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Joseph Prince - The Lie That Keeps You Lonely and the Truth That Sets You Free

December 2, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Lie That Keeps You Lonely and the Truth That Sets You Free | December 2, 2025

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Joseph prince: jesus is altogether lovely.
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To look at him is to rest.
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To look at men, even the best amongst us,
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Is to disappoint each other.
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We are a society more connected
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Than all the societies that's gone on before.
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Yet, we are never so lonely, like so many people are.
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Depression is increasing at an unprecedented scale.
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People are committing suicide like never before.
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The numbers are increasing.
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Yet we are supposed to be so connected.
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The answer is not found in how many people have "likes"
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For you.
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It is found in what you see of jesus, what you see of him,
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Amen.
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Male announcer: epic battles, unexpected heroes,
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And a parted sea.
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It's time to experience the word of god
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In a fresh, new way.
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In today's message, joseph opens the scroll
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On some of the most amazing scenes in scripture
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And shows you how the lord's love for us
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Has been woven into each one of them.
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If a picture can paint a thousand words,
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Imagine the wonder of a book
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Where every page reveals the beauty of jesus.
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In his book "expedition promised land,"
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Joseph brings the stories of the bible to you
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In full color--
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The miracle of jesus in capernaum,
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The agony and love he poured out for us in gethsemane,
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And the faith and confidence
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To calm the storm on the sea of galilee.
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As you take in these breathtaking sights
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Through the lens of scripture and faith,
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We pray you will experience what the disciples felt
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On the road to emmaus--
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Jesus himself drawing near, walking with you,
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And opening your eyes to see him through the pages of his word.
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Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: the bible says, "looking unto jesus,
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The author and finisher of faith."
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One look at him and you live.
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One look at him and you are healed.
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One look at him, oh, to look at the lovely one
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In whom there is no shadow of turning.
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When you look at jesus, you see how beautiful he is.
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You see how wonderful this person is.
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You know, when he is strong, he is not brash.
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When he is weak, or when he's--it seems like,
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Rather when he is tender, he's not weak.
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He has enthusiasm without fanaticism.
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He has holiness but not pharisaism,
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Not this holier-than-thou attitude.
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Jesus is altogether lovely. to look at him is to rest.
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To look at men, even the best amongst us,
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Is to disappoint each other, amen.
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So when the author of hebrews,
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He wrote about all the heroes of faith
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In hebrews 11.
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He says, "looking unto jesus." look up that greek word.
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It means "looking away from everybody else,
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Unto jesus."
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So every time we come to the house of god,
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We want to see jesus, amen?
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One look at him and your depression flees.
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One look at him, amen, and your chains crumble, amen.
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He's altogether lovely.
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There's not one characteristic that preponderates,
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That is greater than the other.
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Everything about him is holy.
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You know, when some of us we are known to be--
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"oh, this guy is quite severe, he's quite hard."
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Another person is known as very gentle
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But to the point of weakness.
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Jesus is altogether lovely, steel and velvet, servant king,
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Amen, hallelujah.
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So today i want us to look at jesus,
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And while we are looking at him,
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I'm believing that you're going to receive your miracle.
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You're going to receive your healing.
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You're going to receive that breakthrough, amen?
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I cannot make it happen,
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But jesus is the one that does it.
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In luke 18, you have the rich young ruler.
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But at the end of the story of the rich young ruler,
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We have the story of a blind man
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That is not named.
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But today we're going to look at him.
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Why did god put 18 and 19 side by side?
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It's because over here you have the rich young ruler
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Who boasted in his own efforts.
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He says, "what must i do?" notice the emphasis, "do."
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"what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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And because he boasted in his doing,
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The lord gave him the commandments again.
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The lord says, "you know the commandments.
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You shall honor your father and mother,
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Don't steal, don't murder," amen.
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And he says, "all this i have kept from my youth up."
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The bible says the lord looked at him, loved him,
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And the lord said, "one thing you lack."
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And always remember this.
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Every time you boast in your doing,
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The lord will say, "one thing you lack."
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The law was designed to show us our imperfections,
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Our sins, amen?
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It's not given to us for us to keep.
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It's for us to-- it's like a mirror.
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The law shows you your flaws perfectly.
