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Joseph Prince - Hope For Life's Dark Moments And Tough Seasons (Part 1)

March 16, 2026 | 27:29

Joseph Prince - Hope For Life's Dark Moments And Tough Seasons (Part 1)
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Hope For Life's Dark Moments And Tough Seasons (Part 1) | March 16, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: thank you for tuning in
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  • To today's program.
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  • I believe it's no coincidence
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  • That you are watching this today.
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  • I pray that as the word of god goes forth,
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  • You'll receive the breakthrough and answers
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  • You've been asking the lord for.
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  • Be blessed.
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  • Joseph prince: when you say, "i'm the righteousness
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  • Of god in christ," you're saying a mouthful.
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  • You're saying god is satisfied with what jesus did.
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  • Jesus offered a perfect offering on my behalf.
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  • His blood has fully met all the claims.
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  • I am righteous because jesus
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  • Did a perfect work.
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  • He became my sin.
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  • Now i take my place as righteous.
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  • The moment the devil knows that, he flees from you.
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  • The lord knows what you're going through.
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  • More than anybody else, he knows exactly
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  • What you're going through.
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  • Maybe you can't sleep well.
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  • This message is for you.
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  • "what is happening?
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  • Why night time is so severe for me?
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  • Why is it so depressive?
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  • Why is it so hard for me to sleep?"
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  • Sheep cannot rest when they are insecure.
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  • Don't be afraid.
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  • Al-tirah tells us, "don't be afraid.
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  • The lord is a shield unto you."
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  • See yourself surrounded with a shield.
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  • At night, when you are under attack,
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  • See yourself safe.
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  • See yourself surrounded by a shield,
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  • Surrounded with songs of deliverance.
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  • Joseph prince: i want to talk to you,
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  • I wanna share with you about your night seasons.
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  • If you are going through something right now,
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  • Even though right now you are on a high,
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  • You don't feel like you are going through anything,
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  • You know, you can tear a lion apart
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  • And knock down that bear and stone that goliath,
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  • You feel like you are in that place.
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  • There are many who are going through a night season.
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  • And you know something?
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  • We will all go through it. this is not a prophecy.
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  • This is just something that is life, amen,
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  • As long as you're on this side of heaven.
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  • One day, the bible says in revelations 22,
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  • "there will be no more night in heaven."
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  • I love that phrase. there will be no more night.
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  • No more tears, no more crying.
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  • Perhaps you're going through a dark season,
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  • Perhaps you're going through a depressed time,
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  • Perhaps you're going through a time
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  • That you don't understand.
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  • You don't understand god even, amen?
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  • You know, the lord knows what you're going through.
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  • More than anybody else, he knows
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  • Exactly what you're going through.
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  • And i just want to show you that in the bible,
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  • The bible talks a lot about night scenes,
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  • Night events, night seasons.
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  • In psalms 16, the bible tells us, david says,
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  • "i'll bless the lord who has given me counsel;
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  • My heart also instructs me in the night seasons."
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  • So david even went through a night season.
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  • And during a night season, the bible says this,
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  • You all know this, "joy cometh in the morning," right?
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  • But before that, what does it say?
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  • "weeping may endure for a night."
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  • Weeping may endure for a night.
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  • It lasts only-- it endures only for a night.
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  • So the night season is a season of trial.
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  • It's a season where you are weeping,
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  • Where it's not pleasant.
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  • You're wondering what's going on.
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  • But god says, "morning is coming," amen.
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  • Morning is coming.
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  • And with the morning, you know who comes
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  • In that morning?
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  • Joy.
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  • Here, the word "joy comes" is like a person.
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  • The person of joy is our lord jesus.
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  • So remember this, joy comes in the morning.
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  • Now, even for us word of faith people
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  • And we word of grace people, we who are filled up
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  • With the holy spirit right now, we are excited,
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  • We have partaken of the lord's supper.
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  • We have received from the lord, amen?
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  • You just took the lord's supper, right, amen.
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  • You are people that are tithing like where abraham was.
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  • He received communion.
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  • He tithed as love, as thanksgiving, to the lord.
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  • And then you should think that he's in a good place,
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  • Right?
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  • The very next chapter it says, "after these things,"
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  • And chapter 15, verse 1 comes after genesis 14
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  • Which is where melchizedek met him.
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  • He has partaken of the lord's supper.
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  • He has responded to the lord.
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  • The lord has spoken the words that he is blessed.
