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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Straight from the Bible: God’s POV on Prosperity | November 12, 2025
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- Joseph prince: you are in the midst of the trial.
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- But god will not allow the trial to get into you.
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- You will thrive in the midst of the trial.
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- So drop this idea that when god prospers everything you touch,
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- There's no trouble.
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- There will be trouble.
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- But the trouble is like, you know, it's like stepping stones.
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- It's like the devil throw you all kinds of stone
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- And you are in a hole.
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- You got nowhere to go out.
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- He throw you stones and all that, amen,
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- And the stone never hit you,
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- But you built from that stone, you built a ladder.
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- You built a stepping stone literally all the way out, amen.
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- The devil throws lemons, you make lemonade.
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- It's that kind of thing.
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- When favor is on you, even the bad things turn for good.
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- Announcer: ever wondered how you can live an extraordinary life?
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- In today's message from joseph prince,
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- Discover how god's grace worked in the lives of men and women
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- In the bible and how he wants
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- To move mightily in your life today.
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- Have you ever felt forgotten,
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- Like success is just out of reach?
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- In the bible, joseph was betrayed and enslaved,
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- But he didn't stay there because the lord was with him.
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- Do you long for provision and peace?
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- Ruth faced loss and uncertainty,
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- But she trusted god and saw his faithfulness.
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- Read these stories and more in joseph's book,
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- "the people who know their god."
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- Let the stories of these bible characters strengthen your faith
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- And remind you that this same grace is available to you today.
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- Plus, watch bonus teaching videos
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- As part of the book experience.
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- You'll also receive joseph's teaching series
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- And his book, "unstoppable faith."
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- Call or text the number on your screen now.
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- Or visit our website to get your copy today.
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- And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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- With today's program.
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- Joseph prince: god is a good god.
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- God is a generous god.
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- God wants to see your life prosper in every way, amen?
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- You know, regardless of how unpopular it is, you know,
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- To hear the word "prosperity" in some circles,
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- The bible is full of it.
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- The bible says that, 3 john 2,
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- "beloved, i wish above all things."
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- Imagine, this is god's heart.
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- The apostle will not write something
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- That would not represent god's heart, amen?
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- All scripture is god-breathed, including 3 john 2.
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- And god says, "beloved, i wish above all things--"
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- Imagine that.
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- Above all things that god desires for you, god says,
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- "i desire--i pray above all things
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- That you prosper and you be in health
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- Even as your souls prosper."
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- So that covers the three dimensions,
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- Amen, of man: health for his body,
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- Prosperity for his soul, even as his soul prospers,
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- And not only that, that you prosper and be in health,
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- Prosper materially, prosper outwardly,
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- Prosper in his relationships.
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- But god is just, you know, god is just out to bless us,
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- To get us with his blessings.
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- What i'm going to share with you today is going to bless you,
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- It's going to help you, amen.
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- But before it helps you, it's going to--you know,
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- Sometimes medicine will not be so pleasant to take.
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- But guess what?
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- You'll be okay after that, amen?
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- And i am believing god that each and every one of you
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- Will prosper and be in health even as your souls prosper.
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- So another picture that god has for you is in genesis 39.
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- It says that-- by the way,
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- I must give you the background before you read verse 2.
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- Joseph is now sold by his brothers
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- To a band of midianites.
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- They were passing by, a passing caravan.
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- They sold him.
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- The brothers were jealous of him.
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- Sold him to this traveling caravan
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- Who were on their way down to egypt.
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- So in egypt, he stood up, all right,
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- To be sold like a slave.
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- Like, literally like a cow, you know?
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- Like a sheep being sold in the market.
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- So there was bidding going on, yelling, screaming.
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- Just imagine how he felt.
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- He was the favored son.
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- He was the beloved son.
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- He was the son of jacob's old age.
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- Just a matter of a few days ago,
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- He had a beautiful coat of many colors.
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- And the coat of many colors in hebrew tells us
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- That he had a long robe
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- That extended also to the wrists, all right?
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- Why i say that?
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- Because in hebrew it says that. in hebrew it says that.
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- That means he was destined to be a ruler,
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- Not a worker doing menial tasks
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- Where they have to have short sleeves.
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- In fact, many of the people then had sleeveless clothes.
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- That means they are laborers.
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- But the father gave him not just a coat of many colors,
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- But a long-sleeve coat, which means he was to rule.
