.
- 00:20:36.654 --> 00:20:39.590
- Even it's self-condemnation.
- 00:20:39.590 --> 00:20:42.393
- Are you listening?
- 00:20:42.393 --> 00:20:43.894
- To come to god and say, "god, i don't ask much,
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- But i have this pain, lord.
- 00:20:46.597 --> 00:20:48.065
- It's been bothering me, lord.
- 00:20:48.065 --> 00:20:49.533
- But lord, if it would just please you,
- 00:20:49.533 --> 00:20:51.335
- Lord, to let a little crumb fall from your table,
- 00:20:51.335 --> 00:20:55.106
- I'll take the place of a puppy.
- 00:20:55.106 --> 00:20:57.708
- No, worse than that, lord.
- 00:20:57.708 --> 00:20:59.043
- I'll take the place of a centipede."
- 00:20:59.043 --> 00:21:02.079
- And you think you're being humble.
- 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:03.781
- That's an abomination to the lord.
- 00:21:03.781 --> 00:21:05.383
- Are you listening?
- 00:21:05.383 --> 00:21:07.051
- You see, today the way we pray
- 00:21:07.051 --> 00:21:09.086
- Is different from the old testament.
- 00:21:09.086 --> 00:21:10.621
- In the old testament, they prayed to god like the guy who
- 00:21:10.621 --> 00:21:12.890
- Came to god and said, "god, be merciful to me the sinner."
- 00:21:12.890 --> 00:21:15.693
- Jesus talked about two persons.
- 00:21:15.693 --> 00:21:17.027
- One was a pharisee and one was a tax collector.
- 00:21:17.027 --> 00:21:19.697
- They both came to god, all right?
- 00:21:19.697 --> 00:21:21.665
- And they came to the temple and the tax collector
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- Even refused to look up.
- 00:21:24.068 --> 00:21:25.403
- He says, "oh god," notice: god.
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- He called god, god.
- 00:21:27.972 --> 00:21:29.407
- "god, be merciful to me the sinner."
- 00:21:29.407 --> 00:21:31.575
- And then this guy, the bible says, i like it,
- 00:21:31.575 --> 00:21:33.911
- "he prayed within himself," like praying to himself.
- 00:21:33.911 --> 00:21:37.314
- "god, i thank you i'm not like this sinner.
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- I fast twice a week.
- 00:21:39.917 --> 00:21:41.685
- You know, i do this, i do that."
- 00:21:41.685 --> 00:21:43.020
- And the bible says that this man, the first man,
- 00:21:43.020 --> 00:21:46.991
- Went down to his house justified.
- 00:21:46.991 --> 00:21:50.194
- But yet, it's an old testament prayer.
- 00:21:50.194 --> 00:21:52.763
- Today, we don't say, "oh god."
- 00:21:52.763 --> 00:21:54.131
- Today, we say, "father."
- 00:21:54.131 --> 00:21:57.268
- Today, we have a spirit of sonship.
- 00:21:57.268 --> 00:21:59.970
- Under the old testament, they have a spirit of bondage.
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- We have a different spirit, amen.
- 00:22:03.741 --> 00:22:08.045
- We say, "father."
- 00:22:08.045 --> 00:22:09.780
- You know what it means to pray in jesus's name?
- 00:22:09.780 --> 00:22:11.315
- Jesus says, "up till now, you have asked nothing in my name."
- 00:22:11.315 --> 00:22:14.285
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
- 00:22:14.285 --> 00:22:15.820
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:17.154
- What does jesus mean in the upper room when jesus says,
- 00:22:17.154 --> 00:22:19.023
- "up till now, you have asked nothing in my name"?
- 00:22:19.023 --> 00:22:21.926
- Maybe the disciples were praying the lord's prayer
- 00:22:21.926 --> 00:22:24.795
- Every day since then.
- 00:22:24.795 --> 00:22:26.230
- But yet, the lord's prayer, wonderful as it is
- 00:22:26.230 --> 00:22:29.066
- In its setting, in its time,
- 00:22:29.066 --> 00:22:30.734
- Jesus himself said at the upper room,
- 00:22:30.734 --> 00:22:33.771
- "up till now you have asked nothing in my name."
- 00:22:33.771 --> 00:22:35.940
- So, obviously, the lord's prayer is not asking in his name.
