Joseph Prince - How God’s Favor Sets You Apart

April 7, 2026 | 27:29

Discover God’s plan for you to prosper and bless others, even in tough times.

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  • Joseph prince: the bible says that potiphar saw
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  • That the lord was with joseph,
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  • And all that joseph did, the lord made it to prosper.
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  • A heathen could see that the lord was with joseph.
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  • It was a visible token--
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  • The fact that whatever he does prospers.
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  • When he steps into the room, there is a peace.
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  • There's a glory that can be seen on joseph.
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  • This is gonna happen to you, child of god,
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  • In the last days, in the days that we're living in.
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  • Male announcer: ever wondered how you can stay unshakeable
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  • In seasons of shaking?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince will reveal
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  • Powerful truths on why god's people are set apart
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  • To not just survive but to thrive,
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  • Even in hard times.
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  • Is packed with even more scripture-based truths
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  • And now here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: it seems like god
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  • Is very concerned over you prospering
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  • In every area of your life,
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  • And i even shudder to use the word "prosper"
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  • Because it is so shunned even today by the church world.
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  • In some places they advocate strongly,
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  • They're still preaching strongly on it,
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  • Though i feel that, to a certain extent,
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  • It has gone to an extreme where it's just focus on
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  • The material and the financial,
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  • But still the word prosper is in the bible.
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  • The hebrew word is "saleah."
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  • And in the english, we say "prosper."
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  • Every time it appears "prosper" or "prosperity"
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  • Or "prosperous" in the old testament,
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  • It is always saleah.
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  • And there's something that--
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  • There is a church world out there
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  • That is very quick to say
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  • You are preaching the prosperity gospel,
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  • And i'm jealous over the gospel.
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  • I said i'm jealous over the gospel.
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  • I'm jealous that the people hear the true gospel,
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  • The gospel of jesus christ, amen?
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  • It's a prophetic message for our time.
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  • Number one, it is a dark time, morally.
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  • In many ways, it's a dark time,
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  • A time of darkness upon the earth.
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  • Isaiah 60 tells us, "arise, shine;
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  • For your light has come!
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  • And the glory of the lord is risen upon you."
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  • Straight away, i just want to say this:
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  • To those who subscribe to the interpretation
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  • That this is referring to the millennium,
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  • There is a millennium coming where christ
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  • Will rule on earth,
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  • And christians don't have to be hiding
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  • Their faith anymore, feel ostracized.
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  • They'll be out there, amen.
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  • They'll be shining as the stars in the night--
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  • Amen?--in a world that is still fallen,
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  • But christ will rule on this earth
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  • For one thousand years, the bible tells us.
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  • That's the millennium,
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  • But this is not a millennium passage, why?
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  • Because the bible says the next verse,
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  • "behold, the darkness shall cover the earth."
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  • When christ is here, there'll be no more darkness, amen.
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  • He is the light, and the light has come.
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  • "arise, shine; for your light has come!"
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  • And this deep darkness will cover the people.
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  • "but the lord will arise over you."
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  • When you see this happening in the world, child of god,
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  • The lord will arise over you.
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  • And his glory will be what?
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  • Seen upon you.
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  • So it is a glory that is visible,
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  • A glory that is manifested
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  • In such a way that everyone can see it.
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  • The bible says that potiphar saw--
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  • Potiphar was an egyptian--
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  • He saw that the lord was with joseph,
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  • And all that joseph did, the lord made it to prosper.
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  • So a heathen could see that the lord was with joseph.
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  • It was a visible token-- amen?--how, we're not told--
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  • I'm sure that part of it are the results
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  • Of joseph's work in the field-- bumper crops and all that--
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  • But even some of his men might have produced that.
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  • It could be other things.
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  • The fact that whatever he does prospers.
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  • When he steps into the room, there is a peace.
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  • There's a glory that's-- that is--that can be seen
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  • On joseph.
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  • And this is gonna happen to you, child of god,
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  • In the last days, in the days that we're living in.
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  • "the gentiles will come to your light,
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  • And kings to the brightness of your rising."
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  • Something will happen to your family.
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  • "lift up your eyes all around, and see:
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  • They all gather together, they come to you;
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  • Your sons will come from afar."
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  • The one that's gone astray will come from afar.
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  • "and your daughters shall be nursed at your side."
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  • Your daughters-- the one that's gone astray
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  • Will love to be by your side, amen?
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  • So there's family reconciliation in these last days.
