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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - God's Way To Multiplying Grace In Life | January 4, 2026
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- Joseph prince: god designed the communion
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- Joseph prince: grace is undeserved, unmerited favor.
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- It is multiplied not by doing more.
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- A lot of people think, "if i do more for god,"
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- You know, when people get saved and all that,
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- And they say, "i want to do more for god.
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- I want to do more for god."
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- No, first of all, sit.
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- God wants you to sit. god wants you to rest.
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- It's natural tendency to want to do more.
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- The way you increase grace-- in fact, when you do more,
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- You frustrate the grace of god.
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- You have the opposite result. learn to rest more.
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- It's not according to nature. it's according to heaven.
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- It's according to god.
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- We are to learn god's ways, amen?
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- So grace, unmerited favor can be multiplied.
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- Whenever you hear preaching or teaching
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- That brings you back to the person of jesus,
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- Everything in your life will be blessed,
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- Everything in your life will start to prosper,
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- Because grace and peace is increased not by doing more
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- But seeing more.
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- It takes everything against us, against nature
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- To learn to rest and say, "lord, you got this handled.
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- I trust you, lord."
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- Announcer: let's kickstart the year with the right attitude--
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- The attitude of rest.
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- In today's message, joseph shares
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- How life isn't about fighting to survive.
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- It's about living under god's unstoppable favor
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- For you and your loved ones.
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- People say that, in life, you've got to want it.
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- You've got to earn it. you've got to deserve it.
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- But what if there's a better way?
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- In joseph's book "unmerited favor,"
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- Learn to let go of what the world says about success
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- Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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- With today's program.
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- Joseph prince: i'm here to tell you, church,
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- That god has favor in your life, but that favor can be increased.
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- It can be enhanced.
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- God can--in fact, there are things that we do
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- That frustrate the favor of god.
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- So first and foremost, let's define the favor of god.
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- Are you ready?
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- All right, now i use the word "favor of god"
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- Because grace--the word "grace" has been so religionized
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- That sometimes it's good for us just to step back, all right,
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- And look at the word "favor" because they are both the same.
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- Grace is undeserved favor, amen.
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- In fact, if you read the amplified bible,
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- It says "unmerited favor" in many places.
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- So, grace is favor. they are the same word.
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- Grace is god's favor, amen.
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- When god puts favor on your life,
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- Your enemies cannot overcome it.
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- Your critics cannot overturn it, amen.
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- Your competitors cannot push you out of the game, amen.
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- When god puts favor on you, people are drawn to you,
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- People respond to you,
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- People want to do business with you.
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- Even if they feel like your product or whatever
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- Is not as, you know, economical
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- Or more expensive than somebody else,
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- They want to do business with you.
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- They feel like you are honest. there's an integrity.
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- But honesty, again, doesn't bring favor, all right?
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- Honesty does help you open doors,
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- Because when people know you're honest,
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- They'll do business with you.
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- But, again, the favor element is something
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- That there are honest people who don't have favor,
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- But they are honest people.
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- So what you want is the favor of god
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- Increase in your life.
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- And the bible says that we can increase favor in our life.
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- Whether you're a businessman or you're a homemaker--
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- And homemakers have some of the greatest, shall we say,
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- Assignments that god has given them of anyone, of any career.
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- Don't think for one moment homemaker means they do nothing.
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- In fact, what they do is sometimes more significant
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- And more eternal in its consequence
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- Than what we do as business people
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- Or, you know, as an agent or whatever.
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- Let me just tell you this, okay?
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- Mothers deal with lives, precious lives,
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- Molding them not just for time but for eternity
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- At a time when they really need the mother, amen.
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- Now this is not to make mothers who work feel guilty, all right?
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- But it is to tell you that the first area of favor
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- That we need more than any other area
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- Is in our families.
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- We need favor with our spouse.
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- Have you ever asked god for favor with your spouse?
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- Or it's always favor with a client.
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- Favor with your company colleagues,
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- With your fellow students, with your friends, or whatever.
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- How about favor with your family,
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- Favor with your children, favor with your teenagers?
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- Have you asked god for that?
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- Have you asked god for an increased favor
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- In those areas, amen?
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- Sometimes i see families, for no rhyme or reason,
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- You know, you find that there's, like, a wedge being driven
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- Between the teenage daughter and her mom.
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- And it seems like whatever she says, she just--
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- The daughter is just frustrated.
