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Joseph Prince - Set Free From Destructive Habits and Addiction

July 27, 2025 | 29:45

In this special program by Joseph, discover righteousness truths to set you free from cycles of sin.

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Set Free From Destructive Habits and Addiction | July 27, 2025

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Joseph prince: thank you for tuning into today's program.
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I believe it's no coincidence that you are watching
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This today.
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I pray that as the word of god goes forth,
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You receive the breakthrough and answers
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You've been asking the lord for.
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Be blessed.
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Joseph prince: at the cross, all of god's claims of holiness
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And righteousness are fully met at the cross.
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God is glorified.
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The law has been magnified, fulfilled, and set aside.
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We are no more under law, we are under grace.
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We are no more under moses, we are under jesus.
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Just like a sinner cannot undo what adam has done in making him
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A sinner, neither can you undo what christ has done
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In making you righteous.
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It is always very painful when you are self-occupied.
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You know, you think that, you know, that this person
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Is talking bad about me, this person is looking at me
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In a very strange way.
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How come this person's like that, you know?
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How come that--you know, you measure the world
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By how it treats you, and it's "i," "you," "i,"
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It's a very painful lifestyle.
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Christ came to deliver us from self into a life more abundant,
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Amen, where christ takes the center focus of our life,
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Amen?
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♪♪♪
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Joseph prince: the story of the woman caught in adultery.
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Don't forget, that story is only told us in the gospel of john.
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All right, in the synoptic gospels: matthew, mark and luke,
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There's no mention of that story.
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All right, some stories are mentioned
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In all the synoptic gospels, but in john, in john's gospel,
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Only you find a woman caught in adultery,
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Because it starts off by telling you
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That jesus is the word made flesh.
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In the beginning was the word, the word made flesh came
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And dwelt among us, and the miracles
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That he did in john are called signs.
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Everyone say, "signs."
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Signs point to something, all right,
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That is a reality, okay?
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Sign itself is nothing, but it's what it points to.
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So all the miracles in the gospel of john--even though
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The woman caught in adultery is not exactly a miracle
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In the strictest sense of the word;
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It's not opening the eyes of the blind
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Or cleansing the leper, which jesus does also,
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But in fact it's a miracle when someone's life
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Is transformed.
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And jesus is able to look at the jewish people
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Who are holding rocks in their hands
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And one-by-one they dropped their rocks
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And left that woman alone.
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Jesus saved her, and yet jesus did not do it
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By compromising the law.
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He upheld the law, amen?
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He was the only one.
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He says that "he that's without sin, cast the first stone,"
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And the only one without sin was our lord jesus,
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But he refused to cast a stone, and everyone left.
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They all slanked away.
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One-by-one they left, leaving jesus and the woman,
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And don't forget what jesus told the woman:
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"neither do i condemn you.
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Neither do i condemn you.
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Go and sin no more."
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So don't forget the order, the order is very important.
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The reason why we want to free people from no condemnation
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Is because of this order.
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When people are freed from condemnation, the sin fall off,
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The addictions fall off.
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Are you listening, all right?
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Guilt empower addiction, and i just want to share
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With you right now a wonderful testimony
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That we just received last week from america.
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This man doesn't mind his name being revealed.
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His name is fred sloane, arizona, united states,
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And he shared this.
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He even posted it on his facebook page.
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"i would like to thank pastor prince
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For writing the book 'the power of right believing.'
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I had been addicted to alcohol for 31 years."
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Wow, that's a long time.
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"it got so bad four years ago that the doctor told me
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That i had to have a cat scan for my liver
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Because i had alcohol-induced hepatitis
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Of the liver.
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My liver got so big and hard that it would throw my back out,
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And i would have to go to the chiropractor almost weekly
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And take painkillers almost daily.
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It was a vicious cycle.
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The longest i ever went without drinking in the last 31 years
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Was 23 years ago when i checked into a drug rehab for four weeks
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And managed to quit drinking for six weeks, but the book
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'the power of right believing' changed my life.
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While i was just halfway through reading it,
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God miraculously delivered me
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From my 31-year addiction to alcohol.
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I threw out $400 worth of booze that was stashed in my house
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And have not drunk in five weeks now.
