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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 | July 22, 2025

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Joseph prince: human nature is such that we always wanna show
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Our strong side to people.
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We always wanna 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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For when i am weak, then i am strong.
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So look at the areas of your life
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That you are weak in, amen?
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And rejoice, not for that weakness
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But because--rejoice because that area of weakness
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Allows god's power to flow in that area.
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And now here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: 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 the breaches thereof;
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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, 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, all its damages, god says,
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"in that day, i will also cause my people
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To possess the remnant of edom."
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But notice that in the hebrew, they use the word "edom,"
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All right?
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The word "edom" is used.
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And that tells us also of the truth about obed-edom
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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--
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A divine hint, 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 the blessings of god in--
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During the dispensation of the law
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That was given to israel.
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And yet he enjoyed the blessings of god upon himself,
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Upon all that he had, and upon his household.
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And the bible says that when god raises
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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
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That he's repairing all the breaches
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And all the damaged areas 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 that god is building,
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The house of god in these last days
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Of which you and i are members of.
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Okay, when-- and then he says that he's--
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When he raises up the tabernacle of david,
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He's gonna repair 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 uzza,
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When he put forth his hand to touch--to steady the ark
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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 breach.
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Uzza, perez-uzza.
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Or you can say, "the breaking of strength,"
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Because uzza, 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's 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't 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,
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Is like 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 uzza, we are using strength--all right?--
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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 the ten commandments,
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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,
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The moment man 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
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"you shall have 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
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To want to keep 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,
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If you try to keep the law, the law is designed--
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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,
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Sin will have no dominion over you.
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You see, friend, for us, we should rejoice.
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When we see areas in our life where god is breaking
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Our strength, 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
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When he prayed to the lord because there was an area
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That he doesn't seem to find victory over.
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There was an area in his life that he does not see
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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, all right?
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Yeah, i can prove that to you, where--the bible--
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Must interpret bible,
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And when the bible talks about thorns in your sides
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And all that,
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In the old testament it's referring to the enemies,
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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 pleaded with god that this might be removed
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Out of his life, that this messenger of satan
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Would 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"-- not in your strength--
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In your weakness.
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So, actually, we should celebrate
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All the areas of our lives that are weak.
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You know, human nature is such that we always wanna show
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Our strong side to people.
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We always wanna show our good side to people.
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And that's why if you're always hooked
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On social media--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, their-- the best part of their life,
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And it's all done in such a way that they will never show you
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Their areas of weakness.
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They will only show you their good parts.
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And it's specially curated to present that.
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But, friend, you know, if you are into that,
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Let me just tell you: 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. 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,
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Hallelujah, amen?
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Redeem time. be wise, amen.
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Buy back time.
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Redeem time is 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,
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In the name of the lord jesus christ, amen?
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As sons and daughters of god, we can always rejoice that it is
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In the areas of our weakness that god's strength,
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God's dynamite power, can be manifested,
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Can be released.
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So if that's so,
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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 is
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"i'll boast in my infirmities, 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
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That you are weak in-- amen?--and rejoice,
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Not for that weakness but because--rejoice
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Because that area of weakness allows god's power to flow
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In that area.
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Praise the lord.
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If you have a lot of weaknesses,
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Then a lot of god's power 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,
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God's gonna rebuild-- not in other areas
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But in the very area of your weakness.
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In the very area where there's a breaking of strength--amen?--
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There'll be the blessing of obed-edom,
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Which happened right after the story of the perez-uzza.
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Uzza died.
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The blessing of god came on obed-edom
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Because david moved the ark to obed-edom.
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So it seems like, you know,
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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 into 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, you know?
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You will get the glory.
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You might say, "oh, it's all god," and all that.
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But inwardly, you know, you put in the strength,
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You'll 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 but himself,
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Amen, amen?
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To god be all the glory.
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I always say it like this, 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--
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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 uzza, because it's on the ox cart,
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There's no record of god helping the oxen
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'cause 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 priests--
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And it's a very heavy ark, all right?
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The ark of the covenant is very heavy, about 288 pounds.
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And the moment it touched the shoulders of the priests,
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It's as if it lifted them.
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It felt light and easy.
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Does that remind you of what jesus said?
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"my yoke is easy. 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,
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"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-- 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
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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.
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Amen, praise the lord.
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So when we look at the lord jesus
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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.
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And that love propels us to love other people.
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The bible used this word:
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"the love of christ constrains us."
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You know, if you're swimming up a river
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And all of a sudden there's, like,
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A sudden gush of floodwaters 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." 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 obligingly--
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All right?--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
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Behind everything 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
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That 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,
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"i'm not gonna put in the strength,"
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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
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Because now the power that energizes you
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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. you're burning all the time.
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Burn up, my friend.
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And people will come 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 uzza's death
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When he brought the ark from kiriath-jearim
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Was to offer blood sacrifice-- right?--which he did,
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Which means the name "obed-edom,"
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The servant of edom.
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"edom" can also mean mankind.
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Like i said just now,
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When god restores the tabernacle 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, he says
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"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 the word
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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 and his blessings,
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Which means when god restores the tabernacle of david
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In these last days,
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He's also gonna 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,
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Rejoice 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.
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Praise the lord. thank you, jesus.
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2 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
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In the hebrew.
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I'm gonna extract the part of that same verse just now
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And 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 et 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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We put them together, it's like saying,
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"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, and who is to come,
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The almighty."
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Notice he says, "i am the alpha and omega."
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Now, this is greek-- all 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, right?
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He would have said this: "i am aleph and i am tav,"
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The first letter and the last letter
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Of the hebrew alphabet,
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Which is actually the aleph-tav of this word here.
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"the lord--" who is this lord? "aleph-tav."
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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.
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Praise the lord. 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,
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God created--" who created?
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Who is this god who created? aleph-tav.
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Because the bible says about jesus,
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"all things were made by him; and without him
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Nothing was made 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,"
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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 is an atom,
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All 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, the--all the protons, neutrons, 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, your ministry to him,
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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.
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Because why? 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,
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All the spokes will all fall out of place
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Because it is the center of the wheel
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That holds 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,
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The center of all 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 will be resourced. you will be charismatized, amen.
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You will be gifted. you will 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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Is the proper order, amen, the pattern of god,
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When you follow god's pattern,
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Everything flows in your life for you, not against you.
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Praise the lord. 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 because jesus said,
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"if any man serve me, him will my father honour."
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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, "how can i serve the lord?"
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Amen?
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"i wanna get involved in ministry.
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I wanna get involved in serving the lord."
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And when you serve, you're not looking to please men
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So they put their hand on your shoulders
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Or to please some leaders 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,
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It's from jesus you receive the reward of the inheritance.
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Say 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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Announcer: and now a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: father, i thank you, lord,
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For everyone under the sound of my voice.
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And i ask in the name of the lord jesus,
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This coming week, lord, i pray that they will see,
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Lord, the blessing that you blessed obed-edom with
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Rests upon them, upon all that they have,
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And upon their entire household this week,
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In the name 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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Joseph Prince - Grace Is Strongest When You Are Not

July 22, 2025 | 29:45

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