Joseph Prince - Holiness Is Often Misunderstood (Bible Truth)

May 28, 2026 | 27:29

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  • Joseph prince: the opposite of holiness is not sin.
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  • The opposite of holiness is common, commonness.
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  • So when god says, "i make you holy--"
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  • Even in the hebrew, the word "kadosh,"
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  • And in the greek for holiness, "hagios,"
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  • It all means "set apart."
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  • There are some things in your house,
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  • It is so special, you set it apart,
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  • Under lock and key, amen?
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  • Even your clothes that you like,
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  • You separate them from other clothes
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  • Because you know that it cannot get crumpled
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  • Like other clothes-- it's special and all that--
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  • Because you value them.
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  • Well, holiness means set apart
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  • For god's purposes and plans, amen.
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  • It is not "holier than thou" attitude.
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  • It is actually being princely,
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  • Being the sons and daughters of god.
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  • God says, "you are now sons and daughters of god.
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  • Walk worthy of the calling by which he called you."
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  • God called you for the heavenly call.
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  • So when people are around you, they sense like they are
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  • With someone who smells the atmosphere of heaven,
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  • And yet the person is relatable, the person is homely,
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  • Yet there is something that will not compromise
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  • On the morality or the moral atmosphere of that day.
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  • Can you understand what i'm saying?
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  • And the word of god is able to bring you to that place.
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  • When you read god's word, jesus said it like this:
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  • "sanctify them through thy truth.
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  • Thy word is truth."
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  • The word "sanctify" means set apart
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  • For god's purposes.
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  • Male announcer: stop for a moment.
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  • What if god has a word for you today?
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  • In today's message, joseph reveals
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  • The life-transforming power of grace
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  • And shows us the life that we are called to live.
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  • Joseph prince: "arise and shine, for your light has come,
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  • And the glory of the lord has risen upon you,
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  • For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth
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  • And deep darkness the people, but the lord will arise over you
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  • And his glory will be seen upon you."
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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: let me tell you god's heart for you, okay?
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  • The heart of our father for you is that there's more to life
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  • Than just living day to day, you know,
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  • Providing for our children, planning for the future
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  • In terms of holidays, you know.
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  • All this is wonderful.
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  • It's part and parcel of life.
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  • It's what, you know, makes life enjoyable, amen?
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  • But god's calling for you is eternal.
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  • There is an eternal call on you and i
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  • That goes beyond this life.
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  • Now, we'll continue our teaching on hesed wisdom, grace wisdom,
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  • And we have looked at the person of solomon,
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  • And this is found in 1 kings 4.
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  • It says, "god gave solomon wisdom
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  • And exceedingly great understanding,
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  • And largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.
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  • Thus solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom
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  • Of all the men of the east and all the wisdom of egypt.
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  • He was wiser than all men-- than ethan and heman,"
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  • And all the rest,
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  • And the bible says that all men came to hear
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  • The wisdom of solomon.
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  • Now, it tells us very clearly that god gave solomon wisdom.
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  • If that is how solomon got his wisdom,
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  • Then you and i can rejoice,
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  • Because if god gave it to him, god can give it to us.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Obviously, wisdom from god is not cultivated by education.
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  • You know, we study a lot, we educate ourselves,
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  • But what education does is
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  • That it helps you accumulate knowledge.
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  • But wisdom is the ability to use that knowledge
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  • And not only use the knowledge, because we are very poor,
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  • We are very limited,
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  • We are bound if we only use knowledge
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  • That we know or that we have or we possess.
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  • But the thing is that god can give us wisdom
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  • Beyond ourselves, beyond our age,
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  • Beyond our experience, beyond our education.
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  • There is something called the spirit of man
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  • On the inside, and the book of proverbs,
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  • The book of wisdom, written by solomon,
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  • By the holy spirit, says this:
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  • That the spirit of man is the candle of the lord,
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  • Or the lamp of god.
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  • "the spirit of man is the candle of the lord."
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  • God lights up the candle, and then you have inspiration.
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  • That's why sometimes before you sign something,
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  • Before you decide on something, before you say yes to something,
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  • There's something on the inside telling you,
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  • "no, don't do it.
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  • There's no peace."
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  • And it goes beyond your analytical mind.
