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Joseph Prince - Unlock The Secret To Contentment

May 26, 2026 | 27:29

Joseph Prince - Unlock The Secret To Contentment
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Unlock The Secret To Contentment | May 26, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: the christian life is
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  • A wonderful paradox.
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  • We live in two worlds, right?
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  • Our--in terms of our condition,
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  • Our spirit, our heart, and mind, we are in that world.
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  • That's the way god wants us to live our life.
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  • Male announcer: stop for a moment.
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  • What if god has a word for you today?
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  • In today's message, joseph reveals
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  • The life-transforming power of grace
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  • And shows us the life that we are called to live.
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  • Make this year the year you talk
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  • To someone you love about jesus.
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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: okay, we go right to 1 peter 1.
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  • This is where the lord is emphasizing to us today,
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  • All right, the rhema word that he has for you.
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  • "in this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while,
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  • If need be, you have been grieved by various trials."
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  • So, the christian life is a wonderful paradox.
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  • We live in two worlds, right?
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  • Our--in terms of our condition and our circumstance,
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  • We are in the world, subject
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  • To all the trials, the vicissitudes,
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  • The challenges that comes on just normal life.
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  • Am i right or not?
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  • But then the part-- but there's a part of us
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  • That greatly rejoice, the true self,
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  • New men in christ, rejoices.
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  • Oh, no, no, sorry, not rejoices, greatly rejoice.
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  • Greatly rejoice, right?
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  • But then it goes together with various trials.
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  • So in our condition, listen carefully,
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  • In our condition and our circumstance,
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  • We are still in this world, there's various trials.
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  • But in terms of our spirit, our heart, and mind,
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  • Our spirit, our heart, and mind, we are in that world.
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  • That's the way god wants us to live our life.
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  • In other words, we are seeing beauty all around.
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  • One reason why people give up on their life
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  • Or they take their own life is because they
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  • See all kinds of imperfection in themselves.
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  • They see all kind of darkness in their mind.
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  • They cannot see the light, they see
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  • Everywhere around them, you know, everyone
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  • Have the best life, or at least they personify,
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  • They present the best life to the social world out there,
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  • But it's all a lie.
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  • It's all a lie.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • So when you look around, you see nothing but ugliness.
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  • You see nothing but pretensions,
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  • You see nothing but people trying to outdo one another,
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  • So much hatred, so much anger.
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  • And social media is pumped by people who are angry.
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  • Angry people compared to loving people
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  • Get more hits, more views, and more shares.
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  • So they look around and this is what they see,
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  • All right, no one is sharing their weaknesses.
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  • No one is sharing hope.
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  • We have the message and we gotta win this generation.
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  • Obviously, the devil is
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  • So afraid of the young generation
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  • That's coming up that he is attacking
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  • So many of them.
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  • So i want you to know that i believe you
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  • Are an ambassador wherever god has placed you.
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  • You're not just there, number one, to get money,
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  • To supply for your family and you, amen.
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  • No, no, that's a too low ambition to live for,
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  • Okay?
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  • You are there as god's ambassador, amen,
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  • On your way to heaven, amen, praise the lord.
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  • There's work to be done.
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  • And don't be in a hurry to go to heaven.
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  • But we can live there already. how?
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  • Greatly rejoice because, drop down, it says,
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  • "whom having not seen you love."
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  • One proof that all of you are living on the inside,
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  • And god wants to redeem all of us from deadness.
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  • Yeah, not just sin, deadness.
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  • I think we teach a lot on sin and how to overcome sin
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  • And the provisions for sin in the death of christ,
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  • But we forget that he also redeemed us from death.
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  • You are living people.
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  • God doesn't want you to have deadness in your life.
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  • Sometimes, even our prayers can be dead.
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  • Now, listen carefully.
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  • I'm not against people who pray from books, all right?
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  • The prayers are all in the book and they try to pray.
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  • If you're starting out and all that, it's okay.
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  • Nothing wrong with that if you pray from your heart,
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  • You mean those words from your heart.
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  • But i believe with all my heart,
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  • God wants to redeem us all from everything that's dead.
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  • You know, in heaven it's a resurrection place.
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  • A lot of people today think that heaven is
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  • A place of dead people.
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  • It's not. it's a living place.
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  • The living god is there, the source of all life
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  • Is there, amen.
