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Joseph Prince - Grace Is Strongest When You Are Not

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Grace Is Strongest When You Are Not | February 23, 2026

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Joseph prince: human nature is such that we always
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Want to show our strong side to people,
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We always want to show our good side to people.
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As sons and daughters of god, we can always rejoice
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That it is in the areas of our weakness
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That god's strength, god's dynamite power
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Can be manifested, can be released.
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So, if that's so, let's look at all the areas
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Of our weakness.
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So, look at the areas of your life
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That you are weak in,
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And rejoice, not for that weakness, but rejoice because
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That area of weakness allows god's power
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To flow in that area, praise the lord.
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Joseph prince: greetings, church.
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Welcome back to the study of god's word.
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The most exciting study that you can ever be involved in.
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And god is still reaching out to people that are lost,
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And that's what amos was prophesying in amos 9:11.
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Once again, let's look at the scripture verse.
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"in that day will i raise up the tabernacle of david
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That is fallen, and close up
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The breaches thereof; and i will raise up his ruins,
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And i will build it as in the days of old;
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That they may possess the remnant of edom,
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And of all the heathen,"
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Or in the hebrew, gentiles, goyim,
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"which are called by my name,
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Saith the lord, that doeth this."
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Notice that when god raises the tabernacle of david
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And repairs all its breaches,
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All its damages, god says, "in that day,
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I will also cause my people to possess the remnant of edom."
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But notice that in the hebrew, they use the word edom, right?
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The word edom is used, and that tells us
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Also of the truth about
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Obed-edom and the blessing on obed-edom.
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Because obed-edom, his name is obed-edom.
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And here we have the remnant of edom.
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So i think there's a suggestion here, a divine hint,
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If you would, of the story of obed-edom.
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Just like obed-edom is a gentile,
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He's actually a philistine.
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He's a gittite, the bible tells us, a gentile,
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And he actually enjoyed
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The blessings of god during the dispensation
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Of the law that was given to israel,
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And yet he enjoyed the blessings of god
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Upon himself, upon all that he had,
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And upon his household.
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And the bible says that when god raises the tabernacle of david,
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Which he is doing right now all over the world,
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Especially throughout this year.
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He has given us this specific word that he's repairing
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All the breaches and all the damaged areas
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Of the tabernacle of david.
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And the tabernacle of david is actually a picture
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Of the church of jesus christ
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That god is building, the house of god
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In these last days of which you and i are members of, okay?
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And then he says that when he raises up
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The tabernacle of david, he's going to repair
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All the broken places.
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And right after the first breach,
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And the word breach here is the same word used
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In the story of uzzah when he put forth his hand
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To steady the ark and he fell dead.
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The lord struck him dead, the bible tells us that.
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And david was afraid, and he called that place perez,
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Which is bridge, uzzah, perez-uzzah.
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Or you can say the breaking of strength.
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Because uzzah, his name means strength,
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And god is breaking human strength,
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Because human strength is man's pride,
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And man does not know that he is not able.
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Man does not know that as a sinner, he cannot.
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Jesus says, "without me, you can do nothing."
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And yet we say, no, i don't really believe that.
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I believe there are some things i can do.
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Maybe the big stuff, like the miracles and all that.
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But i'm sure i can do something, not nothing.
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But no, jesus says: without me, you can do nothing.
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And yet, the life even of believers is like
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We are always putting forth, you know?
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Even in the area of living a life to glorify god,
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If we are using uzzah, we are using strength, alright?
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Then we are sure doomed to fail.
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Just like israel boasted at the foot of mount sinai,
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Even before god gave them
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The ten commandments, they boasted and says,
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"all that god says, we are able to do it.
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And we will do it."
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Na'aseh. na'aseh, right?
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In the hebrew, we can do it, we will do it.
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And man presumed on his own strength,
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Which he had none.
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The bible says christ died for all of us
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Who are without strength.
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And yet, man presumed on his own strength,
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On his own righteousness which he had none.
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And at the foot of mount sinai, the moment man
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Boasted in his strength,
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The very next thing you see is the golden calf,
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Which is what?