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  • "then you shall see and become radiant,"
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  • Hallelujah, even shine even more, "and your heart
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  • Shall swell with joy;
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  • Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
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  • The wealth of the gentiles shall come to you."
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  • Truly speaking, the goyim, the gentiles here,
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  • Refers to the non-jews, but for the child of god,
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  • It refers to the unbelievers.
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  • Their wealth will come to you.
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  • When darkness covers the earth--when?
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  • When darkness covers the earth.
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  • So is there such a time in the old testament?
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  • Because the bible tells us: whatever we read
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  • In the old testament is not history past.
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  • It's actually history past that will be reproduced
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  • Because that-- ecclesiastes says it like this:
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  • That which was is that which will be.
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  • All history repeats itself, amen?
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  • So even the people of god, god is saying,
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  • "study the life of joseph because it'll be reproduced
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  • In your life."
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  • All these things happen to them as what?
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  • Examples.
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  • "tupos" in the greek--types.
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  • All of them happen.
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  • We might not apply exactly what they do,
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  • But the principle of what they are doing
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  • Corresponds to us.
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  • And everything has a meaning, amen.
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  • So whatever happened to them happened to them
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  • As examples to who?
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  • And they were written for our admonition!
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  • "upon whom"--watch this-- "the ends of the ages
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  • Have come."
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  • They are written for us,
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  • "upon whom the end of the ages have come."
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  • We are the people who are living
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  • In the end of the ages.
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  • So everything that happened in the old testament
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  • Happened for us, examples for us--
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  • What to learn, what to adopt-- amen?--what to avoid,
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  • What to imbibe, what to receive, amen.
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  • Romans 15 also say the same thing.
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  • "whatever things were written before
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  • Were written for our learning,
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  • That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
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  • Might have hope--" "elpis" in the greek.
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  • Hope means that through the scriptures,
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  • We study the stories of the patriarchs,
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  • We study the story of david, the stories of ruth, esther,
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  • And all the old testament stories.
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  • And then from the stories from the scriptures,
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  • Which were written for our learning,
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  • We will have hope.
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  • Hope is a confident expectation of good.
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  • So even if you receive a bad report from the doctor,
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  • When you study the scriptures, you have hope for your future.
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  • Amen.
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  • All darkness or depression on the mind
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  • Is based on that you look into the future
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  • And you see nothing but darkness.
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  • Hope is seeing brightness where darkness was, amen.
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  • God is a god of hope, the bible says.
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  • Okay, today, another truth that we can learn
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  • For our families--for us and our families, i mean--
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  • Exodus 11: the lord says, "i'll bring one more plague
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  • On pharaoh."
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  • This is the last plague. "and on egypt.
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  • Afterwards he let you go from here.
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  • When he lets you go, he will surely
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  • Drive you out of here altogether.
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  • Speak now in the hearing of the people,
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  • And let every man ask"-- say "ask"--
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  • "from his neighbor
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  • And every woman from her neighbor,
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  • Articles of silver and articles of gold."
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  • God says, "ask, ask, from the egyptians,
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  • Gold and silver."
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  • And the lord gave the people what?
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  • Favor. say "favor."
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  • There'll be favor on god's people
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  • In the last days.
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  • I think there'll be favor on god's people
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  • In the last days, amen.
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  • Favor will come on god's people. don't be afraid of the darkness.
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  • Don't be afraid of being swallowed up by the darkness,
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  • Or your loved ones being swallowed.
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  • Know this: god put a difference between the children of egypt
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  • And the children of israel, amen.
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  • Are you with me so far?
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  • Next chapter says they plundered the egyptians,
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  • And the gold and silver, they came out, you know,
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  • They came out with plenty of gold and silver.
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  • Psalms 105, the bible says this--
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  • How god brought them out: "god brought them out
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  • With silver and gold,
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  • And there was none feeble among his tribes."
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  • And there are 12 tribes.
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  • Now, what has happened to us?
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  • If that can happen to them with a natural lamb--
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  • Which is a picture of the real lamb,
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  • A shadow of the substance, our lord jesus christ,
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  • Who is the true lamb of god, who takes away our sin--
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  • What has happened to us?
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  • We, number one, we don't partake.
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  • I mean, they partook the lamb, when the blood was outside
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  • Or were they doing inside,
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  • They ate the lamb, the roasted lamb.
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  • So that's the discerning the body of the lord, amen,
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  • In communion.
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  • If a shadow can do that for them in psalms 105,
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  • When they came out, we have the substance.
