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Joseph Prince - Grace Is Your Unfair Advantage from God

January 28, 2026 | 27:29

Come discover the secret to success without striving: God’s unmerited favor!

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Grace Is Your Unfair Advantage from God | January 28, 2026

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Joseph prince: all blessing has its source only and only--
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I repeat that. only in god.
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God doesn't give it to you based on what he owes you,
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Rather grace.
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If you work for something, god cannot give it to you
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By grace: unearned, undeserved favor.
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He has to give it to you based on debt,
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And god will be a debtor to no man.
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Your faith is counted for righteousness.
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Now, that means, "i'll treat you from then on
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As a righteous man."
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How can god do that?
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Only on one basis alone, the cross of jesus christ.
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Because at the cross, his son died as our substitute.
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At the cross, jesus bore your sins
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So that we now receive his righteousness
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And we get what we don't deserve.
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Jesus got what he didn't deserve.
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Now we get what we don't deserve: favor,
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Blessings, prosperity, fecundity, longevity,
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The power for well-being in every area of our life.
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And this is hard for some people to take because people
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Are always trying to get some glory for themself.
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They always wanna do something.
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They always wanna do something.
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Friend, even you think that the work of jesus is 98%,
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Yours is 2%, you still cannot give him
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The glory because your 2% will always--makes you feel
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Like you have a part to play.
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No.
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It's worthy is the lamb, not worthy is the lamb and me.
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Announcer: what did jesus mean when he said, "it is finished?"
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What's finished, and what does it mean for you today?
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In today's message, joseph shares what it means
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To live under god's unmerited favor.
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What if god's favor could show up in your job interview,
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In your parenting, in your finances,
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In your everyday life?
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In joseph's book "unmerited favor,"
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Discover how god's grace
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Can open doors you couldn't open on your own;
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How his favor can lead you forward
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Even if you feel unqualified; and how resting
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In jesus's finished work can bring real peace,
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Real success, and real freedom.
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And now here's pastor joseph prince with today's program.
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Joseph prince: say, "bless."
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Say, "blessing."
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Genesis 12, god said this to abram.
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Back then he was abram.
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He wasn't abraham yet.
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God says, "i'll make you a great nation."
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And we all know this nation is israel today.
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"i'll make you a great nation; i will bless you
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And make your name great;
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And you shall be a blessing."
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You see, god's purpose in blessing is that you--
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All of you will be a blessing.
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You are always a blessing going somewhere to happen,
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And that's why if someone retrenches you
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Or asks you to go-- leave your company,
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Whatever, the blessing just walked out.
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"there goes his only salvation.
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There goes his everything."
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Okay, there's an old hymn.
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"i'll bless you."
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You know, i think the--all the younger ones don't know
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You the--what's the--anyway, praise god.
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"i'll bless those who bless you, and i'll curse him
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Who curses you.
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I'll bless those who bless you, and i'll curse him
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Who curses you.
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And in you, abram, all the families of the earth
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Shall be blessed."
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So it's all about blessing, blessing.
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What is blessing?
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Now, i don't wanna give you what i know,
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And i know what's blessing,
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But i wanna give you a professor of old testament
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And ancient semitic languages.
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His name is john oswalt, and this is what
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John oswalt said.
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And these are his own words.
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Blessing, barak--say, "barak."
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That's the hebrew word, barak.
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All right, barak means to confer abundant and effective life
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Upon something or someone.
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To bless in the old testament means to endue with power
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For success, prosperity, fecundity, longevity, et cetera.
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Fecundity means fruitfulness in childbearing.
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Amen?
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This part here, go ask pastor matthews.
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He has the blessing of fecundity, longevity.
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How many want all this? amen.
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That's what blessing does. blessing produces it.
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Now, blessing is not these things,
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But blessing is the enduement with power.
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When god blesses you, he endues you with power
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For all these things to manifest or to be produced in your life.
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John oswalt also says that,
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"whatever may have been the ancient,
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Near eastern conception of the source of blessing,
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The old testament sees god as the only source."
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God is the only source.