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So the rich young ruler says,
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"what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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The answer to be saved-- "what must i do to be saved?"--
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If he had said that--
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"lord, what can i do, lord, to be saved?"--
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If he had said that, the lord says, "believe on me," amen?
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But he wants to do it to inherit, to earn it.
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And the lord gave him the law, and the bible says he boasted
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He'd kept all this, and then the lord says,
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"one thing you lack:
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Sell all you have and give to the poor."
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I want to let you know that he is the only man jesus said,
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"sell all you have and give to the poor."
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Somehow people have this idea that jesus said that
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To everybody.
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He never said that to everybody.
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He said that to only one person, the rich young ruler.
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"sell all you have and give to the poor.
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And come and follow me." and what happened?
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The man walked away, sad, all right, left jesus,
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Turned his back, went down the road, sad.
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You know, hardly able to give one shekel or one dollar.
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Notice, every time you boast in the law,
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The lord will tell you, "one thing you lack."
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And that was the first commandment, by the way--
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"you shall have no other gods before me,
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Not even money," amen?
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The next chapter, luke 19, you have zacchaeus,
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Another rich man, and he's a tax collector,
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And he's looked upon with disdain and scorn
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By his own people
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Because he's raising taxes for the romans, amen.
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So--and also we know that he cheated people
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And he overextended his authority and all that
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To get more money in, and people didn't like him.
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When jesus came by jericho,
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The people actually tried to push him aside.
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He is small in stature. they bully him.
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They refuse to let him come to the front.
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He is the most hindered.
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And yet the bible says
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He climbed a tree and looked at jesus.
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One look at jesus-- jesus looked up--
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No laws given, no commandments given--
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Jesus looked at him and said, "zachai!"--
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His hebrew name.
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"zachai, come down."
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And zachai in hebrew means "acquitted."
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Jesus says, "come down. i must eat at your house.
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I must eat at your house because you have looked to me.
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Because you have looked to me, i must eat at your house," amen?
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At the end of that dinner--
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And by the way, the people were whispering,
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"he's gone to eat with a sinner."
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And the scandal of grace started.
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And they were whispering among themselves and all that.
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You know, we forget many a times that some people,
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Their sins are more pronounced.
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We look at people and we judge them.
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We measure sins compared to ourselves.
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God doesn't do that.
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We're all dead spiritually...amen.
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Jesus didn't come to make bad people good.
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Jesus came to make dead people live.
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You need to be born again. we are all cut off from god.
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So notice luke 18 and 19.
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Jesus gave the law to the rich young ruler
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Who boasted in his doing.
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He can hardly give up one dollar.
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Jesus gave grace to zacchaeus. no laws given.
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At the end of the dinner, zacchaeus stood up and says,
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"half my goods, i give to the poor.
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And if i've cheated anybody, i'll repay them fourfold!"
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And jesus smiled and said,
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"salvation has come to this house," amen?
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So, again, what caused one man to be stingy,
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Caused another man to be generous?
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What is it? law restricts.
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Grace opens up your heart, opens up your house,
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Makes you generous, amen.
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Praise the lord. thank you, jesus.
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So that is a lesson that god wants us to learn
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In putting all this story aside.
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But there's another story there that is seldom mentioned,
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And it's actually the story of the blind man.
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And it's also side by side with zacchaeus's story.
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You have this, luke 18.
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The blind man that jesus healed,
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It says, "immediately he received his sight,
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And followed jesus, glorifying god.
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And all the people, when they saw it,
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Gave praise to god.
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Then jesus entered and passed through jericho.
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And there was a man called zacchaeus."
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Today i want to talk about the man
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Who was blind in jericho.
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I'm going in reverse. can you see that?
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By the way, look up here, people.
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There are four gospels: matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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And they all point out to the lord jesus christ
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In his different glories, amen, in his different roles,
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So to speak, his divine role.
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In matthew, he is portrayed as the king of the jews, amen.
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And then we have the gospel of mark after that.
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Now, mark is the gospel of jesus as the divine servant, amen?
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The divine servant.
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And it was written by one of the disciples of the lord--
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Of course, mark.
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Gospel of mark.
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And mark was known as the man who failed miserably.
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In the book of acts, he followed the apostle paul around
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For his missionary journey, and halfway through, he gave up.
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He was homesick or whatever.
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He went back and left the apostle paul high and dry,
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You know, without assisting him.