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  • But for the lack of preaching,
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  • Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of god.
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  • We have we have negated it.
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  • Some of us wish that we were back there
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  • With the children of israel.
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  • No, no, you don't want to be there.
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  • If they see our future, they wish they had been here
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  • After christ has died and risen again, amen?
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  • The messiah has come.
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  • They'll want to be where you are.
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  • So during that night, we are learning--
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  • We're comparing with that time as well as our time.
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  • It's just like our time.
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  • The last plague was darkness,
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  • And the death of the first born was the last one, all right?
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  • And yet they came out with gold and silver.
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  • Don't shun that.
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  • Don't throw it away.
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  • Not only were they healthy, all right, they were wealthy.
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  • Can you understand why i don't wanna preach?
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  • Because i know the labels go on prosperity,
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  • You know, gospel and all that, but you know what?
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  • I'm more concerned about you receiving god's word,
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  • And god wants that, amen?
  • 00:11:02.438 --> 00:11:05.341
  • Ecclesiastes 2, "god gives wisdom and knowledge and joy
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  • To a man who is good in his sight."
  • 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.151
  • Look at pastor lawrence.
  • 00:11:15.151 --> 00:11:17.586
  • That is a man good in his sight.
  • 00:11:17.586 --> 00:11:21.257
  • Now all of you are thinking, "well, because he's so kind--
  • 00:11:21.257 --> 00:11:23.459
  • That pastor prince.
  • 00:11:23.459 --> 00:11:24.794
  • He's so nice."
  • 00:11:24.794 --> 00:11:26.128
  • He's nice, he is kind, but actually all of us
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  • Are good in his sight.
  • 00:11:27.463 --> 00:11:28.864
  • What makes us good?
  • 00:11:28.864 --> 00:11:30.199
  • The blood of jesus, being justified by his blood
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  • In god's eyes now.
  • 00:11:34.637 --> 00:11:35.971
  • So god gives to a man good in his sight
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  • Wisdom, knowledge, and joy,
  • 00:11:38.007 --> 00:11:39.341
  • But to the sinner god has a ministry.
  • 00:11:39.341 --> 00:11:43.078
  • God has an assignment for the sinner,
  • 00:11:43.078 --> 00:11:45.080
  • And this is the assignment that god has for the sinner.
  • 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.149
  • "to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and collecting,
  • 00:11:47.149 --> 00:11:52.521
  • That he may give to him who is good before god."
  • 00:11:52.521 --> 00:11:56.292
  • Now, this is vexation for the sinner of god,
  • 00:11:56.292 --> 00:11:57.927
  • This vanity and grasping for the wind--
  • 00:11:57.927 --> 00:12:00.129
  • They work, they work, they work, they work,
  • 00:12:00.129 --> 00:12:01.530
  • And god says, "okay, now the time is gonna happen,
  • 00:12:01.530 --> 00:12:03.899
  • You gotta transfer it.
  • 00:12:03.899 --> 00:12:06.135
  • God is the lord of the heavens and the earth.
  • 00:12:06.135 --> 00:12:09.839
  • Ultimately, all gold is from him.
  • 00:12:09.839 --> 00:12:12.107
  • And all gold will go back to him.
  • 00:12:12.107 --> 00:12:15.477
  • But i wanna tell you this.
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  • There's a way to sanctify the unrighteous mammon.
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  • You know how?
  • 00:12:20.149 --> 00:12:21.483
  • Give them romans-- if the firstfruit is holy,
  • 00:12:21.483 --> 00:12:24.086
  • The lump, the rest, is also holy.
  • 00:12:24.086 --> 00:12:26.188
  • If the root of a tree is holy, so are the branches.
  • 00:12:26.188 --> 00:12:29.191
  • You know what god is saying like this?
  • 00:12:29.191 --> 00:12:31.894
  • Anything that you want to make holy--
  • 00:12:31.894 --> 00:12:34.063
  • You know what's holy?
  • 00:12:34.063 --> 00:12:35.397
  • Holy is separated unto god.
  • 00:12:35.397 --> 00:12:37.466
  • Like in your house, the toilet bowl is not holy.
  • 00:12:37.466 --> 00:12:41.637
  • It is common use, right?
  • 00:12:41.637 --> 00:12:45.608
  • But your wife may like precious, you know, like, ornaments
  • 00:12:45.608 --> 00:12:51.347
  • Or things like that or jewelry-- jewelry and all that.
  • 00:12:51.347 --> 00:12:53.816
  • Where does she keep it?