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  • "blessed be abraham of the most high god."
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  • He's in a very good place.
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  • The lord says, "after these things
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  • The word of the lord came to abraham in a vision,
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  • Saying, 'do not be afraid, abraham.
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  • I am your shield.'" is it a vision?
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  • That means it's a vision of a shield.
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  • Magen in hebrew.
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  • Magen. magen is like a shield.
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  • And it's not just a shield, like a roman soldier
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  • Has a shield in front.
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  • It's a shield that is all around.
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  • It's a shield that's all around.
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  • "i am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward."
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  • This hebrew word, "your exceedingly great reward,"
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  • Is the word--reward here is the word they use for salary,
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  • Amen.
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  • Now we know that he has just tithed, right?
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  • So i'm not just saying that it's because of the tithe.
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  • I'm not saying that.
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  • But what i'm saying is that the lord wants his eyes
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  • To be open to two things: number one, don't be afraid.
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  • Now why would abraham be afraid
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  • After a great mountaintop experience?
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  • After a great experience in, like, a conference,
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  • Why should he be afraid?
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  • Well, he just conquered four generals and their armies.
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  • Come on!
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  • He got back, not just lot, a lot of spoils.
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  • And the victory was given to him by the lord.
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  • Now he's thinking maybe, you know, how many of you
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  • Have moments whereby, you know,
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  • You're praying for the sick and great things happen
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  • And wonderful things happen and bang!
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  • All of a sudden, you know, in the middle of the night,
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  • You start thinking to yourself, "whoa, what if
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  • The devil counterattacks, and i've served the lord?
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  • What if, what if?"
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  • Come on!
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  • Have you been there before?
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  • So probably abraham was tossing and turning,
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  • Thinking, "the enemies are coming,
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  • The generals are coming.
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  • What am i going to do?"
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  • And that's why the first word is, "don't be afraid."
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  • Al-tirah, avraham.
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  • Al-tirah in hebrew, "don't be afraid."
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  • And the word came to him in a vision form, as a shield.
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  • See yourself surrounded with a shield.
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  • At night, when you are under attack,
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  • You can't sleep, see yourself safe.
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  • See yourself surrounded by a shield,
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  • Surrounded with songs of deliverance.
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  • Job says, "where are the people that would say--
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  • Where are they," literally, "where are they who will say,
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  • 'where is god my maker who gives songs in the night?'"
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  • Songwriters, it tells you clearly in the bible,
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  • God gives songs in the night.
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  • Also, the night seasons.
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  • Now when i talk about night here,
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  • I'm not just referring to the night seasons alone.
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  • It can be your night.
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  • Literally, the greatest problem you have,
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  • The greatest challenges are at night.
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  • Maybe you can't sleep well.
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  • This message is for you.
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  • "what is happening?
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  • Why nighttime is so severe for me?
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  • Why is it so depressive?
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  • Why is it so hard for me to sleep?"
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  • That's for you as well. literally your own night.
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  • So here abraham is experiencing this,
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  • And i know he's tossing and turning.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Because later on, god told him, "abraham, come out
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  • And count the stars."
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  • Or "see if you can tell the story of the stars,"
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  • Remember that?
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  • Same scene.
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  • So i know he was tossing and turning.
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  • He can't sleep.
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  • It doesn't say that god gave him a dream.
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  • It says the word of the lord came in a vision.
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  • He was lying down there. he can't sleep.
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  • So now, as abraham's seed, as sons and daughters
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  • Of abraham, remember this, when you can't sleep,
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  • See the shield.
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  • Sheep cannot rest when they are insecure, amen?
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  • And feel secure.
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  • Don't be afraid, al-tirah.
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  • Tell yourself, "don't be afraid."
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  • The lord is a shield unto you.
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  • "but i've spent so much."
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  • He's your exceedingly great reward.
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  • Not just reward. not just great reward.
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  • Exceedingly great reward.
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  • Like the land flowing with milk and honey,
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  • One translation says, "very, very good land."
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  • Literally in the hebrew, "exceedingly good land."
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  • God doesn't stinge on you, amen?
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  • It's not just a good land. it's not just a good reward.
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  • It's exceedingly great reward, amen?
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  • And also this chapter, genesis 15, the lord told him
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  • After that, "come out, abraham, look at the stars."
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  • So we know it's night-time.
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  • It's night-time, right?
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  • We can see the stars, it's night-time.
