Joseph Prince - What The Bible Really Says About God's Protection

July 9, 2026 | 27:29

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  • Joseph prince: the lord wants to be in the center.
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  • He says, "where two or three
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  • Are gathered together in my name,
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  • There i am," where?
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  • In the midst."
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  • When christ was crucified, the father saw fit.
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  • He was crucified not on the left or right
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  • But in the midst.
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  • When he rose from the dead, he resurrect--
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  • When he was resurrected,
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  • He appeared to the frightened disciples
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  • In the upper room in their midst.
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  • In the book of revelation, john heard a voice behind him,
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  • And john turned to see the voice,
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  • And he saw a lamb in the midst of the throne.
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  • He saw jesus.
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  • So, the lord wants--the father wants you to put jesus
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  • In the midst of your marriage.
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  • You're not meant to look at each other
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  • And draw from each other.
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  • You're meant to draw from the lord,
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  • To minister to each other.
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  • Jesus is the first
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  • In your situation, and he's the last one out.
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  • Isaiah says this: "god's nature, you shall not go out with haste
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  • Nor go by flight, for the lord will go before you.
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  • And the god of israel will be your real god."
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  • So god can be in any place, right?
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  • So he'll be in front of you to clear the way,
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  • And don't worry, the enemies come from behind you.
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  • He'll be your rear guard.
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  • Don't worry about terror. god will be your rear guard.
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  • I want you to feel, in a world that's unsafe,
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  • That when you travel or when you--
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  • Don't just think of traveling, anywhere,
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  • When you get up in the morning,
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  • Know the lord has gone ahead of you.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Of our lord and savior, jesus christ.
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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: thank god for psalms 91, amen?
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  • And every one of you have put your trust in christ,
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  • You dwell in the secret place of the most high,
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  • Under the shadow of the almighty.
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  • And of all the psalms, if you ask any jewish person,
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  • "which is the psalm of protection?"
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  • They'll tell you psalms 91, right?
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  • And psalms 91 has promises of protection
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  • For day and night.
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  • We are in a fallen world.
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  • And in a sense, you know, everything that is man-made,
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  • Even security systems that are man-made,
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  • They all can fail.
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  • But god can never fail.
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  • I said god can never fail.
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  • Hebrews 1:3, as you bring the ark out please,
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  • "will bring the brightness, jesus, god's son,
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  • Who bring the brightness of his glory."
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  • Everyone say "brightness of his glory."
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  • And now say "and the express image
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  • Of his person."
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  • Say "the express image of this person."
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  • Now, the brightness of his glory is the goal.
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  • Jesus is the brightness of god's glory.
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  • You wanna see god? look at jesus.
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  • He is the brightness, the outraying
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  • Of god's glory, okay?
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  • Now, sit back and watch this visual
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  • As the ark opens up.
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  • If you open up the panels, on the right, the sides,
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  • Go within, go without.
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  • This is what you see... the cross.
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  • So, it is the person and the work of jesus.
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  • Everything the father has in mind
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  • Is all about jesus and the finished work.
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  • It's all about jesus and the finished work.
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  • And do you know that whether israel knew this or not,
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  • They could not understand why the cross.
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  • Because the cross was not an invention
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  • During moses's time.
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  • The cross is a very cruel form of execution
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  • That the phoenicians, and later on the romans,
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  • Got it from the phoenicians, and it's quite a modern-day
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  • Compared to moses's time, okay?
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  • And that's why when david prophesied
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  • Before the cross-- the execution of the cross
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  • Was implemented, david prophesied,
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  • In david's time, 3,000 years ago,
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  • David says, "they pierced my hands and my feet."
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  • So, "pierce my hands and my feet" is crucifixion.
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  • It was a messianic psalm that jesus--
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  • Because the capital punishment at the time was stoning.
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  • But this was crucifixion.
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  • So god was prophesying his son.
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  • Let me tell you this: the cross is the place
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  • Where everything, all the attributes of god, met.
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  • The bible defines god as love, but god is just.
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  • So at the cross, you see his love.
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  • You see his justice.
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  • Because he's justice, you see jesus being punished,
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  • The son that he loved, being punished.
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  • But jesus did no sin. in him is no sin.
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  • He knew no sin. but why was he punished?
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  • Because he was carrying our sins.
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  • So you see god's judgment, god did not say, "oh, he's my son.
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  • Okay, boys will be boys, never mind,
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  • I sweep everything under the carpet."