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- Not to do natural work.
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- You know what i'm saying?
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- Only a few days ago, he was like this.
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- Now he's only stripped.
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- You know, i don't even think they gave him
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- A courtesy of a loin cloth because they have to see him,
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- To examine him before they can bid a price for him,
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- All right, in those days.
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- Just imagine all the, what do you call that?
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- The sense of special favor all stripped from him.
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- And all because he was faithful and loyal to his father.
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- So his brothers sold him.
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- So let's follow the story.
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- A man called potiphar bought him and he says here:
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- "the lord was with joseph," ha, ha.
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- So when you have nothing, not even the clothes on your back,
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- But the lord is with you, you will get it all back.
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- And more.
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- And more, amen?
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- The most important person that needs to be with you
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- Is the lord.
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- It doesn't matter your best friend forsake you,
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- You've been betrayed by a friend you trusted.
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- As long as the lord is with you, look at what happened.
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- "and he was a successful man."
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- I like the old king james.
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- "he was a prosperous man."
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- He was a prosperous man.
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- The hebrew word, "tsalach."
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- He was a prosperous man.
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- And in the hebrew, it literally says the lord was with joseph
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- And caused him to become successful.
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- The lord caused him that he feel used--he feel
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- Is used to make something happen.
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- The lord was with him and caused him.
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- The lord can cause you to be a success.
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- The lord can cause you to prosper.
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- The lord, all right?
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- And you can say,
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- "well, pastor prince, maybe he had connection."
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- He had no connections. he was a slave.
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- He was sold as a slave. nobody knew him here.
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- But the lord was with him.
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- And the lord caused him to be prosperous.
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- So as a slave, you think about it.
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- What is there to prosper?
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- Maybe he took care of a garden.
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- All right, the garden yielded bumper crops, amen.
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- He took care of some dispute among other slaves
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- And the boss noticed that, right?
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- And there was calm.
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- It seems like he always gives good counsel.
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- And it's like everything he touches
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- At a slave level prospered.
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- So potiphar put two and two together, he says,
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- "i'll put more responsibilities in his hands
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- Because everything under his hands prospers," amen?
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- And the bible says that
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- "he was in the house of his master the egyptian.
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- And his master saw that the lord was with him.
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- The lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand."
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- The lord made all he did to prosper in his hand.
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- "so joseph found favor in his sight," see?
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- I told you it's all favor, grace.
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- Say grace.
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- Say favor.
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- It's the same.
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- Grace and favor is the same.
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- I'm giving you a picture right now
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- Because you need to understand that joseph had favor from god.
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- If it just depend on his good looks,
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- Because the bible says joseph is handsome.
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- And i'll tell you a reason.
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- That later on, it tells you that he's handsome, okay,
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- But it doesn't tell you he's handsome now.
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- Why?
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- Because god wants you to know that it's not his handsomeness
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- Or your prettiness that gets you the job,
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- That gets you the open door,
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- That gets you the success that you want.
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- God wants you to know that it is favor.
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- So a lot of us, we are still depending on the flesh.
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- We are depending on things that is actually obstructing favor.
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- So god doesn't bring the fact that he's handsome here.
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- He brings it later at a point that we understand.
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- So he says here, "joseph found favor."
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- So favor is unearned, undeserved,
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- "and he served potiphar.
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- Then potiphar made joseph overseer of his house,
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- And all that he had he put under his authority."
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- Look at verse 5: "so it was, from the time that he had made
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- Him overseer of his house and all that he had,
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- The lord blessed the egyptian's house
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- For joseph's sake."
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- I have no doubt, many of you,
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- Your company is blessed because you are there, amen?
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- Your organization is blessed because you are there, amen.
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- I have no doubt, this nation is blessed
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- Because we are here, amen?
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- We are not to be, you know, a pain or a bane
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- To our nation complaining, complaining all the time.
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- Let's be a blessing, amen.
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- We are called to bless, amen.
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- And the one that is getting the benefit is an egyptian.
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- So forget about this, you know,
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- Only god will only bless christians.
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- Let me tell you this.
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- Because of the believers,
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- God will bless whoever you are associated with.
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- That's why god doesn't want you to anyhow
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- Just get into a relationship or a contract with an unbeliever
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- Where you have to compromise your moral integrity
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- And all that and do things his way, amen.
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- Why?
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- He's getting your blessing but you're getting
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- All his bad things.
