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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Marriage Trap No One Warned You About | February 11, 2026
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- Joseph prince: let's live our lives in honor of him.
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- The one who didn't have to come down, chose to come down.
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- Didn't have to lay down his life.
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- He has power to lay down or to pick it up, he laid down, amen.
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- So let's give glory, our lives, let's honor him.
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- Sometimes, you know, we want children and we focus on
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- Children and we occupy ourselves with children.
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- We don't spend time with god anymore.
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- You know, children becomes our idol or one thing
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- That children becomes an idol.
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- We have many testimonies of people
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- When they focus on the lord, they don't focus on the problem,
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- They occupy themselves with christ.
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- Like what abraham did, the result is the promise.
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- Church, sometimes it's so easy in a married life
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- To start getting dutiful because there are so many duties
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- And responsibilities.
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- There are always things to talk about that are duties
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- And responsibilities and they never end
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- And we forgot that this is not the priority in our marriage.
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- They are actually the secondary, the third, you know.
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- And don't forget that our number one
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- Is to enjoy each other.
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- God gave us each other to enjoy each other.
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- In other words, god is not saying,
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- "because your family is in order, i chose you."
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- This is not the teaching here.
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- The teaching is that i have known you, i have loved you,
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- I have chosen you in order that you may command.
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- You see what the fruit of the fruit, we want this fruit.
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- Guys, you cannot have this fruit.
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- You cannot have your wife respect you
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- If she doesn't see jesus in you.
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- But when she sees that you have a genuine relationship
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- With the lord and you come to her and say,
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- "i feel like the lord is telling us,"
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- You know, i think, i think you are helping her
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- To see the importance of having the lord in your relationship
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- Your focus should be on occupation with christ,
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- Focusing on christ, meditating on the word, amen.
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- And then you have that revelation to order
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- And command and bring rule, divine rule.
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- On earth?
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- In today's message, joseph shares more
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- About how to enjoy a blessed marriage and family life.
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- What does it mean to have a friend you can always rely on
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- In a world where even close relationships can let us down?
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- There is one friend who never will, jesus.
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- In joseph prince's children's book, "jesus, my best friend,"
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- Your kids and grandkids will discover how much
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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: let's live our lives in honor of him.
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- The one who didn't have to come down, chose to come down.
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- Didn't have to lay down his life.
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- He has power to lay down or to pick it up, he laid down, amen.
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- So let's give glory, our lives, let's honor him.
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- Whether it's our married life, our business life,
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- Our ministry life, our relationships,
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- There are some things you can have the right to do,
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- But you choose not to do because of him.
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- And he is someone who watches that.
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- He cares. he loves.
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- Now, there is a passage in the bible
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- That has been ringing in my spirit.
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- God's been talking to me, been talking to me about it.
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- I've been meditating and many of you will gain
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- And eat from my meditation from this passage
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- Because it is so rich in family blessings.
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- It tells you about communion,
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- Not just so that you are righteous,
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- But you use that righteousness.
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- No point being all dressed up, very nice and very glorious
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- But nowhere to go, amen.
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- You are dressed up to go somewhere.
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- To have an audience with the king.
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- To have an audience with the one
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- Who can influence your situation.
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- You have an audience with the one who says,
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- "in this chapter, is there anything too hard for the lord?"
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- Amen.
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- There's nothing too hard, there is nothing too secret
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- That he will not reveal to his servant
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- As you will see in this chapter.
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- Friend, i'm here.
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- I'm so excited because this passage
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- Will give us the secrets of family life,
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- Family blessing, family well-being.
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- You ready?
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- Now this is not sunday school, so i'm gonna talk to you
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- Eyeball to eyeball, all right?
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- Sometimes, you know, we want children and we focus
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- On children and we occupy ourselves with children.
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- We don't spend time with god anymore.
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- You know, children becomes our idol or one thing
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- That children becomes an idol until it tears our inside.
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- Every time that time of the month comes and we find that,
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- You know, we don't have, we're not pregnant, you know,
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- We tear ourselves apart, you know.
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- And i know the feeling.
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- I know that feeling.