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The ten commandments.
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The very first commandment is, "you shall have
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No other gods before me."
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And man worshiped that golden calf.
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So you see, just putting your strength to want to keep
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The law produces the opposite.
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So if you go to the law, and you try to keep the law,
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It's gonna reveal who you are,
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And what you are is a sinner, and you cannot but sin.
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And that even for the believer, if you try to keep the law,
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The law is designed-- the strength of sin is the law.
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And god tells the believer, you are not under the law,
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But you are under grace.
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And what's gonna happen when that happens?
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When you are truly under grace, sin will have
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No dominion over you.
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You see, friend?
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For us, we should rejoice when we see areas in our lives
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Where god is breaking our strength,
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It is because these are the areas
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He wants to manifest his strength.
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The apostle paul says it like this when he prayed to the lord,
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Because there was an area that he doesn't seem
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To find victory over.
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There was an area in his life that he does not
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See a breakthrough.
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And he prayed to the lord three times that this area,
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This thorn in the flesh,
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And it's not a disease by the way, alright?
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I can prove that to you where--
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The bible must interpret the bible,
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And when the bible talks about
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Thorns in your sides and all that,
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In the old testament
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It's referring to the enemies, physical enemies.
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And paul said in that passage that a messenger of satan
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Was assigned to him to frustrate his ministry,
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To frustrate his areas of service to god.
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And he plead with god that this might be removed
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Out of his life,
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That this messenger of satan will be bound completely.
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But god said this to him.
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God said, "my grace is sufficient for you,
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For my strength," and the word strength there
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Is dunamis in the greek,
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By which we get our word dynamo, dynamite.
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God says, "my dynamite strength is made perfect
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In your weakness."
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Not in your strength, in your weakness.
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So, actually, we should celebrate all the areas
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Of our lives that are weak, you know?
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Human nature is such that we always
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Want to show our strong side to people,
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We always want to show our good side to people.
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And that's why if you're always hooked on social media,
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You look at other people's instagram
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Where it's specially curated to present their best,
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You know, self, the best part of their life,
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And it's all done in such a way they'll never show you
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Their areas of weakness, they will only show you
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Their good parts, and it's specially curated
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To present that.
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But friend, if you are into that, let me just tell you,
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Don't waste your time, okay?
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It's all the same story. don't waste your time.
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Your time is too precious.
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Your life is too precious.
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Time is passing by.
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Let's use it for the glory of god, hallelujah, amen?
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Redeem time, be wise, amen?
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Buy back time.
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Redeem time means buy back the time.
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And one area i see people involved in is social media.
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They are really addicted to it.
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Free yourself today in the name of the lord jesus christ, amen?
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As sons and daughters of god, we can always rejoice
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That it is in the areas of our weakness
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That god's strength, god's dynamite power
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Can be manifested, can be released.
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So if that's so, let's look at all the areas of our weakness.
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And you know what paul said right after that?
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Rather our glory, most gladly i will rather boast.
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The word glory there our boast in my infirmities,
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In my weaknesses.
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For when i am weak, then i am strong.
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So, look at the areas of your life that you are weak in, amen?
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And rejoice, not for that weakness,
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But rejoice because that area of weakness
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Allows god's power to flow in that area,
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Praise the lord.
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If you have a lot of weaknesses, then a lot of god's power
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Can be released in your life.
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A lot more of that power can be released
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Because you've got more weaknesses.
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So, rejoice in all your areas of weakness.
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In all your areas of breaking, god's gonna rebuild,
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Not in other areas, but in the very area
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Of your weakness.
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In the very area where there's a breaking of strength, amen?
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There will be the blessing of obed-edom,
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Which happened right after
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The story of the perez-uzzah, uzzah died.
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The blessing of god came on obed-edom, because david
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Moved the ark to obed-edom.
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So it seems like god's heart is always into blessing,
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But we must do it god's way.
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If we put human strength to the whole thing,
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God will not give his glory to another.
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If god allows you to have the victory
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Because of your strength, who gets the glory?
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You know, you will get the glory.