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- Not a good deal.
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- Not a good deal, amen?
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- But they will be blessed.
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- They will be blessed because of you.
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- All right, so god blessed everything
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- In the egyptian's house.
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- "thus he left all that he had in joseph's hand,
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- And he did not know what he had
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- Except for the bread which he ate."
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- That's really letting go.
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- Then it tells you:
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- "now joseph was handsome in form and appearance."
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- Okay, why?
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- Because of the next verse.
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- The next verse says: "thus he-- it came to pass after these
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- Things, his master's wife cast longing eyes on joseph,
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- And she said, 'lie with me.'"
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- Now this is not, tell lies with me, okay?
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- So let me just tell you this.
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- A lot of people have this idea.
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- If the lord prospers me, why do i get into trouble?
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- Because he's about to get into trouble.
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- Now he didn't sleep with her, okay, listen carefully.
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- In fact, he resisted her advances.
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- Joseph actually said in hebrew, "how can i commit--" all right?
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- Gadol-ra.
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- Gadol is kohen gadol, like high priest,
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- Big priest, high priest.
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- Gadol, big, gadol is big, all right?
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- Ra is evil, "how can i commit this big evil?"
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- Adultery in the eyes of joseph was great evil.
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- Joseph had a sense of divine favor, so he could say no.
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- He was far from his family.
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- Nobody would know.
- 00:11:11.456 --> 00:11:12.857
- In fact, sleeping with the boss's wife would put him
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- In good favor with her.
- 00:11:14.993 --> 00:11:17.796
- She can open doors for him, amen.
- 00:11:17.796 --> 00:11:20.865
- She already opened one door, eh?
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- The physical door.
- 00:11:23.401 --> 00:11:25.303
- So the thing is this, you know, i mean,
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- He'll be in good standing, isn't it?
- 00:11:27.305 --> 00:11:29.674
- So there are ways that you can actually do things
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- That will put you in good standing
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- With your business partners and things like that,
- 00:11:33.244 --> 00:11:35.980
- Or are you depending on the favor of god?
- 00:11:35.980 --> 00:11:38.183
- Are you willing not to compromise?
- 00:11:38.183 --> 00:11:40.018
- Stand up for moral excellence that will glorify christ
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- And do things right.
- 00:11:42.887 --> 00:11:44.355
- Expect god's favor to make up for the difference.
- 00:11:44.355 --> 00:11:48.760
- Then you can say, you know, you are like joseph, amen?
- 00:11:48.760 --> 00:11:52.730
- But if you are compromising, you are cheating, you are conniving,
- 00:11:52.730 --> 00:11:56.201
- You are not telling the truth all the time,
- 00:11:56.201 --> 00:11:59.470
- And then you prosper, then you say it's god's favor,
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- It's not god's favor, amen?
- 00:12:01.739 --> 00:12:06.044
- Praise the lord.
- 00:12:06.044 --> 00:12:07.412
- Now you must understand,
- 00:12:07.412 --> 00:12:08.746
- God's vision for you is you be like joseph.
- 00:12:08.746 --> 00:12:10.915
- "it came to pass after these things, the lord prospered him."
- 00:12:10.915 --> 00:12:14.586
- A lot of people say,
- 00:12:14.586 --> 00:12:15.920
- "pastor, i confess i'm the righteousness of god in christ.
- 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:17.555
- And now next thing i know, i get into trouble."
- 00:12:17.555 --> 00:12:19.858
- Well, the trouble is designed by god as a stepping stone.
- 00:12:19.858 --> 00:12:24.162
- Because he's about to end up in prison.
- 00:12:24.162 --> 00:12:27.732
- That's a stepping stone, amen.
- 00:12:27.732 --> 00:12:29.934
- And he's about to interpret the dreams of the king's butler
- 00:12:29.934 --> 00:12:35.907
- Who later on will tell the king about him.
- 00:12:35.907 --> 00:12:39.377
- And because of his testimony, joseph will not just be brought
- 00:12:39.377 --> 00:12:42.881
- Out of prison but out of potiphar's house
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- To stand in the presence of the most powerful monarch
- 00:12:45.550 --> 00:12:50.388
- During that time.
- 00:12:50.388 --> 00:12:52.457
- So you think about it, you know, people say,
- 00:12:52.457 --> 00:12:54.092
- "i confess i'm the righteousness of god in christ
- 00:12:54.092 --> 00:12:55.894
- And i get into trouble.
