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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God Is Not Holding Back. You Are. | December 17, 2025
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- Joseph prince: we can learn all about the names of god:
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- El elyon, elohim,
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- But the name that he wants to be known is father.
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- The father is most pleased when you approach him as father
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- Because you are his son.
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- Male announcer: in today's message from joseph prince,
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- Discover how jesus brings peace and stability to your heart,
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- Even in life's toughest storms.
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- Through life's challenges,
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- Joseph prince: as you read "anchored,"
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- I believe that you'll find the peace and stability
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- That you've been searching for in our lord jesus.
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- God bless you.
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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: let's go right into the word of god,
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- And we look at galatians chapter 4:
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- "and because you are sons, god has sent forth
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- The spirit of his son into your hearts,
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- Crying out, 'abba, father!'
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- Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son,
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- Then an heir of god through christ."
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- As we go into galatians chapter 3 and 4, how the apostle paul
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- Says that we are now sons and no more infants,
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- We are no more a minor.
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- So the idea there is that he's talking to fellow jewish
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- Believers, and when he talked to fellow jewish believers among
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- The jewish believers in galatia, he used the term "we," amen?
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- When he's talking to the gentile believers in galatia,
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- He says "you," and you find this throughout the scriptures.
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- And he tells them, "when we," jewish people, "when we were
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- Infants," and the word there in the greek is nepios.
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- "when we were infant," a minor, a young child,
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- "god put us under the law, all right?
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- God put us under--like for example,
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- The greeks and the romans,
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- A wealthy man would have many servants,
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- And one of them that he trusts the most
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- Will be in charge of his son,
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- And the bible says it's like same thing.
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- The law was our guardian until christ came.
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- Notice there's an until.
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- The law is not forever, amen.
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- The law--actually the bible used the word stoicheion;
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- The elementary principles, the abc.
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- That's what stoicheion means in the greek.
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- If you look it up, the word "elements"--and the same word is
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- Used when paul says--i believe paul is the author of hebrews.
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- In hebrews, he says that when the "time you ought to be
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- Teachers, one needs to teach you again the first principles."
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- The first principles, the abcs of the faith,
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- Amen, and that is the law.
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- So god put us--when we were infants,
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- God put us under the law,
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- And that's why children need to be told a lot of rules
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- And regulations for children, all right?
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- But not for an adult, amen, but as long as the heir
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- Of that household--the man has an only son,
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- But his son is only five years old, six years old,
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- He must be taken care of by a guardian.
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- And the guardian will make sure he wakes up on time,
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- He goes to the gym, all right?
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- He works--you know, he builds his body,
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- Makes sure that he is disciplined
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- In what he eats, and the guardian will make sure--so
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- Under a lot of rules and regulations
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- Until he becomes an adult.
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- The bible says "the time appointed by the father,"
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- And that's the gospel of jesus christ.
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- So for 1,500 years, god put israel under the law;
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- The abcs, the stoicheion,
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- The fundamental principles, amen?
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- And they were children back then.
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- Paul says, "when we were children, we were under the law,
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- But when the fulness of time came, god sent forth his son,
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- Made of a woman, born under the law,
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- To redeem those who are under the law," okay?
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- And then now we have received what?
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- Sonship, and the word is no more nepios.
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- The word is now huios in the greek,
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- Which is "full-grown adult son,"
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- And a full-grown adult son does not need
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- These rules and regulations.
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- Doesn't mean that he's lawless, but he keeps the spirit
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- Of what those things mean.
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- In fact, he keeps it with gladness.
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- It's like, you know, if he goes to a factory or a company or
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- Where--you know, the father might be, you know, an owner of
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- Many corporations--when he goes in there and he works there,
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- It's a different spirit from all the workers.
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- He's conscious if they don't switch off the light
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- When they leave.
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- He's conscious that they don't unnecessarily waste money.
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- I mean, why?
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- Because he has a stake.
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- He's going to be the heir of all these corporations, amen,
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- And so he serves in a different spirit.
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- It's not a matter of just keeping the law,
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- It's a matter of the spirit of it, which is love.
