Joseph Prince - God's Way To Multiplying Grace In Life

January 4, 2026 | 29:45

Pastor Joseph Prince is powerfully proclaiming the unadulterated gospel of grace through Jesus Christ to every corner of the earth

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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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  • To bring healing to your body.
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  • We have received many praise reports
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  • From believers around the world who have experienced
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  • The healing power of the communion.
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  • I really want that for you too.
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  • "eating your way to wholeness:
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  • A practical guide to the holy 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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  • And discover the kind of victory your heavenly father
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  • In the favor that's already yours in christ.
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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?"
  • 00:10:38.214 --> 00:10:41.016
  • 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.
  • 00:10:52.228 --> 00:10:54.697
  • "the tree of life is me." he touched on the passover lamb.
  • 00:10:54.697 --> 00:10:59.034
  • "that's me," amen? so, he didn't say, "me."
  • 00:10:59.034 --> 00:11:01.670
  • He said, "it's the messiah. it's messiah."
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  • They didn't know it was him.
  • 00:11:03.172 --> 00:11:05.441
  • That's how he brought them out of depression,
  • 00:11:05.441 --> 00:11:07.176
  • And that's how you can be brought out of discouragement,
  • 00:11:07.176 --> 00:11:09.545
  • Despair, and depression--
  • 00:11:09.545 --> 00:11:12.348
  • By occupation with christ, not occupation with self
  • 00:11:12.348 --> 00:11:15.351
  • Or telling one another, you know, all the bad news.
  • 00:11:15.351 --> 00:11:21.624
  • Another problem they had was this:
  • 00:11:21.624 --> 00:11:23.692
  • Jesus was a side issue, a means to an end.
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  • Some of us, we use jesus for salvation,
  • 00:11:26.695 --> 00:11:29.632
  • And then we forget him.
  • 00:11:29.632 --> 00:11:30.966
  • Or we use jesus for--prosper our career or whatever.
  • 00:11:30.966 --> 00:11:34.937
  • 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.
  • 00:11:37.706 --> 00:11:41.143
  • Our career is. our ministry is.
  • 00:11:41.143 --> 00:11:44.313
  • 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?
  • 00:11:47.416 --> 00:11:50.085
  • 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--"
  • 00:11:53.022 --> 00:11:54.523
  • They told jesus without knowing it was him,
  • 00:11:54.523 --> 00:11:56.392
  • "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,
  • 00:12:04.066 --> 00:12:07.236
  • 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
  • 00:12:12.608 --> 00:12:15.311
  • 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.
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  • Have you ever had the time when your heart was like--
  • 00:12:28.324 --> 00:12:31.293
  • 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,
  • 00:12:46.876 --> 00:12:49.845
  • Not pastor prince.
  • 00:12:49.845 --> 00:12:51.180
  • Jesus. but where are those days?
  • 00:12:51.180 --> 00:12:52.982
  • Where are those-- where is that longing?
  • 00:12:52.982 --> 00:12:56.318
  • You find yourself getting cold? remember this.
  • 00:12:56.318 --> 00:12:59.088
  • Something else has become centerpiece--
  • 00:12:59.088 --> 00:13:01.991
  • 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.
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  • And i love the amplified translation
  • 00:13:21.810 --> 00:13:23.212
  • Because at least the amplified translators
  • 00:13:23.212 --> 00:13:24.980
  • 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.
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  • There's only gospel of grace, but it produces prosperity.
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  • You don't like the word "prosperity"?
  • 00:13:37.192 --> 00:13:38.527
  • Okay, it produces abundance.
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  • 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,
  • 00:13:49.872 --> 00:13:51.206
  • 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?--
  • 00:13:58.314 --> 00:14:01.183
  • "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
  • 00:14:06.121 --> 00:14:07.990
  • More perfect well-being?
  • 00:14:07.990 --> 00:14:10.793
  • How many want more well-being in your life?
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  • 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?
  • 00:14:26.208 --> 00:14:27.543
  • 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.
  • 00:14:31.313 --> 00:14:32.681
  • 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.
  • 00:14:51.767 --> 00:14:53.102
  • "may grace (god's favor) and peace--"
  • 00:14:53.102 --> 00:14:54.703
  • Which is "shalom" in hebrew, "eirene" in greek.
  • 00:14:54.703 --> 00:14:58.474
  • 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,
  • 00:15:03.078 --> 00:15:05.614
  • Agitating passions and moral conflicts)
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  • Be multiplied to you in [the full, personal,
