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Joseph Prince - God's Unmerited Favor: From Messing Up to Leveling Up

August 11, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God's Unmerited Favor: From Messing Up to Leveling Up | August 11, 2025

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Joseph prince: you want favor to reign in your life,
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Reign like a king in your life?
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You want the favor of god to reign in your children?
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You want the favor of god to reign in your business?
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You want the grace of god to reign in your family?
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You want that?
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It only reigns through righteousness unto eternal life
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By jesus christ our lord.
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But, if you are feeling sin conscious, you are feeling,
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"i can't understand how i did that.
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God, i'm so sorry.
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I promise i'll never do that again."
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The most humbling thing, when you find yourself falling,
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Is to tell the lord, "lord, that was a sin, and i receive your
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Forgiveness, and i proclaim i'm the righteousness of god
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In christ."
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And, i tell you this, effortlessly you will rise
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Above it.
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Male announcer: what if the answers you need to live
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Well and make the right decisions are already
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In front of you?
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In today's message, joseph prince shares how
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To make good choices that bring peace and prosperity in every
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Area of your life.
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We all make hundreds of choices every day, and, deep down,
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We're all asking the same thing.
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In his book, "god's way to making good choices," joseph
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Takes you on a 31-day journey through the book of proverbs,
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Helping you discover the clarity, peace, and confidence
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God wants you to have as you make good choices every day.
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Learn how to make strong, confident decisions, not based
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On fear or pressure, but on god's timeless truths.
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And, now, here's pastor joseph prince with today's program.
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Joseph prince: god can take your messes, and turn it
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Into a message, amen.
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God can make your life beautiful, can i have
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A good amen?
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His picture is that whatever you do prospers, even your mistakes.
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Amen, all things will work together for good to them
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That love god, amen.
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Now, here, "we then, as workers together with him,"
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Paul writing, "also plead with you not to receive the grace--"
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Or the favor--"of god in vain."
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Don't receive the grace of god in vain.
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Don't receive it in vain.
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That means it's possible to be in a church of grace, amen,
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And still not receive the favor of god.
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Don't receive it in vain.
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In vain means it's not producing results in your life.
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But how do you not receive it in vain?
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Notice this is the beginning verse, verse 1, and it starts
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With, "'we then--" that means you must look at the
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Preceding verse.
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Am i right?
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This is simple english class, right?
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So, originally, when paul wrote the letters, he didn't
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Put down chapters.
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So let's look at the last verse.
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You know what's the last verse before this verse?
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So you understand why people don't receive the grace of god.
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The last verse before this verse is actually chapter 5, verse 21,
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"god made jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might
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Become the righteousness of god in him."
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So then, don't receive grace in vain.
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Learn to receive it, amen.
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So people who think they are half bad when they declare it,
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They don't declare it with all their heart, they don't declare
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It with faith.
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It's just like, you know, "i just say it because
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Pastor prince said good things happen when you say it."
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Hey, this is not a gimmick; this is not something, magic chant
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Or whatever.
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This is a revelation, that god made jesus who knew no sin to
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Become sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of god
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In him.
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I mean, the amazing wonder today, that god can look at me
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And see righteousness in me where previously he found none.
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But i tell you a greater wonder.
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The greater wonder is that god can look at his son and find sin
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At the cross where god never found sin.
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How did you and i become righteous?
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We didn't do righteousness to become righteous.
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We receive it.
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How did jesus become sin at the cross?
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He didn't do sin; he never sinned.
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He did no sin, in him is no sin, he knew no sin.
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The apostles tell us, he became sin, he received it.
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Now, people, because of what jesus has done, the greatest
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Thing you can do to bring joy to him--after all the sufferings
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He went through, he took your place that you might take his
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Place--is that you take your place that he has given you
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And say, "i am the righteousness of god in him."
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Then, the next verse says, "now you're not receiving god's grace
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In vain."
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You know what the best thing you can say?
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Yeah, confess your sin all you want, go ahead.
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Confess your sin, believe he has forgiven you.
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But, more than that, confess, "i am the righteousness of god
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In christ."
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Then you honor what jesus did.
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All his sufferings is not in vain.
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You take your place as the righteousness of god
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In christ.
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Are you listening?
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Grace can only reign through righteousness.
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Give me that verse,
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Romans chapter 5, "as sin has reigned unto death,
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Even so might god's favor--" grace, favor--"reign
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Through righteousness unto eternal life by jesus christ
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Our lord."
