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Joseph Prince - God is Present

December 12, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God is Present | December 12, 2025

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Joseph prince: our god is not just the god of the mountain,
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He's the god of the valley as well.
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Can i have a good amen?
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When we go through valley experiences,
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And some christians unfortunately believe this,
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They think that god leave you alone.
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God will only deal with you when your life is right,
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You are impeccably holy, you have it all together.
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Then god says, "hmm, you've been doing well.
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Come up here with me."
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The mountain is a place where we commune with god,
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A place of victory, we see his glory,
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But you know something?
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Even david defeated goliath in a valley.
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The valley of elah. god gives the victory where?
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In the valley.
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Male announcer: epic battles, unexpected heroes,
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And a parted sea.
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It's time to experience the word of god
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In a fresh new way.
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In today's message, joseph opens the scroll
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On some of the most amazing scenes in scripture
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And shows you how the lord's love for us
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Has been woven into each one of them.
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If a picture can paint a thousand words,
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Imagine the wonder of a book
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Where every page reveals the beauty of jesus.
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In his book "expedition promised land,"
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Joseph brings the stories of the bible to you in full color:
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The miracle of jesus in capernaum,
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The agony and love he poured out for us
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In gethsemane,
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And the faith and confidence to calm the storm
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On the sea of galilee.
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As you take in these breathtaking sights
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Through the lens of scripture and faith,
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We pray you will experience what the disciples felt
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On the road to emmaus:
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Jesus himself drawing near, walking with you,
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And opening your eyes to see him through the pages of his word.
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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: i believe this, today is prophetic
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For all of you that's listening right now.
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It's a word from the lord.
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I decla-- god is talking to you right now.
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See him talking to you, "today i declare to you
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I will restore double to you."
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Double, amen?
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Today i'm preaching on what to do in the valley.
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When you're in the valley, what to do in the valley.
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When you're going through your valley experience, listen,
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The bible says, notice, he makes me lie down,
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He leads me, but when it comes to the valley,
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"yea, though i walk through the valley
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Of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil,
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For you are with me."
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Now he's talking to him directly.
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"your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence
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Of mine enemies."
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Isn't that the lord's table?
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And he prepares the table not in the absence
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Of your symptoms, but in the presence
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Of your symptoms.
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He prepares the table in the presence
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Of your enemies.
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Whether it's called cancer, whether it's called depression,
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Whether it's called addiction, whatever it is,
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He prepares the table.
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And notice, you didn't prepare.
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You might bring out the elements,
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But it's the lord preparing it.
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Always see the lord preparing it for you, and you won't see it
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As a legalist-- something legalistic anymore.
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But notice, when you're going through the trial,
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It's no more enough, it's not enough
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Just to tell someone about the lord.
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You need to talk to him yourself.
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"your rod, your staff, you are with me.
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I'll fear no evil, for you are with me.
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You prepare a table before me.
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You anoint my head with oil." what's the result?
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"surely goodness and mercy shall follow you."
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And the hebrew word is hunt you down
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Like an animal.
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Hunt you down.
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God's goodness and mercy will hunt you down
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All the days of your life.
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Surely god's goodness and mercy will hunt you down.
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You can't run fast enough. it's going to hunt you down.
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What a perspective, to wake up every day
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To realize god's goodness, god's mercy on one side,
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God's goodness is hunting you down
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All the days of your life until you dwell
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In the house of the lord forever, hallelujah!
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Amen! praise god!
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There is a story, a very sad story
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That happened to a man called achan,
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Where he was stoned in this valley
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Called the valley of achan or achor in hebrew,
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But god promised many years after,
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God sent a prophet called hosea.
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Let's follow the story here.
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Chapter 2, verse 15, god says, "i'll give her vineyards
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From there, and the valley of achor
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As a door of hope; she will sing there,
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As in the days of her youth."
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Like when she came out of egypt, says the lord.
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God promised to israel, and god promised to all of us
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That in your valley of achor, and achor means trouble
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In hebrew.
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In your valley of achor, god has put a door of hope.
