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Joseph Prince - The Secret to Robust Faith

October 14, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince - The Secret to Robust Faith
Unlock a deeper level of faith to trust the Lord for greater blessings and breakthroughs in your life!
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Secret to Robust Faith | October 14, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: when god puts a name first,
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  • It's usually god's priority.
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  • It means god favors that first.
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  • It is actually not based on time, it's based on
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  • The quality of faith.
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  • It's based on the excellency of faith.
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  • It's a greater faith.
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  • As i showed you just now, barak compared to gideon,
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  • Barak's faith was if you'll go with me, then i'll go with you,
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  • Whereas for gideon, his eyes was on the lord.
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  • You know, he did put up the fleece but obviously with god,
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  • God allowed it because he was looking to the lord, whereas
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  • Barak was looking to the woman.
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  • Are you with me so far?
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  • It's not about chronology, it's about the quality.
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  • It's about the excellency of faith.
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  • When you don't have a relationship with god,
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  • You will do a barter system.
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  • God, if you do this for me, then i'll do this for you.
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  • It shows a weakness of faith.
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  • It shows inferiority.
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  • Are you listening, people?
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  • You don't barter.
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  • Like, i was preaching a few months ago on
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  • "the lord of the vineyard," the parable, right?
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  • The one that received the most favor for the least effort,
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  • Right, put in a full day's wage, was the one that trusted the
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  • Landowner, whereas the one that bargained, and we bargain.
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  • You know, that shows we are legalistic.
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  • Legalistic people bargain.
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  • Lord, if you do this for me, i'll do that for you.
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  • If you do this for me, i'll do that for you.
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  • That should not be, people.
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  • In our walk with god, he is our father,
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  • You are his son, amen,
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  • If you look at all the names here, all six of them
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  • Are ordinary people except for david, king.
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  • All of them are ordinary people, what is that saying?
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  • And god put prophets last.
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  • You would have thought the prophets, like pastor henry,
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  • Pastor lawrence, all would be named first, right?
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  • But god put prophets last, why?
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  • God is saying ordinary people can walk in the excellency
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  • Of faith, amen?
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  • Female announcer: my friend, you were made to thrive in life.
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  • If you feel like you're fighting an uphill battle that can't be
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  • Won, the lord wants you to know that you can walk in faith
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  • And boldness every day.
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  • In today's message, be strengthened in the lord
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  • As he steadies your heart, sharpens your vision,
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  • And imparts faith for you to rise above
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  • Every mountain in life.
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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: now, i'm going to tell you something.
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  • I read the bible and i ask questions that people don't ask.
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  • That's how i get my messages.
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  • I like to ask questions that some people don't even bother.
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  • I ask them, "how about this verse?
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  • There must be an explanation," then they go on, but for me
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  • I need to find out the answer.
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  • For example, i'm going to share this part here, very important
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  • That you understand, and if i have time i want to share
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  • With you why barak comes before--gideon
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  • Comes before barak and samson comes before jephthah, okay?
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  • It's all in this message, okay?
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  • So for the next three hours for our bible study, we're going
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  • To study these, amen?
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  • You want your faith to be strong and robust?
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  • Okay, watch this, this is very interesting.
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  • I was reading this one day in judges chapter 1 verse 19,
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  • And it says this, "the lord was with judah.".
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  • How many like the lord to be with you, right?
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  • But what i can't understand was what follows.
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  • It says, "and they, judah, drove out the mountaineers,
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  • But they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland,
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  • Because they had chariots of iron.".
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  • So, when i read this one day, i asked myself what?
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  • I mean, if the lord, if jehovah, if the lord is with his people,
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  • What about chariots of iron?
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  • They might as well be made of tissue paper, am i right?
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  • I mean, we have seen time and time again,
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  • Goliath clad in armor, in brass, knocked down by a single stone
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  • Of a boy who had faith in god.
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  • Amen? so, what is this?
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  • "they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland
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  • Because they had chariots of iron.".
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  • Now, same chapter, chapter 1, let's go to the beginning,
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  • See what happened.
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  • "now after the death of joshua it came to pass the children of
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  • Israel asked the lord, saying, 'who shall be first to go up
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  • For us against the canaanites to fight against them?'
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  • And the lord said, 'judah shall go up.'".
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  • In all your challenges, the first thing that must go up
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  • To god is always praise, because judah means praise,
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  • All right?
