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Joseph Prince - The Voice You Need To Stop Agreeing With

December 5, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Voice You Need To Stop Agreeing With | December 5, 2025

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Joseph prince: the devil will come to you and say,
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"how can you act like god hears your prayer?
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How can you--look at what you just did yesterday.
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Look at what you thought about just now.
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How can you act like a righteous man?
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You are a hypocrite!"
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When, actually, hypocrisy is what?
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Pretending to be what you are not.
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You are righteous, right?
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And when you act righteous and act bold--
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The bible says the righteous are bold as a lion.
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When you act righteous and you are bold,
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The devil calls you a hypocrite.
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It's the opposite.
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This is walking uprightly-- believing that you are loved;
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Believing that all your sins are forgiven;
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Believing that, when you pray, you are so near to god;
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And that, when you pray, it's as if jesus is praying.
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That's praying in jesus's name.
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And the reason you pray is not to get close.
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You pray because you are close.
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You are taking advantage of your position of influence,
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Even with god, your father, amen?
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You're taking your place as sons and daughters when you pray.
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What are you?
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You are now the righteousness of god in christ, right?
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And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: the whole world is full of hypocrites, okay?
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And i want to touch on that as well today
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Because i think that there's something about this hypocrisy
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That evokes the greatest response from jesus
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Of all the sins that jesus publicly rebukes and exposes
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In the gospels.
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It is not--you know, you can never find,
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You can never read anywhere
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He rebuked the tax collectors, the social outcasts,
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The prostitutes of his day.
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You cannot find anywhere in the gospels
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That he rebuked them.
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But he rebuked the pharisees, the self-righteous ones.
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And we're about to see why that that's so in our lord.
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And when you find it, you will see how lovely he is.
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It's because he loved them.
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I had the privilege of showing for the very first time
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A video that i've been preparing for the longest time
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To show all of you
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Because it's based on the revelation that god gave me
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Many years ago in israel.
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And it's about jesus at the mount of beatitudes.
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And right after the mount of beatitudes,
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His preaching of the sermon on the mount,
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He cleansed the leper.
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But before that, i just want to share
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The background of this video.
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I feel like this video portrays, to a certain extent,
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The loveliness of our lord jesus christ, amen.
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So one of my favorite places,
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Actually, is the mount of beatitudes.
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You can see a picture of the mount of beatitudes here.
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And this is the place where-- this is confirmed--
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The exact location, okay?
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And there are studies along these lines and all that.
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And not only that, it is almost acoustically perfect.
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You see where the banana plantation is?
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That banana plantation down there?
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That is where the people would have been,
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The multitudes.
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And you see where these rocks are?
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That's where jesus would have seated.
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Now, he might have sat on one of these rocks.
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There are not too many rocks there in this location.
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But he might have sat on one of--
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The bible says he went up a mountain
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And he sat down, and then he preached
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To the people.
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"blessed are the poor in spirit,
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For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are the peacemakers," right?
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Up there on that mount. this is the place.
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And it's acoustically almost perfect
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Because there was a study done by a university in america.
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They studied this whole topography in this place,
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And they found that it's acoustically almost perfect.
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So jesus did not need to have a microphone.
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His father has prepared the place for him.
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Isn't that amazing, amen?
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And it's very interesting that when jesus
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Cleansed the leper,
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The bible tells us that-- we all know that leprosy is
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A type of sin, right?
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Leprosy is something that, when you contract it,
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You are supposed to be out of the camp.
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You are to live in a place far away.
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So the bible says that, after jesus preached,
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He cleansed the leper.
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Obviously, the leper is not among the multitude, right?
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He cannot be among the multitude.
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He will be stoned to death.
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Because under the law, you touch a leper--
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The leper is considered unclean, a type of sin.
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And when you touch the leper, you become unclean.
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Now the next miracle after he cleansed the leper,
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The bible says jesus entered capernaum.
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So it's exactly this way.
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Facing the people, he would have gone this way.
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He didn't go down to the people.
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For the longest time, i thought he went down to the multitude.
