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Joseph Prince - Knowing God’s Love Changes Everything

January 5, 2026 | 29:45

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

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Knowing God’s Love Changes Everything | January 5, 2026

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Joseph prince: you are loved.
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Jesus look at you and he says this.
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"even the very hairs of your head
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Are all numbered."
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That is very personal detail.
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That position that he has with the father,
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He gave it to you because we are all in christ,
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And the bible says in ephesians 1
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We are all beloved, highly favored.
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And we are also accepted in the beloved.
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He could have said we are accepted in christ,
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But god wants us to feel more the warmth of that verse
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So it doesn't become clinical.
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God says, "you are accepted in the beloved.
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When i say, 'you are my beloved son'
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To jesus, now you are accepted
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In the beloved," hallelujah.
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And the way god treats jesus is how he will treat you.
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Male announcer: what did jesus mean
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When he said, "it is finished"?
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What's finished?
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And what does it mean for you today?
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In today's message, joseph shares what it means
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To live under god's unmerited favor.
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What if god's favor could show up
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In your job interview, in your parenting,
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In your finances, in your everyday life?
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In joseph's book, "unmerited favor,"
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Discover how god's grace can open doors
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You couldn't open on your own,
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How his favor can lead you forward,
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Even if you feel unqualified, and how resting
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In jesus's finished work can bring real peace,
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Real success, and real freedom.
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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: what a god we serve.
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What a god we have.
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A god who gave us his son.
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"he spared not his own son, but gave him up for us all."
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What kind of "us all" did he give up his son for?
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People that are perfect, people that please him
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All the time, people that obey him,
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People that are filled with praises
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In their mouth for him?
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No, people who are guilty, people who are rebellious,
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People who blaspheme him.
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He gave up his son, the son that he loved
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For us all, amen?
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God sent his son, for what purpose?
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For his son to rule over men like a king?
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No, he sent his son so that his son
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Will become the sacrifice for our sins on that cross.
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So while--and then what we did with god's son?
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It's like god is telling us, "this is how much i love you.
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I give you my best. i'm not giving you michael.
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I'm not giving you gabriel.
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I'm giving you the very best. not even one of the angels.
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I'm giving you the very best, the son that i love."
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You are loved.
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Jesus look at you and he says this.
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"even the very hairs of your head
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Are all numbered."
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That is very personal detail.
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I don't care how much a mother loves her baby, all right,
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Even the baby has very little fuzzy hair,
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You know, that light hair.
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I've never seen a mother count one by one.
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Never, never.
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But god knows the very hairs of your head.
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He cares for every detail in your life.
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You say, "how can god do that?
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And there are, you know, so many people in the world,
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How can god give personal attention?"
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That's why he's god and you are not.
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You know, when you come to god, you come to his throne of grace,
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You never see pastor gabriel there.
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Have you?
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Never! it's as if we come to god,
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We have a very personal audience,
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And god can do that for every one of us
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And more, amen?
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And that's why when god gave up his son,
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He spared not his own son.
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You think about it, the quality, the value, the estimation
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That god has of jesus christ.
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If you know the value of that one man
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Who so pleased the father even in his earthly life
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That the father opened the heavens,
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The bible says, and i love the way the greek says.
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He opened the heavens to him.
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God had to open the heavens. and you know what god said?
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"you are my beloved son.
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In you i am well pleased," amen?
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And that position that he has with the father,
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He gave it to you because we are all in christ.
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And the bible says in ephesians 1,
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"we are all beloved, highly favored."
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And we are also accepted in the beloved.
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He could have said, "we are accepted in christ,"
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But god wants us to feel more of the warmth
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Of that verse so it doesn't become clinical.
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God says, "you are accepted in the beloved.
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When i say, 'you are my beloved son'
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To jesus, now you are accepted
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In the beloved," hallelujah, amen.
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And the way god treats jesus is how he will treat you.
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See, our flesh can't take all that, you see?
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It's too much for us.
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And that's why, i'll tell you this.
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A lot of people, i still feel that even christians
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In the evangelical circles, you know, we--
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In the evangelical circle, we have a lot of people
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Who feel like they understand forgiveness.
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But the moment they think that forgiveness
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Is basic teaching, i know they don't understand it.
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Because it's at the heart of god.