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  • You see, we-- i shared last week,
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  • Don't live under the vanity line,
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  • All right, the book of ecclesiastes.
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  • Always under the sun, under the sun.
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  • Nothing here profits.
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  • Nothing here fulfills your heart.
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  • Your heart is too big for this world.
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  • You need an object, all right, so the next book
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  • Is song of songs, now you find an object.
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  • In fact, the object is too great for our heart.
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  • We need to expand our heart, amen?
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  • And it's above the sun.
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  • That's where you find your fulfillment.
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  • So there is this vanity of vanities.
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  • Everything under the sun is vanity.
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  • All the pursuits you have in your life is vanity.
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  • Let's look at that in ecclesiastes,
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  • The very first words of ecclesiastes
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  • Written by solomon: "the words of the preacher,
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  • The son of david, king--" hey, son of david,
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  • "son of david, king in jerusalem.
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  • 'vanity of vanities.'"
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  • Now who is that son of david? solomon, king in jerusalem.
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  • So he's telling you, why did--
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  • Why does he introduce himself like this
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  • And not like this introduction in the book of song of songs?
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  • Because he wants us to know, "i am a king in jerusalem,
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  • I can have anything i want."
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  • And he did have access to everything, but he says,
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  • "'vanity of vanities,' says the preacher,"
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  • Or you can say, "emptiness of emptiness."
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  • How many of you have found out that the world
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  • Promised you a lot of things?
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  • What the world does is this, whatever pleasures
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  • You find under the sun, all right, if it lifts you up,
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  • Only to drop you down.
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  • The drop is the painful part.
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  • So, in heaven, everything is elevation.
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  • Everything, all right, is beautiful.
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  • There's perfect symmetry.
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  • There's inexhaustible joy,
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  • "joy unspeakable," the bible says.
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  • Everything you look is perfection,
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  • And best of all, we get to see the lord jesus, amen?
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  • The bible says, in one of the versions,
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  • It says, "you're the fairest of the sons of men."
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  • One version says, "you're the most handsome
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  • Of all men."
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  • That's our lord jesus, amen?
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  • Now, you wanna become like him, amen?
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  • When he comes into your life, he maximizes your manhood,
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  • For women, your femininity, amen?
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  • So, ecclesiastes says, "everything i--"
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  • Now you think that, "well, you know what,
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  • He didn't try everything."
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  • I've not tried everything.
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  • Listen to a man who have tried everything
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  • And he has means to achieve it or to get it, okay?
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  • Next chapter, he said, okay, by the way,
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  • Drop down to verse 3, it says, what?
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  • Chapter 1: "what profit has a man from all his labor
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  • In which he toils under the sun?"
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  • Now, for this point, we go to chapter 2, it says,
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  • "i gathered for myself--" solomon,
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  • "i gathered myself silver and gold."
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  • How many think that it'd be good for us
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  • To gather silver and gold, lots and lots of it?
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  • Especially with the threat of war in the world, right, hm?
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  • Hello?
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  • Is silver and gold still valuable?
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  • Is it still valuable?
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  • It is, isn't it?
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  • So he says, "i gathered for myself silver and gold
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  • And the special treasures of kings and of the provinces.
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  • I acquired male and female singers,
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  • The delights of the sons of men."
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  • We still acquire it.
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  • "spotify, yo," you know?
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  • We are still listening to our music and all that.
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  • We think it will satisfy us, all right?
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  • He's talking about all the pleasures under the sun.
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  • Let's go back to chapter 1 again.
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  • I forgot to show you something, all right.
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  • "what--in which he toils under the sun."
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  • So the whole purpose, the key is always
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  • In the beginning of the chapter--of the book.
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  • It's a book about under the sun.
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  • That's why everything is vanity of vanities, right?
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  • So go back to chapter 2, we have him saying he tried,
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  • "the musical instruments of all kinds.
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  • So i became great and excelled more than all who were before me
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • And my wisdom remained with me.
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  • Whatever my eyes desired i did not keep from them."
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  • Can you say that now?
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  • "whatever my eyes desired i do not keep from them."
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  • No, we cannot, amen?
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  • Here is a man unrestrained.
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  • In his day and age, he is the police,
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  • He is the chief justice, all right?
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  • He has access. he's the richest man on earth.
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  • Today's standards, right, he'll be a trillionaire already.
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  • Still the richest man in history, amen?
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  • And yet he says what?
