Joseph Prince - God's Comeback Plan for You Starts Now

December 29, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God's Comeback Plan for You Starts Now | December 29, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: i'm going to say this prophetically
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  • To many of you that are watching right now.
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  • I know the situation looks bleak and dark.
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  • It shall be well for you, amen.
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  • This coming year, you will see wellness.
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  • You will see wholeness.
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  • You will see a shalom in every area of your life.
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  • Shalom means what?
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  • Even though there's death right now,
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  • God will turn the whole thing around.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Shalom means it shall be well.
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  • Male announcer: as we say goodbye to 2025,
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  • Let's look back with gratitude and step into the new year
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  • With hope.
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  • In today's message, joseph shares a word to help you enter
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  • The new year with a positive expectation of good
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  • For a better tomorrow.
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  • Imagine having the power to reset your day
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  • And the vision to redefine your future.
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  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: go to god's word in acts chapter 9,
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  • The passage that god gave it to me.
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  • And god said to me, you know, i want you to study this passage
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  • Because there are nuggets of gold i'm going to give you
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  • In this upper chamber.
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  • I literally realized that there is that word "chamber."
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  • I was studying from my king james bible,
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  • And the king james bible that i was studying
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  • Actually unveiled the word "chamber," in this story.
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  • And god is saying that's where you are
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  • And that's where you're going to stay.
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  • Tell the people, stay in that place
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  • Of the upper chamber, the third floor.
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  • Stay there where all the blessings are,
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  • Where miracles happen,
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  • Where the spirit of god can lead you, amen,
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  • Where the angels of god
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  • And innumerable company of angels.
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  • You will need this, amen, in these last days,
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  • And the lord says that-- stay in that realm,
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  • Stay in the spirit.
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  • That's the spirit realm, the heavenly places in christ, amen.
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  • Position-wise, we are in christ.
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  • Experiential-wise, we are in the spirit on earth here.
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  • And every time you are in the spirit,
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  • Every time you touch the spirit,
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  • Every time you allow yourself to be led by the spirit,
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  • You are actually effectively and practically living
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  • In the third heaven, in the heavenly places,
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  • In that upper chamber, amen?
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  • So let's look at this story here.
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  • "at joppa there was a certain disciple
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  • Named tabitha, which is translated dorcas."
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  • Whenever the bible emphasizes things like her name is tabitha,
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  • Which is translated dorcas,
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  • Tabitha is aramaic, dorcas is greek, same name.
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  • God wants us to pay attention to names in this story, okay?
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  • So this lady is called tabitha,
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  • Which is--the name means gazelle in aramaic.
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  • In hebrew as well, it is tabea, which is actually the word used
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  • In song of songs more than one time,
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  • And dorcas in the greek.
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  • "this woman was full of good works
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  • And charitable deeds which she did.
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  • But it happened in those days that she became sick and died.
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  • When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room."
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  • By the way, in verse 36, "at joppa--
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  • Joppa there was a certain disciple."
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  • Notice this place, joppa, which is present-day jaffa,
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  • And death to someone that we esteem
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  • Not deserving of death.
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  • Yet, we know even today, ever since adam sinned,
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  • Death has spread down.
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  • All men, the bible says, die, amen.
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  • All men die--except for the generation
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  • That will see jesus come for them.
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  • But the christian posture, the bible tells us
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  • That we don't look to the grave; we look to the heavens.
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  • We look for the coming of our lord jesus christ,
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  • Looking for the return of his son.
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  • And the bible says that in more than one place
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  • In the new testament--
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  • To look for jesus's return for us.
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  • We don't look to the grave.
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  • We don't keep on saying things like, you know,
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  • Stop saying things like, one day, we're all going to die.
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  • No, no, in fact, that's not a christian posture.
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  • The christian posture is that we are looking for
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  • The coming of our lord and savior jesus christ, amen.
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  • Keep on looking up, not looking down, okay?