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Fear and guilt," listen to this,
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"fear and guilt feeds addiction."
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So jesus told that woman, "neither do i condemn you."
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He gave her no condemnation, then he said,
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"go and sin no more."
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That's what empowers people to go and sin no more,
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When they know there's no condemnation,
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But if all the sermons that they hear leave them
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With a sense of condemnation, it will empower them
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To go and sin some more, all right?
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So this guy made a profound statement here:
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"fear and guilt feeds addiction,
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But when one comes to accept god's grace and mercy,
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There is freedom found in jesus's love for us
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As a result of the power of right believing."
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Hallelujah, give jesus the praise, amen?
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So we saw that right after jesus rescued that woman--and
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I believe she got saved because when jesus asked her,
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"where are those thine accuses?"
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She looked around for the first time and she says,
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"no man, lord."
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When he says, "has no one condemned you?"
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She says, "no man, lord."
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She called him lord, amen?
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And when she walked away--we are not saying that jesus
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Just forgives sins without a righteous foundation.
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For god to forgive sins, sins must be punished,
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Or else god is not holy.
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But if god punished the sinner, all right, where is his love?
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But if god let sin go--god says "boys will be boys,
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You know, it's okay," all right, then where is his justice?
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Where is his holiness?
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The whole universe will collapse,
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So god has to reconcile his righteousness,
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His holiness, with his love, his mercy, and grace,
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All right, and that happened at the cross.
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At the cross, listen, jesus paid even for that woman's sin.
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Jesus paid for my sins to be forgiven, jesus paid.
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I am telling you at the cross all of god's claims
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Of holiness and righteousness are fully met, at the cross.
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God is glorified.
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The law has been magnified, fulfilled, and set aside.
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We are no more under law, we are under grace.
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We are no more under moses, we are under jesus.
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We are no more under the servant, we are under the son.
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They had temporal forgiveness, we have eternal forgiveness.
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They had the blood of bulls and goats, we have the blood,
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The royal blood of the son of god.
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Their salvation was temporal, year-by-year;
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Our salvation is eternal.
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And just like a sinner cannot undo what adam has done
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In making him a sinner, neither can you undo
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What christ has done in making you righteous.
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If you can do that, then what the first adam did
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Was greater than what the last adam did, and that cannot be.
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Are you with me?
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So towards the end, you all know what happened, all right?
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Jesus says, "your father abraham rejoiced to see my day,
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And he saw it and was glad," and i believe this was
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When abraham was offering his son, all right, on mount moriah.
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Abraham turned around, saw the ram, but he saw more than the
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Ram, he saw a vision of jesus dying on the same mountain,
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Because calvary is the same range of mountain
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On mount moriah.
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In fact, calvary is higher than the temple mount,
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But same range.
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And jesus says, "'abraham rejoiced to see my day.'
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Then the jews said to him, 'you are not yet fifty years old,
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And have you seen abraham?'"
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You see, they missed the point.
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In their minds, abraham is so great,
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Jesus is so little.
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Jesus did not say "i saw abraham's day,"
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Jesus said "abraham saw my day."
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They said, "have you seen abraham?"
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No, the question is not "have you seen abraham?"
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Abraham saw me.
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Then he answered this: "jesus said to them,
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'most assuredly, i say to you, before abraham was, i am.'"
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I eternally am.
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One other time he used this word--and in fact,
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There are a few places where he used this word--
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Was when they came to capture him in the garden,
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And jesus stepped forward.
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Men with swords, with spears, with torches;
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More than one man, a band of soldiers.
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And jesus says, "'whom do you seek?'
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'we seek jesus of nazareth.'
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He stepped forward," and in your english bible
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It says, "'i am he.'"
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"he" is in italics.
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Whenever you find a word in italics,
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It's not there in the original,
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So it's just, "he stepped forward and says, 'i am.'
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Bang, they all fell.
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All the men, all the soldiers fell to the ground.
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The captive became the captivator.
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Waited for them to get up to arrest him.
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That's why jesus wasn't murdered, the bible says
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"he laid down his life," amen?
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If he didn't want to lay down his life,
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No one can capture him.
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In fact, we have the example of this.
