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Joseph Prince - The Trap of Religion (And How To Escape It)

November 3, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince - The Trap of Religion (And How To Escape It)
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Trap of Religion (And How To Escape It) | November 3, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: god designed the communion to bring healing
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  • To your body.
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  • From believers around the world who have experienced the healing
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  • Power of the communion.
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  • Of pastor prince's "eating your way to wholeness:
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  • A practical guide to the holy communion."
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  • Joseph prince: the lord knows it's the heart.
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  • The heart is the thing when it comes--when you come to church
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  • Is to be occupied with christ.
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  • And when this is right, it will affect your hands.
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  • It will affect your walk, amen?
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  • It will affect your service.
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  • And you will not just serve him, you know, in a natural way,
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  • But your service will be with excellence.
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  • It will be in the power of the holy spirit.
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  • The one who flung the stars in place, the heavens
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  • Show off his handiwork.
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  • We are all made by him.
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  • When we were in our mother's womb,
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  • The bible says, the psalmist says, we were carefully wrought,
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  • Fearfully and wonderfully made.
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  • He's the one who made everything, amen.
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  • He's so full. he's so full.
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  • And most of all, he's so overwhelming with--overflowing
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  • With love, if i can say that.
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  • His love is not just enough.
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  • His love is extra big.
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  • So that's why he made man,
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  • So that man can be a recipient of his love.
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  • He did not make man, listen, for man to love him.
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  • We cannot love unless we know we are first loved.
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  • And god knew that.
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  • So god gave the law not to justify man by,
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  • But to show man his shortcoming,
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  • That he cannot do the very thing that god wants him to do.
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  • So god created man to receive all his love.
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  • Announcer: what is grace?
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  • What if that's not the right question?
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  • What if grace is not a what, but a who with a heartbeat,
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  • A voice, and a face?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince takes us
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  • Into the scriptures to encounter the lovely person of grace,
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  • Jesus himself.
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  • Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince with
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  • Today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: i always want you to come expecting,
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  • Come prepared, come ready to receive, amen?
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  • And sometimes, you know, people, they are so religious and our
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  • Natural inclination is to be religious.
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  • When adam sinned against god, adam actually covered himself
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  • With thick clothes.
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  • So no one needed to teach him to be religious.
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  • He knew.
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  • He knew instinctively.
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  • But religion is not relationship with god.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • So religion is part of your flesh.
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  • The flesh tends to be religious.
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  • Do you know satan is religious, amen?
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  • He will try to get you an idea about god that is not true,
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  • Like, god demands from you, god is out to get you,
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  • God is finding fault with you, god is not pleased with you.
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  • So you always see an angry god.
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  • And sometimes that image, you know, is also helped
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  • Along because we have a father who may be always grumpy,
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  • Always finding fault, never really happy.
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  • Or a mother who is like that.
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  • So there was a family very dear to jesus.
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  • Jesus raised the brother from the dead, lazarus,
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  • And the two sisters, martha and mary.
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  • And when jesus came to the house, martha, her first thought
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  • Is, religious, amen.
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  • I say religious in the sense of, like, i need to please god,
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  • I need to--you know?
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  • And that sounds so good.
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  • That sounds so great.
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  • But that comes after, my friend.
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  • He's not after your hands.
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  • He's after your heart.
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  • He's not after your energy and effort.
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  • He's after your devotion.
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  • And yet, we miss the point.
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  • Like in the book of proverbs, it says, "my son, give me your
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  • Heart," amen?
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  • And the lord knows it's the heart.
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  • The heart is the thing when it comes--when you come to church
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  • Is to be occupied with christ.
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  • And when this is right, it will affect your hands.
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  • It will affect your walk, amen.
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  • It will affect your service.
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  • And you will not just serve him in a natural way, but your
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  • Service will be with excellence.
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  • It will be in the power of the holy spirit, amen.
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  • So jesus came to the house and the natural thing to do,
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  • Especially for us asians, someone come to your house,
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  • The natural thing to do is to go to the kitchen, find something
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  • Good, especially when the person turns up suddenly, amen.
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  • The first thing, you know, we meet one another, what do we
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  • Say here?
