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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Real Reason Jesus Hasn’t Returned Yet | March 25, 2026
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- Joseph prince: the people coming to you say,
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- "rapture, rapture, where is it?
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- Everything going normal.
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- I mean i heard this when i was a young christian,
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- When i was a young boy, and now i'm 75 years old.
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- It is--the reason he's delaying his coming
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- Is because god is not willing that any should perish.
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- Male announcer: are you ready for the rapture?
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- How do you even get ready for the rapture?
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- In today's message, joseph prince
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- Reveals powerful truths about the rapture
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- And the life that we are called to live
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- As we await the return of our savior.
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- In these perilous last days, what if the question isn't,
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- "will i be left behind," but "what will i leave behind"?
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- As we look at the world today, one thing is clear:
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- People need to hear the good news,
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- That god is not an angry god,
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- And that there is hope for these dark days.
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- Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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- With today's program.
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- Joseph prince: aren't you glad that there is a voice
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- Ringing out right now from the pulpit, saying,
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- "behold, your bridegroom is coming."
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- You know i got that from the ten virgins,
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- The parable of ten virgins.
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- The fact is this bridegroom, that means what?
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- It is bridal affections being spoken here.
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- That means it's love.
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- Who would not want to see our lord?
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- The moment you see the lord, the bible says your body
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- Is transformed.
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- That's the last part of our inheritance
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- That we receive in the sense that right now,
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- We have everything this side of heaven
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- That christ died to give us except a glorious body,
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- A body that cannot die, cannot be sick, cannot decay.
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- That body, we are still waiting for it and the bible says
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- When we see him,
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- And when the rapture hits, praise god,
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- He will transform our vile bodies
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- Like unto his glorious body, amen?
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- No, church, we are looking forward to that.
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- So i'm going to sound it real loud and clear.
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- Your bridegroom comes, amen!
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- Do you have bridal affections for him?
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- Are you in love with him?
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- Amen, you'll be looking forward to him, amen.
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- Start preparing yourself for the marriage supper
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- Of the lamb, okay?
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- So right now, let's go into the word.
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- In 2 peter 3, praise god: "knowing this first:
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- That scoffers will come in the last days,
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- Walking according to their own lusts, and saying,
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- 'where is the promise of his coming?
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- Where is it?
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- For since the fathers fell asleep,
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- All things continue as they were
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- From the beginning of creation.'"
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- So the people coming to you say, "rapture, rapture, where is it?
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- Everything going on normal.
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- I mean i heard this when i was a young christian,
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- When i was a young boy, and now i'm 75 years old.
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- I'm hearing it.
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- Where is it?"
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- Our generation is different from all those generations
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- That says he's coming.
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- I'm going to prove to you in this message, okay?
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- Let's keep on reading.
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- So these scoffers will be saying those things.
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- "for this they willfully forget: that by the word of god
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- The heavens were of old,
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- And the earth standing out of water and in the water,
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- By which the world that then existed perished,
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- Being flooded with water.
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- But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the
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- Same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment
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- And perdition of ungodly men."
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- That's not you.
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- You should say amen.
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- "but beloved," now it's you.
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- Now it's you.
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- "do not forget this one thing, that with the lord one day
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- Is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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- The lord is not slack concerning his promise,
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- As some count slackness, but is longsuffering towards us.
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- Not willing--not willing that any should perish
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- But that all should come to repentance."
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- In other words, the reason he delays is to get more saved.
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- So don't despise his patience and try to scoff
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- Where is his coming.
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- It is--the reason he's delaying his coming
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- Is because god is not willing that any should perish.
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- Just because god is not willing, god is not willing
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- About many things, but it will still happen.
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- Some things are against god's will.
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- God is not willing that any should perish,
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- But there are people who are perishing.
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- Are you listening, people?
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- So you must know what is god's will and man's response.
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- The bible says the only reason don't despise
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- His longsuffering, his patience.
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- It is because he's not willing that any should perish,
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- Amen, church?
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- So back to this again.
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- "beloved," verse 8, "do not forget this one thing,
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- That with the lord one day is as a thousand years,
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- And a thousand years as one day."
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- How many days are there by the way, in this verse?
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- It can actually say, we understand the meaning.
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- With the lord one day is as a thousand years,
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- Or, we understand that.
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- Or you might just say, a thousand years
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- With the lord is like one day.
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- Same meaning.
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- Why repeat it in inversion?