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  • So but in the place of beauty, there came death.
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  • And when god gave me this passage,
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  • This is what i heard him say: how to have beautiful days
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  • In this coming year, okay?
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  • He's going to show us how to have beautiful days.
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  • Now, i don't like to give titles to my sermons, you know?
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  • I'm not one of those that give titles for the sermons,
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  • But this is what i heard: how to have beautiful days
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  • This coming year, amen?
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  • God did not say every day is going to be beautiful days
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  • Or good days.
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  • He says that many good days. you know how he gave that to me?
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  • As i read this passage, right at the last part of the passage,
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  • In fact, this verse here finishes the entire chapter 9,
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  • And it ends with this verse.
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  • It says, "so it was that he, simon peter, stayed many days
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  • In joppa with simon, a tanner."
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  • It was that he stayed many days in joppa;
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  • So, many beautiful days, god said.
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  • Don't forget, this whole passage here,
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  • God gave us an inkling to study the names, right?
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  • Tabitha, who is also named dorcas.
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  • God wants us to study this because there are also types
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  • In the new testament.
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  • For example, in the book of acts,
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  • In another place, paul was sailing
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  • And there was a storm.
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  • And then finally, they refused to listen to paul,
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  • And there was a shipwreck.
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  • And where did they ended up in? what's the name of the island?
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  • Malta.
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  • Malta means honey, so the land of milk and honey.
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  • How to reach there?
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  • So christendom--the ship is the ship of christendom.
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  • Christendom does not mean that everyone
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  • Is a true, born-again believer.
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  • It means that once you call yourself a christian,
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  • You are part of christendom.
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  • Okay, that ship did not listen to paul, paul's preaching.
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  • As a result, there was shipwreck.
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  • They should have listened to paul.
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  • And paul finally stood up and says,
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  • "sirs, you should have harkened unto me," okay?
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  • "and not suffered this loss."
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  • But nonetheless, they were all saved.
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  • Those that listened to paul, they were all saved.
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  • And they ended up in an island called malta,
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  • The land of milk and honey, amen, and praise the lord.
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  • So there's a picture of the church.
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  • So even stories in the book of acts can be types.
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  • So back to this story again in dorcas's story and joppa,
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  • A place called beautiful.
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  • So we have established that there are types
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  • Even in new testament.
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  • And what is the type here?
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  • "this woman was full of good works
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  • And charitable deeds which she did."
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  • You know, the church of jesus christ,
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  • She's a picture of the church.
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  • The church is usually typified by the woman, amen?
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  • And the church is known, or should be known,
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  • For her alms-giving, her good deeds,
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  • Her charitable deeds.
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  • And also, the bible says she was a woman
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  • That a lot of people love.
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  • As you will see later on, many people love her.
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  • She had favor, amen?
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  • That's the church of jesus christ,
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  • The church of jesus christ that god is raising
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  • Even in these last days, amen.
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  • We need to see what god is doing, amen.
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  • So here, we have dorcas, who died,
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  • And "they laid her in an upper room,"
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  • An upper room.
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  • Now, there are people who dispute.
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  • "well, you know, the christians on this side of heaven
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  • Should not have dreams about good days.
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  • You know, we are called to suffer for jesus,"
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  • And that's so.
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  • The bible says it is given unto you on behalf of christ
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  • To suffer for his name's sake.
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  • When we suffer for his name's sake,
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  • The spirit of glory and of god rests on you.
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  • The only suffering i see in the bible,
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  • In the new testament, that a believer--
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  • I mean, you don't have to believe for it.
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  • It's going to happen.
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  • You will suffer for the name of jesus.
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  • You will suffer as a believer, but i don't see anywhere else
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  • That we suffer the things that jesus carried at the cross.
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  • And the bible says in isaiah 53 very clearly
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  • And in matthew chapter 8 and all that,
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  • That not only he carried our sins,
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  • He carried our diseases, he carried our pains,
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  • "and himself took our infirmities"
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  • In matthew 8:17.