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  • "have you eaten," right?
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  • We don't say, "have you spent time with jesus before you came
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  • To my house?"
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  • It's more important to spend time with him than me.
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  • But eating first, right?
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  • Now, the sister went into the-- the older sister actually,
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  • Her name is martha.
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  • She went to prepare food in the kitchen.
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  • Now that's fine.
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  • You can serve, it's okay.
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  • But you know what happened, right?
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  • She came—what was the other sister doing, mary?
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  • She was at jesus's feet.
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  • I mean, think about it.
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  • Jesus used the word later on: one thing is needful.
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  • One thing is needful.
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  • Actually in the greek, it is very emphatic, the one thing.
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  • Of this one thing, it is necessary.
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  • It is needful of this one thing.
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  • So what is the one thing?
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  • The sister sat at jesus's feet and she just received.
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  • The bible says she listened to his word
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  • And she just received.
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  • You see, when the one who flung the stars in place,
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  • The heavens show off his handiwork.
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  • We are all made by him.
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  • When we were in our mother's womb, the bible says,
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  • The psalmist says, we were carefully wrought, fearfully
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  • And wonderfully made.
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  • And my soul knows right well, amen.
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  • He is the one that put all the diamonds
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  • And the gold and the sapphires
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  • In the crusty rocks for man to dig and to find.
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  • He's the one who made everything, amen.
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  • He's so full.
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  • He's so full and most of all, he's so overwhelming
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  • With--overflowing with love, if i can say that.
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  • His love is not just enough.
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  • His love is extra big.
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  • So that's why he made man, so that man can be a recipient
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  • Of his love.
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  • He did not make man, listen, for man to love him.
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  • Now later on, the law commands man to love him.
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  • But actually, even that, the best of men failed.
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  • David failed, amen.
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  • We cannot love unless we know we are first loved.
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  • The way he--and god knew that.
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  • So god gave the law not to justify man by, but to show man
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  • His shortcoming.
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  • That he cannot do the very thing that god wants him to do.
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  • So god created man to receive all his love, to receive all
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  • That he has done for man.
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  • So that man can enjoy it.
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  • You see, your children.
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  • You know, when you build another house, let's say, okay, just
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  • Imagine, okay?
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  • Just imagine with me, okay?
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  • You build another house from the house you're living in.
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  • You build your house for your children or your other
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  • People's children.
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  • It's for your own children.
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  • You have a good savings.
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  • It's for you and for your children, amen.
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  • If you're older, your children's children even, amen.
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  • You look forward to bestow all-- everything good, you think
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  • Of your children.
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  • And for those of us who are more loving husbands and responsible
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  • Fathers, you plan for holidays.
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  • Who do you think of?
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  • Your loved ones, amen.
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  • Many a times, you sit even during holidays and all that,
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  • You make sure that they are sitting well.
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  • You make sure they have the best seat there.
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  • You make sure when the chicken comes in, all right?
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  • The chicken is the extra feature of this restaurant
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  • And the biggest piece goes to the boy or the girl that you
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  • Love, your children, your wife.
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  • Your wife gets the bigger piece.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • And all the guys said--i'm talking about loving husbands,
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  • Loving fathers, amen.
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  • And when you go on holiday, i've had guys tell me this.
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  • They serve.
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  • In a form, in a way, it's a holiday for the children
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  • And for the wife.
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  • But for them, they are busy looking out.
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  • They are busy making sure everything is fine.
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  • I know that many a times, it's the wife that does that.
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  • Now the wife said--but this time your amen is louder than
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  • The guys's.
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  • Okay, but it is so, amen?
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  • And we do it for our children so that they enjoy.
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  • Do they say thank you in commensurate
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  • With all the good things we have done for them?
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  • No.
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  • Children have to be taught to say thank you, amen?
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  • They have to be taught to say thank you.
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  • It's not natural with their flesh, amen.
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  • What is natural, okay, for the flesh is not
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  • To say thank you, but to complain.
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  • That's natural.
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  • So we are learning about the flesh so that we
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  • Know ourselves.
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  • And i just want to announce to you the good news:
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  • Your flesh has been crucified at the cross.
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  • And we're to reckon it so, amen?