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- Why repeat it twice?
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- So the word "day" appears twice, all right?
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- One day, the first line, and a thousand years as one day.
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- How many days are there?
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- Two days.
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- Since christ died until our time,
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- How many days has it been, as far as god is concerned?
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- We--man says 2000 years; god says 2 days.
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- God says 2 days.
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- One thing beautiful about your bible is that god hides things,
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- Even about the future, in the bible.
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- This bible is god-breathed.
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- It is god-breathed.
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- Are you listening, people?
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- It's a wonder that people don't crack these pages
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- Any more than they should when it's god-breathed.
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- It's the only thing we can hold this side of heaven tangibly
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- That is from god, his words.
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- I'm not talking about pages.
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- His words.
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- It's god-breathed.
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- And god hides the future.
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- Why, of all the generations, can you and i expect
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- To see christ come back anytime in our generation?
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- By the way, for the rapture to happen,
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- There's no prophecy to be fulfilled anymore.
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- Nothing, amen?
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- It's imminent.
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- It can happen anytime, all right?
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- And god hides this word "two days"
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- Throughout the entire scriptures.
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- In fact, so many, when i saw it in the scriptures,
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- I cannot possibly go through all of them,
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- But i go through as many as i can.
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- And it will establish your heart.
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- It will strengthen you.
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- It will cause you to fall in love with the lord jesus,
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- Okay, amen.
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- Are you ready?
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- All right, we go to hosea: "after two days--"
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- After two days, now church,
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- From the time christ came to earth.
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- Now our gregorian calendar is off by,
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- Some people say 4 to 7 years, some say 8 years, more.
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- Whatever it is, it is off but around the same time,
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- You know what i'm saying?
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- All right, christ came and a general consensus of theology
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- That christ died in ad 33 to ad 37,
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- Around these years, all right, give and take.
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- So if that is so we are now past 2000 years,
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- Around that time, come on, church.
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- We are now after 2000 years.
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- Am i right?
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- Bible says: "after two days he will revive us."
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- Then after two days means what?
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- You are now in the third day.
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- Am i right?
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- After two days means you are on the third day.
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- And what happens on the third day?
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- "on the third day he will raise us."
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- Not just raise us.
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- "raise us up, that we may live in his sight," hallelujah.
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- There's one indicator already.
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- Now the bible says when we are raptured,
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- One of the first things that will happen
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- Is that we'll stand before the bema seat of christ.
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- Next thing that happens is the marriage supper of the lamb.
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- It is a celebration of the wedding of the lamb
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- And his bride.
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- You know who is the bride?
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- The many-membered bride of christ.
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- Look around you, this is the bride of christ, praise god.
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- So we have a marriage supper of the lamb.
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- Watch this.
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- In the book of john, all the miracles of jesus
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- Are called signs.
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- It's not mentioned as signs in the other three gospels,
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- The synoptic gospels, matthew, mark, luke,
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- It's not called signs.
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- But in john, it's called signs.
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- The miracles are called signs in john.
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- Why?
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- Signs point to something, some truth.
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- You don't go to a sign, kuala lumpur, "we are here!"
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- All right, look carefully: "250 kilometers."
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- No, a sign tells you it's nearby.
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- A sign tells you about a truth.
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- Am i right?
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- And there's no insignificant names in the bible.
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- There are no insignificant numbers in the bible.
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- Everything in the bible is there for a purpose.
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- If you believe it's god-breathed and it is god-breathed,
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- You know that everything there is there for a purpose.
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- So let's look at this, the first sign in the gospel of john:
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- "on the third day there was a wedding in cana of galilee."
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- On the third day.
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- I told you, like, on the third day we are going to be raptured.
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- Do you know we are now in the third day?
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- Hey, y'all, we are now in the third day.
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- We are literally now on the third day.
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- And the marriage supper of the lamb
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- Is going to happen on the third day.
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- And jesus will--and after the rapture there will be 7 years
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- Of tribulation on earth, after which jesus
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- Will come back bodily, matthew 24.
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- What i shared is not about the church, it's about israel,
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- It's about the jewish remnant that are saved
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- During the tribulation.
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- But notice that at the end, he will come back
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- For israel bodily.
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- So the rapture is not the second coming of christ.
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- The rapture is the appearing of christ in the air.
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- His feet does not touch down on earth.
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- He calls us in the air.
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- Our bodies are transformed to join him forevermore.
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- And then we'll have the bema seat of christ.
