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Joseph Prince - This Is How God Blesses The Work of Your Hands

January 7, 2026 | 29:45

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

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - This Is How God Blesses The Work of Your Hands | January 7, 2026

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Joseph prince: whatever favor god has released in my life
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Towards any particular ministry, i flowed with god.
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I didn't let it be in vain.
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The thing is this, god gives you an anointing for something.
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I always say it like this, god gives you the favor
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To do something, it's still grace.
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God gives you the favor to do something.
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When you do it and don't let it be in vain,
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You flow with that grace.
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God rewards you for accomplishing the grace,
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For doing the grace, for working out the grace
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That he first gave you.
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Isn't that cool?
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Amen, when we stand before heaven,
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No wonder everyone who receive a crown,
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The bible tells us in heaven, they cast the crown
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Before the lamb and said,
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"you are worthy, because without you,
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Hey, we wouldn't even have breath to breathe
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Or to pray the sinner's prayer," amen.
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We wouldn't even have eyes to see.
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You know, who are we that we should see the things
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That we are seeing from god's scriptures?
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There are so many blinded, so many lost out there, amen.
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And their age is catching up, you know?
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And man is not forever.
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Fallen man is not forever.
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So the thing is that, blessed are your eyes for you see.
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Have you ever thanked god for that?
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Aren't you glad you are enjoying?
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You truly have true riches.
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It's not about having more houses, more cars.
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Hey, if you are defined by that, you are truly poor.
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You're a poor man, having plenty of money,
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Plenty of property, amen?
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Your true wealth is your knowledge of our lord
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And savior, jesus christ, amen?
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Male announcer: what did jesus mean when he said,
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"it is finished"?
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What's finished?
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And what does it mean for you today?
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In today's message, joseph shares what it means
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To live under god's unmerited favor.
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What if god's favor could show up in your job interview,
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In your parenting, in your finances,
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In your everyday life?
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In joseph's book, "unmerited favor,"
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Discover how god's grace can open doors
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You couldn't open on your own, how his favor
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Can lead you forward, even if you feel unqualified,
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And how resting in jesus's finished work
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Can bring real peace, real success, and real freedom.
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Request your copy for a gift of any amount today,
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And we'll also send you joseph's book,
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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: is there a difference between grace
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And reward?
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So people are saying-- i should say it like this,
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Is there a contradiction between grace and reward?
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We know there is a difference but is there a contradiction?
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Some people feel like if you are under grace, you know,
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We believe that it's not our works, amen.
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It's not our merit, it's not our deserving.
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It is the unconditional, undeserved favor of god,
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Which is grace.
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Grace is defined as unmerited favor.
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Can i have a good amen?
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All right, but on the other hand, what about rewards?
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What about rewards?
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Well, you know, i'm a strong believer in rewards.
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And i shared a few weeks ago and i think i'm gonna start off
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With--from that basis to the message
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That god has for us today.
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And you look up here in 1 corinthians 15,
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It says--paul is writing, and paul says,
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"by the unmerited favor of god i am what i am."
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"by the unmerited favor of god i am what i am,
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And his unmerited favor,"
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Grace is defined as unmerited favor,
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"towards me was not in vain."
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In other words, god may release favor in your life towards,
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For example, god released favor in your life
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Towards working with children.
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In our case, our children's church is called rock kids.
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So god released--number one, if god releases a favor
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In that area, you will love children.
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You cannot say, "i hate kids, but i think god is telling me
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To work among kids," all right?
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Please, the kids don't want you
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And we don't want you working there, amen.
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If god anoints you and graces the favor in your life,
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There will be favor with the kids as well, amen.
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Doesn't mean that it's smooth sailing.
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You'll learn some things about children and all that,
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But the favor is there, the grace is there.
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Can i have a good amen?
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But it's possible to say, "no, i don't think i have the time.
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I'm so busy as it is, you know.
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I'm on a career trek and my boss expects a lot from me,"
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Then that unmerited favor towards you was in vain.
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But paul says, "in my life, his grace towards me
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Was not in vain."
