Joseph Prince - God Is Not Holding Back. You Are

July 24, 2025 | 29:45

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

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God Is Not Holding Back. You Are | July 24, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: there are people who try to put in us,
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  • "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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  • 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 father is most pleased when you approach him as father
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  • Because you are his son.
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  • The name that jesus came to reveal is father,
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  • And he prayed in his high priestly prayer that
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  • "i've revealed to them your name, father," amen,
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  • "that your name, that the love by which you love me
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Joseph prince: we live in a world where our values
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  • And our faith are being challenged 24/7.
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  • This is why it is so important for us to be anchored
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  • On something greater than ourselves.
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  • Thoughts that will root you in jesus's perfect love
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  • And help you build your identity on his word.
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  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince 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,
  • 00:10:41.083 --> 00:10:42.418
  • "i want something bad to happen."
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  • No, that's not the spirit of the son, amen?
  • 00:10:43.753 --> 00:10:45.087
  • The spirit of the son is to, "father, forgive them,
  • 00:10:45.087 --> 00:10:47.156
  • For they know not what they do," amen?
  • 00:10:47.156 --> 00:10:48.858
  • All of us, god had mercy on us before we knew jesus, amen?
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  • Praise the lord, hallelujah.
  • 00:10:51.961 --> 00:10:53.729
  • So here the spirit of the son, and look at the context again.
  • 00:10:53.729 --> 00:10:56.699
  • In the entire context, after verse 15, it says,
  • 00:10:56.699 --> 00:10:58.801
  • "the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
  • 00:10:58.801 --> 00:11:02.705
  • That we are children of god."
  • 00:11:02.705 --> 00:11:04.206
  • The number one way
  • 00:11:04.206 --> 00:11:05.741
  • God leads us,
  • 00:11:05.741 --> 00:11:08.210
  • Number one way guidance
  • 00:11:08.210 --> 00:11:09.578
  • Comes to us of course primarily is the scriptures, right?
  • 00:11:09.578 --> 00:11:13.182
  • But in the scriptures, you can also--without the holy spirit,
  • 00:11:13.182 --> 00:11:16.285
  • You can actually go wrong and start focusing on things
  • 00:11:16.285 --> 00:11:19.522
  • That actually--children, when you were a child,
  • 00:11:19.522 --> 00:11:22.458
  • You focused on, amen?
  • 00:11:22.458 --> 00:11:24.093
  • Today, i teach a lot from the old testament.
  • 00:11:24.093 --> 00:11:26.128
  • Pastor prince teaches--about 60% to 70% of his teachings
  • 00:11:26.128 --> 00:11:29.031
  • Are from the old testament.
  • 00:11:29.031 --> 00:11:30.499
  • But what happened is that, you know, people don't realize
  • 00:11:30.499 --> 00:11:32.935
  • That there are so many treasures in the old testament.
  • 00:11:32.935 --> 00:11:35.004
  • The old is the new concealed,
  • 00:11:35.004 --> 00:11:37.673
  • The new is the old revealed, okay?
  • 00:11:37.673 --> 00:11:41.443
  • And jesus himself, how did he expound from the law
  • 00:11:41.443 --> 00:11:44.180
  • And the prophets things concerning himself?
  • 00:11:44.180 --> 00:11:47.283
  • So when i teach the law, i bring jesus out of it.
  • 00:11:47.283 --> 00:11:50.853
  • That's the primary reason for the law.
  • 00:11:50.853 --> 00:11:53.522
  • Romans 10:4 says, "christ is the end of the law for righteousness
  • 00:11:53.522 --> 00:11:57.526
  • To everyone who believes,"
  • 00:11:57.526 --> 00:11:59.395
  • And the niv, the new international version says,
  • 00:11:59.395 --> 00:12:02.965
  • "christ is the culmination of the law," amen,
  • 00:12:02.965 --> 00:12:07.002
  • "so that there may be righteousness
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  • For everyone who believes."
  • 00:12:08.938 --> 00:12:10.606
  • Culmination means it's finished, it's come to an end.
  • 00:12:10.606 --> 00:12:14.076
  • People say, "you know, jesus says,
  • 00:12:14.076 --> 00:12:15.477
  • '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.
  • 00:12:19.215 --> 00:12:22.017
  • He didn't come to destroy, he came to fulfill
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  • Even the smallest letter yods,
  • 00:12:24.687 --> 00:12:26.689
  • 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?
  • 00:12:32.127 --> 00:12:33.529
  • It is fulfilled.
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  • Christ is the culmination of the law, amen?
