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Joseph Prince - How to Know You're Making the Right Choice

June 10, 2026 | 27:29

Joseph Prince - How to Know You're Making the Right Choice
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - How to Know You're Making the Right Choice | June 10, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: i want you to feel,
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  • In a world that is unsafe, that when you travel
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  • Or when you--don't just think of traveling.
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  • Anywhere, when you get up in the morning,
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  • Know the lord has gone ahead of you.
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  • He has checked out the place.
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  • He says, "son, come on."
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  • So god goes ahead of you and many times
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  • He makes the crooked places straight.
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  • But you don't give him thanks, because for you,
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  • It's smooth sailing.
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  • But actually, the enemy had devices.
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  • You--in fact, if the truth was known,
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  • We would thank god more than we know.
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  • God is under-thanked, and we are under-grateful.
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  • I'll tell you that, because we only thank god--
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  • Sometimes, you know, it's better for god
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  • To leave all the obstacles in my--
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  • In human way of thinking, so that you face the obstacle,
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  • You ask god to help you, god straightens the way,
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  • Now you give him thanks.
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  • For those who are born again, he's our savior.
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  • But when the lord is your shepherd,
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  • That means what?
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  • You're following him.
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  • How do you effectively follow him?
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  • You follow him by knowing his voice.
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  • And when you follow his voice, when you listen to his voice,
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  • You will lack for nothing.
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  • [birdsong]
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  • [river babbling]
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  • [waves crashing]
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  • Male announcer: in today's message, joseph will unveil
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  • How the lord wants to take your burdens
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  • And give you peace and rest.
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  • In a world filled with sleep hacks,
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  • Sleep sounds, and sleep apps,
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  • There is a rest that only our lord jesus
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  • Can offer.
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  • Comfort for the soul that's too weary to rest.
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  • Peace for the mind that's too switched on
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  • To switch off.
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  • Our lord jesus says, "come to me, all you who are weary
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  • And burdened, and i will give you rest."
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  • Every day, through our broadcast and digital outreach,
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  • We share these healing promises of god
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  • With precious people everywhere who are weary,
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  • Anxious, and searching for hope.
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  • Today, you can help to bring the lord's love and peace
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  • To many others who are longing for rest.
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  • To thank you for partnering with us in this mission,
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  • We'd love to send you joseph's book
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  • "bedtime psalms," a nightly companion of scripture,
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  • Prayers, and meditations to help you lay down your cares
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  • And rest in god's love.
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  • And for a gift of $75 or more, we will also send you
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  • These special bonus resources.
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  • To request your copy now.
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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: the bible says,
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  • "by one man's disobedience, adam,
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  • We all were made sinners."
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  • By one man's obedience, jesus, we are all made righteous,
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  • If you will only receive it."
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  • It is not your obedience that makes you righteous.
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  • You want to obey today because it's the result
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  • Of his obedience, amen.
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  • Amen, but his obedience makes you righteous.
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  • Therefore, your righteousness, your right standing before god,
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  • Is not placed on a platform where you can have it today
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  • And it can be gone tomorrow.
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  • No, it's an unshakeable foundation.
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  • It is his obedience that made you righteous.
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  • Can i have a good amen? and all the people said, "amen."
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  • Praise the lord, you can go home.
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  • This is good enough, amen.
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  • You might not even hear this in some places, you know.
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  • You still hear people asking questions.
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  • "well, if god is this," and you never exhaust
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  • Your questions about god, amen?
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  • I'll tell you something.
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  • If i can answer every question i have in my head about god,
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  • Hey, i'm god.
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  • I thank god that i don't-- i cannot resolve god out.
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  • I cannot comprehend this infinite being.
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  • How can a finite being with a peanut brain
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  • Comprehend this amazing god?
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  • Amen?
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  • And yet god sent his son, and hebrews 1:3,
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  • As you bring the ark out, please,
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  • "who being the brightness," jesus is god's son,
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  • "who being the brightness of his glory."
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  • Everyone say "brightness of his glory."
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  • And now say, "and the express image of his person."
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  • Say, "the express image of his person."
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  • So, he's the brightness of his glory, gold outside,
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  • The express image of his person, gold within.
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  • Don't forget, the wood in between, amen.
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  • He was cut off in the prime of his days, amen.
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  • Wood, completely man, completely god,
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  • The god-man jesus christ.
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  • And upholding all things by the word of his power.
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  • Do you all see this crown?
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  • It's literally got crowns all across, amen.