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  • "and with his stripes, we are healed."
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  • Not only that, the scriptures tell us, you know,
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  • "the grace of our lord jesus christ
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  • At the cross that though he was rich,
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  • Yet for your sakes he became poor."
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  • When did jesus become poor? not before the cross, right?
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  • Every time there was a need, he could supply that need
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  • With 12 basketsful left over,
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  • But he became poor at the cross.
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  • Why did he become poor?
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  • The last thing he saw, one of the last things he saw
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  • Were the soldiers gambling for his clothes.
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  • And he became poor that you and i, the bible says,
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  • That you, through his poverty, might become rich.
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  • Now, rich doesn't mean become, you know, greedy
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  • And just have avarice in your heart.
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  • No, no, i'm talking about being blessed to be a blessing.
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  • So part of it, and we cannot deny it,
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  • The bible says that he became poor.
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  • Now, jesus didn't become poor spiritually, right,
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  • So that we can become rich spiritually.
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  • The context there is not referring to that at all.
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  • Read the context.
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  • It's talking about giving, finances,
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  • And the whole way, you find "god loves the cheerful giver,"
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  • The churches of macedonia, giving to the poor saints
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • That whole context is there when this verse appears--
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  • That, through his poverty, you might become rich.
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  • He's talking to the church about you can afford
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  • To be generous because you have become rich,
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  • Lavishly supplied, amen,
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  • Because of what christ did at the cross.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Some of you are experiencing, like, financial death
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  • Because you've just been retrenched,
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  • And you feel like, you know, a form of death.
  • 00:10:18.561 --> 00:10:20.396
  • That's a form of death.
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  • Or breakdown of marriage or relationships,
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  • It's a form of death.
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  • Can god resurrect it?
  • 00:10:25.668 --> 00:10:27.937
  • Can god turn your days of death and darkness
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  • Into beautiful days?
  • 00:10:33.075 --> 00:10:35.878
  • That's like a song-- "into beautiful days."
  • 00:10:35.878 --> 00:10:37.913
  • Someone write the song, beautiful days in christ, amen.
  • 00:10:37.913 --> 00:10:41.217
  • So here we go.
  • 00:10:41.217 --> 00:10:42.551
  • "and they laid her in an upper room."
  • 00:10:42.551 --> 00:10:44.854
  • There was another body, a corpse that was laid in an upper room.
  • 00:10:44.854 --> 00:10:49.325
  • Does it ring a bell?
  • 00:10:49.325 --> 00:10:50.960
  • In 2 kings chapter 4, there's a story whereby there was
  • 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:55.131
  • A wealthy woman of shunem, all right, a shunammite.
  • 00:10:55.131 --> 00:10:58.701
  • And she told her husband this in 2 kings 4.
  • 00:10:58.701 --> 00:11:02.705
  • "she said to her husband, behold now i know that this
  • 00:11:02.705 --> 00:11:04.573
  • Is a holy man of god who is continually passing
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  • Our way," and that was elisha.
  • 00:11:07.610 --> 00:11:10.646
  • "let us make a small room on the roof."
  • 00:11:10.646 --> 00:11:13.082
  • Now, traditionally, their house is two floors,
  • 00:11:13.082 --> 00:11:15.384
  • But if you "make a small room on the roof with walls,"
  • 00:11:15.384 --> 00:11:18.254
  • What does that make that room?
  • 00:11:18.254 --> 00:11:19.588
  • The third chamber, amen, the third floor room.
  • 00:11:19.588 --> 00:11:24.293
  • "and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp,
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  • So that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.
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  • One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber
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  • And rested there."
  • 00:11:33.035 --> 00:11:34.370
  • All right, so actually, she provided a place
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  • For the man of god.