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It's possible to let it be in vain.
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Now, "but i labored more abundantly than they all,"
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And he's referring to the other apostles.
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"i labored more abundantly than they all--i labored more
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Abundantly than they all, yet not i,
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But the unmerited favor of god which was with me."
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So in other words, paul says, whatever favor god has released
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In my life towards any particular ministry
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I flowed with god.
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I didn't let it be in vain.
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And you know what?
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I labored more abundantly.
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In other words, that power inside me caused me to be like
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The burning bush: burning up but not burning out, amen?
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Praise god.
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And how people come and watch him burn.
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Praise the lord.
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So the thing is this, god gives you an anointing for something.
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I always say it like this.
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God gives you the favor to do something.
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It's still grace.
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God gives you the favor to do something.
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When you do it and don't let it be in vain, you flow with that
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Grace, god rewards you for accomplishing the grace,
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For doing the grace, for working out the grace
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That he first gave you.
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Isn't that cool?
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Amen, when we stand before heaven,
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No wonder everyone who receive a crown,
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The bible tells us in heaven, they cast the crown
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Before the lamb and said, "you are worthy.
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Because without you, hey, we wouldn't even have breath
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To breathe or to pray the sinner's prayer," amen.
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We wouldn't even have eyes to see.
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You know, who are we that we should see the things
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That we are seeing from god's scriptures?
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There are so many blinded, so many lost out there, amen,
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And their age is catching up.
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You know, and man is not forever.
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Fallen man is not forever.
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So the thing is that, blessed are your eyes for you see.
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Have you ever thanked god for that, amen?
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You are numbered among the elect of god.
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Aren't you glad for that?
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Aren't you glad you're enjoying--you truly
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Have true riches.
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It's not about having more houses, more cars.
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Hey, if you are defined by that, you are truly poor.
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You're a poor man having plenty of money,
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Plenty of property, amen.
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Your true wealth is your knowledge of our lord
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And savior jesus christ, amen?
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Now, having said that, rewards is something
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That god wants us motivated by.
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Are you listening, people?
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Don't forget, when you are rewarded,
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It's always because god first gave you the grace, amen?
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And when you do the grace, and this is a good message
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And reminder for all pastors and christian companies
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And organizations.
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Sometimes they wonder, how do i reward, you know, my staff?
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If i reward all of them based on grace,
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Everybody gets the fullest month bonuses,
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Amen, the highest and all that.
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But of course, it's still grace.
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Grace is shown by how diligent the person is.
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If you see a person accomplishing fruits, that means
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He is working out the grace that has been worked in him.
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He should be rewarded.
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If somebody who is a christian, working in a christian
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Organization, all right, is lazy, amen, guess what?
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Grace is flowing towards him for some area of his expertise,
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But he's not flowing with it.
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And it's showing in no fruit.
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So as a boss, just like jesus in the book of revelation
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Among the seven churches, you don't look for grace within.
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You look for grace manifested without, in fruits, in works.
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That's how you reward people.
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Let's say if i run a company, an organization, okay?
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And they come and say, "you preach grace!
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How come this guy got, you know, more bonus than i did?"
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Then we say, "look, your works does not show, all right,
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The way that his does.
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He's diligent, his fruits are good, amen.
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He's an achiever.
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But how?
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He carries out the grace."
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It's still grace.
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But there's grace that can be seen.
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Grace that has been flowed with, amen,
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That you have used, utilized.
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Praise god.
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Are you following me so far?
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You want to hear another story?
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Want to hear another story?
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Stories in the bible are the best.
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And the reason i read them is so that you get excited
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About reading your own bible.
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It's more exciting than korean dramas.
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Spend time in the word.
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It will refresh you.
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God's words are health to all your flesh.
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Let me share with you another story.
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And this is the story of esther.
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The people of god, i told you a few weeks ago
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That the babylonians came because of their idolatry.
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The people of god have committed idolatry.
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They exchanged gods literally.
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They don't want the god of israel anymore.