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- Then we have the marriage supper of the lamb.
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- Then 7 years will pass on this earth and then christ
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- Will appear because we are out of the way,
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- The holy spirit is out of the way and all that.
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- The worst evil ever called the great tribulation
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- Will happen on earth.
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- And then at the end of 7 years, he will come back.
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- So that is not imminent.
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- In fact, the moment the rapture happens, you can count 7 years
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- And he will return physically and his feet will touch down
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- On mount of olives.
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- So meanwhile, prophetically speaking, where we are right now
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- Is that before david ascended the throne,
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- David was running away, living in dens and caves,
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- Out there in the wilderness.
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- And there were people who came to david and the army grew
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- And the army grew.
- 00:11:22.891 --> 00:11:24.259
- So the greatest son of david, jesus christ,
- 00:11:24.259 --> 00:11:25.960
- Right now is rejected out of sight in the wilderness,
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- So to speak, because rejected by his own.
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- And we are going to him during this time.
- 00:11:31.566 --> 00:11:34.102
- And the lord said to his disciples,
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- When you are there which continue with me
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- In my trials, you will sit on thrones.
- 00:11:38.106 --> 00:11:42.844
- So those that followed david in his wilderness,
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- They became captains, commanders in chief.
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- They were given positions.
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- That's where we are.
- 00:11:50.552 --> 00:11:51.953
- Because our heavenly david is about to sit
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- On his throne, okay?
- 00:11:53.421 --> 00:11:58.993
- And on the third day, there's a marriage supper.
- 00:11:58.993 --> 00:12:01.196
- So that's two days, on the third day.
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- Interesting, huh?
- 00:12:03.331 --> 00:12:05.066
- I'm going to bring you now to luke chapter 10:
- 00:12:05.066 --> 00:12:07.468
- "but he," the lawyer, "wanting to justify himself,
- 00:12:07.468 --> 00:12:09.404
- Said to jesus, 'who is my neighbor?'
- 00:12:09.404 --> 00:12:11.439
- Then jesus answered and said: 'a certain man went down
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- From jerusalem to jericho.'"
- 00:12:13.875 --> 00:12:15.877
- Jericho is the lowest place on planet earth, the dead sea area.
- 00:12:15.877 --> 00:12:20.481
- And jerusalem, literally, you go down.
- 00:12:20.481 --> 00:12:22.684
- The place of god.
- 00:12:22.684 --> 00:12:24.018
- Jerusalem is supposed to be the place of god.
- 00:12:24.018 --> 00:12:25.453
- Jericho is the place, the city of curse.
- 00:12:25.453 --> 00:12:27.188
- Joshua pronounced a curse on it, remember?
- 00:12:27.188 --> 00:12:30.258
- So, leaving the place of god to the place of the curse,
- 00:12:30.258 --> 00:12:33.194
- You go down, all right?
- 00:12:33.194 --> 00:12:36.564
- "and he fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing,
- 00:12:36.564 --> 00:12:39.934
- Wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."
- 00:12:39.934 --> 00:12:42.537
- I remember someone years ago says, "you know, people like
- 00:12:42.537 --> 00:12:45.006
- To see things in the bible and you know for me the truth
- 00:12:45.006 --> 00:12:47.976
- Is just love your neighbor.
- 00:12:47.976 --> 00:12:49.510
- What jesus trying to say is love your neighbor."
- 00:12:49.510 --> 00:12:51.145
- No, no, no, jesus's words are like, jesus--
- 00:12:51.145 --> 00:12:54.549
- I shouldn't say "like."
- 00:12:54.549 --> 00:12:55.950
- Jesus is god manifest in the flesh.
- 00:12:55.950 --> 00:12:57.685
- His words are multi-layered.
- 00:12:57.685 --> 00:12:59.487
- You can actually feed on it and you cannot even finish it.
- 00:12:59.487 --> 00:13:02.991
- He hides so many things in that parable.
- 00:13:02.991 --> 00:13:05.560
- You cannot just say it's a matter of telling the person
- 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:07.328
- How to love your neighbor, that's all.
- 00:13:07.328 --> 00:13:08.796
- No, no, read carefully and you will find a treasure.
- 00:13:08.796 --> 00:13:13.635
- Are you ready?
- 00:13:13.635 --> 00:13:14.969
- All right, so he fell among thieves.