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  • And the man of god was very grateful,
  • 00:11:38.541 --> 00:11:39.875
  • And the man of god told his servant, gehazi,
  • 00:11:39.875 --> 00:11:42.178
  • "go ask her what she wants us to do for her," amen?
  • 00:11:42.178 --> 00:11:46.949
  • "for all the good that you have done to us, tell me.
  • 00:11:46.949 --> 00:11:50.753
  • Tell me, what do you need?" and she says, "you know what?
  • 00:11:50.753 --> 00:11:53.289
  • I'm just happy to be where i am."
  • 00:11:53.289 --> 00:11:54.690
  • Then gehazi whispered in elijah's ears and says,
  • 00:11:54.690 --> 00:11:58.194
  • "she's without a child, and her husband is very old."
  • 00:11:58.194 --> 00:12:00.696
  • So elisha called her and says,
  • 00:12:00.696 --> 00:12:03.098
  • "at this time next year, you will have a son."
  • 00:12:03.098 --> 00:12:05.367
  • And true enough, she had a son.
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  • And one day, the son was out with the father,
  • 00:12:07.536 --> 00:12:10.873
  • Out there in the field and all of a sudden, he shouted,
  • 00:12:10.873 --> 00:12:12.875
  • "my head, my head." and i think it was heat stroke.
  • 00:12:12.875 --> 00:12:17.313
  • And the bible says the boy was brought to the mother.
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  • And this is what happened.
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  • "when the father lifted the boy and brought him to his mother,
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  • The child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died."
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  • Now, this shunammite woman, the mother went up
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  • And laid the boy on the bed of the man of god.
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  • She went up to the third chamber,
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  • To the third floor,
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  • "and she laid the boy on the bed of the man of god
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  • And shut the door behind him and went out."
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  • So she laid him.
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  • What a thing for a mother to do
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  • When her son has just died, the son that she dearly loved.
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  • The son that she's been longing for all the past years
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  • Has finally arrived, and the boy died,
  • 00:12:50.746 --> 00:12:52.848
  • But what did she do?
  • 00:12:52.848 --> 00:12:54.183
  • She laid him in the upper chamber,
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  • Just like they laid tabitha in the upper chamber,
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  • And she closed the door behind her.
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  • All this has meaning,
  • 00:13:02.324 --> 00:13:03.659
  • And i just wanted to see this first.
  • 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:05.661
  • And she shut the door behind the boy and went out.
  • 00:13:05.661 --> 00:13:10.132
  • Now, she went to look for elisha,
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  • And you all know the story.
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  • Elisha was away at that time, and she found elisha.
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  • Elisha asked her, asked her this question,
  • 00:13:18.607 --> 00:13:20.609
  • "is it shalom with you?" and she said, "shalom."
  • 00:13:20.609 --> 00:13:23.445
  • Now, in our english bible, it says, "is it well with you?"
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  • She says, "it is well."
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  • That's where the wonderful hymn, the beautiful hymn,
  • 00:13:27.349 --> 00:13:30.786
  • "it is well with my soul," came from, from this story.
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  • Instead of saying that "no, my son just died,"
  • 00:13:33.255 --> 00:13:34.857
  • She says, "shalom."
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  • She didn't lie. shalom means what?
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  • Even though there's death right now, amen,
  • 00:13:37.993 --> 00:13:40.362
  • God will turn the whole thing around.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Shalom means it shall be well, amen.
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  • It shall be, not well now, but it shall be, amen?
  • 00:13:46.268 --> 00:13:51.073
  • I'm going to say this prophetically
  • 00:13:51.073 --> 00:13:52.574
  • To many of you that are watching right now.
  • 00:13:52.574 --> 00:13:54.209
  • I know the situation looks bleak and dark.
  • 00:13:54.209 --> 00:13:56.412
  • It shall be well for you, amen.
  • 00:13:56.412 --> 00:13:59.515
  • This coming year, you will see wellness.
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  • You will see wholeness.
