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Joseph Prince - This Tiny Word Changes Everything About God’s Love

December 24, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - This Tiny Word Changes Everything About God’s Love | December 24, 2025

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Joseph prince: as we step into 2026,
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I invite you to shine that light with us.
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Let's believe bigger. let's build together.
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I pray that you will continue to partner with us
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To take this gospel farther and faster
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Than ever before.
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Male announcer: in a world that is ever-changing,
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There is one who is still the same.
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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
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To calming the storm in your mind,
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He is still the peace.
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Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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He is still jesus, above it all.
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So no matter what's popular today
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Or forgotten tomorrow,
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This ministry will still always be about jesus.
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The same jesus who changed your life.
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Joseph prince: this god so loved the world,
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So loved you--you can put your name right there.
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"so loved you."
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I love that little word. it's so intense.
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So little, yet so intense, "so."
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"for god so loved you-- so loved you
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That he gave his only begotten son,
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That whosoever believes in him should not perish,
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But have everlasting life."
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And that's why we have a tree in christmas.
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It's a custom.
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And we have gifts at the foot of the tree.
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Because the greatest gift that was given to us
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Hung on a tree.
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You know why, why he hung on the tree?
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Because for ages and ages, down through the corridors
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Of time god chose one nation
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To show the world.
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Now, god loved the entire world.
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But god chose one nation to show the entire world
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Who he is like.
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So god says, "if you obey me, i'll bless you.
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If you disobey, i'll curse you."
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Now, all the while, the bible says god never wanted
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That system.
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God wanted grace and truth, not the law given through moses.
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When you put yourself under law--
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Nothing wrong with the law,
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But the sinful passions are stirred.
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The more you try not to,
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And god knew that that system would not work.
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So you know what god did? god sent his son.
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And god made a new covenant with man through his blood.
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And the new covenant is this: "i will put my laws in your heart.
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I will put my laws in your mind. you will know what to do."
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No one needs to teach his neighbor
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"know the lord, know the lord,"
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"for all shall know me from the least to the greatest.
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I'll be your god. you will be my people.
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Notice the new covenant is not
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"you shall, you shall not, you shall not."
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The emphasis is not on you; it is on god.
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"i will put my laws in your heart.
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I will be your god."
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Male announcer: blessed christmas from our ministry
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To your family.
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This week, let's slow down and enjoy the peace
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Jesus came to bring.
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In today's message, joseph shows us the real reason
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Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: people, we are not fellowshipping,
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And we are not believing in a dogma or a creed.
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We believe in a person, the person of our lord jesus christ,
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Of whom we remember during this time, his birth.
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The bible tells us, "for god so loved the world
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That he gave his only begotten son
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That whoever believes in him should not perish,
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But have everlasting life."
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I don't know what you are going through at this time,
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But there's someone who knows,
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Who knows even the numbers of hairs on your head.
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He says in the bible, in the word of god,
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He takes every tear and puts them in a bottle
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In a heavenly place somewhere.
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Every sorrow is marked by him.
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He who numbers the stars,
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And no scientist today can number the stars.
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He who created the stars and calls them by name,
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He heals the broken heart.
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And this god is not a god who says,
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"okay, i gave you a set of rules,
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You just follow it, all right?
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I love you. from a distance."
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"that's my love for you, from a distance."
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No, he came down.
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And that's what the bible says in john 1:17:
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"for the law was given through moses."
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The torah was given through moses
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Who was a servant of god.
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"but grace and truth came--" came is personal.
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I can give you something from a distance.
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I can post it to you. i can fedex to you.
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But if i come to you, it's personal.
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Grace and truth.
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In hebrew, it is chesed ve'emet.
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Grace and truth came by jesus christ.
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He came to where we were.
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You see, you know, sometimes we say things like,
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"i found the lord in 2001, january the 5th."
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But actually, the lord is not lost.
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I understand the expression. actually, the lord found you.
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We are lost.
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We are lost pursuing things that we think can satisfy us,
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Making idols of entertainment or sports or anything like that,
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Which in the normal consumption is nothing wrong.
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But we are trying to find our satisfaction
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Because, deep down, we sense that emptiness.
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We know there is no fulfillment. and only god can fill that
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Because you are made with a god-shaped vacuum
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On the inside of you.
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All of us, "all we like sheep," isaiah says,
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"all we like sheep have gone astray.
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We have turned everyone to his own way."
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But jesus shared this parable one time.
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He said that there was a man who was a shepherd
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Who lost one sheep.
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And you know what he did?