- 00:12:55.894 --> 00:12:57.562
- Why this trouble?"
- 00:12:57.562 --> 00:12:59.030
- Hey, it is still the favor of god.
- 00:12:59.030 --> 00:13:01.199
- One thing about the trouble is that it's like the ship
- 00:13:01.199 --> 00:13:03.468
- In the ocean, okay?
- 00:13:03.468 --> 00:13:05.169
- As long the water don't get into the ship, no problem.
- 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:07.906
- You are in the midst of the trial.
- 00:13:07.906 --> 00:13:09.874
- But god will not allow the trial to get into you.
- 00:13:09.874 --> 00:13:12.443
- You will thrive in the midst of the trial.
- 00:13:12.443 --> 00:13:14.579
- So drop this idea that when god prospers everything you touch,
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- There's no trouble.
- 00:13:17.815 --> 00:13:19.150
- There will be trouble.
- 00:13:19.150 --> 00:13:20.618
- But the trouble is like, you know,
- 00:13:20.618 --> 00:13:22.287
- It's like stepping stones.
- 00:13:22.287 --> 00:13:24.789
- It's like the devil throw you all kinds of stone
- 00:13:24.789 --> 00:13:26.691
- And you are in a hole.
- 00:13:26.691 --> 00:13:28.359
- You got nowhere to go out,
- 00:13:28.359 --> 00:13:29.727
- He throw you stones and all that, amen.
- 00:13:29.727 --> 00:13:31.062
- And the stone never hit you.
- 00:13:31.062 --> 00:13:32.497
- But you built from that stone, you built a ladder.
- 00:13:32.497 --> 00:13:36.100
- You built a stepping stone literally all the way out, amen.
- 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:40.204
- The devil throws lemons, you make lemonade, amen?
- 00:13:40.204 --> 00:13:45.143
- It's that kind of thing.
- 00:13:45.143 --> 00:13:46.577
- When favor is on you, even the bad things turn for good.
- 00:13:46.577 --> 00:13:50.248
- Because if the brothers never were jealous of him,
- 00:13:50.248 --> 00:13:54.319
- They never would have sold him off.
- 00:13:54.319 --> 00:13:56.754
- If they didn't sell him off, he wouldn't end up in egypt.
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- If he didn't end up in egypt,
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- He wouldn't be in potiphar's house
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- Where potiphar's wife saw him.
- 00:14:02.994 --> 00:14:04.562
- If it's not for potiphar's wife who lied about him,
- 00:14:04.562 --> 00:14:06.831
- He would not be thrown into prison.
- 00:14:06.831 --> 00:14:09.067
- If he wasn't in prison, he wouldn't be in position,
- 00:14:09.067 --> 00:14:10.868
- In place, to interpret the dream of the king's butler.
- 00:14:10.868 --> 00:14:15.707
- If he never interpreted the dream, he would still be there.
- 00:14:15.707 --> 00:14:19.010
- But one thing led to another.
- 00:14:19.010 --> 00:14:20.745
- And next thing you know, he became the most powerful man
- 00:14:20.745 --> 00:14:23.147
- Able and empowered to save his family and many others.
- 00:14:23.147 --> 00:14:29.954
- Now the flesh.
- 00:14:29.954 --> 00:14:32.824
- Many of us, we don't know how bad.
- 00:14:32.824 --> 00:14:34.158
- You know how the apostle paul calls his flesh
- 00:14:34.158 --> 00:14:35.727
- In the present tense, in the greek, "in my flesh,"
- 00:14:35.727 --> 00:14:38.997
- Present tense, "dwells no good thing."
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- We don't believe that.
- 00:14:41.566 --> 00:14:43.267
- We really don't believe that.
- 00:14:43.267 --> 00:14:45.103
- And that's why we don't mind sending a sister home.
- 00:14:45.103 --> 00:14:47.538
- It all starts innocently.
- 00:14:47.538 --> 00:14:49.974
- I just want to send her back because it's very late.
- 00:14:49.974 --> 00:14:52.243
- Friend, don't trust your flesh.
- 00:14:52.243 --> 00:14:56.080
- "pastor, my flesh is not so bad."
- 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:57.949
- They won't say that, of course.
- 00:14:57.949 --> 00:14:59.717
- "i know how to handle this."