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- She doesn't like it at all,
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- And they are trying to find the reason why.
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- Maybe it's communication style.
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- Maybe it's this.
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- But i can tell you this?
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- What that relationship needs is favor, increased favor.
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- But what is very remarkable
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- Is that people don't realize sometimes
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- That they are frustrating the favor of god
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- In their lives.
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- Paul says, "i do not frustrate the grace of god."
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- If you ask an average christian
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- "what frustrates, what voids, what nullifies the favor of god
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- In your life?" they will say, "sin," all right?
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- It's a very natural answer in the church world.
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- But actually that's not the answer.
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- We are all against sin.
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- In fact, the bible says, "where sin increase,
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- Favor superabounds, grace superabounds,"
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- So that cannot be the answer, right?
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- Can i submit to you: sometimes it's because we are trying to do
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- Too much.
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- When you are performing and you're looking at your--
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- And you are performing with anxiety especially,
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- Our children resist that.
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- They can sense that you are worried over them,
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- And they don't like it.
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- But all this is not on the surface.
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- They do not know why they are angry or they are frustrated,
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- And you don't know what you are doing that's wrong
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- That's frustrating them.
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- But actually it is a favor situation.
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- Favor is being frustrated,
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- And we need to get back to that place of favor.
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- Can i have a good amen, people?
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- How favor can be increased, amen?
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- Praise the lord?
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- I want to tell you something else.
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- How grace can be increased, the number one way,
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- Number one way.
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- 2 peter chapter 1, verse 2,
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- "grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of god
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- And of jesus our lord.
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- Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of god
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- And of jesus our lord."
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- Now, grace is undeserved, unmerited favor.
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- It is multiplied not by doing more.
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- A lot of people think, "if i do more for god," you know,
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- When people get saved and all that, and they say,
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- "i want to do more for god.
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- I want to do more for god."
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- No, first of all, sit. god wants you to sit.
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- God wants you to rest.
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- It's natural tendency to want to do more.
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- The way you increase grace-- in fact, when you do more,
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- You frustrate the grace of god.
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- You have the opposite result. learn to rest more.
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- It's not according to nature. it's according to heaven.
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- It's according to god.
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- We are to learn god's ways, amen?
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- So grace, unmerited favor can be multiplied in your life,
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- And peace can be multiplied how?
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- In the knowledge of god and of jesus our lord.
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- Now, in the greek grammatical structure,
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- Kenneth wuest, who wrote the expanded translation
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- Of the new testament--
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- He's a greek scholar, and he says that this word here,
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- "grace and peace be been multiplied
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- In the knowledge"--
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- So in other words, the more revelation we have of jesus,
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- The more grace and the more peace
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- Will be multiplied in our lives, right?
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- Now, kenneth wuest says that this word here,
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- "the knowledge of god and of jesus our lord,"
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- Is actually one word referring to jesus.
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- He is our god and our lord.
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- In his own translation, this is how he puts it, of this verse:
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- "grace and peace is multiplied by the experiential knowledge
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- [which the believer has] of god," comma,
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- "even jesus, our lord."
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- It is not the knowledge of god and jesus our lord,
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- Like god the father and god the son.
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- Actually, the more you know god the son,
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- The more you know jesus, you will know god the father.
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- "for he that has sinned me," jesus said,
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- "has sinned the father."
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- So it's actually jesus.
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- Increasing in the knowledge of jesus.
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- Do you remember when jesus rose from the dead?
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- The same day he rose from the dead,
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- There were two disciples walking home to emmaus,
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- The city cal-- village called emmaus.
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- It is a 7-mile journey from jerusalem,
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- And they were depressed.
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- They were downcast.
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- They were sad, right, as they walked,
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- And then jesus approached them.
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- And the bible says jesus asked them, "why are you sad?
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- Why are you looking sad and discussing with one another?
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- What is this?"
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- And they said, "are you a stranger?
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- You don't know what's happening?
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- What's been happening these past few days," and all that?
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- And they start telling him what happened and all that.
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- And the bible says that "jesus restrained their eyes
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- From seeing who he was."
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- For many years, that bothered me.
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- And i'm bothered by things that other people are not bothered.
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- I asked questions of god,
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- About the bible, that no one asked.
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- Then later on, i found out that the answers that god gave me
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- Become sermons that blessed many people, okay?
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- So one of the questions i asked--
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- "why do you restrain their eyes?