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- I know it's not easy even for the husband, okay,
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- But we have many testimonies of people
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- When they focus on the lord, they don't focus on the problem,
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- They occupy themselves with christ.
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- Like what abraham did, the fatness of the three measures
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- Of fine flour, bread, make cake, eating the cake,
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- Eating the filet mignon, amen, the result is the promise.
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- So even sarah says, "now i'm old, shall i have pleasure?"
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- She's focusing on pleasure.
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- Can i have pleasure?
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- She didn't say, "can i have a child?"
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- It is when you have pleasure with your lord
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- That a miracle is birthed.
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- Are you listening?
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- She says, "shall i have--after i've grown old,
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- Shall i have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
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- My lord being old also, shall i have pleasure?
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- Church, sometimes it's so easy in a married life
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- To start getting dutiful because there are so many duties
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- And responsibilities.
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- There are always things to talk about that are duties
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- And responsibilities and they never end
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- And we forgot that this is not the priority in our marriage.
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- They are actually the secondary, the third, you know.
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- And don't forget that our number one
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- Is to enjoy each other.
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- God gave us each other to enjoy each other.
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- Long after the children are gone,
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- You will still have each other
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- Or else when they leave, the last one leave,
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- You look at each other, "wait, who are you?"
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- 'cause you always live through your children.
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- You always live through your, you know, you wouldn't say mommy
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- And daddy and mommy and daddy.
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- Even the kids are not around, you call each other
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- Mommy and daddy.
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- It's not romantic.
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- "it works for us, pastor."
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- Okay, but to me, it's not romantic.
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- She's always a woman and you'll always be a man, amen.
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- And the bible, you know, the bible has no word for wife.
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- You must check from the context, all right, the bible talks about
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- Marriage but no word for wife.
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- There's a word for groom, "chatan."
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- There's a word for bride, "kallah," "kallah,"
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- But there's no word for husband and wife.
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- The word for husband is man.
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- The word for wife is woman.
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- In the wisdom of god, god knows
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- That if we start calling ourselves, that's my wife,
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- Oh, that's a woman.
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- They stop looking at their wife as a woman until another man
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- Pays attention, "wow, she is a woman."
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- Don't wait for that to happen.
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- Start seeing her as a woman, amen.
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- I said amen.
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- So i guess the wisdom of god is that, you know,
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- Even after they are married, god says, "she's your woman.
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- He's your man."
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- Amen.
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- And being a woman, you know, she loves to be treated
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- Like a woman.
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- But sometimes, we start off that way, loving,
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- Enjoying each other, and then the duties come in.
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- The children come in and the responsibilities come in.
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- We forget to kiss.
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- We forget to say words like please.
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- We forget to be taking each other as precious.
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- And it's very sad.
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- I want to tell you something here that she said,
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- "after i've grown old, shall i have pleasure,
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- My lord being old also?"
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- All that she's talking within herself, you know.
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- She's not trying to impress anybody
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- By calling abraham my lord.
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- By the way, i read this many years ago.
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- I came home and i told my wife, "hey, sarah said this,
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- You know."
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- And by the way, sarah lived, you know something?
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- When sarah was younger, right, about 60 years old,
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- A king wanted her for his harem.
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- Egyptian pharaoh.
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- Before this chapter is done, you have chapter 19
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- Which is sodom and gomorrah's judgment.
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- Then you have chapter 20.
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- You will find a king wanted her.
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- She's now 89 years old.
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- A king wants her.
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- So obviously, she knows the secret
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- Of how god can beautify you.
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- Would you like to know the secret?
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- And here we learn something.
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- She says she calls her husband, "my lord."
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- Not for the benefit of his years.
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- She was laughing within herself, talking within herself,
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- And yet within herself,
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- She shows her respect for her husband.
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- She calls her husband, my lord.
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- Wow!
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- I said, wow!
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- So i went back to my wife and i said,
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- "hey, look at this verse, leh.
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- Look at this verse.
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- You read, you read, you read."
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- And she read it-- this was many years ago--
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- Then she looked at me.
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- "okay, my lord, my lord, my lord, my lord, my lord."
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- Then i went back home to my study
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- And i realized she spoke within herself.