  • 00:12:34.897 --> 00:12:37.166
  • He did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
  • 00:12:37.166 --> 00:12:39.768
  • Question: is it fulfilled now, now that we are sons?
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  • Yes, romans 10:4 tells us very clearly christ
  • 00:12:43.572 --> 00:12:46.475
  • Is the culmination, the fulfillment, and "the end,"
  • 00:12:46.475 --> 00:12:49.678
  • King james says,
  • 00:12:49.678 --> 00:12:51.013
  • "of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
  • 00:12:51.013 --> 00:12:53.883
  • Amen, hallelujah, praise the name of jesus.
  • 00:12:53.883 --> 00:12:57.486
  • Notice that the number one way
  • 00:12:57.486 --> 00:12:59.121
  • 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.
  • 00:13:03.392 --> 00:13:05.194
  • Mmm, hallelujah.
  • 00:13:05.194 --> 00:13:06.695
  • You know, bearing witness is the word symmartyreo,
  • 00:13:06.695 --> 00:13:09.899
  • And it means--it's two words together
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  • With "martyreo," witness; he witnessed.
  • 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:15.070
  • Now, for the holy spirit to bear witness,
  • 00:13:15.070 --> 00:13:17.206
  • That means there must be an action executed.
  • 00:13:17.206 --> 00:13:19.775
  • God does not guide a parked car, all right?
  • 00:13:19.775 --> 00:13:23.045
  • Gps does not work, the voice doesn't activate, all right?
  • 00:13:23.045 --> 00:13:26.982
  • It doesn't give you directions when you are stationary, amen?
  • 00:13:26.982 --> 00:13:30.653
  • You do nothing, there's nothing to bear witness, right?
  • 00:13:30.653 --> 00:13:34.023
  • It's only when you step out, amen, he bears witness.
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  • "mm-mm," all right?
  • 00:13:37.259 --> 00:13:38.594
  • You don't feel that's right.
  • 00:13:38.594 --> 00:13:39.929
  • You say something, "mm-mm, that's not right,"
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  • Or you say something and you feel good.
  • 00:13:42.097 --> 00:13:43.933
  • Amen, the spirit of god is telling you, "go on," amen,
  • 00:13:43.933 --> 00:13:46.268
  • "you're on the right track," praise god.
  • 00:13:46.268 --> 00:13:47.836
  • All of you know you are a child of god.
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  • You have this witness, amen, and the number one area
  • 00:13:49.972 --> 00:13:53.008
  • That he--the first area that he tells us
  • 00:13:53.008 --> 00:13:55.577
  • He bears witness with us
  • 00:13:55.577 --> 00:13:57.079
  • Is this verse that we are children of god:
  • 00:13:57.079 --> 00:13:59.415
  • "the spirit bears witness with us
  • 00:13:59.415 --> 00:14:00.849
  • That we are children of god,"
  • 00:14:00.849 --> 00:14:02.751
  • And this word children is not nepios.
  • 00:14:02.751 --> 00:14:04.219
  • It's the word teknon, which is an affectionate term
  • 00:14:04.219 --> 00:14:06.755
  • For children, a general word for children.
  • 00:14:06.755 --> 00:14:09.792
  • Now, let's go on, let's go to verse 21.
  • 00:14:09.792 --> 00:14:13.262
  • "tell me, you who want to live under the law,
  • 00:14:13.262 --> 00:14:16.398
  • Do you know what the law actually says?"
  • 00:14:16.398 --> 00:14:18.300
  • Now here, the apostle paul--the entire book of galatians
  • 00:14:18.300 --> 00:14:22.705
  • Is because the believers that he once preached to
  • 00:14:22.705 --> 00:14:26.542
  • Who got saved under his ministry,
  • 00:14:26.542 --> 00:14:29.144
  • And then later on, he left them.
  • 00:14:29.144 --> 00:14:30.746
  • After for a while, he heard that some jewish teachers
  • 00:14:30.746 --> 00:14:34.283
  • Came amongst them and said,
  • 00:14:34.283 --> 00:14:35.617
  • "yeah, it's wonderful to believe in jesus.
  • 00:14:35.617 --> 00:14:37.219
  • That's fine and good, but now you need
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  • To learn about the law."
  • 00:14:38.821 --> 00:14:40.656
  • And when paul heard that, paul says that "anyone that preach
  • 00:14:40.656 --> 00:14:43.392
  • Any other gospel"--you see, friend,
  • 00:14:43.392 --> 00:14:45.394
  • It's jesus alone that saves.
