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Joseph Prince - God Wrote This For You (Don't Miss This)

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

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Joseph prince: solomon himself wrote 1,005 songs,
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The bible tell us,
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And of all the songs that he wrote,
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The holy spirit thought of this song of songs
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As the greatest of all.
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The jewish rabbi says that of all the books
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Of the bible, okay, the holy of holies
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Is the song of songs, is the holiest of all,
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But he never gave us the reason why.
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The reason is because it's not about
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Your love, it's not about boy-girl love,
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It's not about parent-child love.
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It's all about the love of the bridegroom
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For his bride, the love of christ
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For his church, and that's why
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The song of songs.
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It's "let him kiss me." so it's a song about love.
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"let him kiss me," not let me kiss him.
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It's not about your love for him.
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It's about his love for you.
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It's about the love of jesus.
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If only the church would preach the love of jesus,
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People will start loving him and loving one another.
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Let's unveil the loveliness of jesus,
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And let's unveil his love.
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I have seen for myself that some of the greatest blessings
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Come on people who know that the lord loves them.
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The greatest theme for any inspiration
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Of writing songs is always love.
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Unfortunately, the world is always like this,
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Horizontal, all right, they try to find inspiration
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Like this.
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The greatest love story is vertical, amen.
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The first mention of love in the bible is
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A father's love for the son.
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"take now your son, your only son,
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The son that you love," god spoke to abraham.
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So the first mention is always important
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In the bible, all right?
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And the first mention is love for the son,
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The father's love for the son.
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You see, you never know how much god loves you
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Until you know how much god loves jesus,
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His son, because god gave up his son for you.
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Male announcer: what if this is the moment god
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Is using to reach you?
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What if this is an invitation to live the life god
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Has called you to live?
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In today's message, joseph unveils
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Scriptural truths and divine secrets
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On how to live the overcoming life.
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Joseph prince: the bible says that in the last days,
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God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
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So we are looking forward for a worldwide revival,
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Hallelujah, amen.
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We are ready, people, for the gospel.
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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 want to continue
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On the song of songs if that's okay with you, amen.
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Do you remember last time we shared
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On the description of how the lord
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Was speaking to his bride, and he was describing
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Her beauty, remember that?
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And we shared with you that when the lord
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Describes our beauty, he speaks directly.
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He says, "your eyes, your lips, your hair," directly.
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But tonight we are about to see
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The bride's description of her lord in song of songs,
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And an amazing observation: she doesn't speak to him directly.
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She speaks of him to others.
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And there is something here that god wants us to learn,
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Because at this point of the bride's life,
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Of the lover, she's not yet his bride,
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But in those days they are betrothed
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And to be married, but she was longing for him
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Because he came to her loving, romantic, but she says,
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"you know, i'm all washed up.
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I'm all ready for bed and i'm not ready
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To go out with you."
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And he left her presence.
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Now the lord never leaves us, nor forsakes us.
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I'm giving you the backdrop of the story,
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All right?
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The last time we were in chapter 4,
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The description of the bride.
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Tonight we'll be in chapter 5, so what happened
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In the first part of chapter 5 is that the lord
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Sought to love her, but she was too self-absorbed
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With herself.
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And then when she felt, you know, the bible says
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He put his hand, all right, through the door,
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And she could see the nail.
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It doesn't say that, but i believe
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That's what it is, all right?
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It moved her heart for compassion
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Or love towards him.
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But then when she looked for him, he was gone.
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Now, like i said, the lord never leaves us
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Nor forsake us, but how many of you know
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That sometimes, sometimes the sense
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Of his presence seems to be missing.
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Then when you hear other people talk about the lord,
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You're on fire.
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You say that "i used to have that warm experience.
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I used to have that sense of nearness."
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Now you know in your heart, the lord never leaves us.
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When he says never, it is a double negative
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In the greek, no, never ever.
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But the sense of his presence can be lost, amen.
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We all wanna be near jesus, not just in our position,
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We are near to god, but near to jesus,
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The one who has brought us close to god, amen?
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So tonight is all about jesus.
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The song of songs is called the song of songs
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Because, you know, they felt that of all the songs
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In the bible, solomon himself wrote 1,005 songs,
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The bible tell us, and of all the songs
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That he wrote, the holy spirit
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Thought of this song of songs as the greatest of all.
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The jewish rabbi says that of all the books
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Of the bible, okay, the holy of holies
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Is the song of songs, is the holiest of all,
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But he never gave us the reason why.
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The reason is because it's not about
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Your love, it's not about boy-girl love,
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It's not about parent-child love.
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It's all about the love of the bridegroom
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For his bride, the love of christ
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For his church, and that's why
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The song of songs, amen.
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The greatest theme for any inspiration
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Of writing songs is always love.