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You might say, oh, it's all god and all that, but inwardly,
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You know, you put in the strength,
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You will want to share the glory.
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That's human nature.
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So god will give his glory to no other
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But himself, amen?
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Amen, to god be all the glory.
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I always say it like this,
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And i'm saying this reverently,
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If god wants to get all the glory,
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Let him do all the work, amen?
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Let him do all the work in me, through me, for me, amen?
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When david came to take the ark from obed-edom's house,
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The bible tells us that the levites would carry it.
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Now they got it right, amen?
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They would carry it on their shoulders.
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And the bible says god helped the levites.
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Now for uzzah, because it's on the ox cart,
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There's no record of god
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Helping the oxen, because it wasn't god's way,
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It wasn't god's leading.
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But here you have the phrase, "god helped the levites."
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Now, in the jewish writings, they say that the moment the ark
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Touched the shoulders of the priest,
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And it's a very heavy ark,
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The ark of covenant is very heavy, about 288 pounds,
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And the moment it touched the shoulders of the priest,
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It's as if it lifted them.
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They felt light and easy.
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Does that remind you of what jesus said?
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"my yoke is easy.
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Take my yoke upon you.
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My yoke is easy, and my burden is light," amen?
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You know, people think that to serve the lord is hard.
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That's what the devil wants you to think.
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Actually, the bible says the way of the transgressors is hard.
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It's hard.
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"my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
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Don't let the devil brainwash you into thinking
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That the christian life is a hard life, okay?
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The sinner's life is an enjoyable, fun-filled life.
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It's the opposite.
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The way of the transgressors is hard, amen?
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The way of the lord jesus, and he says,
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"i come that you might have life
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And have it more abundantly."
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Joy unspeakable, full of glory.
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My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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Is there responsibilities for us to fulfill?
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Is there a service for us to execute in the kingdom of god?
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Yes, there is, but his yoke is easy,
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And his responsibilities, his burden is light, amen?
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Praise the lord.
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So when we look at the lord jesus, and we meditate,
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And we are conscious of his love for us,
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We end up loving him, and that love propels us
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To love other people.
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The bible uses this word, the love of christ
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Constrains us.
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You know, if you're swimming up a river and all of a sudden
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There's like a sudden gush of flood waters
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Coming towards you.
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I don't care how strong you are.
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You may have biceps like pastor lawrence, you know,
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But the more you try to swim upstream,
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You'll be borne along by the currents,
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By the strong waters, right?
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That's the word constrain.
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It is like it constrains you.
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The love of christ constrains us.
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We don't do things in the christian life
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Obligingly, alright?
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In a hard way.
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No, no, we do things in a constrained way.
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And what's the thing that constrains us?
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The love of christ.
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That becomes the motivating force behind everything
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That we do.
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When we are conscious of his love for us,
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We love our wives as christ loved the church,
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We love our children, we love those around us,
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And that's why the bible says
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We love because he first loved us, amen?
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He is the first cause, and the effect is that
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We love everyone around us, amen?
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But if the first cause has been removed,
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The devil has successfully caused you
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To lose sight of jesus and his love for you,
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Then you will cut off all these areas as well, okay?
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We have to look at areas of our weakness.
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Already, your weakness is helping you to break down
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That strength, right?
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That's the idea of weakness.
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A weakness means breaking down of strength.
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So your areas of weakness actually is helping you.
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So the more you see those areas,
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But none of us are so free from our own strength
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As we think we are.
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You know, it's like a drowning person.
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You cannot save him until he's completely void,
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Destitute of strength.
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As long as he has strength still,
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He will pull you down with him.
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He will struggle against your help.
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So we are not as weak as we think we are.
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We need god's intervention in our lives.
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So the more we rest, the more we say i'm not gonna put in
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The strength, it is not a life of laziness,
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It's not a life of passivity,
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It's the most active life, because now the power
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That energizes you is not your own.
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It's like the burning bush.
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It is burning and burning, yet it's not consumed.
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You're not burnt out.
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You're burning all the time.
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Burn up, my friend, and people will come
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And watch you burn, amen?