  • 00:14:45.394 --> 00:14:47.296
  • Christ alone saves, my friend.
  • 00:14:47.296 --> 00:14:49.398
  • 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.
  • 00:14:53.802 --> 00:14:56.538
  • No, no, no, no, no, it's christ alone.
  • 00:14:56.538 --> 00:14:58.607
  • So when paul heard that the purity of the gospel was being
  • 00:14:58.607 --> 00:15:01.043
  • Compromised, and many of them--in fact, he asked them in
  • 00:15:01.043 --> 00:15:03.879
  • The book of galatians, "where is that sense of blessedness?
  • 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.483
  • In fact, at one time because of my persecution,
  • 00:15:07.483 --> 00:15:09.785
  • I was beaten, my eye was black and blue.
  • 00:15:09.785 --> 00:15:12.087
  • You would have gouged out your own eyes
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  • And given your eyes to me.
  • 00:15:14.089 --> 00:15:15.591
  • You have so much love, and there was a sense of blessedness.
  • 00:15:15.591 --> 00:15:18.660
  • Where is that blessedness now?
  • 00:15:18.660 --> 00:15:20.562
  • It's gone, why?
  • 00:15:20.562 --> 00:15:22.131
  • Because you have steered away from the purity of the gospel.
  • 00:15:22.131 --> 00:15:26.035
  • You have steered away from grace."
  • 00:15:26.035 --> 00:15:28.003
  • And paul says, "ye are so soon removed from him who called you
  • 00:15:28.003 --> 00:15:32.241
  • Into the grace of christ," that means what?
  • 00:15:32.241 --> 00:15:34.843
  • The grace of christ is the true gospel.
  • 00:15:34.843 --> 00:15:37.379
  • He says, "i am amazed that you are so soon removed from him
  • 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:41.050
  • Who called you into the grace of christ,
  • 00:15:41.050 --> 00:15:43.152
  • Into another gospel."
  • 00:15:43.152 --> 00:15:45.254
  • So some of these jewish teachers came and taught them,
  • 00:15:45.254 --> 00:15:48.857
  • "okay, the belief in grace, grace is good.
  • 00:15:48.857 --> 00:15:51.493
  • In fact, you are saved by grace, but you need to keep the law
  • 00:15:51.493 --> 00:15:54.196
  • Now," okay, and paul says, "no, no, no, no," okay?
  • 00:15:54.196 --> 00:15:57.933
  • Paul says, "that is a false gospel," amen,
  • 00:15:57.933 --> 00:16:00.803
  • "and that will cause you to come under the curse."
  • 00:16:00.803 --> 00:16:03.272
  • Paul's pronounced a double curse in chapter 1 of galatians
  • 00:16:03.272 --> 00:16:06.875
  • On anyone who does not preach the true gospel, amen?
  • 00:16:06.875 --> 00:16:11.447
  • The bible says, "if there was a law which could have given life,
  • 00:16:11.447 --> 00:16:14.783
  • Verily, truly righteousness would have been by the law,"
  • 00:16:14.783 --> 00:16:17.920
  • But no one can keep the law.
  • 00:16:17.920 --> 00:16:20.189
  • "and the law is not of faith, and the man that doeth them
  • 00:16:20.189 --> 00:16:23.325
  • Shall live in them," and the bible says, in fact,
  • 00:16:23.325 --> 00:16:25.594
  • "for as many as are of the works"--not break the law,
  • 00:16:25.594 --> 00:16:29.364
  • But "for as many as are of the works of the law
  • 00:16:29.364 --> 00:16:32.968
  • Are under the curse."
  • 00:16:32.968 --> 00:16:34.736
  • You have to keep all, or else you come under the curse.
  • 00:16:34.736 --> 00:16:36.572
  • The moment you take a position on the law for blessings,
  • 00:16:36.572 --> 00:16:39.842
  • For justification, amen, to be right with god, amen?
  • 00:16:39.842 --> 00:16:44.446
  • You think you're pleasing god--the moment
  • 00:16:44.446 --> 00:16:46.048
  • You take that position, you come under the curse.
  • 00:16:46.048 --> 00:16:50.185
  • Amen, the bible says, "the righteous by faith shall live,"
  • 00:16:50.185 --> 00:16:55.190
  • Hallelujah, amen.
  • 00:16:55.190 --> 00:16:56.825
  • And that's why i love preaching about the righteousness
  • 00:16:56.825 --> 00:16:58.627
  • By faith, because this is the essence
  • 00:16:58.627 --> 00:17:00.762
  • Of the gospel, hallelujah.