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  • And live by the new man.
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  • Jesus rose 2000 years ago, bodily from the dead,
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  • Into the timeless zone, into a zone where he
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  • Will never die again.
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  • That place that we're all created for because everything
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  • On this earth is temporal.
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  • Everything that you see, if you can see it, you can touch it,
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  • You can feel it, all right?
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  • It is temporal.
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  • It has an expiry date.
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  • It is all passing away.
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  • It is all degenerating.
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  • It is rusting away, it is not permanent.
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  • But the things that cannot be seen, they are real, amen.
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  • They are real.
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  • The real you will live forever, amen.
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  • That's why there must be a place to house you, amen.
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  • When you step out of your body, your heart stops beating,
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  • You, the spirit man, lives forever.
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  • It is where you are housed, okay?
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  • "what is this, exercise, pastor prince?"
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  • No, this is visual.
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  • For those who listen on audio, they won't get this, amen.
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  • There must be a place to house you.
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  • That's why--people don't just disappear just like that.
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  • Because why?
  • 00:11:58.169 --> 00:11:59.504
  • When god breathed into man, man is a spirit being, man will live
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  • Forever, amen?
  • 00:12:02.207 --> 00:12:04.475
  • So every time we come before the lord, the greatest
  • 00:12:04.475 --> 00:12:07.512
  • Delight that he has, just like your children,
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  • Is to see you enjoy.
  • 00:12:09.681 --> 00:12:11.282
  • And sometimes you don't say thanks but your joy should be
  • 00:12:11.282 --> 00:12:14.886
  • In saying that they're enjoying what you cook, they're enjoying
  • 00:12:14.886 --> 00:12:18.489
  • What you bought, they're enjoying what you sacrifice.
  • 00:12:18.489 --> 00:12:23.628
  • They may not know the fullness of your sacrifice, but your joy
  • 00:12:23.628 --> 00:12:26.731
  • In seeing them enjoy what you did.
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  • And that's why it hurts when they don't say thanks.
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  • That's why it hurts when they push away that food that you
  • 00:12:31.603 --> 00:12:33.972
  • Have taken so long to learn and study and go through
  • 00:12:33.972 --> 00:12:38.376
  • The recipes and, you know, painstakingly produce such
  • 00:12:38.376 --> 00:12:42.180
  • A fine dish and then they don't like it.
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  • It hurts.
  • 00:12:43.548 --> 00:12:44.883
  • It hurts when your husband says, "hm."
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  • How's the food today?
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  • "hm, hm," amen?
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  • Open your mouth, brother.
  • 00:12:50.989 --> 00:12:53.625
  • Say thank you, amen?
  • 00:12:53.625 --> 00:12:55.493
  • And by the way, studies have shown, and this is not
  • 00:12:55.493 --> 00:12:58.196
  • From christian studies, these are from scientific studies,
  • 00:12:58.196 --> 00:13:00.798
  • And i saw one in from harvard university.
  • 00:13:00.798 --> 00:13:03.034
  • And they said that people who are optimistic and people who
  • 00:13:03.034 --> 00:13:05.737
  • Are thankful, all right, they made a study, literally followed
  • 00:13:05.737 --> 00:13:10.074
  • A certain group of people for some years.
  • 00:13:10.074 --> 00:13:13.077
  • And they found that people who are optimistic, people who are
  • 00:13:13.077 --> 00:13:15.313
  • Appreciative, look at the good points instead
  • 00:13:15.313 --> 00:13:18.249
  • Of finding fault, looking for the bad points, they live long.
  • 00:13:18.249 --> 00:13:23.388
  • They live long compared to people who are pessimistic.
  • 00:13:23.388 --> 00:13:26.524
  • And this study actually—maybe one day i'll produce it,
  • 00:13:26.524 --> 00:13:28.660
  • And this study actually covers a span of many years.
  • 00:13:28.660 --> 00:13:31.663
  • And then they covered, regardless of race, they,
  • 00:13:31.663 --> 00:13:33.731
  • Through a number of people from different demographics
  • 00:13:33.731 --> 00:13:36.100
  • And race, and they put them together
  • 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:38.102
  • And followed them for a number of years,
  • 00:13:38.102 --> 00:13:40.538
  • This harvard study.