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And yet, the chapter 8,
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After he finishes the sermon on the mount,
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Chapter 8 opens by saying,
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"when jesus finished the sermon--
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When jesus came down the mountain,
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The multitudes followed him."
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I always thought he came down this way, where the people were.
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But if he came down that way, then that phrase--
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"the multitudes followed him"-- doesn't make sense.
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Because he's going towards them, right?
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If i go towards you, you cannot follow me, right?
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But if i go another way, that's when you follow me.
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So he must have gone on this way.
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So he went on this way,
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And i was walking this way, and all of a sudden,
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The lord arrested me.
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I saw a huge rock on the side, or a pile of rocks on the side,
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And there were other slabs of stone
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All across the area-- strewn across the area.
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And the lord began to give me an inner vision
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And a beautiful story of the leper.
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And i began to see that the leper
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Could have hidden under one of these rocks.
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So i looked at the rock here,
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And i looked at where jesus would have stood up here,
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And i began to realize that he would have seen jesus
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Without the multitudes seeing him.
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He could have heard jesus without the multitudes,
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You know, detecting him.
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So i wondered, what did he hear during that time?
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Which part of the sermon on the mount
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Do you reckon he heard?
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Maybe he heard jesus say, "look at the birds of the air.
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For they sow not, neither do they reap,
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Yet your heavenly father takes care of them.
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Are you not of more value than the birds?"
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And i could see a bird come, right, to where his rock was,
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Where he was hiding, and chirping.
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Almost like telling him, "why are you so worried?
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You are of more value than i am, and yet god feeds me.
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He will take care of you," right?
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So just imagine a leper not being touched
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For the longest time.
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We don't know how long.
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He probably has loved ones,
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A baby that has grown a few years or whatever,
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But you know, he has never touched them.
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And he has never been touched.
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I think i'll leave the story to the video.
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And also, when we did this video,
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I was wanting to really present
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The beauty of my lord-- the way i saw him,
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The way he revealed it to me, the holy spirit showed me
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About jesus in that story-- and it confirmed everything.
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Topography must be accurate.
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In other words, jesus facing the people and going this way,
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The multitudes will follow him.
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He healed the leper before the multitudes came.
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In other words, the multitudes did not see a leper.
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They saw a cleansed man.
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There's no need to stone him, right?
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And not only that, this location goes straight to capernaum,
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And the next miracle was the centurion servant
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Being healed in capernaum.
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So everything is in line.
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So sit back, dim the lights, enjoy.
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♪♪♪
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Jesus: blessed are the poor in spirit,
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For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
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For they shall be filled.
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.
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Blessed are the peacemakers,
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For they shall be called sons of god.
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No one can serve two masters,
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For either he will hate the one and love the other,
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Or else he will be loyal to the one
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And despise the other.
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You cannot serve god and mammon.
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Therefore, i say to you, do not worry about your life,
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What you will eat or what you will drink,
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Nor about your body, what you will put on.
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Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap
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Nor gather into barns,
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Yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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Are you not of more value than they?
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Which of you by worrying can add 1 cubit to his stature?
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So why do you worry about clothing?
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
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They neither toil nor spin.
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And yet i say to you that even solomon
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In all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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Boy: papa, papa!
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[leper crying]
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Boy: papa.
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Jesus: --o ye of little faith.
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[crying]
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Jesus: and the rain descended, the floods came,
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And the winds blew and beat on that house,
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And it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
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♪♪♪
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Leper: lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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Jesus: i am willing. be cleansed.
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♪♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Joseph prince: you like the last part?
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The heart shape?
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I thought of putting that down
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Because it's like a heavenly wink,
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Amen, from god.
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You know, the bible says in psalms 147:
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"he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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He counts the number of the stars;
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He calls them all by name."
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The challenge we have today, like what i said earlier,
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Is that we don't understand why hypocrisy is such a sin
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That jesus is angry with.
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I asked the lord one time.
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I said, "lord, why do you hate hypocrisy so much?"