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He left the 99 to look for the one that's lost.
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Now, first, friends, let me tell you this.
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No one does that. no shepherd today does that.
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You cut your losses because you cannot leave the 99, right?
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You are risking them.
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But he would rather find the one that's lost because he's lost.
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So he sought the one that's lost.
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That's why the shepherd found the sheep,
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Not the sheep found the shepherd.
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"and when he found the sheep,"
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Jesus said, "he took the sheep, put it on his shoulders,
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Walks back and tells all his friends,
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'come, let's throw a party.
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Let's have a celebration for the sheep that was lost.
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I found him. let's celebrate.'"
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Now, no shepherd does that.
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In fact, i hear one so-called shepherd
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Because there are all kinds of shepherds in the world,
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And there's one shepherd that said that,
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When the sheep goes astray, you know what the shepherd does?
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Which i found later on is not true for every shepherd.
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In some parts of the world, it's true.
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But he makes it like it's a general rule.
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He says when a sheep goes astray,
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You know what he does to teach the sheep a lesson
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So that he'll never go astray again?
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He breaks his leg. he breaks his leg.
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And then he brings the sheep near him.
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So while the sheep's leg is recovering,
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The sheep is close to him.
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And he says that's what god does with us.
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Let me tell you, my friend: the most famous psalm
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That david uttered that is recorded for us
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In scripture is psalms 23.
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And he says, "the lord is my shepherd;
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I shall not lack.
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He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside the still waters.
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He breaketh my legs."
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[congregation laughing]
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No, not one single line says that, right?
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"he restores my soul." you know what's "restore"?
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That means--see, some of you, you are not an argumentative,
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Angry person.
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You just need to be restored. you are stressed.
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You are worn out.
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You have anxieties that you don't even know
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That's filling your heart and controlling your actions.
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But the lord will restore you.
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As a shepherd, he restores the sheep.
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And the sheep that are the weakest
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Are the ones that he carries them in his bosom.
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Again, prophet isaiah says, "he shall feed his flock
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Like a shepherd.
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He shall gather the lambs with his arms," the young ones.
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"he will guide those that are with young."
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That's the kind of shepherd the god of israel is--
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The god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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This god so loved the world, so loved you--
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You can put your name right there.
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"so loved you." i love that little word.
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It's so intense. so little, yet so intense, "so."
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"for god so loved you--
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So loved you that he gave his only begotten son,
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That whosoever believes in him should not perish,
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But have everlasting life."
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And that's why we have a tree in christmas.
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It's a custom.
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And we have gifts at the foot of the tree.
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Because the greatest gift that was given to us
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Hung on the tree, amen.
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You know why? why he hung on a tree?
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Because for ages and ages,
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Down through the corridors of time,
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God chose one nation to show the world.
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Now, god loved the entire world.
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But god chose one nation to show the entire world
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Who he is like.
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So god says, "if you obey me, i'll bless you.
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If you disobey me, the curse will come.
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I cannot say, you know, boys will be boys,
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Sweep everything under the carpet,
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Because that will make me merciful but not just,
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Not righteous.
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I have to keep my word. if you obey me, i'll bless you.
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If you disobey, i'll curse you."
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Now, all the while, the bible says god never wanted
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That system.
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God wanted grace and truth, not the law given through moses.
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In fact, the very day at mount sinai
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When god gave the ten commandments--
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You know, you all know the ten commandments, right,
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That god gave to charlton heston:
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"thou shall not kill, thou shall not--"
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When god gave all the ten commandments,
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Notice the emphasis is on you, on man.
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You shall not, you shall not, you shall not.
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But man is weak, man is sinful.
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Ever since adam sinned, sin is in our blood.
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When you put yourself under law--
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Nothing wrong with the law,
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But the sinful passions are stirred.
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The more you try not to,
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And god knew that that system would not work.
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So you know what god did? god sent his son.
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And god made a new covenant with man through his blood.
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And the new covenant is this: "i will put my laws in your heart.
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I will put my laws in your mind. you will know what to do."
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No one needs to teach his neighbor
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"know the lord, know the lord,"
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"for all shall know me from the least to the greatest.
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I'll be your god. you will be my people.
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I will be--" notice the new covenant is not
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"you shall, you shall not, you shall not."
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The emphasis is not on you; it is on god.
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"i will put my laws in your heart.
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I will be your god.
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If you are sick, i'll be your healer, amen.
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If you are in trouble, i'll be your rock,
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Your refuge, your place of protection, amen.
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If you are lost, i'll be your shepherd.