  • 00:14:03.352 --> 00:14:05.354
  • You will see shalom in every area of your life
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  • If you will just apply what god wants us to learn
  • 00:14:09.658 --> 00:14:12.494
  • From this story here.
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  • "and shut the door behind him and went up.
  • 00:14:13.829 --> 00:14:15.898
  • And when elisha came in," you all know the story.
  • 00:14:15.898 --> 00:14:17.666
  • Elisha prayed for the boy.
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  • He went on top of the boy and prayed for the boy.
  • 00:14:19.001 --> 00:14:20.769
  • Now the boy is sandwiched between the anointing upon,
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  • Anointing below on the bed, amen?
  • 00:14:23.339 --> 00:14:26.408
  • And the boy was raised from the dead.
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  • Surround that child, amen, with the anointing of god.
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  • Inundate the child with the anointing of--
  • 00:14:31.246 --> 00:14:32.881
  • Play godly music, amen.
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  • If they are in your car, don't come on allowing them
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  • To say, "i want to hear this worldly music.
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  • I want to hear that"-- you know, listen.
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  • Let them hear what you want to hear, amen?
  • 00:14:41.623 --> 00:14:43.959
  • Surround them with the anointing of god.
  • 00:14:43.959 --> 00:14:45.828
  • And here and there, the holy spirit
  • 00:14:45.828 --> 00:14:47.596
  • Will find a way, a crevice in their hearts here and there,
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  • And the light will shine in and will turn them around,
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  • Amen, because that's what happened to you and i, amen?
  • 00:14:52.434 --> 00:14:55.304
  • God had mercy on us. why not our children?
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  • Praise the lord. thank you, jesus.
  • 00:14:57.673 --> 00:14:59.241
  • Okay, let's go back to tabitha's story, verse 38,
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  • "since lydda was near joppa--" very quickly,
  • 00:15:01.977 --> 00:15:04.279
  • Lydda means travail, or strife; joppa is beautiful.
  • 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:09.018
  • So whenever--you know, the devil is trying to bring strife
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  • Near the place of beauty.
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  • The place of beauty is your beautiful days, right?
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  • I was saying just now that some believers don't believe
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  • That jesus carried also, all right, the evi--
  • 00:15:20.596 --> 00:15:23.232
  • You know that the cross for jesus, amen,
  • 00:15:23.232 --> 00:15:25.968
  • In terms of all that's happening,
  • 00:15:25.968 --> 00:15:27.436
  • Is an evil day.
  • 00:15:27.436 --> 00:15:28.771
  • Yet, god turned it into the most beautiful day, amen?
  • 00:15:28.771 --> 00:15:31.740
  • Through the cross, we are saved.
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  • Through the cross, we are blessed.
  • 00:15:33.142 --> 00:15:34.476
  • Through the cross, we are redeemed.
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  • Hallelujah. praise the lord.
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  • God wants you to have beautiful days, good days.
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  • Is that scriptural?
  • 00:15:40.082 --> 00:15:41.417
  • Is it biblical for a believer to believe god
  • 00:15:41.417 --> 00:15:47.823
  • For beautiful days,
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  • For good days in this coming year?
  • 00:15:49.158 --> 00:15:51.260
  • Is it?
  • 00:15:51.260 --> 00:15:52.594
  • Well, let's look at what the bible says.
  • 00:15:52.594 --> 00:15:54.029
  • We must always go by what the bible says.
  • 00:15:54.029 --> 00:15:55.597
  • The bible says in 1 peter 3, "he who would love life
  • 00:15:55.597 --> 00:15:59.568
  • And see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil."
  • 00:15:59.568 --> 00:16:03.305
  • The very first area, refrain your tongue from evil.
  • 00:16:03.305 --> 00:16:05.974
  • Notice, love life. is it wrong to love life?