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You want favor to reign in your life, reign like a king
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In your life?
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You want the favor of god to reign in your children?
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You want the favor of god to reign in your business?
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You want the grace of god to reign in your family?
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Amen, the grace of god to reign in your body?
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You want that?
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It only reigns in the great dia, through the righteous--
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By the means of righteousness.
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But, if you are feeling sin conscious, you are feeling,
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"i can't understand how i did that.
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God, i'm so sorry.
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I promise i'll never do that again."
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Or, "god, next time i will not do that again."
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That is a form of self-righteousness,
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Trying to atone for your sins.
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The most humbling thing, when you find yourself falling, is
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To tell the lord, "lord, that was a sin, and i receive your
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Forgiveness, and i proclaim i am the righteousness of god
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In christ."
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And i tell you this, effortlessly you will rise
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Above it.
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Now, look at this, all right, this is chapter 5, that god
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"made jesus to be sin, that we might become the righteousness."
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How do i know we must declare it?
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Because, in 2 corinthians chapter 4, the chapter
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Before this, it tells us, "we, having--" show them that verse,
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"we, having the same spirit of faith, according to what
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Is written, 'i believed and therefore i spoke,' we also
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Believe and therefore speak."
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Do you have the spirit of faith?
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Faith is not, "i believe this, i believe this," and you never
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Speak out.
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Faith is, you believe that jesus has made you the--god has made
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You the righteousness of god in christ.
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You believe that? speak it out!
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The spirit of faith, "i believe--"
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Let me hear you say it, "i believe, pastor!"
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Full stop. note--
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Note, the same spirit of faith is quoted in the old testament
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Psalms, 1:6 i believe it is, where david says, "i believe,
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And therefore have i spoken."
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We have the same spirit of faith as david.
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We have the same spirit of faith as caleb.
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We have the same spirit of faith as joshua.
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We have the same spirit of faith as moses.
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We have the same spirit of faith as daniel.
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We have the same spirit of faith.
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What was their faith like? how did it manifest?
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How does the spirit of faith manifest?
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"i believe, and therefore i speak."
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We also believe and therefore speak.
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So that's why i teach, declare it, "i am the righteousness
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Of god in christ."
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See, pride--i am this, i am that, i am this, i am not like
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This, i am not like that, i am this, i am this--that will stop
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Grace from flowing.
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That's self-occupation.
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But this is also self-occupation that goes undetected,
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"i'm so shameful, i'm this, i'm that, i'm that."
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Stop it, and be christ-occupied.
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And, you know, when you're christ-occupied?
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Show them in quietness and in confidence.
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"thus says the lord god, the holy one of israel,
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'in returning and rest you shall be saved.'," yasha!
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Whatever situation you are in, you shall be saved
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From your shames.
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And then god says, "'in quietness and confidence
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Shall be your strength.'
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And you would not."
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So, when you are christ-occupied,
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Don't look at yourself.
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This is looking at--pride is looking at yourself.
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Shame is also looking at yourself.
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Yes, you should have godly sorrow, especially towards god.
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But then, after that, no; "the devil tricked me,
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All right, in this area.
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Okay, lord, i receive you, jesus, as my righteousness."
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And then, guess what?
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You are christ occupied, the moment your eyes
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Is on him.
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Watch this, "in quietness and confidence shall be
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Your strength."
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Let me tell you a little story, and then i'll close.
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There was a man; he loved the lord very much.
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He really, really loved the lord.
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His love was really a genuine love for the lord.
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Can the devil use that?
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Well, his name is peter, and peter really loved
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The lord.
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The first time the lord met him, one of the first times,
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His brother introduced him to the lord, the lord says,
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"i'll change your name.
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Your name is no more simon, you are peter."
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And the next time the lord saw him, the lord called him
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To the ministry.
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It was by the sea of galilee, and the lord says,
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"come, follow me, i'll make you fishers of men."
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Well, they followed the lord for 3 years plus, and then
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There came a time the lord says, "i'll be delivered;
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The son of man will be betrayed, scourged, beaten and crucified."
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And he says, "one of you will betray me."
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And peter says, "lord, though all this--" you know what
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He did?
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He pointed to all his friends, all his disciples.
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You know, i have said things that are proud, but, you know,
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To say in front of--"you know, i tell you, i'm better than all
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These pastors."