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- Then i told her it must be from the heart, leh, you know.
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- Then he says, then you must know.
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- You cannot know what's in the heart.
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- You cannot ask me.
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- It's an outward thing.
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- You know what i'm saying?
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- She called her husband, "my lord."
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- What respect she had.
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- And then the bible says in the new testament,
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- It zeroes in on her
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- Because we know that she remained beautiful.
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- God beautified her.
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- We want to know the secret.
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- How come she was beautiful?
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- Go to 1 peter 3.
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- "rather let it be the hidden person
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- Of the heart," writing to women,
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- "rather let it be the hidden person of the heart,
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- With the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,
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- Which is very precious in the sight of god."
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- You know, a woman who has the beauty of a gentle
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- And quiet spirit is very precious in the sight of god.
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- "for in this manner, in former times, the holy women
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- Who trusted in god," say, "trusted in god,"
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- "also adorned themselves,
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- Being submissive to their own husbands,
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- As sarah obeyed abraham, calling him lord,
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- Whose daughters you are if you do good
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- And you're not afraid with any terror.
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- As sarah obeyed abraham calling him lord, whose daughters
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- You are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror."
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- Now, verse 3 actually before this says,
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- Don't make your adorning, you know,
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- Plaiting the hair and the outward things.
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- God is not saying you cannot.
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- But don't let that be your beauty.
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- In ancient times, the holy women who trusted in god,
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- Not trusted in their husband, they trusted--the reason
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- Why they are like that is that they trust in god.
- 00:11:13.825 --> 00:11:16.694
- That's how they adorn themselves.
- 00:11:16.694 --> 00:11:18.029
- But today, in our day and age, we don't use the word "adorn"
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- As much.
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- So i'm gonna give you the new living translation
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- And tell you, modern translation,
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- What the word "adorn" really means, okay?
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- "this is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful."
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- Let's all read together.
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- "this is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful.
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- They trusted god and accepted the authority
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- Of their husbands."
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- Now differences in roles does not mean inequality.
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- You understand?
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- It does not mean inequality.
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- We have equality, but we have different roles.
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- We have different roles.
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- Roles that god has designed us to do, amen.
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- Now, there are some things that women can do.
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- Yes, granted.
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- He's talking about family here, family.
- 00:12:08.613 --> 00:12:10.448
- When it comes to the family,
- 00:12:10.448 --> 00:12:11.983
- The man is the one that god holds accountable.
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- I have to answer to the lord, right?
- 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.590
- I go back to the story of genesis 18.
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- "and the lord said to abraham, 'why did sarah laugh?'"
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- Now she was in the tent.
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- Saying, now she laughed within herself.
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- It wasn't like a haa-ka-ka-ka like a cackle,
- 00:12:27.465 --> 00:12:29.667
- You know, like a witch.
- 00:12:29.667 --> 00:12:31.002
- It wasn't like that.
- 00:12:31.002 --> 00:12:33.838
- "why did sarah laugh, saying, 'shall i surely bear a child,
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- Since i am old?'
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- Is anything too hard for the lord?"
- 00:12:37.775 --> 00:12:39.644
- What are you going through right now?
- 00:12:39.644 --> 00:12:41.279
- Is anything too hard for the lord?
- 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.681
- Go back to 1 peter 3.
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- 1 peter 3.
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- All right, yeah.
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- The last part.
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- "even as sarah obeyed abraham, calling him lord,
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- Whose daughters you are,"
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- And you will end up looking young and beautiful.
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- With that quiet spirit which is god's sight of great price.
- 00:12:57.929 --> 00:13:02.333
- Quiet doesn't mean your mouth is quiet, all right?
- 00:13:02.333 --> 00:13:05.470
- You can talk but it comes out of a quiet spirit.
- 00:13:05.470 --> 00:13:08.139
- There are ladies who talk and talk but very aggressive,
- 00:13:08.139 --> 00:13:10.508
- Fiery spirit.
- 00:13:10.508 --> 00:13:11.943
- You can sense that.