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  • Before your mind can analyze,
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  • Before your mind can do the deductions,
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  • Before your mind can weigh the pros and the cons,
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  • Something inside you tells you,
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  • "no, no, don't get into a relationship
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  • With this person.
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  • There's something scratchy on the inside,
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  • There's no peace."
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  • And when you obey it, you find that the explanation
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  • Always comes later.
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  • The understanding comes later.
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  • The knowledge comes later.
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  • But before that, this is faster than your brain.
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  • This is faster than-- and david says,
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  • David says in the psalms, "thou hast put wisdom
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  • In the inward parts."
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  • God puts wisdom in the inward parts.
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  • It's not your brain, it's not just your brain.
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  • God puts wisdom in the inward parts,
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  • And your inward parts is quicker than your brain.
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  • You will see things before you understand it, amen.
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  • How to explain what you see, you cannot explain,
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  • But you see it.
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  • And that's what preaching of the word is all about.
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  • It is preaching things, and then you're able to see
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  • Some things, but it's hard for you to explain.
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  • But many of times, what my ministry does is that--
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  • A lot of people say this to me:
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  • That you put words, you put theology,
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  • You put explanation to what i already know inside.
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  • When you explain the god of the bible in the way,
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  • Actually, i know him to be like that.
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  • I knew him to be like that.
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  • But you put words, you give me verses,
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  • You give me the scriptures that substantiate
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  • What i already know, and that is true ministry.
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  • Ministry must confirm what you have in your heart.
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  • And that's when we share truth, it resonates with your spirit.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • And the bible teaches us, let's look at--
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  • If god gives solomon, where does this giving take place?
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  • How does it come to us?
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  • In proverbs chapter 2, it says, "for the lord,"
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  • Let's all read together, "for the lord gives wisdom.
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  • From his mouth come knowledge and understanding."
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  • The lord gives what? wisdom.
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  • Now, the next three words, say it together, "from--"
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  • Congregation: from.
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  • Joseph prince: again. congregation: from his mouth.
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  • Joseph prince: again. congregation: from his mouth.
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  • Joseph prince: "from his mouth."
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  • The bible is god-breathed.
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  • The bible is god-breathed.
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  • 2 timothy 3 tells us this: "but evil men--"
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  • Drop down to verse 7--16.
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  • "all scripture is given by inspiration of god."
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  • The word "inspiration of god" is the word "theos."
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  • The word "theos" means god.
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  • "pneustos," which is breathe.
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  • "all scripture in the bible is god-breathed,
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  • And god made man from the dust of the ground."
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  • That's his body.
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  • So man was like a mannequin, and god breathed into man,
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  • And man became a living soul.
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  • It was the breath of god that made man a living soul.
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  • And all scripture is god-breathed.
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  • That's why man does not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.
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  • If this is god-breathed, our very existence,
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  • Our life, even our health depends on the word of god.
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  • If we are lacking in that life force,
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  • In that health, amen, then we can go to the word
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  • Because god's breath is all over this word, amen.
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  • We can breathe in the breath of god
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  • That gave us life in the first place.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Amen, and that's what the bible says.
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  • You know, when you spend time reading,
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  • I know one person who was diagnosed
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  • With a tumor of the jaw, and it was a malignant tumor.
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  • And i don't even believe he was a christian,
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  • But he went home, he was quite depressed,
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  • And he told his wife, "can you bring me the bible?"
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  • All of a sudden, you know, the wife was quite puzzled
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  • Because he never reads the bible.
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  • So she brought the bible to him,
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  • And he started reading the bible.
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  • So from one day of reading, became another day of reading,
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  • Become a protracted times of reading.
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  • He got interested in the stories,
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  • He started reading the bible.
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  • He sort of forgot about his symptoms and all that.
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  • In due course, he found that the symptoms
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  • Got lesser and lesser as he read the bible more.
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  • Then one day he went back to the doctor
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  • And the doctor says, "i can't explain it,
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  • But it seems like it has gone into remission
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  • Or the condition is no longer there,
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  • But probably it will not last."
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  • Well, since that happened until now,
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  • Many years have come and gone, and it's never returned.
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  • Just spending time in the word,
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  • There is a breath that first gave you life, amen.
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  • And that's why in proverbs 4, verse 22,
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  • It says about god's words, "they," they, god's words,
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  • "are life to those who find them,
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  • And health--" to how much of their flesh?
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  • "to all their flesh."