  • 00:13:40.538 --> 00:13:42.707
  • And they found out that, you know, besides exercise
  • 00:13:42.707 --> 00:13:47.578
  • And the propensity for certain races and all that,
  • 00:13:47.578 --> 00:13:50.181
  • To have a certain kind of genetic setback, you know,
  • 00:13:50.181 --> 00:13:54.419
  • And different races will have different types.
  • 00:13:54.419 --> 00:13:55.787
  • They said, all that aside, the thing that made a difference
  • 00:13:55.787 --> 00:13:58.589
  • Is optimism, amen?
  • 00:13:58.589 --> 00:14:01.392
  • And appreciation, a thankful heart.
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  • We are very quick.
  • 00:14:04.762 --> 00:14:06.164
  • Ask ourself, why are you so quick to find fault, amen?
  • 00:14:06.164 --> 00:14:10.001
  • The moment pastor prince came out just now,
  • 00:14:10.001 --> 00:14:11.869
  • You found fault.
  • 00:14:11.869 --> 00:14:13.471
  • You found fault with something, like the hair or whatever, lah.
  • 00:14:13.471 --> 00:14:16.274
  • Or the face or the, you know?
  • 00:14:16.274 --> 00:14:18.609
  • You know, why, why, why?
  • 00:14:18.609 --> 00:14:19.978
  • Why are we so--you come to a place, you've been waiting
  • 00:14:19.978 --> 00:14:22.981
  • For a while to go for holiday and the first thing you look
  • 00:14:22.981 --> 00:14:25.717
  • For is something in the room, in the hotel,
  • 00:14:25.717 --> 00:14:27.151
  • You're not happy about.
  • 00:14:27.151 --> 00:14:28.486
  • How about the many things that-- the fact you are there.
  • 00:14:28.486 --> 00:14:31.622
  • And i'll tell you, you'll be a happy person.
  • 00:14:31.622 --> 00:14:33.591
  • And when you're a happy person, your body will be happy also.
  • 00:14:33.591 --> 00:14:37.428
  • It will respond with health and ease.
  • 00:14:37.428 --> 00:14:40.932
  • Because dis-ease is disease.
  • 00:14:40.932 --> 00:14:45.837
  • You see, you hear this part, you go home, you're a happy man.
  • 00:14:45.837 --> 00:14:49.474
  • You're a blessed man.
  • 00:14:49.474 --> 00:14:50.842
  • You're on your way to--but you gotta watch this
  • 00:14:50.842 --> 00:14:52.276
  • And don't blame the person you're criticizing.
  • 00:14:52.276 --> 00:14:54.145
  • Don't blame the object you're criticizing.
  • 00:14:54.145 --> 00:14:56.381
  • Don't blame the nation you're criticizing.
  • 00:14:56.381 --> 00:14:59.584
  • Don't blame the government you're criticizing.
  • 00:14:59.584 --> 00:15:01.753
  • Don't blame everybody else but yourself.
  • 00:15:01.753 --> 00:15:03.988
  • Ask yourself, why do you have this propensity?
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  • The children of israel, they saw the pillar of cloud by day
  • 00:15:07.792 --> 00:15:10.495
  • And the pillar of fire by night, god providing them supernatural
  • 00:15:10.495 --> 00:15:14.098
  • Food from heaven, the bread of the mighty,
  • 00:15:14.098 --> 00:15:15.733
  • The psalmist tells us.
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  • And they complained.
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  • Every step of the way, they complained.
  • 00:15:20.138 --> 00:15:23.074
  • And the consequence is disastrous.
  • 00:15:23.074 --> 00:15:26.210
  • They died in the wilderness.
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  • The bible says their bodies dropped in the wilderness.
  • 00:15:28.346 --> 00:15:31.549
  • What's god teaching us from that one lesson?
  • 00:15:31.549 --> 00:15:33.785
  • The main sin, it wasn't that they were running around
  • 00:15:33.785 --> 00:15:36.354
  • Committing adultery.
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  • There was one instance they did that with a woman of moab.
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  • There's one instance, all right, during the time of balak
  • 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:44.462
  • And balaam.