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Next verse, next verse:
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"then they took up stones to throw at him;
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But jesus hid himself and went out of the temple."
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It's obvious what they did.
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If you don't understand what "i am" means,
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The jews understand.
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They took up stones.
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They knew what jesus meant when he says "i am."
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He's claiming to be god, amen?
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So jesus said, "the need exists
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For the works of god to manifest."
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That should be your focus.
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The focus is on christ and his power, and the works of god
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To be made manifest in this needy person, amen?
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So jesus says, "i must work the works of him who sent me
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While it is day; the night is coming when no one can work."
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Jesus says, "as long as i am in the world,
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I am the light of the world."
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You know, when i read this,
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It's as if he's saying, i love it,
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"as long as i'm in the world, i'm the light of the world."
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It's as if he's saying, "as long as there is darkness,
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I cannot but be the light.
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As long as there is sin, love cannot rest."
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He's saying that.
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"as long as there is darkness, light cannot rest.
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As long as there's sorrow, love cannot rest."
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I love it, amen.
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Next verse: "when he had said these things,
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He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva;
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And he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
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So he spat on the ground and he made clay and anointed the eyes
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Of the blind man.
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"strange action," you might say, all right,
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But full of significance.
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"and he said to the blind man, 'go, wash in the pool of siloam'
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(which is translated, sent).
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So he went and washed, and came back seeing."
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Blind from birth, came back seeing.
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Now, why did jesus spit on the ground and make clay?
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Remember that all of us, we are made from the dust
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Of the ground.
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We are made from the clay, from ground.
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The word "adam" is from the hebrew word "adamah."
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Adamah is ground.
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We are made from the ground.
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"ah, don't believe we are made from the ground."
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You can say, don't believe, whatever you want.
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You can be the most intellectual professor on planet earth,
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But when you die, you become dust.
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You go back to the ground.
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Cannot insist, "no, i will stay handsome with my mustache."
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No, you will go to the ground.
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All right, given some few years, all right, your body
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In the ground: after a few years, it will become dust.
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So jesus spat on the ground, and he was demonstrating
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With his action, all right, when he made clay,
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That he was the creator of man, all right?
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And actually, don't forget, all his actions have significance.
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Spitting is something humiliating,
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And the bible tells us he was spat in the face.
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The gospel of matthew tells us the pharisees, the scribes;
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When he came before them, they spat him in the face
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One after another.
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Imagine how terrible that is to do that to the son of god,
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And he's there to save you.
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So spit is an emblem of shame, and clay is man's flesh.
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When jesus spat, he was saying that god will humble himself
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To become man.
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Amen, are you with me?
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He'll become flesh.
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The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.
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Female announcer: what is true grace?
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Is it a dangerous doctrine?
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Does it promote a license to sin?
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Joseph prince addresses controversies and misconceptions
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Surrounding the gospel of grace.
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Joseph prince: notice, "he anointed the eyes
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Of the blind man with the clay."
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When you anoint a man's eyes with clay, he becomes blind.
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Am i right?
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All the more when you anoint a blind man's eyes with clay,
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He becomes blinder.
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So, why did jesus do that, why did he put the clay
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On the blind man's eyes?
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To demonstrate to all those around, all right,
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That seeing jesus in the flesh
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Is not the answer to blindness.
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Now, of course he's referring to spiritual blindness as well.
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Looking at jesus in the flesh is not the answer.
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You must see him as the sent one.
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He said, "go wash in the pool of siloam,"
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And the holy spirit purposely put a bracket there.
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The word "siloam" in hebrew means "the sent one."
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It's from the greek word "apostolo,"
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Where we get our english word "apostle," the sent one.
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You must see jesus not just humbling himself in human flesh,
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But he's sent by the father in love for you.
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When you see that, your spiritual scales fall off
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Your eyes and you see.
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Amen, so this man came back seeing.
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And when he came back seeing, the bible says,
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"his neighbors and the jews that recognize him,"
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Because he was a beggar.
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He was a blind man and a beggar.
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In other words, not only was he sick, he was broke.
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All right, not only was he blind, he was begging,
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And the bible says that when they saw him
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And they recognized him as the one who begged,
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They asked him, "who made you see?"