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  • So spending time in god's word is able to give you
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  • Life and health to all your body.
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  • No, don't try to spiritualize this.
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  • It doesn't say "health to your spirit."
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  • It's health to all, to all your flesh, amen.
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  • Some medicines are specifically targeted
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  • Like a magic bullet for one particular organ,
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  • One particular condition,
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  • But god's words is the only medicine
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  • That is health to all our flesh.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • And going back to 2 timothy, it tells us about the end-times.
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  • You go back, verses earlier, verse 13.
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  • It tells us about the time, this is paul's swan song.
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  • It was the last letter that paul wrote.
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  • He said, "i fought a good fight in this letter.
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  • I've kept the faith. i've finished my course."
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  • Paul's race is up.
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  • He wants to meet the lord,
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  • And it's the last letter he wrote.
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  • And he talks about the times that we'll live in.
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  • He talks about our times.
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  • He prophesied about the future,
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  • And this is what he said: "but evil men and impostors
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  • Will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
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  • Isn't it true that even though we evangelize
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  • And we try to reach as many people as possible
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  • With the gospel of jesus christ, and thank god,
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  • Many are responding, amen?
  • 00:11:32.268 --> 00:11:34.303
  • Many are responding to the gospel.
  • 00:11:34.303 --> 00:11:35.704
  • But then, the fact remains that in the world,
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  • Paul prophesied in the days that you and i live in,
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  • "evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse."
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  • They will deceive and people will be deceived.
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  • Don't be deceived. how can we not be deceived?
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  • You know, today we live in a world where wrong is right
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  • And right is wrong.
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  • They are redefining a lot of things,
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  • And our children are confused
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  • If we don't give them definitions about life, amen.
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  • Even the definition of holiness, for example.
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  • Holiness is not just, oh, you know, you live
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  • In such a way that you look down on other people.
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  • You know, people have this idea of holiness
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  • Like "i'm holier than you.
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  • Stay your ground, don't come near me.
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  • I'm holier than you."
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  • No, this stinking pride, amen, this pharisaical.
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  • This is what jesus came against, amen.
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  • Jesus's holiness was such that he never compromised on sin.
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  • He never compromised.
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  • He never came down to the level of people he ministered to,
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  • Yet he moves amongst them as one of them.
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  • The appellation that the pharisees
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  • Put against him was meant to insult.
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  • They call him "the friend of sinners,"
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  • And yet it became a most glorious brand of grace
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  • That he would wear everywhere he goes, amen?
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  • A friend of sinners.
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  • What a wonderful appellation, amen, of our lord jesus.
  • 00:13:01.523 --> 00:13:05.494
  • But his holiness wasn't such that, you know,
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  • It's like holier than thou, "don't come near me."
  • 00:13:08.898 --> 00:13:10.699
  • In fact, he invited them to come to him.
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  • He touched the leper and they were cleansed.
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  • He cast out demons.
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  • He ministered healing to the blind.
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  • He raised the dead.
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  • And he moved amongst them, blessing them, always healing,
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  • Always repairing, always lifting,
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  • Always encouraging, always showing god to them,
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  • What god really is like, and that's holiness.
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  • Holiness is uncommonness.
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  • The opposite of holiness is not sin.
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  • The opposite of holiness is common, commonness.
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  • So when god says, "i make you holy,"
  • 00:13:44.934 --> 00:13:47.136
  • Even in the hebrew, the word "kadosh,"
  • 00:13:47.136 --> 00:13:50.472
  • And in the greek for holiness, "hagios,"
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  • It all means "set apart."
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  • There are some things in your house,
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  • It is so special, you set it apart,
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  • Under lock and key, amen?
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  • Even your clothes that you like,
  • 00:14:03.118 --> 00:14:04.453
  • You separate them from other clothes
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  • Because you know that it cannot get crumpled
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  • Like other clothes-- it's special and all that--
  • 00:14:08.757 --> 00:14:10.759
  • Because you value them.
  • 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.161
  • Well, holiness means set apart
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  • For god's purposes and plans, amen.
  • 00:14:14.263 --> 00:14:17.433
  • It is not "holier than thou" attitude.
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  • It is actually being princely,
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  • Being the sons and daughters of god.
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  • God says, "you are now sons and daughters of god.
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  • Walk worthy of the calling by which he called you."
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  • God called you for the heavenly call.