  • 00:15:44.462 --> 00:15:46.097
  • But besides that, what else did they do?
  • 00:15:46.097 --> 00:15:49.734
  • Idolatry happened one time in the wilderness, right?
  • 00:15:49.734 --> 00:15:52.770
  • The golden calf.
  • 00:15:52.770 --> 00:15:54.505
  • But what else did they do?
  • 00:15:54.505 --> 00:15:55.840
  • The constant sin they did was complaining, complaining,
  • 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.642
  • Complaining, amen?
  • 00:15:57.642 --> 00:16:03.081
  • And if you can, just say, "thank you" once a while.
  • 00:16:03.081 --> 00:16:09.754
  • And you know, you don't say thank you to people that you
  • 00:16:09.754 --> 00:16:11.856
  • Think is their job.
  • 00:16:11.856 --> 00:16:13.491
  • That's the problem.
  • 00:16:13.491 --> 00:16:14.926
  • The one, the pump attendant, right, where you go pump
  • 00:16:14.926 --> 00:16:18.696
  • Your petrol?
  • 00:16:18.696 --> 00:16:20.064
  • You say thank you to him and talk to him like he's
  • 00:16:20.064 --> 00:16:22.667
  • A human being for a while, amen?
  • 00:16:22.667 --> 00:16:26.003
  • Give him something, a tip.
  • 00:16:26.003 --> 00:16:29.240
  • Tell him, "go drink coffee," amen, with a smile on your
  • 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.910
  • Face, amen?
  • 00:16:32.910 --> 00:16:36.147
  • We don't thank the people that serve us food.
  • 00:16:36.147 --> 00:16:41.419
  • We look at them.
  • 00:16:41.419 --> 00:16:42.753
  • The man who is clearing your table, do you thank them?
  • 00:16:42.753 --> 00:16:46.390
  • "uncle, thank you."
  • 00:16:46.390 --> 00:16:47.725
  • Want to--something?
  • 00:16:47.725 --> 00:16:51.295
  • We have to learn to receive and say thanks.
  • 00:16:51.295 --> 00:16:53.464
  • So jesus says mary has-- so martha came out
  • 00:16:53.464 --> 00:16:56.801
  • Complaining, right?
  • 00:16:56.801 --> 00:16:59.937
  • And said, "lord, don't you care that my sister has left
  • 00:16:59.937 --> 00:17:03.841
  • Me alone?"
  • 00:17:03.841 --> 00:17:07.278
  • ♪ alone ♪
  • 00:17:07.278 --> 00:17:09.647
  • I always--when i say something like that, a song comes up,
  • 00:17:09.647 --> 00:17:13.084
  • All right?
  • 00:17:13.084 --> 00:17:14.452
  • I don't know is it from the world of the hymn
  • 00:17:14.452 --> 00:17:16.053
  • Or the world of the end of the world?
  • 00:17:16.053 --> 00:17:19.257
  • It's like, okay, it's like, you know, everything
  • 00:17:19.257 --> 00:17:23.427
  • Has a song.
  • 00:17:23.427 --> 00:17:25.163
  • And she says, "don't you care that my sister has left
  • 00:17:25.163 --> 00:17:29.400
  • Me alone?
  • 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.536
  • I blame you.
  • 00:17:31.536 --> 00:17:32.970
  • Don't you care? you don't care.
  • 00:17:32.970 --> 00:17:35.673
  • My sister, she don't care.
  • 00:17:35.673 --> 00:17:37.041
  • I'm the only one, alone."
  • 00:17:37.041 --> 00:17:38.376
  • And you know who will be unhappy?
  • 00:17:38.376 --> 00:17:40.645
  • Only you.
  • 00:17:40.645 --> 00:17:42.980
  • And that reminds me of another song.
  • 00:17:42.980 --> 00:17:45.917
  • ♪ "only--" ♪ okay, anyway.
  • 00:17:45.917 --> 00:17:49.787
  • So jesus said to her, "martha, martha, you are careful,
  • 00:17:49.787 --> 00:17:58.296
  • Troubled, anxious about many things."
  • 00:17:58.296 --> 00:18:03.801
  • Are you troubled about many things?