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"a man called jesus," all right, "he put clay,
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Told me to wash my eyes, i came back seeing."
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They had no answer, so they brought him to the pharisees,
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The pharisees who hate jesus.
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They brought this man to the pharisees.
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Now, let's follow the story, all right: "now it was a sabbath
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When jesus made the clay and opened his eyes."
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Now, the pharisees: "you can't even make clay with your spit,
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Because if you spit, you're making clay,
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And that is working on the sabbath."
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That's how legalistic people can become, all right?
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"then the pharisees also asked the blind man again
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How he had received his sight.
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He said to them, 'he put clay on my eyes, and i washed,
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And i see.'"
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Next verse: "therefore some of the pharisees said,
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'this man is not from god,
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Because he does not keep the sabbath.'
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Others said, 'how can a man who is a sinner do such signs?'
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And there was a division among them.
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They said to the blind man again,
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'what do you say about him because he opened your eyes?'
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He said, 'he is a prophet.'"
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So they said, 'call his mother here,
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We don't believe that he was blind.
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Call his father here.'
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So the parents came, all right?
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The parents came.
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Said, "is this your son?" they say yes.
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"was he born blind?" they say yes.
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"how come now he is seeing?
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They say that "he is of age; ask him."
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And the reason they said that is because, drop down,
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"his parents said these things because they feared the jews,
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For the jews had agreed already
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That if anyone confessed that jesus was the messiah,
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Was the christ,
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He would be put out of the synagogue.
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Therefore his parents said, 'he's of age; ask him.'"
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Smart answer: "he's old enough, ask him."
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So the pharisees asked the man again.
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"so they again called the man who was blind, and said to him,
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'give god the glory!
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We know that this man,'" referring to jesus,
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'is a sinner.'"
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The guy who was healed said--"he answered and said,
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'whether he is a sinner or not i don't know.
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One thing i know: i was blind, now i see.'
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Amen, hallelujah!
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See, the one with the experience will never be at the mercy
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Of the one with the argument.
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Okay, next verse: "then they said to him again,
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'what did he do to you?
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How did he open your eyes?'
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He answered them, 'i told you already, and you did not listen.
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Why do you want to hear it again?
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Do you also want to become his disciples?'"
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Okay, drop down.
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"the man answered and said to them,
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'why, this is a marvelous thing.
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You do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes!'"
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And then he started to preach to them.
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Now, he's preaching--this guy who was a beggar not too long
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Ago, he was blind, now he's preaching to the theologians.
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He says, "now we know that god does not hear sinners," right?
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"but if anyone is a worshiper of god and does his will,
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He hears him.
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Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone
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Opened the eyes of one who was born blind."
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He's preaching to them, can you believe it?
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Let's look at their response.
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Did they repent?
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Then he said, "'if this man were not from god,
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He could do nothing.'
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They answered and said to him, 'you were completely born
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In sins, and yet you are teaching us?'
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And they cast him out."
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See, self-righteous people were not open to god's grace.
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The moment they cannot refute what you say,
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They throw your name out, they throw you out.
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They cast him out, they excommunicate him.
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They say "out," but out is the place of blessing in this case,
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Because out was where he found jesus, amen?
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"jesus heard that they had cast him out;
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And when he had found him,
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Jesus said to him, 'do you believe in the son of god?'"
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Do you know that there are not many people that jesus asked
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This question and reveals himself as the son of god?
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What a privilege this man had because he testified of him.
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And notice the progression of spiritual intelligence
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In this man who was healed.
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First of all, earlier on he called jesus what?
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A man, all right?
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Earlier on, "a man called jesus."
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When his neighbors asked him, "who made you see?"
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"a man called jesus made clay."
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He calls jesus a man.
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Later on, they brought him to the pharisees.
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The pharisee says, "who do you say this man is?"
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He said what, drop down: "he is a prophet,"
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So from a man to a prophet.
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And finally, jesus met him where we are now.
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Right, jesus says, "do you believe in the son of god?"
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Look at his response.
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"he answered and said, 'who is he, lord,
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That i may believe in him?'"
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He calls jesus now lord.
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Just like that woman caught in adultery, jesus asked her,
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"where are those thine accuses?
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Has no one condemned you?"
