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Joseph Prince - How to be Comfortable in God’s Presence

May 11, 2026 | 27:29

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - How to be Comfortable in God’s Presence | May 11, 2026

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Joseph prince: you wanna see a christian
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That's living victorious,
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A christian that the bible says we are to be like,
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All right?
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It's found in ephesians 4.
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It says someone who is constantly filled
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With the spirit,
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By speaking in psalms or singing in psalms, hymns,
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Spiritual songs, amen.
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Speaking this, like singing to yourself psalms,
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Hymns, spiritual.
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He's always joyful.
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There's a smile on his face, amen.
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And when he's with you, you feel like everything, your problems,
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Are just, you know, all become lighter,
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Just to be in the person's presence.
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They are shadows, but in the new, it's substance.
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So all those egyptians that oppressed them,
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That bullied them,
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Once upon a time, we were under sin.
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Now we are under christ.
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We were under the law,
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But now we are under grace, amen.
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We were in the flesh.
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Now we have the flesh, but we're not in it.
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We're in the spirit.
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Do you understand?
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Once we were far off from god,
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Now we are brought nigh by the blood of christ.
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We are near, amen.
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Use that place.
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Be comfortable in the presence of god, where there's joy,
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Fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore, the bible says.
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Look at the cross of jesus christ,
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That's how we are born again.
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Christ took our sins on that tree.
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He took our place.
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Not only that.
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That part of you, the old you that's under adam, in adam,
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In the flesh, under condemnation,
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He took that in his own person on the cross.
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The old you that like--
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Loved to sin, that always have bad thoughts about god,
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That part of you, that you is dead.
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Announcer: and now here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: i have something from the lord
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In my heart for you.
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And it's important that we are always in line
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With what god is saying to us, amen.
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Praise the lord.
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When it comes to what the lord wants us to know
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And what we are doing,
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It's important that we are flowing with him.
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Are you listening, people, amen?
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When people say things like, you know, "that thing happened.
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Are you sure it's god doing that," all right?
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Or "is the devil behind it?
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Is god behind it?"
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It still confuses us.
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It's not like every bad thing that happens to us is the devil.
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It's not.
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Sometimes the lord allows you to go through some bad stuff,
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Right, to build your character.
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But the bad stuff is not initiated by him.
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But he allows it like in the life of joseph, right?
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He allows him to go through
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All kinds of difficult situations,
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All kinds of trials.
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He was thrown into the pit.
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He was betrayed by his brothers.
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And all the while, he was the favored one.
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God had marked him for a great destiny,
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Where he will influence not just hundreds,
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But literally hundreds of thousands of lives
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All over the then-known world.
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Millions, even, you talk about the then-known world
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And the capacity of what god has put in joseph
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To impact and influence them.
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But before he can reach that place of safety,
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God had to allow him to go through
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The school of hard knocks.
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And perhaps you are going through that.
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Something as small as, like, driving down the road,
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You always find that you--
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The slowest driver is in front of you.
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Or you find someone who's really, you know, like,
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He has no sense of considerateness
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When he drives.
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Like, he's driving, the whole road belongs to him, right?
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He speeds right in front of you or he doesn't indicate
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That he's gonna turn, change lanes or whatever,
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And something small like that, you can get very angry, right?
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We've heard all kinds of testimonies in this pulpit
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Of men of god, men of faith and power,
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That felt like jumping out the car, amen,
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And thunder forth the gospel of jesus christ.
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No, no, no, it's like we all have these fantasies, right,
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When the flesh rises up.
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And all the people said-- we have this,
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But because we are either afraid of the consequence
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Or we realize we are christians, we don't allow it to manifest.
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But it's still there, amen?
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But if we don't see the love of god in all these situations,
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We are earthly minded, we are kept within our--
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The scope of our flesh.
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You know what i'm saying?
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What do i mean by the love of god?
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God loves you so much that you are not like any other children.
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You see, i don't discipline children
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That belongs to other people.
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They pass by.
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If they are misbehaving, i don't discipline them.
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Why?
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When i say discipline, i don't mean beating,
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Okay, right?
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I mean correction, loving correction.
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If you love someone,
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You will correct the person in a loving way
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Because the person is too precious
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To let the person just go on in its ignorance,
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On the road to destruction, right?
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If you love the person,
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You will correct the person, amen?
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But so, i don't correct other children,
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I correct my children.
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So when god corrects his children,
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You ought to feel love.
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In fact, the word of god says: "whom he loves, he disciplines."
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So you ought to feel a sense of you're being loved.
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You're too precious
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And your destiny in god is too great
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For him to just let you go by.
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"but pastor, this is a matter of rude behavior."
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Yeah, it is training for princes to become kings.
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Because the world that we're gonna live in,
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We are literally gonna rule.