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  • So when people are around you,
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  • They sense, like, they are with someone
  • 00:14:34.516 --> 00:14:36.785
  • Who smells the atmosphere of heaven,
  • 00:14:36.785 --> 00:14:38.721
  • And yet the person is relatable, the person is homely,
  • 00:14:38.721 --> 00:14:42.224
  • Yet there is something that will not compromise
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  • On the morality or the moral atmosphere
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  • Of that day.
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  • Can you understand what i'm saying?
  • 00:14:49.398 --> 00:14:50.733
  • And the word of god is able to bring you to that place.
  • 00:14:50.733 --> 00:14:52.501
  • When you read god's word, jesus said it like this:
  • 00:14:52.501 --> 00:14:54.503
  • "sanctify them through thy truth.
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  • Thy word is truth."
  • 00:14:57.106 --> 00:15:00.943
  • And then he said this: "for their sakes,
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  • I sanctify myself."
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  • So if sanctification is just as "don't sin,"
  • 00:15:04.113 --> 00:15:05.948
  • Some people say holiness means "don't sin."
  • 00:15:05.948 --> 00:15:07.816
  • If that is defined as holiness or sanctification,
  • 00:15:07.816 --> 00:15:10.652
  • Then what did jesus mean when he say,
  • 00:15:10.652 --> 00:15:12.521
  • "for their sakes, i sanctify myself?"
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  • Jesus has no sin.
  • 00:15:15.124 --> 00:15:16.658
  • No, the word "sanctify" means set apart for god's purposes.
  • 00:15:16.658 --> 00:15:21.096
  • That means you become uncommon.
  • 00:15:21.096 --> 00:15:22.898
  • We live in a world where there's a lot of theories
  • 00:15:22.898 --> 00:15:25.567
  • And, you know, suppositions,
  • 00:15:25.567 --> 00:15:28.037
  • But the bible says, "in the beginning,
  • 00:15:28.037 --> 00:15:29.938
  • God created the heavens and the earth," amen.
  • 00:15:29.938 --> 00:15:33.742
  • And that's why you have something more
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  • Than just a brain.
  • 00:15:35.210 --> 00:15:36.578
  • You have a gut feel, an instinct,
  • 00:15:36.578 --> 00:15:39.148
  • You know things, amen.
  • 00:15:39.148 --> 00:15:40.949
  • And with the holy spirit there, you know even better.
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  • You are acute, you are sharp, praise the lord.
  • 00:15:43.485 --> 00:15:46.088
  • We are called to live life
  • 00:15:46.088 --> 00:15:48.057
  • More than just our physical needs
  • 00:15:48.057 --> 00:15:49.558
  • Being fulfilled, being satisfied.
  • 00:15:49.558 --> 00:15:52.361
  • We know that that doesn't satisfy us deep down
  • 00:15:52.361 --> 00:15:54.663
  • On the inside,
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  • Because we are more than just a soul and a body,
  • 00:15:55.998 --> 00:15:57.699
  • We are a spirit being.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:16:00.502 --> 00:16:02.204
  • So the lord gives wisdom, amen?
  • 00:16:02.204 --> 00:16:05.274
  • And it says that what must you do when--
  • 00:16:05.274 --> 00:16:07.576
  • In a world of deceiving and being deceived?
  • 00:16:07.576 --> 00:16:09.878
  • "you must continue in the things which you have learned
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  • And been assured of,
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  • Knowing from whom you have learned them,
  • 00:16:14.116 --> 00:16:16.351
  • And that from childhood,
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  • You have known the holy scriptures."
  • 00:16:17.886 --> 00:16:19.822
  • Paul is writing to timothy telling him,
  • 00:16:19.822 --> 00:16:21.790
  • "remember this?"
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  • Right, from childhood, you have known the holy scriptures,
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  • The word of god,
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  • The holy scriptures that is breathed by god.
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  • These holy scriptures are "able to make you wise
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  • For salvation through faith which is in christ jesus."
  • 00:16:32.734 --> 00:16:36.905
  • And the word--"which are able to make you wise."
  • 00:16:36.905 --> 00:16:40.242
  • The word "able" there is dynamite, dynamic, dynamo.
  • 00:16:40.242 --> 00:16:45.247
  • It's from the word "dunamis."
  • 00:16:45.247 --> 00:16:47.749
  • It is able to dynamite you into wisdom.