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  • No, because he was carrying our sins,
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  • Your sins and my sins, he was punished.
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  • He was judged.
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  • He was cursed that you might be blessed.
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  • He was rejected that you might be accepted, amen.
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  • He wore a crown of thorns so that you and i today
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  • Can have the peace of god guarding our hearts and minds.
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  • Amen, people?
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  • So, at the cross, you see god's love.
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  • You see god's love, why?
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  • It's not you bearing the judgment.
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  • It's not you, your children suffering
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  • At the cross.
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  • God provided his son to be the lamb
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  • That takes away your sin and also the one
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  • That takes your punishment.
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  • So you see, god's love blending with god's justice,
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  • Righteousness, and mercy met,
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  • Mercy and truth kissed at the cross.
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  • At the cross, you see all the attributes of god
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  • Magnified, glorified,
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  • All the claims of divine holiness fully met,
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  • The law of god magnified, the ten commandments honored,
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  • And christ fulfilled the law.
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  • We're not under the law because we break the law.
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  • We're not under the law because christ fulfilled
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  • The law.
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  • That's why we're under grace, amen?
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  • Are you blessed?
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  • And the way they camp, look at the encampment
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  • Of the 12 tribes of israel.
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  • In the camp, god says three tribes to the north,
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  • Three tribes to the west, three tribes to the east,
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  • And the south part-- sorry, this is the east part.
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  • The east part has the largest number of people
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  • In the tribe of judah, so it's the longest.
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  • So look from the helicopter point of view,
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  • I do not think that the tribes knew
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  • How they were camped.
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  • But if you look from a helicopter point of view
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  • Or a mountain point of view, you see the cross.
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  • No wonder that prophet balaam,
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  • When he was hired to curse israel
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  • From the mountaintop, he looked at it and says,
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  • "how can i bless those whom god--
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  • How can i curse those whom god has blessed?"
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  • When god looks at israel, he has not beheld iniquity
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  • In israel.
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  • He did not say there's no iniquity,
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  • No sin in israel.
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  • He says, "god did not behold it," okay?
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  • Our comfort is not that there's no sin in us.
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  • Our comfort is that god does not see our sin.
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  • Why? because god sees the blood.
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  • God sees the blood of his son, hallelujah!
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  • Amen, people.
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  • So, this--and this is how it's camped.
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  • You want to see how the names are.
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  • You show them the names. these are the 12 tribes, okay?
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  • Now, back in those days, the priests are to carry this
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  • On their shoulders.
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  • David had to learn that the hard way.
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  • The priests are to carry this on their shoulders,
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  • And the bible says you put poles on the feet.
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  • By the way, everything described about the ark
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  • Is all personified.
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  • It's all, like, humanized.
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  • It's all in terms of his hands,
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  • At his, at h--sorry, at the side, at his side,
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  • Put this, at his foot, put this.
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  • Interesting, huh?
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  • And by the way, you might think
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  • That the author of burnt offering
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  • Is the first thing mentioned in the creation
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  • Of the phoenicians during moses's time,
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  • But no, god mentioned the ark first.
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  • God starts from inside, outside.
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  • Men start from the altar of burnt offering
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  • Where your sins are forgiven, and then man goes inside.
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  • It's good to see god's perspective.
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  • This is what jesus meant-- the place of protection, amen?
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  • All right, so let's follow the story.
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  • The time came when israel was about to cross
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  • The river jordan, okay?
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  • And this is what happened.
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  • Look at this, joshua 3: "and they commanded
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  • The people, saying, 'when you see the ark--'"
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  • So, obviously, the ark is traveling,
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  • The priests are carrying the ark covered with blue,
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  • And they say, "'when you see the ark
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  • Of the covenant of the lord your god,
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  • And the priests, the levites, bearing it,
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  • Then you shall set out from your place
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  • And go after it.'"
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  • Go after jesus, people!
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  • When you see the ark, put your eyes on jesus
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  • For you to see where he's going.
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  • You need to put your eyes on him, looking off unto jesus,
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  • The author and finisher of faith.
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  • Look away from men, even good men.
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  • Look away from pastor prince.
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  • Look away from everyone but jesus.
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  • Look unto him. go after him!
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  • "yet there shall be a space between you and the ark,
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  • About two thousand cubits by measure."
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  • I'm gonna tell you right now--
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  • Right now, i'm going to tell you this.
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  • This time when joshua was carrying the ark,
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  • The priests were carrying the ark during joshua's time,
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  • This is the first time israel was about to step into
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  • The promised land after a long 40 years
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  • Of wandering in the wilderness, okay?