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It's not some man of god; some special prophet
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Who prays for you, who blesses you.
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No.
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When we bless you or even the prophets
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In the old testament
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When they blessed the people, they always stand
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As a representation, representative leader
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For god's voice.
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They're actually executing god's voice.
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Can i have a good amen?
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And that's why they have to invoke god's name
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Because all blessing has its source
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Only and only-- i repeat that.
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Only in god, and all the people said amen.
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And, of course, we can talk about if this is blessing,
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Then what is the curse?
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What is the cursing?
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Curse is, of course, the enduement
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With power for failure.
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Everything that you see here, you put the opposite, okay,
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And it's all part of the curse.
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Now, we live in a world where we see a lot of curses.
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We see a lot of things that is not working right.
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One day in heaven--like the lord taught us to pray,
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"thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,"
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All your loved ones, if you have lost
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A loved ones-- i hate to use the word lost
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And yet it is a human word for understanding the grief
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That people are going through.
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So we can still use that word, but actually
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It's a gain for them.
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The word of god says, "for me to live is christ.
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To die is gain."
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They are immediately in a much better place for us.
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In fact, they feel like praying for us.
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Amen?
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They are in a place of perfect bliss, pure bliss,
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Wonderful joy, great happiness.
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They will never be sick again.
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They will never grow old.
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They will never die ever again. amen.
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They behold the face of jesus; for you by faith,
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For me by faith, for them face to face.
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They listen to the angels singing, you know, like,
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Tunes and melodies you have never heard of.
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They behold vibrant, lush, brightest colors that you
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Have never even fathomed this side of heaven.
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Pure joy, pure happiness.
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If you think--don't forget all the senses of your tongue,
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For example, god gave you all those senses.
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God is the source of all the pleasures of food,
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For example.
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Imagine--this is one area.
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Everything in heaven cannot be lesser than earth.
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Everything is enhanced.
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Everything is greater.
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So those who have gone on before,
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The bible says they have gain.
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So the word barak--say, "barak."
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Word for blessing--bless is this hebrew word, okay?
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Barak.
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Reading from right to left again, bet--say, "bet."
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Say, "resh."
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Say, "kaph."
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Barak.
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So three letters that spell barak.
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Amen?
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So this is the word barak.
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Reading from right to left, barak.
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The first two letters-- straight away i tell you this.
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Hebrew and aramaic is-- are very close together.
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In fact, jesus most likely spoke aramaic,
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And probably about 60,
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70% of their language there are similar.
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It's the pronunciation and all that
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That could be different,
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But it's still semitic in its roots, okay?
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So hebrew and aramaic, many a times
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They share the same word.
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But here this word barak, the first two letters is bar,
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Which is son.
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Now, in hebrew it's ben, right?
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But here it is bar, which is son.
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Do you all remember jesus telling peter when he--
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Peter says, "you are the christ,
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The son of the living god."
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Jesus says, "blessed are you, bar-jonah," right?
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Simon bar-jonah.
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"blessed are you, simon peter, son of jonah," bar-jonah.
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Amen?
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I look at some of you and your name is lim,
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Lawrence lim, lawrence bar-lim.
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All right, some of you are lee, james bar-lee.
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All right? or tok, joseph bar-tok.
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Interesting, huh?
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All right, so that's what it means.
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You all got it.
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So the first word is son.
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Isn't it interesting the word blessing
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God designed it to be a son?
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And the word kaph--the last letter there kaph
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Is the word open hand.
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Say, "open hand."
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Put them together, you have the son with the open hand.
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Blessing always involves jesus.
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The father always has this in mind.
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Even in the formation of the hebrew language,
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All right, he formed it in such a way
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That it is jesus's spoken language,
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The aramaic, and then it is kaph barak.
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And then you see the word-- a picture of a man
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Stretching his hand--we have a picture of it, all right?
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A man stretching his hand and blessing the sick.
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That's what he did with the leper.
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The leper says, "if you are willing, you can make me clean."
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Say, "barak."