  • 00:16:47.749 --> 00:16:52.254
  • It is able to empower you. it's able to make you wise.
  • 00:16:52.254 --> 00:16:56.091
  • Actually, the word "to make you wise"
  • 00:16:56.091 --> 00:16:57.426
  • Is one greek word, "sophizo" or "sophizo."
  • 00:16:57.426 --> 00:17:00.195
  • The word "sophia" in the verb form is "sophizo."
  • 00:17:00.195 --> 00:17:03.465
  • It's able to make you sophia, it's able to make you wise.
  • 00:17:03.465 --> 00:17:06.401
  • By the way, "sophia" is the hebrew for "chokmah,"
  • 00:17:06.401 --> 00:17:11.273
  • For wisdom.
  • 00:17:11.273 --> 00:17:12.608
  • The most frequently used word for wisdom
  • 00:17:12.608 --> 00:17:14.042
  • In the old testament is chokmah.
  • 00:17:14.042 --> 00:17:16.044
  • In the greek translation,
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  • The septuagint of the old testament,
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  • Where it says "chokmah," it says "sophia," right?
  • 00:17:18.881 --> 00:17:22.451
  • Sophia is chokmah in hebrew,
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  • Which is the wisdom that god gives.
  • 00:17:24.553 --> 00:17:27.890
  • Now, there's wisdom that god gives to the world
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  • As well, to govern the earth, to govern the nations,
  • 00:17:29.825 --> 00:17:33.028
  • To come up with innovative ideas
  • 00:17:33.028 --> 00:17:34.796
  • For the betterment of mankind's life.
  • 00:17:34.796 --> 00:17:37.099
  • You know, there's a wisdom that god--
  • 00:17:37.099 --> 00:17:39.034
  • God causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust,
  • 00:17:39.034 --> 00:17:41.637
  • His sun to shine on the righteous
  • 00:17:41.637 --> 00:17:43.372
  • And the unrighteous, but there's a wisdom
  • 00:17:43.372 --> 00:17:45.774
  • That god gives only to his children.
  • 00:17:45.774 --> 00:17:48.944
  • And this comes from the scriptures,
  • 00:17:48.944 --> 00:17:50.479
  • Which are able to make you wise.
  • 00:17:50.479 --> 00:17:53.415
  • That is our life.
  • 00:17:53.415 --> 00:17:54.750
  • That is the calling of true holiness.
  • 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:56.652
  • Holiness is uncommonness.
  • 00:17:56.652 --> 00:17:58.820
  • So dare to be a daniel, dare to be an esther.
  • 00:17:58.820 --> 00:18:02.524
  • In the world that compromises, you don't.
  • 00:18:02.524 --> 00:18:05.827
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:18:05.827 --> 00:18:07.629
  • So, the word of god is able-- go back again to 2 timothy--
  • 00:18:07.629 --> 00:18:10.732
  • "able to make you wise for salvation through faith,
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  • Which is in christ jesus."
  • 00:18:13.468 --> 00:18:15.103
  • Let's suppose one day you're reading god's word.
  • 00:18:15.103 --> 00:18:16.738
  • Not only it has this holy effect,
  • 00:18:16.738 --> 00:18:19.308
  • Sanctifying effect, sometimes you can feel it,
  • 00:18:19.308 --> 00:18:21.543
  • But don't depend on feeling.
  • 00:18:21.543 --> 00:18:23.111
  • When you are sick, the best thing to do is
  • 00:18:23.111 --> 00:18:24.680
  • To spend time-- is be at home, right?
  • 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:27.182
  • Or sometimes in the hospital, rib, rest in bed.
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  • C-r-i-b, crib, completely rest in bed.
  • 00:18:30.185 --> 00:18:34.122
  • You've got plenty of time to read, amen.
  • 00:18:34.122 --> 00:18:35.891
  • You can relax, you can just read,
  • 00:18:35.891 --> 00:18:37.326
  • And the world we live in today, even in the dark,
  • 00:18:37.326 --> 00:18:40.362
  • You can read without, you know,
  • 00:18:40.362 --> 00:18:41.730
  • Disturbing your wife or your husband.
  • 00:18:41.730 --> 00:18:43.465
  • But reading is a lost art.