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Of all the sins, like i said just now, he didn't even rebuke
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Or condemn the prostitutes, the tax collectors,
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The social outcasts.
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But he was very strong against hypocrisy.
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The religious leaders of his day, the pharisees,
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Had this self-righteous attitude and jesus was angry with that.
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So he is the same yesterday, today, and forever, right?
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So i asked the lord one time, i said, "why are you so strong
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Against hypocrisy?" a number of years ago.
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And you know what he said to me?
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"because i love them. i love the people."
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Because he loved the pharisees.
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And yet, i couldn't fully understand.
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He says that "you will never know that you are loved
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Until you know that i know all about you
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And i still love you."
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Because when you are playing
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The part of a hypocrite, all right?
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Now, i looked up the dictionary definition of "hypocrisy."
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I know what it means,
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But just to see what the dictionary says.
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It says "play acting."
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Pretending to be what you are not, okay?
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Play acting.
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You are not that character,
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But you are play acting that character.
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In other words, you are pretending to be
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What you are not.
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Are you listening?
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Do you remember the story of the woman at the well?
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Jesus gently exposed her in her sins.
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Why?
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Well, because he wanted her to feel loved.
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Every time you pretend to be something you are not,
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You cannot feel loved.
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Are you all with me so far?
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As long as you pretend to be what you are not,
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You cannot feel the love of god.
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And the love of god is the only thing
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That will cast out your fear and transform you, amen.
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Hypocrisy is pretending to be what you are not.
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There's a woman of canaan. say "canaan."
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Jesus went up to the north near the seacoast,
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Near the lebanon area where tyre and sidon was,
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All right?
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So here we have a situation.
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The woman came pretending that she's a jew,
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Calling him by the jewish title,
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"son of david, have mercy on me."
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God cannot bless you on a pretense.
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The holy spirit is called the spirit of truth.
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He bears witness with the truth.
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So the bible says the lord answered her not a word.
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Not a word!
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And she came after the lord, and the disciple says,
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"lord, please send her away.
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She's troubling us."
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And she kept on telling the lord, "son of david,
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Son of david," and then the lord said this:
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"i'm not sent but to the lost sheep
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Of the house of israel."
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You heard that?
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"i am not sent but to the lost sheep
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Of the house of israel."
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Because at that point in time, in his earthly walk,
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He came for israel.
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So the woman is pretending and she came after,
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And, you know, kept on pursuing jesus,
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And disciples, "send her away,"
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And the lord says, "i'm not sent but to the lost sheep
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Of the house of israel."
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The lord showed me this.
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If he answered a word to her, you know what it will be?
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A rebuke.
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Because a canaanite, based on her own title,
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She has no title to the lord.
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So the only thing the lord can say to her is what?
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Condemnation and rebuke.
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It was the mercy of the lord he didn't say a word.
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Love the lord.
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Then he says, "i'm not sent but to the lost sheep
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Of the house of israel."
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Now she's changed. she dropped the "son of david."
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She's desperate. she dropped the "son of david."
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She stopped pretending and says, "lord!"
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Now, everyone can claim him as lord.
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And the lord turned to her.
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It wasn't time to help the gentiles.
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It wasn't the gentiles' time.
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But the lord gave her a loophole.
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The lord says, "it's not right to take the children's bread."
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Now i'm going to tell you something, okay?
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If you lived during the time of jesus
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And in the old testament,
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You know what the jews called us--call us?
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Dogs. what a compliment.
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We all--jews call us dogs, okay?
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Gentiles were known as dogs.
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But jesus--this is what jesus said to her.
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Now, jesus turned to her and said,
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"it's not right to take the children's bread,
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Israel's bread, and to give it to the puppies."
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Literally, it's not "dogs" in your bible.
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King james says "dogs."
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New king james says "little dogs."
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It's the diminutive term of the word "dog,"
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Which is a puppy.
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"it's not right--" jesus gave a picture,
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A domestic picture, to help her.
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"it's not right to take israel's bread,
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The children's bread, and to give it to puppies."
