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Joseph Prince - God Is Good Even When Things Are Not

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God Is Good Even When Things Are Not | September 22, 2025

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Joseph prince: the world says to you,
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Don't raise your hopes, but i say to you, in the name
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Of the lord jesus christ, do not raise your hopelessness.
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Because your god is called the god of hope.
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Female announcer: my friend, you were made to thrive in life.
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If you feel like you're fighting an uphill battle
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That can't be won, the lord wants you to know
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That you can walk in faith and boldness every day.
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In today's message, be strengthened in the lord
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As he steadies your heart, sharpens your vision,
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And imparts faith for you to rise above
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Every mountain in life.
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And now, here is pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: you know, god's picture is for all of you
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To experience this, zechariah 9:11
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For the 9/11 generation.
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It says this, 9:12, we'll come to 9:11 in a while,
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"return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope.
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Even today--" this is god's declaration, "i declare
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I will restore double to you."
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You prisoners of hope.
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What a wonderful expression.
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That once upon a time, we were all prisoners of hopelessness,
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Helplessness.
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Remember i told you, the world says to you:
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Don't raise your hopes.
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But i say to you: in the name of the lord jesus christ,
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Do not raise your hopelessness.
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Because your god is called the god of hope, amen.
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And when you have hope for the future, whether
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You receive a bad diagnosis from the doctor, whether
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You are challenged mentally, you know, in worry and fear for
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Your child that's going astray or for your son or for
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Your marriage that is breaking down, or for any concern that
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You have in your workplace.
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Whatever it is, you've got to see yourself
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With the answer already.
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You've got to see that there's a bright future for you,
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Because this is not just based on wishful thinking.
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You have a god of hope, and for the world, without god,
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They hope and many a times, their hopes are dashed.
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But with the lord, the bible tells us,
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Because he shed his blood for us, our faith,
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The bible says, is the substance of things hoped for, amen.
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We have faith for it because we hope for it.
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We hope for it because our hope is based on a solid foundation.
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The blood of jesus has been shed.
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And because the blood of jesus, for example,
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You are hoping to have a healthy life, healthy body,
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You look forward in the future, you see a healthy body,
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You see a person strong.
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You see a person being able to do the things
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That he wants to do.
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That's your vision, that's who you are, amen.
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But right now, you're experiencing pain,
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Now you're on medication, now you are--
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But then there's still hope, praise the lord.
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Don't stop your medication, keep on doing it--most of all,
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Partake of the lord's supper, amen.
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And start looking at the future and thanking god, that's
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Where you're going to be, amen.
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That is hope, that is hope.
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Now, the world says, don't do that, amen,
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Don't raise people's hopes.
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They'll tell people like me, "don't raise people's hopes."
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But they have no idea that our hope
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Is based on a solid foundation, the blood of jesus.
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Because jesus took the stripes on his back, my bible says,
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"he himself took our infirmities and bore our diseases."
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Can i have a good amen?
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And because he bore our sicknesses and diseases,
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We don't have to bear it.
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There's no point in both of us bearing it.
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He did it because he loved me.
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He did it because he loved you, amen, he bore your sicknesses,
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He bore your diseases because he loved you.
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Just like a parent who sees the child suffering
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And the parent, in his love, if he can, he will carry
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That disease for the child.
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The child might be comforted, be at ease,
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Enjoy the peace, amen.
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Nothing hurts a parent's heart more than see a child cry
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Through the night in pain, in tears,
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And there's nothing you can do.
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So god who can do something about it--but he cannot
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Just remove it away and still be a just god,
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Because sickness came in as a result of sin.
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Not necessarily your sin, but adam's sin.
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All evil, all sickness, all disease came in
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Because of sin, adam's sin.
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This is not god's dream for man, god never even meant for man
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To have one pimple.
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God never even want man to die.
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God hates sin and god hates disease.
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Therefore, god hates death.
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That's why jesus conquered death,
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Can i have a good amen, church, amen, hallelujah.
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God says, "i declare to you today,"
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And i believe this, today, is prophetic for all of you
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That's listening right now.
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It's a word from the lord, god is talking to you right now,
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See him talking to you.
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"today i declare to you, i will restore double to you."
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Double, amen?
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Look at the verse before this, this is 9:11.
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"as for you also, because of the blood
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Of your covenant, i will set your prisoners free
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From the waterless pit."
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Remember i told you just now, it's all based on
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The blood of jesus, amen.
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Has the blood been shed?
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God is restoring double to you, not because you are good,
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But because the blood of jesus has been shed at the cross.
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And all of us qualify, amen.
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If we have no sin, there's no need for us
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To require the blood, amen.
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Blood is shed, holy blood, righteous blood, divine blood
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Is shed to wash away our sins.