  • 00:10:28.571 --> 00:10:31.540
  • And the first one in is the ark.
  • 00:10:31.540 --> 00:10:36.612
  • Okay, he went into the river jordan.
  • 00:10:36.612 --> 00:10:38.380
  • Do you know this place where the crossing took place?
  • 00:10:38.380 --> 00:10:42.485
  • It's the lowest place, the dead sea,
  • 00:10:42.485 --> 00:10:44.887
  • The lowest place on planet earth.
  • 00:10:44.887 --> 00:10:47.923
  • What is the meaning?
  • 00:10:47.923 --> 00:10:49.258
  • Fifteen hundred years after joshua and the priests
  • 00:10:49.258 --> 00:10:52.661
  • Carried the ark into the river jordan,
  • 00:10:52.661 --> 00:10:54.730
  • There'll come the true ark, and right at the same spot,
  • 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:58.167
  • He'll be baptized.
  • 00:10:58.167 --> 00:10:59.902
  • And then when he comes out of the waters,
  • 00:10:59.902 --> 00:11:02.004
  • God will open the heavens and god will say,
  • 00:11:02.004 --> 00:11:04.840
  • "this, people, this is my beloved son,
  • 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:08.177
  • In whom i am well pleased."
  • 00:11:08.177 --> 00:11:12.181
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:11:12.181 --> 00:11:13.516
  • There are two times-- one time it occurred to me
  • 00:11:13.516 --> 00:11:15.618
  • That there are two times god said,
  • 00:11:15.618 --> 00:11:16.952
  • "this is my beloved son, in whom i'm well pleased."
  • 00:11:16.952 --> 00:11:19.121
  • Number one, in the lowest place of israel,
  • 00:11:19.121 --> 00:11:22.858
  • The dead sea area where the crossing took place,
  • 00:11:22.858 --> 00:11:24.960
  • Where he was baptized;
  • 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:26.295
  • The other one, the highest place in israel,
  • 00:11:26.295 --> 00:11:28.664
  • Mount hermon, when he was transfigured,
  • 00:11:28.664 --> 00:11:30.933
  • The father said, "this is my beloved son."
  • 00:11:30.933 --> 00:11:32.868
  • Okay, so, "two thousand cubits,"
  • 00:11:32.868 --> 00:11:35.805
  • I believe there's gonna come a time, yarden--
  • 00:11:35.805 --> 00:11:38.974
  • Which is jordan, means a place of death--
  • 00:11:38.974 --> 00:11:41.243
  • When you go into the river jordan,
  • 00:11:41.243 --> 00:11:42.578
  • It means a place of death.
  • 00:11:42.578 --> 00:11:44.713
  • You understand, amen?
  • 00:11:44.713 --> 00:11:47.149
  • Israel went into jordan?
  • 00:11:47.149 --> 00:11:49.752
  • And then, before they went in,
  • 00:11:49.752 --> 00:11:51.620
  • The priest would carry it, and the bible says--
  • 00:11:51.620 --> 00:11:54.056
  • Let's go on, we'll come back "two thousand cubits."
  • 00:11:54.056 --> 00:11:56.058
  • "and as those who bore the ark came to the jordan,
  • 00:11:56.058 --> 00:11:58.160
  • And the feet of the priests who bore the ark
  • 00:11:58.160 --> 00:11:59.695
  • Dipped in the edge of the water,"
  • 00:11:59.695 --> 00:12:01.263
  • The moment the feet of the priests
  • 00:12:01.263 --> 00:12:04.333
  • Touched the water, "the jordan overflows
  • 00:12:04.333 --> 00:12:06.869
  • All its banks."
  • 00:12:06.869 --> 00:12:08.204
  • It's overflowing, and during this time of harvest,
  • 00:12:08.204 --> 00:12:10.072
  • All right, it's like a flood, overflowing, amen.
  • 00:12:10.072 --> 00:12:12.741
  • But the moment the priests carrying the ark--
  • 00:12:12.741 --> 00:12:14.543
  • They were the first in-- they touched the water.
  • 00:12:14.543 --> 00:12:17.012
  • See what happened verse 16?
  • 00:12:17.012 --> 00:12:18.781
  • "the waters which came down from upstream,"
  • 00:12:18.781 --> 00:12:21.450
  • Because it's the lowest place, right, "stood still and rose
  • 00:12:21.450 --> 00:12:25.187
  • In a heap, very far away at adam."
