Joseph Prince - What Happens When You Stop Trying to Get Healed

December 9, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - What Happens When You Stop Trying to Get Healed | December 9, 2025
  • Joseph prince: for you, child of god,
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  • You have a shepherd, amen?
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  • You have a father who watches over you.
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  • When you rest, god works.
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  • But if you want to work, amen, god rests.
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  • You choose, amen.
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  • So when god works, people get healed, hallelujah.
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  • Healing is god working.
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  • I repeat: healing is the father working, amen.
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  • And jesus says, "and i work also.
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  • When i see my father healing, i flow with him.
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  • I work also."
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  • And remember this: when god works,
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  • Man should cease, man should rest.
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  • And that's what the bible says.
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  • Our rest today, in hebrews 4,
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  • "and let us labor therefore to enter that rest."
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: now let's look at john chapter 5:
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  • "after this there was a feast of the jews,
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  • And jesus went up to jerusalem.
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  • Now there is in jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool."
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  • Now, keep this in mind.
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  • In jerusalem there's a place called the sheep gate.
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  • There are a number of gates around jerusalem
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  • And one of the gates is called the sheep gate.
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  • "and by the sheep gate there was a pool,
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  • Which is called in hebrew, bethesda, having five porches.
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  • The word here, "bethesda," is the word bet-hesed.
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  • Bet is house. bet is house.
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  • Like you would say, beth-lehem. bet is house; lehem is bread.
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  • Jesus was born in the house of bread,
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  • And he is the bread of life, amen?
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  • Bet-hesed. hesed is...grace, amen.
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  • Bet is house.
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  • And notice that it has five porches, five colonnades,
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  • Five porches.
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  • Five is the number of grace. five is the number of grace.
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  • If you look at the tabernacle,
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  • It's all in measurements of five and multiples of five.
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  • The fifth time noah's name was mentioned, it says,
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  • "noah found grace in the eyes of the lord," amen.
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  • The fifth time ruth's name was mentioned, ruth says,
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  • "i shall find grace," amen?
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  • So five is a number of grace, amen.
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  • Just like--in the bible, scripture numerics,
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  • God is very careful about portraying truths with numbers,
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  • Amen.
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  • And this is not numerology, okay?
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  • This is scripture numerics,
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  • Which means every number has a meaning.
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  • Just like the hebrew-- even names have a meaning,
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  • Which we'll see soon.
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  • Just like right now, we see bethesda, you know,
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  • The house of grace.
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  • Hesed is grace.
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  • As i was preparing this, the lord reminded me of
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  • The five loaf and two fish,
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  • So five is hei, and then you have the two fish,
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  • Which is bet, amen.
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  • Number two is bet.
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  • Alef, bet. bet is number two.
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  • So what is god saying here literally?
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  • Bet is also house, right? bet is a picture of a house.
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  • Like we said,
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  • Bethesda, bet-lehem. bet is house.
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  • And you have five. house of grace.
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  • Only in the house of grace can you find food and supply.
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  • No wonder the prodigal son--
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  • What attracted him to return to the father's house was this:
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  • "in my father's house, there's bread enough and to spare,"
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  • Amen?
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  • There's bread enough and to spare.
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  • And jesus demonstrated that he is the bread of life, amen?
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  • In the house of bread.
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  • So today the house of grace,
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  • The house of bread is the church, amen,
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  • The church.
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  • Every time you invite someone to tune in to the church, amen,
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  • And to be part of the church,
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  • You are doing them the greatest blessing ever,
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  • Amen, this side of heaven.
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  • Because you are introducing them with all their needs,
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  • With all their multitudinous problems,
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  • And you are bringing them to the supply.
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  • In the father's house, there's bread enough and to spare.
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  • And by the way, jesus calls healing
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  • The children's bread, amen.
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  • It's all about feeding, feeding, feeding, amen?
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  • We eat the bread, we become strong and whole, hallelujah.
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  • Back to john 5.
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  • "in these lay a great multitude of sick people,
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  • Blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
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  • For an angel went down at a certain time
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  • Into the pool and stirred up the water;
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  • Then whoever stepped in first,
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  • After the stirring of the water--
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  • Whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water,
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  • Was made well of whatever disease he had."
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  • Now, again, it's a picture of the law.
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  • Why?
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  • The law always demands for some strength on your part
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  • To execute an action, amen.
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  • But we are bankrupt. we are spiritually bankrupt.
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  • We have no strength of our own.
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  • The bible says we are without strength.