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Joint heirs with jesus christ.
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See, we don't understand yet.
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And most of the preachings are confined
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To things that's on earth, okay?
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And we have a vague idea about heaven,
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But heaven, listen, it's not just a place you go up there
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And you play harps.
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We are ruling with our lord jesus christ,
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And we start to rule when he comes down here again
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For a 1000-year millennial rule, right?
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Then after that, there'll be another war.
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The bible talks about that, all right?
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All that's in the book of revelation,
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As well as also you find intimations of that
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In daniel's prophecies.
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But we are gonna ru-- after that,
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Forever we're gonna rule with him, amen.
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The destiny of this world is all mucked up already.
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Your place in christ, your calling,
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Is a high calling.
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You know, i was once at a palace
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Where queen victoria of the past
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In the united kingdom where she grew up.
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And they opened up for visitors to visit, so i went to visit.
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And it was interesting.
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They bring you to the rooms and all the apartments,
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And then there was a little caption there
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That said that it was at this point
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That little victoria, who was a princess then
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When her father passed away, realized that she'll be queen.
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And from then on, she said, "i'll be the queen of england.
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I shall behave myself from now on," right?
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Because she was known to be very, you know,
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Precocious and sometimes mischievous,
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Just like any other young girl.
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But she was a young girl when her father passed away
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And she became queen, queen of england,
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Ushering in one of the most prosperous era
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Of the united kingdom, the golden era.
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Many still refer to it with fondness,
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The victorian age,
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Where you have some great classical authors
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Like charles dickens
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And all that that came out of that.
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She was the queen during that time.
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And you know what?
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She was a believer.
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She honors the bible, amen.
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Now, i wanna bring you to the question, all right,
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Of the teaching today, on how not to sin, okay?
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So you hear for--
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I'm sure you've heard this for the rest of your life,
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"pastor, when this anger rise up in me, what do i do?
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Do i suppress it?"
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Oh, have you tried that?
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Have you suppressed it?
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"i'll do my best not to be angry!"
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Have you done that?
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Have you tried?
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"i'll do my best not to have those imaginations
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Or those thoughts.
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Nope, i'll try not to think of it.
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I try not to think of it.
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Wow, so bright.
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What is that," you know?
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Amen.
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Have you noticed that trying doesn't work?
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So why are we telling people, right,
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"you should be doing this, you should be doing that,
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You should, should, should."
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All the should'ves and could'ves and all that,
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It's actually putting law on the people.
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Our answer must be bible-based.
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It must be based on the gospel.
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The answer cannot be found in, "stop sinning!"
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It cannot.
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Israel learned that.
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For 1500 years under the law, they learned they cannot, amen?
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And god was proving to mankind that the law cannot.
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In fact, the law-- the strength of sin is the law.
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The more you say you cannot, the more you try not to cannot,
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The more you try to don't the don'ts,
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The more you do the don'ts
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That you are supposed to don't do it, amen.
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And god knew it.
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God knew it.
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You see, the moment god gave the ten commandments,
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And the first commandment was, "thou shalt not--"
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All this you can find in romans 7, okay?
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So our answer cannot just be, "stop it!"
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People have tried it.
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"just stop it, man.
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Come on, stop it," you know, it just--right?
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There's something inside them is the flesh,
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And that's why jesus don't have that in him,
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Although he came fully man, he came in the flesh,
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"the word became flesh and dwelt among us."
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He was fully human,
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But one thing that's not inside him
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That is in all of us is sin.
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He wasn't born in sin.
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Hence the need for the virgin birth,
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Because the blood is determined by the father, all right,
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What type of blood, whatever.
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So, he didn't have sinful blood even from mary
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Because he was in mary's womb,
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Because we know that the placenta
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Doesn't bring her blood into his body, amen.
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So, he was pure and holy, born to be a sacrifice for us
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Because it must be a pure, holy, sinless sacrifice
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To take our sins in his own body, amen?
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Which he has done.
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Praise the lord.
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So, the answer cannot just be stop sinning.
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We must look at the answer scripturally, amen.
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And we look at the answer scripturally,
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We are put at a place where old testament,
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There's a lot of types of the new testament, all right?
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We see in the old testament,
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There's a scene where god brought them
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Out of egypt, right?
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They were born again.
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So the picture of being born again is the day
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They put their trust in the lamb of god
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On the night of the passover.
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Outside, right, the angel of death was passing by,
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All right, destroying every firstborn
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Of the household,
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Except for those who had blood on the doorpost,
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And god specifically said,
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"put blood on the lintel and on the doorpost."
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So the lintel is the-- your horizontal bar
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That sometimes you kick the ball,
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It bounces off instead of scoring, right?
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That's the lintel, and then you have the doorposts,
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And god says, put on these three, right?