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You see how low she-- how humble does she want to get?
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Because right now, she has no title to him.
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So she dropped her position, her pretend position as a jew.
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And then she went low and says, "lord, help me."
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Then she went low and says, "yes, i agree.
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I'll take my place as a puppy.
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But even the puppies eat the crumbs that fall
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From the master's table."
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Then jesus turned around to her, "woman, great is your faith.
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For this saying, go your way.
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The devil has gone out of your daughter," amen.
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She went back, found her daughter
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Lying completely well, peaceful.
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The demon is out. so what happened here?
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Jesus gave her a loophole, all right?
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But she says, "yes, i'm willing to take my place.
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I'm willing to be real. i'm willing to take my place."
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And the lord says, "that's it. you got it."
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You see, in essence, he's telling his disciples,
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"look, i cannot bless her," when he didn't say a word
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And they said, "send her away, send her away."
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The lord is saying--this is what the lord showed me.
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He's, in essence, telling her-- telling them, the disciples,
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"i cannot bless her on a pretense,
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But neither can i send her away without a blessing."
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So he gave her a loophole.
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What i'm saying, church, is this.
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We cannot pretend to be what we are not.
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That's hypocrisy. can you understand that?
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Look up here.
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When you're a sinner, don't pretend to be righteous.
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Now that you are saved, what are you?
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You are now the righteousness of god in christ, right?
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Now what's an abomination now?
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For you to condemn the righteous.
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Even it's self-condemnation. are you listening?
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So the devil will come to you and say,
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"how can you act like god hears your prayer?
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How can you--look at what you just did yesterday.
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Look at what you thought about just now.
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How can you act like a righteous man?
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You're a hypocrite!"
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When, actually, hypocrisy is what?
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Pretending to be what you are not.
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You are righteous, right?
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And when you act righteous and act bold--
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The bible says the righteous are bold as a lion.
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When you act righteous and you are bold,
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The devil calls you a hypocrite.
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It's the opposite. god hates self-righteousness.
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This is walking uprightly-- believing that you are loved;
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Believing that all your sins are forgiven;
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Believing that, when you pray, you are so near to god;
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And that when you pray, it's as if jesus is praying.
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That's praying in jesus's name.
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And the reason you pray is not to get close.
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You pray because you are close.
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You are taking advantage of your position of influence
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Even with god, your father, amen?
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You're taking your place as sons and daughters
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When you pray.
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When you worship, you are declaring your love
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And your worth of the one you're worshiping
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Because you are close to him.
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You're closer than daniel. you're closer than elijah.
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You're closer than david. you're closer than elisha.
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You're closer than moses. you're closer than jonah.
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You're closer than anyone in the old testament.
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And that's why jesus says that the least in the kingdom of god
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Is greater than john the baptist,
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Who is the greatest of all the prophets.
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Your position is greater than any prophet
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In the old testament.
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You're a son; they are servants.
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You're sons of god.
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Use your position right now, amen?
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Joseph prince: thank you, lord jesus.
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Lift your hands all across this place
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And everywhere that's watching this right now.
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Sons and daughters of the most high god,
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We are developing, we are growing, yes.
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We are learning to be practically holy, victorious.
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We're the righteousness of god himself in christ.
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So when you pray, don't feel that distance.
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That's hypocritical. that's an abomination.
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When you pray, you say, "father," know that you are
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So close.
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Feel his embrace.
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When you pray, "father," know that it's a child requesting,
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Not a servant asking god.
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Not even a prophet in the old testament asking god.
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You don't have the same relationship.
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And know that you are loved with the same love
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That the father loves jesus with, amen.
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From this day forth, will you do that?
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The lord bless you this coming week
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And your children.
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The lord bless you and your loved ones.
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His beautiful, radiant countenance, upon you,
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Smile on you throughout this week
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His shalom, peace, wellness, and health
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In every area of your life, in jesus's name.
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And all the people said amen. god bless you.
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Joseph Prince - The Voice You Need To Stop Agreeing With

December 5, 2025 | 29:45

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