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  • For everything that happens in life,
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  • You get stuck in a traffic jam, you say praise the lord anyway.
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  • Something good, you say praise the lord.
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  • Something bad happens, praise the lord anyway, amen?
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  • First thing that goes up is praise.
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  • Judah means-- yehuda means praise.
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  • So, who will go up first?
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  • Praise, judah, and the lord says, "judah shall go up.".
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  • "indeed," watch this, watch this, "i have delivered the land
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  • Into," whose hand?
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  • "his hand," singular, that's important for you, okay?
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  • I'm giving you the revelation right now straightaway,
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  • All right?
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  • Whose hand did god deliver the enemies to, the canaanites?
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  • Judah's hand, there are 12 tribes
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  • But it was in the judah's hand.
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  • Look at the next verse though, verse 3.
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  • "so judah said to simeon his brother," mmm,
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  • "come up with me to my allotted territory that we may fight
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  • Against the canaanites, and i will likewise go with you
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  • To your allotted territory," so simeon went with him.
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  • Now, god never said bring simeon along.
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  • God says, "i've delivered them into your hand," but he limited
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  • The holy one of israel.
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  • Because we all want support of the flesh, we all want, you
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  • Know, we want people around us.
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  • Even though the lord called you, but you want someone else
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  • To come.
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  • That happened to moses as well, the weakness of faith.
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  • We can see that when god first called him it was actually god
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  • Calling him to speak to pharaoh, but then, time and time again,
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  • He said i cannot speak, i cannot speak,
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  • And god got angry.
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  • God said, "who made man's mouth?".
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  • And then finally god says, "take aaron your brother,
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  • He'll be your spokesman.".
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  • That wasn't god's best.
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  • God wanted him to be the spokesman.
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  • So, many a times, you know, when god calls you he will equip you,
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  • So who cares if they had chariots of iron or not, right?
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  • But he called for his brother to help him, okay?
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  • You fight for me and i'll fight with you, and simeon went
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  • With him.
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  • "then judah went up, and the lord delivered the canaanites.".
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  • So, in the beginning there was deliverance, there was victory,
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  • Victory, victory, and they finally, drop down to verse 19,
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  • You see this happen, they cannot drive out
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  • Because of chariot is of iron.
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  • In other words, when you limit god, your victory is limited.
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  • It will always show up.
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  • Where you don't trust god, it will show up, amen?
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  • Now, we're not saying don't use means.
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  • For example, if you pray, what i'm saying is talk to the lord.
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  • Ask counsel from god before you ask counsel from man.
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  • Ask god first before you ask the opinion of anyone,
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  • No matter how godly the person is, because man can make
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  • Mistakes, and your life is too precious for man's mistakes.
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  • It's not saying don't ask for advice, but ask the lord first.
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  • Pray to the lord first, amen?
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  • So, that's what i'm talking about, and even if you are
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  • Believing god for a child, it doesn't mean you cannot go for
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  • Ivf, you cannot, who says that?
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  • Who told you you cannot?
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  • You can, but go to the lord first, amen?
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  • Ask the lord.
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  • If the lord tells you this is the way he wants you to go,
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  • Maybe it's to humble us in some ways or i do not know,
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  • But god has his ways, but always go to the lord first.
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  • It's not a shame to do ivf, amen.
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  • Are you all with me so far?
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  • So, that's what limited judah.
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  • Now, let's do another case.
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  • We're coming to the hebrews, all right, but first let's look
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  • At the guy called barak.
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  • His name is lightning, barak.
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  • Okay, so here we go.
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  • In judges 4, "and the children of israel cried out to the lord,
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  • For jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron.".
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  • Now, see, chariots of iron again, right?
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  • So, let's see what happened.
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  • "and for twenty years he had harshly oppressed the children
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  • Of israel.
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  • Now deborah, a prophetess, the wife of lapidoth, was
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  • Judging israel at that time.".
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  • So, at that time deborah was a prophetess
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  • And she was judging israel.
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  • Isn't it amazing we have women prophetess, and some people say
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  • That women cannot speak in the church.
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  • They misinterpret what paul is saying, amen?
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  • Women should--if a woman is a prophetess,
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  • She needs to speak, okay?
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  • And she's not a single woman, she has a husband,
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  • Her husband is lapidoth, okay?
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  • So, what happened was this, she appointed a man to fight.
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  • She's a prophetess, she appointed a man.
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  • Of course, the lord spoke to her, and drop down,
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  • And she's talking to the man, his name is barak.