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  • "whatever my eyes desired i did not keep from them.
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  • I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
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  • My heart rejoiced in all my labor;
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  • And this was my reward from all my labor.
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  • Then i looked on all the works that my hands had done
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  • And on the labor in which i had toiled;
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  • And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
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  • There was no profit under the sun."
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  • So don't try it. someone tried it already.
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  • He came back an old man and telling you,
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  • "no profit under the sun."
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  • So that's his first book, ecclesiastes.
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  • It's a good book.
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  • "but pastor, it sounds depressing if i read it."
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  • If you know the purpose for it, you rejoice.
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  • Some things we learn from positive examples
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  • And some things we learn from negative examples, right?
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  • God can use it. so there is a book.
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  • So now we see what life is under the sun.
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  • By the way, this is the book that says that which has been
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  • Is what shall be and that which is
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  • Is what has been, you know,
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  • Life is, like, history repeats itself.
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  • This is the book. a lot of good stuff in it.
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  • There's a lot of scientific, like, condensation
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  • And, you know, evaporation, all that, in this book.
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  • It's an interesting book.
  • 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:56.065
  • But anyway, let's go to the next book.
  • 00:10:56.065 --> 00:10:58.234
  • The book when he was walking with god.
  • 00:10:58.234 --> 00:11:00.035
  • So this book, ecclesiastes,
  • 00:11:00.035 --> 00:11:02.071
  • Was written probably when he fell away from the lord.
  • 00:11:02.071 --> 00:11:05.975
  • But that's why he say, "my wisdom remained."
  • 00:11:05.975 --> 00:11:09.044
  • But then the wisdom now serves to torture him
  • 00:11:09.044 --> 00:11:11.881
  • Because he knows what is right, what god wanted him to do
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  • And he did not do.
  • 00:11:14.617 --> 00:11:16.352
  • So he's in his old age, but look at him
  • 00:11:16.352 --> 00:11:17.920
  • When he was walking with the lord.
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  • Now this is song of songs. why is it called song of songs?
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  • Shir hashirim, in hebrew, "song of all songs,"
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  • Like you say, jesus is the king of all kings,
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  • Lord of all lords.
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  • The innermost part of the sanctuary
  • 00:11:32.034 --> 00:11:34.370
  • Is the holy of holies, amen?
  • 00:11:34.370 --> 00:11:39.074
  • The rabbis say that of all the books in the bible,
  • 00:11:39.074 --> 00:11:45.748
  • The song of songs is the holy of holies.
  • 00:11:45.748 --> 00:11:51.687
  • And they, according to the rabbis,
  • 00:11:51.687 --> 00:11:53.889
  • They forbid anyone under the age of 30 to read it.
  • 00:11:53.889 --> 00:11:57.560
  • They say that you cannot understand it,
  • 00:11:57.560 --> 00:11:59.395
  • You might misconstrue it.
  • 00:11:59.395 --> 00:12:01.230
  • It's a love between a man and a woman,
  • 00:12:01.230 --> 00:12:03.666
  • And it's very descriptive, amen?
  • 00:12:03.666 --> 00:12:06.302
  • To the pure, all things are pure,
  • 00:12:06.302 --> 00:12:07.670
  • So they say that only when you come to age 30, you can read it.
  • 00:12:07.670 --> 00:12:10.706
  • So, he says in song of songs,
  • 00:12:10.706 --> 00:12:13.943
  • This beautiful song of songs, which is a depiction of the love
  • 00:12:13.943 --> 00:12:18.113
  • Between our bridegroom and the bride.
  • 00:12:18.113 --> 00:12:21.016
  • And see how it starts off, and this is what fulfills.
  • 00:12:21.016 --> 00:12:23.219
  • "let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth--
  • 00:12:23.219 --> 00:12:26.055
  • For your love is better than wine."
  • 00:12:26.055 --> 00:12:28.858
  • "let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,"
  • 00:12:28.858 --> 00:12:30.893
  • Not let me kiss him.
  • 00:12:30.893 --> 00:12:34.530
  • Let him kiss me.
  • 00:12:34.530 --> 00:12:36.532
  • I want to experience his love.
  • 00:12:36.532 --> 00:12:38.934
  • And i want to experience his love
  • 00:12:38.934 --> 00:12:40.769
  • In a very personal, intimate way.
  • 00:12:40.769 --> 00:12:45.374
  • Can you see her cry?