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How can you ever say that?
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You know, "peter said, lord, even if all these deny you,
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I will never deny you--" in front of them.
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And, by the way, his love for jesus is genuine.
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You read the scripture; his love is genuine.
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But, then, the devil saw something, a root.
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The devil saw that his security, his confidence, is the fact
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That he loved the lord.
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He loved the lord.
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Now, some people watching right now will say, "duh, what's wrong
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With that?"
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Okay, wait, wait, wait, haven't finished yet, okay?
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Give me time, all right?
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One of the problems with flesh is that flesh is hasty.
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Quietness and confidence, all right.
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Okay, so, the devil saw that.
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Then jesus said another time, jesus says, "peter, listen,
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Listen to me.
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Satan has asked for you."
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How that happened, the lord knows.
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"satan has asked for you."
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So satan knows his legal rights.
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Whether he went to heaven or he went to jesus directly and said
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That, "there's a root in peter."
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And he knows that god's plan-- notice that jesus didn't say--
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Jesus says, "satan has asked for you to sift you like wheat.
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But i have prayed for you, peter, that your faith
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Will not fail."
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He did not say that peter will not fail.
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The lord allowed him because there was a root.
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But god will seize upon it to shake that and destroy that root
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Out of you.
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He didn't say, "i prayed for you that you will not fail.
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I prayed for you that your faith will not fail.
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And, when you are converted, strengthen your brothers."
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There's even a prophecy of the 120, "not only will you be
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Restored, you'll be in position to strengthen your brethren.
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I have prayed for you, peter."
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Well, the bible tells us, the night that he was betrayed,
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One more time, peter said--he said, "one of you shall betray
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Me," and peter says, "lord, is it i?"
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All of them say, "lord, is it i?"
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And, finally, the lord says, "all right, the one
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That i did--"
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And only one person knew who it was; it was john.
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And john is the youngest of them, and john was leaning--
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You know, in those days, they eat reclining, and john
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Was leaning on jesus's bosom.
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It's a picture of depending on jesus's love for him.
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Whereas peter boasts of his love, his security, his sense
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Of safety is that "i love the lord."
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If you ask peter, "hey, peter, are you the man that loves
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The lord?"
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"that's me, moi.
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Yeah, i do love the lord."
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And he's sincere.
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But, if you ask john, john says, "no, no, i'm just happy that he
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Loves me."
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John's boast is that the lord loves him.
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So peter is, in essence, like the law.
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The law says you must love god with all your heart,
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All your soul, all your mind, all your strength.
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Whereas, grace says, amen, we love because he first loved us.
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And you know what happened, right?
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When all is said and done, only john was standing at the foot
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Of the cross with the ladies.
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No other guys were there.
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I'll tell you something.
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Peter started by falling asleep.
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You see, he loved the lord, but he fell asleep.
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That's the flesh.
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He fell asleep when he ought to be praying and supporting
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The one that he loved.
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In the garden, he fell asleep.
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The lord says, "why are you sleeping?
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Pray; your spirit is willing--" see, the lord knew that he loved
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Him--"but your flesh is weak."
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And the next thing you know, the lord is captured, all right,
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Brought to the caiaphas.
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Now, you all know, the lord cannot be captured unless he
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Allows himself to.
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It's all part of god's plan to die for our sins, all right?
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So, he followed the lord.
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Now, he followed the lord from afar.
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The one who loved the lord followed from afar.
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All these are telltale signs already.
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And then, next thing you know, he warmed himself--he sat with
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The lord's enemies, people who were there against the lord--he
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Warmed himself their fire.
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And, although he loved the lord so much, it took one girl, just
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One girl, to say, "hey, aren't you one of them?"
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"i do not know the man."
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And another guy says, "yeah, yeah, your accent betrays you."
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"i know not the man."
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And another guy says, "yeah, i think you are one of
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The disciples."
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"i tell you, i know not the man," cursing and swearing
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And all kinds of expletives.
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The bible says we're cursing and swearing.
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Look, "peter said, 'man, i do not know what you are saying!'
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Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
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And the lord turned--" he was outside; the door was open.
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The lord was tried in the court in caiaphas's house.
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When you go to israel, you can still see the ruins of
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That place.
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That's why it gives me goosebumps when i'm there.
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I'm still, you know, i love that place.
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You can see the thousand-year-old steps that are
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Still there that jesus walked on, all right, when he
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Was captured.