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- Isn't it wonderful for them to see you
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- In your resurrected form?"
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- But then, you know what jesus did?
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- He opened up the scriptures in the first five books of moses
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- To them, things in them concerning himself.
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- He must have brought them to the tree of life in genesis.
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- "the tree of life is me." he touched on the passover lamb.
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- "that's me," amen? so, he didn't say, "me."
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- He said, "it's the messiah. it's messiah."
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- They didn't know it was him.
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- That's how he brought them out of depression,
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- And that's how you can be brought out of discouragement,
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- Despair, and depression--
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- By occupation with christ, not occupation with self
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- Or telling one another, you know, all the bad news.
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- Another problem they had was this:
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- Jesus was a side issue, a means to an end.
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- Some of us, we use jesus for salvation,
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- And then we forget him.
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- Or we use jesus for--prosper our career or whatever.
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- Or we use jesus for our family relationship.
- 00:11:34.937 --> 00:11:37.706
- No, he's not the main issue. our family is.
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- Our career is. our ministry is.
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- But how do i know that they have jesus on the side,
- 00:11:44.313 --> 00:11:47.416
- And they were concerned about the nation of israel?
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- They were jealous for the nation of israel.
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- They were very patriotic.
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- They said that "we thought--"
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- They told jesus without knowing it was him,
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- "we thought that it was he who should redeem israel,"
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- So israel is the centerpiece of their hearts.
- 00:12:00.029 --> 00:12:04.066
- And jesus, by expounding from the five books of moses,
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- The things concerning himself,
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- Brought them back to perspective himself.
- 00:12:08.571 --> 00:12:12.608
- And whenever you hear preaching or teaching that brings you back
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- To the person of jesus,
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- Everything in your life will be blessed.
- 00:12:17.213 --> 00:12:20.216
- Everything in your life will start to prosper
- 00:12:20.216 --> 00:12:22.751
- Because grace and peace is increased
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- Not by doing more, but seeing more.
- 00:12:25.554 --> 00:12:28.324
- Have you ever had the time when your heart was like--
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- You were excited about seeing more and more of jesus?
- 00:12:31.293 --> 00:12:33.329
- You went to church wanting to see more of jesus?
- 00:12:33.329 --> 00:12:35.698
- You got hold of pastor prince-- i mentioned myself, okay,
- 00:12:35.698 --> 00:12:38.534
- As a conflict of interest, i understand,
- 00:12:38.534 --> 00:12:40.569
- But i know what i'm preaching, so i recommend myself.
- 00:12:40.569 --> 00:12:42.705
- I don't mind recommending myself.
- 00:12:42.705 --> 00:12:44.039
- It's okay, okay?
- 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:45.374
- Because i know what i preach, all right?
- 00:12:45.374 --> 00:12:46.876
- So you look forward to listen, to see more of jesus,
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- Not pastor prince.
- 00:12:49.845 --> 00:12:51.180
- Jesus. but where are those days?
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- Where are those-- where is that longing?
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- You find yourself getting cold? remember this.
- 00:12:56.318 --> 00:12:59.088
- Something else has become centerpiece--
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- Maybe your child, maybe your spouse,
- 00:13:01.991 --> 00:13:05.461
- Maybe your career, maybe something else.
- 00:13:05.461 --> 00:13:08.998
- Maybe some challenge has come into your life.
- 00:13:08.998 --> 00:13:11.867
- And jesus is still there, but he's a side issue.
- 00:13:11.867 --> 00:13:15.004
- He's a means to an end.
- 00:13:15.004 --> 00:13:17.773
- And you wonder, life becomes hard when there's no grace.
- 00:13:17.773 --> 00:13:21.810
- And i love the amplified translation
- 00:13:21.810 --> 00:13:23.212
- Because at least the amplified translators
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- Are not afraid of evangelicals who will say,
- 00:13:24.980 --> 00:13:28.217
- "well, you're the prosperity bunch," you know?
- 00:13:28.217 --> 00:13:30.552
- Number one, there's no such thing
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- As the prosperity gospel.
- 00:13:31.887 --> 00:13:33.255
- There's only gospel of grace, but it produces prosperity.
- 00:13:33.255 --> 00:13:37.192
- You don't like the word "prosperity"?
- 00:13:37.192 --> 00:13:38.527
- Okay, it produces abundance.
- 00:13:38.527 --> 00:13:39.962
- Wherever the gospel has gone, it brought abundance.