  • 00:12:45.374 --> 00:12:46.942
  • She's not saying, i want to know how much i love the lord.
  • 00:12:46.942 --> 00:12:49.011
  • And a lot of christians are thinking,
  • 00:12:49.011 --> 00:12:50.346
  • "i need to love the lord more.
  • 00:12:50.346 --> 00:12:51.680
  • I need--" stop looking at yourself.
  • 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:54.550
  • Look away from your inferior love
  • 00:12:54.550 --> 00:12:57.419
  • To the perfect, everlasting love that loves you without ceasing.
  • 00:12:57.419 --> 00:13:02.191
  • And the reason why your eyes see
  • 00:13:02.191 --> 00:13:04.093
  • What god wants you to see in the scriptures and all that,
  • 00:13:04.093 --> 00:13:06.495
  • And many people are still blinded, seeking,
  • 00:13:06.495 --> 00:13:08.764
  • Looking for fulfillment in life, still serving under the sun,
  • 00:13:08.764 --> 00:13:12.968
  • Doing things under the sun.
  • 00:13:12.968 --> 00:13:15.004
  • In their heart of hearts, they feel like
  • 00:13:15.004 --> 00:13:16.405
  • Everything is empty.
  • 00:13:16.405 --> 00:13:17.740
  • "i've tried it, it's empty."
  • 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:19.608
  • If only they knew, fame does not satisfy,
  • 00:13:19.608 --> 00:13:22.311
  • Fortune does not satisfy.
  • 00:13:22.311 --> 00:13:23.846
  • I am not free.
  • 00:13:23.846 --> 00:13:25.180
  • I am more in bondage since i became famous.
  • 00:13:25.180 --> 00:13:27.750
  • I cannot go anywhere i want to go.
  • 00:13:27.750 --> 00:13:29.585
  • It doesn't really fulfill.
  • 00:13:29.585 --> 00:13:31.153
  • It is vanity of vanities.
  • 00:13:31.153 --> 00:13:35.724
  • But then to know his love, his life.
  • 00:13:35.724 --> 00:13:38.861
  • And i'll tell you this, all right?
  • 00:13:38.861 --> 00:13:41.597
  • He compares the love, "for your love
  • 00:13:41.597 --> 00:13:43.299
  • Is better than wine."
  • 00:13:43.299 --> 00:13:44.633
  • Let me tell you, when you kiss,
  • 00:13:44.633 --> 00:13:45.968
  • He did not say let him kiss me, let him, let him peck me.
  • 00:13:45.968 --> 00:13:51.106
  • You know, there's a peck and a kiss?
  • 00:13:51.106 --> 00:13:52.808
  • A peck is... peck, okay?
  • 00:13:52.808 --> 00:13:58.514
  • A peck is not a kiss. notice, it's kisses, plural.
  • 00:13:58.514 --> 00:14:01.550
  • "let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,"
  • 00:14:01.550 --> 00:14:04.153
  • Nonstop, unceasing, the same way
  • 00:14:04.153 --> 00:14:07.122
  • When the prodigal son came home.
  • 00:14:07.122 --> 00:14:09.925
  • The bible says in the greek, it's actually,
  • 00:14:09.925 --> 00:14:11.894
  • "covered him with kisses," and in the amplified
  • 00:14:11.894 --> 00:14:15.397
  • You see it, "kept on repeatedly kissing him."
  • 00:14:15.397 --> 00:14:19.401
  • Remember the son right now, he reeks of pigs.
  • 00:14:19.401 --> 00:14:24.773
  • He's been in the pig pen for a long time,
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  • We don't know how long.
  • 00:14:26.976 --> 00:14:28.310
  • By the time he came back and the father ran to him
  • 00:14:28.310 --> 00:14:31.447
  • And hugged him, the bible says the father kept on kissing him.
  • 00:14:31.447 --> 00:14:37.052
  • "let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth."
  • 00:14:37.052 --> 00:14:42.124
  • He wants--she wants a personal love encounter
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  • With the lord.
  • 00:14:47.196 --> 00:14:48.530
  • I wanna know how much you love me.
  • 00:14:48.530 --> 00:14:50.899
  • I wanna live knowing how much you love me.
  • 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:53.736
  • When i study the word,
  • 00:14:53.736 --> 00:14:55.070
  • I wanna study on how much you love me, amen?