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It's the main truth.
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God is holy is the truth, amen.
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God is holy. god is just.
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It's the truth, amen?
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God is the judge, amen.
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It's true.
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But "god is love" is the essence of who he is, amen.
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So remember this.
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Peace to your conscience comes by looking at the nail prints
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Of his hands, knowing it's a finished work.
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All your sins have been borne away, amen.
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It was an efficacious work because the same body
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On the cross that knew no sin but took all our sins
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In his body, on the third day
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Rose from the dead without our sins.
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And he didn't die for himself. he died for us.
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He had no sin to die for. he died for our sins.
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Therefore, he rose again for us to show us,
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"where i am today at the father's right hand,
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That's where you are."
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And the bible says in hebrews 1, "having purged our sins,
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He sat down on the right hand
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Of the majesty on high."
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He did not sit down as the son of god.
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That he always is.
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He did not sit down because of the majesty
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Of his glory.
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No, he sat down, having purged our sins.
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If that was not a complete work, he cannot sit down.
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By virtue of the fact he sat down,
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God is saying all your sins,
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Past, present and future, there's no time to it,
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It's all purged.
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And that's why jesus sat down.
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See, you're sitting down and i'm standing, why?
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Because my work is not finished.
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I'm still preaching.
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A few of you might wish it's finished
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And i sit down, right?
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But it's not finished yet.
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It will be finished in about two, three hours.
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But i'm here until it is finished, right?
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You are sitting down, why?
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You're not doing any work.
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The bible says he sat down, why?
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The work is finished.
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And that's why we worship the lord
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On the lord's day as a church,
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Because the lord's day is the day that he rose
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From the dead.
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It's the day of redemption.
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Once upon a time, god gave the sabbath
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On saturday for men to rest.
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That's god's rest in creation.
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But what happened was that we read man fell.
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When man fell, like jesus says on the sabbath,
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Why he healed the blind man on the sabbath
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Or he healed the impotent man.
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He says that "my father is working
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On the sabbath, and i work.
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As long as man cannot rest, as long as man
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Is still afflicted, my father and i cannot rest."
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So there was another rest because god's rest in creation
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Was marred, it was tarnished, because of man's fall.
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So god started working again and god sent his son,
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And his son started working.
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"how god anointed jesus of nazareth
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With the holy spirit and with power
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Who went about doing good and healing all
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That were oppressed of the devil."
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He did good.
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He went about doing good.
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Healing is doing good, amen.
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Until he cried on the cross, "it is finished!"
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His first ministerial work at the age of 12--
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My son is 12 years old.
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At the age of 12, when the earthly parents
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Came to him and they said, you know,
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"we have been looking for you."
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"how did you not know," he said, "that i must be
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About my father's business?"
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There's the first recorded words of our lord jesus, age of 12.
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On the cross, his last words, "it is finished."
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What is finished?
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"my father's business of restoring man,
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Healing man," amen?
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God finally found his rest in redemption.
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No more in creation, in redemption.
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That's why sabbath on saturday is creation.
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The lord's day on sunday is redemption.
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Do you understand that, church?
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Can you understand that, amen?
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So let's not argue about that anymore, amen.
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Anyway, it is not an observance of a day.
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But i think something special about the lord's day.
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Something special, why?
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When jesus appeared to his disciples,
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Look at the gospels.
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He appeared from sunday to sunday.
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After he rose from the dead, he appeared to them
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From sunday to sunday, amen.
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And then on the same day that he rose from the dead,
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We saw last time that i shared with you,
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He was walking with two of them
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On the emmaus road.
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And he hid from their eyes, not that he hid
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With his hands, okay?
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But the bible says through his power, he did not--
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He restrained their eyes from seeing who he was
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In his resurrected form, why?
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Because he wanted them to see him in the scriptures.
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They were discouraged, they were downcast, amen?
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They were dismayed.
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But jesus brought them out of their discouragement,
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Out of their self -obsession, out of their misery.
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How?
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Beginning at moses,
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The first five books of the bible.
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Genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy.
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Beginning at moses, he began to expound in them
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The things concerning himself.
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He taught us that on every sunday,
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We are to expound things concerning himself.
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Not politics, not nature, science, and things like that,
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But himself.
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The bible says he is "the most beautiful of 10,000,"
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The expression in song of songs.