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  • He who was once crowned with the crown of thorns
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  • Is now in heaven, crowned with glory.
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  • And he crowns you with loving kindness
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  • And tender mercies, amen.
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  • So that crown there is this one here,
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  • "upholding all things by the word of his power."
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  • That's kingly power.
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  • Upholding all things by the word of his power
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  • Is this crown.
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  • "then when he had by himself purged our sins,
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  • Sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high,"
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  • Blood is put on the mercy seat once a year, amen?
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  • And that is when he had, by himself, purged our sins.
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  • So the mercy seat is him purging our sins,
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  • Washing us from our sins in his blood.
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  • Some people have this idea that jesus,
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  • Because he's god's son, he sat down.
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  • No, his right to sit down is because he has done
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  • A perfect work in putting away our sins.
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  • Read your bible.
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  • "when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down."
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  • The priests in the old testament never sat down.
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  • One thing, they have a table of showbread,
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  • But they never have a chair, because their work
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  • Is never finished.
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  • But when jesus came, he finished his work,
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  • And he sat down.
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  • The fact that jesus is seated means your sins
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  • Have been efficaciously put away.
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  • Once a year in israel, in ancient time,
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  • Blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat.
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  • It's called--in hebrew, the mercy seat is called--
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  • In greek, hilasterion; in hebrew, kapporet.
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  • That's why you have yom kippur,
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  • The day of atonement, kippur, covering.
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  • Watch this, blood on the mercy seat.
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  • All it takes, people, is just one drop of blood.
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  • And when blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat,
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  • This is where psalms 91 is referring to,
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  • The secret place under the wings of the almighty, the el shaddai.
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  • Amen, we dwell here, praise the lord.
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  • Jesus is our mercy seat. can i have a good amen?
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  • Hallelujah, amen.
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  • And there's one thing,
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  • God's eyes can look into a man's heart,
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  • God's eyes can see your thoughts,
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  • God's eyes can see through walls,
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  • God's eyes can see through layers and layers
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  • And layers of mountains,
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  • Or even the valleys below and the seas below.
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  • God's eyes, nothing is hidden.
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  • Everything is naked and open
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  • Unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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  • But there's one thing god's eyes cannot look through,
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  • And that's blood.
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  • When there's blood, god cannot see
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  • The three items of man's rebellion.
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  • You know, the ten commandments, man rejected god's standard,
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  • Man comes short of god's standard,
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  • But the blood is over the tablets of stone.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • That's why the bible says in galatians 5,
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  • That if you try to keep the law,
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  • If you try to keep the law, you fall from grace.
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  • Whosoever is justified by the law,
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  • You are fallen from grace.
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  • That tells you grace is high ground,
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  • Grace is higher than the law.
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  • Mercy rejoices over judgment.
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  • Amen?
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  • Now, when the priests carry the ark, number one,
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  • They cannot carry the ark.
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  • No matter how many priests carry it,
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  • It's too heavy.
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  • Plus the solid gold-- by the way,
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  • The lid itself is solid gold.
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  • This entire thing is beat out.
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  • The work of jesus, he was beaten
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  • To become our mercy seat, amen?
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  • One slab of gold, the lid is one slab of gold.
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  • And here, gold and wood.
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  • And it's too much for a priest to carry.
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  • But the amazing thing is this: there was death
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  • When they tried to do it the worldly way,
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  • On a bullock cart, right?
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  • And david learned the way of god.
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  • God says it must be carried on the shoulders
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  • Of the priests, like this.
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  • And you see a lot of this in israel, you know,
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  • But it's very interesting.
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  • Just to tell you that it's very heavy, okay?
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  • So what you're seeing down here couldn't have happened
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  • Without god helping.
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  • Watch this now.
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  • The bible says when david saw the pattern
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  • Of how the ark is to be carried,
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  • Is to be carried by the poles on the shoulders of the priests,
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  • But it's very heavy, so how can they carry it?
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  • But the bible says something. god helped the priests.
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  • In other words, watch this, your part is by faith.
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  • When god tells you to serve him,
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  • Whether it's children's ministry,
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  • Whether it's ushering, whether it's coming to church,
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  • Whether it's doing something for someone,
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  • If god tells you, all right,
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  • God will never give you something that's heavy.
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  • Jesus says, "my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
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  • Because it's from jesus, whatever the burden is,
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  • It's always easy.
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  • "my burden is light.
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  • My yoke is easy."
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  • Easy, light. got it?
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  • If the lord tells you to do something,
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  • If he tells you to, it's always easy,
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  • And the burden is light.