  • 00:14:55.070 --> 00:14:59.975
  • Amen?
  • 00:14:59.975 --> 00:15:01.310
  • Even the judgments in the-- you know,
  • 00:15:01.310 --> 00:15:02.644
  • When you read the old testament, there's judgments and all that?
  • 00:15:02.644 --> 00:15:04.613
  • You always look at it and say, "hey, wait a minute."
  • 00:15:04.613 --> 00:15:06.982
  • Like, in the psalms, it says, "god overthrew pharaoh
  • 00:15:06.982 --> 00:15:10.719
  • And the egyptians in the red sea,
  • 00:15:10.719 --> 00:15:12.521
  • For his mercy endures forever."
  • 00:15:12.521 --> 00:15:14.790
  • How can that be?
  • 00:15:14.790 --> 00:15:16.125
  • No, not for pharaoh and his egyptians.
  • 00:15:16.125 --> 00:15:19.328
  • God gave them many, many chances to repent.
  • 00:15:19.328 --> 00:15:23.665
  • They still want to go after israel to enslave them.
  • 00:15:23.665 --> 00:15:26.969
  • God warned them, "let my children go.
  • 00:15:26.969 --> 00:15:29.371
  • Let my people go," right?
  • 00:15:29.371 --> 00:15:31.640
  • Am i right or not?
  • 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:33.175
  • Today he will say to any force that try to bind us,
  • 00:15:33.175 --> 00:15:35.077
  • "let my children go."
  • 00:15:35.077 --> 00:15:38.380
  • So, if not, god will judge them because he loves us.
  • 00:15:38.380 --> 00:15:42.718
  • See, israel read that.
  • 00:15:42.718 --> 00:15:44.053
  • Israel says, "judgment on that, mercy endures forever,
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  • Mercy for me."
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  • It's not that god doesn't care for them.
  • 00:15:48.724 --> 00:15:50.059
  • God gave them a chance.
  • 00:15:50.059 --> 00:15:51.827
  • But his love for us, even when you
  • 00:15:51.827 --> 00:15:53.162
  • Read the judgment, it's all because of his love for us,
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  • Amen?
  • 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:59.334
  • That's why god gave you your daughter.
  • 00:15:59.334 --> 00:16:02.404
  • That's why god gave you your son.
  • 00:16:02.404 --> 00:16:04.907
  • So they can experience a bit, albeit it's inferior
  • 00:16:04.907 --> 00:16:08.544
  • Compared to his love, what it's like
  • 00:16:08.544 --> 00:16:10.646
  • For a father's love for the child that you
  • 00:16:10.646 --> 00:16:13.615
  • So delight in.
  • 00:16:13.615 --> 00:16:16.285
  • So you know also how much he loves his son,
  • 00:16:16.285 --> 00:16:18.687
  • But only very limited because our human relationship
  • 00:16:18.687 --> 00:16:21.990
  • Is a reflection of his love for us, amen?
  • 00:16:21.990 --> 00:16:27.930
  • So he says, "let him kiss me,"
  • 00:16:27.930 --> 00:16:29.431
  • He wants a personal-- she, he--when i say he's,
  • 00:16:29.431 --> 00:16:32.434
  • Guys are there as well.
  • 00:16:32.434 --> 00:16:34.269
  • See, guys are so privileged, they get to be the bridegroom
  • 00:16:34.269 --> 00:16:36.305
  • And the bride in this story, amen?
  • 00:16:36.305 --> 00:16:40.275
  • So we want his personal love for us.
  • 00:16:40.275 --> 00:16:43.545
  • We wanna-- to want to experience
  • 00:16:43.545 --> 00:16:45.380
  • His love for us, amen.
  • 00:16:45.380 --> 00:16:48.484
  • How many know he loves you?
  • 00:16:48.484 --> 00:16:50.552
  • And god says, "pray in the spirit,
  • 00:16:50.552 --> 00:16:52.287
  • Keep yourself in the love of god."
  • 00:16:52.287 --> 00:16:54.423
  • When you pray in the spirit, be conscious that god loves you.
  • 00:16:54.423 --> 00:16:57.226
  • You know, at one time i was reading, meditating on this,
  • 00:16:57.226 --> 00:16:59.261
  • And i was overseas, i remember, it was very cold, you know?
