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Joseph Prince - Lost Years Are Not Lost When You Have God

December 31, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Lost Years Are Not Lost When You Have God | December 31, 2025

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Joseph prince: 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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I pray that you will continue to partner with us
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To take this gospel farther and faster than ever before.
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Male announcer: in a world that is ever-changing,
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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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In the bad news, worse news, and fake news,
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He is still the good news.
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From feeding the 5,000 to feeding your family,
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He is still the supply.
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Calming the sea of galilee to calming the storm in your mind,
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He is still the peace because when all else falters, fades,
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And falls he is still jesus above it all.
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So no matter what's popular today or forgotten tomorrow,
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This ministry will still always be about jesus.
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Joseph prince: your generosity helps someone else experience
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The same jesus who changed your life.
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Announcer: will you still choose
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To make our mission
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Your mission today?
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Make your best gift
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Joseph prince: today jesus our mercy seat,
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And no one can remove jesus from his place.
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I said no one can remove jesus from his place.
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Can i have a good amen?
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I don't claim to know everything,
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But i do know the one who loves me, the one who loves you.
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Amen?
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And he wants us to put our trust in him.
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And when you come to him, see the blood.
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Don't see yourself.
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Don't see your good or even your bad.
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Don't see yourself, see the blood.
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The blood is there at the true mercy seat in heaven sprinkled
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On the throne of god, and you have a perfect standing
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To come before god.
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And your prayers are not to make yourself feel good,
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To soothe your soul;
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Your prayers are to get real, solid,
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Concrete answers from god.
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Yes, god is in the business of miracles
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That transcend time and space.
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He can do it.
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God can reverse--in fact, the bible says
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God can restore to you the years the locusts has eaten.
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So all the wasted years and wasted time,
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God can restore it.
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God can give you new wine, amen, in an instant,
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What takes other people laborious work.
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Amen.
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Don't envy them. don't envy them.
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If they knew the truth, they'll envy you.
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Announcer: as we say goodbye to 2025, let's look back
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With gratitude and step into the new year 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 of good
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For a better tomorrow.
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Imagine having the power to reset your day
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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: you know, the lord is able--even today
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He's in heaven, lo-- a location--
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There is a specific place where bodily jesus is.
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When he rose from the dead, he didn't rise like a spirit, okay?
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He rose bodily, with a body that is glorified.
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And the bible says that one day when the lord returns for us,
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Your bodies and my bodies will be transformed--this vile body
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Will be transformed to--like his glorious body.
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Philippians tells us that, and we're gonna be like him.
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So bodily he's in heaven at the father's right hand;
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But in terms of what he can do and accomplish for us
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There is no difference, as if he's beside you right now
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As he was when he walked by the shores of galilee
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2,000 years ago.
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When he touched the leper and cleansed him
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Just by the hillside not far away from the lake of galilee,
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Just as when he turned the water into wine, he's the same today.
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Because i'm telling you if i give you two gold coins--
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Not gold coins.
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I keep on saying gold coins.
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But our one dollar coin looks like gold, doesn't it?
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Okay, so we have a one dollar coin.
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If i give you two coins of a dollar each,
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What value do you have now?
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Two dollars, right?
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But let's say you return me--you give back to me
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A paper note of $2.
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Have i lost the value?
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I have not.
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In a different form.
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One is metal, the other one is paper, right?
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So when the lord jesus says, "it's expedient for you
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That i go away, but when i go away,
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I will send the holy spirit to you,"
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I just want you to know that the holy spirit,
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It's just like jesus.
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He's the spirit of jesus christ
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And today he's resident on earth.
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He is in you and i.
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The only difference is the form.
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The form is this.
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Jesus bodily is in--at the father's right hand and one day
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He's gonna return for us, but the holy spirit is now in us
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And is present with us and active on the earth.
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Amen?
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The only thing is that the value is not lost because the--like
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The two coins and the paper note it's the same value,
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But now jesus is no more localized
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Like he was when he was in israel.