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  • And she said to barak, "'against you i will deploy sisera,
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  • The commander of jabin's army.".
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  • You all know sisera?
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  • He got nailed, right?
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  • His head got nailed.
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  • All right, what happened was that he was--okay, let me tell
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  • You a story real quick.
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  • You know, he was running away from israel and his armies were
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  • All scattered because god gave them the victory.
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  • He ran into a tent, he told a woman can i just hide, not hide,
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  • But she knew who he was and she allowed him to lie down there
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  • For a while and she gave him some milk but he was
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  • Hiding there.
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  • And you know what milk do to you, right?
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  • It makes you sleepy in the daytime, right?
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  • Even at night, a glass of milk.
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  • So, he fell asleep.
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  • When he fell asleep, this woman, her name is jael,
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  • She took a hammer and a stick and she put it on his forehead
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  • And she slammed him.
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  • He was nailed.
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  • Fixed, he was fixed, all right?
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  • And he was a commander of king jabin's army
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  • Who had all these hundreds of chariots of iron, amen?
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  • So, that's the story.
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  • That happened later on, but in the beginning,
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  • Actually what happened was this.
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  • This sisera who got nailed with his chariots and his multitude
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  • At the river kishon, "and i will deliver him into your hand.".
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  • Who is the your?
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  • Barak, god wanted barak to destroy sisera,
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  • But what did barak say?
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  • Barak looked at the prophetess and said, "if you will go
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  • With me, then i will go, but if you don't go with me,
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  • I won't go.".
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  • So, the prophetess said, "so she said,
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  • 'i will surely go with you, nevertheless there will be
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  • No glory for you in the journey you are taking.
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  • For the lord will sell sisera into the hand of a woman.'".
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  • Was that god's purpose?
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  • Was that god's plan?
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  • No, go back again.
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  • All right, what did god say?
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  • I will deliver him, sisera, into your hand, but because he says
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  • Unless you go with me i will not go, you limit
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  • The holy one of israel.
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  • God says then there will be no credit for you.
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  • The credit will go to a woman whose name is jael.
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  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:11:46.915 --> 00:11:48.249
  • Now we come to the question that i left you all hanging
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  • Weeks ago.
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  • Hebrews, the famous hall of faith, and we have
  • 00:11:53.788 --> 00:11:55.657
  • This question asked in hebrews.
  • 00:11:56.858 --> 00:11:58.426
  • "what more shall i say?
  • 00:11:58.426 --> 00:11:59.894
  • For the time would fail me to tell of gideon and barak
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  • And samson and jephthah, also of david and samuel
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  • And the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms,
  • 00:12:09.103 --> 00:12:12.841
  • Worked righteousness, obtained promises,
  • 00:12:12.841 --> 00:12:14.676
  • Stopped the mouths of lions.".
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  • Now, i was reading this one day and then i knew that
  • 00:12:16.244 --> 00:12:18.279
  • There's no insignificant details in the bible.
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  • You know, jesus quoted the bible based on one word, and
  • 00:12:22.784 --> 00:12:25.920
  • The pharisees never answered, "you're quoting based on
  • 00:12:25.920 --> 00:12:28.256
  • Just one single word," as if the bible is not inspired.
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  • They knew the bible, the pharisees,
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  • Every word is inspired.
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  • Jesus argued that god is a god of not just the dead,
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  • God of the living, god of abraham, isaac,
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  • And jacob.
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  • He says i am the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • He argued from the am, i am, elohi, elohenu.
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  • I am, present tense.
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  • I'm still the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob in arguing
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  • About the resurrection, and the pharisees never said
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  • You're arguing based on one word.
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  • So, when i read the bible and i see gideon and barak,
  • 00:13:00.421 --> 00:13:03.091
  • Wait a minute, chronologically speaking, who came first?
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  • Barak came before gideon.
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  • All this in the book of judges, okay?
  • 00:13:09.397 --> 00:13:12.033
  • Then samson and jephthah, wait a minute,
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  • Jephthah came before samson.
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  • Samson is towards the end of judges.
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  • In fact, he was the last judge.
  • 00:13:20.708 --> 00:13:22.277
  • Officially, it was samuel the last judge,
  • 00:13:22.277 --> 00:13:24.279
  • But samson was the last judge.
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  • Just like the time of the kings, it ended with nebuchadnezzar
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  • Coming in and the last king, his eyes were gouged out.