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- Love is the fulfilling of the law, amen?
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- So when you're under grace, amen, you don't become lawless,
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- Amen, but you walk in the spirit that the righteousness
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- Of the law might be fulfilled in us.
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- Notice, "in us," not "by us," amen?
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- As we walk after the spirit, the righteousness of the lord
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- Is fulfilled in us, amen?
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- You will do more than not steal,
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- You will give.
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- The law never says to give,
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- Praise god.
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- So here it says in galatians 4,
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- "because you are sons," you are huios.
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- Huios, now you are huios, grace has come, amen.
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- You have believed the gospel, and now you are sons.
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- "god has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts
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- Crying out, 'abba, father!'
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- Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son,
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- And if a son, then an heir of god through christ."
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- Wow, praise god.
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- Notice that once you are a son, god sends his spirit
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- Into your hearts, by which you cry, "abba, father!"
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- And it's crucial you understand this.
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- Romans 8.15 tells us that "you did not receive the spirit
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- Of slavery to fall back into fear,
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- But you have received the spirit of adoption,"
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- Or sonship, "as sons by whom we cry, "abba! father!"
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- And i believe that this fear is the mother of all fears.
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- If you--and this idea of fear here is actually fearing god
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- In the wrong way.
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- In the old testament, they had this fear,
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- And that's why it says, "you did not receive the spirit
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- Of slavery to fall back into fear."
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- The king james says, "ye have not received the spirit
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- Of bondage again to fear."
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- So the word "again" means once upon a time,
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- They were under this spirit of slavery.
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- That was when they were nepios, amen?
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- Like the bible says, as long as you're a child,
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- You do not differ from a slave, amen?
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- A slave has rules and regulations, and a slave cannot
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- Enjoy what the landlord, the owner has, amen?
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- Likewise, a son, he cannot enjoy what the father has, amen,
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- As long as he's a child, amen?
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- And he's under rules and regulations,
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- So the bible says he does not differ
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- From a servant, okay?
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- But here, friend, when you look at this:
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- "you did not receive the spirit of slavery back into fear,"
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- It's referring to the old covenant saints.
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- But for us today, "you have received the spirit of sonship
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- By which we cry, 'abba! father!'"
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- This is crucial, because today there are people
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- Who try to put in us, "yes, god is a father, but god is god.
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- He is almighty god," as if they are closer to god,
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- As if they are more reverent towards god.
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- Now friend, the greatest attitude you can have to the god
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- Of abraham, isaac, and jacob today--and we don't use
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- That term under the new covenant.
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- I'm not saying you cannot use that term, i'm just saying that
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- The father is most pleased when you approach him as father
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- Because you are his son.
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- We can learn all about the names of god: el elyon, elohim,
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- Yahweh-tsidkenu, yahweh-mekoddishkem,
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- And yahweh-rohi, all the names of god,
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- But the name that he wants to be known is father.
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- The name that jesus came to reveal is father, and he prayed
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- In his high priestly prayer that "i've revealed to them
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- Your name, father," amen, "that your name,
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- That the love by which you love me may be in them."
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- Isn't that beautiful, amen?
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- So own this spirit of sonship, amen,
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- And exercise it more and more.
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- The way we are led by the spirit is this spirit of sonship.
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- Amen, we need to be conscious of it, amen, tune into it,
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- Praise the lord, so that our hearing god's voice--or leading,
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- I should say, amen?
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- Many a times it's not a voice, it's a leading.
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- Amen, there is a voice.
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- "my sheep hear my voice," jesus said, but most of the time,
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- It's a bearing witness, amen.
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- That's how the holy spirit leads us.
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- And he says, "for as many as are led by the spirit of god,
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- They are" the huios, "sons of god," adult sons of god.
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- Notice, adult sons can expect to be led by the spirit;
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- Nepios, no.
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- Under the old covenant, no, amen?
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- They are led by laws, amen, by rules and regulations,
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- But for us, we are led by the spirit,
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- And the spirit will never tell you
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- To violate the ten commandments.
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- No, no, no, no; in fact, following the spirit
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- Will cause you to fulfill even more.