- 00:13:14.969 --> 00:13:16.471
- So whenever you leave the place of god,
- 00:13:16.471 --> 00:13:20.108
- Which today is the church, amen,
- 00:13:20.108 --> 00:13:22.176
- And you go into the city of curse, all right,
- 00:13:22.176 --> 00:13:25.146
- And have your aspirations and hopes trying to fulfill them
- 00:13:25.146 --> 00:13:27.615
- In the world, all right, what happen?
- 00:13:27.615 --> 00:13:30.652
- You fall among thieves.
- 00:13:30.652 --> 00:13:33.221
- The devil is the main thief, the culprit.
- 00:13:33.221 --> 00:13:36.691
- And he uses christian religion.
- 00:13:36.691 --> 00:13:39.093
- Gotta watch it.
- 00:13:39.093 --> 00:13:40.728
- Christianity is not a religion.
- 00:13:40.728 --> 00:13:42.363
- But he will try to turn it into a religion to rob you
- 00:13:42.363 --> 00:13:44.198
- Of the joys of the true christian life.
- 00:13:44.198 --> 00:13:49.804
- So "he fell among thieves, they stripped him of his clothing,
- 00:13:49.804 --> 00:13:52.774
- Wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."
- 00:13:52.774 --> 00:13:55.877
- Who do you think he's talking about?
- 00:13:55.877 --> 00:13:57.545
- It's very easy to say, "oh, the poor guy down there."
- 00:13:57.545 --> 00:13:59.380
- It's you and i, friends.
- 00:13:59.380 --> 00:14:01.916
- It's you and i.
- 00:14:01.916 --> 00:14:03.351
- You know, we are half dead.
- 00:14:03.351 --> 00:14:04.986
- We are talking.
- 00:14:04.986 --> 00:14:06.421
- I'm talking about we in terms of a general man now,
- 00:14:06.421 --> 00:14:09.524
- A man in the world.
- 00:14:09.524 --> 00:14:10.992
- You know, they are talking to you, but they are half dead.
- 00:14:10.992 --> 00:14:13.161
- There's a part of them that's cut off from god.
- 00:14:13.161 --> 00:14:15.229
- They cannot understand the things of god.
- 00:14:15.229 --> 00:14:16.698
- They are half dead.
- 00:14:16.698 --> 00:14:18.032
- They are alive.
- 00:14:18.032 --> 00:14:19.367
- Their heart is going boom boom, boom boom, boom boom.
- 00:14:19.367 --> 00:14:20.735
- But they are half dead.
- 00:14:20.735 --> 00:14:22.136
- Next. jesus is talking, don't forget.
- 00:14:22.136 --> 00:14:24.205
- "now by chance a certain priest came down that road.
- 00:14:24.205 --> 00:14:27.675
- And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- 00:14:27.675 --> 00:14:31.479
- Likewise a levite, when he arrived at the place,
- 00:14:31.479 --> 00:14:34.882
- Came and looked, and passed by on the other side."
- 00:14:34.882 --> 00:14:37.352
- Now these two groups of people, the priests,
- 00:14:37.352 --> 00:14:39.320
- Are people that serve inside the temple.
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- Levites are those who assist the priests in their service.
- 00:14:43.091 --> 00:14:46.627
- In other words, these are people who know god, supposedly,
- 00:14:46.627 --> 00:14:49.430
- All right, people who are in touch with god,
- 00:14:49.430 --> 00:14:51.265
- But they refuse to help him.
- 00:14:51.265 --> 00:14:52.800
- And they go, notice the emphasis, the other side.
- 00:14:52.800 --> 00:14:56.871
- Be careful that you don't turn your christianity
- 00:14:56.871 --> 00:14:58.606
- Into a religion.
- 00:14:58.606 --> 00:15:01.275
- Pass by the other side.
- 00:15:01.275 --> 00:15:05.313
- So obviously, he's talking about the pharisees and the lawyer,
- 00:15:05.313 --> 00:15:07.248
- They just asked him the question.
- 00:15:07.248 --> 00:15:09.784
- "you want me to answer you, who is your neighbor
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- That you ought to love?
- 00:15:11.452 --> 00:15:12.854
- Listen to this story," jesus said.
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- Beautiful.
- 00:15:14.555 --> 00:15:16.224
- "but a certain samaritan--"
- 00:15:16.224 --> 00:15:17.892
- You must know one thing about samaritans.