  • 00:18:03.801 --> 00:18:06.637
  • We say that it is our right to be troubled about
  • 00:18:06.637 --> 00:18:10.441
  • Many things.
  • 00:18:10.441 --> 00:18:12.176
  • But jesus says, "martha, martha, you are careful and troubled
  • 00:18:12.176 --> 00:18:15.112
  • About many things, but one thing is needful.
  • 00:18:15.112 --> 00:18:20.651
  • And mary has chosen the good part which shall not
  • 00:18:20.651 --> 00:18:24.589
  • Be taken away from her."
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  • I love it.
  • 00:18:27.358 --> 00:18:28.726
  • It's like jesus says, "she chose the good part.
  • 00:18:28.726 --> 00:18:30.494
  • I love it.
  • 00:18:30.494 --> 00:18:31.829
  • And no one's going to take it from her."
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  • Not satan, not the sister, even older in rank.
  • 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:39.370
  • Too bad.
  • 00:18:39.370 --> 00:18:41.239
  • She's chosen the good part.
  • 00:18:41.239 --> 00:18:42.573
  • It's got to be chosen.
  • 00:18:42.573 --> 00:18:44.709
  • God won't force it on you.
  • 00:18:44.709 --> 00:18:46.477
  • Every day you got a chance to sit down and receive
  • 00:18:46.477 --> 00:18:49.313
  • His ministry.
  • 00:18:49.313 --> 00:18:51.015
  • I say, when i was growing up in the christian world,
  • 00:18:51.015 --> 00:18:52.950
  • They would teach us, right, "do your quiet time," all right?
  • 00:18:52.950 --> 00:18:55.720
  • So i'd do my quiet time.
  • 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:57.455
  • They asked me later on, "how was your quiet time,"
  • 00:18:57.455 --> 00:18:59.523
  • Right?
  • 00:18:59.523 --> 00:19:00.858
  • I'd say, it was very quiet.
  • 00:19:00.858 --> 00:19:03.427
  • I don't know what to say to god.
  • 00:19:03.427 --> 00:19:04.862
  • You know, as i was born again as a teenager and in my teenage
  • 00:19:04.862 --> 00:19:09.767
  • Years and all that, i can talk.
  • 00:19:09.767 --> 00:19:11.936
  • In class, i stammer.
  • 00:19:11.936 --> 00:19:13.304
  • But i can talk to my friends and all that.
  • 00:19:13.304 --> 00:19:14.939
  • During quiet time, i'd just say, "it's too quiet.
  • 00:19:14.939 --> 00:19:17.908
  • I don't talk to god.
  • 00:19:17.908 --> 00:19:19.243
  • I don't know what to say to god."
  • 00:19:19.243 --> 00:19:22.280
  • And they'd tell me, "it's for god to talk to you."
  • 00:19:22.280 --> 00:19:24.782
  • But he doesn't talk to me.
  • 00:19:24.782 --> 00:19:27.451
  • It's very quiet.
  • 00:19:27.451 --> 00:19:28.986
  • So i don't have the keys.
  • 00:19:28.986 --> 00:19:31.055
  • I was doing quiet time, i wasn't receiving.
  • 00:19:31.055 --> 00:19:35.493
  • I wasn't going there to receive from the lord.
  • 00:19:35.493 --> 00:19:38.095
  • I wasn't coming before the lord to receive
  • 00:19:38.095 --> 00:19:39.497
  • His love, amen.
  • 00:19:39.497 --> 00:19:41.399
  • Actually, the lord wants to love you.
  • 00:19:41.399 --> 00:19:43.401
  • You know, i've said it before in time and time again.
  • 00:19:43.401 --> 00:19:46.003
  • And because, like i said, i have an older daughter and she
  • 00:19:46.003 --> 00:19:50.508
  • Was born exactly during the time of the former rain
  • 00:19:50.508 --> 00:19:55.112
  • In israel, november.
  • 00:19:55.112 --> 00:19:57.381
  • And i have a second son, right?
  • 00:19:57.381 --> 00:19:59.450
  • My daughter was born in the former rain,
  • 00:19:59.450 --> 00:20:01.085
  • Literally november.