  • 00:18:43.465 --> 00:18:45.567
  • When you spend time reading the word of god,
  • 00:18:45.567 --> 00:18:47.236
  • It has an effect of life and therapeutic and healing.
  • 00:18:47.236 --> 00:18:54.076
  • We learned that just now.
  • 00:18:54.076 --> 00:18:55.410
  • Not only that, it has an impartation of wisdom.
  • 00:18:55.410 --> 00:18:58.647
  • You're no more the same.
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  • You don't have to understand everything.
  • 00:19:00.182 --> 00:19:02.017
  • When a child washes his hands,
  • 00:19:02.017 --> 00:19:04.620
  • He doesn't know all the components of h2o
  • 00:19:04.620 --> 00:19:08.690
  • And all the chemicals that make up the water and whatnot.
  • 00:19:08.690 --> 00:19:13.161
  • All he has to do is to use it.
  • 00:19:13.161 --> 00:19:15.831
  • God's word is not for you to understand everything.
  • 00:19:15.831 --> 00:19:18.233
  • I don't understand everything.
  • 00:19:18.233 --> 00:19:19.701
  • I'm still learning, like every one of you.
  • 00:19:19.701 --> 00:19:22.070
  • At the age of 35, thank god i still have a lot more to go.
  • 00:19:22.070 --> 00:19:25.107
  • But, you know, when you wash your hands,
  • 00:19:25.107 --> 00:19:27.709
  • The boy doesn't understand everything.
  • 00:19:27.709 --> 00:19:29.811
  • Are his hands still clean?
  • 00:19:29.811 --> 00:19:32.080
  • Yes, amen. just use it.
  • 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:34.916
  • If you read god's word, it has a cleansing effect.
  • 00:19:34.916 --> 00:19:37.185
  • It has a healing effect.
  • 00:19:37.185 --> 00:19:39.288
  • The word "rapha," it comes from the hebrew word.
  • 00:19:39.288 --> 00:19:43.191
  • The root word is "rapha," which is let go, relax.
  • 00:19:43.191 --> 00:19:47.429
  • I don't know-- i can't explain to you.
  • 00:19:47.429 --> 00:19:49.064
  • It's not like when i read god's word,
  • 00:19:49.064 --> 00:19:50.699
  • Straight away i get healed, but there's a relaxing effect.
  • 00:19:50.699 --> 00:19:53.969
  • I start feeling like, you know, i'm in touch with reality,
  • 00:19:53.969 --> 00:19:57.105
  • I'm in touch with the truth,
  • 00:19:57.105 --> 00:19:58.440
  • Yet there's some very, i would say,
  • 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.410
  • Even gory details and violence in the bible.
  • 00:20:01.410 --> 00:20:03.578
  • Yet there is a beauty in how it all turns out
  • 00:20:03.578 --> 00:20:06.648
  • That sort of has a therapeutic effect on me
  • 00:20:06.648 --> 00:20:09.918
  • When i see god in it.
  • 00:20:09.918 --> 00:20:12.120
  • I get hope, i find courage, amen.
  • 00:20:12.120 --> 00:20:16.458
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:20:16.458 --> 00:20:18.660
  • Supposing you're reading one day
  • 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:20.095
  • And you're about to confront your husband
  • 00:20:20.095 --> 00:20:21.663
  • About some bad habit he has or, you know, something,
  • 00:20:21.663 --> 00:20:24.299
  • Or you're about to confront
  • 00:20:24.299 --> 00:20:25.867
  • Your teenage boy about something and all that,
  • 00:20:25.867 --> 00:20:27.636
  • And you are reading your bible for that day.
  • 00:20:27.636 --> 00:20:28.970
  • I'm just giving you an example of sophizo,
  • 00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:31.073
  • How god's word is able to make you wise.
  • 00:20:31.073 --> 00:20:32.774
  • And let's say you're about to give
  • 00:20:32.774 --> 00:20:34.209
  • The tough approach, you know?
  • 00:20:34.209 --> 00:20:36.378
  • Or you might be a young person, you're wondering
  • 00:20:36.378 --> 00:20:37.979
  • What kind of speech you should have,
  • 00:20:37.979 --> 00:20:39.348
  • Because all your friends are using profanity
  • 00:20:39.348 --> 00:20:41.183
  • And vulgarity and it's kind of cool,
  • 00:20:41.183 --> 00:20:43.752
  • And you don't use it means you're out of it,
  • 00:20:43.752 --> 00:20:45.854
  • You're not cool and all that, you know?