  • 00:12:53.816 --> 00:12:55.251
  • She don't keep it next on top of the toilet bowl,
  • 00:12:55.251 --> 00:12:57.019
  • Beside the toilet paper.
  • 00:12:57.019 --> 00:12:58.420
  • Where does she put it?
  • 00:12:58.420 --> 00:12:59.755
  • Special safe. under lock and key, am i right?
  • 00:12:59.755 --> 00:13:03.659
  • Or she put it in a drawer somewhere safe.
  • 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:05.494
  • Am i right?
  • 00:13:05.494 --> 00:13:06.829
  • Those things that are precious, she set apart.
  • 00:13:06.829 --> 00:13:09.398
  • The word "holy" means set apart.
  • 00:13:09.398 --> 00:13:11.567
  • When someone says you stand out,
  • 00:13:11.567 --> 00:13:13.202
  • Back then they'll say you are holy.
  • 00:13:13.202 --> 00:13:15.237
  • So god wants his people to stand out predominantly--
  • 00:13:15.237 --> 00:13:18.540
  • Not "holier than thou" or righteous--
  • 00:13:18.540 --> 00:13:20.809
  • "i'm more righteous than you" attitude.
  • 00:13:20.809 --> 00:13:22.444
  • That stinks to high heavens.
  • 00:13:22.444 --> 00:13:24.246
  • God hates pharisaism, amen, even the pharisees
  • 00:13:24.246 --> 00:13:28.717
  • Having the attitude of "holier than thou."
  • 00:13:28.717 --> 00:13:30.052
  • Jesus moved with the common people,
  • 00:13:30.052 --> 00:13:31.387
  • Yet he was distinct.
  • 00:13:31.387 --> 00:13:32.721
  • It is something called royalty among common people,
  • 00:13:32.721 --> 00:13:36.492
  • And yet you know that he's not--
  • 00:13:36.492 --> 00:13:38.460
  • He's not someone that is servile.
  • 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:41.463
  • He's someone regal when you're in his presence.
  • 00:13:41.463 --> 00:13:43.966
  • That's what god wants from his people.
  • 00:13:43.966 --> 00:13:47.102
  • The smell of heaven and the meaning of royalty
  • 00:13:47.102 --> 00:13:49.338
  • Is on you.
  • 00:13:49.338 --> 00:13:51.807
  • Even though you're humble, you're not servile.
  • 00:13:51.807 --> 00:13:54.710
  • You're humble, yet there's a regal--
  • 00:13:54.710 --> 00:13:57.379
  • A princess quality about you.
  • 00:13:57.379 --> 00:13:59.682
  • That's what god wants from his people.
  • 00:13:59.682 --> 00:14:01.016
  • You are a royal priesthood.
  • 00:14:01.016 --> 00:14:03.018
  • That's the kind of holiness. you stand out.
  • 00:14:03.018 --> 00:14:05.287
  • Now watch this.
  • 00:14:05.287 --> 00:14:06.622
  • How do you sanctify the unrighteous mammon?
  • 00:14:06.622 --> 00:14:08.624
  • Well, whatever is holy, the firstfruit, whatever--
  • 00:14:08.624 --> 00:14:13.395
  • Firstfruit of anything-- your time, you know,
  • 00:14:13.395 --> 00:14:16.932
  • Your energy, whatever it is that give 10%--money,
  • 00:14:16.932 --> 00:14:20.436
  • If your firstfruit is holy, guess what happens to the 90%.
  • 00:14:20.436 --> 00:14:24.306
  • It becomes holy.
  • 00:14:24.306 --> 00:14:26.108
  • So actually god doesn't ask for 90%.
  • 00:14:26.108 --> 00:14:29.378
  • He's the senior partner.
  • 00:14:29.378 --> 00:14:31.447
  • He doesn't ask for 90%.
  • 00:14:31.447 --> 00:14:32.848
  • I told my daughter that, you know, if i'm god,
  • 00:14:32.848 --> 00:14:35.551
  • I'll ask for 90%, 'cause 90% means it's more.
  • 00:14:35.551 --> 00:14:39.989
  • I'm god. and you live off 10%.
  • 00:14:39.989 --> 00:14:43.525
  • That should be right, and yet people complain
  • 00:14:43.525 --> 00:14:45.527
  • About the 10% they give to god.
  • 00:14:45.527 --> 00:14:47.997
  • Listen, if you don't wanna give, don't, okay?
