Joseph Prince - The Marriage Trap No One Warned You About

February 11, 2026 | 27:29

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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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  • 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,"
  • 00:10:28.113 --> 00:10:31.149
  • "also adorned themselves,
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  • Being submissive to their own husbands,
  • 00:10:33.318 --> 00:10:35.954
  • 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.
  • 00:10:40.658 --> 00:10:43.027
  • As sarah obeyed abraham calling him lord, whose daughters
  • 00:10:43.027 --> 00:10:46.898
  • You are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror."
  • 00:10:46.898 --> 00:10:52.871
  • Now, verse 3 actually before this says,
  • 00:10:52.871 --> 00:10:56.074
  • 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,
  • 00:11:07.485 --> 00:11:11.623
  • Not trusted in their husband, they trusted--the reason
  • 00:11:11.623 --> 00:11:13.825
  • 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,
  • 00:11:24.669 --> 00:11:26.404
  • What the word "adorn" really means, okay?
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  • "this is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful."
  • 00:11:29.707 --> 00:11:34.612
  • Let's all read together.
  • 00:11:34.612 --> 00:11:35.947
  • "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."
  • 00:11:43.454 --> 00:11:45.423
  • Now differences in roles does not mean inequality.
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  • You understand?
  • 00:11:51.262 --> 00:11:52.597
  • It does not mean inequality.
  • 00:11:52.597 --> 00:11:55.466
  • We have equality, but we have different roles.
  • 00:11:55.466 --> 00:12:00.972
  • We have different roles.
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  • Roles that god has designed us to do, amen.
  • 00:12:02.307 --> 00:12:05.510
  • Now, there are some things that women can do.
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  • Yes, granted.
  • 00:12:07.145 --> 00:12:08.613
  • 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.
  • 00:12:11.983 --> 00:12:14.919
  • 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.
  • 00:12:18.590 --> 00:12:20.792
  • "and the lord said to abraham, 'why did sarah laugh?'"
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  • Now she was in the tent.
  • 00:12:23.795 --> 00:12:25.864
  • Saying, now she laughed within herself.
  • 00:12:25.864 --> 00:12:27.465
  • 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,
  • 00:12:33.838 --> 00:12:36.207
  • 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.
  • 00:12:46.918 --> 00:12:49.287
  • The last part.
  • 00:12:49.287 --> 00:12:50.622
  • "even as sarah obeyed abraham, calling him lord,
  • 00:12:50.622 --> 00:12:52.457
  • 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,
  • 00:13:15.246 --> 00:13:17.849
  • 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
  • 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.657
  • 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?
  • 00:13:29.227 --> 00:13:30.995
  • 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."
  • 00:13:40.238 --> 00:13:43.074
  • Verse 15.
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  • "but sarah denied it, saying, 'i did not laugh,'
  • 00:13:44.409 --> 00:13:46.477
  • 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?
  • 00:13:50.381 --> 00:13:52.250
  • I love this one.
  • 00:13:52.250 --> 00:13:53.618
  • I love this homeliness.
  • 00:13:53.618 --> 00:13:55.586
  • 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
  • 00:14:23.081 --> 00:14:25.216
  • 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.
  • 00:14:32.290 --> 00:14:33.758
  • Now, this is the part i want to tell you.
  • 00:14:33.758 --> 00:14:35.226
  • "since abraham shall surely become a great
  • 00:14:35.226 --> 00:14:36.794
  • And mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
  • 00:14:36.794 --> 00:14:40.131
  • Shall be blessed in him?"
  • 00:14:40.131 --> 00:14:43.167
  • 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
  • 00:14:49.774 --> 00:14:53.611
  • 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
  • 00:15:01.352 --> 00:15:04.589
  • 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.
  • 00:15:32.583 --> 00:15:33.985
  • 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
  • 00:15:39.657 --> 00:15:42.026
  • 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.
  • 00:16:00.878 --> 00:16:06.751
  • 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.
  • 00:16:18.796 --> 00:16:20.331
  • Meditation gives revelation.
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  • When you meditate, i meditate on this verse for some time
  • 00:16:23.267 --> 00:16:25.503
  • Before i preach on it.
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  • You know what i read?
  • 00:16:26.904 --> 00:16:28.239
  • I read, "for i have known him."
  • 00:16:28.239 --> 00:16:29.574
  • Known him is past tense.
  • 00:16:29.574 --> 00:16:31.008
  • 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.
  • 00:16:36.280 --> 00:16:37.615
  • That's how niv quotes this verse.
  • 00:16:37.615 --> 00:16:40.184
  • "i have made myself known to him,
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  • In order that he may command his children."
  • 00:16:43.054 --> 00:16:47.058
  • Has he commanded his children yet?