- 00:13:11.943 --> 00:13:13.278
- But if you hear someone talk and there's a quiet spirit,
- 00:13:13.278 --> 00:13:15.246
- There's a sweet spirit, very cool spirit,
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- Man should become beautiful in your eyes, all right?
- 00:13:17.849 --> 00:13:22.720
- So the bible says, "whose daughters you are
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- If you do good and not afraid of any terror."
- 00:13:25.657 --> 00:13:27.892
- Go back again, genesis 8.
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- Now, are you learning people?
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- All right, is anything too hard for the lord?
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- What's the answer?
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- Okay, a few of you believe that.
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- "at the appointed time i will return to you,
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- According to the time of life, and sarah shall have a son."
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- Verse 15.
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- "but sarah denied it, saying, 'i did not laugh,'
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- For she was afraid.
- 00:13:46.477 --> 00:13:47.812
- And the lord said, 'no, you laugh.'"
- 00:13:47.812 --> 00:13:50.381
- So they called the boy what?
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- I love this one.
- 00:13:52.250 --> 00:13:53.618
- I love this homeliness.
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- The divine homeliness, divine nonetheless, but homeliness.
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- You know, when god comes to you, he can talk to you.
- 00:13:58.256 --> 00:14:00.992
- There's even a kind of a joke going on, isn't it?
- 00:14:00.992 --> 00:14:05.430
- You laugh.
- 00:14:05.430 --> 00:14:06.831
- And she was laughing within herself.
- 00:14:06.831 --> 00:14:10.535
- "then the man arose from there and looked towards sodom,
- 00:14:10.535 --> 00:14:13.237
- And abraham went with them to send them on the way."
- 00:14:13.237 --> 00:14:17.308
- So the man rose from there and they looked towards sodom.
- 00:14:17.308 --> 00:14:20.678
- And abraham went with them to send them on the way.
- 00:14:20.678 --> 00:14:23.081
- "and the lord said, 'shall i hide from abraham
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- What i am doing?
- 00:14:25.216 --> 00:14:26.951
- Shall i hide from abraham what i am doing?'"
- 00:14:26.951 --> 00:14:32.290
- Next.
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- Now, this is the part i want to tell you.
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- "since abraham shall surely become a great
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- And mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
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- Shall be blessed in him?"
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- Watch this.
- 00:14:43.167 --> 00:14:44.635
- "for i have known him, in order that he may command his children
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- And his household after him, that they keep the way
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- Of the lord to do righteousness and justice,
- 00:14:53.611 --> 00:14:56.614
- That the lord may bring to abraham
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- What he has spoken to him."
- 00:14:58.316 --> 00:14:59.951
- First, i wanna say this.
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- This in no way touches the question of righteousness
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- By faith, all right?
- 00:15:04.589 --> 00:15:06.057
- Justification.
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- This is talking about if your family is in line,
- 00:15:07.425 --> 00:15:11.095
- Then god promised him what?
- 00:15:11.095 --> 00:15:12.697
- Descendants like the stars of the heaven and the sand
- 00:15:12.697 --> 00:15:15.633
- On the seashore.
- 00:15:15.633 --> 00:15:17.435
- What happens if your immediate son is rebellious?
- 00:15:17.435 --> 00:15:19.470
- What happens if your grandson is rebellious?
- 00:15:19.470 --> 00:15:21.773
- So in other words, he must be a place where he can command
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- His children so that the promises of god can flow.
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- Correct?
- 00:15:27.445 --> 00:15:29.680
- I wanna close with this verse.
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- I want to tell you something first.
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- Years ago, i read this verse and i felt condemned, years ago.
- 00:15:33.985 --> 00:15:39.657
- I read this verse, i felt condemned for myself
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- And for others because i read, wow, you know,
- 00:15:42.026 --> 00:15:44.862
- "i have known him, in order that he may command
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- His children and his household after him," all right?
- 00:15:46.864 --> 00:15:50.168
- "that they keep the way of the lord to do righteousness
- 00:15:50.168 --> 00:15:52.203
- And justice that the lord may bring to abraham
- 00:15:52.203 --> 00:15:54.172
- What he has spoken to him."
- 00:15:54.172 --> 00:15:55.606
- I said, "wow, lord, that's a tall order."