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- It brought a new level of life.
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- It brought civilization,
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- If you're going to call it that way.
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- That--those are the results,
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- Not the gospel but the results of the gospel,
- 00:13:51.206 --> 00:13:54.710
- Not the gospel itself, okay?
- 00:13:54.710 --> 00:13:56.979
- I love the amplified.
- 00:13:56.979 --> 00:13:58.314
- Amplified, this verse says, "may grace (god's favor)"--you see?--
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- "and peace (which is perfect well-being)--"
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- Does that include your body?
- 00:14:03.819 --> 00:14:06.121
- Peace, how many think that you can have
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- More perfect well-being?
- 00:14:07.990 --> 00:14:10.793
- How many want more well-being in your life?
- 00:14:10.793 --> 00:14:13.662
- Okay, god, mark their hands, lord.
- 00:14:13.662 --> 00:14:15.331
- How many want well-being in your life?
- 00:14:15.331 --> 00:14:17.967
- You don't want, he won't give it to you, you know?
- 00:14:17.967 --> 00:14:19.735
- "oh, pastor prince, we've got such thing we want.
- 00:14:19.735 --> 00:14:21.670
- God will give it to us anyway."
- 00:14:21.670 --> 00:14:23.005
- No, no, remember the guy who was 38 years old,
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- Who was lame in his feet, impertinent,
- 00:14:24.606 --> 00:14:26.208
- At the pool of bethesda?
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- Jesus had to ask him, "do you want to be well?
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- Are you sure you want to be well?"
- 00:14:29.979 --> 00:14:31.313
- Because there are people who don't want to be well.
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- They want people to come and pet them.
- 00:14:32.681 --> 00:14:35.017
- They want people to, like, you know, focus on them.
- 00:14:35.017 --> 00:14:38.687
- Some of them, when they are sick, they get welfare
- 00:14:38.687 --> 00:14:42.024
- In some nations of the world, all right?
- 00:14:42.024 --> 00:14:43.993
- They don't want to be well.
- 00:14:43.993 --> 00:14:46.495
- So jesus asked him, "do you want to be well?"
- 00:14:46.495 --> 00:14:47.863
- I want to ask you: do you want more well-being in your life?
- 00:14:47.863 --> 00:14:51.767
- Well, it tells you how.
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- "may grace (god's favor) and peace--"
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- Which is "shalom" in hebrew, "eirene" in greek.
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- If your name is irene, it means peace in greek--
- 00:14:58.474 --> 00:15:00.609
- "(which is perfect well-being, all necessary good,
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- All spiritual prosperity, freedom from fears,
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- Agitating passions and moral conflicts)
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- Be multiplied to you in [the full, personal,
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- Precise, correct]," which is revelatory,
- 00:15:11.653 --> 00:15:15.024
- "knowledge of jesus, who is our god and lord," amen, amen?
- 00:15:15.024 --> 00:15:21.430
- So, it should be our passion to see more of jesus.
- 00:15:21.430 --> 00:15:24.299
- And i'll tell you, friends: you will never fathom the depths
- 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:27.036
- Of the wonderful jesus-- let me just say this:
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- It doesn't mean that you focus on jesus,
- 00:15:31.006 --> 00:15:32.374
- Your marriage suffers, your career suffers--
- 00:15:32.374 --> 00:15:34.543
- That kind of thing, you know.
- 00:15:34.543 --> 00:15:35.878
- Friend, this is not the truth.
- 00:15:35.878 --> 00:15:37.646
- The truth is that when you're occupied with jesus,
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- Your marriage prospers,
- 00:15:39.581 --> 00:15:41.050
- Your career starts to flourish--
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- By accident, if i can say it that way.
- 00:15:43.886 --> 00:15:46.555
- It's a byproduct.
- 00:15:46.555 --> 00:15:48.123
- When you focus on it, it doesn't prosper.
- 00:15:48.123 --> 00:15:50.025
- There's no grace. there's no oil.
- 00:15:50.025 --> 00:15:53.462
- There's no smoothness.
- 00:15:53.462 --> 00:15:54.797
- But when you focus on jesus, it flows.
- 00:15:54.797 --> 00:15:59.435
- Mary did that, and jesus says that one thing is necessary.
- 00:15:59.435 --> 00:16:04.440
- Do we really believe that? i want to close with this, okay?
