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Joseph Prince - Let God Lead You Out of Darkness

December 29, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Let God Lead You Out of Darkness | December 29, 2025

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Joseph prince: dear friend,
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As this year draws to a close,
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I want to speak to you straight from my heart.
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It's been a year filled with so much noise, change,
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And uncertainty.
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And maybe for you,
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It's been a year of deep personal challenges too.
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But in the midst of it all,
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Here's what i want you to hold on to.
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The lord jesus has not changed and neither has our calling
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To bring his life-saving, heart-healing,
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Peace-giving gospel to a world that desperately needs him.
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After all these years, by god's grace
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And with your faithful support,
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This ministry has endeavored to lift up the name of jesus
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Through our broadcasts, digital outreach,
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And every open door the lord provides.
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And even though the world keeps shifting,
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One thing remains true: people still need jesus.
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They need to know there is a savior who still heals,
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Still restores, still provides, and still protects.
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So as we step into 2026,
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I invite you to shine that light with us.
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Let's believe bigger.
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Let's build together.
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Your generosity helps someone else
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Experience the same jesus
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Who changed your life.
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So i pray that you will give
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As the lord puts in your heart.
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Wendy and i are praying you will walk into the new year
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With fresh grace, peace,
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And every good thing
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The lord has in store for you.
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God bless you
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And your family always.
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Joseph prince: god wants the world to know how good he is.
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He wants our marriage, our career, our ministry,
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Everything, to proclaim his praises.
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He who calls us out of darkness,
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Pitch darkness into his marvelous light.
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We have all been delivered from the power of darkness
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And translated into the kingdom of his dear son,
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The kingdom of light.
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We are sons of light.
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You and i would still be in darkness had somebody not gone
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Into the quarry, into the darkness,
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Hewn us and brought us out,
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We are taken out of darkness.
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Not a merit of our own.
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We didn't put in any effort.
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The stone didn't say, "hey, i got myself out."
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No, he will still be there had he not been drawn out.
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We had to be drawn out.
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That means someone did it for us.
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He brought us out.
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Remember this at the end of the year, especially at this time,
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Remember what he has done for us.
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He brought us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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And the hope for singapore, the hope for america,
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The hope for the world is the gospel of jesus christ.
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Can i have a good amen?
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In new testament teaching, to see is to do.
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And that's why it's always what you see, ephesians 1 and 2,
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Before you're able to walk in-- worthy of the lord, before you
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Can stand against the powers of darkness in chapter 6.
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You gotta know chapter 1 and 2.
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How god sees us.
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We are once dead in trespasses and sins.
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God raised us up.
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That's why i say, god didn't--
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Jesus didn't come to make bad people good.
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He came to make dead people live.
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We're dead in trespasses and sins.
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And he came and he quickened us from the dead
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And we rose together with him.
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And he made us sit together in heavenly places in christ.
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Your present position is seated with christ in heavenly places.
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Announcer: as we say goodbye to 2025,
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Let's look back with gratitude and step into the new year
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With hope.
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In today's message, joseph shares a word to help you
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Enter the new year with a positive expectation
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Of good for a better tomorrow.
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Imagine having the power to reset your day
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And the vision to redefine your future.
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Get ready to do both today with not just one,
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To nourish your soul.
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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: are you all ready to receive god's word today?
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Okay, when i look at something, every time the bible says grace,
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Almost every time it tells about grace, somewhere along the way
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You will find that glory follows.
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Glory follows.
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What is grace?
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Unearned, undeserved favor from god.
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God loved us.
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The father of the prodigal son is a big beautiful picture
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Of grace.
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The son squandered all his inheritance
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That the father gave him on sinful living.
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And he spent his money and when his money ran out,
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His friends ran out, and he was at the pit, amen.
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For a jewish person to be feeding the pigs,
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That's in the pits, you know?
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And he thought of his father's house.
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"in my father's house, there is more than enough bread, amen.
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And all the servants are very happy.
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The servants are well taken care of and in my father's house,
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It's more than enough.
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I'll arise and go to my father," because he's hungry.
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Even his motivation for coming home wasn't because
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He loved the father, he missed the father.