  • 00:17:00.762 --> 00:17:02.731
  • So paul finally used this argument:
  • 00:17:02.731 --> 00:17:05.067
  • "since you like the law so much, guys, let me tell you this.
  • 00:17:05.067 --> 00:17:07.102
  • You who desire to be under the law,
  • 00:17:07.102 --> 00:17:09.738
  • Do you know what the law actually says?
  • 00:17:09.738 --> 00:17:12.307
  • The scriptures say that abraham had two sons."
  • 00:17:12.307 --> 00:17:16.812
  • Name me the two sons: isaac from his wife,
  • 00:17:16.812 --> 00:17:20.649
  • His lawful wife, sarah,
  • 00:17:20.649 --> 00:17:23.752
  • And ishmael, remember ishmael?
  • 00:17:23.752 --> 00:17:25.988
  • Ishmael came first from his servant hagar.
  • 00:17:25.988 --> 00:17:30.526
  • Okay, so "one from his slave wife," there's hagar,
  • 00:17:30.526 --> 00:17:33.795
  • And "one from his freeborn wife," and that is sarah.
  • 00:17:33.795 --> 00:17:37.966
  • "the son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt
  • 00:17:37.966 --> 00:17:42.504
  • To bring about the fulfillment of god's promise."
  • 00:17:42.504 --> 00:17:46.475
  • Okay, so "the son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt
  • 00:17:46.475 --> 00:17:49.411
  • To bring about the fulfillment of god's promise."
  • 00:17:49.411 --> 00:17:51.813
  • In the king james, it says "born after the flesh."
  • 00:17:51.813 --> 00:17:54.550
  • So after the flesh--we have this idea to want
  • 00:17:54.550 --> 00:17:56.919
  • After the flesh means sexual sins.
  • 00:17:56.919 --> 00:17:58.687
  • No, no, in fact, you start in the flesh, then you end up in
  • 00:17:58.687 --> 00:18:02.391
  • Sexual sins, because the flesh means your human effort.
  • 00:18:02.391 --> 00:18:05.594
  • The more you try, the worse it is, amen?
  • 00:18:05.594 --> 00:18:09.064
  • So the bible says that "born after the flesh"
  • 00:18:09.064 --> 00:18:11.900
  • Means to be "born in a human attempt," human effort.
  • 00:18:11.900 --> 00:18:16.371
  • So when abraham's body was dead and sarah's womb was also dead,
  • 00:18:16.371 --> 00:18:21.877
  • Amen, god promised isaac.
  • 00:18:21.877 --> 00:18:24.913
  • Isaac would come, so isaac was born, okay?
  • 00:18:24.913 --> 00:18:27.749
  • "the son of a freeborn wife was born as god's own fulfillment
  • 00:18:27.749 --> 00:18:31.320
  • Of his promise," in other words, with resurrection power, amen?
  • 00:18:31.320 --> 00:18:35.357
  • So isaac was born when naturally,
  • 00:18:35.357 --> 00:18:37.859
  • Abraham and sarah could not have a child.
  • 00:18:37.859 --> 00:18:41.430
  • Amen, their body was now dead.
  • 00:18:41.430 --> 00:18:43.765
  • And the bible says--i love this, ladies listen.
  • 00:18:43.765 --> 00:18:46.335
  • The bible says that "through faith" in hebrews 11,
  • 00:18:46.335 --> 00:18:49.171
  • "sarah received strength."
  • 00:18:49.171 --> 00:18:51.206
  • And the word strength in the greek is dunamis.
  • 00:18:51.206 --> 00:18:53.175
  • Dynamite, where do you get the word dynamite?
  • 00:18:53.175 --> 00:18:54.910
  • Dunamis, "she received strength to conceive seed,"
  • 00:18:54.910 --> 00:18:58.413
  • And receiving this strength did something to her--her body.
  • 00:18:58.413 --> 00:19:02.718
  • It causes her to be fruitful, it causes her to be renewed in her
  • 00:19:02.718 --> 00:19:06.421
  • Youth, and this renewal is not something spiritual, friend.
  • 00:19:06.421 --> 00:19:10.559
  • All right?
  • 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.294
  • It's both spiritual as well as physical.
  • 00:19:12.294 --> 00:19:13.662
  • Why do i say physical?
  • 00:19:13.662 --> 00:19:14.997
  • Because, remember, a philistine king saw her,
  • 00:19:14.997 --> 00:19:18.133
  • And these philistine kings, they go by their eyes.
  • 00:19:18.133 --> 00:19:20.035
  • They don't go by spiritual sense of her beauty.