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I'll find you. i'll find you!
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And i'll celebrate after i've found you," amen?
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Whatever you need, it's like a blank check.
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When god says, "i am that i am,"
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When jesus says to the pharisees of his day,
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"before abraham was, i am."
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They understood that he was claiming deity,
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Which he is, amen.
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"i am" is like a blank check. you can fill whatever you need.
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If you lack strength today, he says, "i am your strength."
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So the new covenant is all god: "i will, i will, i will."
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And the best part, though,
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The--everything about the new covenant
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Works with the last clause.
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It says, "i'll be merciful to your unrighteousness,
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And your sins, i will remember...no more."
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So there's been a change, because in the covenant,
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The first covenant when god made with moses for israel,
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It was this: "i will not forget your sins.
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I will remember your sins
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To the third and fourth generation."
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That means the curse will come.
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But under the new covenant-- and the bible says clearly,
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God did not delight in this covenant.
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Then why did god give it?
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Because god knows the pride of men.
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They need to understand their need
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Before they can see the need for jesus.
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Or else when jesus comes, they will say,
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"i have no need for him."
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And that's the reason why jesus, on the sermon on the mount,
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Jesus preached it like this: "guys, if your eye offends you,
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Cut it off, pluck it out.
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Your hand offend you, cut it off, throw it from you.
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You heard them say, 'you shall not commit adultery,'
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But i say unto you," jesus said,
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"i say unto you, if you look on a woman to lust after her,
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If you mentally undress her, you have already committed adultery
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In your heart."
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Now, that put all of us on the same place,
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The same playing field, right?
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All of us have sinned.
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We say we don't-- we didn't commit
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The physical act.
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"i don't murder. pastor prince, i don't murder."
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Have you hated anyone on the road,
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On the road-- in singapore especially?
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Have you ever wished that person gets into an accident, huh?
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Have you ever wished someone dead?
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Have you ever hated anyone in your heart?
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Have you ever had bitterness in your heart?
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Jesus says, "if you hate someone,
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It's murder in god's eyes."
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So god doesn't define sin the way we do.
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You see, we judge each other, we judge other people,
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By their actions.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions.
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Even though our actions are wrong, we say that,
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"no, i didn't mean that," you see?
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We always justify ourselves, but we judge other people
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By their actions.
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You see, god judges sin at the heart.
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And god knew all of us are lost.
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So why did jesus say things like,
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"if your eye offend you,
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Pluck it out, throw it away from you.
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Your hand offend you, cut it off"?
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Does he mean it literally? no, of course not.
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Or else the church will look like
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A huge amputation ward.
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"pastor prince, you should have come earlier
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And preached this sermon."
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Of course not. what he means is this.
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This is how god treats sin.
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Guys, don't choose the laws that you want.
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You cannot choose.
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"let me see here. i keep 7 out of 10.
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Not so bad."
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God doesn't grade on the curve. god is perfect, amen.
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It is either/or.
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James says it's like this:
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"if you offend, you break one law,
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You are guilty of all."
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See, god knew all of us couldn't make it.
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And then grace and truth came by jesus christ, amen?
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So in ancient israel, this is what they did.
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When someone sins--so they cannot keep the law, right?
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Invariably they sinned.
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Even david, the best of them, committed murder and adultery.
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He committed adultery with another man's wife,
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And then he had the husband killed
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So that he can have his wife.
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Two death sentences according to the law.
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But david knew how to throw himself on the mercy of god.
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I always say that david, king david,
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Is a old covenant man with a new covenant mentality...amen.
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So david threw himself upon the chesed, the grace,
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The mercy of god.
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And his prayer is written for us in psalms 51.
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"have mercy upon me, o god. have mercy upon me."
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And god showed mercy to him, he wasn't killed,
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Even though the law demanded he be stoned.
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And then when jesus was ministering on earth--
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You all know this from john chapter 8
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Of the bible.
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The bible says jesus went to teach in the temple.
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And what jesus did was this:
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As he was teaching in the precincts of the temple,
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They brought to jesus the pharisees.
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Now, the pharisees are people who boast of the law.
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They are people who say that,
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You know, "we keep the law better than you.
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You are all sinners.
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We are people that are higher than you because--"
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You know people like that?
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That's why, my friend, christianity is not a religion.
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It's not about what you do. it's about what christ has done.
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What the messiah has done, amen.
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So, they brought this woman
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And they threw her right in front of jesus
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As he was teaching in the precincts of the temple.
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The precincts of the temple is not the temple itself.