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So in genesis 12 god says, "i'll bless you, and you will be
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A blessing--you shall be a blessing."
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When god says, "i'll bless you, and you shall be a blessing,"
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There's a first mention in the bible
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Of the word blessing.
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From the beginning of the bible, genesis 1, god says,
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"i'll bless them, man and woman, and make them great."
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All right?
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"i'll bless them. be fruitful and multiply."
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God bless them. god bless the animals.
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So the word bless is already there,
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But it's always in verb form.
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But when abraham came on the scene--god chose abraham
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And god says,
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"i'll bless you, and you shall be a blessing."
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All right?
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"i'll bless you and you shall be a blessing, all of you."
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Amen.
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All 60 kgs of you, you're a blessing
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Going somewhere to happen.
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Look at your neighbor and say, "i'm a blessing going somewhere
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To happen."
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Look at the person on the other side now and say,
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"you are seated by a blessing."
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Amen.
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So blessing came in for the first time
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In the story of abraham.
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When god chose abraham--and this word blessing--from blessed,
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A verb become blessing.
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A noun, you just add one letter.
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Just now we have barak.
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Now we have barakah, a hey.
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You put a hey there and you have blessing.
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When you have grace in your life, when you know
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That it's the grace of god,
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You believe in the grace of god--
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Hey we all know is grace, the breath of god.
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The picture is a window, and the picture here is the son.
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His hand is always the hand of grace.
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It's never a hand to punish.
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You never find in the gospel that jesus punished someone.
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"oh, you are too fair-skinned. you are too bright.
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You are too radiant. come here.
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You need to learn about patience.
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Here, receive some leprosy. okay, you are too full.
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You have too much provision and all that.
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Come, come.
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All right, pass your food to judas.
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Let him eat."
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No, he never takes away. he always adds.
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He always blesses. he always repairs.
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He always restores. he's always mending.
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He's always healing.
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He's always doing good; going about doing good,
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The bible says.
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All right? god wants you to be a blessing.
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Okay, real quick romans 4.
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Romans 4,
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"what then shall we say that abraham our father
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Has found according to the flesh?
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For if abraham was justified by works," by what he did,
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"he has something to boast about, but not before god.
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What does the scripture say?
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'abraham believed god, and it was accounted to him
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For righteousness.'"
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What is this belief?
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Drop down.
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"now to him who works,
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The wages are not counted as grace but debt."
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If you work for it--god doesn't give it to you based
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On what he owes you, rather grace.
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If you work for something, god cannot give it to you
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By grace: unearned, undeserved favor.
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He has to give it to you based on debt, and god will be
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A debtor to no man.
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"so to him who works, the rewa--the wages
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Are not counted as grace but as debt.
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But to him who does not work but believes on him
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Who justifies the ungodly--" work to be right with god,
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Not having a profession, okay?
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I hope you understand that.
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But to him who does not work, that means what?
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Work to get into god's favor.
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Work to be right with god.
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To him who does not work but believes like abraham
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Did on god who justifies not the godly but the ungodly--now,
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That faith--his faith is counted for righteousness.
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So how can a holy--a thrice holy god justify the ungodly?
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God who said, "i'll by no means pass by the transgression
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Of people."
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All right, god's eyes, habakkuk says,
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Are purer eyes than to behold evil.
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How can a holy god bypass all that, man's sin,
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And then justify the ungodly?
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And god says, "if you believe that i will justify the ungodly,
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I will justify you," amen, "your faith is counted
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For righteousness."
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Now, that means, "i'll treat you from then on
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As a righteous man."
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How can god do that?
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Only on one basis alone, the cross of jesus christ.
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Because at the cross, his son died as our substitute.
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At the cross, jesus bore your sins.
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At the cross, jesus was judged in your place.
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So god's judgment fell on jesus, and at the cross
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Jesus gave us his righteousness.
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Divine exchange. we--he took our sins.
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We take his righteousness before god.
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So now on that basis, the thrice holy god
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Who cannot pass by one sin
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Put all our sins on jesus christ at the cross;
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And he was judged, condemned,
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And cursed at the cross on our behalf,
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The bible tells us, so that we now
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Receive his righteousness and we get what we don't deserve.