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She looks around, says, "no one, lord."
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She was saved then and there, all right?
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"and jesus said to him, 'you have both seen him
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And it is he who is talking with you.'"
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What a revelation.
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"then he said, 'lord, i believe!'
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And he worshiped jesus."
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Amen, from a man, to a prophet,
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To lord, to the son of god.
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His light became greater and greater, look at this:
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"and he worshipped jesus."
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Jesus saw a man, all right, in his darkness, in his blindness,
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And he brought him to the light.
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He brought his man from begging to worshipping.
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That's what jesus does with us.
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He brings us from the gutter-most
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And save us to the utter-most to bring us to the upper-most.
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Hallelujah, amen.
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You cannot with your willpower set yourself free
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From any bad habit or any addiction.
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You know the word habit?
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H-a-b-i-t, all right?
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You see the word habit?
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You take away the h, you still have a bit.
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You take away the a, you still have that bit.
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Alright, take away the b, you still have it.
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You still have it, right?
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And notice that the biggest problem is i.
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I is the biggest problem in our lives.
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The only way to remove the i is the cross of jesus christ,
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Amen people?
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All right, and it is always very painful
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When you are self-occupied.
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You know, you think that, you know,
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"this person is talking bad about me,
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And this person's looking at me in a very strange way.
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How come this person is like that," you know?
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You measure the world by how it treats you,
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And it's, "i," "you," "i."
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It's a very painful lifestyle.
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All right, people with a toothache doesn't think
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About anybody else, you know?
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They think about themselves.
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So the same thing: christ came to deliver us
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From self into a life more abundant, amen,
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Where christ takes the center focus of our life, amen.
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Have you been blessed?
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Then jesus said these words.
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Right after, you know, he worshiped jesus,
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The chapter ends like this:
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"and jesus said, 'for judgment i have come into this world,
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That those who do not see may see,
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And those who see may be made blind.'
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Then some of the pharisees who were with him heard these words
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And said to him, 'are we blind also?'
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Jesus said to them, 'if you were blind, you would have no sin.'"
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An amazing statement.
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If you were blind, in other words,
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God will not count your sin against you.
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"'but now you say, "we see."
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Therefore your sin remains.'"
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And that's how the whole chapter ends.
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Do you understand now?
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God can look at people, all right?
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If they are blind, okay, they know they are blind.
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They say, "lord, i do not know everything i need to know,
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Lord," and god says, "it's okay, i'll help you.
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I'll be your light."
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But you say, "no, no, i see, i see.
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I know very clearly,"
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And god says, "your sin remains.
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You're still blind."
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Amazing, amazing; the cross.
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If only we have eyes to see.
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The greatest knowledge you can receive
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Is not from universities.
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It's not from many study of many books.
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It's from jesus christ, the power of god
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And the wisdom of god.
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At the end of the day, why are we living our life?
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"well, to make one more million!"
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Yeah, that's what j. paul getty said, and the next year he died.
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What's going to happen then?
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This life is just temporal, folks.
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There's a life to come, amen?
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But meanwhile, we are here, and jesus promised,
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"i come that you might have life and have it more abundantly."
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Jesus didn't come to restrict you,
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He came to magnify your joy, amen?
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He didn't come to bind you, he came to set you free.
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"but i'm a free-thinker!"
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No, you're not free to think.
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See, you think of bad things about people all the time.
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You're not free to think.
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You think you are free to think and you call it
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"i'm a free thinker," but you're not free to think.
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Your thinking has you, but jesus said,
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"whom the son sets free is free indeed."
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Announcer: what is true grace?
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Is it a dangerous doctrine?
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Does it promote a license to sin?
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In his book 'will the real gospel please stand up?'
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Joseph prince addresses controversies and misconceptions
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Surrounding the gospel of grace.
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Has blessed you.
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If there's a need in your life today, know that the lord sees
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You, he hears your prayers, and you are not alone.
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I declare god's shalom peace over every trouble
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You might be going through right now.
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Do know that i'm praying for you,
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And i can't wait to see you receive your breakthrough.
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God bless.
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In your situation.
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Joseph Prince - Set Free From Destructive Habits and Addiction

July 27, 2025 | 29:45

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