  • 00:12:25.187 --> 00:12:28.290
  • Thirty miles away, "the city that is beside zaritan."
  • 00:12:28.290 --> 00:12:33.462
  • What is the meaning?
  • 00:12:33.462 --> 00:12:34.797
  • The ark, a picture of jesus, is the first one to go
  • 00:12:34.797 --> 00:12:38.000
  • Into the rivers of death.
  • 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.437
  • In fact, yar-den, "yar" means going down,
  • 00:12:41.437 --> 00:12:43.739
  • "den" means judgment.
  • 00:12:43.739 --> 00:12:45.608
  • He went down into judgment for all of us, okay?
  • 00:12:45.608 --> 00:12:50.579
  • And god slapped the river jordan...all the way,
  • 00:12:50.579 --> 00:12:53.749
  • Thirty miles, and the water stood in a heap.
  • 00:12:53.749 --> 00:12:57.853
  • No wonder the people of jericho were so afraid.
  • 00:12:57.853 --> 00:13:01.824
  • The giants in jericho were afraid.
  • 00:13:01.824 --> 00:13:04.994
  • I mean, everyone can see the heap.
  • 00:13:04.994 --> 00:13:07.730
  • And god slapped back the judgment.
  • 00:13:07.730 --> 00:13:09.231
  • Don't forget yarden, den means judgment.
  • 00:13:09.231 --> 00:13:11.033
  • God slapped back the judgment to the city of what?
  • 00:13:11.033 --> 00:13:13.702
  • At adam, a city called adam.
  • 00:13:13.702 --> 00:13:15.304
  • But why did god slap back the judgment all the way
  • 00:13:15.304 --> 00:13:17.573
  • To the city of adam?
  • 00:13:17.573 --> 00:13:20.476
  • God is saying everything that came from adam--
  • 00:13:20.476 --> 00:13:23.145
  • The death, the destruction, the judgment--
  • 00:13:23.145 --> 00:13:27.116
  • God slapped back at the cross and jesus went in.
  • 00:13:27.116 --> 00:13:29.718
  • You know, by the time israel-- 2,000 cubits away, right?
  • 00:13:29.718 --> 00:13:31.921
  • 2,000--cubits is like this measurement...
  • 00:13:31.921 --> 00:13:33.455
  • One cubit is from your elbow to your longest finger.
  • 00:13:33.455 --> 00:13:37.293
  • That's the measure of 1 cubit.
  • 00:13:37.293 --> 00:13:39.028
  • Two thousand cubits away, israel was far away.
  • 00:13:39.028 --> 00:13:41.196
  • Israel never touched the water, why?
  • 00:13:41.196 --> 00:13:43.832
  • Because the water was open already.
  • 00:13:43.832 --> 00:13:46.502
  • The ark went in, the water was open.
  • 00:13:46.502 --> 00:13:49.104
  • So the waters that went down to the sea of arabah,
  • 00:13:49.104 --> 00:13:51.473
  • Let's drop down to 6:17, go with 17.
  • 00:13:51.473 --> 00:13:55.511
  • "then the priests who bore
  • 00:13:55.511 --> 00:13:56.845
  • The ark of the covenant of the lord
  • 00:13:56.845 --> 00:13:58.180
  • Stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the jordan;
  • 00:13:58.180 --> 00:14:00.616
  • And all israel crossed over on dry ground."
  • 00:14:00.616 --> 00:14:03.886
  • Can you see that?
  • 00:14:03.886 --> 00:14:05.354
  • Until all the people-- say, "all the people"--
  • 00:14:05.354 --> 00:14:08.324
  • Had crossed completely over the jordan,
  • 00:14:08.324 --> 00:14:12.261
  • Not one man left behind, no one left behind.
  • 00:14:12.261 --> 00:14:19.768
  • I believe in eternal security because when jesus saves,
  • 00:14:19.768 --> 00:14:22.805
  • He saves eternally, not one left behind.
  • 00:14:22.805 --> 00:14:26.842
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:14:26.842 --> 00:14:28.610
  • Amen? not one left behind.
  • 00:14:28.610 --> 00:14:30.512
  • I love the old king james, all right, passed clean over.
  • 00:14:30.512 --> 00:14:34.883
  • Completely over jordan, and they all walk on dry ground, amen?
  • 00:14:34.883 --> 00:14:40.489
  • So, the ark--by the way, the priest was standing there
  • 00:14:40.489 --> 00:14:42.624
  • In the center of the river until all the people passed.