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It's because he was really hungry.
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Even the pig's food looked good.
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That's how hungry he was.
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And you know, as long as you take your step back to god,
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It doesn't really matter, amen?
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We come back to the lord regardless of our intent,
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As long as you come back to him.
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Let him love you, amen.
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And that is grace.
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The father saw him from afar, which means he must have been
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Scanning the horizon for a long, long time,
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For him to see him from afar.
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And the father ran to him.
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The father kissed him.
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The father embraced him.
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He had a rehearsed speech that he planned to tell the father.
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Something that goes like this:
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"father, i have sinned against heaven and earth.
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I am no longer worthy to be called your son."
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The father ignored all that and the father says,
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"bring forth the best robe, put it on him,
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Put ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.
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My son was lost but now he is found," huh?
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What is that called?
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Grace.
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And after grace, there is always glory.
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Those he justified, that's grace.
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Those he also glorified.
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You follow that?
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Justified, after that, glorified.
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Now, one day we have a glorified body, a body like jesus's body
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When he rose from the dead.
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Jesus's body was matter, a physical body.
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And yet, it is immortal body, amen.
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No more subject to decay, disease, death.
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He has risen from the dead in this body.
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It is not like a ghost.
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A ghost does not have-- in fact, one time,
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Jesus told his disciples, "touch me.
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A ghost, a spirit, does not have flesh and bones
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As you see me have."
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And yet, it was eternal.
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At the same time, he is not subject
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To the matter of this earth.
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He could transcend a closed door.
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He appeared and disappeared.
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He is no more subject to time as in, like, you travel,
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You walk to reach another destination.
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He could appear here and appear there
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Faster than the speed of light.
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What's that?
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186,000 miles per second?
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185,000 miles per second, around there?
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He's faster than the speed of light, amen.
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So our bodies will be like that.
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The whole universe is for us to play.
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That's your destiny, you know?
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We're talking about glory.
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So there's a tabernacle that god created for men to learn,
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Like a visual aid.
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Every part of it--there's a verse in the book of psalms
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That says: "every part of the temple utters glory."
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Every width of the temple, king james, utters glory.
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Another translation, every part of the temple utters his glory.
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So every part of the tabernacle— actually the word there
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Is not referring to tabernacle.
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It is referring to temple.
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But the tabernacle of moses in the old testament is a picture
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Of what is to come.
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It's actually, tabernacle represents grace.
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Every part of it teaches you grace, amen.
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The bronze altar, the sacrifice, the picture of the cross,
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Blood must be shed.
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If not, there is no forgiveness of sins, amen.
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As you go through the veil,
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The bible says how the veil was torn.
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Tabernacle speaks of grace.
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But the temple, the first temple that was built by solomon,
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Prepared by david.
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God says, you know, when david sinned against god,
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Before i come to that, let me tell you this.
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Tabernacle represents grace.
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The temple of solomon in the bible represents glory.
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Every part of it,
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And that's when the psalms says,
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Every part of it utters his glory.
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And the amount of gold.
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You know he overlaid everything in the temple with gold?
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Do you know that?
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Every part that you see,
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We have a picture of the temple of solomon.
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And if you look at it, you're looking at the outside.
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It's not the temple of herod, by the way.
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It's taller in front.
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And this is just an idea that people have
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Of the temple of solomon.
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It's the richest man that ever lived
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And still is the richest man.
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If you factor in inflation and all that,
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He is a trillionaire, okay?
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His wealth is given in the bible.
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How much wealth and all that.
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And he built this temple and he says the temple of god
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Must be magnificent.
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And if you look inside, the amount of gold,
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The gold that we see is the menorah and the golden--
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In the tabernacle of moses was the menorah.
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And we see the golden altar of incense, the table of showbread.
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But they were still walking on sand
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Because it was a mobile tabernacle.
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It followed them in the wilderness.
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But you know something?
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That they stand on gold in the temple of solomon.
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Everywhere they see is gold.
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We have a cross-section of the-- okay, let's zoom in.
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You see gold with carved ornaments on the wall, okay?