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In spite of all their shortcomings,
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All that they have done wrong,
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All their sins of adulteries and lying and killing
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Or whatever, they still offered burnt offerings before that.
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But the moment they exchanged gods,
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They stopped the sacrifices that would have the blood atonement
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That could have covered them from wrath and from punishment.
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God is a holy god.
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And they keep on worshipping other idols.
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And the bible says god sent prophet after prophet, isaiah,
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God sent jeremiah, they refused.
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Some of them, they even killed.
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And they worshiped gods that they sacrificed
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Their children to, like moloch.
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They'd throw their--moloch is an idol with hands
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That are burning bronze hands and they'll put their children
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On the bronze hands when it's really, really hot.
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And then roll them into the fire of the statue.
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And god said, "stop doing that.
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Return to me. return to me."
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They didn't.
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And god finally sent nebuchadnezzar,
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The king of babylon and brought the people of judah captive
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For 70 years.
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This story happened during those years
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When they were in captivity.
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And that's the reason why the book of esther
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Don't have god's name.
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You don't find g-o-d, you don't find l-o-r-d.
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You don't find the name of god anywhere in the book of esther.
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Because in this time, they were supposed to be lo-ammi,
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Not my people.
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Yet, god was still behind the scene.
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God was orchestrating things behind the scene for them.
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In fact, you find god's name in the hebrew in equidistant
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Lettering which means in code form, amen?
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And every time god's name appear, like for example,
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You will say j, then you find a few other letters
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Then 4 letters after that e, then 4 letters later s,
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4 letters later u, 4 letters later, what is that?
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S.
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Jesus.
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That's how it's hidden.
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His name is hidden, all right?
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Elohim, yahweh is hidden in the book of esther.
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So let's follow the story.
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There was a king, xerxes, which all of you know in history.
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He was sitting on the throne.
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Your bible calls him ahasuerus, but in history,
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It calls him xerxes.
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There are many titles like pharaoh, king,
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And all that kind of thing.
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So they have titles.
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These are titles, not their names.
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So king xerxes was sitting on the throne, the king of persia,
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And what happened was that he had a right-hand man,
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His name was haman, and haman is an agagite,
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Which is actually from the amalekite.
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The amalekite, when moses brought the people of god
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Out of egypt, that was the first battle they had,
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Where moses's hands were raised by aaron and hur.
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And the battle took place at the valley below
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Between the people of god and the amalekites.
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The amalekites were so terrible, so evil, that they only fought
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Against those who were lagging behind.
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The old people and young children
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Who were lagging behind, they killed them.
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They came to attack them.
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So there were about 2 million-plus, so logistic-wise,
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You gotta move slow in the last one.
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But that's where they attacked.
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And god says, that's when they called god's name
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Jehovah-nissi, the lord our banner.
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God gave them victory over the amalekites.
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Well, haman, the right-hand man of xerxes,
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Is a descendant of amalekite.
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And god says he will always have war with amalek.
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So this haman, he has all these trappings of royalty
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And have access to the king and all that.
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But he wasn't happy for one thing.
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There was a man called mordecai.
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Mordecai was a jew.
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Jew in captivity.
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And mordecai is much older than esther.
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When esther's father died, all right, mordecai,
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Who is actually a cousin of esther,
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Adopted her and raised her as his own daughter.
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Are you all with me so far?
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Haman, every time he passes by mordecai at the palace gate,
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He will see mordecai and mordecai refused to bow
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Like other people bow to him because he's an amalekite.
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And he just cannot stand mordecai not bowing to him.
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Especially knowing that mordecai is a jew.
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And haman said this, "you know, there's a bunch of people
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That really are trying to destroy you and your kingdom.
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They have different sets of laws from our laws.
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They teach their people to disobey your law.
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So my suggestion, king, for your own--to protect your own
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Interests, you have to destroy, exterminate these people.
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So give me the assignment, all right?" he says.
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And the king says, "okay."
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Gave him the ring on the clay tablet.
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It's a go.
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And the word of a king of persia at that time
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Cannot be reversed, okay?
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So, the date is set.