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When he was in galilee, he can be at one place at one time.
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Am i right?
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Right?
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But the holy spirit is everywhere.
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Amen.
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And it's the same power of jesus.
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He cleansed the leper on the hillside over there.
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Now he can cleanse lepers everywhere, amen,
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If someone would just reach out, touch him, believe, amen,
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And he's gonna do it.
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Praise the lord.
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Even when jesus was on earth, he demonstrated himself
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To be the lord of time and space.
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There is no distance.
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There's no barrier.
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If you believe the word of the lord,
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Even though he's in heaven, all right,
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At the father's right hand,
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Today he's with us by his holy spirit, amen,
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And one day he will return for us bodily.
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Now, how many of you know that when we look
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At our children--the love we feel for our children,
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Multiply that 100 times, 1,000 times over.
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We have this love because we were made in his image.
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Amen.
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We are but his offspring.
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So it gives you an idea of what god has for you.
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Now, if you love someone very much,
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If you love a spouse or your girlfriend or boyfriend
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Or you love your child, what is that feature
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In the person that you love the most?
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Amen.
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What--the cuteness, the lovableness,
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The charming ways the person does something.
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Whatever it is, think of this.
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All beauty come from the lord jesus christ.
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Just like the source is always--the created
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Cannot be greater than the creator.
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You look at puppies.
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You look at all the--beautiful flowers and all that.
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The--these are created.
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Even our children, they are created.
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We love them.
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And multiply that beauty that you see in your loved one
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1,000 times, 10,000 times over and that can still
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Not fully describe the beauty of our lord jesus christ.
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So you got to know that we don't realize how beautiful he is.
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Can i have a good amen?
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And it's always good to invite him from the beginning
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Of the year into your life, amen,
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To walk you through the entire year because he has gone ahead.
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You know, when you invite jesus to your occasion,
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Whatever it is--there was once in the bible in cana of galilee
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A couple invited jesus and his disciples to the wedding,
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And it was a wedding of a wealthy man.
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We know he's a wealthy man because of the way
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He lavished his spending on the wedding.
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In jewish culture, the father of the bride pays for everything.
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So obviously he was a wealthy man, but the wine ran out.
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It's the most embarrassing thing to have happen
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When the wine that you are boasting about runs out,
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And wine is one of the features
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Of celebration in jewish weddings.
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Okay?
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And the mother of jesus was there,
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And she went to jesus and said, "they have no wine."
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And listen, jesus--there were six waterpots there, right?
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What were they made of? what were they made of?
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Yeah, a lot of people say clay.
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It's not correct.
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It's six waterpots of stone.
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Jesus said, "fill the waterpots with water."
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He was demonstrating something.
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The six waterpots were filled to the brim with water.
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That's with water that god gave israel--the nation of israel,
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Which is a microcosm of all mankind.
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God gave man the law and man cannot keep the law.
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So the law was written on stones.
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This water, like a picture of the law,
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Was fi--was put in stone.
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So that's man.
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Man cannot keep the law.
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Amen?
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And water is not for celebration.
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In this occasion, it was the wine that ran out.
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But jesus says, "demo--show it to the governor of the feast."
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As the waterpots passed by the lord jesus,
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They must have--the water must have blushed
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In the presence of his master.
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And by the time it reached the governor of the feast,
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The one who runs the entire wedding,
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He realized that after he partook
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Of--he tasted some of it, he says that, "whoa--"
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He had to call for the father of the bride,
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Call the bride, call the groom and said,
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"look, you guys are amazing."
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Most people will give the guests good wine first, right?
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Why?
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Because when they start drinking
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And they start getting intoxicated and all that,
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You can give them anything they'll drink later on
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Because they can't tell the quality anymore, right?
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Am i right?
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Yeah, because they are drunk.
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"but you, you've kept the best wine until now."
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So not only jesus turned the water into wine,
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He turned it into best wine.
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Now, for you to get wine, you got to have grapes, right?