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I really believe that.
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This baby is the most beautiful baby
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Born ever, all right, and he grew up.
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He was definitely good looking, amen, and years and years
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Of working, 30 years in the carpenter workshop,
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Will give him muscles, amen?
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Amen, he looks good. he's a man's man.
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I said he's a man's man.
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Don't be afraid to be a man in these days,
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In this age, amen.
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Jesus was a man's man, and he looked really good.
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Because why? there's no sin in his blood.
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We are all born in sin.
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Can you imagine what that does to his look?
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"but pastor, there's a verse that says
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There's no beauty in him we should desire of him."
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Yeah, but that verse appears where?
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In isaiah 53.
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And it talks about his sufferings for us
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On the cross.
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He was wounded for our transgressions.
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When we behold him, there was no beauty in him.
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You know, he looked so terrible because the bible says
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He was so-- listen to this phrase,
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Also from isaiah 52:53, talking about his work
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At the cross.
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It says that his figure was so marred
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Beyond that of any man.
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This altogether lovely one was so marred
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Beyond that of any man.
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He'd become so hideous.
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The 39 stripes, or maybe even more,
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The bible doesn't say how many.
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And the bible says, "bones stare at him."
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He was so lacerated, amen, so lacerated
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That his back is one big hole.
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How do i know that?
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Because in the expression of the greek,
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"by his stripes we are healed"
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In 1 peter 2:24, it is a singular stripe
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That is used, either singular, one stripe, but we know
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He was being scourged by the romans, you know?
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And if not singular, then it is an expression
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Used for so many stripes, there's not even
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A sliver of skin left, that the word singular stripe
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Is used.
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That's how bad it was.
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That's why he cannot carry his cross
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All the way to calvary.
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He fell.
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They had someone help him, right?
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Simon the cyrene, remember?
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Because his back was lacerated.
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Bones were exposed.
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So even the movies that you watch,
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They don't even come close.
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He was so marred beyond that of any man, the bible says.
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He gave up his beauty so that you will receive
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The beauty of the lord our god.
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The psalmist says, "let the beauty
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Of the lord our god be upon us," amen?
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His glory, his peace, his moral perfections.
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So that's the way he appears.
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There's no beauty in him, when you see him.
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But don't take that verse as if it's throughout
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His entire life, no.
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And he's a man's man because when he look
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At fishermen, you know fishermen?
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You know how they talk?
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Those are rough fishermen, peter and his gang, right?
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They are rough. they spit on the floor.
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They spit everywhere, all right?
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You can hear when you pass by, you hear, [hocks],
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You know, you better clear, amen?
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They're not exactly the people in the palaces of herod
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That are educated and, you know?
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They're just rough men.
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And jesus passed by them.
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They never know who this person is.
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He looked at them and only spoke two words,
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"follow me."
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And those rough fishermen, [spits],
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All right, left everything and they followed him.
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They left everything and followed him.
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What charisma! what attractiveness!
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What drew them to him?
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I want to see this jesus.
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Song of songs says his whole demeanor
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Is like the cedars of lebanon.
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Like lebanon, that stately cedar tree.
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So when i read the gospels, that's how i see jesus, amen?
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I love it.
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He came to a place called beauty in hebrew, naim.
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And then there's a crowd following jesus,
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And then jesus on the same path
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Met another crowd.
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It was the woman who had lost her son,
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Her only son, and she is a widow.
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Means no more husband, no more sons.
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She is all by herself.
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And in those days, that's like a death knell,
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Because no one to support you.
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And she was crying. her young son was very young.
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A young man, the bible says.
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And he passed by. so death and life met.
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There was a collision of life and death, and life won.
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Jesus stopped the stretcher and jesus says, "don't cry."
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Just two words, "don't cry," amen?
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Then he took the man by the hand--young man.
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You know, just one word, "arise."
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The guy rose.
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The guy got up and he handed it back to his mother.
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And what did he do?
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Did he say, "young man, from now on,
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You're going to give your whole life to me.
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Do you understand?"
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No, he gave him back-- read carefully.
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He gave him back to his mom.
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And he went on walking.
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He never took favors of people that he healed.
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Those he asked to follow, all right,
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They were mending their nets, he asked them to follow.
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They were busy collecting taxes, "follow."