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"the lord turned and looked at peter."
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So, even the lord, he was beaten,
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He was spat upon,
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His beard was being pulled, they were smiting him.
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He turned and looked at peter.
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After the third denial, he turned.
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It was the tenderness and the grace of that look
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That broke out all the fountains of peter's heart.
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"peter remembered the word of the lord, how he had said,
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'before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.'
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So peter went out and wept bitterly."
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I'll tell you something.
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Now his root is exposed.
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The first person the lord appeared to, the first man
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Of all the 12 disciples--yes, he appeared to mary, i know that.
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Mary is not part of the 12.
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The first of the 12 that jesus appeared to, and that meeting
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Is hidden from us.
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It's mentioned in luke 24; it's mentioned in 1 corinthians 15.
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The lord appeared to peter first when he rose from the dead,
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And that meeting is veiled from us.
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In other words, the lord appeared to restore him.
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First restoration, restoring conscience.
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You must know that your sins are forgiven.
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The next time the lord appeared, actually, they were--
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Nevermind, i'll tell you real quick, okay?
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In john 21, they were in galilee.
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Jesus rose from the dead two weeks already, and jesus
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Told them, "go to galilee" because he rose from the dead
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In jerusalem,
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But he told them to go into galilee, and he told them,
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"wait for me at a mountain," okay?
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What happened is that peter says, "let's go fishing."
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You know, the mountain and fishing is different
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Things, you know?
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So they were actually in rebellion.
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They were disobeying.
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Whether they were, you know, whatever it is, they were not
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Listening to what the lord said.
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No wonder the whole night they catch nothing.
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But, in spite of that, when the lord rose from the dead, not one
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Word against them.
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In fact, he asked them, "children," he called them
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When they were still fishing in the early morning, "do you have
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Any food?"
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I read that last night, and the lord says,
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"i did not say, 'do you have any fish?'
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I was more concerned about feeding them."
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And they said, ""'none!"
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"throw your net on the right side, and you will find!"
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He threw the net, and they caught so much fish.
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I might as well tell you this revelation.
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In the original greek, there's no, "you will cast your net on
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The right and you will find fish."
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He didn't say, "fish."
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He stopped there, "cast your net on the right side and you
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Will find."
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"what does that mean, pastor prince?"
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What the lord said to me, "the right side is the right side
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Of righteousness."
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I don't have time to tell you this; this is from the bible.
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If you understand your righteousness, you will find
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The favor you need.
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You will find the job that you need.
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You will find, all right, the recommendation you need.
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You will find the relationship you need.
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You will find the marriage you desire.
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You will find whatever you're looking for.
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After a fruitless night, cast your net on the right side!
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And they brought the fish, so much fish.
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They didn't recognize it was the lord, and john was
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The first one.
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Is it people that boast of the lord's love for them,
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And not their love for the lord, are always the quickest
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In their discernment?
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John said, "it is the lord."
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Then peter jumped right into the water to come to jesus.
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Now he's been restored in his conscience already.
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But then, after you're restored in your conscience, god wants
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To restore your heart.
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You know you're forgiven of your sins, but what is the object
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Of your heart?
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Is it still an ambition, a certain love for a child
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Or for something else instead of jesus?
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Are you still occupied with something else?"
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So the lord is about to restore his heart.
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Now, he came all the way, and then he saw that food
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Was prepared, breakfast was prepared.
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Who prepared the breakfast?
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Jesus; that's why he asked them, "do you have any food?"
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Because he, the risen savior, will supply what you lack.
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Grace is supply, law is demand.
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And they saw everything was supplied.
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Now, jesus never, never taught them until he fed them.
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He never corrected them until he fed them.
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The bible says, "after they had dined--"
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I love that.
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I think there's a style of this leadership that we all need
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To learn.
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You have no right to correct someone you have never fed.
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He made them eat, and then i believe this happened.
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I don't believe jesus said it in front of all the disciples.
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Even though peter boasted in front of all of them,
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Jesus brought peter aside by the lake of galilee.
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Many of us have been there on that place.
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And jesus says, "peter," away from the disciples, and jesus
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Says, "do you love me more than all this?"
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He used the same word that peter used.
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"lord, even if all these deny, i will never deny you."
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Now jesus asked, "do you love me more than all this?"
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And jesus used the word in the greek, agapao, which is
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The highest form of love, self-sacrificial love, the love
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That is used in, "for god so loved the world."