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Burn up for the glory of god but not burn out, hallelujah,
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Praise the lord.
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Now, the obed-edom's blessing.
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The bible tells us one of the first things david did
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That he didn't do before uzzah's death
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When he brought the ark from kiriath-jearim
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Was to offer blood sacrifice, right?
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Which he did.
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Which means the name obed-edom, the servant of edom.
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Edom can also mean mankind.
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Like i said just now, when god restores the tavern of david,
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The name of obed-edom is there.
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"that they may possess the remnant of edom," right?
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And here, acts 15 tells us, in acts 15,
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When james quoted amos,
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He says, "that the rest of mankind may seek the lord."
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So it's the same verse, it's the same quotation,
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But notice that where it says edom,
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James says mankind, because edom is also
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The word where you get the word adam, adam.
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But notice edom is left there in amos's prophecy
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To remind us of obed-edom
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And his blessings, which means when god restores
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The tabernacle of david in these last days,
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He's also going to restore family blessings.
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Receive that in your life, in your family's life, amen?
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If there are areas that are broken right now, rejoice,
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Because boy, god's strength, god's blessings
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Are gonna flow in those very areas, amen?
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If you will not give up, if you will believe god
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And start rejoicing not in those broken areas alone,
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But in the fact that his strength
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And his blessing can flow in all the broken places.
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It's the broken places that invites his repairing,
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His rebuilding that he has promised, praise the lord.
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Thank you, jesus.
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Second samuel 6 tells us, "the ark of the lord
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Remained in the house of obed-edom the gittite
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Three months.
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And the lord blessed obed-edom and all his household."
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Now, if you look carefully in the hebrew,
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Here's something very interesting in the hebrew.
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I'm going to extract the part of that same verse just now,
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I'll show you in the hebrew.
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Hebrew reads from right to left.
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It says, "and blessed the lord," aleph tav, "at obed-edom."
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Notice that aleph tav is not translated.
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It's as if it's a signature there, aleph tav.
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The first letter of the hebrew alphabet is aleph,
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The very last one is tav.
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When we put them together, it's like saying, "i am the a and z."
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Or jesus says, "i am the alpha and omega."
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Alpha is the first letter of the greek alphabet,
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And the last one is omega.
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When jesus appeared to john, his disciple john,
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Jesus actually in his resurrected form says,
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"'i am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end,'
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Says the lord, 'who is, who was,
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And who is to come, the almighty.'"
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Notice he says, i am the alpha and omega.
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Now, this is greek, right?
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Because our new testament is translated from greek.
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But jesus would not have spoken greek
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To his fellow jewish disciple, john.
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He would have spoken hebrew.
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Right, he would have said this, "i am aleph,
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And i am tav,"
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The first letter and the last letter
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Of the hebrew alphabet, which is actually
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The aleph tav of this word here.
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The lord--who is this lord?
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Aleph tav, jesus blessed obed-edom.
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When jesus is in the center of your life,
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The blessings of god flows, praise the lord.
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Thank you, jesus.
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In everything that we do, jesus is in the center.
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The bible says all things were made by him.
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So when it says in the beginning, god created,
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Who created?
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Who is this god who created?
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Aleph tav.
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Because the bible says about jesus,
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All things were made by him,
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And without him, nothing was made
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That was made, amen?
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He is the creator of all things, praise the lord.
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Thank you, lord jesus, amen.
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And when he is in the center, another verse in the bible says
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In him all things consist, or all things are held together.
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You know, you look at the atom.
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Right at the core of every matter
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Is an atom, right?
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But you look at the atom,
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They are supposed to split apart.
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You know, all the protons, neutrons,
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And all that.
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You look carefully, there is a force that man
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Is not able to pinpoint.
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It's beyond them.
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They can come right down to the atom,
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But they cannot tell you
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What is the force that holds the atom together.
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Because naturally, based on all scientific laws,
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They are supposed to repel each other.
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Yet there's a force that holds them together.
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The bible says in christ, all things are held together.
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Literally, you know, him, all things are held together.
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He made all things, and for him all things are made.
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So when you live your life for him,
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You surrender your family life to him,
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You give your whole life to him, what happens?