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  • So when god tells you to do something,
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  • Your part is stepped up by faith.
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  • When the priest stepped up and touched the post
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  • And carried it, instead of it becoming heavy,
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  • It sort of--the thing carried the priest.
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  • How many of you understand that?
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  • The post carried the priest.
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  • It's like the priest is walking on air.
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  • It's like spring on their steps.
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  • The bible says, "god helped the priests."
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  • This is what-- and every time you put
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  • Your hand onto a task that god tells you to,
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  • Whether it's a ministry, whether it's a mission trip,
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  • Whether it's, like, a full-time ministry,
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  • Whatever it is, god tells you to do it
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  • And you put your hand forth to it,
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  • The moment you touch it by faith,
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  • God takes care of the rest.
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  • The way of the new covenant is like power steering.
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  • Your part is to decide to put your hand on it,
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  • All right, and decide to turn this way.
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  • The power does the rest.
  • 00:10:27.302 --> 00:10:30.505
  • But it's hard, the ancient way.
  • 00:10:30.505 --> 00:10:33.274
  • Ka-chk, ka-chk, ka-chk.
  • 00:10:33.274 --> 00:10:34.676
  • You know what that's like?
  • 00:10:34.676 --> 00:10:36.010
  • ...
  • 00:10:36.010 --> 00:10:37.378
  • All right, that's not new covenant.
  • 00:10:37.378 --> 00:10:39.948
  • No wonder you are stressed, amen?
  • 00:10:39.948 --> 00:10:42.584
  • The time came when israel was about to cross
  • 00:10:42.584 --> 00:10:44.385
  • The river jordan, okay, and this is what happened.
  • 00:10:44.385 --> 00:10:47.188
  • Look at this.
  • 00:10:47.188 --> 00:10:48.523
  • Joshua 3, "and they commanded the people, saying,
  • 00:10:48.523 --> 00:10:50.492
  • 'when you see the ark,'"
  • 00:10:50.492 --> 00:10:51.826
  • So obviously the ark is traveling,
  • 00:10:51.826 --> 00:10:53.228
  • The priests are carrying the ark,
  • 00:10:53.228 --> 00:10:54.562
  • Covered with blue, and they say,
  • 00:10:54.562 --> 00:10:56.364
  • "when you see the ark of the covenant
  • 00:10:56.364 --> 00:10:57.699
  • Of the lord your god, and the priests, the levites,
  • 00:10:57.699 --> 00:10:59.033
  • Bearing it, then you shall set out
  • 00:10:59.033 --> 00:11:00.635
  • From your place and go after it."
  • 00:11:00.635 --> 00:11:02.470
  • Go after jesus, people.
  • 00:11:02.470 --> 00:11:03.805
  • When you see the ark, put your eyes on jesus
  • 00:11:03.805 --> 00:11:06.174
  • For you to see where he's going.
  • 00:11:06.174 --> 00:11:07.509
  • You need to put your eyes on him, looking off unto jesus,
  • 00:11:07.509 --> 00:11:11.346
  • The author and finisher of faith.
  • 00:11:11.346 --> 00:11:16.351
  • Look away from men, even good men.
  • 00:11:16.351 --> 00:11:19.454
  • Look away from pastor prince.
  • 00:11:19.454 --> 00:11:21.356
  • Look away from everyone but jesus.
  • 00:11:21.356 --> 00:11:24.659
  • Look unto him, go after him.
  • 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:27.996
  • "yet there shall be a space between you and the ark,
  • 00:11:27.996 --> 00:11:31.399
  • About two thousand cubits by measure."
  • 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.301
  • I'm going to tell you right now,
  • 00:11:33.301 --> 00:11:34.636
  • Right now i'm going to tell you this.
  • 00:11:34.636 --> 00:11:35.970
  • This time, when joshua was carrying the ark,
  • 00:11:35.970 --> 00:11:39.741
  • The priests was carrying the ark during joshua's time,
  • 00:11:39.741 --> 00:11:41.743
  • This is the first time israel was about to step
  • 00:11:41.743 --> 00:11:45.113
  • Into the promised land
  • 00:11:45.113 --> 00:11:46.881
  • After long 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, okay?
  • 00:11:46.881 --> 00:11:51.820
  • And the first one in is the ark, okay?
  • 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:55.690
  • So two thousand cubits.
  • 00:11:55.690 --> 00:11:57.926
  • I believe there's gonna come a time--
  • 00:11:57.926 --> 00:12:00.228
  • Yarden, which is jordan, means a place of death.