  • 00:14:47.997 --> 00:14:52.601
  • This is for those with revelation, okay?
  • 00:14:52.601 --> 00:14:55.471
  • The senior partner only asks for 10%, why?
  • 00:14:55.471 --> 00:14:58.207
  • Because if the 10% is holy, the rest of your money is holy.
  • 00:14:58.207 --> 00:15:02.077
  • And whatever is holy, the devil cannot touch.
  • 00:15:02.077 --> 00:15:04.246
  • Always remember that. always remember that.
  • 00:15:04.246 --> 00:15:10.786
  • Now, back to what jesus said:
  • 00:15:10.786 --> 00:15:15.457
  • "if you're not faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon,"
  • 00:15:15.457 --> 00:15:17.993
  • Verse 11, "who will commit to your trust the true riches?"
  • 00:15:17.993 --> 00:15:21.497
  • Wow, you know, try not to think of god's way
  • 00:15:21.497 --> 00:15:25.401
  • The way the world thinks.
  • 00:15:25.401 --> 00:15:26.769
  • "god help those who help themselves," where?
  • 00:15:26.769 --> 00:15:28.704
  • Where do you find that in the bible?
  • 00:15:28.704 --> 00:15:30.272
  • "uh."
  • 00:15:30.272 --> 00:15:31.607
  • No, the bible didn't say that. benjamin franklin did.
  • 00:15:31.607 --> 00:15:36.378
  • No, god helps those who are helpless.
  • 00:15:36.378 --> 00:15:38.247
  • We are too strong in ourselves.
  • 00:15:38.247 --> 00:15:40.382
  • If we realize that, we'll pray more,
  • 00:15:40.382 --> 00:15:42.484
  • We'll depend on him more.
  • 00:15:42.484 --> 00:15:45.854
  • Amen?
  • 00:15:45.854 --> 00:15:47.189
  • Another thing is that "well, if god can trust you,
  • 00:15:47.189 --> 00:15:49.725
  • You're faithful in church, you're faithful in your service,
  • 00:15:49.725 --> 00:15:52.795
  • God will trust you with money,
  • 00:15:52.795 --> 00:15:54.129
  • God will allow money to come to you."
  • 00:15:54.129 --> 00:15:55.597
  • That's not what the bible says. you got the opposite.
  • 00:15:55.597 --> 00:15:58.300
  • "no, it's what the bible says." no, doesn't say that.
  • 00:15:58.300 --> 00:16:02.104
  • Another thing that people say, "you know,
  • 00:16:02.104 --> 00:16:03.906
  • Uh, if your heart is into something,
  • 00:16:03.906 --> 00:16:06.608
  • Your money will follow.
  • 00:16:06.608 --> 00:16:07.943
  • If your heart is into sports, you invest in things--
  • 00:16:07.943 --> 00:16:11.180
  • You know, your travel to watch the world cup
  • 00:16:11.180 --> 00:16:12.881
  • Or whatever-- your heart is there."
  • 00:16:12.881 --> 00:16:14.950
  • That is natural truth, yeah, but that's not what jesus said
  • 00:16:14.950 --> 00:16:17.386
  • In the sermon on the mount.
  • 00:16:17.386 --> 00:16:18.720
  • Jesus says, "where your money is,
  • 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.222
  • Where your treasure is, your heart will follow."
  • 00:16:20.222 --> 00:16:22.858
  • So even if i don't feel like it,
  • 00:16:22.858 --> 00:16:24.359
  • I put my money there, my heart will follow.
  • 00:16:24.359 --> 00:16:26.595
  • If i put my money into the things of god,
  • 00:16:26.595 --> 00:16:29.565
  • Amen, my heart will follow.
  • 00:16:29.565 --> 00:16:32.134
  • If i give to you, my heart will go after you.
  • 00:16:32.134 --> 00:16:36.805
  • Think of it, meditate, meditate.
  • 00:16:36.805 --> 00:16:38.707
  • It's the opposite of contemporary,
  • 00:16:38.707 --> 00:16:43.679
  • Natural wisdom of men.
  • 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.181
  • Again, jesus actually said if you have not been faithful
  • 00:16:46.181 --> 00:16:49.952
  • In the use of money first, god will not trust you
  • 00:16:49.952 --> 00:16:53.255
  • With the true riches-- wisdom and things like that--
  • 00:16:53.255 --> 00:16:56.592
  • Because you don't even handle money well.
  • 00:16:56.592 --> 00:17:00.529
  • So in god's mind, money is least.