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To give us a solid foundation because blood has been shed.
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We have a solid foundation to believe for the abundant life,
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For a life that is victorious, for a life that's
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An overcoming life, a life that brings glory to god.
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Can i have a good amen, people?
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Amen!
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Now this word, prisoners of hope, is--last week
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We saw the greek word in the new testament
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For hope, what is it?
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Elpis, right?
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Elpis is a positive or confident expectation of good
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In your future.
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Now in the hebrew, the word is tiqvah.
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Prisoners of tiqvah.
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Tiqvah is hope, hope, amen, hope.
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You know israel's national anthem?
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Ours is "majulah."
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Theirs is "hatiqvah."
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Ha is "the," definite article, tiqvah is the hope.
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You have heard it before, something like this...
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[humming song]...
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Very, very haunting, very beautiful.
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It's called "the hope," what a beautiful title to
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A national song, right or not, amen?
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Tiqvah, hope.
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It's from the idea of a rope.
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In fact, the noun is tiqvah, but the verb is the word kava.
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Kava is used when it says, "they that wait upon the lord,"
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The word "wait" there is kava.
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Bind yourself with the lord like a rope, amen,
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And find hope in the lord.
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Find your hope, hope in the lord.
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Because of him, you can see a bright future.
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You can see a future where your dreams
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Are being fulfilled, amen.
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The world can only hope so, but deep down they think
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That it might not be so.
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But you can hope so and know it will be so, amen.
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Tiqvah, you will rise like wings of eagles, amen.
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You will run and not be weary, you will walk
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And you will not faint.
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Even young men shall fall and utterly faint, the bible says,
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"but they that wait upon the lord shall renew
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Their strength," amen.
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They will run and not be weary.
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They shall walk and not faint.
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Nothing about the passage talks about age except
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For young men shall fall.
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Even the youth shall faint and fall.
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But those that wait upon the lord, ageless.
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Amen, god is a god of hope, amen.
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Praise the lord, thank you, jesus.
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And i close with the first occurrence of
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The hebrew word hope, tiqvah.
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The first occurrence is always significant,
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There's something for us to learn, and
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The first will be the closing of our sermon today.
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And let me just share with you the first occurrence
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Is a story of a prostitute.
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Her name is rahab, and rahab lived in jericho.
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The first city that joshua and his men, after
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They crossed the river jordan, supernaturally, amen,
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God smacked the river jordan all the way back like a pillar,
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Like a heap of water.
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It stood up to the city of adam.
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It's a picture of god will destroy death.
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All the death that came in as a result,
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All the way from adam.
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And they crossed the river jordan and they came,
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And the first city they had to conquer is jericho.
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And on the city wall, they built houses
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On the city wall.
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The walls are so thick that they have chariot races on the wall.
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It's most likely as thick as this hall here, amen,
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Slightly larger maybe.
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All right, but so thick that they have chariot races,
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And it's well-fortified, okay, this wall, jericho.
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It was the first city that joshua and his men
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Were to conquer.
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And this was squatters in the land, the land belongs
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To god, the land belongs to god's people.
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And they are squatters and they refuse to budge.
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But look at this, look at this.
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On the city wall, there was an apartment.
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Her house is built into the wall, her window
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Looks out of the wall, and her name is rahab,
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And she was a prostitute, the bible says.
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And what happened is that israel, learning
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The lesson of 40 years ago, instead of sending 12 spies,
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They sent 2 spies because only 2 came back
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With the right news.
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So now they sent 2.
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The names are not given to us, but i'll tell you
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Who i suspect is one of them in a while's time.
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So two of them came in and unfortunately they were spotted
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By the soldiers, and the soldiers
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Were chasing them down, all right, trying to find them
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In the large city of jericho, they couldn't find them,
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And they went to one place the soldiers wouldn't expect,
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Because no one expects a believer to be in a brothel.
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Right, so they went to the brothel,
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Which is rahab's house, and rahab saw them, and
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The first thing she said to them is that i have heard how
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The lord dried up the red sea, that was like 40 years ago.
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So probably she heard the news from someone who told her,
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Her grandmother, her mother, whatever told her the news.
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It's almost as if she said, "what took you all so long,
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40 years?" of course, it's israel's sin
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Of unbelief, right?
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And she said that--it's almost like she said, i believed back
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Then or something like that, her heart was inclined
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Towards the god of israel.
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And the man says, "hide us."
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She says, "you promise me first, if i hide both of you,
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When you come into the land--" you see, she knew they're going
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To conquer the land.
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She knew that god is on their side,
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Not on her people's side.
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She knew that the god of israel is a true god.
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Okay, that's why the bible says, by faith, rahab, she believed.
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"promise me that when you come in into jericho,
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You will spare me and my family.