- 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:08.177
- Let me just say this as much as i--
- 00:16:08.177 --> 00:16:10.679
- As clearly as i can: god will never leave you, okay?
- 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.616
- He paid the price for you to have his constant presence.
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- He was forsaken for us, that we might never be forsaken.
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- We have god's constant presence.
- 00:16:21.256 --> 00:16:23.025
- Even when we fail, god doesn't leave us, okay?
- 00:16:23.025 --> 00:16:25.127
- But in the dynamics of relationship,
- 00:16:25.127 --> 00:16:27.362
- There are times god never leaves us,
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- But he withholds the sense of his presence.
- 00:16:29.064 --> 00:16:34.336
- He withholds the sense.
- 00:16:34.336 --> 00:16:35.671
- How many of you have felt like sometimes, you know,
- 00:16:35.671 --> 00:16:37.172
- "i used to sense his presence.
- 00:16:37.172 --> 00:16:39.308
- I used to sense, like, he's close, he loves me and--
- 00:16:39.308 --> 00:16:41.877
- But i find that it's been quite cold.
- 00:16:41.877 --> 00:16:43.612
- I know he never leaves me, but i miss those times"?
- 00:16:43.612 --> 00:16:46.014
- You ever had that? that's how god draws you.
- 00:16:46.014 --> 00:16:50.686
- And the way he loves us is the way we love our wives.
- 00:16:50.686 --> 00:16:52.788
- That's how our wives respond to us.
- 00:16:52.788 --> 00:16:54.990
- And there's a story and there's a beautiful account of this
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- In the song of songs.
- 00:16:58.026 --> 00:16:59.361
- God taught so much about one particular song.
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- He calls it the song of songs,
- 00:17:01.597 --> 00:17:03.632
- And he put it right smack-dab in the middle of the bible,
- 00:17:03.632 --> 00:17:06.168
- The heart of the bible.
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- It's called the song of songs
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- Because it deals with the greatest theme of all--
- 00:17:10.205 --> 00:17:12.474
- Not about eschatology, not about other doctrines
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- But the love of christ for the church.
- 00:17:15.210 --> 00:17:18.280
- It's about the love of jesus for us.
- 00:17:18.280 --> 00:17:20.349
- And in it, there's a story in chapter 5
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- Where the woman actually was asleep in bed.
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- And in the middle eastern culture, all right,
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- There's this bridal love.
- 00:17:29.992 --> 00:17:31.326
- The man would come, and there's a door,
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- An opening in the door,
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- That he would invite her to open the door.
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- His hand comes through and he says,
- 00:17:36.398 --> 00:17:38.267
- "open to me, my beloved.
- 00:17:38.267 --> 00:17:39.601
- Open to me, my beloved," okay?
- 00:17:39.601 --> 00:17:41.236
- "my perfect one; my head is covered with dew,
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- My locks with the drops of the night," all right?
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- But she is all cleansed. she is washed.
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- Her feet are all washed already, she feels very fresh,
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- Put on her cosmetic and all that.
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- Everything is in place.
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- She doesn't dirty her feet, all right?
- 00:17:52.714 --> 00:17:54.049
- In the middle eastern culture, there's a lot of dust around.
- 00:17:54.049 --> 00:17:56.185
- She said, "i'm not gonna get up."
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- Look at her response.
- 00:17:57.819 --> 00:17:59.154
- Her response, "i have taken off my robe;
- 00:17:59.154 --> 00:18:00.489
- How can i put it on again?
- 00:18:00.489 --> 00:18:01.823
- I've washed my feet; how can i defile them?"
- 00:18:01.823 --> 00:18:04.426
- So she didn't respond to his love, okay?
- 00:18:04.426 --> 00:18:07.396
- Then he put his hand by the latch of the door, okay?
- 00:18:07.396 --> 00:18:11.333
- When he put his hand to the door, her heart yearned.
- 00:18:11.333 --> 00:18:13.702
- Now, sometimes, of course, it took place.
- 00:18:13.702 --> 00:18:15.737
- He put his hand in,
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- And there's a picture of where she probably saw
- 00:18:17.072 --> 00:18:18.407
- The nail-pierced hand.
- 00:18:18.407 --> 00:18:21.076
- The way he rekindles our love is to remind us of
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- What happened at the cross, how he loves us so, right?
- 00:18:23.278 --> 00:18:27.149
- Now her heart is rekindl-- the love is rekindled.