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  • The stars are actually out there even during daytime.
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  • You can't see it.
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  • But how we see them during our night seasons, amen?
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  • They shine so bright, hallelujah.
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  • So in the night seasons, we got to know that god is--
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  • Also the devil is active, but god is even more
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  • During that time wanting to turn the whole thing
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  • Around into your favor.
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  • The devil may roar in the night season,
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  • And he roars really loud.
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  • How many realize that at night, you can hear him roar very loud?
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  • It seems like all the accusations
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  • Multiply 100 times at night.
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  • Am i the only one? the daytime is okay.
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  • I mean, you hear the roar, but it's like a cat's meow,
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  • You know?
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  • But it still irritates you.
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  • But at night, when everyone is asleep, wow!
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  • Meditate!
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  • If the devil wants to keep you awake,
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  • Let him pay.
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  • That's why it says, "you shall meditate on my word,
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  • Day--his delight is in the law of the lord
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  • And in his law doth he meditate--
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  • And he shall be--" i will say the next day,
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  • "he shall be like a tree planted."
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  • I don't know how many times i've meditated
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  • And then i fall asleep, into a deep sleep.
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  • I'm telling--god is my witness, there are times i cannot sleep,
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  • I'll just meditate.
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  • If i can't sleep, meditate.
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  • Take advantage of the moment to meditate on things
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  • I've been wanting to meditate.
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  • It's time to chew the cud like the sheep, you know,
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  • Like the cow.
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  • After they are well fed, they sit down there,
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  • They chew.
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  • What have i learned?
  • 00:11:00.202 --> 00:11:01.537
  • This verse that spoke to me just now, it's time for me
  • 00:11:01.537 --> 00:11:03.239
  • To masticate it, meditate on it, chew it.
  • 00:11:03.239 --> 00:11:07.243
  • It becomes milk, it becomes bones
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  • And becomes meat and flesh in my--
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  • And strength and health, amen.
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  • Meditate on it.
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  • And how many times i've done that, fall asleep.
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  • Next thing you know it's morning, amen?
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  • Now, don't get up, listen to rock music
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  • Or rap or watch tv.
  • 00:11:28.097 --> 00:11:33.068
  • Meditate.
  • 00:11:33.068 --> 00:11:35.871
  • So, god speaks to man while he's sleeping,
  • 00:11:35.871 --> 00:11:41.177
  • But also he gives us sleep.
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  • So if you're having trouble with sleep and all that,
  • 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:46.715
  • Number one, you need to realize that there is the provision
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  • Where god gives sleep.
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  • Can i have a good amen? ask god for it.
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  • But you need to understand that god gives his beloved sleep.
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  • You must have a sense that you are loved.
  • 00:12:00.062 --> 00:12:02.498
  • Establish that first. don't struggle with sleep.
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  • Establish the fact you-- "i'm god's beloved,"
  • 00:12:06.669 --> 00:12:09.471
  • Until it's so established in your heart
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  • That at night when you sleep, you find yourself
  • 00:12:11.607 --> 00:12:13.409
  • Being cradled in his bosom, amen?
  • 00:12:13.409 --> 00:12:19.381
  • Amen?
  • 00:12:19.381 --> 00:12:20.716
  • Also in john chapter 1, it says--
  • 00:12:20.716 --> 00:12:23.219
  • Jesus said these words.
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  • The spirit of god says, "the son of man
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  • Who is in the bosom of the father," present tense,
  • 00:12:29.291 --> 00:12:33.095
  • "but his feet was on earth."
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  • But the son of man who is in the bosom
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  • Of the father.
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  • The gospel of john is a story of bosom, of love.
  • 00:12:39.768 --> 00:12:44.907
  • John rested on jesus's bosom.
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  • Jesus rested on the father's bosom
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  • Even when he was on earth.
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  • He rested on god's love for him, amen?
  • 00:12:50.846 --> 00:12:55.851
  • When he was tempted or tested by the devil in the wilderness,
  • 00:12:55.851 --> 00:13:00.356
  • What did he say?
  • 00:13:00.356 --> 00:13:01.690
  • "man shall not live by bread alone,
  • 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:03.492
  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god," right?
  • 00:13:03.492 --> 00:13:08.397
  • That's the first temptation, right?
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  • And that was the first response.
  • 00:13:09.765 --> 00:13:11.800
  • But what did the father just tell him?
  • 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:14.403
  • The father just said to him, "you are my beloved son.