  • 00:14:42.624 --> 00:14:45.594
  • That tells us that jesus is the first in your situation,
  • 00:14:45.594 --> 00:14:50.299
  • And he's the last one out.
  • 00:14:50.299 --> 00:14:51.734
  • Now, when the ark is traveling--
  • 00:14:51.734 --> 00:14:53.502
  • Just now you saw the cross, right?
  • 00:14:53.502 --> 00:14:54.837
  • The way that the encampment-- where is the ark?
  • 00:14:54.837 --> 00:14:56.839
  • In the center, show them the encampment again.
  • 00:14:56.839 --> 00:14:59.074
  • Where's the ark?
  • 00:14:59.074 --> 00:15:00.409
  • In the center, where the cloud is,
  • 00:15:00.409 --> 00:15:01.777
  • In the holy of holies.
  • 00:15:01.777 --> 00:15:03.112
  • That's where the tabernacle was.
  • 00:15:03.112 --> 00:15:04.880
  • So, the lord wants to be in the center.
  • 00:15:04.880 --> 00:15:06.215
  • He says, "where two or three
  • 00:15:06.215 --> 00:15:09.051
  • Are gathered together in my name,
  • 00:15:09.051 --> 00:15:10.586
  • There i am," where?
  • 00:15:10.586 --> 00:15:12.054
  • In the midst."
  • 00:15:12.054 --> 00:15:14.189
  • When christ was crucified, the father saw fit.
  • 00:15:14.189 --> 00:15:16.859
  • He was crucified not on the left or right
  • 00:15:16.859 --> 00:15:18.861
  • But in the midst.
  • 00:15:18.861 --> 00:15:21.163
  • When he rose from the dead, he resurrect--
  • 00:15:21.163 --> 00:15:24.767
  • When he was resurrected,
  • 00:15:24.767 --> 00:15:26.101
  • He appeared to the frightened disciples
  • 00:15:26.101 --> 00:15:28.237
  • In the upper room in their midst.
  • 00:15:28.237 --> 00:15:32.141
  • In the book of revelation, john heard a voice behind him,
  • 00:15:32.141 --> 00:15:35.077
  • And john turned to see the voice,
  • 00:15:35.077 --> 00:15:36.712
  • And he saw a lamb in the midst of the throne.
  • 00:15:36.712 --> 00:15:40.616
  • He saw jesus.
  • 00:15:40.616 --> 00:15:42.584
  • So, the lord wants--the father wants you to put jesus
  • 00:15:42.584 --> 00:15:46.588
  • In the midst of your marriage.
  • 00:15:46.588 --> 00:15:50.793
  • You're not meant to look at each other
  • 00:15:50.793 --> 00:15:52.795
  • And draw from each other.
  • 00:15:52.795 --> 00:15:54.563
  • You're meant to draw from the lord,
  • 00:15:54.563 --> 00:15:56.298
  • To minister to each other, amen.
  • 00:15:56.298 --> 00:15:59.034
  • We're always self-centered.
  • 00:15:59.034 --> 00:16:00.636
  • "i am me, i am this, i am that, i am this, i'm that."
  • 00:16:00.636 --> 00:16:03.472
  • Forget yourself. you got jesus.
  • 00:16:03.472 --> 00:16:06.075
  • He's your supply. amen, you got no more excuse.
  • 00:16:06.075 --> 00:16:11.480
  • Jesus is the third party in your marriage, amen?
  • 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.150
  • Put jesus in the center of your studies.
  • 00:16:15.150 --> 00:16:16.685
  • Put jesus in the center of your career.
  • 00:16:16.685 --> 00:16:18.787
  • Put jesus in the center,
  • 00:16:18.787 --> 00:16:20.389
  • And everything will be held together, amen?
  • 00:16:20.389 --> 00:16:23.492
  • When they travel, you know, they travel together,
  • 00:16:23.492 --> 00:16:25.294
  • All in one line, right, in the desert,
  • 00:16:25.294 --> 00:16:26.962
  • You know where's the ark?
  • 00:16:26.962 --> 00:16:28.297
  • In the center.
  • 00:16:28.297 --> 00:16:29.631
  • But whenever there's trouble, whenever there's something,
  • 00:16:29.631 --> 00:16:33.268
  • All right, the ark will go in front.
  • 00:16:33.268 --> 00:16:35.971
  • The ark will be the first one in.