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Grapes come from vine--i don't wanna say vine trees.
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They're not actually trees.
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In fact, vineyard is made of clinging vines,
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And the vine don't exactly have a trunk like a tree.
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It clings.
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And the trellis, you can see pictures of this or you go
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To--when you travel in australia or some places,
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You go to the vineyard,
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You will find trellis and they are shaped like a cross
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Usually in the shape of a t.
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Hallelujah.
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In the cross jesus says, "i am the vine.
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You are the branches."
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And you plant the--your vine tree and your vine
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Will start growing.
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Your vineyard will start producing grapes, right?
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But it's not quality grapes the first few years.
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For quality grapes, you gotta wait for 3, 4 years.
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And even then, after 3, 4 years, you don't get good wine.
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You have to prepare for a few more years for good wine.
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And then after that, amen, when you have your wine--but to have
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Very good wine as some of you will know, wine connoisseurs
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And all that, those who can appreciate wine,
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They say that the longer the wine is stored
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The better it is.
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So if a wine is like 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years,
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50 years, the value increases.
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But then jesus demonstrated in this wedding that--
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What he did was this.
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To get good wine, 4, 5 years, then you squeeze the grapes,
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You go through the process of fermentation and all that.
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You get good wine.
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But even then, really good wine, 20 years, 30 years,
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40 years, 50 years.
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Very expensive wine now.
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What jesus gave to them was--he gave
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The very, very good wine in one instance.
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He compressed time,
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Demonstrating that he is the lord of time.
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Amen?
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I just want you to know that the lord said this one time,
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The second miracle actually.
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The first miracle of his ministry
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Was turning the water into wine.
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The second one was actually the healing of the noble man's son.
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A noble man, the bible says, came to jesus when--again,
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In cana of galilee, and the bible says
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He that he had a son that was very sick.
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He wanted jesus to go with him to lay hands on his son,
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Just like many of us say, "lord, if only you would come down
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To--like, when you did by the shores of galilee
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When you cleansed the lepers,
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Would you just come to me and touch me, lord?"
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But the lord said to the man, "go your way, your son lives."
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And the man is many miles away, you know, where he came from.
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He had to spend the night there and then proceed to go back home
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The next day.
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When he reached home, they shouted to him--the servant
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Shouted that his son is healed and the son came out
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And all that, and he asked when his son was healed.
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Exactly the same time when jesus told him the night--
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The day before, "go your way, your son lives."
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And he believed.
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This time just like the first miracle demonstrates he's a lord
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Of time, this demonstrated he is the lord of space, all right?
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The lord does not need to be physically present with you
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To touch you or to heal you.
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Amen?
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All right, romans 3 tells us very clearly,
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"being justified freely--"
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How many of you know that you are justified?
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Justified is like a play on the words just if i'd never sinned.
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How many of you like to come to god and god treats you
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Like not that you don't sin but just as if you
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Have never sinned?
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Well, justified has the idea you are acquitted.
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And not only that, there's no reason for god to do that,
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Right, but based on the work of jesus christ.
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So for you it's freely.
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You don't have to earn it.
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It's freely.
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"you are justified freely by his grace through the redemption
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That's in christ jesus, whom god set forth as a propitiation,"
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Big word, i'm going to come to it, "by his blood,
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Through faith."
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Now, what is this propitiation?
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Propitiation is a word that we don't talk about nowadays,
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But it is--literally in the greek, which the new testament
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Is written in--in the greek, it is the word mercy seat.
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In the greek version of the old testament,
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The ark of the covenant,
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The mercy seat is called hilasterion.
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Here it is hilasterion, the greek word for mercy seat.
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Now, let me share with you what's a mercy seat, all right?
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You can take this, keep it with you.
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It's gonna bless you.
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You'll have the confidence that god hears your prayer.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Now, let's look at the ark of the covenant.
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The ark of the covenant, this is how it looks like.
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Amen?
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It has--it is made of an old, long wooden chest, if you would.
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All right?
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And the wood is a special wood.