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He holds everything in your life together.
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Whatever area of your life, you give your health to him,
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You give your career,
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Your ministry to him, you give your whole being to him,
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All these areas are held together.
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Now it's no more based on your strength
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Holding them together,
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Whether it's your marriage, your business, your career,
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Your life, your ministry, your parenting.
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Now you're no more dependent on your strength, because why?
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Christ has come in.
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You have invited jesus right in the center of that area.
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And you know what?
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He holds all things together, amen?
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When you invite him into your life,
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He holds everything together.
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It is when he's no longer the center,
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Everything disintegrates.
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Like the hub, the center of the wheel.
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When there's no more hub, all the spokes
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Will all fall out of place,
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Because it is the center of the wheel that holds
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The spoke in place so that there's acceleration.
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Put him in the center, friend, the center of your marriage,
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The center of your parenting, the center of your career,
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The center of your ministry, the center of all
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That you are dreaming about the future.
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Make sure the lord is in your future, amen?
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And the lord wants us to have this consciousness
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That all things were made by him,
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And without him was nothing made.
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And all things were made for him, for his glory.
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So when you flow with god's pattern,
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Everything is flowing for you and not against you, amen?
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You'll be a resource, you'll be a charismatized, amen?
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You'll be gifted, you'll be anointed,
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Because everything that you do is for his glory.
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You are now in the pattern of god.
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Just like the ark put on the shoulders of the priest.
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It's the proper order, amen?
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The pattern of god.
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When you follow god's pattern, everything flows in your life.
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For you, not against you, praise the lord.
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Thank you, jesus, amen?
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How about this year? find some areas of ministry.
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Ask the lord for an area of ministry
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You can serve his son in.
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Because jesus said, "if any man serve me,
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Him will my father honor."
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Will you find that, amen?
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Or else you can consult your care leader
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And leaders who are in the church
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And ask them for advice.
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How can i serve the lord? amen.
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I want to get involved in ministry.
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I want to get involved in serving the lord.
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And when you serve, you're not looking
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To please men so they put their hand
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On your shoulders or to please some leaders
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So that they can approve of you.
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No, no, no, you're looking to serve jesus.
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Whether people recognize it or not, it's from jesus.
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You receive the reward of the inheritance,
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Amen, friend?
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Praise the lord. thank you, jesus.
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Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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That you've been searching for in our lord jesus.
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Announcer: and now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: father, i thank you, lord, for everyone
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Under the sound of my voice.
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And i ask in the name of the lord jesus, this coming week,
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Lord, i pray that they will see, lord, the blessing that you
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Blessed obed-edom with, rest upon them,
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Upon all that they have,
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And upon their entire household this week in the name
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Of the lord jesus christ.
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And let it be said of them, lord, that they are so blessed
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Because of the lord jesus christ.
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Let it be a testimony to many far and wide
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In jesus's name, amen?
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Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people."
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I was so excited.
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Announcer: church.
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Male: hey, everybody.
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Announcer: it's not a place. it's a people.
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Male: good to see you guys. male: welcome, everyone.
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Female: hello?
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Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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How in the world do you do an online church?
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And, you know, we gather in our living room
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And we sing and we praise
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And then we sit there and we take in the word
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And then afterward you can talk about it.
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Announcer: church is not four walls.
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It's one body of christ.
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Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to a little bit, you know,
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Doing the online church.
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But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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Female: my best friends are in the chat, in the chat house.
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And when i was sick, i had people praying for me.
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I had people take the communion for me.
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They're right there when you need it.
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Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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It's who you meet.
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Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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From people we can't see and we're not
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In the same room as.
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It helps us to make that connection, that i can't see god
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And i'm not in the same room as him,
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But he loves me.
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Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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Joseph prince: i believe that there is a corporate anointing
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Whenever we come together to worship the lord
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As the body of christ, even online.
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Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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Or text "church" to 71239 today.
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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From the lord.
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Joseph prince ministries
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Is a section 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization,
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Joseph Prince - Grace Is Strongest When You Are Not

February 23, 2026 | 27:29

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