  • 00:16:05.974 --> 00:16:08.877
  • Then why is god's spirit encouraging us
  • 00:16:08.877 --> 00:16:12.448
  • Through his word to love life and to see good days?
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  • Do you want to love life and see good days?
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  • He's telling you about your future.
  • 00:16:17.886 --> 00:16:19.388
  • The first area, watch your tongue.
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  • Watch your tongue, amen? then, watch this.
  • 00:16:21.190 --> 00:16:23.792
  • Then "turning to the body," and the bible says,
  • 00:16:23.792 --> 00:16:26.395
  • "she opened her eyes, and when she saw peter
  • 00:16:26.395 --> 00:16:28.363
  • She sat up.
  • 00:16:28.363 --> 00:16:29.698
  • Then he gave her his hand and lifted her up;
  • 00:16:29.698 --> 00:16:31.366
  • And when he had called the saints and widows,
  • 00:16:31.366 --> 00:16:33.402
  • He presented her alive.
  • 00:16:33.402 --> 00:16:35.104
  • And it became known throughout all joppa,
  • 00:16:35.104 --> 00:16:38.073
  • And many believed on the lord."
  • 00:16:38.073 --> 00:16:39.641
  • Heh, i'm also reminded when david was told by his brother--
  • 00:16:39.641 --> 00:16:43.612
  • He brought some cheeses and bread and all that
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  • To the battlefield and where goliath
  • 00:16:45.848 --> 00:16:48.217
  • Was challenging the army of israel.
  • 00:16:48.217 --> 00:16:51.053
  • Remember that?
  • 00:16:51.053 --> 00:16:52.387
  • And how his brother eliab saw him and said,
  • 00:16:52.387 --> 00:16:54.323
  • "what are you doing here?
  • 00:16:54.323 --> 00:16:55.657
  • What are you doing here?"
  • 00:16:55.657 --> 00:16:57.259
  • And remember what david says? "is there not a cause?"
  • 00:16:57.259 --> 00:17:02.464
  • His brother was questioning his motives.
  • 00:17:02.464 --> 00:17:04.133
  • This is what the brother said actually.
  • 00:17:04.133 --> 00:17:05.467
  • I have the passage here.
  • 00:17:05.467 --> 00:17:06.802
  • "now, eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men;
  • 00:17:06.802 --> 00:17:09.438
  • And eliab's anger was aroused against david.
  • 00:17:09.438 --> 00:17:11.540
  • He says, 'why do you come here?
  • 00:17:11.540 --> 00:17:13.075
  • With whom have you left those few sheep
  • 00:17:13.075 --> 00:17:14.610
  • In the wilderness?
  • 00:17:14.610 --> 00:17:15.944
  • I know your pride and the insolence of your heart,
  • 00:17:15.944 --> 00:17:18.046
  • For you have come down to see the battle."'
  • 00:17:18.046 --> 00:17:22.184
  • Look at what david did.
  • 00:17:22.184 --> 00:17:23.952
  • "david says, 'what have i done now?
  • 00:17:23.952 --> 00:17:25.554
  • Is there not a cause?' then he turned from him."
  • 00:17:25.554 --> 00:17:28.657
  • Say "turn from him." turn from him.
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  • Learn to turn from all your naysayers,
  • 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.327
  • From your critics.
  • 00:17:32.327 --> 00:17:33.662
  • Turn away from all the negative bombardment
  • 00:17:33.662 --> 00:17:35.631
  • Of the social media, amen?
  • 00:17:35.631 --> 00:17:38.700
  • Yeah, i'm not saying, i'm not one of those
  • 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:40.802
  • That is against social media.
  • 00:17:40.802 --> 00:17:42.137
  • Okay, i'm not.
  • 00:17:42.137 --> 00:17:43.472
  • But you know, don't get entangled
  • 00:17:43.472 --> 00:17:45.507
  • In the web of negativism and pessimism and fear
  • 00:17:45.507 --> 00:17:50.112
  • And unbelief.