- 00:15:17.892 --> 00:15:20.194
- The pharisees hated the samaritans
- 00:15:20.194 --> 00:15:21.863
- Because the samaritans claimed to be jews.
- 00:15:21.863 --> 00:15:25.867
- And they were not.
- 00:15:25.867 --> 00:15:27.268
- So when the lawyer heard jesus say, "a certain samaritan,"
- 00:15:27.268 --> 00:15:29.937
- He said [gasping]
- 00:15:29.937 --> 00:15:31.305
- He must have, you know, sort of like, taken a step back.
- 00:15:31.305 --> 00:15:35.543
- "as he journeyed, came where he was."
- 00:15:35.543 --> 00:15:38.479
- Came where he was.
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- He didn't go the other side.
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- He came where he was.
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- Friend, who is this "certain samaritan"?
- 00:15:43.718 --> 00:15:47.622
- Not just a samaritan, a certain one.
- 00:15:47.622 --> 00:15:49.357
- Jesus wants you to know who this samaritan is.
- 00:15:49.357 --> 00:15:51.459
- And who is it?
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- Himself.
- 00:15:52.794 --> 00:15:54.695
- He came as a divine stranger.
- 00:15:54.695 --> 00:15:57.131
- And the jews, the religious people, hated him.
- 00:15:57.131 --> 00:16:00.468
- They hated the fact that he made god so available to people,
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- Instead of going to the temple.
- 00:16:05.006 --> 00:16:06.841
- He made god so real.
- 00:16:06.841 --> 00:16:08.943
- He loved people.
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- He loved the sinners.
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- They hated him,
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- Not knowing they are hating god manifest in flesh.
- 00:16:15.983 --> 00:16:19.353
- And he became like a stranger.
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- He came as a divine stranger.
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- For those who have eyes to see, he is altogether lovely, amen?
- 00:16:25.993 --> 00:16:30.698
- And he was a certain samaritan, "as he journeyed,
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- He came where he was."
- 00:16:32.834 --> 00:16:34.235
- You know something?
- 00:16:34.235 --> 00:16:35.670
- If god never came to where i am, i can never go to where he is.
- 00:16:35.670 --> 00:16:39.340
- You know, every form of belief tells you do this,
- 00:16:39.340 --> 00:16:42.910
- Do these seven steps, do these eight steps,
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- Don't do this, don't do that,
- 00:16:44.579 --> 00:16:45.980
- Do this, do this, and then one day you will be--
- 00:16:45.980 --> 00:16:49.150
- You will stretch by your bootstraps.
- 00:16:49.150 --> 00:16:51.018
- Oh, gotta reach heaven.
- 00:16:51.018 --> 00:16:55.756
- How can mere mortal man whose breath is his nostrils
- 00:16:55.756 --> 00:17:00.094
- Reach heaven?
- 00:17:00.094 --> 00:17:02.563
- Heaven came down in the person of jesus christ.
- 00:17:02.563 --> 00:17:05.099
- Came to where we were.
- 00:17:05.099 --> 00:17:09.504
- "came to where he was.
- 00:17:09.504 --> 00:17:11.038
- And when he saw him, he had compassion."
- 00:17:11.038 --> 00:17:14.976
- Would you like to know why he died for you?
- 00:17:14.976 --> 00:17:17.245
- He has compassion for you.
- 00:17:17.245 --> 00:17:19.313
- You know why he took all your judgment
- 00:17:19.313 --> 00:17:21.082
- And penalties upon himself?
- 00:17:21.082 --> 00:17:23.251
- He has compassion on you, on your children,
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- On your spouse, on you.
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- Next.
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- Now, watch this.
- 00:17:32.326 --> 00:17:33.661
- How many actions are done by the half-dead man, you and i?
- 00:17:33.661 --> 00:17:40.067
- And then ask yourself, how many actions are done by the lord,
- 00:17:40.067 --> 00:17:44.172
- The certain samaritan?
- 00:17:44.172 --> 00:17:46.040
- "so he went to him and bandaged his wounds,
- 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:49.477
- Pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal,
- 00:17:49.477 --> 00:17:53.781
- Brought him to an inn, and took care of him."
- 00:17:53.781 --> 00:17:56.350
- Who did everything?
- 00:17:56.350 --> 00:17:58.619
- The lord.
- 00:17:58.619 --> 00:18:00.288
- The lord came to where we were.
- 00:18:00.288 --> 00:18:01.923
- He came to where we were.