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  • In you i am well pleased."
  • 00:13:17.573 --> 00:13:19.241
  • And jesus lived by, he says, "man does not live
  • 00:13:19.241 --> 00:13:21.644
  • By bread alone, but by every word."
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  • "you are my beloved son.
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  • In you i am well pleased."
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  • I find my nourishment in every word
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  • That just came from my father's mouth,
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  • Every word of god.
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  • Man does not live but by that word.
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  • And they will pray for you.
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  • It is truly an expression of god's love for each other
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  • When we are praying in the spirit.
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  • Because you are praying for people and situations
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  • That you don't even know of, amen?
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  • And i want to encourage you, if you can, pray in the spirit,
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  • Pray in tongues.
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  • Because when you are praying in tongues,
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  • You transcend your prayer in the english language
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  • Or your known language.
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  • Because when you pray in your known language,
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  • You are limited to what you know, who you know,
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  • The situations you know about.
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  • But when you pray in the spirit, you transcend all that.
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  • You can even pray for your future, amen.
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  • Praise the lord.
  • 00:15:59.601 --> 00:16:00.936
  • In 1 peter 5-- let's read 1 peter 5.
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  • "be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil
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  • Walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."
  • 00:16:07.109 --> 00:16:12.881
  • I like the word "seeking" and the word "may."
  • 00:16:12.881 --> 00:16:14.950
  • That means the devil can't just walk
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  • Out of his house one day-- he doesn't have a house
  • 00:16:16.585 --> 00:16:19.054
  • But, you know, i'm just expressing--
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  • And just say, "okay, i'll kill this one.
  • 00:16:20.556 --> 00:16:22.458
  • Okay, i'll--" no, he has to seek whom he may.
  • 00:16:22.458 --> 00:16:26.662
  • That's very encouraging.
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  • As far as you are concerned, keep him seeking, amen?
  • 00:16:28.063 --> 00:16:34.570
  • And then it says, "resist the devil,
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  • Steadfast in the faith."
  • 00:16:36.705 --> 00:16:38.040
  • The word "resist" in the greek is the word "antihistamine."
  • 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:41.710
  • Isn't that interesting?
  • 00:16:41.710 --> 00:16:43.078
  • Antihistamine, resist.
  • 00:16:43.078 --> 00:16:44.746
  • It's where you get the word "antihistamine."
  • 00:16:44.746 --> 00:16:46.482
  • The doctors give you antihistamine
  • 00:16:46.482 --> 00:16:48.183
  • For your 'flu or your allergies, right?
  • 00:16:48.183 --> 00:16:52.488
  • Antihistamine means withstand.
  • 00:16:52.488 --> 00:16:53.856
  • How do you withstand the enemy?
  • 00:16:53.856 --> 00:16:55.190
  • "steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings
  • 00:16:55.190 --> 00:16:58.861
  • Are experienced by your brotherhood
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  • In the world."
  • 00:17:00.195 --> 00:17:01.530
  • There's something about brotherhood and sisterhood
  • 00:17:01.530 --> 00:17:04.133
  • That god wants you to learn in this warfare business.
  • 00:17:04.133 --> 00:17:06.368
  • The devil wants you isolated.
  • 00:17:06.368 --> 00:17:08.203
  • He wants you to think that your problem
  • 00:17:08.203 --> 00:17:09.605
  • Is uniquely your own
  • 00:17:09.605 --> 00:17:10.973
  • Because you are a strange person.
  • 00:17:10.973 --> 00:17:12.574
  • "you look at your friend, they are all happy
  • 00:17:12.574 --> 00:17:13.909
  • And all that, you are strange.
  • 00:17:13.909 --> 00:17:15.244
  • You see the thoughts that go through your mind.
  • 00:17:15.244 --> 00:17:16.578
  • Only you have these kind of thoughts.
  • 00:17:16.578 --> 00:17:17.913
  • Only you wake up in the middle of the night.
  • 00:17:17.913 --> 00:17:19.248
  • Only you have this depression. only you."
  • 00:17:19.248 --> 00:17:21.016
  • So the problem is this.
  • 00:17:21.016 --> 00:17:22.484
  • The devil likes to isolate people.
  • 00:17:22.484 --> 00:17:24.653
  • And that's why the gadarene demoniac,
  • 00:17:24.653 --> 00:17:26.622
  • He was all by himself, all alone and all forlorn,
  • 00:17:26.622 --> 00:17:30.259
  • All sad by himself.