  • 00:16:59.261 --> 00:17:01.930
  • I'm not a person who really likes the cold,
  • 00:17:01.930 --> 00:17:04.566
  • But it was kind of cold, but it was sunny.
  • 00:17:04.566 --> 00:17:06.835
  • You know, the kind of a winter time
  • 00:17:06.835 --> 00:17:08.170
  • When it's sunny, the sun comes up,
  • 00:17:08.170 --> 00:17:09.771
  • But it's still cold, right,
  • 00:17:09.771 --> 00:17:12.174
  • Because i'm walking in between shaded areas.
  • 00:17:12.174 --> 00:17:15.978
  • There were buildings on either side of me
  • 00:17:15.978 --> 00:17:18.247
  • And the sun was shining, but i couldn't stand the--
  • 00:17:18.247 --> 00:17:20.115
  • I was feeling cold because of the shelter.
  • 00:17:20.115 --> 00:17:23.352
  • Have you all been there?
  • 00:17:23.352 --> 00:17:24.786
  • But the moment i stepped out, i kept myself in the sun
  • 00:17:24.786 --> 00:17:28.457
  • And i refused to go under the shelter
  • 00:17:28.457 --> 00:17:30.559
  • Or shade anymore.
  • 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.960
  • I just walked outside in the sun.
  • 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:33.462
  • It was really good.
  • 00:17:33.462 --> 00:17:35.264
  • So keep yourself in the love of god.
  • 00:17:35.264 --> 00:17:37.699
  • Be conscious that he loves you.
  • 00:17:37.699 --> 00:17:39.735
  • I said be conscious that he loves you.
  • 00:17:39.735 --> 00:17:42.171
  • Right now, are you conscious that he loves you?
  • 00:17:42.171 --> 00:17:44.406
  • Are you conscious that today you are so privileged,
  • 00:17:44.406 --> 00:17:46.842
  • Like jesus today will say,
  • 00:17:46.842 --> 00:17:48.210
  • "blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears,
  • 00:17:48.210 --> 00:17:51.013
  • For they hear."
  • 00:17:51.013 --> 00:17:53.949
  • Do you feel loved?
  • 00:17:53.949 --> 00:17:56.018
  • So, i can't seem to leave this, but we have to go on.
  • 00:17:56.018 --> 00:17:59.788
  • "for your love is better than wine."
  • 00:17:59.788 --> 00:18:01.256
  • Wine is a picture of earthly joy, right?
  • 00:18:01.256 --> 00:18:05.694
  • You can put anything down there,
  • 00:18:05.694 --> 00:18:07.196
  • Human relationship, a darling child,
  • 00:18:07.196 --> 00:18:09.798
  • Or whatever it is, you can put down there.
  • 00:18:09.798 --> 00:18:12.000
  • That is what wine represents.
  • 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.403
  • But he says, "your love-- to experience your love
  • 00:18:14.403 --> 00:18:17.806
  • Is better than wine."
  • 00:18:17.806 --> 00:18:19.942
  • This is life above the sun, y'all.
  • 00:18:19.942 --> 00:18:22.644
  • Life above the sun, hallelujah, all right?
  • 00:18:22.644 --> 00:18:25.447
  • So this is the life that god wants you to live,
  • 00:18:25.447 --> 00:18:27.649
  • Seeing jesus and his love for you every single day.
  • 00:18:27.649 --> 00:18:31.320
  • "how does that help me in my practical life,
  • 00:18:31.320 --> 00:18:33.455
  • Pastor prince?
  • 00:18:33.455 --> 00:18:34.790
  • You know, pastor prince, have you heard the saying,
  • 00:18:34.790 --> 00:18:37.159
  • 'too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good'?"
  • 00:18:37.159 --> 00:18:43.432
  • When you say earthly-- heavenly minded,
  • 00:18:43.432 --> 00:18:47.402
  • I think what you mean, because, you see,
  • 00:18:47.402 --> 00:18:49.371
  • A lot of people, you know, their mind is up there,
  • 00:18:49.371 --> 00:18:51.940
  • They are being religious, religiously minded.
  • 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:55.978
  • God doesn't want you religious-minded.
  • 00:18:55.978 --> 00:18:58.547
  • In fact, it was the religious people
  • 00:18:58.547 --> 00:19:00.282
  • Of jesus's day that persecute him.