  • 00:17:00.529 --> 00:17:03.599
  • "show me how you handle it."
  • 00:17:03.599 --> 00:17:07.436
  • "and if you're not faithful in that which is another man's,
  • 00:17:07.436 --> 00:17:10.873
  • Who will give you what is your own?"
  • 00:17:10.873 --> 00:17:12.808
  • So god said, "bring the tithe."
  • 00:17:12.808 --> 00:17:14.309
  • God didn't say, "pay me the tithes."
  • 00:17:14.309 --> 00:17:17.779
  • You know what's the difference?
  • 00:17:17.779 --> 00:17:19.381
  • "bring me" is "that is mine actually."
  • 00:17:19.381 --> 00:17:22.985
  • "bring me."
  • 00:17:22.985 --> 00:17:24.319
  • If i lend you a car, i say, "bring me my car,"
  • 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.022
  • All right?
  • 00:17:27.022 --> 00:17:28.357
  • You don't say, "i pay you my car.
  • 00:17:28.357 --> 00:17:30.058
  • I pay you the car."
  • 00:17:30.058 --> 00:17:31.393
  • No, it doesn't make sense,
  • 00:17:31.393 --> 00:17:32.728
  • Because you are bringing back what belongs to me.
  • 00:17:32.728 --> 00:17:35.330
  • And so god says, "bring me."
  • 00:17:35.330 --> 00:17:38.400
  • So if you're not faithful in that which is another man's,
  • 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.769
  • Who will give you what is your own?
  • 00:17:40.769 --> 00:17:42.104
  • You look at people who want a ministry of their own,
  • 00:17:42.104 --> 00:17:44.506
  • But which ministry are they serving under?
  • 00:17:44.506 --> 00:17:49.011
  • God always put you under a man.
  • 00:17:49.011 --> 00:17:51.480
  • Before elisha had a ministry of his own,
  • 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.315
  • God put him under elijah.
  • 00:17:53.315 --> 00:17:55.584
  • But elisha had a double portion of the miracles that elijah had.
  • 00:17:55.584 --> 00:17:59.788
  • And yet he was faithful to wash elijah's hands.
  • 00:17:59.788 --> 00:18:05.427
  • Now, god says here in ti-- in malachi,
  • 00:18:05.427 --> 00:18:08.697
  • About the tithing, "you are cursed
  • 00:18:08.697 --> 00:18:10.032
  • Because the ground is cursed."
  • 00:18:10.032 --> 00:18:11.366
  • Now watch this: everything that comes on the ground
  • 00:18:11.366 --> 00:18:12.968
  • Is cursed, even the tree, okay?
  • 00:18:12.968 --> 00:18:15.837
  • That's why we say grace over our food.
  • 00:18:15.837 --> 00:18:17.172
  • People say, "i eat organic or i eat food from eden.
  • 00:18:17.172 --> 00:18:21.443
  • I eat eden's diet," means you don't eat meat.
  • 00:18:21.443 --> 00:18:23.912
  • No, they eat eden's diet before men.
  • 00:18:23.912 --> 00:18:26.081
  • But what are you saying is that the earth has not fallen?
  • 00:18:26.081 --> 00:18:28.617
  • You're saying that you're going back to eden
  • 00:18:28.617 --> 00:18:30.519
  • As if the earth didn't fall.
  • 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:31.887
  • You're trying to redeem by your own eating.
  • 00:18:31.887 --> 00:18:35.657
  • No, earth is fallen.
  • 00:18:35.657 --> 00:18:37.259
  • Admit it.
  • 00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:39.194
  • That's why it brings forth thorns,
  • 00:18:39.194 --> 00:18:40.529
  • And that's why jesus wore the crown of thorns--
  • 00:18:40.529 --> 00:18:41.863
  • To redeem us from the curse.
  • 00:18:41.863 --> 00:18:43.932
  • "bring all the tithes"-- say "all the tithes"--
  • 00:18:43.932 --> 00:18:46.368
  • "into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house,
  • 00:18:46.368 --> 00:18:49.871
  • And try me now in this."
  • 00:18:49.871 --> 00:18:51.807
  • King james, "prove me now herewith.
  • 00:18:51.807 --> 00:18:54.710
  • Test me!"
  • 00:18:54.710 --> 00:18:56.044
  • It's the only place where god says "test me."