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So paul next time says, "i'm not going to use him anymore,"
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You know, but later on, paul changed his mind
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And paul used him.
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But it was to this man who failed miserably
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That the lord gave this gospel of mark to, amen?
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So the gospel of mark is a servant who failed terribly,
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Writing about the divine servant who never failed.
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And in the gospel of mark, there is no genealogy,
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Because you don't ask a servant about his pedigree.
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Then we come to the gospel of luke.
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The gospel of luke is written for all men, actually,
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Because in there you find that phrase--"the son of man,"
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Jesus showing his manhood more than in any other gospel.
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Each gospel emphasize his kingship,
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But the gospel of luke emphasize his manhood.
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And that's why many of the stories of christmas
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And things like that
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Come from either matthew or luke,
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Where we have both, we have genealogy, amen?
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And luke was a physician. so there are fine touches there.
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Luke will notice that the man with the withered hand,
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It was his right hand.
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And right hand is the hand that you use
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For your work, amen?
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So only a doctor can notice things like that.
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But all the words of the gospels
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Are spirit-inspired, god-breathed.
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Then we have the gospel of john.
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The gospel of john is the gospel--
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What we call the highest exaltation of jesus
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Because it typifies jesus
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As god come in human flesh, amen?
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"in the beginning was the word,
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And the word was with god, and the word was god,
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And the word became flesh and dwelt among us,
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And we beheld his glory,
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The glory of the only begotten of the father,
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Full of grace and truth," hallelujah.
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So notice, no pedigree, no genealogy.
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It begins with "he was with god, and he is god," amen?
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So, we look at the gospel of mark
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To see this account of this unnamed blind beggar
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To see jesus.
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And from seeing the lord in this story,
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You're gonna receive your impartation from the lord
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Even as the word goes forth.
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Praise god. so we--go to mark 10.
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"for even the son of man did not come to be served,
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But to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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Now they came to jericho.
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As he went out of jericho with his disciples
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And a great multitude, blind bartimaeus,
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The son of timaeus, sat by the road begging."
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So we are given his name here. yet it is not his name.
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"bar" means son, son of timaeus.
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Now, "timaeus" is the anglicized form,
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But in the hebrew it is "timae," son of timae.
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And timae is used very often in the book of leviticus
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For "unclean."
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So he has no name. bartimaeus is not a name.
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It's son of timae, son of timae, son of timae,
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Son of the unclean one, son of the unclean one.
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So all of a sudden, this blind beggar with no name,
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Amen, heard this commotion.
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"and a great multitude, blind bartimaeus,
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The son of timaeus, sat by the roadside begging.
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And when he heard that it was jesus of nazareth,"
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In luke's account, it says that he asked the people,
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"what's happening?"
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He heard the cacophony of the crowd passing by,
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All the different sounds and noises,
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And he realized something is happening.
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There's a sudden crowd and all that.
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"what's going on?" he asked someone, and they said,
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"jesus of nazareth is passing by."
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Now, they used that term-- "jesus of nazareth."
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Today it's an honorable term-- "jesus of nazareth."
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But when they crucified him,
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They put over his head "jesus of nazareth."
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It's actually a derogatory term.
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Like, nathanael in john chapter 1,
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When he heard that jesus came out of nazareth,
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He said this: "can anything good come out of nazareth?"
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Look at the map of nazareth.
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Nazareth is right smack in the middle of israel
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Where people from egypt-- in those days,
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The three continents-- would cross ways,
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And they would cross nazareth.
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So nazareth became a city known for its, you know,
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A notorious city for-- it's like a sin city.
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So he heard the people say,
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"jesus of nazareth is passing by,"
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And then he cried out.
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"he began to cry out and say,
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'jesus, son of david, have mercy on me!'"
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Notice he didn't cry, "jesus of nazareth!"
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Whoa, something happened.
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In hebrew, "yeshua, bar david, hanani."
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Hanani means "have grace on me." "hanan."
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If your name is john, it is yo, yahweh, hanan.
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That means "god is grace."
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Hanan there is the same word he used here.
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"hanani, have mercy on me! have grace on me!
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Yeshua bar david, hanani! have mercy on me!"
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He didn't say, "jesus of nazareth!"
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What an amazing thing.