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Jesus got what he didn't deserve.
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Now we get what we don't deserve: favor,
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Blessings, prosperity, fecundity, longevity,
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The power for well-being in every area of our life.
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And this is hard for some people to take because people
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Are always trying to get some glory for themself.
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They always wanna do something. they always wanna do something.
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Friend, even you think that the work of jesus is 98%,
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Yours is 2%, you still cannot give him the glory
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Because your 2% will always-- makes you feel
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Like you have a part to play.
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No.
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It's worthy is the lamb, not worthy is the lamb and me.
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So, friend, hallelujah, this is the good news.
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Now, therefore we confess, "i'm the righteousness
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Of god in christ."
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A few weeks ago i shared about the man
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Who was watching pornography always in his car.
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That's how he hides from his wife and all that.
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Of course, later on the wife found out about it,
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But he was still watching pornography and all that.
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And how did he find victory?
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By confessing,
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"i am the righteousness of god in christ."
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And he shared it was very hard for him to do that,
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But he start confessing.
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While watching, he was confessing,
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"i'm the righteousness of god in christ."
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Then one day he found that just from inside--
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True deliverance is always supernatural.
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If you change yourself-- by the way,
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A woman can never change a man.
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You all know that, right?
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Even esther's story, god used her,
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But she didn't change the king.
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God changed the king's heart, right?
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The only time a woman successfully changes a man
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Is when he's a baby.
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Change diapers, lah. okay.
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So we have this picture of faith, believing right;
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And this person, he was believing right.
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"i am the righteousness of god in christ."
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Even though he's actually sinning.
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He was in bondage. he didn't know how to stop.
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Many people are in this position.
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Guess what?
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One day he just had this desire no more
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To watch it.
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It just fell off.
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By the time the wife shared the story,
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I think it was about 6 years.
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It's been 6 years, then she starts sharing
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The story of her husband.
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Her husband and her are now serving in church,
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Not this church.
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It was in texas this story happened,
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And they are rejoicing.
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True deliverance when you confess,
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"i'm the righteousness of god in christ."
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Recently, the lord spoke to me and the lord says to me,
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"you know, son--" he was encouraging me.
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I was quite not discouraged, but it's like i'm -- myself
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--you know, people are thinking that,
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"pastor prince, you like to preach a lot
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On righteousness; the righteousness of god
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By faith or i'm the righteousness of god
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By faith.
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I'm the righteousness of god by faith.
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Everything i hear is righteousness."
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It's almost like it's true.
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You know, i don't hear many people emphasizing
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The gospel, which is--what's the gospel?
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Justification by faith.
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Abraham heard that from god first.
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Amen?
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Then god gave it to paul.
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We are justified by faith, not by our works.
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And then i got a bit down because--you know,
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"i need confirmation, lord."
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And the lord gave me a fresh confirmation with that.
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Would you like me to share with you?
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And with that, we'll close, okay?
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Supposing you're in trouble, whether it's a disease
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Attacking you.
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Today, our enemies are no more physical.
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But whether it's a disease attacking you, sickness,
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Or whether it is lack-- financial lack.
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Whatever it is, you're being attacked.
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In those days, for david it's a real enemy.
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So in psalm 71, he says this: "in you, o lord, i put my trust;
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Let me never be put to shame.
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Deliver me in your righteousness,
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And cause me to escape;
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Incline your ear to me, and save me."
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Now, how does god deliver him in righteousness?
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Now, this is the psalm that god gave me.
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I'm sure i've read this psalm before,
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But i was needing some encouragement.
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"lord, you know, is this the path?
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Because i don't hear too many preachers preaching
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On righteousness by faith."
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There's an army now, praise god, all over the world
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Preaching the gospel of grace, but still i find
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That sometimes it's a lone voice.
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And this is what he brought me to.
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"how did i bring david out of his trouble?"
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How did he escape?
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What caused him to escape?
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He cried out, "deliver me in your righteousness."