  • 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:32.027
  • And he was cutting himself, suicidal and all that.
  • 00:17:32.027 --> 00:17:34.196
  • But notice, he was by himself.
  • 00:17:34.196 --> 00:17:36.732
  • It's the work of the enemy to cause antisocial behavior
  • 00:17:36.732 --> 00:17:40.702
  • And also to isolate you from people.
  • 00:17:40.702 --> 00:17:43.472
  • Now you think that we are more connected.
  • 00:17:43.472 --> 00:17:44.940
  • Actually, we are more connected in terms of social media,
  • 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:48.043
  • But we are less in touch.
  • 00:17:48.043 --> 00:17:52.447
  • We are not communicating.
  • 00:17:52.447 --> 00:17:53.782
  • If only we can sit down, and pastors do that a lot.
  • 00:17:53.782 --> 00:17:55.517
  • We pastors, we have learned to be vulnerable to each other.
  • 00:17:55.517 --> 00:17:58.086
  • I'll tell them, "do you all wake up
  • 00:17:58.086 --> 00:17:59.421
  • In the middle of the night, nah?
  • 00:17:59.421 --> 00:18:01.190
  • Like, for no reason, you wake up and you can't sleep.
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  • And you start having bad thoughts.
  • 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.627
  • You know, bad thoughts about your family,
  • 00:18:05.627 --> 00:18:06.995
  • Bad thoughts about the future, bad thoughts.
  • 00:18:06.995 --> 00:18:08.730
  • And you feel like you are, you know,
  • 00:18:08.730 --> 00:18:10.832
  • Like a dark thought come-- dark thoughts come on you.
  • 00:18:10.832 --> 00:18:14.036
  • Do you feel that way?"
  • 00:18:14.036 --> 00:18:15.370
  • And then someone say, "hey pastor, these few days,
  • 00:18:15.370 --> 00:18:16.705
  • I feel the same way, you know?"
  • 00:18:16.705 --> 00:18:19.107
  • So in that brotherhood, there is that expression.
  • 00:18:19.107 --> 00:18:23.445
  • And you realize, "hey, i'm normal, i'm normal,
  • 00:18:23.445 --> 00:18:25.147
  • I'm also normal," amen?
  • 00:18:25.147 --> 00:18:26.882
  • We are all under attack. let's pray for one another.
  • 00:18:26.882 --> 00:18:28.917
  • You need that brotherhood.
  • 00:18:28.917 --> 00:18:30.252
  • In a care group is one of the best places.
  • 00:18:30.252 --> 00:18:32.521
  • You need to be connected with-- god wants the church
  • 00:18:32.521 --> 00:18:34.957
  • To be relational.
  • 00:18:34.957 --> 00:18:37.159
  • It's not meant to be lone ranger.
  • 00:18:37.159 --> 00:18:38.760
  • Even lone ranger got tonto, all right?
  • 00:18:38.760 --> 00:18:40.996
  • But god wants you to be related to each other, amen?
  • 00:18:40.996 --> 00:18:44.199
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:18:44.199 --> 00:18:45.534
  • So don't just come to church and go off, you know?
  • 00:18:45.534 --> 00:18:47.002
  • Get connected somehow.
  • 00:18:47.002 --> 00:18:48.337
  • Get connected in a care group or in a ministry, get connected.
  • 00:18:48.337 --> 00:18:53.275
  • I mean, get people you can call on
  • 00:18:53.275 --> 00:18:55.377
  • When you are down or whatever.
  • 00:18:55.377 --> 00:18:56.945
  • And when you share, something happens.
  • 00:18:56.945 --> 00:18:59.348
  • Even half the burden is lifted when you start sharing, amen?
  • 00:18:59.348 --> 00:19:05.053
  • The rest, the lord will take care of.
  • 00:19:05.053 --> 00:19:08.991
  • Sisterhood is the same.
  • 00:19:08.991 --> 00:19:10.559
  • God wants you to have--
  • 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:11.893
  • So that last part, keep that in mind.
  • 00:19:11.893 --> 00:19:13.595
  • Now go to steadfast, "resist him,
  • 00:19:13.595 --> 00:19:15.397
  • Steadfast in the faith."
  • 00:19:15.397 --> 00:19:17.032
  • Now what is "steadfast in the faith"?