  • 00:18:56.044 --> 00:18:58.080
  • And the guy did a test, all right--the phari--
  • 00:18:58.080 --> 00:19:02.384
  • You know, so god says, "'test me, try me now in this,'
  • 00:19:02.384 --> 00:19:04.953
  • Says the lord of hosts,
  • 00:19:04.953 --> 00:19:06.355
  • 'if i will not open for you the windows of heaven.'"
  • 00:19:06.355 --> 00:19:08.991
  • The last time the windows of heaven opened,
  • 00:19:08.991 --> 00:19:10.525
  • It rained and rained and rained 40 days and 40 nights.
  • 00:19:10.525 --> 00:19:14.129
  • So you--when you're tithing,
  • 00:19:14.129 --> 00:19:15.964
  • Your blasting rains 40 days and 40 nights.
  • 00:19:15.964 --> 00:19:18.100
  • Next month, must start again.
  • 00:19:18.100 --> 00:19:20.535
  • For us, 40th day, all right?
  • 00:19:20.535 --> 00:19:22.871
  • You know, you put them together, it rained--
  • 00:19:22.871 --> 00:19:25.073
  • The first time windows of heaven mentioned,
  • 00:19:25.073 --> 00:19:27.376
  • The bible says god rained on the earth
  • 00:19:27.376 --> 00:19:28.977
  • 40 days and 40 nights.
  • 00:19:28.977 --> 00:19:30.712
  • So it's a-- it's an idea of monthly.
  • 00:19:30.712 --> 00:19:34.983
  • "so, see if i will not-- test me."
  • 00:19:34.983 --> 00:19:37.286
  • "see if i will not open you the windows of heaven
  • 00:19:37.286 --> 00:19:39.321
  • And pour you out such blessing
  • 00:19:39.321 --> 00:19:41.556
  • That there'll not be room enough to receive it."
  • 00:19:41.556 --> 00:19:48.130
  • Who is talking? god.
  • 00:19:48.130 --> 00:19:49.631
  • Next verse, "and i'll rebuke the devourer."
  • 00:19:49.631 --> 00:19:52.701
  • Who is the devourer? the devil.
  • 00:19:52.701 --> 00:19:55.203
  • He goes about taking whom he may devour.
  • 00:19:55.203 --> 00:19:58.106
  • "i'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
  • 00:19:58.106 --> 00:19:59.808
  • So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
  • 00:19:59.808 --> 00:20:03.512
  • Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you
  • 00:20:03.512 --> 00:20:05.380
  • In the field."
  • 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:06.715
  • You work so hard for something, only to find at the end,
  • 00:20:06.715 --> 00:20:08.350
  • Bang, the whole thing falls through.
  • 00:20:08.350 --> 00:20:10.519
  • God says the destroyer will not destroy,
  • 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:14.056
  • Nor shall the vine fail.
  • 00:20:14.056 --> 00:20:15.390
  • "all the nations will call you blessed,
  • 00:20:15.390 --> 00:20:16.892
  • For you'll be a delightful land."
  • 00:20:16.892 --> 00:20:19.494
  • You know, you know what it means--
  • 00:20:19.494 --> 00:20:20.829
  • "you are a delightful land"?
  • 00:20:20.829 --> 00:20:22.164
  • You are a delightful land?
  • 00:20:22.164 --> 00:20:23.498
  • That means people want to invest in you,
  • 00:20:23.498 --> 00:20:25.767
  • People wanna wanna be with you, they want to invest in you.
  • 00:20:25.767 --> 00:20:29.137
  • They see you you as someone worth investing.
  • 00:20:29.137 --> 00:20:36.044
  • "well, pastor prince, this is the old testament scripture."
  • 00:20:36.044 --> 00:20:38.146
  • Oh, yeah? what chapter is this?
  • 00:20:38.146 --> 00:20:41.149
  • Chapter 3, right?
  • 00:20:41.149 --> 00:20:42.651
  • What chapter is this?
  • 00:20:42.651 --> 00:20:44.586
  • Let's look at how chapter 3 opens.
  • 00:20:44.586 --> 00:20:46.188
  • Verse 1, "behold, i send my messenger.
  • 00:20:46.188 --> 00:20:48.290
  • He will prepare the way before me.
  • 00:20:48.290 --> 00:20:49.925
  • And the lord, whom you seek--"
  • 00:20:49.925 --> 00:20:51.293
  • Now, the first part here refers to his first coming,
  • 00:20:51.293 --> 00:20:52.961
  • But look at this: "and the lord, whom you seek,
  • 00:20:52.961 --> 00:20:54.529
  • Will suddenly come to his temple."