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It's incorruptible wood.
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It is a wood that's very sturdy and strong,
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And it's incorruptible because it is almost immune
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To every other disease.
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And god used that kind of wood, acacia wood,
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To demonstrate the physical humanity of his son,
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The lord jesus christ, that is incorruptible.
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And then they overlaid with gold.
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You know what?
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Let me demonstrate to you, okay?
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There's a video here i wanna show you.
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First of all, the wood; the full humanity of jesus christ,
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The christmas story.
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He came as man.
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Overlaid with gold, deity; outside, without, and within.
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Also inside overlaid with gold.
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These are the staves, wood, and overlaid with gold as well.
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And then what covers it?
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The mercy seat.
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It's made from one slab of gold.
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The whole thing is chiseled--or beaten, rather,
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Into one slab of gold.
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That's the mercy seat.
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The mercy seat covers the ark.
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If you lift it up, it's an empty box, but there's ingredients--i
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Mean, there are things inside and predominantly three things,
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But for our focus today because of time i'm just gonna tell you
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The main thing it housed is the two stones
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Of the ten commandments,
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The tablets of the ten commandments.
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That's why the ark of the covenant
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Is also known as the ark of the law.
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The ark of the covenant because of the two tablets of stone
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That has the finger of god's handwriting,
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The ten commandments.
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And in exodus 25, it says this:
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"the cherubim shall stretch out their wings."
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Drop down.
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"you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark."
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So here is a box.
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It houses the ten commandments.
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Don't forget this box in the old testament
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Is a picture of our lord jesus christ.
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It's a visual aid for the children of israel
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To understand.
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He's fully human: wood.
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He's fully divine: god.
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As far as you and i are concerned, god says,
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"build a mercy seat and put it right over the ark."
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Notice the four sides of the mercy seat fully covers the ark
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That house the ten commandments, and god says,
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"never let the ten commandments come out."
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The mercy seat must cover it, and that's why propitiation
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Is the word mercy seat.
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In hebrew, kaporet, which means covering, from the word kafar.
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Actually, it is the third form--third voice, the intense
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Form of the hebrew kafar.
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It's not just cover, cover.
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It's the intensive form of the word, which means fully cover,
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Fully expiate.
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Eternally cover.
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Eternally remove our sins because on the mercy seat
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Is where the blood is sprinkled.
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So the high priest once a year on yom kippur,
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Day of atonement, he comes in.
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Okay, let's see--let's say this is the mercy seat, okay?
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Let's say this is the mercy seat.
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He comes in the holy of holies, the very extremely holy place,
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Holy of holies, and he comes before the cherubim
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And he sprinkles blood on the mercy seat.
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As long as the blood is on the mercy seat--amen.
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So the ark of the covenant is also a picture
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Of god's throne, okay?
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You can come freely.
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So once a year to sort of, like, re-enact this,
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The high priest goes into the holy of holies,
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Amen, and he sprinkles blood
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Once on the mercy seat.
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Once is all that's needed for god.
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The death of jesus once and for all--he shed his blood.
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Amen?
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It's all that is needed.
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Now, before the--once on the mercy seat
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And before the mercy seat seven times.
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Why seven?
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Number of perfection.
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You and i today when we come before god
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We have a perfect standing.
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You have a perfect standing.
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Amen.
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Not only that, why seven times again?
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Because we need to be reminded again and again and again
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That in spite of our sins,
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In spite of us not having our act all together,
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We can come to god and we don't look at ourselves
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Good things that we have done,
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All the bad things that we have done.
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We look to the blood of jesus.
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As long as the blood is on the mercy seat
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And jesus has shed his blood,
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God today--the cherubim is not looking
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At the broken law.
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If there's no blood, they will see the law
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And the law says,
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"if you disobey me, i will curse you."
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But the cherubim is now looking at the blood,
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And the blood says, "you deserve death.
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You deserve death. you deserve death.
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You deserve death."
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But somebody has died.
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Blood is the metonymy of death.