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A door of tikvah.
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A door of tikvah.
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God has put a door of hope, literally a door of tikvah.
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By the way, your door is not found in the mountain.
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It's found right there in your valley.
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Mountain always speaks of good experiences, blessings.
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So god promised that in the valley.
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So when we feel good, it's all the blessings,
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And the mountaintop experience, that is mountain experience,
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Amen?
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And--but when you come down to the valley,
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The valley speaks of trial.
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So today my message is about what to do
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In your trial.
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What to expect in your trial, amen?
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So the devil says you're down there,
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You remain there, you'll stay in the valley.
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No, you might be going through a valley,
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But you're walking through.
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Through means you are coming out the other side, amen?
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So you're in the valley.
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God promised in your valley of trouble,
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Look for the door of hope.
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There's a door of hope, amen?
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Open the door by hoping for the best.
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Open the door because of your god.
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Hope for the best.
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Don't allow the pessimistic thoughts
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Of the situation and the circumstance
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To wear you down.
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Don't listen to all the naysayers, amen?
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"don't bother the master anymore.
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Your daughter is dead, the situation is dead,
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The marriage is dead, your son's rebellion
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Is beyond hope," listen to what jesus says.
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"don't be afraid."
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Al tirah in hebrew, don't be afraid, al tirah.
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"believe only, and she shall be well,"
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The marriage will be well, the situation
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Will work out all right, your son will be well, amen?
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Your daughter will turn out all right,
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Praise the lord.
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Their future is bright, amen.
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Do not be afraid, only believe. listen to the word of jesus.
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Don't allow the pessimistic words
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Of people, okay?
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All the prisoners of hopelessness
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To weigh you down, amen?
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Their words, praise the lord.
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So here, god promises us this, and praise god.
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Remember jesus paid the price.
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What a heavy price.
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It was in the valley that this happened.
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In a valley where the mountain there is called mount of olives
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In a little garden, because man sinned against god in a garden,
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The garden of eden, and all his suffering
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All started in the garden.
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Remember the movie, "the passion of christ"?
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It started in the garden, because that's
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Where it's all start.
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And the bible says jesus prayed in the garden,
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And this is what happened.
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"and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly."
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And the word agony here is from the greek word agonia,
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Which means intense emotional and mental exercises.
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Like you know, you are being torn,
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Like you're being pulled apart, like exercise.
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Even the word gymnastics is there in the greek
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For this word agonia, like agonizing.
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"being in agony, he prayed more earnestly.
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Then his sweat became like great drops of blood
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Falling down to the ground."
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Every word has meaning.
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The holy spirit chose the word falling down.
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The blood fall down to the ground,
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Because in a previous garden, the original garden,
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The place where everything was provided for man,
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Man only have to pick and eat.
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He didn't have to work for it.
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Everything was prepared for him.
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All things are now ready.
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God made man last so that man can enjoy
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Everything that he has created.
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But man sinned against god, and as a result,
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The fruit and the food of egypt, the picture of the world
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Is laborious and backbreaking.
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Notice the food of egypt, melons, leeks, garlics,
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Onions, it's backbreaking.
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It's all food of the ground.
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You have to bend to take it.
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But the food of canaan, the land flowing
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With milk and honey, god's land for the people,
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Is food like grapes, vine, olive oil, amen?
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Pomegranate, amen?
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Figs, all these are just for your plucking.
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You don't have to bend to collect them.
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It's a picture to all of us that the life in canaan land,
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The land of promise that god has for you
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Is a land of true rest, land where you are provided for,
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And it's not laborious pain involved in it.
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But when adam sinned against god,
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Three things god said to adam
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I want you to pay attention to.
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Number one, cursed is the ground for your sake.
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The ground is cursed.
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Number two, thorns and thistles it will bring forth.
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There were no thorns prior to this,
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But now thorns will come out.
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And that's why jesus wore the crown of thorns.