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- Like, the ten commandments says "don't steal,"
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- You will end up as a giver.
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- You'll be a blessing to others, amen?
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- In fact, the law says, "an eye for an eye,"
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- But following the spirit,
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- You will be a blessing even to those who curse you,
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- Those who persecute you, those who do harm to you even.
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- You will pray for them that god will bless them,
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- And then you find satisfaction when you do that.
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- Amen, praise the lord, hallelujah.
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- You know, people that come against you and all that,
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- Or who rub you the wrong way, you know,
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- Who may say things to hurt you and all that,
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- Just think of them like sandpaper, all right?
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- They are sanding you, amen?
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- At the end, if they rub you the wrong way, no problem,
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- Just bide your time,
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- Because you will end up polished and beautiful
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- And refined, hallelujah.
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- They will end up useless, amen, so pray for them, amen.
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- The reason jesus says "pray for them"
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- Is because, you know, there will be consequences
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- If they do harm to a child of god anointed of the holy spirit,
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- Right, and we are all anointed of the holy spirit.
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- We are children of god, so we gotta pray for them
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- That nothing bad happens to them.
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- I know some of you are thinking,
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- "i want something bad to happen."
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- No, that's not the spirit of the son, amen?
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- The spirit of the son is to, "father, forgive them,
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- For they know not what they do," amen?
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- All of us, god had mercy on us before we knew jesus, amen?
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- Praise the lord, hallelujah.
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- So here the spirit of the son, and look at the context again.
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- In the entire context, after verse 15, it says,
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- "the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
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- That we are children of god."
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- The number one way
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- God leads us,
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- Number one way guidance
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- Comes to us of course primarily is the scriptures, right?
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- But in the scriptures, you can also--without the holy spirit,
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- You can actually go wrong and start focusing on things
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- That actually--children, when you were a child,
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- You focused on, amen?
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- Today, i teach a lot from the old testament.
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- Pastor prince teaches--about 60% to 70% of his teachings
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- Are from the old testament.
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- But what happened is that, you know, people don't realize
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- That there are so many treasures in the old testament.
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- The old is the new concealed,
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- The new is the old revealed, okay?
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- And jesus himself, how did he expound from the law
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- And the prophets things concerning himself?
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- So when i teach the law, i bring jesus out of it.
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- That's the primary reason for the law.
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- Romans 10:4 says, "christ is the end of the law for righteousness
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- To everyone who believes,"
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- And the niv, the new international version says,
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- "christ is the culmination of the law," amen,
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- "so that there may be righteousness
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- For everyone who believes."
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- Culmination means it's finished, it's come to an end.
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- People say, "you know, jesus says,
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- 'think not i am come to destroy the law.
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- I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.'"
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- I agree, i agree completely.
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- He didn't come to destroy, he came to fulfill
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- Even the smallest letter yods,
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- And all the crowns and the strokes and the tittles,
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- He came to fulfill every one of them,
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- And you know what, friend?
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- It is fulfilled.
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- Christ is the culmination of the law, amen?
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- He did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
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- Question: is it fulfilled now, now that we are sons?
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- Yes, romans 10:4 tells us very clearly christ
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- Is the culmination, the fulfillment, and "the end,"
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- King james says,
- 00:11:57.026 --> 00:11:58.360
- "of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
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- Amen, hallelujah, praise the name of jesus.
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- Notice that the number one way
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- The holy spirit leads us
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- Is to bear witness with our spirit.
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- He bears witness with our spirit.
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- Mmm, hallelujah.
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- You know, bearing witness is the word symmartyreo,
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- And it means--it's two words together
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- With "martyreo," witness; he witnessed.
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- Now, for the holy spirit to bear witness,
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- That means there must be an action executed.
- 00:12:24.553 --> 00:12:27.122
- God does not guide a parked car, all right?
- 00:12:27.122 --> 00:12:30.392
- Gps does not work, the voice doesn't activate, all right?
- 00:12:30.392 --> 00:12:34.330
- It doesn't give you directions when you are stationary, amen?