  • 00:19:00.282 --> 00:19:02.684
  • The common people, what you call the sinners,
  • 00:19:02.684 --> 00:19:04.753
  • Heard him gladly.
  • 00:19:04.753 --> 00:19:06.688
  • Jesus came among them and one time
  • 00:19:06.688 --> 00:19:08.190
  • The religious guy says, you know,
  • 00:19:08.190 --> 00:19:09.791
  • A religious group of them said, "hey,
  • 00:19:09.791 --> 00:19:11.627
  • You're eating with sinners."
  • 00:19:11.627 --> 00:19:12.995
  • Jesus says, "those that are well do not need a doctor.
  • 00:19:12.995 --> 00:19:20.102
  • It's those who are sick," right?
  • 00:19:20.102 --> 00:19:25.807
  • "you don't think you need me, therefore you don't come to me.
  • 00:19:25.807 --> 00:19:29.811
  • Because you think you're fine, all right, but i'm a doctor.
  • 00:19:29.811 --> 00:19:35.183
  • So if you come to admire me, you're not pleasing my heart.
  • 00:19:35.183 --> 00:19:39.221
  • You just come to follow me,
  • 00:19:39.221 --> 00:19:40.856
  • Again that's not just pleasing my heart.
  • 00:19:40.856 --> 00:19:43.058
  • Because you can adopt my principles and go
  • 00:19:43.058 --> 00:19:45.360
  • And be independent, adopting those principles.
  • 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:47.929
  • You just see me as another teacher.
  • 00:19:47.929 --> 00:19:50.832
  • But you come and say, 'i need you to be my savior.
  • 00:19:50.832 --> 00:19:55.370
  • I need you to be my bread.
  • 00:19:55.370 --> 00:19:58.173
  • I need you to be my living water,' it is me
  • 00:19:58.173 --> 00:20:01.443
  • That i'm giving.
  • 00:20:01.443 --> 00:20:04.646
  • Come unto me, not take my teachings.
  • 00:20:04.646 --> 00:20:07.215
  • Come unto me, all right, i'll give you rest,"
  • 00:20:07.215 --> 00:20:10.752
  • And then you learn.
  • 00:20:10.752 --> 00:20:12.988
  • After you come to him, then you learn.
  • 00:20:12.988 --> 00:20:15.390
  • Can i have a good amen? are you with me so far?
  • 00:20:15.390 --> 00:20:18.493
  • So this thing that when you are religiously minded,
  • 00:20:18.493 --> 00:20:21.797
  • You're no earthly good, i agree 120%, i agree.
  • 00:20:21.797 --> 00:20:26.802
  • Some of the people that are religious
  • 00:20:26.802 --> 00:20:28.136
  • And go to work, i'm telling you, they're talking about,
  • 00:20:28.136 --> 00:20:30.505
  • "oh, you know, you know, i think that life is short
  • 00:20:30.505 --> 00:20:33.608
  • And i think we gotta make sure that--"
  • 00:20:33.608 --> 00:20:34.943
  • No, they're getting religious.
  • 00:20:34.943 --> 00:20:36.278
  • They think that all these things
  • 00:20:36.278 --> 00:20:37.612
  • In their mind, they think that by sacrificing
  • 00:20:37.612 --> 00:20:39.581
  • Or doing a lot of good works and all that,
  • 00:20:39.581 --> 00:20:41.316
  • They are meriting points with jesus, with the lord.
  • 00:20:41.316 --> 00:20:44.453
  • They are not.
  • 00:20:44.453 --> 00:20:45.787
  • I'm referring to christians here.
  • 00:20:45.787 --> 00:20:47.122
  • So bosses look at them,
  • 00:20:47.122 --> 00:20:48.457
  • The best way to impress your boss
  • 00:20:48.457 --> 00:20:49.791
  • Is do what joseph did.
  • 00:20:49.791 --> 00:20:51.126
  • Joseph made pharaoh wealthy.
  • 00:20:51.126 --> 00:20:55.597
  • And christians saying, "no, no, no, no, you know,
  • 00:20:55.597 --> 00:20:57.632
  • My job is not to make him wealthy.
  • 00:20:57.632 --> 00:20:59.701
  • I come here, i'm for the lord."
  • 00:20:59.701 --> 00:21:03.205
  • That's being religious.