  • 00:19:17.032 --> 00:19:18.767
  • Steadfast in the faith means-- and i'm bringing this
  • 00:19:18.767 --> 00:19:20.969
  • To a close-- steadfast in the faith means
  • 00:19:20.969 --> 00:19:23.238
  • Stand tall and say, "i am the righteousness
  • 00:19:23.238 --> 00:19:25.307
  • Of god in christ.
  • 00:19:25.307 --> 00:19:27.175
  • I am the righteous--" well, how do i know
  • 00:19:27.175 --> 00:19:28.577
  • That this is referring to righteousness by faith?
  • 00:19:28.577 --> 00:19:30.345
  • Because i'll show you one more passage
  • 00:19:30.345 --> 00:19:31.780
  • And then we'll close.
  • 00:19:31.780 --> 00:19:33.115
  • Go to galatians 3. the word, "the faith."
  • 00:19:33.115 --> 00:19:36.218
  • Notice, "resist him, steadfast in the faith,"
  • 00:19:36.218 --> 00:19:39.154
  • Definite article.
  • 00:19:39.154 --> 00:19:40.489
  • Today, look up here.
  • 00:19:40.489 --> 00:19:42.391
  • Today, when people ask you, "what is your faith?"
  • 00:19:42.391 --> 00:19:44.159
  • You say, "i'm a christian."
  • 00:19:44.159 --> 00:19:45.494
  • But that is not the way paul used it last time.
  • 00:19:45.494 --> 00:19:47.663
  • When it's about the faith, definite article,
  • 00:19:47.663 --> 00:19:49.631
  • It's always justification by faith.
  • 00:19:49.631 --> 00:19:53.101
  • So here it says, "but before faith came--
  • 00:19:53.101 --> 00:19:56.004
  • Before faith came, we were kept under guard
  • 00:19:56.004 --> 00:19:58.473
  • By the law, kept for the faith
  • 00:19:58.473 --> 00:20:00.208
  • Which would afterwards be revealed."
  • 00:20:00.208 --> 00:20:01.677
  • Now before faith came,
  • 00:20:01.677 --> 00:20:03.011
  • There's a definite article there.
  • 00:20:03.011 --> 00:20:04.446
  • The faith.
  • 00:20:04.446 --> 00:20:05.981
  • But it's missing here in english.
  • 00:20:05.981 --> 00:20:07.849
  • But actually in the greek, there is the faith.
  • 00:20:07.849 --> 00:20:09.518
  • Before justification by faith came.
  • 00:20:09.518 --> 00:20:11.453
  • "pastor, how do you know he's referring
  • 00:20:11.453 --> 00:20:12.788
  • To justification by faith?"
  • 00:20:12.788 --> 00:20:14.189
  • The next verse, the context, "therefore the law was our tutor
  • 00:20:14.189 --> 00:20:17.059
  • To bring us to christ, that we might be justified by faith."
  • 00:20:17.059 --> 00:20:23.699
  • The whole context is justified by faith.
  • 00:20:23.699 --> 00:20:26.968
  • "after faith has come again," after the faith has come,
  • 00:20:26.968 --> 00:20:30.906
  • Justification by faith has come, "we are no longer under the law,
  • 00:20:30.906 --> 00:20:33.875
  • Under the tutor."
  • 00:20:33.875 --> 00:20:37.045
  • So you know what you're saying when the devil
  • 00:20:37.045 --> 00:20:38.380
  • Comes to accuse you?
  • 00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:39.715
  • Even when you're sleeping at night,
  • 00:20:39.715 --> 00:20:41.116
  • The devil puts bad thoughts on you or bad imaginations.
  • 00:20:41.116 --> 00:20:44.753
  • You say, "i'm the righteousness of god in christ."
  • 00:20:44.753 --> 00:20:48.056
  • Something happens because just that when you say,
  • 00:20:48.056 --> 00:20:51.159
  • "yes, i'm guilty," or you accept it,
  • 00:20:51.159 --> 00:20:53.562
  • You come under that, saying god is a liar
  • 00:20:53.562 --> 00:20:56.431
  • Or the devil is right and god is not satisfied
  • 00:20:56.431 --> 00:21:00.302
  • With what jesus did.
  • 00:21:00.302 --> 00:21:01.636
  • Likewise, when you say,
  • 00:21:01.636 --> 00:21:03.004
  • "i'm the righteousness of god in christ,"
  • 00:21:03.004 --> 00:21:05.040
  • You're saying a mouthful.