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The people said, "jesus of nazareth is passing by,"
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But this blind man saw more than all of them put together.
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And because the gospel of mark
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Is the first gospel of all the four gospels,
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This is the very first time a man called jesus "bar david."
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Later on, the next chapter,
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When jesus rode into the final week into jerusalem,
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He was riding on a donkey.
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"behold your king comes, meek and lowly,
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Riding on a donkey."
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And the people shouted, "hosanna to the son of david."
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They learned from the blind man.
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Next.
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"then many warned him to be quiet."
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You know, the crowd is always like that, okay?
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One moment they will shout, "hosanna to the son of david!"
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Next week, "crucify him!"
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That's why our trust must be completely in the lord.
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Don't get bitter with people.
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You know, in a way, have confidence in people,
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Amen, but don't put your utmost trust in people.
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People fail.
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The best of them will fail, amen.
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Only one never fails, amen.
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So the people say, "quiet!
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Quiet!" all right?
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"but he cried out all the more, 'son of david, hanani!'"
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The people said, "shut up!" he shouted out.
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[congregation laughing]
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Isn't it interesting,
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The people knew him by his father.
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It's not your background; it's not who you are--
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What people say about who you are
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Or who your background is.
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It's who you say of jesus
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That makes all the difference in the world.
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He says, "jesus, you are the king."
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But what a king, a servant king.
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Amen?
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So he was a man who shouted, "jesus, have mercy on me!"
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And they said, "shut up."
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He shouted even more, all the more, "jesus!"
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The last time i read,
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Somebody else shouted at jericho.
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It was joshua and the mighty men
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That went around the wall of jericho.
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On the seventh day, the seventh time,
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Joshua said, "shout!
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For the lord has given you the city."
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They all shouted, and the walls of jericho fell.
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This time, who was the one that shouted?
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A beggar. and what happened?
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The walls of his blindness came down.
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So god is doing a parallel between these two, amen?
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So here, you see a parallel again.
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Joshua shouted to his men, but here it's a beggar shouting.
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The walls of jericho fell.
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A greater wall in this man's life,
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His blindness, fell, amen.
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And when he shouted, the bible says jesus stood still.
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Again, the story of jericho. the story of joshua, rather.
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Jesus stood still.
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There was a time that joshua was fighting
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Against the amorites.
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He and his men were fighting not too far away from jericho.
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They met--after jericho, they went to gilgal
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And they climbed up.
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And when they heard that the gibeonites asked them to help,
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And they came--
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You know, it was a forced march throughout the night
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To fight against the amorites.
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And they were fighting and they had the upper hand.
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They were winning against the amorites.
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But the sun was going down.
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Many of you have been there in the valley of ayalon.
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Actually, in fact, you are there--
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Most of the time on a good day,
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You can see the sun setting on one side
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And the moon rising on the other side.
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Let me show you a picture of the valley of ayalon.
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This is the valley here,
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And that's where the battle took place.
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You can see the sun setting on the evening
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And the moon rising on the other side.
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So what happened was that joshua realized
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They were losing the momentum.
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They were winning and the enemies were retreating.
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But the moment they had to break for the night,
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The enemies can gain back momentum, all right?
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They can get the upper hand if they rest.
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So joshua looked at the sun, and this is what joshua says:
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"sun, stand still over gibeon!
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And moon, in the valley of aijalon."
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And many of you have been to israel,
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And many of you have passed by that valley.
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You have to-- from the airport to jerusalem,
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You have to pass by that valley.
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And you can see, sometimes,
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The moo--the sun is setting at the right time
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And the moon coming up.
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Joshua says, "sun, stand still! moon, stay there!"
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And you know that sun exerts a gravitational pull
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On all the planets, not just earth.
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And if it stop exerting the gravitational pull,
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The earth stops rotating.
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So the bible says-- drop down, it says,
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"there never was a day like that," all right,
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The bible says,
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"the lord heeded the voice of a man.
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The lord fought for israel."
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And there was-- the sun did not go down.
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It was a longer day.
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In the chinese history, they recorded a day--
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There was one day where it dragged for so long.
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And it was the time of joshua, the walls of jericho, amen?
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"sun, stand still!" and here who is shouting?
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Over there, it was the commander of the lord's army shouting.
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Here is a blind beggar saying, "jesus have mercy on me!"
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And jesus stood still.