- 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:39.176
- "up till now you have asked nothing in my name."
- 00:22:39.176 --> 00:22:43.214
- So all the prayers of the old testament
- 00:22:43.214 --> 00:22:44.748
- Is not praying in jesus's name.
- 00:22:44.748 --> 00:22:46.283
- There's a new kind of prayer that's coming.
- 00:22:46.283 --> 00:22:48.085
- And he says, "up till now, you have asked nothing in my name."
- 00:22:48.085 --> 00:22:51.388
- What is asking in someone's name?
- 00:22:51.388 --> 00:22:53.924
- What is doing business in someone's name?
- 00:22:53.924 --> 00:22:56.694
- That means you are his representative, right?
- 00:22:56.694 --> 00:23:00.731
- In other words, when you pray, you must know
- 00:23:00.731 --> 00:23:02.533
- That you have the same standing as jesus before the father.
- 00:23:02.533 --> 00:23:06.537
- Not only that, you are loved the same as jesus is loved.
- 00:23:06.537 --> 00:23:12.843
- The bible doesn't say any lesser.
- 00:23:12.843 --> 00:23:14.545
- You are loved the same way jesus is loved.
- 00:23:14.545 --> 00:23:18.382
- John 17, that "thou hast loved them
- 00:23:18.382 --> 00:23:20.985
- Even as thou hast loved me," jesus said.
- 00:23:20.985 --> 00:23:23.787
- Not only that, you must know you are accepted before the father
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- With the same acceptance jesus is accepted.
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- Now you are in his name.
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- That's how you pray.
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- Announcer: and now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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- Joseph prince: the lord bless you this coming week
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- And your children.
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- The lord bless you and your loved ones.
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- The lord make his face shine on you, and the lord himself keep
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- You, preserve you and your families throughout this week
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- From every danger, harm, and from all evil.
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- The lord lifts up his countenance,
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- His beautiful radiant countenance upon you.
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- Smile on you throughout this week and grant to you
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- And your loved ones his shalom, peace, wellness,
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- And health in every area of your life, in jesus's name.
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- And all the people said, amen.
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- God bless you.
- 00:24:19.243 --> 00:24:21.612
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- Headlines change by the hour, values shift,
- 00:24:24.882 --> 00:24:28.852
- Truth feels negotiable.
- 00:24:28.852 --> 00:24:31.255
- What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
- 00:24:31.255 --> 00:24:36.060
- But through all the noise and the shaking,
- 00:24:36.060 --> 00:24:38.596
- There is one who is still the same.
- 00:24:38.596 --> 00:24:42.266
- In the chaos, he is still the calm.
- 00:24:42.266 --> 00:24:45.603
- In the panic, he is still the promise.
- 00:24:45.603 --> 00:24:48.739
- Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
- 00:24:48.739 --> 00:24:52.810
- He is still jesus above it all.
- 00:24:52.810 --> 00:24:55.846
- So no matter what's popular today or forgotten tomorrow,
- 00:24:55.846 --> 00:24:59.917
- This ministry will still always be all about jesus.
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- Still the center of our call,
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- To make your gift now.
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- Female: i told my son i said, "i found my people!"
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- I was so excited.
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- Announcer: church, it's not a place, it's a people.
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- Male: welcome, everyone.
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- Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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- How in the world do you do an online church?
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- And, you know, but we gather in our living room,
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- And we sing, and we praise.
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- And then we sit there, and we take in the word.
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- And then afterward, you can talk about it.
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- Announcer: church is not four walls.
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- It's one body of christ.
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- Male: we just feel so plugged in now.
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- We feel planted.
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- It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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- You know, doing the online church.
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- But i mean, right now, we're speaking to you all and we're,
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- You know, transcending time and space.
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- Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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- Female: my best friends are in the chat, in the chat house,
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- And when i was sick, i had people praying for me.
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- I had people taking communion for me.
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- They're right there when you need it.
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- Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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- It's who you meet.
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- Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love from
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- People we can't see and we're not in the same room as.
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- It helps us to make that connection that i can't see god
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- And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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- Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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- Joseph prince: i believe that there is a corporate anointing
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- Whenever we come together to worship the lord
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- As the body of christ, even online.
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- Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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- Or text "church" to 71239 today.
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- Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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- Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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- From the lord.
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- Joseph prince ministries
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- Is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
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