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  • The last judge of all the judges,
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  • His eyes were gouged out.
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  • In christendom, the last church, the professing the people, not
  • 00:13:40.695 --> 00:13:46.868
  • The true church, philadelphia, but the last one, laodicea,
  • 00:13:46.868 --> 00:13:50.905
  • Jesus says you are blind.
  • 00:13:50.905 --> 00:13:53.374
  • So, in everything that man does, whether it's through prophets,
  • 00:13:53.374 --> 00:13:57.412
  • Whether it's through kings, whether it's through priests,
  • 00:13:57.412 --> 00:13:59.948
  • Whether it's through christendom, it always fails
  • 00:13:59.948 --> 00:14:04.385
  • If we forget the lord is number one, central in our life.
  • 00:14:04.385 --> 00:14:09.057
  • So, here we go.
  • 00:14:09.057 --> 00:14:10.658
  • Samson came after jephthah, but yet his name is mentioned first.
  • 00:14:10.658 --> 00:14:15.463
  • What about david and samuel?
  • 00:14:15.463 --> 00:14:17.999
  • Who came first?
  • 00:14:17.999 --> 00:14:20.101
  • Samuel anointed the boy david, right?
  • 00:14:20.101 --> 00:14:23.471
  • If not, there's no prophet to anoint him.
  • 00:14:23.471 --> 00:14:25.473
  • So, david came after samuel, yet david came first here.
  • 00:14:25.473 --> 00:14:29.277
  • What's the reason? i wanna venture a guess.
  • 00:14:29.277 --> 00:14:31.479
  • I told you about barak compared to gideon, gideon and barak.
  • 00:14:31.479 --> 00:14:36.384
  • Real quick, gideon and barak both had faith, or else
  • 00:14:36.384 --> 00:14:41.723
  • Their names won't be here, but it's not about time,
  • 00:14:41.723 --> 00:14:45.226
  • It's not about this.
  • 00:14:45.226 --> 00:14:47.595
  • When god puts a name first, it's usually god's priority.
  • 00:14:47.595 --> 00:14:51.899
  • It means god favors that first.
  • 00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:54.569
  • It is actually not based on time, it's based
  • 00:14:54.569 --> 00:14:56.838
  • On the quality of faith.
  • 00:14:56.838 --> 00:14:59.307
  • It's based on the excellency of faith.
  • 00:14:59.307 --> 00:15:03.011
  • It's a greater faith.
  • 00:15:03.011 --> 00:15:04.612
  • As i showed you just now, barak compared to gideon,
  • 00:15:04.612 --> 00:15:07.248
  • Barak's faith was if you'll go with me,
  • 00:15:07.248 --> 00:15:12.487
  • Then i'll go with you, whereas for gideon,
  • 00:15:12.487 --> 00:15:15.957
  • His eyes was on the lord.
  • 00:15:15.957 --> 00:15:18.426
  • You know, he did put out the fleece, but obviously with god,
  • 00:15:18.426 --> 00:15:22.296
  • God allowed it because he was looking to the lord, whereas
  • 00:15:22.296 --> 00:15:25.900
  • Barak was looking to the woman.
  • 00:15:25.900 --> 00:15:29.771
  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:15:29.771 --> 00:15:31.506
  • It's not about chronology, it's about the quality.
  • 00:15:31.506 --> 00:15:35.943
  • It's about the excellency of faith.
  • 00:15:35.943 --> 00:15:40.982
  • What about samson and jephthah?
  • 00:15:40.982 --> 00:15:43.418
  • You know, today i hear people preach against samson a lot and
  • 00:15:43.418 --> 00:15:46.954
  • All that, but let me tell you this, carnal as he is,
  • 00:15:46.954 --> 00:15:49.991
  • He reminds us of all of us, but he had faith in god.
  • 00:15:49.991 --> 00:15:53.861
  • His name is mentioned in the hall of faith.
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  • He made it to heaven, yes, of course, amen?
  • 00:15:56.130 --> 00:15:58.966
  • And samson and jephthah, what about samson?
  • 00:15:58.966 --> 00:16:01.536
  • What did samson do?
  • 00:16:01.536 --> 00:16:02.870
  • What did jephthah do?