- 00:18:27.149 --> 00:18:29.585
- She opened the door, all right, next verse.
- 00:18:29.585 --> 00:18:32.120
- She arose to open the door.
- 00:18:32.120 --> 00:18:33.455
- "my hands dripped with myrrh," and all that.
- 00:18:33.455 --> 00:18:34.790
- She opened, "but my beloved had turned away and was gone.
- 00:18:34.790 --> 00:18:37.559
- My heart leaped up when he spoke.
- 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:38.894
- I sought him."
- 00:18:38.894 --> 00:18:40.229
- Now, i'm gonna--because of time,
- 00:18:40.229 --> 00:18:41.563
- I'm going to just tell you the story.
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- Look up here.
- 00:18:42.898 --> 00:18:44.233
- There are times he withholds his--the sense of his presence.
- 00:18:44.233 --> 00:18:46.001
- He never withholds his presence. he is with us all the time.
- 00:18:46.001 --> 00:18:49.004
- But sometimes he leaves us--
- 00:18:49.004 --> 00:18:50.372
- Like, he leaves us a sense of it, you know,
- 00:18:50.372 --> 00:18:51.940
- Take away the sense so that we long for him.
- 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:54.876
- Have you had that?
- 00:18:54.876 --> 00:18:56.211
- I'm telling you that if you have jesus as your focus,
- 00:18:56.211 --> 00:19:00.549
- Do it for him, not for your husband.
- 00:19:00.549 --> 00:19:02.351
- Do it for him. dress well, look good.
- 00:19:02.351 --> 00:19:06.054
- Make the guy think, all right, that you have someone,
- 00:19:06.054 --> 00:19:09.057
- But don't ever have someone.
- 00:19:09.057 --> 00:19:10.792
- Don't respond like this:
- 00:19:10.792 --> 00:19:12.127
- "i'm angry. i'll cut off everything!"
- 00:19:12.127 --> 00:19:13.729
- That's bitterness, and that will make you ugly, amen?
- 00:19:13.729 --> 00:19:19.167
- So learn from the song of songs
- 00:19:19.167 --> 00:19:20.902
- How that woman started looking for him
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- In the street.
- 00:19:22.804 --> 00:19:24.139
- He disappeared.
- 00:19:24.139 --> 00:19:25.474
- He sta--she started longing for him, all right?
- 00:19:25.474 --> 00:19:26.875
- And then she found some women,
- 00:19:26.875 --> 00:19:28.210
- And the women asked, "who are you looking for?"
- 00:19:28.210 --> 00:19:29.578
- "i'm looking for my beloved."
- 00:19:29.578 --> 00:19:31.079
- "why is your beloved more special than anybody else
- 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.115
- You'll come out at night like this?"
- 00:19:33.115 --> 00:19:34.449
- And then she says that she started talking about his--
- 00:19:34.449 --> 00:19:36.518
- "my beloved is like this."
- 00:19:36.518 --> 00:19:38.353
- Okay, drop down.
- 00:19:38.353 --> 00:19:39.988
- "my beloved is white and ruddy, chief among ten thousand.
- 00:19:39.988 --> 00:19:42.457
- His head is like the finest gold."
- 00:19:42.457 --> 00:19:43.792
- I've preached on this before in a midweek service--
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- The beauty of our lord jesus.
- 00:19:45.994 --> 00:19:47.696
- He's radiant, glorious, right? his eyes like eyes of doves.
- 00:19:47.696 --> 00:19:52.701
- Now, she started describing him to the woman.
- 00:19:52.701 --> 00:19:55.437
- When she described him... he appeared.
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- Isn't it beautiful?
- 00:19:59.541 --> 00:20:00.876
- When you've lost that sense of love,
- 00:20:00.876 --> 00:20:02.210
- Start sharing about his beauty with somebody else.
- 00:20:02.210 --> 00:20:05.480
- And guess what?
- 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:06.815
- That sense of his presence will return.
- 00:20:06.815 --> 00:20:10.419
- She didn't speak directly to him.
- 00:20:10.419 --> 00:20:12.321
- She spoke about him to somebody. he appeared.
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- In the song of songs when the lord talks about
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- The beauty of the bride, all of us,
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- He talks to us directly.
- 00:20:19.428 --> 00:20:21.163
- But when the bride talks about the beauty of the groom,
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- It's indirectly.
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- When she talks about him, he appears.