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One, two, three, you see?
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You see the cross.
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And it's all blood, you know, so the blood would drip.
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And then you have the blood heal on the doorpost as well.
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You draw the line, you see the cross.
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And god says, "when i see the blood,"
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Not "when i see your good family name,
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When i see your accomplishments
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Or what you have done for charity,
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All your good works and all that,
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I'll pass over you."
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No, no, no, he didn't say, "when i see all that."
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He says, "when i see the blood."
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You wanna see a christian that's living victorious,
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A christian that the bible says we are to be like, all right?
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It's found in ephesians 4.
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It says someone who is constantly filled
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With the spirit by speaking in psalms
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Or singing in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, amen.
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Speaking this, like singing to yourself psalms,
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Hymns, spiritual.
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He's always joyful.
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There's a smile on his face, amen.
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And when he's with you, you feel like everything,
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Your problems are just, you know, all become lighter,
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Just to be in the person's presence or her presence, amen.
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And when she leaves, you are sad.
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You feel like she brightens up the room.
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When she comes in, her radiance brighten up the room.
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Or when he passes by, he did something nice,
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He's always encouraging, and there's a smile on his face,
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There's a joy in his face, amen, amen.
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And he's not readily available for anyone
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Just to come and take him away or to seduce him.
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That kind of man is attractive.
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The woman doesn't just give herself.
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Next thing you know, just kiss this guy,
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Kiss that guy, you know, or wrong guy.
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Gotta find the right guy and a more grumpy guy.
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Okay, no, no, a girl who is--
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Yeah, we all like that kind of girl.
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Deep down, everyone wants that.
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I don't care what they think, amen.
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This is gonna bless your married life, okay?
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Stop this fantasy, doesn't exist in real life.
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Become joyful, you know, just speak to yourself in psalms,
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Hymns, spiritual songs.
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So how do you overcome sin?
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So when israel came out,
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Their enemies were still there, still alive.
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So those enemies,
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Don't think of physical enemies, okay?
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God put all these stories in the old testament as types.
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They are shadows, but in the new, it's substance.
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So all those egyptians that oppressed them,
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That bullied them,
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Once upon a time, we were under sin.
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Now we are under christ.
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We were under the law, but now we are under grace, amen.
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We were in the flesh.
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Now we have the flesh, but we're not in it.
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We are in the spirit.
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Do you understand?
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Once we were far off from god, now we are brought nigh
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By the blood of christ.
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We are near, amen.
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Use that place.
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Be comfortable in the presence of god, where there's joy,
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Fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore, the bible says.
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So, nonetheless, they went out
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And they realized after for a while,
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The enemies came chasing after them.
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You all know the story.
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You've watched the movies, right?
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You've read the word of god.
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The enemies came.
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Which means even though we are saved,
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We still find enemies come after us, right?
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They come charging after us, the old lust is still there,
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The old temperament, the anger is still there,
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That legalism, fault finding, unforgiving, being bitter,
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Being angry.
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Amen, it's still there.
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Anyway, rise up, it rise up very fast.
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You thought you were doing fine.
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Because you were in church.
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Just step a few steps outside, boom, it starts, right?
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It rises up so fast. how do we overcome this?
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You cannot suppress it. you cannot use willpower.
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And unfortunately, sometimes when you hear
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The way the answer is given, how to overcome sin,
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It's always like your willpower.
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You are the ones that's supposed to suppress it.
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So, we must have a scriptural answer.
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It must be gospel-based,
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Based on the gospel of jesus christ.
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It must be from the word of god,
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And it must be from the new testament,
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The new covenant.
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God won't use old covenant means to give us new covenant results.
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So it's not a matter of "don't do it.
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Start doing this."
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No, "but the bible is full and even new testament,
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Pastor prince, it says, you know,
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Put aside all these things and start doing--"
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But before that you must read who you are in christ.
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"if you then be risen with christ," first--
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And the word "if" there is actually
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"since you have been risen with christ,
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"mortify the members of your body."
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Notice that?
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Doesn't say, "put to death those losses that come up
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And all that, put to death," doesn't say that.
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It says, "since you are risen with christ,"
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When you realize that, when you're conscious of that,
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These little things of bitterness coming up
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And all that,
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You rise above, you transcend them
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Because you know you have a high calling
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And you know who you are in christ.
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These things are too small for you to focus on,
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Child of god, beloved of god.
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And that's why john always says, "beloved."
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It's not just a term, we get--
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From that book, we get the word "beloved,"
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And many pastors for 2000 years now, right,
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Has been saying, "beloved, beloved, beloved."
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But actually, when john started it,
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It literally means you are the loved ones.
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Literally, you loved ones.
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When he talked to them-- "you loved ones."
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Even he corrects them. "you loved ones.