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My brothers, sisters, my father, mother, grandparents,
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You will spare them."
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And they said this to her, now this is the first occurrence
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Of tiqvah, hope.
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They say that we will, but unless you do this, "unless,
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When we come into the land, you bind this line
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Of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down,
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Unless you bring your father, your mother."
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So she let them down the wall through this rope, and
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What's the color of the rope?
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Scarlet. what is scarlet?
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Red: it's a picture of the blood of jesus.
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And the word "line" is tiqvah, tiqvah is hope.
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You ask any israeli today, impress them a bit, say this,
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"you know the word tiqvah is rope, right,
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But it's also hope."
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You know if you're in a pit and it's very dark in the pit.
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All of a sudden, you feel something fall on you
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And it's a rope, you have hope, hallelujah.
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And that rope gives you hope because the color
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Of the rope is red.
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And red is the picture of-- and i told you, our hope
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Is based on the blood of jesus.
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By the blood, i will set your prisoners free,
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You prisoners of hope, hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, amen.
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So, leave-- "when you let us down the rope,
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Rahab, leave the red rope at your window so our people
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Will know to spare your house.
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Make sure that you bring in your father, mother, this evangelism.
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Bring them in, bring them in, okay?
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Bring them in."
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Now for years, she looked out the window expecting to see
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Israel come any time, and she didn't see, she's afraid.
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She has the fearful expectation of evil, of bad in her future.
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Not--the opposite of hope, and the moment, she saw israel
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Come in by the 12 tribes.
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And she looked out, it's like a tv, right, your window.
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You look outside and you see the tribes of israel,
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You see the pillar of cloud, the pillar of glory.
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You see the 12 tribes all came down there,
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You know god is with them.
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You know god is in the tent over there.
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You know that you are on the losing side.
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You know you are on the cursed side.
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You know that you are looking at the blessing side.
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You've got nothing to look at but destruction is coming,
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Destruction is here already.
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Put yourself in her shoes.
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Destruction is here, nothing to look at in the future.
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Imagine that's the perspective a lot of people have.
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Just like jacob, good old jacob.
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Remember the story of jacob?
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He thought his son joseph, his favorite son was dead,
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And all the while, joseph is now ruling in egypt.
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So finally, joseph says to his brothers
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Who didn't recognize him, "go, get your youngest brother here.
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Then i'll give you bread.
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No more bread until your brother is here."
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So they came back and told the father, the governor says
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He wants to see benjamin.
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What?
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And this is what he said, "you have bereaved me:
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Joseph is no more, simeon also no more,
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And you want to take benjamin.
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All these things are against me."
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And if he's chinese, he will say, "tian a!"
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"tian" is like heaven in chinese,
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So it's an expression like, all these things are against me,
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Really, jacob?
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Jacob, the one that wants benjamin, he wants benjamin
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Because he misses benjamin.
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Benjamin is his full brother from the same mother.
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And the one that wants you to go over as well,
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He's your favorite son.
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You know what his first word to the brothers?
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Is my father--is your father well, is your father well?
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That's his first word.
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No, these things are not against you, jacob,
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These things are for you.
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God's promise to you, child of god, things might not
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Be good right now, but we know, you got to know this
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In your heart.
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It starts with, and we know, we know
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That all things work together.
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And the word work together in the greek is synergial, synergy.
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It all is working synergy, working together for your good.
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Trust me, don't be impatient with the red light.
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God sees the devil plan for an accident or something
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Like that, amen.
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When red light is on, muse.
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Don't just amuse, amen.
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Meditate, reverse--i mean, bring up that verse--reverse,
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Not reverse, amen, bring up the verse.
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Rehearse the verse, amen.
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I believe, i really believe, child of god,
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Because of your inheritance, all things work together
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For you, child of god.
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But sometimes it looks like what jacob saw, his perspective, "all
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These things are against me."
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If only you saw, jacob.
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As pain seized the heart of abraham,
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The anguish in abraham's heart, the emotions, the pangs that
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He went through as he carried his son by the hand,
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Isaac up the mountain.
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Just blind faith, you want to call it that.
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Just in faith in the lord, god is good, god is good.
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I don't understand what's happening,
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But god is good, god is good.
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And all the while when he came up this mountain
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On the other side, a ram was also going up, amen.
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He didn't see the provision, but you got to trust god.
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Can i have a good amen?
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And back to rahab.
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Rahab and her reality tv.
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Every time she looks outside, it's destruction.
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And then now, she let them down and all she has is the word.
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We are all people, you say, "pastor prince, give me
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More solid, tangible evidence, my future will be bright,
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Things will turn around."
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Nothing but god's word.
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That says today, i promise you, god says,
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I'll restore double to you.
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Even rahab had nothing but the word and the blood.