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"but how? how, pastor prince?"
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Same psalm, drop down.
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"my mouth shall tell of your righteousness
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And your salvation all the day."
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The word my mouth shall tell is saphar.
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"my mouth will tell the story of your righteousness.
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My mouth will narrate,
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Will recount your righteousness."
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Not man's righteousness, your righteousness
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That comes to man as a gift.
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The bible says today righteousness is a gift
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To be received.
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So god showed me this.
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"my mouth shall tell of your righteousness
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And your salvation all the day."
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And god says, "this is what's happening with your people.
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All day long, they talk about, 'i'm the righteousness of god
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In christ.'
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And they talk about--" your salvation here is who?
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In hebrew, salvation is jesus's name, yeshua.
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Isn't this our story?
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If it's not, it should be.
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All day if you're in trouble--
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Some sort of trouble,
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Like i said just now you want to escape,
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You want god to deliver you,
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All day long confess, "i'm the righteousness
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Of god in christ."
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Let your mouth relate that. let your mouth narrate that.
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Let your mouth tell of his righteousness,
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Not yours.
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"your righteousness--my mouth shall speak
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Of your righteousness and your salvation all the day.
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I do not know their limits."
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I love the niv.
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Niv says, "i can't even begin to describe it."
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Words cannot even describe it, okay?
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Then you know what's gonna happen when you have--
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You confess god's righteousness
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In your mouth, like when you say,
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"i'm the righteousness of god in christ?"
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Watch this.
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The next thing that happen, "i will go in the strength
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Of the lord god."
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You become strong physically.
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There was a time i was feeling fatigued and tired and all that,
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You know, for a few days and i said,
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"this is not something good."
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You know, i thought--i wanted god to give me strength.
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He gave me this verse.
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It was a time of seeking the lord, and god says,
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"if you wanna go in my strength--"
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By the way, the strength here
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Is plural in hebrew.
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It's great strength. i will go in the strength.
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How many wanna go in the strength of the lord?
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Well, make mention of his righteousness all day long
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And his salvation is jesus all day long and you will go
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In the strength of the lord.
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Again, he says, "i'll make mention
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Of your righteousness, of yours only."
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It was like god is saying, "you think you are
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The one emphasizing it?
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David did that a long time ago."
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What an encouragement.
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You know how this entire psalm ends?
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I'm gonna end the service with this.
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Not end the service, end my message.
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Such joy when they hear i'm ending it.
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You know how this entire psalm ends?
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Like this. this is the last verse.
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"my tongue--" let's all read together.
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"my tongue also shall talk of your righteousness
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All the day long."
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What happened to all your enemies,
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To your diseases, to your financial lack,
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To your depression that comes against you?
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"they are confounded.
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They are brought to shame who seek my hurt."
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All the powers of darkness, they all flee.
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They are confounded when all day long you confess,
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"i am the righteousness of god in christ."
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It was like a voice from heaven encouraging me,
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"son, don't think you're the only one.
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The man after my heart, david,
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He confessed my righteousness all day long.
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And when you do it, your enemies will be confounded."
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Hallelujah.
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Announcer: and now, a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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The lord bless you and your families.
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The lord make his face shine on you
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And be favorable to you and your loved ones.
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The lord lift up his countenance on every single one of you
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And grant to you and your loved ones
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His shalom peace.
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May you be at the right place at the right time.
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God keeps you, protects you; preserve you from all dangers,
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Harm, sickness, accidents, from all evil
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In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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And all the people said amen, amen.
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God bless you. you're dismissed.
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Announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
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Because of your giving, people are experiencing
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Freedom from years of wrong believing.
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I want you to know that you have personally
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Made a real difference in the lives of so many.
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Joseph prince: if you've ever had questions
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Or what it means to live by grace,
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This is the place where you'll find answers
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On how to live a life
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That's anchored on our lord jesus.
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Designed to help you navigate
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Is a section 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization,
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♪♪♪
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Joseph Prince - Grace Is Your Unfair Advantage from God

January 28, 2026 | 27:29

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