  • 00:21:03.205 --> 00:21:05.273
  • You are duty bound to glorify the lord
  • 00:21:05.273 --> 00:21:08.510
  • In your behavior, speaking the truth,
  • 00:21:08.510 --> 00:21:11.680
  • Not lying, not playing, you know, office politics, amen?
  • 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.385
  • But shine.
  • 00:21:16.385 --> 00:21:18.820
  • You are sent there because god honors and trusts you.
  • 00:21:18.820 --> 00:21:22.157
  • You want to work in a christian place,
  • 00:21:22.157 --> 00:21:23.859
  • What's the point of the salt being in the salt shaker?
  • 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:26.395
  • Everyone is salt.
  • 00:21:26.395 --> 00:21:28.163
  • Salt is good among things that are corrupted.
  • 00:21:28.163 --> 00:21:30.165
  • In those days, it's the refrigerator.
  • 00:21:30.165 --> 00:21:31.700
  • It keeps things from being corrupted,
  • 00:21:31.700 --> 00:21:33.201
  • They salt their fish.
  • 00:21:33.201 --> 00:21:35.103
  • In fact, they found-- they unearthed
  • 00:21:35.103 --> 00:21:37.139
  • A whole industry of salted fish near the lake of galilee
  • 00:21:37.139 --> 00:21:41.676
  • From the time of jesus.
  • 00:21:41.676 --> 00:21:43.111
  • So, salt is their refrigerator.
  • 00:21:43.111 --> 00:21:47.649
  • So if god put you in your company
  • 00:21:47.649 --> 00:21:49.351
  • In a lot of corruption, "why did god put me here?"
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  • What an honor.
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  • Respect, amen. you are the light of the world.
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  • What's the point of the light all being in the light?
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  • Very, very bright.
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  • Light is good in the darkness.
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  • When it's dark, the light shines.
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  • Everyone will look and they want to find--
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  • People who are longing for hope, some hope in their darkness
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  • Will see your light.
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  • But if all the christians are just together,
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  • Together all the time, how in the world
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  • Are you gonna be the salt of the earth
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  • And the light of the world?
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  • Don't you know you're a city-- like a city set on a hill
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  • That cannot be hid, amen?
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  • Hey, listen, today you're getting
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  • Green pastures.
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  • I'm feeding you, but every day you
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  • Ought to feed yourself.
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  • Spend time in the devotional, in the word of god
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  • Because you-- don't be someone buried
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  • In the world, but barren in your soul.
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  • You're so immersed in the world and you're--
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  • You are hungry on the inside and you think that, "ah,
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  • I'll go for the next movie that comes, ah."
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  • At the end, for a while you're distracted,
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  • But you get back there again,
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  • Vanity of vanities, empty, all right?
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  • You're crying for something.
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  • That something is found here.
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  • It's a someone.
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  • In this case now, ecclesiastes, the heart,
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  • Right, is too big for the world.
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  • Here, the object, the beloved, is too big for our heart.
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  • Lord, enlarge our hearts, lord, that we
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  • May be able to see you, lord, and your beauty.
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  • Becomes so real, but especially, father,
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  • The revelation of jesus christ in all his infinite beauty
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  • At the father's right hand.
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  • Help us, lord, to live above the vanity scene,
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  • Into the resurrection scene where everything is living,
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  • And cause us, lord, to walk in ways, lord,
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  • That we don't touch death,
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  • But in everything that we do say and think, it is living.
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  • Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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  • It's one of those habits that you picked up
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  • And, you know, i really liked it.
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  • For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
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  • Sitting under pastor's teaching so much,
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  • I understood i needed a rhema word
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  • For my particular situation.
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  • So, he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
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  • I listened to that for probably about two weeks.
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  • That was the only thing i was listening to,
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  • And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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  • I knew there's no success without that just coming up
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  • Inside of me.
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  • Pastor's so good at teaching us
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  • The identity of the old man and the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
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  • Now, after this, did i still have
  • 00:25:51.292 --> 00:25:53.695
  • The habit of, like, doing that because it was
  • 00:25:53.695 --> 00:25:56.798
  • Like a regular ritual?
  • 00:25:56.798 --> 00:25:58.133
  • Yes, but every time i remembered, "that's not me.
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  • I'm created in true righteousness
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  • And holiness in christ."
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  • I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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  • The next morning, i had no desire
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  • For cigarettes again.
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  • It was such the lord, the power of his love,
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  • What a beautiful work that jesus did,
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  • And it's all him alone.
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