- 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:29.705
- When we talk about the lord, we sing about the lord,
- 00:20:29.705 --> 00:20:32.174
- We sense his presence again, amen?
- 00:20:32.174 --> 00:20:35.944
- We have to love our wives as we love our hu--
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- Children, it's the same.
- 00:20:38.513 --> 00:20:39.848
- Sometimes your teenagers--
- 00:20:39.848 --> 00:20:41.183
- And i'll close with a part about teenagers.
- 00:20:41.183 --> 00:20:42.517
- Teenagers especially, they don't like their parents to do
- 00:20:42.517 --> 00:20:45.887
- Too much for them.
- 00:20:45.887 --> 00:20:48.457
- And do you realize that when they were smaller,
- 00:20:48.457 --> 00:20:51.159
- They enjoy you doing things for them?
- 00:20:51.159 --> 00:20:53.028
- They ask you to do things for them.
- 00:20:53.028 --> 00:20:54.529
- As they grow older, they sense a frustration--
- 00:20:54.529 --> 00:20:57.299
- Like, i call it frustrating the favor of god--
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- When you do too much.
- 00:20:59.568 --> 00:21:02.104
- You almost have to wait to be invited to advise them,
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- Even counsel them.
- 00:21:05.807 --> 00:21:07.142
- If you advise too--you know, you advise them too readily,
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- They might not like it.
- 00:21:12.247 --> 00:21:14.015
- So it takes everything against us,
- 00:21:14.015 --> 00:21:15.684
- Against nature to learn to rest and say, "lord,
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- You got this handled.
- 00:21:21.056 --> 00:21:22.691
- I trust you, lord."
- 00:21:22.691 --> 00:21:24.326
- Then when--it opens the door when they ask you--
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- When you share this favor.
- 00:21:27.262 --> 00:21:29.164
- Because sometimes you are doing too much
- 00:21:29.164 --> 00:21:30.699
- Not because you care for them.
- 00:21:30.699 --> 00:21:32.033
- You say, "i care for them. i care for them."
- 00:21:32.033 --> 00:21:33.368
- That is superficial.
- 00:21:33.368 --> 00:21:34.703
- When you go deeper, it's because you worry.
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- It's because we are anxious.
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- It's because we are not at rest, and they can sense it.
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- And when you're not at rest, that means what?
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- You are performing. and guess what?
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- You are frustrating the favor of god
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- With your children.
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- So sometimes you gotta step back to let the favor flow
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- In your relationship with your children.
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- I know i'm speaking very generally and all that.
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- I wish i can break it down to give you the--
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- How it all works but--
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- Because this needs a series by itself.
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- But i'm here to tell you: the favor of god.
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- Ask god for favor.
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- Increase favor with your spouse and with your children,
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- Even your small children, amen?
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- They are not too small to sense favor on you.
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- In fact, the younger they are,
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- It seems like they can sense favor very readily.
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- So, friends, don't ask for increased favor
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- Because, like joseph with potiphar,
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- Joseph with pharaoh,
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- Or esther in front of the king and all that,
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- You know, don't just ask favor for promotion,
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- But ask favor with your family members.
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- That's where it starts, amen?
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- Announcer: and now, a closing word
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- From pastor joseph prince.
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- Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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- Father god, i thank you.
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- As the shepherd of israel, as the shepherd of his flock,
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- You have gone ahead of us this week,
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- And you have prepared the way for us.
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- You have made the crooked places straight.
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- Father, we thank you, lord, that you have gone ahead of us
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- And caused every mountain to be made flat,
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- Every valley to be exalted.
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- Today we walk straight, lord, with no sense of burden, lord,
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- And oppression.
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- Father, protect everyone under the sound of my voice,
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- Everyone and their loved ones.
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- Throughout this week, father, in the name of jesus,
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- Protect every one of us from every sickness,
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- From every danger, from accidents,
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- From terror, from evil people,
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- And from all the powers of darkness.
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- In the name of our lord jesus christ, we thank you.
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- And, father god, prosper our way.
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- Thank you, father.
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- Increase your favor in our lives, father.
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- In the name of jesus, i decree: increase.
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- May grace, the unmerited favor of god;
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- And shalom, perfect well-being,
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- Increase and be multiplied in your life,
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- Even as you have received the revelation of jesus today.
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- In jesus's name.
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- And all the people said thank you, father.
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- We'll continue again. god bless you.
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- You're dismissed.
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