  • 00:12:00.228 --> 00:12:03.531
  • When you go into the river jordan,
  • 00:12:03.531 --> 00:12:04.866
  • It means a place of death.
  • 00:12:04.866 --> 00:12:06.968
  • You understand? amen?
  • 00:12:06.968 --> 00:12:09.470
  • Israel went into jordan, and then before they went in,
  • 00:12:09.470 --> 00:12:13.842
  • The priests would carry it,
  • 00:12:13.842 --> 00:12:15.210
  • And the bible says, let's go on--
  • 00:12:15.210 --> 00:12:17.345
  • We'll come back to two thousand cubits.
  • 00:12:17.345 --> 00:12:18.680
  • "and as those who bore the ark came
  • 00:12:18.680 --> 00:12:20.014
  • To the jordan and the feet of the priests
  • 00:12:20.014 --> 00:12:21.382
  • Who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water,"
  • 00:12:21.382 --> 00:12:23.551
  • The moment the feet of the priests
  • 00:12:23.551 --> 00:12:26.654
  • Touched the water, the jordan overflows all its banks.
  • 00:12:26.654 --> 00:12:30.024
  • It's overflowing during this time of harvest, all right?
  • 00:12:30.024 --> 00:12:32.827
  • It's like a flood overflowing, amen?
  • 00:12:32.827 --> 00:12:35.063
  • But the moment the priests carrying the ark,
  • 00:12:35.063 --> 00:12:36.865
  • They were the first in, they touched the water.
  • 00:12:36.865 --> 00:12:39.367
  • See what happened, verse 16.
  • 00:12:39.367 --> 00:12:41.135
  • "the waters which came down from upstream,"
  • 00:12:41.135 --> 00:12:43.738
  • Because it's the lowest place, right, "stood still,
  • 00:12:43.738 --> 00:12:46.474
  • And rose in a heap very far away at adam,"
  • 00:12:46.474 --> 00:12:50.612
  • 30 miles away, "the city that is beside zaretan."
  • 00:12:50.612 --> 00:12:55.483
  • What is the meaning?
  • 00:12:55.483 --> 00:12:57.085
  • The ark, a picture of jesus, is the first one to go
  • 00:12:57.085 --> 00:13:00.188
  • Into the rivers of death.
  • 00:13:00.188 --> 00:13:03.658
  • In fact, yarden, "yar" means going down,
  • 00:13:03.658 --> 00:13:06.027
  • "den" means judgment.
  • 00:13:06.027 --> 00:13:07.929
  • He went down into judgment for all of us.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:13:11.532 --> 00:13:12.934
  • And god slapped the river jordan,
  • 00:13:12.934 --> 00:13:15.136
  • All the way, 30 miles.
  • 00:13:15.136 --> 00:13:17.005
  • And the water stood in a heap.
  • 00:13:17.005 --> 00:13:20.174
  • No wonder the people of jericho were so afraid.
  • 00:13:20.174 --> 00:13:24.145
  • The giants in jericho were afraid.
  • 00:13:24.145 --> 00:13:27.282
  • I mean, everyone can see the heap.
  • 00:13:27.282 --> 00:13:29.183
  • So, on your part, you put him in the center.
  • 00:13:29.183 --> 00:13:31.552
  • On his part, he will go ahead of you
  • 00:13:31.552 --> 00:13:33.621
  • And prepare the way.
  • 00:13:33.621 --> 00:13:34.956
  • Give them isaiah. isaiah says this--god's nature.
  • 00:13:34.956 --> 00:13:37.759
  • "you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight;
  • 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.628
  • For the lord will go before you,
  • 00:13:40.628 --> 00:13:43.698
  • And the god of israel will be your rear guard."
  • 00:13:43.698 --> 00:13:48.670
  • So god can be in any place, right?
  • 00:13:48.670 --> 00:13:50.939
  • So he'll be in front of you to clear the way,
  • 00:13:50.939 --> 00:13:53.708
  • And don't worry that enemies come from behind you.
  • 00:13:53.708 --> 00:13:55.977
  • He'll be your rear guard.
  • 00:13:55.977 --> 00:13:59.147
  • Don't worry about terror.
  • 00:13:59.147 --> 00:14:01.015
  • God will be your rear guard.
  • 00:14:01.015 --> 00:14:03.618
  • He'll go ahead of you, and that's the thing.
  • 00:14:03.618 --> 00:14:05.553
  • Sometimes in my human thinking, in my natural thinking,
  • 00:14:05.553 --> 00:14:09.924
  • I tell myself, you know, people don't thank god
  • 00:14:09.924 --> 00:14:13.895
  • Until they see god deliver them.