- 00:15:55.606 --> 00:15:58.242
- So in other words, god is looking around at people whose
- 00:15:58.242 --> 00:16:00.878
- Families are under, you know, under divine order, amen.
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- The wife is calling him lord in her heart, you know,
- 00:16:06.751 --> 00:16:09.887
- And the children are not rebellious and all that.
- 00:16:09.887 --> 00:16:12.423
- And then god can bring to pass, right?
- 00:16:12.423 --> 00:16:16.694
- Do you see that?
- 00:16:16.694 --> 00:16:18.796
- Well, things have changed.
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- Meditation gives revelation.
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- When you meditate, i meditate on this verse for some time
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- Before i preach on it.
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- You know what i read?
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- I read, "for i have known him."
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- Known him is past tense.
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- In other words, i have known him.
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- It's like i have loved him.
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- You won't be wrong.
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- I have chosen him.
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- That's how niv quotes this verse.
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- "i have made myself known to him,
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- In order that he may command his children."
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- Has he commanded his children yet?
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- No, it's future tense.
- 00:16:48.893 --> 00:16:50.928
- In other words, god is not saying,
- 00:16:50.928 --> 00:16:52.396
- "because your family is in order, i chose you."
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- This is not the teaching here.
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- The teaching is that i have known you, i have loved you,
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- I have chosen you in order that you may command.
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- You see what the fruit of the fruit, we want this fruit.
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- Guys, you cannot have this fruit.
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- You cannot have your wife respect you
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- If she doesn't see jesus in you.
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- But when she sees that you have a genuine relationship
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- With the lord and you come to her and say,
- 00:17:17.522 --> 00:17:19.490
- "i feel like the lord is telling us,"
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- You know, i think, i think you are helping her
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- To see the importance of having the lord in your relationship
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- And she will submit.
- 00:17:29.567 --> 00:17:31.169
- Now, it is not, i can prove to you right now,
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- This is not saying abraham is already like that
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- That's why i chose him
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- To bring to pass everything that i've spoken to him.
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- I can prove to you.
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- Number one, he says that "in order that he may command
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- His children."
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- How many children does he have at this time?
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- Hmm?
- 00:17:49.420 --> 00:17:50.855
- How many children does he have at this time?
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- No, he has one, ishmael.
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- Only one.
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- He has only one child at this time.
- 00:17:57.595 --> 00:18:00.331
- But he has this, "in order that he may command his children."
- 00:18:00.331 --> 00:18:04.735
- So isaac is not there yet, right?
- 00:18:04.735 --> 00:18:06.103
- If isaac came, then it becomes children, right?
- 00:18:06.103 --> 00:18:08.839
- So did god choose him because he has already done it?
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- He already has his family in order?
- 00:18:12.777 --> 00:18:15.713
- Or did god choose him and love him
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- So that god's love will cause him
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- To put his family in order?
- 00:18:19.650 --> 00:18:23.955
- Do you see that?
- 00:18:23.955 --> 00:18:26.290
- So what is god saying?
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- God is saying, abraham, when i get to know you,
- 00:18:29.760 --> 00:18:34.465
- Here's what he's saying, "i have known him."
- 00:18:34.465 --> 00:18:37.034
- The language is like found in galatians where it says,
- 00:18:37.034 --> 00:18:39.203
- Paul says, "after god has known you or rather,
- 00:18:39.203 --> 00:18:43.608
- After you have known god or rather you are known by god,
- 00:18:43.608 --> 00:18:47.211
- How turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements?"
- 00:18:47.211 --> 00:18:49.580
- Same thing.
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- In other words, god loves you, god knows you first
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- Long before you know him.
- 00:18:52.650 --> 00:18:55.019
- In order, in order that you will bring divine government
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- Into your house, into your family.
- 00:19:00.224 --> 00:19:02.760
- It's not the other way around.
- 00:19:02.760 --> 00:19:04.095
- It's not that, "oh, he's already so good, god chose him."
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- Are you all with me so far?
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- So i pray that parents will not feel, you know,
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- This be encouragement to you, amen.