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Every time you have a thought that hurts you,
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That makes you agonize, every time
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You have a painful thought, every time you are fearful,
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A fearful thought makes you afraid
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When you're lying down in the middle of the night,
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When you wake up with fearful thoughts
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And that thorn pricks your mind,
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And another fearful thought pricks your mind,
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And that's the time to remember
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Jesus bore your crown of thorns so that you don't have to.
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He freed you from it.
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So god said the ground is cursed,
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Thorns it will bring forth.
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And then god said to man, "from now on,
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By the sweat of your face, you will eat bread."
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It won't come easy anymore.
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All this is the result of man's sin.
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And here it says jesus sweat in the garden
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Until his sweat became like drops of blood.
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It's a condition that medical field,
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They call it hematidrosis.
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Which means under extreme pressure,
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It has happened before.
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There are people under extreme pressure,
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Their capillaries, especially around their brow,
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The capillaries break, and blood comes out as sweat.
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Sweat and blood is mingled.
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But there's something about the blood of jesus
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That's unique.
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Number one, there's no sin in his blood.
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Number two, he's fully god and fully man,
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Therefore, it's divine blood.
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Number three, the blood of jesus always cleanses,
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Always restores, always redeems.
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And the moment he sweat, he agonized,
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It's as if he took your agony upon himself in the garden.
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That's where it started.
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He took your agony, and then it was so terrible,
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The very thought of becoming sin on the cross.
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He's not there yet, he's not even sin yet
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At the cross, but the very thought
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Of becoming sin shudders him so much.
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For you and i, we are used to sin, you know?
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But we can't imagine a god, the son of god
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Who loved the father so, whose nature is sinless,
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Who has never even tasted sin, who never wants
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To be near sin even, and to have a holy nature like jesus.
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How much he suffered when he thought
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About even becoming sin and how much more
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When he became sin on the cross?
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If the very thought of becoming sin
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In anticipation caused him to sweat blood,
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He was bearing your depression, he was bearing your agony
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Upon himself, and he sweat blood.
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But the moment his blood that redeems met the sweat,
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He redeemed and bought us
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Out of human depression.
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Sweat, human sweat, human obsession,
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Human darkness of pessimism, he set us free
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Because he sweat blood.
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And notice the holy spirit says it fell to the?
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The blood that saves, the blood that restores,
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The blood that redeems fell to the ground.
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The ground was cursed.
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Now everywhere you walk is blessed.
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When we go through valley experiences,
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And some christians unfortunately believe this,
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They think that god leave you alone.
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God will only deal with you when your life is right.
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You are impeccably holy, you have it all together,
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Then god says, "hmm, you've been doing well.
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Come up here with me.
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All right, now i can deal with you, okay?
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But i can't deal with you when you are dirty,
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When you are--you know, when you have done wrong,
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And you have messed it up, and you are--
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And the trouble you are in now is the trouble
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Of your own making.
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And now you've got lung problems and all that.
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Doctors diagnosed the disease and all that.
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But you are still smoking. what's the problem?
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You know what?
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Until you change all that and come up to where i am,
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Where there's fresh air and all that,
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I cannot do anything for you."
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That's how the world sees god.
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They see a god that's based on merit.
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You know, it's true that we have some of the best experiences
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With the lord on the mountaintop.
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It is true that in the bible, for example,
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In the gospel of matthew alone,
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There are seven mountains mentioned,
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And each one has a significance.
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Jesus preached one of his best sermons
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That the world knows about even, called the sermon on the mount.
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Jesus was transfigured on a mount.
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We see his glory on the mount.
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And when we come to church, it's almost like we are in the--
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At mount zion, worshipping the lord.
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It's true, the mountain is the place
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Where we commune with god, a place of victory,
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We see his glory.
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But you know something?
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Even david defeated goliath in a valley, the valley of elah.
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God gives the victory where?
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In the valley.
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Hallelujah.
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Our god is not just the god of the mountain,
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He is the god of the valley as well.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Many years after, and this is a fresh revelation.
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How many like fresh revelation?
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As i was preparing this, the lord spoke to me,
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And i've studied this passage so many times,
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But i didn't see it, and the lord
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Just let the scales fall off my eyes.