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The blood has been shed, we know that.
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And the word of god, that's all we depend on, amen.
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And then she starts looking outside.
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All the while, it's been destruction, right?
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Doom, doom, doom, destruction.
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Doom is coming, destruction is coming,
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Destruction is coming.
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Imagine if an angel would appear in her room.
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Gabriel or someone.
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Pastor gabriel is very happy, i said gabriel and he's smiling.
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An angel appears and looks at rahab,
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"rahab, why are you so afraid?" "i don't think they were, i'm
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Torn because i'm a prostitute.
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There's no place for me among the nation of israel."
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And gabriel smiles at her, "would you believe it
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If i tell you that you will be the great grandmother
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Of the beloved king of israel?" and you know that one of
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The young men that came up, the spies, he is the son
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Of the prince of judah.
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He is the son of nashon, his name is salmon.
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I believe that one of the spies is salmon, you know why?
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Because judah always takes the lead.
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The tribe of judah always takes the lead.
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Whenever there's a battle, judah goes first,
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Praise always goes first.
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And there's an oral tradition given by the rabbis
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That says that when moses raised his hand
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To open up the red sea, god opened up the red sea of course,
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But the first one into the red sea
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Was the prince of judah, his name is nashon.
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He's the father of salmon and he rode into the water,
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The water came up to the horse's legs,
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Came up to the horse's body, came up to the horse's neck.
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When it came up to the horse's mouth, bang,
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The whole sea opened up.
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It's very much like the river jordan which is recorded that
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The moment the priest stepped, only when the priest stepped,
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The moment he stepped, god opens up.
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God waits for faith.
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Can i have a good amen?
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It was nashon, the prince of judah.
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In the list of giving--of 12 leaders--the princes
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Of the 12 leaders in their giving in numbers,
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Judah again led, nashon led in the giving.
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So always, he's leading.
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So i believe the two spies-- israel's army is like that.
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Their officers go first, it's always in front.
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It's a lot more--among all the armies of the world,
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More officers are killed among the israeli army
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Than any other armies combined because they lead by example,
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They go first.
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So i believe one of them is the son of the man who went
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To red sea, first, nashon, and his name is salmon.
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He married, and what did the angel say?
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"rahab, your future is bright.
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You look out there and you see destruction.
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I look out there and i see the great grandmother of david.
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And not only that, you'll be the great grandmother
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Of the messiah of the world.
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Not just israel, the savior of the world."
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Her name is mentioned in the genealogy of matthew,
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Jesus's genealogy.
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Not bad for a prostitute.
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And she hears all this, all this good news of hope.
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Then she looks at the angel, "are you a cult?
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It's too good to be true," amen.
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"you will marry nashon-- salmon, the son of nashon,
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The prince of judah, and you will bring forth a son.
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His name is boaz.
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Boaz will marry ruth.
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They will bring forth a son called obed.
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Obed brings forth jesse.
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Jesse is the father of david," hallelujah, thank you jesus.
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And in that line came our lord jesus christ,
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The greater son of david, amen.
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She made it into the genealogy of jesus christ, hallelujah.
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You know, you can look out the same window--
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Same window, previous days, destruction; now, deliverance.
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Previous days, no future, hopelessness; now,
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What a future for a prostitute to be a mother of israel, wow.
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Then, for another seven days, she saw israel march around
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The wall of jericho.
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Around the wall, around the wall,
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Around the wall.
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They didn't say anything, just carried the ark.
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Lifting up jesus, lifting up jesus,
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Lifting up jesus.
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On the seventh day, they blew the trumpet,
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They shouted.
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And the bible says this, friends,
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The walls of the city--uh-oh.
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It says the walls fell down.
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Her house is on the-- so how?
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La, leh, lor?
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No, friends, even archaeology has found that there's a part
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Of the wall that never fell.
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All the walls fell-- now this is not man's doing,
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This is god's doing because of the blood.
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There's one part of the wall that did not fall,
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And it has a window on it, hallelujah, amen.
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When the walls fell flat, her house was on the wall.
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Her house did not fall.
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She and her family were saved, hallelujah.
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Believe on the lord jesus christ and you shall be saved
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And your house. amen, come on church.
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Give him praise, come on.
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Hallelujah, thank you lord jesus.
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Perhaps you look outside there and you see nothing
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But hopelessness, helplessness, things are dark.
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Well, god's going to transform you into a prisoner of hope,
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A prisoner of tiqvah.
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This coming week, regardless of the news you hear and what
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Is going on in the world and all that, you can't handle it,
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Switch it off, all right?
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Weighing you down, causing you to be depressed.
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Being kept abreast.
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The helmet of salvation, amen.
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Joseph Prince - God Is Good Even When Things Are Not

September 22, 2025 | 29:45

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