- 00:14:59.717 --> 00:15:01.386
- That's confidence in the flesh.
- 00:15:01.386 --> 00:15:02.854
- That's where it all starts.
- 00:15:02.854 --> 00:15:04.856
- And i can believe
- 00:15:04.856 --> 00:15:06.190
- That many, many, many, many affairs start innocently,
- 00:15:06.190 --> 00:15:10.528
- With a little, "i can handle this.
- 00:15:10.528 --> 00:15:12.296
- I can handle a coffee with her.
- 00:15:12.296 --> 00:15:13.898
- I can handle sending her back."
- 00:15:13.898 --> 00:15:15.533
- It all starts like that.
- 00:15:15.533 --> 00:15:18.836
- Nobody starts, waking up in the morning,
- 00:15:18.836 --> 00:15:20.171
- "i think i'm going to commit adultery today."
- 00:15:20.171 --> 00:15:23.875
- If you have that, you're not saved.
- 00:15:23.875 --> 00:15:26.611
- You're not born again.
- 00:15:26.611 --> 00:15:28.046
- No one gets up in the morning any more than the apostle peter
- 00:15:28.046 --> 00:15:30.448
- Got up in the morning, "i think i'm going to deny jesus today.
- 00:15:30.448 --> 00:15:33.151
- Let me see.
- 00:15:33.151 --> 00:15:34.719
- One time? two times?
- 00:15:34.719 --> 00:15:36.054
- I think three times i'll deny him."
- 00:15:36.054 --> 00:15:38.389
- Do you think he got up that morning thinking
- 00:15:38.389 --> 00:15:39.724
- That he's going to deny jesus three times?
- 00:15:39.724 --> 00:15:41.959
- No, of course not.
- 00:15:41.959 --> 00:15:43.828
- It all starts with confidence in the flesh.
- 00:15:43.828 --> 00:15:46.264
- God is rescuing you.
- 00:15:46.264 --> 00:15:48.132
- But you don't realize what stops grace is your attempt trying
- 00:15:48.132 --> 00:15:54.505
- To justify, to make yourself righteous.
- 00:15:54.505 --> 00:15:56.774
- In galatians, please?
- 00:15:56.774 --> 00:15:58.776
- All right, "christ is become of no effect unto you,
- 00:15:58.776 --> 00:16:01.646
- Whosoever of you are justified by the law."
- 00:16:01.646 --> 00:16:04.348
- Justified is made righteous, you see?
- 00:16:04.348 --> 00:16:06.484
- The moment you are trying to be self-righteous,
- 00:16:06.484 --> 00:16:08.953
- The moment you are trying to be justified by the law,
- 00:16:08.953 --> 00:16:11.355
- You are fallen from grace.
- 00:16:11.355 --> 00:16:13.224
- You are fallen from the realm where grace holds you,
- 00:16:13.224 --> 00:16:16.194
- Where grace is able to help you,
- 00:16:16.194 --> 00:16:17.762
- Where grace supplies you, where grace covers you.
- 00:16:17.762 --> 00:16:20.698
- You are fallen from grace.
- 00:16:20.698 --> 00:16:22.767
- Grace is higher or else you cannot fall from it.
- 00:16:22.767 --> 00:16:25.269
- Law is lower or else you cannot fall into it.
- 00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:29.006
- So friend, grace is higher than the law.
- 00:16:29.006 --> 00:16:31.776
- Grace will accomplish what the law cannot.
- 00:16:31.776 --> 00:16:33.511
- The law says don't steal.
- 00:16:33.511 --> 00:16:35.012
- Grace will make you a giver and allow some people to steal you
- 00:16:35.012 --> 00:16:37.882
- Without suing them in court, amen.
- 00:16:37.882 --> 00:16:40.585
- I'm telling you this.
- 00:16:40.585 --> 00:16:42.019
- Grace is a supplier but when you are fallen from grace,
- 00:16:42.019 --> 00:16:44.622
- You're not in the place
- 00:16:44.622 --> 00:16:46.023
- Where you're able to receive that grace.
- 00:16:46.023 --> 00:16:48.359
- The thing about the flesh is this.
- 00:16:48.359 --> 00:16:50.128
- We all know the flesh.
- 00:16:50.128 --> 00:16:51.462
- Show them the flesh.
- 00:16:51.462 --> 00:16:52.864
- The flesh, we all know flesh as in the pharisees
- 00:16:52.864 --> 00:16:55.900
- Is self-righteousness, pride, conceit.