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On the 13th of the 12th month, adar, it will happen.
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Thirteen is the number of evil in the bible.
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It will happen.
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The extermination of the jewish people.
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Then, let's follow the story.
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The bible says, his hatred for mordecai, all right,
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The foster father of esther, grew and grew.
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With all that he has, he only can think of the bitterness.
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Some people are so funny, you know.
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They have so much blessings around them.
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They got their wonderful children,
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Their nice house, everything.
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But everything they are thinking about,
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One person did something bad to them.
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And they are rehearsing, rehearsing,
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Nursing, nursing, rehearsing, rehearsing,
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The bitterness until they end up in the hearse.
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And there's no more rehearse after that.
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So don't.
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Bitterness will eat you up, amen?
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Trust god for 120 restoration, okay?
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So this guy got so bitter and he said, "what should i do?"
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And it says this in esther: "then he added,
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'but this is all worth nothing as long as i see
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Mordecai the jew just sitting there at the palace gate.'"
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All that i have, he says to his wife, his friends,
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All this is nothing as long as i see mordecai not bowing to me.
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"then the wife, zeresh, his wife and all his friends suggested,
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'set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet tall,
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And in the morning ask the king to impale mordecai on it.
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When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet
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With the king.'
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This pleased haman, and he ordered the pole set up," okay?
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"that night," wow, talk about timing.
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How many know god may seem late
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But he's always on time?
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So the pole, 75-feet pole, was already in place.
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He was about to impale the next day, mordecai,
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At the command of the king, of course,
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Is going to the king's presence to tell the king to impale.
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Your king james says, hang.
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But the hebrew actually is the word, "crucify."
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Impale!
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"that night the king had trouble sleeping."
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I'm telling you, how events turn around over one sleepless night.
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Can you imagine how an entire empire was shaken
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Because a baby cried in an ark by the river nile.
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A baby cry is a small, weak thing.
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No one takes any part of it.
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God can move with the smallest things to change great events.
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God can cause your boss to have a sleepless night
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And thinking about you.
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God can cause your wife that is going astray in her emotions,
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All right, to have one sleepless night
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And dreaming about you.
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God can cause you to have one sleepless--don't always think
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Insomnia is of the devil.
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That night, it says that night.
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Say, "that night."
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The night after the pole has been set up,
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"that night the king had trouble sleeping,
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So he ordered an attendant to bring the book
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Of the history of his reign so it could be read to him."
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That's quite boring, isn't it?
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Bring the history of my reign.
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I mean, you want some music or whatever.
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Can you read to me the history?
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Maybe it will bore him to sleep, all right?
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"in those records he discovered an account of how mordecai,"
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The jew, "had exposed the plot of bigthana and teresh,
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Two of the eunuchs who guarded the door
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To the king's private quarters.
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They had plotted to assassinate king xerxes.
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'what reward or recognition did we ever give mordecai for this?'
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The king asked.
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His attendants replied, 'nothing has been done for him, sir.'"
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So, one night of sleeplessness, the records were read
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And he heard that mordecai, the jew, saved him actually
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When he overheard that two of the eunuchs
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Tried to assassinate him.
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So what's been done for him?
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Nothing.
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Next, "'who is this?
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Who is that in the outer court?'"
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At the same time, who was coming?
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Haman was coming.
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Haman coming.
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"the king inquired.
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As it happened, haman had just arrived in the outer court of
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The palace to ask the king to impale mordecai on the pole
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He had prepared.
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So the attendants replied to the king,
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'haman is out in the court.'
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'bring him in,' the king ordered."
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Talk about timing, okay?
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"so haman came in, and the king said,
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'what should i do to honor a man who truly pleases me?'
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Haman thought to himself, 'whom would the king wish
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To honor more than me?'"
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You know when you are proud, okay,
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You think everything is about you.
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You really think everything is about you.
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It's not about you, people.
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That's a relief actually.
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When you hear people whispering to one another,
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All right, it's not about you.
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It's beyond you.
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Looking at the handsome guy at the back over there.
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Let's be delivered of self, okay?