  • 00:17:50.112 --> 00:17:52.614
  • You don't even know.
  • 00:17:52.614 --> 00:17:53.949
  • Sometimes, some of the dramas you're watching,
  • 00:17:53.949 --> 00:17:55.384
  • If it's negative throughout, amen, just move on.
  • 00:17:55.384 --> 00:17:59.488
  • Forget it, amen, or else you start thinking like,
  • 00:17:59.488 --> 00:18:03.292
  • "this can happen to my family.
  • 00:18:03.292 --> 00:18:04.793
  • This can happen to my husband, my wife.
  • 00:18:04.793 --> 00:18:07.129
  • This can happen to me."
  • 00:18:07.129 --> 00:18:08.931
  • Once the mentality happens, the devil's got you.
  • 00:18:08.931 --> 00:18:11.733
  • You can't see good days when you are uttering things like this.
  • 00:18:11.733 --> 00:18:16.972
  • You are watching things like this, hm?
  • 00:18:16.972 --> 00:18:19.875
  • Okay, "it became known throughout all joppa
  • 00:18:19.875 --> 00:18:23.178
  • And many believed on the lord."
  • 00:18:23.178 --> 00:18:24.513
  • Look at this, salvation. "many believed on the lord."
  • 00:18:24.513 --> 00:18:28.217
  • Became known throughout all this place of beauty, amen.
  • 00:18:28.217 --> 00:18:31.653
  • Joppa means beautiful, and many believed on the lord.
  • 00:18:31.653 --> 00:18:34.423
  • That's what the lord wants--salvation.
  • 00:18:34.423 --> 00:18:36.525
  • The reason he does all these miracles for us,
  • 00:18:36.525 --> 00:18:39.127
  • The reason he blesses us so that others can be provoked,
  • 00:18:39.127 --> 00:18:42.364
  • Amen, to jealousy.
  • 00:18:42.364 --> 00:18:44.166
  • The bible says god wants to bless you in such a way--
  • 00:18:44.166 --> 00:18:45.901
  • In the book of romans-- that others will be provoked
  • 00:18:45.901 --> 00:18:48.470
  • To jealousy.
  • 00:18:48.470 --> 00:18:49.805
  • In that case, israel will be provoked to jealousy.
  • 00:18:49.805 --> 00:18:51.506
  • God wants you so blessed that people want to know your god,
  • 00:18:51.506 --> 00:18:54.543
  • Amen, and be drawn to your god, amen.
  • 00:18:54.543 --> 00:18:57.446
  • The purpose is that many will believe in the lord.
  • 00:18:57.446 --> 00:19:00.582
  • And the last verse of the passage,
  • 00:19:00.582 --> 00:19:03.819
  • "so it was that simon peter stayed many days in joppa
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  • With simon, a tanner."
  • 00:19:08.957 --> 00:19:10.325
  • This is the very last verse of the entire chapter,
  • 00:19:10.325 --> 00:19:12.861
  • And there's something so good here.
  • 00:19:12.861 --> 00:19:15.097
  • When i first read it under the anointing
  • 00:19:15.097 --> 00:19:16.832
  • Of the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:16.832 --> 00:19:18.166
  • When god was just opening up this passage to me
  • 00:19:18.166 --> 00:19:20.168
  • And telling me, "tell the people how to have
  • 00:19:20.168 --> 00:19:21.870
  • Many beautiful days."
  • 00:19:21.870 --> 00:19:23.872
  • But then he says this: there are two simons in this verse.
  • 00:19:23.872 --> 00:19:27.743
  • There are two simons in this verse.
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  • Simon peter, there's the first.
  • 00:19:29.845 --> 00:19:31.980
  • He who stayed many days is simon peter,
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  • And he stayed with simon, a tanner.
  • 00:19:34.449 --> 00:19:36.952
  • So there are two simons here. simon, a tanner.