  • 00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:04.639
  • Samson, for example, here's a story where he says,
  • 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.608
  • "he found a new jawbone of an ass, put forth his hand,
  • 00:16:07.608 --> 00:16:10.111
  • And took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
  • 00:16:10.111 --> 00:16:13.047
  • And samson said, 'with the jawbone of a donkey,
  • 00:16:13.047 --> 00:16:15.516
  • Heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey
  • 00:16:15.516 --> 00:16:17.852
  • Have i slain a thousand men.'.
  • 00:16:17.852 --> 00:16:19.187
  • And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he
  • 00:16:19.187 --> 00:16:22.190
  • Cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called the place
  • 00:16:22.190 --> 00:16:25.193
  • Ramath-lehi, which means the exaltation of the jawbone.".
  • 00:16:25.193 --> 00:16:28.896
  • All right, drop down, "and he was sore athirst
  • 00:16:28.896 --> 00:16:31.365
  • And called on the lord.".
  • 00:16:31.365 --> 00:16:32.800
  • He was sore athirst, means he was thirsty.
  • 00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:35.236
  • Who did he call on?
  • 00:16:35.236 --> 00:16:36.838
  • The lord, he called on the lord and said, "thou hast given
  • 00:16:36.838 --> 00:16:39.907
  • This great deliverance," he gave god the glory.
  • 00:16:39.907 --> 00:16:45.480
  • Say what you want about samson, he knew where his deliverance
  • 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.082
  • Came from.
  • 00:16:48.082 --> 00:16:49.550
  • You have brought this great deliverance, "'given this
  • 00:16:49.550 --> 00:16:52.787
  • Deliverance into the hand of your servant, now shall i die
  • 00:16:52.787 --> 00:16:54.589
  • For thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'
  • 00:16:54.589 --> 00:16:56.891
  • But god clave an hollow place that was in the jaw,
  • 00:16:56.891 --> 00:16:59.360
  • And there came water thereout.
  • 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:00.928
  • And when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and
  • 00:17:00.928 --> 00:17:02.964
  • He revived, wherefore he called the name thereof en-hakkore.".
  • 00:17:02.964 --> 00:17:07.101
  • En is fountain, hakkore is the caller,
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  • The fountain of the one who called.
  • 00:17:10.872 --> 00:17:12.773
  • Okay, which is now in israel, and one of these days i pray
  • 00:17:12.773 --> 00:17:14.809
  • That you go to samson's house and the place where
  • 00:17:16.844 --> 00:17:20.448
  • He was buried, it's all there.
  • 00:17:20.448 --> 00:17:22.116
  • And there's no monuments by the way, only the place that is
  • 00:17:22.116 --> 00:17:24.452
  • Buried, there's a jewish tomb, but i'm telling you,
  • 00:17:24.452 --> 00:17:27.288
  • It's exciting.
  • 00:17:27.288 --> 00:17:28.623
  • We were there this march, right?
  • 00:17:28.623 --> 00:17:30.892
  • And, oh, let me tell you this, this is not based on law.
  • 00:17:30.892 --> 00:17:34.562
  • If it was based on law, samson failed the moment
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  • He picked up--go back again.
  • 00:17:37.298 --> 00:17:38.833
  • When he picked up the jawbone, go back, go back,
  • 00:17:38.833 --> 00:17:42.270
  • Verses before, yeah.
  • 00:17:42.270 --> 00:17:43.738
  • "he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand."
  • 00:17:43.738 --> 00:17:47.141
  • Can you see that?
  • 00:17:47.141 --> 00:17:48.976
  • He touched a dead carcass.
  • 00:17:48.976 --> 00:17:53.147
  • He's not supposed to.
  • 00:17:54.682 --> 00:17:56.017
  • Nazarite vow, he's not supposed to touch any dead body, and yet
  • 00:17:56.017 --> 00:17:59.320
  • God brought the victory for him, because in a way he functioned
  • 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:02.590
  • Like the syrophoenician woman.
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  • It wasn't time for the gentiles but she reached out
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  • Into the future.
  • 00:18:05.826 --> 00:18:07.161
  • Faith would transcend time and space, amen?
  • 00:18:07.161 --> 00:18:11.165
  • But he was not--effectively here he's not under law,
  • 00:18:11.165 --> 00:18:14.202
  • But he was under grace.
  • 00:18:14.202 --> 00:18:16.237
  • He was functioning in faith in the lord.
  • 00:18:16.237 --> 00:18:18.039
  • He was looking to the lord.
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  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:18:19.807 --> 00:18:21.142
  • So, why was he put above jephthah?