  • 00:20:01.085 --> 00:20:02.420
  • And my son was born in march, the time of the latter rain.
  • 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:06.290
  • Literally, the month of the latter rain.
  • 00:20:06.290 --> 00:20:08.626
  • The two main rains in israel.
  • 00:20:08.626 --> 00:20:11.796
  • And i always tell them, former rain, early rain.
  • 00:20:11.796 --> 00:20:16.000
  • Sorry, early rain, former rain.
  • 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.069
  • Latter rain, latter rain, amen?
  • 00:20:18.069 --> 00:20:21.172
  • So they both symbolize something.
  • 00:20:21.172 --> 00:20:22.506
  • But i also believe that my life is because of you all.
  • 00:20:22.506 --> 00:20:28.646
  • When i'm supposed to have a child, it's because
  • 00:20:28.646 --> 00:20:30.081
  • Of you all, all right?
  • 00:20:30.081 --> 00:20:33.084
  • It's not based on my efforts, amen?
  • 00:20:33.084 --> 00:20:35.453
  • It's really based on you all.
  • 00:20:35.453 --> 00:20:36.787
  • I have an older one so that you all who have older kids,
  • 00:20:36.787 --> 00:20:39.523
  • You all don't know, lah.
  • 00:20:39.523 --> 00:20:40.858
  • You know, during the time of teenage and all that,
  • 00:20:40.858 --> 00:20:42.860
  • "ah, pastor prince, you only have a young boy.
  • 00:20:42.860 --> 00:20:44.829
  • You do not know what it's like to have a teenager,
  • 00:20:44.829 --> 00:20:47.732
  • To have a young adult working and the responsibility
  • 00:20:47.732 --> 00:20:50.835
  • They are supposed to show
  • 00:20:50.835 --> 00:20:52.169
  • Their parents and i'm going through this and all."
  • 00:20:52.169 --> 00:20:54.238
  • I know, amen?
  • 00:20:54.238 --> 00:20:57.241
  • All the way through university.
  • 00:20:57.241 --> 00:20:58.809
  • Yes, i know.
  • 00:20:58.809 --> 00:21:00.478
  • I know.
  • 00:21:00.478 --> 00:21:01.846
  • I know what works and what doesn't, amen.
  • 00:21:01.846 --> 00:21:04.949
  • I have--but some people say, "well, pastor prince, you forgot
  • 00:21:04.949 --> 00:21:07.218
  • Really--, and now jessica is, you know, in her
  • 00:21:07.218 --> 00:21:09.854
  • Twenties and all, you forget what it's like to have a young
  • 00:21:09.854 --> 00:21:12.123
  • Kid and all that kind--" i know.
  • 00:21:12.123 --> 00:21:15.059
  • So i believe even my life is because of you all!
  • 00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:19.764
  • Uh-huh.
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  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:21:21.132 --> 00:21:22.500
  • So if you all bring even more young parents who just got
  • 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:25.936
  • Married, maybe wendy will have a baby now.
  • 00:21:25.936 --> 00:21:29.106
  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Amen?
  • 00:21:32.743 --> 00:21:34.779
  • Yeah, so, and that's in the bible by the way.
  • 00:21:34.779 --> 00:21:36.981
  • The minister's life is not a life for himself.
  • 00:21:36.981 --> 00:21:39.784
  • The minister's life, if god does it in a way, is a testimony
  • 00:21:39.784 --> 00:21:42.853
  • For the rest as well as also for the blessing of the rest.
  • 00:21:42.853 --> 00:21:47.658
  • See, we are here to be used.
  • 00:21:47.658 --> 00:21:49.560
  • We are here.
  • 00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:50.995
  • That's what the word "minister" means.
  • 00:21:50.995 --> 00:21:52.329
  • Jesus himself came down and said this, "i came not to be
  • 00:21:52.329 --> 00:21:54.732
  • Ministered unto but to minister," amen?
  • 00:21:54.732 --> 00:21:58.636
  • So we minister to our children, we minister to our wives
  • 00:21:58.636 --> 00:22:02.006
  • Primarily with words.
  • 00:22:02.006 --> 00:22:04.442
  • Because we can do a lot of things for them.