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No one teaches in the temple itself
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During the time herod, of king herod, all right?
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The temple of herod, okay, we call it.
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But back then, no one taught in the temple.
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The priests would minister in the temple, but the priests,
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The rabbis, would teach in the precincts of the temple.
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And they brought to jesus a woman caught in adultery.
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Think of how outrageous, how scandalous it is to bring
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Someone caught in the act of adultery.
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For what purpose?
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And then when you bring someone caught in adultery--
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From what i know about adultery, it takes two right?
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Two persons, right? and they only brought the woman.
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Religion can be very cruel on women
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Because the devil hates the idea that the messiah
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Came through a woman, a virgin, amen.
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So they threw her right in front of jesus, and they said this:
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"master--" wish i had the beard to demonstrate...
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"we know you love the law.
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We know that you teach that we must obey god.
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But we caught this woman in the act of adultery.
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Now, moses, in his law, said such should be stoned.
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What do you say?"
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Now, do you think they care about the woman?
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Do you think they care, first of all, about moses's law,
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About god's holiness and god's standards?
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No, they don't care about god's standards.
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What were they trying to do? they were trying to catch jesus.
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They were jealous of jesus because how god anointed
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Jesus of nazareth with the holy spirit
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And with power who went about doing good and healing
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All that were oppressed of the devil.
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For god was with him.
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They were jealous because the crowds were following him.
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So they're not interested in god's righteousness.
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They were not there to vindicate god's holiness.
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They were there to catch jesus.
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"now, moses said that such should be stoned.
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What do you say?"
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Now, if jesus says, "stone her," he's keeping the law, right?
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The law commands that.
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Moses's law commands that, right?
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But then everyone around jesus,
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Whom jesus talked about god's love,
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Whom he has healed, opened their blind eyes,
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Unstopped the deaf ears, raised the dead,
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Cleansed the lepers, all of them will see,
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"oh, he doesn't really believe what he teaches.
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It's not true."
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What would jesus say?
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If he says, "stone her," they will say, "uh-uh,
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Just a little thing, rabbi, you are breaking moses's law
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By saying, 'don't stone her.'"
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So either way, they'll catch jesus.
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So the bible says jesus did not answer them.
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Jesus stooped down, and with his finger,
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He wrote on the ground.
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This is the reason why the preacher wears baggy pants--
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So that when he does things like this, he doesn't split.
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[congregation laughing]
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It helps.
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So he--the bible says jesus didn't reply to them.
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With his finger, he wrote on the ground.
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He wrote on the ground, and then he stood up.
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And then he said this: "he who is without sin among you,
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Throw the first stone."
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And then after he said that,
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He knelt down and wrote again on the ground.
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Twice, he knelt down, he stooped and wrote on the ground.
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I thought of calling this sermon "when god stooped."
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If he never stooped, none of us would be saved.
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And the bible says, beginning with their conscience,
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One by one, beginning with the oldest to the youngest,
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One by one, they dropped their stone,
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They dropped their rocks, and they left.
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Only jesus and that woman was there.
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And jesus looked at her.
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Oh, by the way, when jesus wrote with his finger on the ground,
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Many years ago--you know, i've always wondered--
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I always ask questions about the bible
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That a lot of people don't care to ask.
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And for example, i always want to know
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What did he write on the ground?
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What did he write on the ground? only later on, i found out.
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I prayed about it, asked the lord about it.
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Only later on i found out it's not so much what he wrote;
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It is the fact that he wrote on the ground.
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And when i went to israel
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And i saw the model of the temple
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And i saw how the precincts of the temple
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Where the rabbis would teach--
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Even the southern steps that goes up to the temple
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Are all made of stone!
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Then i realized jesus, with his finger,
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Was writing on stone.
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So they were telling jesus,
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"moses says such should be stoned!"
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Jesus stooped down, and with his finger,
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He wrote on the ground.
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He was telling them, "you presume to tell me
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About moses's law?
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I am the one who wrote the law."
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And that's why he came as a baby on bethlehem night.
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In the royal city of david, the angel announced,
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"i bring you good tidings of great joy
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Which shall be to all people, for unto you is born this day
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A savior," not a judge, not a lawgiver,
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Not even a new lawgiver, but a savior, savior, amen?
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Joseph prince: the lord bless you.
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The lord keep you.
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Throughout this week, the lord make his face to shine on you
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And be gracious to you.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you
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And grant you shalom, amen.
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Joseph Prince - This Tiny Word Changes Everything About God’s Love

December 24, 2025 | 29:45

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