- 00:12:34.330 --> 00:12:38.000
- You do nothing, there's nothing to bear witness, right?
- 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.370
- It's only when you step out, amen, he bears witness.
- 00:12:41.370 --> 00:12:44.607
- "mm-mm," all right?
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- You don't feel that's right.
- 00:12:45.941 --> 00:12:47.276
- You say something, "mm-mm, that's not right,"
- 00:12:47.276 --> 00:12:49.445
- Or you say something and you feel good.
- 00:12:49.445 --> 00:12:51.280
- Amen, the spirit of god is telling you, "go on," amen,
- 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:53.616
- "you're on the right track," praise god.
- 00:12:53.616 --> 00:12:55.184
- All of you know you are a child of god.
- 00:12:55.184 --> 00:12:57.319
- You have this witness, amen, and the number one area
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- That he--the first area that he tells us
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- He bears witness with us
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- Is this verse that we are children of god:
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- "the spirit bears witness with us
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- That we are children of god,"
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- And this word children is not nepios.
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- It's the word teknon, which is an affectionate term
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- For children, a general word for children.
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- Now, let's go on, let's go to verse 21.
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- "tell me, you who want to live under the law,
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- Do you know what the law actually says?"
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- Now here, the apostle paul--the entire book of galatians
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- Is because the believers that he once preached to
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- Who got saved under his ministry,
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- And then later on, he left them.
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- After for a while, he heard that some jewish teachers
- 00:13:38.093 --> 00:13:41.630
- Came amongst them and said,
- 00:13:41.630 --> 00:13:42.965
- "yeah, it's wonderful to believe in jesus.
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- That's fine and good, but now you need
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- To learn about the law."
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- And when paul heard that, paul says that "anyone that preach
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- Any other gospel"--you see, friend,
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- It's jesus alone that saves.
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- Christ alone saves, my friend.
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- It's not christ plus the law,
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- Christ plus the ten commandments,
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- Christ plus any of your performance.
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- No, no, no, no, no, it's christ alone.
- 00:14:03.886 --> 00:14:05.955
- So when paul heard that the purity of the gospel was being
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- Compromised, and many of them--in fact, he asked them in
- 00:14:08.390 --> 00:14:11.226
- The book of galatians, "where is that sense of blessedness?
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- In fact, at one time because of my persecution,
- 00:14:14.830 --> 00:14:17.132
- I was beaten, my eye was black and blue.
- 00:14:17.132 --> 00:14:19.435
- You would have gouged out your own eyes
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- And given your eyes to me.
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- You have so much love, and there was a sense of blessedness.
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- Where is that blessedness now?
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- It's gone, why?
- 00:14:27.910 --> 00:14:29.478
- Because you have steered away from the purity of the gospel.
- 00:14:29.478 --> 00:14:33.382
- You have steered away from grace."
- 00:14:33.382 --> 00:14:35.351
- And paul says, "ye are so soon removed from him who called you
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- Into the grace of christ," that means what?
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- The grace of christ is the true gospel.
- 00:14:42.191 --> 00:14:44.727
- He says, "i am amazed that you are so soon removed from him
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- Who called you into the grace of christ,
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- Into another gospel."
- 00:14:50.499 --> 00:14:52.601
- So some of these jewish teachers came and taught them,
- 00:14:52.601 --> 00:14:56.038
- "okay, the belief in grace, grace is good.
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- In fact, you are saved by grace, but you need to keep the law
- 00:14:58.841 --> 00:15:01.543
- Now," okay, and paul says, "no, no, no, no," okay?
- 00:15:01.543 --> 00:15:05.280
- Paul says, "that is a false gospel," amen,
- 00:15:05.280 --> 00:15:08.150
- "and that will cause you to come under the curse."
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- Paul's pronounced a double curse in chapter 1 of galatians
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- On anyone who does not preach the true gospel, amen?
- 00:15:14.223 --> 00:15:18.794
- The bible says, "if there was a law which could have given life,
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- Verily, truly righteousness would have been by the law,"
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- But no one can keep the law.