  • 00:22:04.442 --> 00:22:06.744
  • I know we can also do a lot of things like sacrifices
  • 00:22:06.744 --> 00:22:09.246
  • And all that.
  • 00:22:09.246 --> 00:22:10.581
  • It's in deeds, okay?
  • 00:22:10.581 --> 00:22:12.049
  • But one of the main ways love is shown, right?
  • 00:22:12.049 --> 00:22:14.752
  • It's actually words.
  • 00:22:14.752 --> 00:22:16.554
  • Your children need your words.
  • 00:22:16.554 --> 00:22:18.589
  • So we learned just now that one of the best things we
  • 00:22:18.589 --> 00:22:23.794
  • Can do is that we have this propensity knowing that we tend
  • 00:22:23.794 --> 00:22:27.031
  • To complain, we tend to, and by the way, why martha was careful
  • 00:22:27.031 --> 00:22:30.968
  • And anxious and troubled about many things.
  • 00:22:30.968 --> 00:22:33.771
  • Many things, about many things?
  • 00:22:33.771 --> 00:22:35.206
  • Because she didn't do the one thing.
  • 00:22:35.206 --> 00:22:37.475
  • She didn't sit at jesus's feet and she wasn't occupied
  • 00:22:37.475 --> 00:22:39.877
  • With him, amen.
  • 00:22:39.877 --> 00:22:42.513
  • She wasn't, like, saying, "i'm here to receive your love.
  • 00:22:42.513 --> 00:22:44.915
  • Oh, you know, i look forward for my quiet time
  • 00:22:44.915 --> 00:22:47.685
  • With the lord, amen?
  • 00:22:47.685 --> 00:22:49.353
  • Because that's when i receive his love.
  • 00:22:49.353 --> 00:22:51.489
  • I can't wait to spend time.
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  • I'm with people, right?
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  • Honestly, it's not that i don't appreciate the people i have.
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  • I love them.
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  • But i feel like i want to go away and spend time
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  • With the lord tonight."
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  • There are moments i feel that way.
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  • I just, because i know that there i receive
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  • Unconditional love.
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  • So he wants to serve you.
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  • But every day you're serving yourself, you're serving people,
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  • You're serving everything.
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  • You're serving your boss, you're serving the needs
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  • Of your company, you're serving this thing.
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  • You're still serving.
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  • Except to receive the greatest service of all.
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  • The service of love, the ministry of love.
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  • To come to the lord and say, "lord, i'm tired, lord,
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  • But i come before you right now."
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  • Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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  • With a special prayer to close
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  • Today's program right after this.
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  • Announcer: and now a closing word
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: throughout this week, the lord bless you
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  • And your families with the blessings
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  • Of father abraham, the blessings of deuteronomy 28,
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  • For christ has redeemed us from all the law,
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  • From all the curse there.
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  • For the blessings of deuteronomy 28
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  • Will come upon you, even this week,
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  • You and your loved ones.
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  • "the lord make his face shine on you" as he already is through
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  • The work of jesus christ, always smiling on you throughout this
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  • Week and grant you great favor in the sight of everyone who
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  • Looks on you.
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  • "the lord lift up his countenance on you
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  • And your loved ones and grant to you and your loved ones
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  • His wonderful shalom, peace, well-being, and wholeness,
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  • In the lord of the lord jesus christ,
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  • And all the people said, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • We'll see you again.
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  • Female announcer: thank you for watching today's program.
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  • Male announcer: we live in a world that moves faster
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  • Than ever.
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  • Headlines change by the hour.
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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 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, he is still
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  • The good news.
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  • From feeding the 5000 to feeding your family, he is
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  • Still the supply.
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  • From calming the sea of galilee to calming the storm in your
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  • Mind, he is still the peace.
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  • Because when all else falters, fades, and falls, he is still
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  • Jesus above it all.
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  • So no matter what's popular today or forgotten tomorrow,
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  • This ministry will still always be all about jesus.
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  • Still the center of our call.
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  • Still the heartbeat of our people.
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  • Still the same mission for the past 18 years.
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  • Will you still choose to make
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  • Our mission your mission today?
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  • From the lord.
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