  • 00:14:13.895 --> 00:14:15.430
  • For example, you are sick, the doctor says
  • 00:14:15.430 --> 00:14:17.665
  • You have this condition on x-ray,
  • 00:14:17.665 --> 00:14:19.133
  • And then you pray to god, god heals you,
  • 00:14:19.133 --> 00:14:20.635
  • You go back to the doctor, and doctor says,
  • 00:14:20.635 --> 00:14:22.070
  • "i can't find your condition," now you praise god, right?
  • 00:14:22.070 --> 00:14:26.074
  • But sometimes a condition is trying to come to you
  • 00:14:26.074 --> 00:14:27.909
  • Like an entity, an evil spirit, and god says, "no!"
  • 00:14:27.909 --> 00:14:30.812
  • You never knew it, so you don't give god thanks.
  • 00:14:30.812 --> 00:14:33.514
  • So god goes ahead of you, and many times
  • 00:14:33.514 --> 00:14:35.350
  • He makes the crooked places straight.
  • 00:14:35.350 --> 00:14:37.518
  • But you don't give him thanks, because for you,
  • 00:14:37.518 --> 00:14:39.287
  • It's smooth sailing.
  • 00:14:39.287 --> 00:14:40.621
  • But actually, the enemy had devices.
  • 00:14:40.621 --> 00:14:42.890
  • In fact, if the truth was known,
  • 00:14:42.890 --> 00:14:44.525
  • We would thank god more than we know.
  • 00:14:44.525 --> 00:14:47.261
  • God is under-thanked, and we are under-grateful.
  • 00:14:47.261 --> 00:14:51.499
  • I'll tell you that.
  • 00:14:51.499 --> 00:14:52.834
  • Because we only thank god-- sometimes, you know,
  • 00:14:52.834 --> 00:14:54.168
  • It's better for god to leave all the obstacles,
  • 00:14:54.168 --> 00:14:55.703
  • In my human way of thinking so that you face the obstacle,
  • 00:14:55.703 --> 00:14:59.907
  • You ask god to help you, god straightens the way,
  • 00:14:59.907 --> 00:15:01.542
  • Now you give him thanks.
  • 00:15:01.542 --> 00:15:03.311
  • But god is so merciful, he goes ahead of you.
  • 00:15:03.311 --> 00:15:05.646
  • I remember when jessica was about three or four years old.
  • 00:15:05.646 --> 00:15:09.517
  • Her first time to disneyland, you know,
  • 00:15:09.517 --> 00:15:12.020
  • Her eyes were like saucers.
  • 00:15:12.020 --> 00:15:13.354
  • She looked at all the--
  • 00:15:13.354 --> 00:15:14.689
  • The first ride we took was, exactly, the saucers,
  • 00:15:14.689 --> 00:15:17.225
  • The cup and--you know, the spinning cup.
  • 00:15:17.225 --> 00:15:19.660
  • And after one experience, she was like,
  • 00:15:19.660 --> 00:15:21.229
  • "whoa, what did i get myself into?"
  • 00:15:21.229 --> 00:15:23.965
  • So i saw a bit of the tinge of fear
  • 00:15:23.965 --> 00:15:26.801
  • In her eyes, and she was only a young girl, right?
  • 00:15:26.801 --> 00:15:29.504
  • This can be quite daunting, you know,
  • 00:15:29.504 --> 00:15:31.239
  • To be at a big playground with all kinds of rides.
  • 00:15:31.239 --> 00:15:34.075
  • So i told my wife, "i'll take the rides first."
  • 00:15:34.075 --> 00:15:37.578
  • I'll take the rides first.
  • 00:15:37.578 --> 00:15:38.913
  • So i'll take the rides first and i'll see like,
  • 00:15:38.913 --> 00:15:40.648
  • "ah, she will like this.
  • 00:15:40.648 --> 00:15:41.983
  • This is very cute for her at her level,
  • 00:15:41.983 --> 00:15:44.018
  • Her age," all right?
  • 00:15:44.018 --> 00:15:45.353
  • Or "this ride is no good. this is frightening.
  • 00:15:45.353 --> 00:15:47.789
  • This is scary." you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:15:47.789 --> 00:15:49.624
  • So, daddy will go first to clear the way for her.
  • 00:15:49.624 --> 00:15:54.929
  • The lord will go before you, amen?