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Unfortunately, the world is always like this,
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Horizontal, all right?
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They try to find inspiration like this.
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The greatest love story is vertical, amen?
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The first mention of love in the bible is
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A father's love for the son.
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"take now your son, your only son, the son
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That you love," god spoke to abraham.
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So the first mention is always important
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In the bible, all right?
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And the first mention is love for the son,
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The father's love for the son.
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You see, you never know how much god loves you
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Until you know how much god loves jesus,
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His son, because god gave up his son for you.
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And then the next mention of love in the bible
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Is the love of the bridegroom for his bride,
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Genesis 24, where he talks about abraham's servant,
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Who is not named,
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Looking for a bride for the beloved son
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Of the father.
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So who is that unnamed servant?
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He doesn't call attention to himself.
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That is the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit comes to glorify jesus christ, amen?
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So in that long journey of rebecca all the way
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To meet her isaac is a picture of the church today
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In that long journey.
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And there'll be nights where she and her handmaidens
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Will sit around the fireplace
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And the unnamed servant of abraham
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Will tell her wonderful stories
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About this beloved son, this lovely son,
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This son to whom the father loved so much
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That he gave him everything.
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Isn't that the story of the church today?
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We, just like rebecca never saw isaac,
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But she loved isaac, having heard the stories.
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We, having never seen the lord, we loved him
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Because the holy spirit can tell us more about him
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Than anyone else can.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Always remember that there's divine order
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In the bible.
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The bible is arranged in such a way
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That it doesn't mean that genesis was written first.
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In fact, job is considered by most scholars
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As the oldest book of the bible,
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But it's arranged in divine order.
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So in the old testament, you have 39 books
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In the old testament, 39 books.
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So from genesis all the way to job, you have before job,
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All right, you have what you call
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17 historical books, 17.
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Then we have five poetic books, okay,
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Of which song of songs is one of them.
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Now after the poetic books, you have another 17.
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Can you see the divine order?
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But this time 17 prophetical books,
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Major prophets and minor prophets.
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So you have 17 historical books from genesis, all the way,
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And then you start with job,
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You have psalms, proverbs, ecclesiastes, and song of songs.
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They are called the books of poetry.
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You see, history can deal with your mind,
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But poetry deals with your heart, amen.
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If you trying your best to woo that girl
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And it's not working, try writing a poetry.
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Say, "your neck is like the tower of david.
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Your hair reminds me of goats," right?
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But poetry speaks of the heart,
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And prophecy combines both mental
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As well as the heart, amen?
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And every preacher needs to learn that
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When you preach, you gotta appeal
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Not just to the intellect, which is historical,
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All right, but you gotta appeal as well as
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To the heart, to the conscience, all right?
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The conscience is more prophetical books.
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Prophecy, when someone is prophetic,
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It speaks not just to your heart,
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It touches your conscience.
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It causes readjustments in your life.
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So we must cover as much as the word of god tells us,
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All right, the order, we must make sure
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You observe that.
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But right at the heart of the bible is poetry.
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Once you are filled with the spirit,
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You speak in poetry.
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Speak to yourself in psalms, hymns.
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Psalms is what? poetry.
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You're so full of the love of jesus
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That you wanna talk about him to everyone that you meet, amen?
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Does this help you?
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Okay, let's go right into the word of god.
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Song of songs, what is it about?
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The song of songs, opens up chapter 1,
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Tells us, "the song of songs, which is solomon's.
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Let him kiss me."
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So it's a song about love.
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"let him kiss me," not let me kiss him.
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It's not about your love for him, it's about his love
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For you.
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It's about the love of jesus.
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If only the church would preach the love of jesus,
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People will start loving him and loving one another.
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It's because of the lack of anointing and skill,
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All right, in the pulpit, in unveiling the love of jesus.
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Therefore, we resort to what?
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Commandments: "you must love god, you--that's why
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You don't love god enough.
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You don't love god, that's why you're doing this,
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You don't love god enough."
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Instead of beating people on the head,
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Let's unveil the loveliness of jesus,
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And let's unveil his love.
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So she says, "hey, it's not enough for me
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To know that he loves well or he kisses well.
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Let him kiss me."
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That's personal, amen?
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I have seen for myself that some of the greatest blessings
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Come on people who know that the lord loves them.
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Great miracles happen to people who know the lord loves them.
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In this description, there's a tenfold description,
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All right, of the bridegroom.
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Incidentally, in revelations chapter 1,
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When you see the lord jesus in his majesty and glory,
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King of all kings, in chapter 1 of revelation,
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It's also tenfold description.
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So we start off with the first part.
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All right, "my beloved is white and ruddy,
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Chief among ten thousand."
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By the way, this is like the headlines.
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The rest are all in detail, answering to the headlines.
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The headlines, the big headline there,
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Is that my beloved is white and ruddy, okay?