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Everything is gold.
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Even the priest is standing on gold.
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So look up here.
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Everything is greater.
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In fact, the measurements is double that
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Of the tabernacle, amen.
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For example, you have one laver, the place of washing
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With the water.
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In the temple of solomon, you have 11.
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One original laver, which is the molten sea,
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And then you have eleven.
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Sorry, ten more, ten.
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Think about it.
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There are lampstands, the same.
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Ten lampstands added to the temple of solomon.
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Everything is greater.
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"why are you saying this, pastor prince?"
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Because i want you to know, you are part of that temple.
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You think god built this temple so that we can say,
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"oh, you know, the temple has been burned down
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And all that many years ago and all that."
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No, it's a visual aid for us to know the golden era of israel
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Happened during this time.
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And you are the living stones of the temple.
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Many a times in the bible, talk about you as the living stones.
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Let me show you the living stones verse
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So you understand
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What's happening in your destiny.
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1 peter 2: "you also, as living stones."
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You know, there's a group called rolling stones?
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, amen?
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We are living stones, amen?
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Living stones.
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And we "are being built up a spiritual house,
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A holy priesthood,
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To offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to god
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Through jesus christ."
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So what happened is this.
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Solomon to build his temple, what he does,
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The temple you saw just now, amen,
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The temple that he built, he built it out of hewn stones,
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Costly stones.
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Look at 1 kings 5 now:
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"and the king commanded them to quarry large stones."
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Say large stones.
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"costly stones."
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Say costly.
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"and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple."
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So these are large stones.
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They are costly stones.
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You know why they are costly stones?
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Because all these things, there's no insignificant detail
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In the bible.
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Know that all these stones represent you and i.
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People, listen, you are discovering your destiny now
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From god's wisdom book, amen.
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From the manufacturer's handbook.
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We are all being designed, called out.
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God is now--"what is god doing in the world, pastor?"
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He's calling out a people for his name.
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It's like he's reaching out into the darkness in the quarries
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Of the limestone in jerusalem.
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I've been there and he brought all of us out.
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He hewn us from that limestone in the place of darkness,
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Pitch darkness, in our pit of sin.
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We were all dead sinners and he went in to our darkness
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And he brought us out to become living stones of his temple.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Everything we do, our parenting, our marriage, our career,
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Everything, our ministry and all that,
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Is all to build this spiritual house of god, amen.
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And it's going to last throughout the universe.
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And this is the idea of the universe.
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It's a picture of the temple.
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We think of temple religiously.
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Don't think of it that way.
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It's got to do with the universe, in the life to come,
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Which is eternal.
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You'll be in your physical body in the life to come, okay?
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Okay, don't forget that.
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It's more realer than this life.
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This life is temporal.
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That's how unreal it is.
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I mean, that's not eternal, amen.
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But that life to come is eternal.
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And it's got to do with this.
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"so solomon's builders, hiram's builders,
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And the gebalites quarried them;
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And they prepared timber and stones to build the temple."
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Now look at this.
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Costly stone because it cost god his son.
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To go into the pitch darkness-- let me show you the stones
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That they used, okay?
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1 kings 7, show them 1 kings 7, verse 10:
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"the foundation was of costly stones,
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Large stones, some ten cubits, some eight cubits."
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So we have 10 cubits, which is a cubit is from your elbow
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To your middle finger here.
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That's a cubit, bible cubit, amen.
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So you have 10 cubits and some 8 cubits.
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That's about 15 feet by 12 feet.
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One stone.
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Those are the limestone, nicely chiseled.
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Can you see that?
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It's all broken because the romans,
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When they came in ad70 and destroyed the temple,
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They, by the way,
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That is the temple of herod at that time.
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But the temple of herod was built on some foundation stones
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Off the temple of solomon, okay?
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So it's the same nature, same limestone.
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Of course, the temple of solomon is more glorious.
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So they threw down the rocks fulfilling the words of jesus
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That said "not one stone will be turned--
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Will be left unturned."
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Jesus said that.
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On mount of olives, a young carpenter told his disciples,
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"see the temple with all its glory?