- 00:16:55.900 --> 00:16:58.369
- It produces a superiority complex.
- 00:16:58.369 --> 00:17:00.905
- Or because i am this,
- 00:17:00.905 --> 00:17:02.340
- This person is inferior.
- 00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:03.708
- Because i have this paper qualification,
- 00:17:03.708 --> 00:17:05.810
- This person is inferior.
- 00:17:05.810 --> 00:17:07.345
- Because of my position, this guy is inferior.
- 00:17:07.345 --> 00:17:08.980
- Because i am worth this much money, all right,
- 00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:11.649
- This person is inferior to me because he earns less.
- 00:17:11.649 --> 00:17:14.152
- Because i live in such a house, therefore i am this.
- 00:17:14.152 --> 00:17:16.687
- Superiority complex.
- 00:17:16.687 --> 00:17:18.122
- It's all flesh.
- 00:17:18.122 --> 00:17:19.857
- Watch out that you don't have this superiority complex.
- 00:17:19.857 --> 00:17:22.493
- But give all the glory to god and his grace, amen?
- 00:17:22.493 --> 00:17:27.431
- And then, when we sin, this is what happens.
- 00:17:27.431 --> 00:17:32.136
- We all understand this part.
- 00:17:32.136 --> 00:17:33.504
- I think people who listen to my teaching,
- 00:17:33.504 --> 00:17:34.872
- They understand this part here.
- 00:17:34.872 --> 00:17:36.407
- But the flesh can also manifest in the other way like this:
- 00:17:36.407 --> 00:17:39.777
- Shame, condemnation,
- 00:17:39.777 --> 00:17:42.847
- Defensiveness,
- 00:17:42.847 --> 00:17:44.482
- Trying to atone for your sins,
- 00:17:44.482 --> 00:17:45.816
- Trying to defend yourself, trying to make it appear like,
- 00:17:45.816 --> 00:17:49.453
- "no, that should not have happened.
- 00:17:49.453 --> 00:17:51.222
- Let me do this. let me do that for you.
- 00:17:51.222 --> 00:17:52.557
- Let me do this, god. let me do that, lord.
- 00:17:52.557 --> 00:17:54.458
- I'll go to the mission field, lord.
- 00:17:54.458 --> 00:17:56.160
- I'll double-tithe, i--i--i--"
- 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:01.199
- No, friend.
- 00:18:01.199 --> 00:18:02.533
- When you have sinned, okay, the response that people show,
- 00:18:02.533 --> 00:18:06.704
- Many a times, show--
- 00:18:06.704 --> 00:18:09.173
- "now, pastor prince, don't you believe
- 00:18:09.173 --> 00:18:10.508
- There must be a certain kind of grief in the heart?"
- 00:18:10.508 --> 00:18:13.544
- It's called godly sorrow.
- 00:18:13.544 --> 00:18:15.012
- I believe in godly sorrow.
- 00:18:15.012 --> 00:18:16.380
- Godly sorrow, work of repentance.
- 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:18.015
- This is not godly sorrow.
- 00:18:18.015 --> 00:18:19.450
- Shame, condemnation is what the devil wants you to have,
- 00:18:19.450 --> 00:18:22.553
- Defensiveness and all that.
- 00:18:22.553 --> 00:18:24.222
- So when you sin, it's still the flesh!
- 00:18:24.222 --> 00:18:26.724
- Whether it's pride, it's focused on self, occupied with self.
- 00:18:26.724 --> 00:18:31.095
- And then shame.
- 00:18:31.095 --> 00:18:32.430
- You're still looking at yourself.
- 00:18:32.430 --> 00:18:33.864
- You're not looking to god and his grace and what jesus--
- 00:18:33.864 --> 00:18:36.701
- The fact that god made jesus to be sin for you,
- 00:18:36.701 --> 00:18:38.869
- That you might become the righteous--
- 00:18:38.869 --> 00:18:40.271
- You're not looking at that.
- 00:18:40.271 --> 00:18:41.672
- You're looking at, "how can i do that?
- 00:18:41.672 --> 00:18:43.007
- I feel so bad, i feel so shameful."
- 00:18:43.007 --> 00:18:44.342
- No, friend.
- 00:18:44.342 --> 00:18:45.743
- Sometimes people feel bad they hurt their wife.