- 00:18:01.923 --> 00:18:03.257
- We didn't go to where--he came to where we were, all right?
- 00:18:03.257 --> 00:18:04.992
- He bandaged our wounds.
- 00:18:04.992 --> 00:18:06.360
- He poured in the oil of the holy spirit and the wine,
- 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:08.663
- The joy of the holy spirit.
- 00:18:08.663 --> 00:18:10.565
- "and he set him on his own animal."
- 00:18:10.565 --> 00:18:12.533
- "his own animal" means the place of his comfort,
- 00:18:12.533 --> 00:18:15.603
- The place of his position.
- 00:18:15.603 --> 00:18:18.739
- He gave it to us.
- 00:18:18.739 --> 00:18:20.675
- He walked while we ride.
- 00:18:20.675 --> 00:18:24.378
- You understand?
- 00:18:24.378 --> 00:18:25.780
- Exchange of places.
- 00:18:25.780 --> 00:18:27.181
- "and then brought him to an inn,"
- 00:18:27.181 --> 00:18:28.983
- I believe this is the church, "and took care of him."
- 00:18:28.983 --> 00:18:33.988
- You see, in those days, you're supposed to bring him
- 00:18:33.988 --> 00:18:35.356
- Back to jerusalem.
- 00:18:35.356 --> 00:18:37.225
- But jerusalem has rejected him.
- 00:18:37.225 --> 00:18:39.393
- He brought him to an inn.
- 00:18:39.393 --> 00:18:41.562
- No one would expect an inn.
- 00:18:41.562 --> 00:18:43.664
- An inn, that's a picture of the church, okay?
- 00:18:43.664 --> 00:18:47.635
- "and took care of him.
- 00:18:47.635 --> 00:18:49.136
- On the next day, when he departed,
- 00:18:49.136 --> 00:18:50.638
- He took out two denarii."
- 00:18:50.638 --> 00:18:54.308
- Why do i underline that?
- 00:18:54.308 --> 00:18:55.710
- Because a denarii--a denarius is a roman silver coin.
- 00:18:55.710 --> 00:18:59.714
- It's a payment for a day's wage.
- 00:18:59.714 --> 00:19:01.649
- Remember matthew 20?
- 00:19:01.649 --> 00:19:02.984
- The parable of the lord of the vineyard?
- 00:19:02.984 --> 00:19:05.519
- The agreement was a denarii for a day's work, all right?
- 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:09.523
- So a denarii is a day's work.
- 00:19:09.523 --> 00:19:11.192
- Two denarii, two days.
- 00:19:11.192 --> 00:19:13.761
- And the lord said to the pastors,
- 00:19:13.761 --> 00:19:15.863
- The leaders of the church,
- 00:19:15.863 --> 00:19:17.865
- The under-shepherds, he's the chief shepherd,
- 00:19:17.865 --> 00:19:19.967
- Take care of those that are put to your care, all right?
- 00:19:19.967 --> 00:19:23.904
- And you got enough supply for two days.
- 00:19:23.904 --> 00:19:27.341
- I'm giving you all the provision you need for 2 days, 2000 years.
- 00:19:27.341 --> 00:19:34.081
- And listen: "take care of him; and whatever more you spend,
- 00:19:34.081 --> 00:19:39.553
- When i come again, i will repay you."
- 00:19:39.553 --> 00:19:44.292
- Go the extra mile when you love people.
- 00:19:44.292 --> 00:19:46.961
- Pastors, leaders, deacons, elders,
- 00:19:46.961 --> 00:19:48.829
- All the leaders that are watching,
- 00:19:48.829 --> 00:19:50.665
- There's enough provision, enough supply.
- 00:19:50.665 --> 00:19:52.900
- And i'm glad he used the picture of denarii, even finances,
- 00:19:52.900 --> 00:19:57.238
- To take care of god's people.
- 00:19:57.238 --> 00:19:59.307
- But don't forget what he says, take care of the church.
- 00:19:59.307 --> 00:20:02.843
- Take care.
- 00:20:02.843 --> 00:20:04.211
- And should you go the extra mile, don't think for one moment
- 00:20:04.211 --> 00:20:06.547
- You will go unrewarded.
- 00:20:06.547 --> 00:20:08.716
- When he comes again, he will repay.
- 00:20:08.716 --> 00:20:11.886
- Can i have a good amen?
- 00:20:11.886 --> 00:20:14.288
- Now watch this.
- 00:20:14.288 --> 00:20:15.690
- Next.