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The days will come that not one stone will be left unturned."
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Then yonder in rome, there was a young man called titus.
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He was groomed to be the next emperor
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And he became the next emperor.
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And he came in ad70 and he told his men,
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"don't burn down the temple, burn everything else.
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Don't burn down the temple.
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Don't destroy the temple."
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But when the fire started, the gold started melting
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And went in between the stones.
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And the men started overthrowing the stones to get at the gold.
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So the words of the would-be emperor was disobeyed.
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We learned this from josephus, the historian.
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And then the word of the young carpenter came to pass.
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Between the two who would you believe?
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So anyway, that's the overturned stones.
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You see a remnant of it.
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These are from the precincts of the temple.
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You still can see it today.
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It's near the southern steps, okay?
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Now, if you go down the temple area, of course the temple
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Don't exist anymore, amen.
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You go down, there's a tunnel underneath.
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You can see the foundation stone.
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You know how huge the foundation stone?
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Until now, people are still puzzled as to how they can
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Put the stones together until even a piece of paper
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Cannot go in between.
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When you see them praying at the wall,
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They put it outside or in between just a bit.
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They cannot go all the way because it's hewn in such a way
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When they place it in place, it's perfect.
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Until now, all the stone masons and people
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Who study architectural engineering
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And all that, they are puzzled as to how they moved
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Such stones in those days.
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One of the stone foundation stones is about 45 feet.
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One stone about forty-five feet.
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You know how much it weighs?
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Five hundred and seventy tons.
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Back then, it was pitch darkness.
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They worked with their torches, amen,
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The lamps they used back then, and they quarried it.
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We are "royal priests to the holy nation, his own special
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People, that you may proclaim the praises of him
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Who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."
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"out of darkness into his marvelous light."
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So we are all called out of that quarry.
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It's dark.
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You have to go in with a lamp.
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In those days, imagine those workers.
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And they had to quarry inside, you know?
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You must cut it out, okay?
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And how they cut it is another feat of engineering, amen.
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They were quarried halfway but they were left
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With a square like coming out, but they were left there.
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For some reason, they left that stone there.
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These are the pictures of people who are professors, not possessors of eternal life.
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People who say they are christian,
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But they are never born again.
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People like judas, who followed the lord jesus,
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But was never born again, amen.
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None of the disciples were saved
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Because jesus had not yet died and rose again.
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They were saved on the day jesus rose and met them
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And breathed on them.
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They were saved then, but judas wasn't there.
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So they were disciples, they were followers,
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But they were not saved.
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So he was a professor.
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A professor is someone who profess to be a christian,
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Profess to have eternal life, but they don't.
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Don't be a professor.
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Be a possessor.
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And also, god doesn't have grandchildren.
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Only sons, amen?
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Which of course, daughters as well, amen.
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So there's no such thing as a born in a christian family.
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People tell me, "i was born in a christian family."
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No, it doesn't happen by osmosis, amen?
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Going to church doesn't make you a christian,
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Any more than going to mcdonald's make you a big mac.
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So "he called you out of darkness
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That you may proclaim the praises of him
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Who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."
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God wants the world to know how good he is.
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He wants our marriage, our career, our ministry,
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Everything, to proclaim his praises.
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"he who calls us out of darkness,
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Pitch darkness into his marvelous light."
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We have all been delivered from the power of darkness
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And translated into the kingdom of his dear son,
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The kingdom of light.
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We are sons of light.
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Can i have a good amen, people?
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You and i would still be in darkness had somebody not gone
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Into the quarry, into the darkness,
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Hewn us and brought us out,
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To become our destiny, a living stone.
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We were a dead stone.
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You know what's a living stone?
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A stone on the rock.
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You ask any jewish people, it's a jewish expression.
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Any stone on the ground is a dead stone.
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But the moment you build it into a temple, amen,
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It's a living stone.
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Or even a pillar, a memorial before god, is a living stone.
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Maybe that's where the name
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"david living-stone" came from, amen.
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So here we go.
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All right, we are taken out of darkness, amen.
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Not a merit of our own.
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We didn't put in any effort.
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The stone didn't say, "hey, i got myself out."