  • 00:20:45.854 --> 00:20:47.656
  • And you're wondering what kind of speech to have.
  • 00:20:47.656 --> 00:20:52.060
  • Well, one day you're reading the word of god
  • 00:20:52.060 --> 00:20:53.995
  • And you're wondering how to influence this person
  • 00:20:53.995 --> 00:20:57.065
  • Who is a person of influence himself, okay?
  • 00:20:57.065 --> 00:21:00.068
  • Whatever it is, then you come to proverbs 25.
  • 00:21:00.068 --> 00:21:02.504
  • You are reading this.
  • 00:21:02.504 --> 00:21:03.839
  • "by long forbearing is a prince persuaded,
  • 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.676
  • And a soft tongue breaketh the bone."
  • 00:21:07.676 --> 00:21:11.546
  • So, you're reading this and you're wondering,
  • 00:21:11.546 --> 00:21:13.682
  • I'm waiting for an interview, i'm meeting up with my boss,
  • 00:21:13.682 --> 00:21:15.984
  • I wanna talk to my boss about this or whatever.
  • 00:21:15.984 --> 00:21:17.819
  • How do i impact this person of influence?
  • 00:21:17.819 --> 00:21:20.956
  • And god is saying, "by long forbearing."
  • 00:21:20.956 --> 00:21:23.992
  • Or you wanna talk to your husband or your wife,
  • 00:21:23.992 --> 00:21:26.461
  • And you know, many times when you get aggravated,
  • 00:21:26.461 --> 00:21:29.264
  • Your flesh is getting aggravated.
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  • It's not your spirit, right?
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  • Your flesh is getting aggravated.
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  • You can never impact someone
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  • When your flesh is being aggravated.
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  • Flesh activates flesh,
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  • And then the flesh activates the flesh,
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  • And then in return, the flesh activates the flesh.
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  • That's how husbands and wives fight, amen?
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  • Somewhere along the way, someone needs to have long forbearing.
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  • Long forbearing means what?
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  • The two bears you must have in your marriage is
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  • Bear and forbear.
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  • And if she wants to bring along,
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  • She can bring winnie the pooh bear, all right?
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  • But if someone is long forbearing,
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  • You listen to the person, you let your husband say it out,
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  • Talk it out, or you let your wife share her heart out.
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  • Just like the queen of sheba,
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  • She came to king solomon, and the bible says,
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  • "she asked him all the hard questions
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  • That's on her heart."
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  • The king here is a picture of jesus christ,
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  • Our king, who is greater than solomon.
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  • What's the response from the king
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  • When you reveal your heart to him?
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  • The bible says, "there was not a thing
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  • That solomon did not answer her or reveal to her
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  • That was on his heart."
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  • In other words, when you come to god,
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  • Don't come with this protocol prayer.
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  • "oh, almighty god, we know you're the great one,
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  • And we come to you," you know,
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  • And god is like, "dang, angel, what is he talking about?"
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  • Angel says, "lord, in a matter of time
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  • He'll give up."
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  • No, come to god, "abba, father,"
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  • And then tell him your worries and your cares.
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  • Tell him, "i'm worried about this, about my son.
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  • I'm worried about this.
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  • I have this fear about this symptom in my body.
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  • I've got this concern about this.
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  • I'm afraid i'm losing my mind.
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  • I'm afraid of--" whatever it is, tell the lord,
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  • Pour out your heart like queen of sheba did.
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  • She poured out all her hard questions
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  • That's on her heart to king solomon,
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  • And the king, in turn, did not hold back one thing
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  • That was on his heart in terms of the answers.
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  • So as you open up to the lord, many a times i find--
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  • I may take a walk
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  • And just pour out my heart to the lord,
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  • Things that you cannot even reveal to your best friend.
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  • Things that are so intimate, you just tell god.
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  • The more honest you are,
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  • The more you'll find this experience an amazing one,
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  • Because you'll find god's response,
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  • And it comes back like a peace.
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  • Sometimes it may not come then and there,
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  • But the answer comes the next day,
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  • Or the day after.
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  • It will come.
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  • As you pour out your heart, you expose your heart to the lord,
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  • The lord opens up his heart to you,
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  • And he gives you the secrets of his heart.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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