  • 00:18:21.142 --> 00:18:25.213
  • Jephthah came first. who is jephthah?
  • 00:18:25.213 --> 00:18:27.315
  • The bible says he was the son of a harlot.
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  • He was called back.
  • 00:18:28.749 --> 00:18:30.084
  • He was at first rejected by his brothers,
  • 00:18:30.084 --> 00:18:32.119
  • Rejected by his community, then later on they called him
  • 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.455
  • Back when the enemies came because he was a warrior,
  • 00:18:34.455 --> 00:18:37.858
  • But look at what he did.
  • 00:18:37.858 --> 00:18:40.328
  • Samson called on the lord, but jephthah made a vow to the lord
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  • And said, "'if you will indeed deliver the people of ammon into
  • 00:18:44.732 --> 00:18:48.135
  • My hands, then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors
  • 00:18:48.135 --> 00:18:51.372
  • Of my house to meet me when i return in peace
  • 00:18:51.372 --> 00:18:54.008
  • From the people of ammon, shall surely be the lord's,
  • 00:18:54.008 --> 00:18:56.611
  • And i will offer it up as a burnt offering.'".
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  • He made a vow to the lord.
  • 00:18:58.446 --> 00:19:00.448
  • When you don't have a relationship with god,
  • 00:19:00.448 --> 00:19:02.650
  • You will do a barter system.
  • 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:04.151
  • God, if you do this for me, then i'll do this for you.
  • 00:19:04.151 --> 00:19:06.821
  • It shows a weakness of faith.
  • 00:19:06.821 --> 00:19:08.356
  • It shows inferiority.
  • 00:19:08.356 --> 00:19:10.958
  • Are you listening, people?
  • 00:19:10.958 --> 00:19:14.428
  • You don't barter.
  • 00:19:14.428 --> 00:19:15.763
  • Like, i was preaching a few months ago on
  • 00:19:15.763 --> 00:19:17.398
  • "the lord of the vineyard," the parable, right?
  • 00:19:17.398 --> 00:19:20.167
  • The one that received the most favor for the least effort,
  • 00:19:20.167 --> 00:19:23.404
  • Right, put in a full day's wage, was the one that trusted the
  • 00:19:23.404 --> 00:19:28.142
  • Landowner, whereas the one that bargained, and we bargain.
  • 00:19:28.142 --> 00:19:32.280
  • You know, that shows we are legalistic.
  • 00:19:32.280 --> 00:19:34.348
  • Legalistic people bargain.
  • 00:19:34.348 --> 00:19:35.816
  • Lord, if you do this for me, i'll do that for you.
  • 00:19:35.816 --> 00:19:37.685
  • If you do this for me, i'll do that for you.
  • 00:19:37.685 --> 00:19:39.487
  • That should not be, people.
  • 00:19:39.487 --> 00:19:41.155
  • In our walk with god, he is our father,
  • 00:19:41.155 --> 00:19:43.224
  • You are his son, amen, and jesus is your high priest.
  • 00:19:43.224 --> 00:19:49.463
  • He is the good shepherd.
  • 00:19:49.463 --> 00:19:51.198
  • We have a relationship of love.
  • 00:19:51.198 --> 00:19:54.201
  • Instead, we feel like god will not move unless i tell him,
  • 00:19:54.201 --> 00:19:56.504
  • Lord, if you do this, i will do that.
  • 00:19:56.504 --> 00:19:58.005
  • I vow to you.
  • 00:19:58.005 --> 00:19:59.340
  • All vows are under the law.
  • 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:02.209
  • Believers don't vow today, okay?
  • 00:20:02.209 --> 00:20:05.279
  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:06.881
  • Okay, so you can see it.
  • 00:20:06.881 --> 00:20:08.215
  • By the way, it's a very sad story.
  • 00:20:08.215 --> 00:20:09.583
  • You know who came up to see him first?
  • 00:20:09.583 --> 00:20:12.887
  • He thought it was an animal, right?
  • 00:20:12.887 --> 00:20:14.221
  • It was his daughter.
  • 00:20:14.221 --> 00:20:16.090
  • He said whatever comes out i will offer
  • 00:20:16.090 --> 00:20:17.658
  • As a burnt offering.
  • 00:20:17.658 --> 00:20:18.993
  • Now, he did not kill her because god doesn't want a
  • 00:20:18.993 --> 00:20:21.262
  • Human burnt offering, all right?
