Joseph Prince - God Is Not Holding Back. You Are.

December 17, 2025 | 29:45

Anchored in Christ: “No storm, no tempest, no raging sea can flood your mind today."

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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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  • If you want to learn how to stay grounded in the lord
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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?
  • 00:10:16.926 --> 00:10:20.529
  • But in the scriptures, you can also--without the holy spirit,
  • 00:10:20.529 --> 00:10:23.632
  • 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.
  • 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.476
  • Pastor prince teaches--about 60% to 70% of his teachings
  • 00:10:33.476 --> 00:10:36.378
  • Are from the old testament.
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  • But what happened is that, you know, people don't realize
  • 00:10:37.847 --> 00:10:40.282
  • 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?
  • 00:10:45.020 --> 00:10:48.791
  • 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,
  • 00:11:06.742 --> 00:11:10.312
  • "christ is the culmination of the law," amen,
  • 00:11:10.312 --> 00:11:14.350
  • "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,
  • 00:11:21.423 --> 00:11:22.825
  • '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,
  • 00:11:32.034 --> 00:11:34.036
  • 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?
  • 00:11:39.475 --> 00:11:40.876
  • It is fulfilled.
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  • Christ is the culmination of the law, amen?
  • 00:11:42.244 --> 00:11:44.513
  • 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,"
  • 00:11:53.823 --> 00:11:57.026
  • 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
  • 00:12:04.834 --> 00:12:06.468
  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • You do nothing, there's nothing to bear witness, right?
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  • It's only when you step out, amen, he bears witness.
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  • "mm-mm," all right?
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  • You don't feel that's right.
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  • You say something, "mm-mm, that's not right,"
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  • Or you say something and you feel good.
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  • 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.
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  • All of you know you are a child of god.
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  • 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:
  • 00:13:04.426 --> 00:13:06.762
  • "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.
  • 00:13:17.139 --> 00:13:20.609
  • "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.
  • 00:13:36.492 --> 00:13:38.093
  • 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."
  • 00:13:46.168 --> 00:13:48.003
  • 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.
  • 00:13:54.643 --> 00:13:56.745
  • 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
  • 00:14:05.955 --> 00:14:08.390
  • 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?
  • 00:14:11.226 --> 00:14:14.830
  • 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.
  • 00:14:22.938 --> 00:14:26.008
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:14:35.351 --> 00:14:39.588
  • Into the grace of christ," that means what?
  • 00:14:39.588 --> 00:14:42.191
  • 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
  • 00:14:44.727 --> 00:14:48.397
  • 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.
  • 00:14:56.038 --> 00:14:58.841
  • 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."
  • 00:15:08.150 --> 00:15:10.619
  • 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,
  • 00:15:18.794 --> 00:15:22.131
  • 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
  • 00:15:27.536 --> 00:15:30.672
  • 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,
  • 00:15:32.941 --> 00:15:36.712
  • 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,"
  • 00:15:57.533 --> 00:16:02.538
  • Hallelujah, amen.
  • 00:16:02.538 --> 00:16:04.173
  • And that's why i love preaching about the righteousness
  • 00:16:04.173 --> 00:16:05.974
  • 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.
  • 00:16:12.414 --> 00:16:14.450
  • 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."
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  • 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
  • 00:16:45.314 --> 00:16:49.852
  • 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
  • 00:16:53.822 --> 00:16:56.758
  • 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."
  • 00:16:59.161 --> 00:17:01.897
  • So after the flesh--we have this idea to want
  • 00:17:01.897 --> 00:17:04.266
  • 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
  • 00:17:06.034 --> 00:17:09.738
  • Sexual sins, because the flesh means your human effort.
  • 00:17:09.738 --> 00:17:12.941
  • 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"
  • 00:17:16.411 --> 00:17:19.248
  • Means to be "born in a human attempt," human effort.
  • 00:17:19.248 --> 00:17:23.719
  • So when abraham's body was dead and sarah's womb was also dead,
  • 00:17:23.719 --> 00:17:29.224
  • Amen, god promised isaac.
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  • 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
  • 00:17:35.097 --> 00:17:38.667
  • 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
  • 00:18:10.065 --> 00:18:13.769
  • 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
  • 00:18:56.645 --> 00:18:57.980
  • Serve as an illustration
  • 00:18:57.980 --> 00:18:59.314
  • 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
  • 00:19:10.659 --> 00:19:12.961
  • 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,
  • 00:20:31.373 --> 00:20:36.144
  • 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?"
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  • It was confined to israel, but now, the children of grace
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  • Is all over the world, amen.
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  • It includes the jews and gentiles from every tribe,
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  • Every tongue, every language,
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  • Every nation of the world, amen.
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  • Under grace, you will produce so much more.
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  • In fact, this verse is taken from isaiah 54.
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  • That comes after isaiah 53, that talks about
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  • Our lord jesus christ and his sufferings,
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  • Where you find, "surely, he has borne our diseases
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  • And carried our pains, and we have seen him
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  • Smitten of god and afflicted, but he was wounded
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  • For our transgression," and goes on all the way to,
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  • "with his stripes, we are healed."
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  • All that is in isaiah 53.
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  • Isaiah 54 verse 1 says, "'rejoice, o barren woman!'
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  • The only response god wants you to have is rejoice.
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  • You rejoice over a finished work.
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  • You rejoice because you see something, amen?
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  • And god is saying in the following verses, all right,
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  • God says, "break forth on the right hand and on the left.
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  • Get ready for growth," amen.
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  • "lengthen your cords," amen, "enlarge your tents."
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  • I believe there's a word for some of you, amen.
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  • God is saying, "prepare for that miracle."
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  • If you believe in god for a baby,
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  • Start buying baby clothes, amen.
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  • 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.
  • 00:24:32.380 --> 00:24:36.885
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • We're just standing, believing god.
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  • 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.
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  • It's not just that jesus can do it, but he's willing.
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  • 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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