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Look at this genesis, it says, "melchizedek king of salem
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Brought out bread and wine; he was the priest
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Of god most high."
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Did i show you the victory of the 100,000 men killed?
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I did, right?
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Okay, now melchizedek is a picture of jesus.
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You all know that.
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He's the king of salem, the old name for jerusalem.
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And he brought out what?
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Bread and wine to abraham after the battle of the kings.
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Abram defeated four kings at once.
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God gave him the victory.
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And king melchizedek, king of jerusalem,
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Brought out bread and wine.
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We know he's a picture of the lord jesus christ.
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All of a sudden, the scales fell off my eyes.
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I read this so many times.
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Do you know jerusalem is on a mountain, mount moriah?
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And it says, as you will see, he came down
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To the king's valley.
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King's valley is the valley of kidron
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Right below.
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In other words, he came down the mountain
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To the valley where abraham was with the communion.
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When you are going through your valley experience,
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Partake of the lord's supper.
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And don't see yourself bringing to him
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The bread and the wine, see yourself receiving from him.
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He's waiting for you, not you waiting for him.
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He's waiting for you to receive his love, amen.
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Wow, when i saw that-- by the way,
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Just to show you the context,
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He came bringing-- look at the verse before this.
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The king of sodom was there.
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What an issue.
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The king of sodom represents the devil.
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He went out to meet abraham at the valley of shaveh.
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That is the king's valley.
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The holy spirit mentioned the valley
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As the king's valley.
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And the lord said to me, "it became the king's valley--
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That valley of darkness became the king's valley
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Because i came down there."
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Now, why is this important?
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In other words, melchizedek, jesus brought bread and wine
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Down the mountain of jerusalem, mount moriah.
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Came down and gave the bread and wine
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To abraham, who was in the valley of darkness.
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Kidron is known, kidron is darkness,
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The valley of kidron, which is king's valley.
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Many years after, another son of david
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Would betray his own father, and then he would
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Erect a monument, a pillar in this valley,
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And here it says king's valley as well.
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Absalom in his lifetime set up a pillar,
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Which is in the king's valley.
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Now, if you go to israel today, you go to the king's valley,
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You will see this picture.
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I will show you that right now.
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That's the mountain where the city of salem
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Is there, jerusalem.
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Now, melchizedek came down the mountain
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To the valley on the left.
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Can you see the pillar of absalom?
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Now, most likely this is a later creation.
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They built over, most likely, the original site of the pillar.
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But it's still known as absalom's pillar until today.
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It's in the king's valley.
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So we know that the king's valley
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Is the kidron valley.
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And the kidron valley, meaning kidron is darkness.
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The valley of darkness has become--
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The valley of the shadow of death
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Has become the king's valley, because the bread and wine.
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Receive the bread and wine.
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I used to think, lord, you know, god always mentioned
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These three together, bread, wine, oil.
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Bread, wine, oil, right?
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The grain, the vine, the wine, and the oil.
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Where is the oil here?
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On the same vicinity of the valley,
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There is a garden nearby.
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And many years after, the greatest son of david
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Will be sweating blood in that garden.
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His blood would drop to the ground.
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It was in the valley at the foot of a mountain
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Called mount of olives.
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And he would shed his blood in a place called oil press,
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Gethsemane, gat shemanim, a place of oil press.
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So now you have the oil, you have the bread,
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You have the wine.
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Of course, my study became--
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♪ heaven came down ♪
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♪ and glory filled my soul ♪
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♪ when on the cross ♪
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♪ my jesus made me whole ♪♪
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Joseph prince: i'm telling you, i love it when i feed you all,
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I get fed myself.
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I get fed myself, amen?
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What a beautiful, beautiful picture.
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In closing, let me just share with you this.
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I just want to--
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By the way, i showed you just now, right?
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What's the verse after, "yea, though i walk
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Through the valley of the shadow of death?"
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What's the next verse?
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You prepare a table before me.
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Right in the valley, look for the table.
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It's a door of hope.
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The table is a door of hope, amen?