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"chief among ten thousand."
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Now, the word "chief" is a standard bearer.
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During wartime, all right, the hero is the one
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That carries the flag when they're all retreating,
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He takes his horse and the flag,
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And he runs right-- i mean, he rides the horse
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Right through them and garrison all of them
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And rally all of them around the standard.
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Well, the word here, "chief," is the word
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The standard bearer.
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Jesus is a hero among heroes.
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Put 10,000 superheroes together, and he's chief amongst them.
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Are you listening, people?
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One time david's men said to david, "you can't go
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To war anymore.
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What happens if you die?
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You are worth 10,000 of us."
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Did you hear that?
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And the bible says in the book of revelation,
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"10,000 times 10,000."
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It means what? innumerable.
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It's an expression.
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Ten thousand times ten thousand people who are redeemed.
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I hear them sing, "worthy is the lamb."
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Put 10,000 people together, none of them compare with jesus,
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Amen?
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So the rest are all descriptive of the main headlines which is,
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"my beloved is white and ruddy, chief among 10,000."
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White is this word from the hebrew: "dazzling."
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Dazzling white, it's like your eyes can't take it.
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It's not white-white, it's dazzling.
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We all know jesus in the flesh is dark olive skin, amen?
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So this has got nothing to do with skin color, amen?
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So don't get that in your head.
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Fairest among women doesn't mean she's fair
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And she uses a special kind of cosmetic.
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No, no, no, all right?
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A shulamite most likely be under the sun, all right,
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She's olive skin, okay, so we've got nothing to do
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With the physical part.
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Fairest means most beautiful. that's it, amen?
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It's an old english word.
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And jesus being dazzling white and ruddy, yet ruddy,
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Ruddy is what?
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Red.
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That reminds me-- reminds you of david.
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David is ruddy.
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The bible says he has rosy cheeks, all right?
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So jesus, white and ruddy, speaks of his purity
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And of his passion.
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And the rest of the descriptions, people,
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Are actually extremes, opposite extremes,
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Blended together.
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You don't find this in nature.
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Often you don't find, for example, raven and dove
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To describe one person, amen.
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It's either a dove or it's a raven,
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But here you find both.
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For example, the trees are cedars.
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He's most excellent, his bearing is
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Like the cedars of lebanon.
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Cedar tree, compared to a small tree, all right,
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Bed of spices, hm.
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Then you have ivory, which is the produce
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Of a living animal, compared with marble.
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It's extremes of jesus's glory.
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I'll tell you this.
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If you look at all our mistakes,
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Me, number one, okay, all of us, our mistakes
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Are mistakes of pride.
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It's all mistakes of-- many of us, our mistakes
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Are pride.
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You know, the emotions we have, you know, like anger,
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Disappointment, a lot of it is pride.
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If you were more humble, you'd be more peaceful,
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Sick for nothing.
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Don't have a sense of entitlement.
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Hey, hey, you're sitting in my seat, you know?
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This is my seat.
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You know who you're talking to? i'm a deacon, okay?
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I'm a deacon.
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I'm a pastor.
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I'm a care group leader.
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Please, you know, when you call me pastor,
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You cannot add to my anointing, the one that god gave me.
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He's the one i'm looking at.
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If you don't call me pastor, you cannot take away also
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Because you didn't give it in the first place.
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It's very easy to sacrifice
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And give a lot, even when the lord tells you,
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But you find that when god blesses you,
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Then you start increasing your-- god promotes you in your work.
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Now all of a sudden, 10% of your income
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Becomes like, whoa, god, can i keep by installment
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Or, you know?
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When you were small, this is what the prophet told--
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This is what the prophet samuel told king saul.
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"king saul, when god chose you,
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Were you not little in your own sight?"
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Remember when they were looking for a king,
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You know, where was he?
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He was hiding.
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He didn't want to become king,
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But one day he become king and he put his hand
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In his pockets and stick his nose in the air
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And says, "who do you think you are?
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I'm the king of israel."
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And the prophet samuel says,
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"when you were little in your own eyes,
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God promoted you."
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So people, don't look at me, all right?
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It's by god's grace that the test came.
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I had to be true to that.
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And i thank god i did that.
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Boy, if i didn't do that.
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But it's the same for you. all of you have tests.
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Sometimes god will allow certain things to happen
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That is disappointing, that you won't like.
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You know, people will say things or someone will sit
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In your favorite seat or-- and it's all planned by god.
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It's all planned by god so that to see your reaction,
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So you still have pride.
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Once upon a time, you were not like that.
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You couldn't care, you're just happy to be in church.
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You had no title.
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You didn't wanna drop names about what you've done,
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What you've, you know, where you've been.
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You're just happy to talk about jesus.
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Stay low.
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That's where the water goes.