- 00:20:15.690 --> 00:20:17.091
- "so which of these three do you think was neighbor to him
- 00:20:17.091 --> 00:20:18.726
- Who fell among the thieves?"
- 00:20:18.726 --> 00:20:20.194
- Which of these three was neighbor to him
- 00:20:20.194 --> 00:20:22.630
- Who fell among the thieves?
- 00:20:22.630 --> 00:20:23.964
- Which one?
- 00:20:23.964 --> 00:20:26.634
- I'm going to tell you something, okay?
- 00:20:26.634 --> 00:20:28.002
- A lot of people misread this verse.
- 00:20:28.002 --> 00:20:29.870
- You know what they read?
- 00:20:29.870 --> 00:20:31.339
- They always tell this story like the good samaritan
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- Means the one who is the samaritan
- 00:20:33.007 --> 00:20:36.277
- That loves his neighbor.
- 00:20:36.277 --> 00:20:38.479
- And superficial reading will tell you, yeah,
- 00:20:38.479 --> 00:20:40.581
- It seems like he is the one loving the neighbor, right?
- 00:20:40.581 --> 00:20:43.317
- And it's almost like people get a pride,
- 00:20:43.317 --> 00:20:45.052
- Yeah, that's how we are supposed to love people, you know.
- 00:20:45.052 --> 00:20:46.687
- Take the down and out and then take care of them,
- 00:20:46.687 --> 00:20:48.522
- That kind of thing.
- 00:20:48.522 --> 00:20:49.857
- But actually, he didn't say which of these three,
- 00:20:49.857 --> 00:20:54.061
- All right, was a neighbor.
- 00:20:54.061 --> 00:20:56.397
- That's why he said, which of these three
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- Was loving his neighbor.
- 00:20:59.567 --> 00:21:01.001
- It doesn't say that.
- 00:21:01.001 --> 00:21:02.536
- We think it says that.
- 00:21:02.536 --> 00:21:04.638
- It says, "which of these three do you think was neighbor to him
- 00:21:04.638 --> 00:21:10.711
- Who fell among the thieves?"
- 00:21:10.711 --> 00:21:13.714
- We are to love our neighbor.
- 00:21:13.714 --> 00:21:15.383
- So among the three, the priest, the levite and the samaritan,
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- We are to love our neighbor.
- 00:21:18.619 --> 00:21:20.254
- Which of these three is a neighbor?
- 00:21:20.254 --> 00:21:22.590
- The samaritan.
- 00:21:22.590 --> 00:21:24.058
- Love your neighbor.
- 00:21:24.058 --> 00:21:29.096
- We think we know but that's not what the verse is saying.
- 00:21:29.096 --> 00:21:34.301
- "and the lawyer says, 'he who showed mercy on him.'
- 00:21:34.301 --> 00:21:36.537
- Then jesus said to him, 'go and do likewise.'"
- 00:21:36.537 --> 00:21:38.639
- In other words, go and love the samaritan.
- 00:21:38.639 --> 00:21:44.278
- And if you have eyes to see, the samaritan is the lord.
- 00:21:44.278 --> 00:21:47.915
- Whoa, time is flying.
- 00:21:47.915 --> 00:21:50.451
- And i just got started, y'all.
- 00:21:50.451 --> 00:21:52.620
- I got so many verses to share, so many truths to share,
- 00:21:52.620 --> 00:21:55.022
- But i have to wrap it up with this last part here.
- 00:21:55.022 --> 00:21:58.426
- We are now in the 2000 year.
- 00:21:58.426 --> 00:22:01.762
- We are living literally in the day
- 00:22:01.762 --> 00:22:03.097
- When god is holding everything back
- 00:22:03.097 --> 00:22:04.698
- Because he is not willing that any should perish.
- 00:22:04.698 --> 00:22:06.967
- So the sunshine of god's grace can always shine on this world
- 00:22:06.967 --> 00:22:09.937
- That is still lost.
- 00:22:09.937 --> 00:22:11.939
- We know we are the end times, church.
- 00:22:11.939 --> 00:22:13.974
- We are the people after two days.
- 00:22:13.974 --> 00:22:15.309
- There's nothing to wait for anymore.
- 00:22:15.309 --> 00:22:17.511
- We are that generation.
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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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- 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 afterward you can talk about it.
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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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- They're right there when you need it.
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- From people we can't see
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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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- Even online.
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