  • 00:16:35.971 --> 00:16:38.707
  • But the bible says, the ark will go travel
  • 00:16:38.707 --> 00:16:40.642
  • Three days' journey, long before the people came,
  • 00:16:40.642 --> 00:16:43.612
  • To seek a resting place for them.
  • 00:16:43.612 --> 00:16:47.616
  • So, on your part, you put him in the center.
  • 00:16:47.616 --> 00:16:50.018
  • On his part, he will go ahead of you
  • 00:16:50.018 --> 00:16:52.054
  • And prepare the way.
  • 00:16:52.054 --> 00:16:53.388
  • Give them isaiah.
  • 00:16:53.388 --> 00:16:54.723
  • Isaiah says this-- in god's nature:
  • 00:16:54.723 --> 00:16:56.191
  • "you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight,
  • 00:16:56.191 --> 00:16:58.994
  • For the lord will go before you,
  • 00:16:58.994 --> 00:17:02.164
  • And the god of israel will be your rear guard."
  • 00:17:02.164 --> 00:17:07.102
  • So god can be in any place, right?
  • 00:17:07.102 --> 00:17:09.371
  • So he'll be in front of you to clear the way,
  • 00:17:09.371 --> 00:17:12.141
  • And don't worry, the enemies come from behind you.
  • 00:17:12.141 --> 00:17:14.443
  • He'll be your rear guard.
  • 00:17:14.443 --> 00:17:17.613
  • Don't worry about terror.
  • 00:17:17.613 --> 00:17:19.448
  • God will be your rear guard.
  • 00:17:19.448 --> 00:17:22.050
  • He'll go ahead of you, and that's the thing:
  • 00:17:22.050 --> 00:17:24.019
  • Sometimes in my human thinking, in my natural thinking,
  • 00:17:24.019 --> 00:17:28.423
  • I tell myself, you know, people don't thank god
  • 00:17:28.423 --> 00:17:32.361
  • Until they see god deliver them.
  • 00:17:32.361 --> 00:17:33.862
  • For example, you are sick, the doctor says you have
  • 00:17:33.862 --> 00:17:36.198
  • This condition on x-ray, and then you pray to god,
  • 00:17:36.198 --> 00:17:38.300
  • God heals you, you go back to the doctor,
  • 00:17:38.300 --> 00:17:39.968
  • Doctor says, "i can't find your condition,"
  • 00:17:39.968 --> 00:17:41.837
  • Now you praise god, right?
  • 00:17:41.837 --> 00:17:44.506
  • But sometimes a condition is trying to come to you
  • 00:17:44.506 --> 00:17:46.341
  • Like an entity, an evil spirit, and god says no.
  • 00:17:46.341 --> 00:17:49.278
  • You never knew it, so you don't give god thanks.
  • 00:17:49.278 --> 00:17:51.980
  • So god goes ahead of you, and many times he made
  • 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:53.882
  • The crooked places straight.
  • 00:17:53.882 --> 00:17:55.951
  • But you don't give him thanks
  • 00:17:55.951 --> 00:17:57.286
  • Because, for you, it's smooth sailing.
  • 00:17:57.286 --> 00:17:58.987
  • But actually the enemy had devices.
  • 00:17:58.987 --> 00:18:01.356
  • You--in fact, if the truth was known,
  • 00:18:01.356 --> 00:18:02.824
  • We'll thank god more than we know.
  • 00:18:02.824 --> 00:18:05.694
  • God is under-thanked and we are under-grateful,
  • 00:18:05.694 --> 00:18:09.965
  • I'll tell you that.
  • 00:18:09.965 --> 00:18:11.300
  • Because we only thank god-- sometimes, you know,
  • 00:18:11.300 --> 00:18:12.634
  • It's better for god to leave all the obstacles
  • 00:18:12.634 --> 00:18:14.069
  • In my human way of thinking.
  • 00:18:14.069 --> 00:18:16.271
  • So that, you face the obstacle,
  • 00:18:16.271 --> 00:18:18.373
  • You ask god to help you, god straightened the way,
  • 00:18:18.373 --> 00:18:20.008
  • Now you give him thanks.
  • 00:18:20.008 --> 00:18:21.743
  • But god is so merciful he goes ahead of you.
  • 00:18:21.743 --> 00:18:24.112
  • I remember when jessica was about three or four years old,
  • 00:18:24.112 --> 00:18:28.016
  • Her first time to disneyland,
  • 00:18:28.016 --> 00:18:29.618
  • You know, her eyes were like saucers.