  • 00:19:20.035 --> 00:19:23.105
  • No, no, they have no spiritual sense.
  • 00:19:23.105 --> 00:19:24.740
  • Amen, he went by his eyes, and he saw that sarah
  • 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:27.075
  • Was beautiful at the age of 89.
  • 00:19:27.075 --> 00:19:32.014
  • Think about it, at 89.
  • 00:19:32.014 --> 00:19:34.049
  • I understand it when she was younger,
  • 00:19:34.049 --> 00:19:35.384
  • But now at 89 years old,
  • 00:19:35.384 --> 00:19:37.019
  • So something happened and he brought her into his harem.
  • 00:19:37.019 --> 00:19:40.322
  • What i'm trying to say is that god renewed her youth so much so
  • 00:19:40.322 --> 00:19:43.825
  • That even a heathen king wanted her for his harem.
  • 00:19:43.825 --> 00:19:47.663
  • Let's go on.
  • 00:19:47.663 --> 00:19:49.298
  • So, "these two women
  • 00:19:49.298 --> 00:19:50.632
  • Serve as an illustration
  • 00:19:50.632 --> 00:19:51.967
  • Of god's two covenants."
  • 00:19:51.967 --> 00:19:53.302
  • It's very interesting, paul is a rabbi of rabbis, amen?
  • 00:19:53.302 --> 00:19:56.805
  • He sat at the feet of gamaliel, a top jewish rabbi in his day,
  • 00:19:56.805 --> 00:20:01.109
  • And he knows about the interpretation of that,
  • 00:20:01.109 --> 00:20:03.312
  • And this is the highest form of--one of the highest
  • 00:20:03.312 --> 00:20:05.614
  • In spiritual interpretations.
  • 00:20:05.614 --> 00:20:08.150
  • He saw these two women as two covenants.
  • 00:20:08.150 --> 00:20:11.219
  • All right, "these two women serve as an illustration
  • 00:20:11.219 --> 00:20:13.155
  • Of god's two covenants.
  • 00:20:13.155 --> 00:20:14.923
  • The first woman, hagar, represents mount sinai
  • 00:20:14.923 --> 00:20:19.361
  • Where people receive the law that enslaved them."
  • 00:20:19.361 --> 00:20:22.197
  • So this hagar is actually mount sinai.
  • 00:20:22.197 --> 00:20:25.133
  • Where did the ten commandments come from?
  • 00:20:25.133 --> 00:20:27.035
  • Mount sinai, amen.
  • 00:20:27.035 --> 00:20:28.603
  • All the laws came from mount sinai,
  • 00:20:28.603 --> 00:20:31.106
  • And this mount sinai is hagar, all right?
  • 00:20:31.106 --> 00:20:34.042
  • And the result is what?
  • 00:20:34.042 --> 00:20:35.577
  • "where people received the law that enslaved them."
  • 00:20:35.577 --> 00:20:38.580
  • The king james says, "it gendereth bondage."
  • 00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:42.184
  • And now, jerusalem is just like mount sinai in arabia,
  • 00:20:42.184 --> 00:20:47.222
  • "because she and"--jerusalem, "and her children live
  • 00:20:47.222 --> 00:20:51.159
  • In slavery to the law."
  • 00:20:51.159 --> 00:20:54.229
  • And paul says, "that's why my jewish people right now,
  • 00:20:54.229 --> 00:20:56.865
  • They are in slavery," why?
  • 00:20:56.865 --> 00:20:58.567
  • Because they are under the law.
  • 00:20:58.567 --> 00:21:00.268
  • They are going back into infancy.
  • 00:21:00.268 --> 00:21:03.171
  • They are going back--they are actually backsliding
  • 00:21:03.171 --> 00:21:05.440
  • In the sense of that work.
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  • They are falling from grace, and he says that it's bondage.
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  • "but the other woman, sarah,
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  • Represents the heavenly jerusalem.
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  • She is the free woman, and she is our mother."
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  • Who is your mother?
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  • "as isaiah said, 'rejoice, o childless woman,
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  • You who have never given birth,'"
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  • Referring to sarah because she was barren
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  • All her life, "'break into a joyful shout,
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  • You who have never been in labor!
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  • For the desolate woman now has more children.'"
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  • Amen, under grace, she will have "more children than the woman
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  • Who lives with her husband."
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  • Let me tell you this: god was saying,
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  • "when you were under the law,
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  • How many people do you have that followed the law
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  • 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?
  • 00:23:39.594 --> 00:23:41.897
  • 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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