  • 00:15:54.929 --> 00:15:58.032
  • And if you're afraid that people will come
  • 00:15:58.032 --> 00:16:00.068
  • And snatch up something from the back, you know,
  • 00:16:00.068 --> 00:16:02.470
  • They come from behind you, you do not know.
  • 00:16:02.470 --> 00:16:04.605
  • Singaporeans especially, be careful, you know,
  • 00:16:04.605 --> 00:16:06.507
  • You must go and grab it, you know,
  • 00:16:06.507 --> 00:16:08.476
  • Before other people grab it.
  • 00:16:08.476 --> 00:16:09.811
  • If not, you look here, even you delay for a while,
  • 00:16:09.811 --> 00:16:12.847
  • Somebody come behind you and grab it first, you know.
  • 00:16:12.847 --> 00:16:14.949
  • So you must always grab first before other people grab,
  • 00:16:14.949 --> 00:16:16.984
  • You know.
  • 00:16:16.984 --> 00:16:18.319
  • You know, you never know.
  • 00:16:18.319 --> 00:16:19.654
  • They come from behind, they come from behind.
  • 00:16:19.654 --> 00:16:21.189
  • And it's so sad because we are brought up
  • 00:16:21.189 --> 00:16:22.590
  • In this culture of fear, scarcity, not enough,
  • 00:16:22.590 --> 00:16:28.596
  • Grab for yourself.
  • 00:16:28.596 --> 00:16:29.931
  • Every supper--every meal is the last supper.
  • 00:16:29.931 --> 00:16:34.202
  • You know?
  • 00:16:34.202 --> 00:16:35.536
  • I'm coming to that, i told you i'm coming to that, right?
  • 00:16:35.536 --> 00:16:37.138
  • You know?
  • 00:16:37.138 --> 00:16:38.473
  • And we live in this fear mentality,
  • 00:16:38.473 --> 00:16:42.410
  • You know, and the lord is saying, "don't worry
  • 00:16:42.410 --> 00:16:44.011
  • About what comes from behind."
  • 00:16:44.011 --> 00:16:45.346
  • When you're driving, don't look at the rearview mirror
  • 00:16:45.346 --> 00:16:47.215
  • All the time.
  • 00:16:47.215 --> 00:16:48.749
  • If they hit you, they will pay.
  • 00:16:48.749 --> 00:16:51.552
  • Your job is to focus on the front.
  • 00:16:51.552 --> 00:16:52.887
  • That's why your windscreen is this big...
  • 00:16:52.887 --> 00:16:56.257
  • And your rearview mirror is this big...
  • 00:16:56.257 --> 00:16:58.493
  • You are meant to look forward, not backwards, okay?
  • 00:16:58.493 --> 00:17:01.996
  • You're meant to go ahead. god will be your rear guard.
  • 00:17:01.996 --> 00:17:05.967
  • Can i have a good amen? he'll go before you.
  • 00:17:05.967 --> 00:17:09.170
  • Let me illustrate.
  • 00:17:09.170 --> 00:17:10.505
  • When the children of israel--
  • 00:17:10.505 --> 00:17:11.839
  • Many of you watched the movie "ten commandments," right?
  • 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.674
  • They all came to the red sea,
  • 00:17:13.674 --> 00:17:16.310
  • And then lo and behold, behind them they saw,
  • 00:17:16.310 --> 00:17:18.813
  • Like, clouds of dust as the chariots of egypt
  • 00:17:18.813 --> 00:17:21.716
  • Was racing towards them.
  • 00:17:21.716 --> 00:17:23.351
  • And now they are caught in between a rock
  • 00:17:23.351 --> 00:17:25.052
  • And a hard place, and they cried out to moses,
  • 00:17:25.052 --> 00:17:26.754
  • "did you bring us out here to die?
  • 00:17:26.754 --> 00:17:28.289
  • Moses, it's your fault. now they'll kill us.
  • 00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:30.324
  • In front of us is the sea."
  • 00:17:30.324 --> 00:17:31.659
  • And before god opened the sea, what happened?
  • 00:17:31.659 --> 00:17:33.594
  • Read exodus 14.
  • 00:17:33.594 --> 00:17:35.296
  • "and the angel of god," capital a, whenever it says
  • 00:17:35.296 --> 00:17:37.899
  • The angel of god, it's referring to jesus.
  • 00:17:37.899 --> 00:17:40.101
  • Now, he's not an angel, jesus is god,
  • 00:17:40.101 --> 00:17:42.136
  • But the word "angel" is a generic term
  • 00:17:42.136 --> 00:17:44.071
  • For representative of god.