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See, when the king says,
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"what shall i do for the man i want to honor?"
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He says, "must be me," all right?
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"he replied, 'if the king wishes to honor someone,
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He should bring out one of the king's own royal robes.'"
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Why, you silly man.
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This guy is really pushing it.
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Ask for the king's own royal robes.
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"'king's own royal robes, as well as a horse
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That the king himself has ridden.'"
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Your own sports car.
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One with a royal emblem on its head.
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Next verse.
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"'let the robes and the horse be handed over to one
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Of the king's most noble officials.
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And let him see that the man whom the king wishes to honor
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Is dressed in the king's robes, led through the city square
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On the king's horse.
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And have the official shout, 'this is what the king does
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For someone he wishes to honor!'
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"excellent!" the king said to haman.
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'quick!
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Take the robes, my horse, do just as you have said for
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Mordecai the jew, who sits at the gate of the palace.
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Leave out nothing you have suggested!'"
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Is god a rewarder?
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I said, is god a rewarder?
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Let me close with this.
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So, does god reward?
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Even though sometimes it seems like you're forgotten,
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It's all in the record books, people.
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I said, it's all in the record books.
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Don't throw away a confidence, amen.
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Praise god.
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Even if it takes the last night, god will come through, amen?
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Now i wanna tell you something.
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Whenever good things happen to you,
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Your position must never be, "it must be some reward i received.
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It must be--"
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You know, there's a song that goes, "it must have
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Been so--you must have--i must have done something good," yeah?
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"sound of music."
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"somewhere in my past, i must have done something good."
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Don't subscribe to that.
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When good things happen to you, say it's by grace, amen.
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It's all god's favor.
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It's not your place to say this is a reward.
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It's not your place to say, "all right, i'm rewarded.
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I'm rewarded."
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No, it's not your place.
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Chances are you might go into pride.
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It goes back into looking at your works.
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No, friend.
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We do not know what god will reward.
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But is there a reward in the kingdom of god?
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Yes, there is.
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And i'll close with this.
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The greatest reward is found in the first mention
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Of the hebrew word "reward."
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And every time a subject is mentioned for the first time,
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There is something significant, something important.
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Do you know when the word "reward"
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Was mentioned the first time?
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Right after abraham met melchizedek
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Who brought bread and wine, communion,
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And abraham tithed to melchizedek.
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And then abraham went back and the bible says for some reason,
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Maybe because of the war he had not--the reality set in, okay?
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And he was afraid.
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And the lord appeared to him, next chapter:
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"after these things the word of the lord
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Came to abram in a vision,
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Saying, 'do not be afraid, abram.
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I am your shield and your exceeding great reward.'"
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When all is said and done, people, god, our lord jesus,
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Is truly our reward.
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No, exceeding reward.
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No, exceeding great reward.
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He truly is our reward.
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And what did we do?
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Nothing.
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We ran for refuge to him and he says, "thanks for trusting me."
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This coming week.
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The lord bless you with the blessings of father abraham.
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From every infection, from every disease, from accidents,
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The lord bless you richly and the lord reward you.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you and your families
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Great health in jesus's name.
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From years of wrong believing.
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I want you to know that you have personally
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Made a real difference in the lives of so many.
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God bless you and your family.
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Announcer: you can make a real difference
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By becoming a grace legacy builder today.
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Together we can reach more people
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With the life-changing gospel of grace.
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Call 888-847-8831 or visit josephprince.org to get started.
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Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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I was so excited.
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Male announcer: church.
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It's not a place. it's a people.
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Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
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Female: hello.
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Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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How in the world do you do an online church?
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And we gather in our living room 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, we feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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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 house, and when i was sick,
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I had people praying for me.
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I had people taking 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 and learn to feel love
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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
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And i'm not in the same room as him, 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 for a fresh word
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From the lord.
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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 for the amount
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That exceeds any fair market value
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Of the materials you receive from us.
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♪♪♪
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Joseph Prince - This Is How God Blesses The Work of Your Hands

January 7, 2026 | 29:45

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