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  • You're saying god is satisfied with what jesus did.
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  • Jesus offered a perfect offering on my behalf.
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  • His blood has fully met all the claims of justice, amen?
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  • And i am righteous because jesus
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  • Did a perfect work.
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  • He became my sin.
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  • Now i take my place as righteous.
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  • The moment the devil knows that, he flees from you.
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  • Because, listen carefully, if the devil
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  • Slandered the righteousness that took full note
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  • Of all your sins, not one of them escaped,
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  • And exacted a full penalty for all your sins,
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  • And yet, if the devil slandered now
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  • That throne of righteousness of god,
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  • Now righteousness is to declare you justified.
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  • It is unrighteousness to declare yourself
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  • Not justified because of what jesus did.
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  • So if you take sides with what god has said, amen,
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  • About you, you are justified and the devil comes
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  • To attack you with an accusation, you say,
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  • "i'm the righteousness of god in christ,"
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  • Whether verbally or inwardly, all right, you know that,
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  • Something happen to the devil.
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  • Now he becomes guilty.
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  • Listen, in the courts of justice,
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  • If an accuser accuse someone falsely,
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  • The accuser becomes as guilty as the person he's accusing,
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  • Had the accusation been justified.
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  • Let me explain.
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  • If an accuser is aiming to say someone--
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  • He's, like, accusing someone of murder.
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  • You think it's just murder?
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  • No, he's saying he deserves death.
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  • He's aiming for his death.
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  • The accuser is aiming for his death
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  • Because murder carries the death penalty.
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  • Now, if the whole charge is false,
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  • Now the accuser becomes guilty
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  • Of the same crime because he's aiming
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  • For his death.
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  • Now he's a murderer.
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  • So the moment you take your position, saying,
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  • "i am the righteousness of god in christ,"
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  • The whole thing falls back on the devil.
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  • He dare not handle a christian like that, you understand?
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  • Because he will have to bear the penalty.
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  • Follow what i'm saying?
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  • And that's why we close with "no weapon formed against you
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  • Shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you
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  • In judgment you shall condemn."
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  • Don't condemn the person saying it.
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  • If your husband says something to way,
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  • And by the way, please, please don't after this message
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  • And all that, go to your husband every time she says--
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  • He says something to you, "don't abuse me or you--
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  • I bind it in jesus's name. i bind you in jesus's name.
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  • I tie you up in jesus's name.
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  • I send you to hell."
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  • Please don't do that, okay?
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  • Don't let your husband curse me, you know?
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  • So there's something about this whole scenario
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  • About accepting guilt and falling sick
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  • Or mentally depressed
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  • And having psychological problems and declaring
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  • You're the righteousness of god in christ.
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  • By the same token, what comes on the heels of righteousness?
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  • Health, wholeness, peace, stability,
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  • Poise, power, peace of mind.
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  • It's powerful.
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  • Every tongue that rises against you,
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  • Whether you read about it, you hear the devil
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  • Tells you something accusatory, or someone--
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  • The devil use people a lot.
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  • When you see all those words coming against you, just say,
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  • "i condemn all those words."
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  • Don't condemn the people.
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  • "i condemn all those words.
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  • I reject them because i'm
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  • The righteousness of god in christ."
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  • You understand what i'm saying?
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  • Now that doesn't cover people who correct you
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  • Because they love you.
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  • People who improve you because they love you.
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  • So discern carefully and don't go on a tangent
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  • On this.
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  • But many a times, the devil uses people to accuse you.
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  • And it's very general.
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  • They accuse you of things that you haven't done right
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  • Or, you know, it's just accusing.
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  • Just say, "in jesus's name," in your heart, "i reject that."
  • 00:24:39.821 --> 00:24:42.357
  • Or your mother has passed away or your father has passed away
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  • And growing up, they say, "you're useless.
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  • You're always this, always that."
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  • And now it still haunts you.
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  • Say, "in jesus's name, i resist that."
  • 00:24:49.197 --> 00:24:51.066
  • You don't have to condemn your father or mother.
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  • Just resist those words.
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  • Shake it off you in jesus's name and say,
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  • "i'm the righteousness of god in christ."
  • 00:24:57.205 --> 00:24:59.574
  • And start to prosper because the thief
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  • Will have to stop stealing, killing, and destroying
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  • As far as you are concerned because you are
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  • The righteousness of god in christ, amen.
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