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The one who made the sun stand still
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Stood still at the shout of a...rich man?
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A beggar. a blind beggar with no name.
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You know, kings in those days,
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Many of them, they listened to the vips.
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They listened to other kings. they listened to wealthy people.
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But this king stood still at the cry of a blind beggar.
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Many of us go, "ah, poor blind beggar."
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We are the blind beggar. all of us are blind, amen?
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And we are all lost in our lostness.
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And the best part is that-- the most proud thing is that--
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To boast of our nothingness, actually,
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So we are always trying to get the validation of other people.
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We are a society today-- in today's world,
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We are a society more connected
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Than all the societies that's gone before.
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Yet, we are never so lonely, like so many people are.
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Depression is increasing at unprecedented scale.
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People are committing suicide like never before.
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The numbers are increasing.
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Yet we are supposed to be so connected,
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And yet we are never so lonely.
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Because the answer is not found in how many people have "likes"
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For you;
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It is found in what you see of jesus,
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What you see of him, amen?
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Hallelujah.
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Something about jesus i notice also in the gospels--
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You read carefully.
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You can never flatter jesus
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Into having a good opinion of you.
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Neither can you ever criticize or slight him
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Into bad or hard thoughts of you.
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That's something i realized about jesus.
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Many of us, you know, we judge other people and circumstances
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Based on how people treat us.
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If they flatter us, we have good opinions of them.
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If they write bad things about us
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Or they say bad things about us, all right,
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We have hard thoughts about them.
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That shows that we cannot be objective.
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But the lord many a times,
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You know, people try to flatter him,
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And he goes right to the point, amen?
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So to see him is to be like him.
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It's altogether lovely. can i have a good amen?
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Announcer: and now, a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: stand to your feet.
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Praise the name of jesus. praise the lord.
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Some of you are waiting for your vacation,
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Your holidays, and all that.
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We're gonna pray for protection.
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Never take protection for granted, amen?
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Lift your hands all across this place.
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Father in heaven, i thank you
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That you are the god who commissioned your angels
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To keep charge over your people.
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I pray in jesus's name that this coming week,
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For those who are traveling, for those who are going places,
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Lord, and even for those who are here, lord,
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In all their daily travels, lord, i pray,
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Commission your angels to keep charge over them,
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To deliver them from all evil.
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Protect your people, lord, throughout this week
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From every harm, danger, accident, terror, from tragedy.
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And also protect them, lord,
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From every infection, from every disease.
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Father in heaven, in the name of jesus, i pray,
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Father, you'll go in front of them,
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Make all the crooked places straight.
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Thank you, father, for the gift of your son,
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Our lord jesus christ.
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He's the greatest gift, lord, we can ever have.
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Give us your spirit of wisdom and revelation
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That this coming week we see more and more
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Of our lord jesus.
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In jesus's name. and all the people said amen.
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God bless you. we'll see you again, amen.
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Truth feels negotiable.
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What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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But through all the noise and the shaking,
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There is one who is still the same.
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In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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In the panic, he is still the promise.
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Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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He is still jesus, above it all.
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So no matter what's popular today
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Or forgotten tomorrow,
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This ministry will still always be
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All about jesus-- still the center of our call,
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Still the heartbeat of our people.
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Female: 2022, i was diagnosed with cancer.
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I had a lump in my breast.
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They had diagnosed it as a stage 4.
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The cancer had spread to my liver, my bone,
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And the breast, of course.
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My husband and i were watching joseph prince one night.
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He called out "somebody had a liver disease,"
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And my husband goes, "look, that's you, stand up."
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And i stood up, we stood up in my living room,
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And he prayed over me about the liver.
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And in november of 2022, i got the report back
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That my liver was healing very, very well.
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In fact, by march it was totally gone.
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And so i have no cancer in me today,
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And they've released me from all medications
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That i've been taking for two years.
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So i am free from it.
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Thank you, jesus. thank you, jesus.
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Had i have not known about the grace of god
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And this ministry, i don't know where i'd be.
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And i remember joseph prince said that those--
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That that scripture in thessalonians that said,
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"those that there will be alive and remain
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Until the coming of the lord"-- that was mine.
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Joseph Prince - The Lie That Keeps You Lonely and the Truth That Sets You Free

December 2, 2025 | 29:45

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