- 00:15:25.267 --> 00:15:27.536
- "and the law is not of faith, and the man that doeth them
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- Shall live in them," and the bible says, in fact,
- 00:15:30.672 --> 00:15:32.941
- "for as many as are of the works"--not break the law,
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- But "for as many as are of the works of the law
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- Are under the curse."
- 00:15:40.315 --> 00:15:42.084
- You have to keep all, or else you come under the curse.
- 00:15:42.084 --> 00:15:43.919
- The moment you take a position on the law for blessings,
- 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.189
- For justification, amen, to be right with god, amen?
- 00:15:47.189 --> 00:15:51.794
- You think you're pleasing god--the moment
- 00:15:51.794 --> 00:15:53.395
- You take that position, you come under the curse.
- 00:15:53.395 --> 00:15:57.533
- Amen, the bible says, "the righteous by faith shall live,"
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- Hallelujah, amen.
- 00:16:02.538 --> 00:16:04.173
- And that's why i love preaching about the righteousness
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- By faith, because this is the essence
- 00:16:05.974 --> 00:16:08.110
- Of the gospel, hallelujah.
- 00:16:08.110 --> 00:16:10.079
- So paul finally used this argument:
- 00:16:10.079 --> 00:16:12.414
- "since you like the law so much, guys, let me tell you this.
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- You who desire to be under the law,
- 00:16:14.450 --> 00:16:17.086
- Do you know what the law actually says?
- 00:16:17.086 --> 00:16:19.655
- The scriptures say that abraham had two sons."
- 00:16:19.655 --> 00:16:24.159
- Name me the two sons: isaac from his wife,
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- His lawful wife, sarah,
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- And ishmael, remember ishmael?
- 00:16:31.100 --> 00:16:33.335
- Ishmael came first from his servant hagar.
- 00:16:33.335 --> 00:16:37.873
- Okay, so "one from his slave wife," there's hagar,
- 00:16:37.873 --> 00:16:41.143
- And "one from his freeborn wife," and that is sarah.
- 00:16:41.143 --> 00:16:45.314
- "the son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt
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- To bring about the fulfillment of god's promise."
- 00:16:49.852 --> 00:16:53.822
- Okay, so "the son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt
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- To bring about the fulfillment of god's promise."
- 00:16:56.758 --> 00:16:59.161
- In the king james, it says "born after the flesh."
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- So after the flesh--we have this idea to want
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- After the flesh means sexual sins.
- 00:17:04.266 --> 00:17:06.034
- No, no, in fact, you start in the flesh, then you end up in
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- Sexual sins, because the flesh means your human effort.
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- The more you try, the worse it is, amen?
- 00:17:12.941 --> 00:17:16.411
- So the bible says that "born after the flesh"
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- Means to be "born in a human attempt," human effort.
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- So when abraham's body was dead and sarah's womb was also dead,
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- Amen, god promised isaac.
- 00:17:29.224 --> 00:17:32.261
- Isaac would come, so isaac was born, okay?
- 00:17:32.261 --> 00:17:35.097
- "the son of a freeborn wife was born as god's own fulfillment
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- Of his promise," in other words, with resurrection power, amen?
- 00:17:38.667 --> 00:17:42.704
- So isaac was born when naturally,
- 00:17:42.704 --> 00:17:45.207
- Abraham and sarah could not have a child.
- 00:17:45.207 --> 00:17:48.777
- Amen, their body was now dead.
- 00:17:48.777 --> 00:17:51.113
- And the bible says--i love this, ladies listen.
- 00:17:51.113 --> 00:17:53.682
- The bible says that "through faith" in hebrews 11,
- 00:17:53.682 --> 00:17:56.518
- "sarah received strength."
- 00:17:56.518 --> 00:17:58.554
- And the word strength in the greek is dunamis.
- 00:17:58.554 --> 00:18:00.522
- Dynamite, where do you get the word dynamite?
- 00:18:00.522 --> 00:18:02.257
- Dunamis, "she received strength to conceive seed,"
- 00:18:02.257 --> 00:18:05.761
- And receiving this strength did something to her--her body.