  • 00:18:29.618 --> 00:18:31.553
  • She looked at all the-- the first ride we took
  • 00:18:31.553 --> 00:18:34.423
  • Was exactly the saucers,
  • 00:18:34.423 --> 00:18:35.757
  • The cup and, you know, the spinning cup?
  • 00:18:35.757 --> 00:18:38.126
  • And after one experience, she was like,
  • 00:18:38.126 --> 00:18:39.661
  • "whoa, what did i get myself into?"
  • 00:18:39.661 --> 00:18:42.397
  • So i saw the bit of-- the tinge of fear in her eyes,
  • 00:18:42.397 --> 00:18:46.235
  • And she was only a young girl, right?
  • 00:18:46.235 --> 00:18:47.970
  • This can be quite daunting, you know,
  • 00:18:47.970 --> 00:18:49.605
  • To be at a big playground with all kinds of rides.
  • 00:18:49.605 --> 00:18:52.541
  • So i told my wife, "i'll take the rides first.
  • 00:18:52.541 --> 00:18:56.044
  • I'll take the rides first."
  • 00:18:56.044 --> 00:18:57.379
  • So i'll take the rides first, and i'll see, like,
  • 00:18:57.379 --> 00:18:59.114
  • "ah, she will like this.
  • 00:18:59.114 --> 00:19:00.449
  • This is very cute for her at her level, her age,
  • 00:19:00.449 --> 00:19:03.051
  • All right?
  • 00:19:03.051 --> 00:19:04.386
  • Or this ride is no good, this is frightening.
  • 00:19:04.386 --> 00:19:06.221
  • This is scary," you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:19:06.221 --> 00:19:08.123
  • So, daddy will go first...
  • 00:19:08.123 --> 00:19:11.526
  • To clear the way for her.
  • 00:19:11.526 --> 00:19:13.362
  • The lord will go before you, amen?
  • 00:19:13.362 --> 00:19:16.531
  • And if you're afraid that people will come and snatch up
  • 00:19:16.531 --> 00:19:19.468
  • Something from the back,
  • 00:19:19.468 --> 00:19:20.802
  • You know, they come from behind you, you do not know.
  • 00:19:20.802 --> 00:19:22.871
  • If not--you look here, even you delay for a while,
  • 00:19:22.871 --> 00:19:25.974
  • Somebody come up behind you and grab first, you know?
  • 00:19:25.974 --> 00:19:28.110
  • So you must always grab first before other people grab,
  • 00:19:28.110 --> 00:19:30.178
  • You know?
  • 00:19:30.178 --> 00:19:31.513
  • You know, you never know they come from behind
  • 00:19:31.513 --> 00:19:32.848
  • Or they come from behind.
  • 00:19:32.848 --> 00:19:34.316
  • And it's so sad because we are brought up in this,
  • 00:19:34.316 --> 00:19:36.485
  • In this culture of fear,
  • 00:19:36.485 --> 00:19:38.754
  • Scarcity, not enough, grab-for-yourself.
  • 00:19:38.754 --> 00:19:42.758
  • And the lord is saying, "don't worry
  • 00:19:42.758 --> 00:19:44.092
  • About what comes from behind."
  • 00:19:44.092 --> 00:19:45.427
  • When you're driving, don't look at the rearview mirror
  • 00:19:45.427 --> 00:19:47.429
  • All the time.
  • 00:19:47.429 --> 00:19:48.864
  • If they hit you, they will pay.
  • 00:19:48.864 --> 00:19:51.633
  • Your job is to focus on the front,
  • 00:19:51.633 --> 00:19:53.001
  • That's why your windscreen is this big...
  • 00:19:53.001 --> 00:19:56.338
  • And your rearview mirror is this big...
  • 00:19:56.338 --> 00:19:58.573
  • You are meant to look forward, not backwards, okay?
  • 00:19:58.573 --> 00:20:02.110
  • You're meant to go ahead. god will be your rear guard.
  • 00:20:02.110 --> 00:20:06.014
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:20:06.014 --> 00:20:07.382
  • He'll go before you. let me illustrate.
  • 00:20:07.382 --> 00:20:10.352
  • When the children of israel-- many of you watched the movie
  • 00:20:10.352 --> 00:20:12.521
  • "ten commandments," right?