- 00:18:45.743 --> 00:18:47.445
- They feel bad they expose their children to it.
- 00:18:47.445 --> 00:18:50.581
- They feel bad that their friends find out about it.
- 00:18:50.581 --> 00:18:53.384
- But they are not feeling bad towards god.
- 00:18:53.384 --> 00:18:55.620
- When david committed adultery, when david killed the woman's
- 00:18:55.620 --> 00:18:58.055
- Husband, david prayed this prayer in psalms 51:
- 00:18:58.055 --> 00:19:00.858
- "against you, you only, have i sinned."
- 00:19:00.858 --> 00:19:07.098
- How could david say that?
- 00:19:07.098 --> 00:19:09.000
- He told god, "against you-- you only, have i sinned."
- 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:12.803
- He killed uriah, committed adultery with his wife,
- 00:19:12.803 --> 00:19:19.477
- Brought shame to those who know about it.
- 00:19:19.477 --> 00:19:22.380
- And the nation of israel has other nations
- 00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:24.115
- Looking at the god of israel and what he's able--
- 00:19:24.115 --> 00:19:27.518
- And instead of that, you know,
- 00:19:27.518 --> 00:19:30.655
- He told god--all sins actually are sin against god.
- 00:19:30.655 --> 00:19:35.326
- But we can feel sorry horizontally without ever really
- 00:19:35.326 --> 00:19:38.195
- Feeling bad vertically.
- 00:19:38.195 --> 00:19:42.166
- Really, his honor has been discredited.
- 00:19:42.166 --> 00:19:50.374
- You took glory away from him.
- 00:19:52.710 --> 00:19:54.712
- So the best response is when you say,
- 00:19:54.712 --> 00:19:56.681
- "god, sorry lord, i thank you you have forgiven me
- 00:19:56.681 --> 00:20:00.618
- And i see afresh the need for jesus to come and die.
- 00:20:00.618 --> 00:20:05.222
- Father, jesus is my righteousness.
- 00:20:05.222 --> 00:20:08.859
- Jesus is my righteousness.
- 00:20:08.859 --> 00:20:10.795
- I have none of my own."
- 00:20:10.795 --> 00:20:14.098
- When you respond correctly because of your shame,
- 00:20:14.098 --> 00:20:16.367
- You know what god says?
- 00:20:16.367 --> 00:20:17.802
- If you respond correctly and receive jesus
- 00:20:17.802 --> 00:20:19.270
- As your righteousness,
- 00:20:19.270 --> 00:20:20.738
- Now you really understand jesus is my righteousness.
- 00:20:20.738 --> 00:20:22.540
- I have none of my own.
- 00:20:22.540 --> 00:20:25.543
- I get concerned when people start saying that
- 00:20:25.543 --> 00:20:27.011
- "well, pastor prince, you know, the bible says i'm righteous."
- 00:20:27.011 --> 00:20:29.513
- And they stop there.
- 00:20:29.513 --> 00:20:31.115
- I feel like saying always, i know i sound legalistic,
- 00:20:31.115 --> 00:20:32.783
- But i feel like saying, "say the whole thing:
- 00:20:32.783 --> 00:20:34.618
- 'i'm the righteousness of god in christ.'
- 00:20:34.618 --> 00:20:37.488
- Not in yourself."
- 00:20:37.488 --> 00:20:39.890
- Some people have this idea that, you know, i'm born again,
- 00:20:39.890 --> 00:20:41.826
- I'm righteous.
- 00:20:41.826 --> 00:20:43.861
- No, it's always in christ.
- 00:20:43.861 --> 00:20:46.897
- Your flesh is still your flesh.
- 00:20:46.897 --> 00:20:49.433
- You're listening, people?
- 00:20:49.433 --> 00:20:51.736
- But if you respond well, if you respond by embracing jesus
- 00:20:51.736 --> 00:20:54.472
- As your righteousness and say,
- 00:20:54.472 --> 00:20:56.640
- "lord, truly you're my righteousness,"
- 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.275
- You know what's going to happen?
- 00:20:58.275 --> 00:20:59.844
- You know what's going to happen?
- 00:20:59.844 --> 00:21:01.312
- One hundred and twenty percent restoration
- 00:21:01.312 --> 00:21:02.646
- In the very area you lost.
- 00:21:02.646 --> 00:21:05.416
- Don't ask me how, god does it.