  • 00:15:07.549 --> 00:15:11.653
  • 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:
  • 00:15:27.036 --> 00:15:31.006
  • It doesn't mean that you focus on jesus,
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  • 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,
  • 00:15:37.646 --> 00:15:39.581
  • Your marriage prospers,
  • 00:15:39.581 --> 00:15:41.050
  • Your career starts to flourish--
  • 00:15:41.050 --> 00:15:43.886
  • 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.
  • 00:16:16.985 --> 00:16:21.256
  • 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,
  • 00:16:27.362 --> 00:16:29.064
  • 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
  • 00:16:54.990 --> 00:16:58.026
  • In the song of songs.
  • 00:16:58.026 --> 00:16:59.361
  • God taught so much about one particular song.
  • 00:16:59.361 --> 00:17:01.597
  • 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.
  • 00:17:06.168 --> 00:17:08.871
  • It's called the song of songs
  • 00:17:08.871 --> 00:17:10.205
  • Because it deals with the greatest theme of all--
  • 00:17:10.205 --> 00:17:12.474
  • Not about eschatology, not about other doctrines
  • 00:17:12.474 --> 00:17:15.210
  • 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
  • 00:17:20.349 --> 00:17:22.384
  • Where the woman actually was asleep in bed.
  • 00:17:22.384 --> 00:17:27.122
  • And in the middle eastern culture, all right,
  • 00:17:27.122 --> 00:17:29.992
  • There's this bridal love.
  • 00:17:29.992 --> 00:17:31.326
  • The man would come, and there's a door,
  • 00:17:31.326 --> 00:17:33.428
  • 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,
  • 00:17:41.236 --> 00:17:42.905
  • My locks with the drops of the night," all right?
  • 00:17:42.905 --> 00:17:44.973
  • 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.
  • 00:17:50.045 --> 00:17:51.380
  • Everything is in place.
  • 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:52.714
  • 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."
  • 00:17:56.185 --> 00:17:57.819
  • 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,
  • 00:18:15.737 --> 00:18:17.072
  • 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
  • 00:18:21.076 --> 00:18:23.278
  • 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.
  • 00:18:41.563 --> 00:18:42.898
  • 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
  • 00:19:20.902 --> 00:19:22.804
  • 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--
  • 00:19:43.792 --> 00:19:45.994
  • 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.
  • 00:19:55.437 --> 00:19:59.541
  • 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.
  • 00:20:12.321 --> 00:20:15.724
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • When we talk about the lord, we sing about the lord,
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  • We sense his presence again, amen?
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  • We have to love our wives as we love our hu--
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  • Children, it's the same.
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  • Sometimes your teenagers--
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  • And i'll close with a part about teenagers.
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  • Teenagers especially, they don't like their parents to do
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  • Too much for them.
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  • And do you realize that when they were smaller,
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  • They enjoy you doing things for them?
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  • They ask you to do things for them.
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  • As they grow older, they sense a frustration--
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  • Like, i call it frustrating the favor of god--
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  • When you do too much.
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  • You almost have to wait to be invited to advise them,
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  • Even counsel them.
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  • If you advise too--you know, you advise them too readily,
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  • They might not like it.
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  • So it takes everything against us,
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  • Against nature to learn to rest and say, "lord,
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  • You got this handled.
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  • I trust you, lord."
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  • Then when--it opens the door when they ask you--
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  • When you share this favor.
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  • Because sometimes you are doing too much
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  • Not because you care for them.
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  • You say, "i care for them. i care for them."
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  • That is superficial.
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  • 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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  • 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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