  • 00:17:44.071 --> 00:17:47.041
  • This is his pre-incarnate form.
  • 00:17:47.041 --> 00:17:49.677
  • "the angel of god, who went before the camp of israel,
  • 00:17:49.677 --> 00:17:53.381
  • Moved and went behind them;
  • 00:17:53.381 --> 00:17:56.417
  • And the pillar of cloud went from before them
  • 00:17:56.417 --> 00:17:59.520
  • And stood behind them."
  • 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:02.757
  • Initially he was leading them in front,
  • 00:18:02.757 --> 00:18:04.892
  • And now the enemy's coming from behind.
  • 00:18:04.892 --> 00:18:07.161
  • Watch this.
  • 00:18:07.161 --> 00:18:08.496
  • Whoosh, he went behind, to protect them from behind.
  • 00:18:08.496 --> 00:18:12.900
  • "so it came between the camp of the egyptians,"
  • 00:18:12.900 --> 00:18:15.570
  • The enemies, "and the camp of israel.
  • 00:18:15.570 --> 00:18:17.738
  • Thus," watch this, "it was a cloud and darkness,"
  • 00:18:17.738 --> 00:18:21.108
  • To the egyptians.
  • 00:18:21.108 --> 00:18:22.443
  • "it gave light by night to israel,
  • 00:18:22.443 --> 00:18:25.146
  • So that one did not come near the other all that night."
  • 00:18:25.146 --> 00:18:28.049
  • In a world that's dark, we can have light.
  • 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:33.688
  • Our family can live in the light.
  • 00:18:33.688 --> 00:18:36.591
  • So god is the first one leading them,
  • 00:18:36.591 --> 00:18:39.093
  • And he's the last one protecting them.
  • 00:18:39.093 --> 00:18:41.429
  • Can you see that?
  • 00:18:41.429 --> 00:18:42.763
  • I want you to feel, in a world that is unsafe,
  • 00:18:42.763 --> 00:18:45.600
  • That when you travel or when you--
  • 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:46.934
  • Don't just think of traveling.
  • 00:18:46.934 --> 00:18:48.269
  • Anywhere, when you get up in the morning,
  • 00:18:48.269 --> 00:18:49.670
  • Know the lord has gone ahead of you.
  • 00:18:49.670 --> 00:18:52.106
  • He's checked out the place.
  • 00:18:52.106 --> 00:18:54.308
  • He says, "son, come on."
  • 00:18:54.308 --> 00:18:56.210
  • Jesus saying to his sheep, he's the good shepherd, right?
  • 00:18:56.210 --> 00:18:58.813
  • And what did he say to the sheep?
  • 00:18:58.813 --> 00:19:00.147
  • "when he brings out his own sheep,
  • 00:19:00.147 --> 00:19:01.482
  • He goes before them.
  • 00:19:01.482 --> 00:19:03.451
  • And the sheep follow him, for they know his voice."
  • 00:19:03.451 --> 00:19:07.421
  • When he brings out his own sheep,
  • 00:19:07.421 --> 00:19:08.756
  • He goes before them.
  • 00:19:08.756 --> 00:19:11.592
  • He goes before them, he leads them,
  • 00:19:11.592 --> 00:19:14.428
  • And the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
  • 00:19:14.428 --> 00:19:16.731
  • By the way, i'm reminded, do you know
  • 00:19:16.731 --> 00:19:18.299
  • That the ark of noah, noah's boat?
  • 00:19:18.299 --> 00:19:23.471
  • You know, when god told them to come in,
  • 00:19:23.471 --> 00:19:25.706
  • Look at this--genesis.
  • 00:19:25.706 --> 00:19:27.341
  • "the lord said to noah, 'come into the ark.'"
  • 00:19:27.341 --> 00:19:29.677
  • Come into.
  • 00:19:29.677 --> 00:19:31.012
  • God didn't say, "go into the ark,"
  • 00:19:31.012 --> 00:19:32.346
  • Like god is outside, telling them, "go into the ark."
  • 00:19:32.346 --> 00:19:34.582
  • No, god was the first one in, and god says,
  • 00:19:34.582 --> 00:19:36.651
  • "come into the ark."
  • 00:19:36.651 --> 00:19:39.620
  • After the floods and all that, after the ark was floating,
  • 00:19:39.620 --> 00:19:43.624
  • All right, and finally came to a rest in ararat,
  • 00:19:43.624 --> 00:19:48.929
  • They waited for some more time for the dry--for the land
  • 00:19:48.929 --> 00:19:52.133
  • To become dry.