  • 00:19:36.952 --> 00:19:38.954
  • Tanner is someone who they treat hides and skins of animals
  • 00:19:38.954 --> 00:19:44.226
  • And turn them into leather, okay?
  • 00:19:44.226 --> 00:19:47.462
  • That's a tanner.
  • 00:19:47.462 --> 00:19:48.797
  • A tanner usually stays by the seaside--
  • 00:19:48.797 --> 00:19:50.332
  • In this case, in jaffa, even.
  • 00:19:50.332 --> 00:19:52.234
  • And by the way, i have been to that house, that place.
  • 00:19:52.234 --> 00:19:55.070
  • There's a house there, and it's based on
  • 00:19:55.070 --> 00:19:57.906
  • The house of simon, the tanner.
  • 00:19:57.906 --> 00:20:00.776
  • Okay, it's near the seaside.
  • 00:20:00.776 --> 00:20:02.110
  • So because you need that for water, all right,
  • 00:20:02.110 --> 00:20:03.912
  • To treat the skin of animals to turn them into leather.
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  • So he stayed with simon. now, what is god saying?
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  • If you want to see many beautiful days
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  • In this verse, he stayed many days
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  • Or you can say he stayed in many beautiful days
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  • With simon, a tanner.
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  • A tanner treats the flesh.
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  • Watch it now. praise god.
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  • He deals with the flesh, amen. he turns the flesh into leather.
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  • The flesh is no more vital in your life.
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  • And how do you do it? simon and simon.
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  • Simon means what?
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  • Hearing...and there's a double hearing here--
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  • Simon and simon--
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  • Simon peter and simon, the tanner.
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  • There's double hearing here.
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  • Remember when i taught before in the book of deuteronomy 28,
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  • As well as many other places, when god says,
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  • "you shall diligently harken.
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  • You shall diligently harken."
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  • Our english bible says "diligently harken."
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  • In the hebrew, it is the word "shama" repeated twice--
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  • "listen listen."
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  • Or in the hebrew, they say like 'shama v'nishma,' all right?
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  • Listen listen, amen, shama v'nishma, listen listen.
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  • Listen listen. listen listen.
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  • Listen to the word of god.
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  • Hearing hearing-- it's a double hearing.
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  • So how do you have many beautiful days?
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  • Keep on listening and listening and listening to the word.
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  • And this listening is a listening not of the flesh.
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  • Come on, the tanner here is talking about the flesh,
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  • The hide.
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  • So it's not a listening of the flesh.
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  • It is a listening of the spirit, amen.
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  • It is hearing by faith.
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  • It's not just physical hearing
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  • And then it goes in and it goes out.
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  • Like you're watching this right now--
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  • Are you hearing with faith?
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  • Yes, say amen in your heart.
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  • Say, "this is for me. this is what i believe.
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  • This is what i'm gonna do."
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  • The bible says "the word preached did not profit"
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  • The children of israel in the wilderness,
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  • "not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
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  • They heard it, but like joshua and caleb,
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  • They said that "this is god's word.
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  • This is god's word.
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  • This word is for me; i believe it."
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  • But the rest says they heard god's word.
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  • They all heard god's word,
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  • But the rest did not mix it with faith, amen?
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  • So mix it with faith.
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  • It's not--simon, the tanner, means what?
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  • You deal with your flesh. you deal with your flesh.
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  • It's not a hearing of the flesh, amen.
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  • It is a man who treats the flesh, amen?
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  • Turn it into leather. a leather means dead, gone.
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  • The final produce is now used in--
  • 00:22:31.092 --> 00:22:33.328
  • Now it's profitable for what?
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  • Amen, for beauty. hallelujah.
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  • Praise god.
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  • So it comes by hearing, and hearing the word of god.
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  • My friend, may you have many beautiful days, amen?
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  • Through what?
  • 00:22:46.107 --> 00:22:47.442
  • Through hearing, and hearing the word of god.
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