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That your future does not have to be
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Like what it is today.
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God can change it. god is the god of hope.
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Now, listen, listen.
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The devil says god will only love you
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When you're on the mountain, when you have your behavior
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All together, when you have a mountaintop experience
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With god.
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No, no, no, even when you fail, god will come down
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To your valley and love you.
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In the highest mountain in israel, mount hermon,
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About 10,000 feet, the son heard the father say,
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"you are my beloved son.
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This is my beloved son."
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In the lowest valley in the entire world,
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The jordan valley, jesus was baptized.
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When he came up, the father says,
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"you are my beloved son.
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In you i'm well pleased."
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In the lowest valley in the world, the jordan valley.
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Friend, god is not just the god of the mountain.
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When you do right, yes, he is with you.
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But when you fail, all the more, a child in tears
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Belongs in the father's arms.
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He will never leave you, he will never forsake you.
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He is there in the valley with you.
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It might be dark like the kidron valley.
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It might seem hopeless like the valley of achor,
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Full of trouble, one trouble after another.
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You are retrenched, you can't imagine a job
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That can give you the same kind of pay.
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But god is saying, "yes, yes, it may seem
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These things are against you, but i have a hope
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And a positive expectation for you, my child.
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Put your trust in me, because your secure has been--
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Your future is secure, bought by the blood of jesus."
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So, if that is you, wherever you are right now,
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Just put on the helmet of salvation.
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From now on, i choose not to be hopeless or helpless.
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Even in my emotions, i renounce it all
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In jesus's name.
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Say that right now before the lord.
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And i put on, lord, the helmet of hope,
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A positive expectation of good.
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Make me, father, a prisoner of hope
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Where it becomes a default mode, it becomes a default mode.
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I'm a hopeful person, because i know
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It is not based on something of my whim and fancy,
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But it's based on the eternal and sure foundation
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Of the word of god and the blood of jesus.
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Joseph prince: the lord bless you and your families
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This week.
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The lord make his face shine upon you
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And be favorable to you.
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The favor of god, favor, favor, favor.
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He will give you double favor this week, amen?
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Double favor to confirm his word throughout this week.
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Double favor coming your way.
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Double favor.
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And the lord opens the door of hope.
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For all those of you who are bound
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With a sense of helplessness and hopelessness,
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God opened the door of hope.
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And what god opens, no man can shut.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you and your families
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And grant this wonderful gift.
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Until today in israel, they pronounce this gift
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On each other.
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The lord bless you and your families
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With shalom peace, well-being, wholeness,
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And health in every part of your spirit, soul, and body
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Throughout this week.
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In the name of jesus and the lord, deliver you,
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Keep you, protect you throughout this week
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From every danger, from every infection,
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From all the power of the evil one.
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In the name of the lord jesus christ,
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Put you at the right place at the right time,
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In jesus's name, god make all of you
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Slaves of hope.
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In jesus's name, amen.
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God bless you. see you again.
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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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Before december 31.
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Visit josephprince.org
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To make your gift now.
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Female: 2022, i was diagnosed with cancer.
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I had a lump in my breast.
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They had diagnosed it as a stage 4.
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The cancer had spread to my liver, my bone,
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And the breast, of course.
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My husband and i were watching joseph prince one night.
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He called out "somebody had a liver disease,"
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And my husband goes, "look, that's you, stand up."
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And i stood up, we stood up in my living room,
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And he prayed over me about the liver.
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And in november of 2022, i got the report back
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That my liver was healing very, very well.
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In fact, by march it was totally gone.
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And so i have no cancer in me today,
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And they've released me from all medications
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That i've been taking for two years.
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So i am free from it.
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Thank you, jesus. thank you, jesus.
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Had i have not known about the grace of god
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And this ministry, i don't know where i'd be.
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And i remember joseph prince said that those--
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That that scripture in thessalonians that said,
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"those that there will be alive and remain
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Until the coming of the lord," that was mine.
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♪♪♪
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Joseph Prince - God is Present

December 12, 2025 | 29:45

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