- 00:19:10.368 --> 00:19:12.703
- Your focus should be on occupation with christ,
- 00:19:12.703 --> 00:19:15.273
- Focusing on christ, meditating on the word, amen.
- 00:19:15.273 --> 00:19:18.509
- And then you have that revelation to order
- 00:19:18.509 --> 00:19:21.312
- And command and bring rule, divine rule.
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- Are you all learning people?
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- I'll tell you something else.
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- Of all the parables, you all can talk to me okay?
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- Of all the parables that--i'm closing, this is my last verse.
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- Of all the parables that our lord jesus shared, which parable
- 00:19:38.296 --> 00:19:44.835
- To you is the most famous that talks about father and sons?
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- Rebellious sons and all that.
- 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.175
- Wow, i love this church!
- 00:19:51.175 --> 00:19:53.477
- What's the name of this church?
- 00:19:53.477 --> 00:19:55.446
- New creation?
- 00:19:55.446 --> 00:19:57.915
- The prodigal son, luke 15, how many sons does he have?
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- Two sons.
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- And who is the father a picture of?
- 00:20:03.688 --> 00:20:07.058
- God the father.
- 00:20:07.058 --> 00:20:08.492
- Come on, you can talk to me, come on, all right?
- 00:20:08.492 --> 00:20:09.960
- Jesus shared this parable.
- 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:11.762
- The father is a picture of god the father, right?
- 00:20:11.762 --> 00:20:15.266
- The two sons, who are they?
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- All of us.
- 00:20:18.569 --> 00:20:19.904
- Actually gentiles and jews.
- 00:20:19.904 --> 00:20:21.339
- Okay, you have the gentiles that never left the house,
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- But the jew.
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- Sorry, the gentiles that left the house and the jew
- 00:20:24.241 --> 00:20:25.576
- That never left the house, right?
- 00:20:25.576 --> 00:20:27.178
- But self-righteous.
- 00:20:27.178 --> 00:20:28.679
- I kept all your commandments and all that.
- 00:20:28.679 --> 00:20:30.014
- Now watch this.
- 00:20:30.014 --> 00:20:31.449
- What is this father, this father,
- 00:20:31.449 --> 00:20:34.185
- Which i believe is a real story.
- 00:20:34.185 --> 00:20:35.920
- This father that jesus typifies as his own father,
- 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:39.690
- Okay, had two sons.
- 00:20:39.690 --> 00:20:42.993
- What is his success rate?
- 00:20:42.993 --> 00:20:49.467
- He lost one son, right?
- 00:20:49.467 --> 00:20:51.736
- His son left, became rebellious.
- 00:20:51.736 --> 00:20:54.572
- I wanna encourage you.
- 00:20:54.572 --> 00:20:55.906
- Now, these are sermons that you won't hear
- 00:20:55.906 --> 00:20:57.375
- From the pulpit sometimes.
- 00:20:57.375 --> 00:20:59.276
- Am i right to say that the father there
- 00:20:59.276 --> 00:21:00.745
- Is a picture of god the father, right?
- 00:21:00.745 --> 00:21:03.013
- What's the success rate?
- 00:21:03.013 --> 00:21:04.749
- The son left even though he's a good father.
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- He is a good father.
- 00:21:06.550 --> 00:21:08.219
- He will kill the fatted calf, you know.
- 00:21:08.219 --> 00:21:09.854
- He's a good father.
- 00:21:09.854 --> 00:21:11.455
- But sometimes even though you're good,
- 00:21:11.455 --> 00:21:13.491
- Believe god for the best for your family.
- 00:21:13.491 --> 00:21:15.126
- I'm speaking to those who feel condemned.
- 00:21:15.126 --> 00:21:17.261
- Or you hear teachings that say your son is rebellious,
- 00:21:17.261 --> 00:21:19.230
- You did something wrong.
- 00:21:19.230 --> 00:21:20.931
- I'm encouraging you here, even god the father,
- 00:21:20.931 --> 00:21:24.335
- Even that father in the story had a rebellious son.
- 00:21:24.335 --> 00:21:28.606
- So what is his success rate?
- 00:21:28.606 --> 00:21:31.642
- No, it's not 50%.