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It's because you are loved, i'm telling you this."
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Don't you know that?
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You loved ones?
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Loved by god? amen.
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So what's the answer?
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So enemies came after them.
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The answer was found in the red sea.
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You all know the story, right?
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They cry out to moses, the enemies are marauding.
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They're coming, they're coming fast.
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They can see the smoke column that is horizontally
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All across that cavern there,
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Flanked with mountains on both sides.
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If you look at the whole place,
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It's like you can't go anywhere else.
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They are going in between this row of mountains,
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And they came to this open sea, the red sea,
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And pharaoh and his armies
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And the chariots are coming behind.
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These are the pictures of our enemies.
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So though we are born again, we still have those enemies, amen?
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And they came charging down, i mean, bearing on them,
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Bearing hard on them.
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And they were afraid. they looked behind.
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No, the enemies are coming. and what's the answer?
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The answer is still the same.
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You look at the cross of jesus christ,
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That's how we are born again.
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Christ took our sins on that tree.
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He took our place. not only that.
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That part of you, the old you, that's under adam,
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In adam, in the flesh, under condemnation,
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He took that in his own person on the cross.
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The old you that liked-- loved to sin,
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That always had bad thoughts about god,
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That part of you, that you is dead, okay?
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Now we're finding something.
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Knowing this, "that we are planted together
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In the likeness of his death, certainly we shall be also
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In the likeness of his resurrection."
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You are now a new person in christ.
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"for he who has died has been freed from sin."
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What happened to you, listen carefully.
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Whether you feel it or you don't feel it,
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Forget about feeling, okay?
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Do not enter the realm of feelings.
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All this is the word, the declared word of god.
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All this is establish divine facts,
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Divine truths, okay?
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Now, watch this.
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The bible says, "he who has died has been freed from sin."
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Do you know this word "freed"? look it up.
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Some other translations, i think it's the niv
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Or one of the translations--
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I forgot which one it is-- it says "justified from sin"
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Because it's the word dikaioo.
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Dikaioo is always used "justified from sin."
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He who is dead is justified from sin.
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Now, listen carefully.
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I know what you're thinking.
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"i don't feel dead to sin; i feel very much alive."
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Huh?
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No, i don't care if you feel it.
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I don't care if you feel it.
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I'll tell you this: your feelings are not reliable.
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Don't trust your feelings.
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When it comes to the things of god, all right,
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Enjoy your feelings, whatever feelings come, okay,
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But see them like you're taking a train ride.
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You're passing by different scenes,
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Feelings come and feelings go.
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Don't make decisions based on feelings,
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And don't establish truths in your life based on feelings.
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We live by faith, and faith is what?
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Faith is based on established facts.
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Announcer: and now a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: lift your hands before the lord.
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This coming week there'll be temptations.
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The enemy will try to make you feel like
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What you heard isn't the truth, your experiences are the truth,
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Your feelings are the truth.
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Right now in the name of jesus,
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I want you to know that the word of god is here to set you free.
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So from henceforth in the name of jesus, father,
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Give them, each of them,
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This can only come by revelation.
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Father, give them, lord, a revelation
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Of the accomplished fact of the divine truth
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That christ has accomplished for us,
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That as far as sin is concerned, is behind us.
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Even though it feels so real, lord, every day, it is a lie--
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That we have died to sin, lord,
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And we can never, never live to it again.
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Thank you, father.
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Give to each person the spirit of wisdom and revelation
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Concerning this.
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The eyes of their understanding be enlightened,
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And throughout this week, keep them.
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Keep them from the evil one.
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Keep them from falling into sin.
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Keep them from all the powers of darkness
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In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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And all the people said amen.
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God bless you, you loved ones.
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We'll see you again.
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"how in the world do you do an online church?"
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And you know, we gather in our living room
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And we sing and we praise,
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And then we sit there and we take in the word,
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And then afterward you can talk about it.
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Announcer: church is not four walls;
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It's one body of christ.
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Male: we just feel so plugged in now.
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We feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to
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A little bit, you know, doing the online church,
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But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all,
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And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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In the chat host, and when i was sick,
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I had people praying for me.
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I had people taking the communion for me.
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They're right there when you need it.
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Announcer: because church is not where you meet.
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It's who you meet.
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Female: join a digital church
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And learn to feel love from people we can't see
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And we're not in the same room as,
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It helps us to make that connection
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That "i can't see god and i'm not in the same room as him,
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But he loves me."
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Announcer: find your people. find your church.
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Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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Even online.
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Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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Or text "church" to 71239 today.
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join pastor joseph prince next time
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For a fresh word from the lord.
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Announcer: joseph prince ministries
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Is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
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And your gift is tax-deductible
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Joseph Prince - How to be Comfortable in God’s Presence

May 11, 2026 | 27:29

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