  • 00:19:52.133 --> 00:19:53.467
  • God said, in the next chapter, "go out of the ark."
  • 00:19:53.467 --> 00:19:57.171
  • God was the last one out, for god to say,
  • 00:19:57.171 --> 00:19:59.407
  • "go out of the ark."
  • 00:19:59.407 --> 00:20:01.509
  • First one in, last one out.
  • 00:20:01.509 --> 00:20:06.047
  • Jesus goes out first.
  • 00:20:06.047 --> 00:20:07.815
  • He calls you, go back to john 10,
  • 00:20:07.815 --> 00:20:09.417
  • He calls you--i'm closing with this passage.
  • 00:20:09.417 --> 00:20:12.520
  • "and the sheep follow him."
  • 00:20:12.520 --> 00:20:13.854
  • "he goes before them and the sheep follow him,
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  • For they know his voice."
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  • Now, nowhere in the bible does it say,
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  • "you've got to learn to hear his voice."
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  • It's a given. it's a statement of fact.
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  • "the sheep follow him, for they know his voice."
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  • You don't have to teach sheep.
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  • You have to teach goats.
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  • But if you're born again, you're a sheep.
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  • "but-but-but-but-but." you're a sheep, you don't "but."
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  • Listen, you believe, amen? it's a statement of fact.
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  • The sheep hear his voice and they follow him.
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  • Now, i'm not against people teaching how to hear god's voice
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  • And all that, but sometimes we complicate things.
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  • Have you ever seen a little baby?
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  • All right, you put a baby that's awake
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  • In a room, all right, and the mother just steps in,
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  • And the room is very noisy with other ladies
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  • Talking and chatting.
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  • The moment the mother comes in and the mother is talking
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  • To someone, the baby is alert.
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  • The baby does not need to be taught
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  • "seven steps to hearing god's voice,"
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  • Your mommy's voice,
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  • "seven steps to hearing your mommy's voice," no.
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  • So what we need to do is to build confidence
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  • In god's people that they hear god's voice.
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  • They hear the shepherd's voice.
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  • Your confession ought to be "i hear his voice."
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  • You should be thanking god every day.
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  • "i'm hearing his voice."
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  • And god will lead you in the smallest details of life.
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  • You see, it says here, "they follow him,
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  • For they know his voice.
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  • Yet they will by no means--" the "no means" there
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  • Is very strong.
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  • It's "ou me" in the greek, which is a double negative.
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  • "they will by no means follow a stranger,
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  • But will flee from him, for they do not know
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  • The voice of strangers."
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  • The way you follow jesus-- don't forget,
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  • When the lord is your shepherd, not your savior.
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  • He's all--for those who are born again,
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  • He's our savior.
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  • But when the lord is your shepherd, that means what?
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  • You're following him.
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  • How do you effectively follow him?
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  • You hear his voice.
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  • In this verse, "they follow him,
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  • For they know his voice."
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  • You follow him by knowing his voice.
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  • And when you follow his voice, when you listen to his voice,
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  • You will lack for nothing.
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  • Jesus is in you, the ark of the covenant.
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  • When you follow the ark, all right, you will not lack.
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  • You need to lose weight? you will lose weight, amen.
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  • You need to be healthy? you'll be healthy.
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  • Follow him.
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  • Protect you through his blood, you and your loved ones
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  • From every sickness, from terror,
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  • Secure, underneath the shadow of the most high.
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  • Underneath the wings of el shaddai,
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  • You are kept safe in the secret place,
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  • The place where the blood has been shed.
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  • You are safe. the lord goes before you.
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  • You are safe. feel safe, feel safe.
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  • Feel safe as you face this week.
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  • The lord has gone ahead of you.
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  • Don't be afraid of what comes behind you.
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  • The lord is also your rear guard.
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  • He will guide you from behind.
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  • Don't worry about unforeseen problems
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  • And challenges that come before you.
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  • God will put to naught the arrows that fly by day,
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  • And the terror by night.
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  • God is always guarding you.
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  • Believe him, rest in his love,
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  • Like a child trusting the loving arms of the mother.
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  • Be like a child in his arms, and be like a sheep,
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  • Hearing his voice.
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  • And when you're confused, tell him, "lord, speak to me.
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  • Speak to me."
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  • And deep down, deep down, just follow that flow,
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  • Follow that peace, follow that leading.
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  • He will lead you into plenty.
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  • He will recover your soul. he will restore your health.
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