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No, he will still be there had he not been drawn out.
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We had to be drawn out.
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That means someone did it for us.
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As those stones cannot come out by themself,
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Someone had to go in and bring them out.
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So he brought us out.
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Remember this at the end of the year, especially at this time,
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Remember what he has done for us.
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He brought us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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And the hope for singapore, the hope for america,
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The hope for the world is the gospel of jesus christ.
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Can i have a good amen?
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In new testament teaching, to see is to do.
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And that's why it's always what you see, ephesians 1 and 2,
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Before you're able to walk in-- worthy of the lord, before you
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Can stand against the powers of darkness in chapter 6.
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You gotta know chapter 1 and 2.
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How god sees us.
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How--what we have become.
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Ephesians 2, talk about ephesians 2.
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We are once dead in trespasses and sins.
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God raised us up.
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That's why i say, god didn't--
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Jesus didn't come to make bad people good.
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He came to make dead people live.
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We're dead in trespasses and sins.
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And he came and he quickened us from the dead
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And we rose together with him.
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And he made us sit together in heavenly places in christ.
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Your present position is seated with christ in heavenly places.
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And look at this verse, look at this verse.
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Why did he sit us together in heavenly places in christ?
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Why?
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"that in the ages to come he might show,"
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Coming, coming soon.
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There's going to be a show in the whole universe.
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You're watching the trailers now in new creation church.
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You're just watching the trailers.
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The show is coming.
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In fact, god is showing, will show,
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And will be showing in the future,
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To all the--in the ages to come, aeons in the hebrew.
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Ages to come, all right?
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It will be the ages to come, god is going to show.
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Show what?
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"the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us
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In christ jesus."
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Hallelujah.
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God is gonna show the entire universe.
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Even the devil, lucifer, who is satan in hell,
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Will see the show.
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This is why he's tried to stop.
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But god will show the exceeding riches of his grace.
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It will take ages to come to show, people.
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We are only skimming the surface.
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The bible says: "be therefore wise, redeeming the time."
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You know, if you are 40, hey,
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How many more years do you have if jesus tarries?
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Hey, if you are 50, how many more years do you have
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If jesus tarries?
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Hey, if you are 60, how many more years do you have?
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Seventy, eighty?
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You know, redeem the time.
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The bible says you can redeem the time.
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You know what is redeem the time?
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"pastor, time is 24 hours for everyone."
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No, it's not.
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The bible says you can buy back time, you can redeem time.
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Be wise; how do you do it?
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Being wise, redeeming the time.
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Because the days are evil, amen.
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Don't pursue things that cannot satisfy.
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Food that is not bread.
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Drink that doesn't quench your real thirst.
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Make this year a year that you bring your family to church
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And be the royal priest of the family, amen.
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Be the leader god wants you to be.
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And let jesus be glorified in your life.
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And let people look at your life and say,
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"wow, look at that decoration.
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Look at that beauty.
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Look at that brilliance."
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Not in a religious, conceited, holier than thou way,
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But the glory of god being seen the way it was seen in jesus.
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That humble carpenter that walked by the hillside.
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And yet, you cannot shake away the feeling
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That you have that a king is in your midst, amen.
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The same glory upon you and your family,
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In jesus's name.
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With a special prayer to close today's program,
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Announcer: and now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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Now i'm praying for this week.
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In the name of jesus, father,
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Keep your people in your sozo strength and health.
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Deliver every one of them, lord, and their families from every
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Harm, danger, terror, sickness, accident,
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And from the evil day.
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Lead us, lord, throughout this week not into testings
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But deliver us all from the power of the evil one.
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Let your people so shine, lord,
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With the truth that you have shared with us, lord,
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By your spirit today, lord,
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That they will show forth the excellencies of our god
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To a world that's crying for him.
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Thank you, father, let it be one of the best weeks ever, lord,
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For them, whatever remains of it, lord.
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In jesus's name we ask, and all the people said, amen.
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It shall be in jesus's name.
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God bless you all.
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Joseph Prince - Let God Lead You Out of Darkness

December 29, 2025 | 29:45

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