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He never healed and then said, "follow."
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In other words, he never put a price tag
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On his acts of grace.
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Just, "heal."
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Imagine if you make a movie, no one makes movies like this.
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Heal!
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Right?
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The guy got up, raised from the dead,
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Gave him back to his mother.
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I believe there's a smile on his beautiful face.
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And then he walked on.
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Life kept on marching to find death,
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To invade it, and overwhelm it with his life.
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Everywhere he went, just so cool.
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He got up, the guy got up, jesus walked away.
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I love it.
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Just like he was sleeping in the storm, right?
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Imagine them.
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These are experienced fishermen in the midst
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Of the sea of galilee and a storm arose.
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And this is no small storm, you know?
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I mean, these are very high walls of water
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About to crash.
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And there's one man who was so cool,
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He was sleeping.
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I'm sure that water was splashing all over him,
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But he was sleeping.
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Such a peace.
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The peace that in the upper room he says, "peace,
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I leave with you.
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My peace i give to you.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
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Wow, that peace.
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And the storm didn't wake him up.
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It was the cry of his disciples.
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Just like during a storm, all right?
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The mother is sleeping so soundly.
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She's so tired with a young newborn baby.
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But the moment the baby squeaks, she's awake.
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The storm did not wake her.
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The squeak of her loved one woke her.
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The storm didn't wake jesus.
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It was the crowd.
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The disciples said, "don't you care!"
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Don't we always say that to god?
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Don't you care?
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All right, he got up.
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Read carefully, right?
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He's been working, healing, healing, transforming, blessing,
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Casting out demons, doing good.
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He deserved that rest.
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By the way, jesus takes naps, yeah?
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So he's-- it's a well-deserved rest.
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When he got up, just one word.
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He looked at the storm and he says,
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"silence," or "be still!"
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And the bible says all the waves all kowtow to him.
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And the bible used the word, in the greek,
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There was a "mega" calm.
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Mega calm.
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Great calm.
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And then he turned around.
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There's one more storm, more important storm
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To still in the hearts of all his disciples.
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And he says, "why are you so fearful?
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Where is your faith?"
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Their faith should be in him.
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As long as he's in the boat, you cannot sink.
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He's in your life, you cannot go down, amen.
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Are you blessed?
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This is the lord jesus that we serve.
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This is the son that the father gave.
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And i'll tell you this, if god spared not his own son,
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The son that he loved, for you, how much more?
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Let that word really encourage and spark your faith,
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Ignite your faith.
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How much more will god with christ give you all things?
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If god spared not his own son, the very best heaven has,
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God did not spare.
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God did not spare the son that he loved for you.
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God did not spare it because he loved you.
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And if god did not spare the best,
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How will he not with him also give you all things?
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And here we are with our little faith,
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Little revelation of god's goodness.
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No, friend, let's rise higher, amen?
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Let's come to the level of how god sees us.
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God is so abundant, he wants to always be giving.
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Always taking the blessed part of giving.
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And our part must always, with god,
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It's always more blessed to receive than to give.
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With men, it is always more blessed
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To give than to receive.
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Got it, okay?
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So always understand, every day when you come
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For quiet time, it's not just a routine,
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A law that you keep.
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It's to receive.
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Because every day you need fresh supply.
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And he's standing ready with all his glory,
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All his power, with all his kindness
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And mercies and goodness to lavish upon you.
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I tell you this, god loves you so much,
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If people don't want to receive from him,
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Sometimes i say, "god, if people don't want,
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Just give it to me.
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Give me the extras.
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Here's a receptacle, amen, ready to receive," amen?
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May you also be one of them.
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Praise the lord.
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It's not a place. it's a people.
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Female: hello.
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Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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How in the world do you do an online church?
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And we gather in our living room and we sing and we praise
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And then afterward you can talk about it.
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Announcer: church is not four walls.
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It's one body of christ.
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Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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You know, doing the online church.
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But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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I had people taking communion for me.
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Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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It's who you meet.
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Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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From people we can't see
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And we're not in the same room as.
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It helps us to make that connection,
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That i can't see god
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And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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Even online.
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Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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Or text church to 71239 today.
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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From the lord.
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♪♪♪
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Joseph Prince - Knowing God’s Love Changes Everything

January 5, 2026 | 29:45

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