- 00:21:31.642 --> 00:21:34.145
- The other boy, how good is he?
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- Come on, come on.
- 00:21:38.849 --> 00:21:42.520
- He came...
- 00:21:42.520 --> 00:21:44.555
- [breathing angrily]
- 00:21:44.555 --> 00:21:50.861
- "this son of yours, after he spent his money on prostitutes."
- 00:21:50.861 --> 00:21:56.267
- By the way, i don't know of all the things that the son did,
- 00:21:56.267 --> 00:21:58.135
- Right, the brother did, he mentioned prostitutes.
- 00:21:58.135 --> 00:22:00.337
- This guy got a problem.
- 00:22:00.337 --> 00:22:04.041
- "you killed the fattened calf, yet you never gave me,"
- 00:22:04.041 --> 00:22:09.046
- He told his father.
- 00:22:09.046 --> 00:22:10.481
- The father said, "son, it's right we celebrate.
- 00:22:10.481 --> 00:22:13.617
- All that i have is yours.
- 00:22:13.617 --> 00:22:17.688
- You don't have to wait for me to give you the kid.
- 00:22:17.688 --> 00:22:20.191
- Take it.
- 00:22:20.191 --> 00:22:22.927
- You come to me, i'll never say, i'm just kidding.
- 00:22:22.927 --> 00:22:24.829
- Take the kid.
- 00:22:24.829 --> 00:22:28.232
- It's yours."
- 00:22:28.232 --> 00:22:29.867
- So when you think about it, people, i'm not saying that,
- 00:22:29.867 --> 00:22:32.169
- You know, this is exactly how a father feels.
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- I'm loving, i'm kind, and yet my son rebelled.
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- There are situations whereby we don't have an answer.
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- But the good news is this.
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- The son came home.
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- I said the son came home.
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- And one thing about rebellious daughters,
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- Rebellious sons is that when they come home
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- And they taste your goodness, it's different from the time
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- When they were growing up.
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- Because they have fallen, there's an empty space there
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- That grace otherwise could not have filled.
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- Now they have an experience of grace.
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- They truly have an experience of grace.
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- And if the brother doesn't repent, the older brother,
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- This younger one will have the charisma,
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- The grace, the favor to do much more
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- Than this other brother ever could
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- And shine even brighter for god's glory, amen.
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- Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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- With a special prayer
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- To close today's program right after this.
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- And now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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- Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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- Never take your protection for granted.
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- This coming week, the lord bless you,
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- And the lord keep you.
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- All those in grace revolution church in dallas as well,
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- The lord protect you, the lord protect your loved ones
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- From every danger, from every infection,
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- From every disease, from every tragedy,
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- From every dang--harm, from all evil,
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- In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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- And the lord make his face shine on you and on your loved ones.
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- And may your houses be filled with light.
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- Light that is supernatural.
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- Not natural, not education light,
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- But light from the holy spirit.
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- To see things beyond that of an average man.
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- To see jesus most of all.
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- In the name of the lord jesus, the lord bless you
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- And your loved ones with a shalom, peace,
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- Health and well-being.
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- In the name of the lord jesus.
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- And all the people said, amen.
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- God bless you.
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- We'll see you again, bye-bye.
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- Female announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
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- Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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- I was so excited.
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- Male announcer: church.
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- It's not a place. it's a people.
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- Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
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- Female: hello.
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- Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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- How in the world do you do an online church?
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- And we gather in our living room and we sing and we praise
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- And then we sit there and we take in the word
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- And then afterward you can talk about it.
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- Announcer: church is not four walls.
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- It's one body of christ.
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- Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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- It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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- You know, doing the online church.
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- But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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- And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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- Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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- Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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- In the chat host, and when i was sick,
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- I had people praying for me.
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- I had people taking communion for me.
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- They're right there when you need it.
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- Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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- It's who you meet.
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- Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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- From people we can't see
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- And we're not in the same room as.
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- It helps us to make that connection,
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- That i can't see god
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- And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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- Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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- Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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- A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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- To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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- Even online.
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- Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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- Or text church to 71239 today.
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- Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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- Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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- From the lord.
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