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Blood means death.
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Jesus shed his blood.
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So the fullest judgment, the curse can exact from sinful men
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Besides disease, poverty, depression.
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The ultimate is what?
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[speaking foreign language]
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Death.
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That's the final thing, right?
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Am i right?
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That's the final thing.
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The ultimate punishment for man is death.
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So at the cross when jesus shed his blood, remember this.
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God so loved the world--another thing i must tell you is this.
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Even believers have this wrong.
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Do you know that nowhere in the new testament
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Does it ever say that god must be reconciled to man?
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Never.
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And that's why paul says,
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"i preach repentance towards god."
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Change your mind towards god.
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He is a good god.
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God does not need to be reconciled.
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God does not need--jesus's death did not put god in a good mood.
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Jesus's death did not put god in a favorable posture.
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God was already favorable before jesus died.
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Which one came first, jesus's death or for god
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So loved the world came first?
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God loved us even though we were in our sins
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Even before jesus came.
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It is the reason why jesus came.
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For god so loved the world that he gave.
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He gave his only son because he loved you and i,
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And his son died on the cross for our sins.
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Amen.
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So the price for our sins has been paid and the blood
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Is now sprinkled on the true mercy seat
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In heaven.
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Jesus is our mercy seat.
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And right now because of the blood,
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When it come to god--listen,
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The only thing the blood of jesus does
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In terms of god receiving man is that it makes god righteous
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In making man righteous in his eyes.
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God is not merciful in making you righteous because the blood
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Of jesus, the holiness of god--all the claims
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Of god's holiness on your life is fully met
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By the blood of jesus.
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There's no more claim on you.
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It's all fully met.
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All the claims of the law is fully met
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In the blood of christ.
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Amen?
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All the obedience god demands from you from the law
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Is fully met in the blood of jesus.
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In other words, the blood of jesus,
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When you see what it has done for god--
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The only thing is that it makes god righteous.
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It has a right--it gives god the righteous foundation
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To make you righteous.
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Can i have a good amen?
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So today jesus our mercy seat,
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And no one can remove jesus from his place.
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I said no one can remove jesus from his place.
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Can i have a good amen?
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I'll bring this to a close.
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Friend, i don't claim to know everything,
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But i do know the one who loves me, the one who loves you.
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Amen?
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And he wants us to put our trust in him.
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And when you come to him, see the blood.
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Don't see yourself.
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Don't see your good or even your bad.
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Don't see yourself, see the blood.
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The blood is there at the true mercy seat in heaven sprinkled
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On the throne of god, and you have a perfect standing
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To come before god.
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And your prayers are not to make yourself feel good,
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To soothe your soul;
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Your prayers are to get real, solid,
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Concrete answers from god.
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Yes, god is in the business of miracles
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That transcend time and space.
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He can do it.
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God can reverse--in fact, the bible says
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God can restore to you the years the locusts has eaten.
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So all the wasted years and wasted time,
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God can restore it.
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God can give you new wine, amen, in an instant,
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What takes other people laborious work.
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Amen.
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Don't envy them. don't envy them.
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If they knew the truth, they'll envy you.
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And now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: stand to your feet.
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This coming week, the lord bless you and your families
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The blessings of abraham, the blessings of deuteronomy 28,
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The blessings of the firstborn.
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The lord make his face to shine on you, smile on you,
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Make the crooked places in this week straight.
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No stress, no fear, no anxiety, but a shalom peace
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In your heart to govern everything that you do.
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The lord lift up his countenance and keep every one of you safe
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To the next year; safe from all harm, safe from all danger,
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Safe from all evil.
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The lord grant to you and your loved ones his wonderful peace
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That protects your heart and mind from all fears, anxieties,
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And worries in jesus's name, and all the people said amen.
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Female announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
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Would like to send to you a copy of his book "destined to reign"
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Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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From the lord.
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Joseph Prince - Lost Years Are Not Lost When You Have God

December 31, 2025 | 29:45

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