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The water flows to the lowest part.
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His dew, his favor comes.
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Never let--you know, like for me, the church says,
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"goodbye, pastor prince," i'm gonna trust
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The same one that took me to this church.
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I'm not just saying that, okay?
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Church, let's learn from the lord,
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And because of time, i'm gonna wrap this up.
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Just to let you know that there's no one like him.
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Don't put your trust in a man of god
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Or don't be horizontal.
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Be vertical. look to the lord alone.
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Handle the pleasures of this life with a loose hand,
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Always knowing where it comes from.
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When i hold my little justin in my arms,
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It's almost like i feel jesus loves me.
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And sometimes, you know, he holds me back,
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He hugs me back, and i feel like the lord
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Is hugging me.
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Because most of the time they want to run away
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And play, you know?
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But that's the same, that marriage you have.
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Don't take each other for granted.
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I know it's hard to say, "thank you, please."
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It's easy to say, "ha, hmm, hmm, huh, huh,
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Hmm, hmm, hmm, hm, hmm, hmm," but animals do that, you see.
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They don't talk, "ah, ah, ah, ah, hm, ah.
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Arooo!"
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And guys, you say that "but pastor prince,
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We are guys, we don't talk."
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Hey, the bridegroom talks, right?
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We learned from chapter 4, he describes the bride.
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Anyway, the thing is this.
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Right at the end of song of songs,
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She says, "he's altogether lovely."
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Look at what happened right after she says,
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"he's like this, he's like this, he's like that, he's like this,"
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You know what happened at the end?
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You know what happened?
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All of a sudden, the people that were asking the question,
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Look at what happened to them.
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The next chapter, they ask, "where has your beloved gone,
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O fairest among women?
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Where has your beloved turned aside,
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That we may seek him with you?"
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Now they also want him, why?
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She's been testifying of him.
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It stirred their hearts.
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It struck a passion in them for him.
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So people, when you love jesus,
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The thing is, the amazing thing is
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That she wasn't even talking to jesus.
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She was looking for him, because of her coldness,
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Her lukewarmness.
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She was looking for him and then met these women
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That asked, "who is your beloved?
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Why is he more special than other beloved?"
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Then she started talking about his beauties
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And his glories, and guess what?
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She reignite her own fire.
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And not only that, she struck fire
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In their hearts who were listening.
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So sometimes, you know, you find that you're
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Missing the lord's presence.
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He never leaves you, don't forget,
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But you sense his presence is not like before.
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Start finding somebody and start talking
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About his beauty.
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Start talking about him, sing about him.
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Talk about him, and all of a sudden, he's there.
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Because the bible tells us, if you drop down,
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Verse 2 and 3, we'll close with this: "i am--
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My beloved has gone to his garden."
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Now she knows where he is. she was looking for him.
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Just by talking about him, she knows where he is.
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Just by talking about him.
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You see, you don't have to have all the knowledge
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Of bible verses when you talk
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To your colleague or your friend.
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Just talk about him.
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Talk about how he love you.
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Talk about your own experiences.
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And remember this: no matter how argumentative
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Your friends are, the one with the experience
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Will never be at the mercy of the one with the argument.
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No one can argue against your experience, amen?
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Just talk about him.
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When she talked about him and his beauty,
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All of a sudden, she herself was revived,
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And not only that, she knows where is he,
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Where he is.
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"my beloved has gone to his garden,
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To the beds of spices, to feed his flock
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In the gardens."
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He's always feeding his flock, like tonight.
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"to gather his lilies."
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You know who are the lilies?
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Well, one day, this man whose bearing is
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As excellent as the cedars of lebanon,
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Stood on a mountainside, and i've stood
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With my pastors there on that mountainside.
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He looked at all the people, and he says,
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"look at the lilies of the field."
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He was actually talking about them.
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"they don't worry.
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Your heavenly father clothes them.
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How much more will he clothe you?"
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Better than the lilies.
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Joseph prince: stand to your feet, church.
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Thank you, lord.
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Remember, stay low.
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Give him all the glory.
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Always give him the praise.
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Always say, "by his grace."
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And when god gives you prominence,
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When god promotes you, remember, stay low
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And give him all the glory.
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Give him all the praise.
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Remove every sense of entitlement
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And grace will flow.
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Remove every sense, "i deserve this.
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I deserve better than this."
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Remove every sense of entitlement,
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And grace will flow like a river.
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And give him all the praise and all the glory always.
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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 four.
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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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And he called out somebody had a liver disease,
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And my husband goes, "look, that's you.
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Stand up." and i stood up.
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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 released me from all medications
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That i'd 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 scripture in thessalonians that said "those that there--
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Will be alive and remain until the coming of the lord,"
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That was mine.
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Joseph Prince - God Wrote This For You (Don't Miss This)

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

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