  • 00:20:12.521 --> 00:20:13.855
  • They all came to the...red sea,
  • 00:20:13.855 --> 00:20:16.391
  • And then, lo and behold, behind them they saw,
  • 00:20:16.391 --> 00:20:19.027
  • Like, clouds of dust as the chariots of egypt
  • 00:20:19.027 --> 00:20:21.797
  • Was racing towards them.
  • 00:20:21.797 --> 00:20:23.432
  • And now they're caught in between a rock
  • 00:20:23.432 --> 00:20:25.167
  • And a hard place, and they cried out to moses,
  • 00:20:25.167 --> 00:20:26.835
  • "did you bring us out here to die?
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  • Moses, it's your fault. now they'll kill us.
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  • In front of us is the sea."
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  • And before god opened the sea, what happened?
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  • Read exodus 14: "and the angel of god--"
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  • Capital a.
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  • Whenever it says "the angel of god,"
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  • It's referring to jesus.
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  • Now, he's not an angel, jesus is god,
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  • But the word "angel" is a generic term
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  • For representative of god.
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  • This is his pre-incarnate form.
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  • "the angel of god, who went before
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  • The camp of israel, moved and went behind them;
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  • And the pillar of cloud went from before them
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  • And stood behind them."
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  • Initially it was leading them in front,
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  • And now the enemy's coming from behind.
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  • Watch this...
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  • It went behind.
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  • To protect them from behind.
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  • God is the first one leading them,
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  • And he's the last one protecting them.
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  • Can you see that?
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  • I want you to feel in a world that is unsafe,
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  • That when you travel or when you--
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  • Don't just think of traveling.
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  • Anywhere, when you get up in the morning,
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  • Know the lord has gone ahead of you.
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  • He's checked out the place.
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  • He says, "son, come on."
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  • Jesus saying to his sheep-- he's a good shepherd, right?
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  • And what did he say to the sheep?
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  • "when he brings out his own sheep,
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  • He goes before them; and the sheep follow him,
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  • For they know his voice."
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  • When he brings out his own sheep,
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  • He goes before them.
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  • He goes before them, he leads them.
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  • And the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
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  • By the way, i'm reminded,
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  • Do you know that the ark of noah, noah's boat?
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  • You know, when god told them to come in--look at this,
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  • Genesis: "the lord said to noah, 'come into the ark,"' come into.
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  • God didn't say, "go into the ark,"
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  • Like god is outside, telling them, "go into the ark."
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  • No, god was the first one in
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  • And god says, "come into the ark."
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  • When after the floods and all that,
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  • After the ark was floating, all right,
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  • And finally came to a rest in ararat, the--
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  • They waited for some more time for the dry--
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  • For the land to become dry, god said in the next chapter,
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  • "go out of the ark."
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  • God was the last one out for god to say,
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  • "go out of the ark."
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  • First one in, last one out.
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  • Have you learned something today?
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  • Praise the lord. give him praise.
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  • Hallelujah, thank you, jesus, amen.
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  • Joseph prince: lift your hands before the lord.
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  • There is no time barrier.
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  • There's no distance with god.
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  • God is a god outside time and space,
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  • And the blessing will go into the--
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  • This coming week and prepare the way.
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  • The lord is going before you into your monday,
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  • Into your tuesday, all throughout this week,
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  • Making the crooked places straight,
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  • Removing all the obstacles the enemy has set against you,
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  • Against your family.
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  • For the lord himself will keep you,
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  • Protect you through his blood,
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  • You and your loved ones throughout this week,
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  • From every sickness, from terror,
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  • From all the powers of darkness,
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  • And from the evil one.
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  • The lord himself keeps you and your loved ones safe,
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  • Secure, underneath the shadow of the most high.
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  • Underneath the wings of the shaddai,
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  • You are kept safe in the secret place,
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  • The place where the blood has been shed.
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  • You are safe. the lord goes before you.
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  • You are safe. feel safe.
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  • Feel safe, feel safe as you face this week.
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  • The lord has gone ahead of you.
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  • Don't be afraid of what comes behind you.
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  • The lord is also your rear guard.
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  • He will guide you from behind.
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  • Don't worry about unforeseen problems
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  • And challenges that come before you.
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  • God will put to naught the arrows that fly by day
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  • And the terror by night.
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  • And all the people said, amen. god bless you.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • I knew there's no success without that just coming up
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  • Inside of me.
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  • Pastor is so good in 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 wanna smoke.
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  • Now, after this, did i still have the desi--
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  • The habit of, like, doing that--
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  • Because it was, like, a regular ritual.
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  • 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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  • 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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