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Agapao, "do you love me with the highest form of love,
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The self-sacrificial love?"
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Peter looked down and said, "lord, you know i love you."
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And, this time, peter used another word for love;
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It's phileo, which is actually brotherly love.
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In other words, peter has humbled himself and said,
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"you know my love for you is only on the level of, i like
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You, i'm not prepared to die for you."
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And jesus says, "feed my lambs, peter."
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I love it.
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Even though at the level of phileo, jesus says,
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"feed my lambs."
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He gave him trust.
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And then they walked some more, and jesus says,
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"peter, do you agapao me?"
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Highest form of love.
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Peter said, "lord, you know, lord, that i phileo you."
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Like philadelphia, brotherly love, philos; i love you.
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I'm fond of you, but i don't love you.
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And jesus says, "shepherd my sheep."
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So, feed my lambs.
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Lambs are younger, sheep are older.
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Now, shepherd my sheep.
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He's giving him extra responsibilities.
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And then, finally, jesus says, "peter," and this time jesus
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Came down to his level.
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Jesus says, "peter, do you phileo me?"
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Peter looked at jesus and said, "jesus, lord, you know
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Everything, and you know that i phileo you."
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In other words, "my love for you is only at the level of philos."
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And jesus says, "feed my sheep."
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Peter has learned a lesson.
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It is not your love for the lord that ultimately matters; it is
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His love for you.
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And he wants your eyes to be on his love for you.
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Your love will change, but his love for you will never change.
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You know what are his last words to peter that morning?
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You'll find it in john 21, in the last chapter; as they walked
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By the lake, his last words was this: "peter, follow me."
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Restoration of heart, now restoration of position.
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Because, remember, when, one of the first times jesus met peter,
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He was by the sea of galilee mending nets, and jesus says,
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"hey, follow me, and i'll make you fishers of men."
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And this time, his last words were, "peter, follow me."
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Some people say, "you know, when you sin, you never get
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Back that high level, that place that you had with god."
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No, with jesus, what he started with peter, he finished off.
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Peter was back to it again; follow me.
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The world will say, "a bird with a broken wing will never
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Fly as high again."
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God says, "i made the birds, and i made the heights,
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And i'll cause you to fly even higher."
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Because of your sin, now you are entitled
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To the 120% restoration.
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That is not meant for people who have sinned.
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But not only sin, people who bring jesus as their guilt
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Offering, trespass offering.
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In leviticus 6, it says, "the lord will restore what
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He did not take away."
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You receive 120% in the very area that you have lost.
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David, of all the wives he had, he had a number of wives.
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He had many, many sons.
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Of all the sons, god chose the one from bathsheba.
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That's the 120%.
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Was the relationship right to start with?
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No, was it sin?
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Yes, but, when you respond correctly, there's
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120% restoration.
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So i'm telling you, it's not the end of your story.
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Learn to respond correctly.
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Learn to take jesus as your righteousness.
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Joseph prince: say this right now after me, "father in heaven,
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I thank you.
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All my sins are forgiven.
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All my diseases are healed.
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Your favor is raining in my life.
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It rains like a mighty river, and the only way that favor can
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Stop is by me feeling proud or me feeling shame
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Or sin conscious.
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But i rejoice in christ alone.
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Christ is my wisdom.
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Christ is my righteousness, my holiness, and christ is
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My redemption.
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So i thank you, father.
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I look forward to good days ahead, good days
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That jesus deserves.
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And i put all my confidence in your love for me and not
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In my love for you.
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In jesus's name, amen."
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Look up here.
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This coming week, the lord bless you, and the lord keep you.
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The lord bless you with the blessings of father abraham,
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And the lord preserve and keep you from all evil, from sickness
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And disease, from all dangers, from all the power
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Of the evil one.
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The lord favors you.
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Wherever you go, the favor of god attends your way.
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The lord prospered everything you touch.
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Through god's favor, you are able to say no.
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Through god's favor, even when bad things happen, it will not
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Happen inside you.
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It will happen around you, but it will be a stepping stone
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For you because of god's favor in your life.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you and your family,
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And grant to you and yours his shalom peace and well-being,
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In jesus's name, amen and amen.
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Thank you, church, love you.
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Female announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
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Joseph Prince - God's Unmerited Favor: From Messing Up to Leveling Up

August 11, 2025 | 29:45

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