- 00:21:05.416 --> 00:21:07.184
- I mean, that guy i told you about, definitely 120%.
- 00:21:07.184 --> 00:21:11.655
- Family blessed, most of all his personality, his radiance.
- 00:21:11.655 --> 00:21:16.227
- What a wonderful testimony.
- 00:21:16.227 --> 00:21:17.628
- And his business prospers.
- 00:21:17.628 --> 00:21:22.199
- People who know might not want to do business with him
- 00:21:22.199 --> 00:21:24.468
- Because of what happened.
- 00:21:24.468 --> 00:21:25.836
- But then instead of that favor, isaiah: "for your shame,"
- 00:21:25.836 --> 00:21:29.306
- God says, "you shall have double honor.
- 00:21:29.306 --> 00:21:33.844
- Instead of your shame."
- 00:21:33.844 --> 00:21:35.513
- So in other words, instead means what?
- 00:21:35.513 --> 00:21:37.615
- In place of your shame, you will have double honor.
- 00:21:37.615 --> 00:21:39.950
- There are people in our church, all right, that from years ago,
- 00:21:39.950 --> 00:21:44.188
- They have done something but when i look at them today,
- 00:21:44.188 --> 00:21:46.123
- I cannot--i must stop or be reminded
- 00:21:46.123 --> 00:21:49.527
- Or think about what was the sin again?
- 00:21:49.527 --> 00:21:51.595
- Because there's so much favor on their life.
- 00:21:51.595 --> 00:21:53.764
- There's such a double honor compared to other people, that
- 00:21:53.764 --> 00:21:57.034
- The double honor swallows up whatever shame there was.
- 00:21:57.034 --> 00:22:05.042
- Some people say, "you know, i did that thing, pastor.
- 00:22:05.042 --> 00:22:07.077
- I don't know how to face my family,
- 00:22:07.077 --> 00:22:08.412
- I don't know how to face people," and all that.
- 00:22:08.412 --> 00:22:09.747
- Don't respond and stay there for too long.
- 00:22:09.747 --> 00:22:12.917
- It is still self-occupation.
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- You stop the favor of god.
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- See, pride, i am this, i am that, i am this,
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- I'm not like this, i'm not like that, i'm this, i'm this.
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- That will stop grace from flowing.
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- That's self-occupation.
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- But this is also self-occupation that goes undetected:
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- "i'm so shameful, i'm this, i'm that, i'm that."
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- Stop it!
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- And be christ-occupied.
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- And you know when you're christ-occupied?
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- Show them.
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- In quietness and in confidence.
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- "thus says the lord god, the holy one of israel:
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- 'in returning and rest you shall be saved.'"
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- Yasha!
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- Whatever situation you're in,
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- You shall be saved from your shame.
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- "and then god says,
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- 'in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.'
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- And you would not."
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- So when you are christ-occupied, don't look at yourself.
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- This is looking at-- pride is looking at yourself.
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- Shame is also looking at yourself.
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- Yes, you should have godly sorrow, especially towards god.
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- But then, after that, no, the devil tripped me,
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- All right, in this area.
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- Okay, lord, i receive you, jesus, as my righteousness.
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- And then guess what?
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- You are christ-occupied.
- 00:23:25.756 --> 00:23:27.157
- The moment your eyes is on him, watch this:
- 00:23:27.157 --> 00:23:28.926
- "in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
- 00:23:28.926 --> 00:23:33.330
- Quietness and confidence will replace all your pride,
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- All your conceit, all your defensiveness,
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- All your trying to atone for your sins, all your shame.
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- Instead of that, there's going to be a quiet confidence.
- 00:23:44.742 --> 00:23:50.180
- "in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
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- To you and yours his shalom, peace, and well-being,
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- In jesus's name, amen and amen.
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- Thank you, church. love you.
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- That moves faster than ever.
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- Values shift.
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- Truth feels negotiable.
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- What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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- But through all the noise and the shaking,
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- There is one who is still listening.
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- In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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- In the panic, he is still the promise.
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- In the bad news, worse news, and fake news,
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- He is still the good news.
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- From feeding the 5000 to feeding your family,
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- He is still the supply.
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- From calming the sea of galilee to calming the storm
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- In your mind, he is still the peace.
- 00:26:08.152 --> 00:26:12.222
- Because when all else falters, fades and falls,
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- He is still jesus above it all.
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- This ministry will still always be all about jesus,
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