- 00:18:05.761 --> 00:18:10.065
- It causes her to be fruitful, it causes her to be renewed in her
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- Youth, and this renewal is not something spiritual, friend.
- 00:18:13.769 --> 00:18:17.906
- All right?
- 00:18:17.906 --> 00:18:19.641
- It's both spiritual as well as physical.
- 00:18:19.641 --> 00:18:21.009
- Why do i say physical?
- 00:18:21.009 --> 00:18:22.344
- Because, remember, a philistine king saw her,
- 00:18:22.344 --> 00:18:25.480
- And these philistine kings, they go by their eyes.
- 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:27.382
- They don't go by spiritual sense of her beauty.
- 00:18:27.382 --> 00:18:30.452
- No, no, they have no spiritual sense.
- 00:18:30.452 --> 00:18:32.087
- Amen, he went by his eyes, and he saw that sarah
- 00:18:32.087 --> 00:18:34.423
- Was beautiful at the age of 89.
- 00:18:34.423 --> 00:18:39.361
- Think about it, at 89.
- 00:18:39.361 --> 00:18:41.396
- I understand it when she was younger,
- 00:18:41.396 --> 00:18:42.731
- But now at 89 years old,
- 00:18:42.731 --> 00:18:44.366
- So something happened and he brought her into his harem.
- 00:18:44.366 --> 00:18:47.669
- What i'm trying to say is that god renewed her youth so much so
- 00:18:47.669 --> 00:18:51.173
- That even a heathen king wanted her for his harem.
- 00:18:51.173 --> 00:18:55.010
- Let's go on.
- 00:18:55.010 --> 00:18:56.645
- So, "these two women
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- Serve as an illustration
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- Of god's two covenants."
- 00:18:59.314 --> 00:19:00.649
- It's very interesting, paul is a rabbi of rabbis, amen?
- 00:19:00.649 --> 00:19:04.152
- He sat at the feet of gamaliel, a top jewish rabbi in his day,
- 00:19:04.152 --> 00:19:08.457
- And he knows about the interpretation of that,
- 00:19:08.457 --> 00:19:10.659
- And this is the highest form of--one of the highest
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- In spiritual interpretations.
- 00:19:12.961 --> 00:19:15.497
- He saw these two women as two covenants.
- 00:19:15.497 --> 00:19:18.567
- All right, "these two women serve as an illustration
- 00:19:18.567 --> 00:19:20.502
- Of god's two covenants.
- 00:19:20.502 --> 00:19:22.271
- The first woman, hagar, represents mount sinai
- 00:19:22.271 --> 00:19:26.708
- Where people receive the law that enslaved them."
- 00:19:26.708 --> 00:19:29.544
- So this hagar is actually mount sinai.
- 00:19:29.544 --> 00:19:32.481
- Where did the ten commandments come from?
- 00:19:32.481 --> 00:19:34.383
- Mount sinai, amen.
- 00:19:34.383 --> 00:19:35.951
- All the laws came from mount sinai,
- 00:19:35.951 --> 00:19:38.453
- And this mount sinai is hagar, all right?
- 00:19:38.453 --> 00:19:41.390
- And the result is what?
- 00:19:41.390 --> 00:19:42.924
- "where people received the law that enslaved them."
- 00:19:42.924 --> 00:19:45.927
- The king james says, "it gendereth bondage."
- 00:19:45.927 --> 00:19:49.531
- And now, jerusalem is just like mount sinai in arabia,
- 00:19:49.531 --> 00:19:54.569
- "because she and"--jerusalem, "and her children live
- 00:19:54.569 --> 00:19:58.507
- In slavery to the law."
- 00:19:58.507 --> 00:20:01.576
- And paul says, "that's why my jewish people right now,
- 00:20:01.576 --> 00:20:04.212
- They are in slavery," why?
- 00:20:04.212 --> 00:20:05.914
- Because they are under the law.
- 00:20:05.914 --> 00:20:07.616
- They are going back into infancy.
- 00:20:07.616 --> 00:20:10.519
- They are going back--they are actually backsliding
- 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.788
- In the sense of that work.