  • 00:16:47.058 --> 00:16:48.893
  • 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."
  • 00:16:52.396 --> 00:16:55.433
  • This is not the teaching here.
  • 00:16:55.433 --> 00:16:58.369
  • The teaching is that i have known you, i have loved you,
  • 00:16:58.369 --> 00:17:01.906
  • 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.
  • 00:17:05.943 --> 00:17:09.080
  • Guys, you cannot have this fruit.
  • 00:17:09.080 --> 00:17:10.681
  • You cannot have your wife respect you
  • 00:17:10.681 --> 00:17:12.450
  • If she doesn't see jesus in you.
  • 00:17:12.450 --> 00:17:15.353
  • But when she sees that you have a genuine relationship
  • 00:17:15.353 --> 00:17:17.522
  • 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,"
  • 00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:20.992
  • 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
  • 00:17:26.564 --> 00:17:29.567
  • And she will submit.
  • 00:17:29.567 --> 00:17:31.169
  • Now, it is not, i can prove to you right now,
  • 00:17:31.169 --> 00:17:34.472
  • 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.
  • 00:17:40.778 --> 00:17:42.113
  • Number one, he says that "in order that he may command
  • 00:17:42.113 --> 00:17:44.415
  • His children."
  • 00:17:44.415 --> 00:17:45.750
  • How many children does he have at this time?
  • 00:17:45.750 --> 00:17:49.420
  • Hmm?
  • 00:17:49.420 --> 00:17:50.855
  • How many children does he have at this time?
  • 00:17:50.855 --> 00:17:53.291
  • No, he has one, ishmael.
  • 00:17:53.291 --> 00:17:55.660
  • Only one.
  • 00:17:55.660 --> 00:17:57.595
  • 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?
  • 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.777
  • He already has his family in order?
  • 00:18:12.777 --> 00:18:15.713
  • Or did god choose him and love him
  • 00:18:15.713 --> 00:18:17.048
  • So that god's love will cause him
  • 00:18:17.048 --> 00:18:19.650
  • 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?
  • 00:18:26.290 --> 00:18:29.760
  • 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.
  • 00:18:49.580 --> 00:18:50.948
  • In other words, god loves you, god knows you first
  • 00:18:50.948 --> 00:18:52.650
  • Long before you know him.
  • 00:18:52.650 --> 00:18:55.019
  • In order, in order that you will bring divine government
  • 00:18:55.019 --> 00:19:00.224
  • 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."
  • 00:19:04.095 --> 00:19:06.564
  • Are you all with me so far?
  • 00:19:06.564 --> 00:19:08.266
  • So i pray that parents will not feel, you know,
  • 00:19:08.266 --> 00:19:10.368
  • 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.
  • 00:19:21.312 --> 00:19:26.784
  • Are you all learning people?
  • 00:19:26.784 --> 00:19:32.623
  • I'll tell you something else.
  • 00:19:32.623 --> 00:19:33.958
  • Of all the parables, you all can talk to me okay?
  • 00:19:33.958 --> 00:19:36.060
  • Of all the parables that--i'm closing, this is my last verse.
  • 00:19:36.060 --> 00:19:38.296
  • 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?
  • 00:19:44.835 --> 00:19:48.839
  • 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?
  • 00:19:57.915 --> 00:20:02.353
  • Two sons.
  • 00:20:02.353 --> 00:20:03.688
  • 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?
  • 00:20:15.266 --> 00:20:18.569
  • 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,
  • 00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:22.740
  • But the jew.
  • 00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:24.241
  • 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?
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  • The son left even though he's a good father.
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  • He is a good father.
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  • He will kill the fatted calf, you know.
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  • He's a good father.
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  • But sometimes even though you're good,
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  • Believe god for the best for your family.
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  • I'm speaking to those who feel condemned.
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  • Or you hear teachings that say your son is rebellious,
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  • You did something wrong.
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  • I'm encouraging you here, even god the father,
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  • Even that father in the story had a rebellious son.
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  • So what is his success rate?
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  • No, it's not 50%.
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  • The other boy, how good is he?
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  • Come on, come on.
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  • He came...
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  • [breathing angrily]
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  • "this son of yours, after he spent his money on prostitutes."
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  • By the way, i don't know of all the things that the son did,
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  • Right, the brother did, he mentioned prostitutes.
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  • This guy got a problem.
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  • "you killed the fattened calf, yet you never gave me,"
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  • He told his father.
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  • The father said, "son, it's right we celebrate.
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  • All that i have is yours.
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  • You don't have to wait for me to give you the kid.
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  • Take it.
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  • You come to me, i'll never say, i'm just kidding.
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  • Take the kid.
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  • It's yours."
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  • So when you think about it, people, i'm not saying that,
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  • 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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  • 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: 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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