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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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- Let's look back with gratitude and step into the new year
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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.
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- 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?
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- Can god turn your days of death and darkness
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- Into beautiful days?
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- That's like a song-- "into beautiful days."
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- Someone write the song, beautiful days in christ, amen.
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- So here we go.
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- "and they laid her in an upper room."
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- There was another body, a corpse that was laid in an upper room.
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- Does it ring a bell?
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- In 2 kings chapter 4, there's a story whereby there was
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- A wealthy woman of shunem, all right, a shunammite.
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- And she told her husband this in 2 kings 4.
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- "she said to her husband, behold now i know that this
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- Is a holy man of god who is continually passing
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- Our way," and that was elisha.
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- "let us make a small room on the roof."
- 00:11:10.646 --> 00:11:13.082
- Now, traditionally, their house is two floors,
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- But if you "make a small room on the roof with walls,"
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- What does that make that room?
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- The third chamber, amen, the third floor room.
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- "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."
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- 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,
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- "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.
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- 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.
- 00:12:20.716 --> 00:12:22.051
- "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,
- 00:12:34.597 --> 00:12:35.998
- "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.
- 00:12:44.406 --> 00:12:47.309
- The son that she's been longing for all the past years
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- Has finally arrived, and the boy died,
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- 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,
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- 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.
- 00:13:13.502 --> 00:13:14.837
- Elisha was away at that time, and she found elisha.
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- Elisha asked her, asked her this question,
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- "is it shalom with you?" and she said, "shalom."
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- 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,
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- "it is well with my soul," came from, from this story.
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- Instead of saying that "no, my son just died,"
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- 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,
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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, amen.
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- It shall be, not well now, but it shall be, amen?
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- 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 shalom in every area of your life
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- If you will just apply what god wants us to learn
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- From this story here.
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- "and shut the door behind him and went up.
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- And when elisha came in," you all know the story.
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- Elisha prayed for the boy.
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- He went on top of the boy and prayed for the boy.
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- 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--
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- 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?
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- Surround them with the anointing of god.
- 00:14:43.959 --> 00:14:45.828
- And here and there, the holy spirit
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- 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.
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- Okay, let's go back to tabitha's story, verse 38,
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- "since lydda was near joppa--" very quickly,
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- Lydda means travail, or strife; joppa is beautiful.
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- 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.
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- Yet, god turned it into the most beautiful day, amen?
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- Through the cross, we are saved.
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- Through the cross, we are blessed.
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- 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?
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- Is it biblical for a believer to believe god
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- For beautiful days,
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- For good days in this coming year?
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- Is it?
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- 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.
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- The bible says in 1 peter 3, "he who would love life
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- And see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil."
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- The very first area, refrain your tongue from evil.
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- Notice, love life. is it wrong to love life?
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- Then why is god's spirit encouraging us
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- 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.
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- The first area, watch your tongue.
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- Watch your tongue, amen? then, watch this.
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- Then "turning to the body," and the bible says,
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- "she opened her eyes, and when she saw peter
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- She sat up.
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- Then he gave her his hand and lifted her up;
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- And when he had called the saints and widows,
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- He presented her alive.
- 00:16:33.402 --> 00:16:35.104
- And it became known throughout all joppa,
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- 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--
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- He brought some cheeses and bread and all that
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- To the battlefield and where goliath
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- Was challenging the army of israel.
- 00:16:48.217 --> 00:16:51.053
- Remember that?
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- And eliab's anger was aroused against david.
- 00:17:09.438 --> 00:17:11.540
- He says, 'why do you come here?
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- With whom have you left those few sheep
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- In the wilderness?
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- 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."'
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- Look at what david did.
- 00:17:22.184 --> 00:17:23.952
- "david says, 'what have i done now?
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- Is there not a cause?' then he turned from him."
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- Say "turn from him." turn from him.
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- Learn to turn from all your naysayers,
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- From your critics.
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- Turn away from all the negative bombardment
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- Of the social media, amen?
- 00:17:35.631 --> 00:17:38.700
- Yeah, i'm not saying, i'm not one of those
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- That is against social media.
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- Okay, i'm not.
- 00:17:42.137 --> 00:17:43.472
- But you know, don't get entangled
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- In the web of negativism and pessimism and fear
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- 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.
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- You are watching things like this, hm?
- 00:18:16.972 --> 00:18:19.875
- Okay, "it became known throughout all joppa
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- 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--
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- In the book of romans-- that others will be provoked
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- 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,
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- 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."
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- 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
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- Of the holy spirit,
- 00:19:16.832 --> 00:19:18.166
- When god was just opening up this passage to me
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- 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.
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- There are two simons in this verse.
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- Simon peter, there's the first.
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- 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.
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- Tanner is someone who they treat hides and skins of animals
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- 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--
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- 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
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- The house of simon, the tanner.
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- Okay, it's near the seaside.
- 00:20:00.776 --> 00:20:02.110
- So because you need that for water, all right,
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- To treat the skin of animals to turn them into leather.
- 00:20:03.912 --> 00:20:07.349
- 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.
- 00:20:16.191 --> 00:20:18.560
- Watch it now. praise god.
- 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:19.928
- 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.
- 00:20:24.232 --> 00:20:26.234
- 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.
- 00:20:34.776 --> 00:20:36.345
- There's double hearing here.
- 00:20:36.345 --> 00:20:37.846
- Remember when i taught before in the book of deuteronomy 28,
- 00:20:37.846 --> 00:20:41.550
- As well as many other places, when god says,
- 00:20:41.550 --> 00:20:43.452
- "you shall diligently harken.
- 00:20:43.452 --> 00:20:45.921
- You shall diligently harken."
- 00:20:45.921 --> 00:20:47.356
- Our english bible says "diligently harken."
- 00:20:47.356 --> 00:20:49.257
- In the hebrew, it is the word "shama" repeated twice--
- 00:20:49.257 --> 00:20:53.562
- "listen listen."
- 00:20:53.562 --> 00:20:55.597
- Or in the hebrew, they say like 'shama v'nishma,' all right?
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- Listen listen, amen, shama v'nishma, listen listen.
- 00:21:01.370 --> 00:21:07.476
- Listen listen. listen listen.
- 00:21:07.476 --> 00:21:11.179
- Listen to the word of god.
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- Hearing hearing-- it's a double hearing.
- 00:21:13.215 --> 00:21:16.084
- So how do you have many beautiful days?
- 00:21:16.084 --> 00:21:20.155
- Keep on listening and listening and listening to the word.
- 00:21:20.155 --> 00:21:24.393
- And this listening is a listening not of the flesh.
- 00:21:24.393 --> 00:21:27.662
- 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--
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- 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?
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- Through hearing, and hearing the word of god.
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- And all the people said amen.
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- And i knew he was willing to heal my granddaughter.
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- He's faithful, and i'm just grateful for the gospel.
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