- 00:20:12.788 --> 00:20:14.356
- They are falling from grace, and he says that it's bondage.
- 00:20:14.356 --> 00:20:19.861
- "but the other woman, sarah,
- 00:20:19.861 --> 00:20:22.431
- Represents the heavenly jerusalem.
- 00:20:22.431 --> 00:20:25.033
- She is the free woman, and she is our mother."
- 00:20:25.033 --> 00:20:28.437
- Who is your mother?
- 00:20:29.638 --> 00:20:33.475
- "as isaiah said, 'rejoice, o childless woman,
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- You who have never given birth,'"
- 00:20:36.144 --> 00:20:37.746
- Referring to sarah because she was barren
- 00:20:37.746 --> 00:20:40.182
- All her life, "'break into a joyful shout,
- 00:20:40.182 --> 00:20:43.885
- You who have never been in labor!
- 00:20:43.885 --> 00:20:46.121
- For the desolate woman now has more children.'"
- 00:20:46.121 --> 00:20:49.991
- Amen, under grace, she will have "more children than the woman
- 00:20:49.991 --> 00:20:53.228
- Who lives with her husband."
- 00:20:53.228 --> 00:20:54.629
- Let me tell you this: god was saying,
- 00:20:54.629 --> 00:20:56.064
- "when you were under the law,
- 00:20:56.064 --> 00:20:57.666
- How many people do you have that followed the law
- 00:20:57.666 --> 00:21:00.102
- Around the world?"
- 00:21:00.102 --> 00:21:01.536
- It was confined to israel, but now, the children of grace
- 00:21:01.536 --> 00:21:04.473
- Is all over the world, amen.
- 00:21:04.473 --> 00:21:06.641
- It includes the jews and gentiles from every tribe,
- 00:21:06.641 --> 00:21:10.245
- Every tongue, every language,
- 00:21:10.245 --> 00:21:11.780
- Every nation of the world, amen.
- 00:21:11.780 --> 00:21:13.882
- Under grace, you will produce so much more.
- 00:21:13.882 --> 00:21:15.584
- In fact, this verse is taken from isaiah 54.
- 00:21:15.584 --> 00:21:18.420
- That comes after isaiah 53, that talks about
- 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:21.089
- Our lord jesus christ and his sufferings,
- 00:21:21.089 --> 00:21:23.959
- Where you find, "surely, he has borne our diseases
- 00:21:23.959 --> 00:21:26.094
- And carried our pains, and we have seen him
- 00:21:26.094 --> 00:21:28.096
- Smitten of god and afflicted, but he was wounded
- 00:21:28.096 --> 00:21:31.466
- For our transgression," and goes on all the way to,
- 00:21:31.466 --> 00:21:33.735
- "with his stripes, we are healed."
- 00:21:33.735 --> 00:21:35.170
- All that is in isaiah 53.
- 00:21:35.170 --> 00:21:37.973
- Isaiah 54 verse 1 says, "'rejoice, o barren woman!'
- 00:21:37.973 --> 00:21:42.043
- The only response god wants you to have is rejoice.
- 00:21:42.043 --> 00:21:46.314
- You rejoice over a finished work.
- 00:21:46.314 --> 00:21:48.316
- You rejoice because you see something, amen?
- 00:21:48.316 --> 00:21:51.420
- And god is saying in the following verses, all right,
- 00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:55.190
- God says, "break forth on the right hand and on the left.
- 00:21:55.190 --> 00:21:57.926
- Get ready for growth," amen.
- 00:21:57.926 --> 00:22:00.162
- "lengthen your cords," amen, "enlarge your tents."
- 00:22:00.162 --> 00:22:03.865
- I believe there's a word for some of you, amen.
- 00:22:03.865 --> 00:22:05.767
- God is saying, "prepare for that miracle."
- 00:22:05.767 --> 00:22:07.702
- If you believe in god for a baby,
- 00:22:07.702 --> 00:22:09.271
- Start buying baby clothes, amen.
- 00:22:09.271 --> 00:22:10.972
- If you believe in god for a male child,
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- Amen, start buying boy clothes.