  • 00:20:21.262 --> 00:20:24.799
  • The bible says she bewailed her virginity.
  • 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:26.967
  • In other words, for the rest of her life, she gave her life up,
  • 00:20:26.967 --> 00:20:29.837
  • All right, never married, okay?
  • 00:20:29.837 --> 00:20:33.574
  • You can read the story, jephthah's story.
  • 00:20:33.574 --> 00:20:35.309
  • So, nonetheless we don't have time to go back to hebrews 11
  • 00:20:35.309 --> 00:20:38.312
  • To see about david and samuel.
  • 00:20:38.312 --> 00:20:39.947
  • Just to let you know, if you read 1 samuel 8,
  • 00:20:39.947 --> 00:20:41.982
  • We have the only mistake that i can see of
  • 00:20:41.982 --> 00:20:45.152
  • Of prophet samuel, which was actually, he put his sons--
  • 00:20:45.152 --> 00:20:49.190
  • 1 samuel 8, "he put his sons as judges over israel, but his sons
  • 00:20:49.190 --> 00:20:53.494
  • Did not walk in his ways.
  • 00:20:53.494 --> 00:20:54.829
  • They turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes,
  • 00:20:54.829 --> 00:20:56.664
  • Perverted justice.".
  • 00:20:56.664 --> 00:20:57.998
  • And even though, you know, david loved his sons,
  • 00:20:57.998 --> 00:21:01.068
  • David never placed his sons in position.
  • 00:21:02.737 --> 00:21:05.506
  • It was his son absalom that usurped the authority,
  • 00:21:05.506 --> 00:21:08.209
  • All right?
  • 00:21:08.209 --> 00:21:09.543
  • So, there's a faith quality.
  • 00:21:09.543 --> 00:21:11.312
  • God forbid i should say anything untoward okay, or amiss about
  • 00:21:11.312 --> 00:21:15.783
  • This wonderful prophet, samuel.
  • 00:21:15.783 --> 00:21:17.451
  • He has a story to learn.
  • 00:21:17.451 --> 00:21:18.953
  • I mean, his character is amazing, but in terms of faith,
  • 00:21:18.953 --> 00:21:22.490
  • David had faith that god really puts his approval on, amen?
  • 00:21:22.490 --> 00:21:28.362
  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:21:28.362 --> 00:21:30.364
  • And then, go back to hebrews 11, the last one is the prophets,
  • 00:21:30.364 --> 00:21:33.534
  • You see?
  • 00:21:33.534 --> 00:21:34.869
  • The prophets put last.
  • 00:21:34.869 --> 00:21:36.203
  • If you look at all the names here, all six of them
  • 00:21:36.203 --> 00:21:37.872
  • Are ordinary people except for david, king.
  • 00:21:37.872 --> 00:21:40.174
  • All of them are ordinary people, what is that saying?
  • 00:21:40.174 --> 00:21:42.276
  • And god put prophets last.
  • 00:21:42.276 --> 00:21:44.011
  • You would have thought the prophets, like pastor henry,
  • 00:21:44.011 --> 00:21:47.748
  • Pastor lawrence, all would be named first, right?
  • 00:21:47.748 --> 00:21:51.318
  • But god put prophets last, why?
  • 00:21:51.318 --> 00:21:54.188
  • God is saying ordinary people can walk in the excellency
  • 00:21:54.188 --> 00:21:56.924
  • Of faith, amen?
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  • Joseph prince: every head bowed, every eye closed.
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  • I pray for you, people, in the name of jesus, that as your
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  • Days--the doctors tell you as your days progress, this part
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  • Here will get weaker, that part will get more and more decayed,
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  • This one will get worse and worse not better and better.
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  • But i'm here to tell you, the word of god says as your days,
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  • So shall your strength be.
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  • Who will you believe?
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  • In other words, the older you grow, the stronger you are.
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  • That's what he's saying.
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  • Oh, i don't hear no amen except for one over here, i think.
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  • As your days, but the experts can only tell you
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  • What is the truth based on their limited understanding.
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  • I wouldn't call it truth, i'll call it facts, but
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  • It's still limited to the flesh, to the boundaries of man's
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  • Understanding and knowledge.
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  • But when you trust the lord, it's an inexhaustible reservoir
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  • Of his supply open to you.
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  • In all our reasonings, never leave god out
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  • Of the calculations, amen.
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  • In all your reasoning, put god first, amen?
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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 house, 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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  • 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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