  • 00:20:54.529 --> 00:20:55.897
  • His first coming, he didn't come suddenly.
  • 00:20:55.897 --> 00:20:59.568
  • But his second coming, he'll come suddenly, all right?
  • 00:20:59.568 --> 00:21:03.238
  • Now, look at verse 2.
  • 00:21:03.238 --> 00:21:05.907
  • "who can endure the day of his coming?"
  • 00:21:05.907 --> 00:21:07.576
  • This is not the first coming,
  • 00:21:07.576 --> 00:21:08.910
  • When he came as a baby boy in bethlehem.
  • 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:11.413
  • Everyone can endure that.
  • 00:21:11.413 --> 00:21:13.582
  • But who can endure the day of his coming
  • 00:21:13.582 --> 00:21:14.916
  • Is the coming of the lord to judge--
  • 00:21:14.916 --> 00:21:18.787
  • Will be coming with him.
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  • "who can stand when he appears?"
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  • So the context refers to the second coming,
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  • And it's telling us: even during that time,
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  • While we're waiting for the second coming,
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  • The lord talks about tithing.
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  • So i close with this story.
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  • When israel came back from captivity from babylon,
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  • There were not many people.
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  • Nehemiah was their leader, the governor.
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  • So they had to learn the ways of god.
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  • They had to rebuild the temple.
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  • And when the temple was rebuilt, they all start crying
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  • Because the older people remembered
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  • The temple of solomon.
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  • It's nothing close to the temple of solomon.
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  • So they wept, they cried.
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  • But then the haggai the prophet says, "don't cry,
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  • Because the glory of this latter house
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  • Will be greater than the former."
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  • You know who will step into that new building?
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  • Herod will start rebuilding it also,
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  • But it's the building of nehemiah,
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  • Nonetheless, that was started, and you know who will step in?
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • So even though it's inferior-looking
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  • Compared to solomon, the glory of this latter house
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  • Will be greater than the former, why?
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  • The son of god will walk into it...
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Amen?
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  • I feel like just nehemiah-- throwing out everything
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  • That took the place of the tithe,
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  • Especially the teaching "god is good;
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  • Therefore, you don't have to tithe," you know?
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  • God is good; therefore, we tithe because he takes out 10%.
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  • No senior partner takes out 10%, you know?
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  • They want at least more than 50%--
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  • At least 51%, at the least.
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  • In god's mind, just like abraham's servant,
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  • When he went to find a bride for abraham's son isaac,
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  • What did he do?
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  • He took ten camels. say "ten camels."
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  • Actually, we have that real quick--
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  • Show them "servant took ten of his master's camels."
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  • I mean, how many camels he took?
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  • But in god's eyes, the idea of ten in the hebrew mind
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  • Is this: "for all his master's goods were in his hand."
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  • Ten represents the whole.
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  • He took ten camels and god says everything that his master had
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  • Was in his hand.
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  • When you give ten to god-- listen, look up here,
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  • Look up here.
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  • You know why it blesses you more than just finances?
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  • Because the tithe, when you give god
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  • The 10% of your income-- some give more than that--
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  • And it's up to you-- between you and god--
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  • But ten is the minimum.
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  • Listen, if you give 10%, it's not just money.
  • 00:23:30.685 --> 00:23:34.256
  • It represents your blood, sweat, and tears every month.
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  • Every sacrifice you make to go to work,
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  • Every time you feel, you know-- whatever it is,
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  • You go to work, your effort, your labor,
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  • Your blood, sweat and tears, literally, you know?
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  • I mean, not blood but sweat and tears--amen?--
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  • The misunderstanding-- all that are seeds
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  • That come back to you in money form, right?
  • 00:23:50.472 --> 00:23:53.909
  • So when you tithe that part, it's not just money anymore.
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  • It represents the whole month of your sweat,
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  • Your labor, your inconveniences, whatever it is,
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  • And it comes back.
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  • You sacrifice time with family, it's in that seed.
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  • And that's why it comes back and blesses the family.
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  • So the tithe is not just financial, okay?
  • 00:24:10.892 --> 00:24:14.029
  • So we leave this place today,
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  • Remember, prosperity is not just financial.
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  • Poor is the man who is just rich financially,
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  • But an empty shell, and all the people said...
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  • The cancer had spread to my liver, my bone,
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  • That i'd been taking for two years,
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  • That that scripture in thessalonians
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  • That said those that there will be alive and remain
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  • Until the coming of the lord.
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  • That was mine.
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