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- You don't have to wait, amen, until the baby is there.
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- Start preparing for growth.
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- Show god your faith, man.
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- God is saying, "all right, start preparing.
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- Enlarge your tents," amen.
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- "strengthen your stakes.
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- Prepare for the miracle.
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- Prepare for growth for the children of the desolate woman,
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- The barren woman, the children of sarah.
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- We're more than the daughters of hagar," amen.
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- I believe this.
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- People believe that it's only by grace we are blessed, only by
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- Grace we are justified, only by--everything is by grace.
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- How can we take the credit?
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- How can we be proud?
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- It's people who feel like, "it's part grace and part my effort.
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- We must do our part."
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- No, our part is to believe what has been done, amen.
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- And then even the performance of our service and our ministry
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- And our duties come out of the empowering first.
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- It is god who works in you, both to will
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- And to do of his good pleasure.
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- He gives you the willingness and he gives you the performance,
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- So give him all the glory, friend.
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- If god wants to have all the glory, i say this reverently:
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- Let him do everything, amen, for you, in you, through you,
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- As you rest in him.
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- And you know when it's by grace, and you know it's by grace,
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- And you know that you don't deserve it,
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- You will just readily give him
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- All the praise and all the glory.
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- It will be spontaneous from your heart, amen, hallelujah.
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- Male announcer: and now, a closing word
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- From pastor joseph prince.
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- Joseph prince: the lord grant you supernatural favor.
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- God increase the favor that's already on your life.
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- This coming week, you will see manifestations of favor,
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- And you'll remember this prayer, amen?
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- New levels of favor this coming week for you
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- And your loved ones,
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- And the lord lift up his countenance on you
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- And your loved ones and grant you shalom,
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- Peace, well-being, and wholeness
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- In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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- And all the people said amen.
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- I love you all.
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- Male announcer: we live in a world
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- That moves faster than ever.
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- Headlines change by the hour, values shift,
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- Truth feels negotiable.
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- What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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- But through all the noise and the shaking,
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- There is one who is still the same.
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- In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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- In the panic, he is still the promise.
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- Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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- He is still jesus above it all.
- 00:24:53.768 --> 00:24:56.938
- So no matter what's popular today or forgotten tomorrow,
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- This ministry will still always be all about jesus,
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- Still the center of our call,
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- Still the heartbeat of our people.
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- Will you still choose to make
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- Our mission your mission today?
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- Female: in 2016, my daughter was pregnant,
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- And she delivered early, 23 weeks,
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- And she had to stay in the nicu for four months.
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- A time came where we received a call from the hospital.
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- She had three different bacterial infections
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- And double pneumonia.
- 00:25:39.114 --> 00:25:40.815
- Her numbers were between, like, in the high 30s and 40s.
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- They're supposed to be, like, 85.
- 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:47.689
- There wasn't much hope.
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- So it had been, like, at least ten years
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- Since my life being transformed through the teaching
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- And through pastor prince's ministry.
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- I know god wants me healed.
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- I know he wants my family healed.
- 00:26:00.535 --> 00:26:02.570
- My husband and i were praying.
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- We received holy communion
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- 'cause we receive holy communion often.
- 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:07.075
- By the time we got to the hospital,
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- She was in the 70s.
- 00:26:08.943 --> 00:26:10.378
- So while we're waiting, literally,
- 00:26:10.378 --> 00:26:13.715
- We're watching the numbers go higher and higher.
- 00:26:13.715 --> 00:26:17.585
- We're just standing, believing god.
- 00:26:17.585 --> 00:26:19.454
- By the time the doctor came, she was in the 90s.
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- Right now she is healthy and strong,
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- And we are grateful for receiving
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- A gospel that leaves no room for doubt.
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- We're standing on god's word.
- 00:26:31.800 --> 00:26:33.501
- It's not just that jesus can do it, but he's willing.
- 00:26:33.501 --> 00:26:36.938
- And i knew he was willing to heal my granddaughter.
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- He's faithful, and i'm just grateful for the gospel.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Male announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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- A fresh word from the lord.
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