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  • Christ came and died for us, amen?
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  • But we are such creatures of laborious effort.
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  • You know, we are always trying to be worthy enough,
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  • To be deserving enough, to receive, to be holy enough
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  • To receive from god.
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  • It's always work, work, work. and we don't realize we cannot.
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  • And the idea of the law is
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  • "thou shall not, thou shall not."
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  • It puts back the whole thing on your strength.
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  • And god knew from the start, when god gave the law,
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  • That man cannot.
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  • So why did god give the law?
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  • By the law is the knowledge of sin, amen?
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  • The law is like a mirror.
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  • It is so true to the reflection, right?
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  • Of who you are, the mirror reflects.
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  • But you see a blemish on your face.
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  • You look at the mirror, you see the blemish.
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  • You cannot use the mirror to wipe away the blemish.
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  • That's what the law is, amen? god knew we cannot keep the law.
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  • God knew that, amen?
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  • That doesn't mean today, we're not under the law,
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  • We don't live a holy life.
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  • No, no, no. a thousand times no.
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  • In fact, the more you fall in love with jesus,
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  • You fall out of love with sin.
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  • The more you fall in love with jesus,
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  • The want-to's and all that just falls into place.
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  • "if you love me, keep my commandments," jesus says.
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  • Don't see that as "you've got to love me
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  • By keeping the commandments."
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  • No, "if you love me, keep my commandments," amen.
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  • And the commandment of jesus, not the ten commandments,
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  • It's "love one another as i have loved you."
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  • Does that mean today we are not under law,
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  • We don't keep the ten commandments?
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  • No, we supersede the ten commandments.
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  • Instead of "thou shalt not steal,"
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  • We become generous, amen?
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  • We lavish ourselves-- of all that god has given us,
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  • We pour out unto others, amen.
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  • You know, you can keep "thou shalt not steal"
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  • And still not be generous, amen.
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  • Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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  • Well, a lot of people interpret that as physical adultery.
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  • "i don't jump into a bed with another woman
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  • Other than my wife, all right, i'm okay."
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  • No, no, friend.
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  • As long as you're giving someone, you know,
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  • The eye, the lustful eye,
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  • Jesus says you've committed adultery already.
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  • So you know what?
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  • The law was given to expose every one of us
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  • So that all of us will see our need for the savior, amen?
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  • So today, when you have the savior in your life, amen,
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  • The very thought of being unfaithful to your wife,
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  • Amen, you shrink away from it.
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  • And that's something that no one can see
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  • Because it goes on inside.
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  • The holy spirit is there, praise god.
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  • So i remind you once again: when you are under grace,
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  • It was more than fulfilled the law, amen?
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  • Love is the fulfilling of the law, hallelujah.
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  • Now back to this again.
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  • So the one who has the effort, who can step in
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  • After the angel stirs the water, right,
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  • It implies some effort.
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  • He's the one that gets healed.
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  • So how about the guy who is lame, paralyzed?
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  • He can't even, like, he has to-- while he's crawling,
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  • Scooting his way through the water,
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  • Someone else step in, which is the case here.
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  • The bible says, "now a certain man
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  • Was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
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  • When jesus saw him lying there,
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  • And knew that he already had been in that condition
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  • A long time, jesus said to him,
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  • 'do you want to be made well?'
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  • The sick man answered him, 'sir, i have no man to put me
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  • Into the pool when the water is stirred up;
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  • But while i am coming, another steps down before me.'"
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  • There you go, amen? he is lame.
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  • He cannot. he cannot even walk, right?
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  • "jesus said to him, 'rise, take up your bed and walk.'
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  • And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed,
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  • And walked.
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  • And that day was the sabbath.
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  • The jews therefore said to him who was cured,
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  • 'it is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you
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  • To carry your bed.'"
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  • Now let's see what he said.
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  • "he answered them, 'he who made me well said to me,
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  • "take up your bed and walk."'"
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  • You know, if you are lying down flat, for 38 years,
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  • You can't walk.
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  • What is rest to you? what is rest to you?
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  • Is rest lying down some more? no, of course not.
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  • For the person has has been lying down
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  • For 38 years, rest is getting up.
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  • So jesus says, "rise, take up your bed and walk.
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  • Take up your bed. take your rest," amen?
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  • Now you can't take-- unless you are standing.
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  • So it's a picture of righteousness, amen.
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  • Now you are the righteousness of god in christ.
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  • Take your rest with you, amen? take your rest.
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  • Walk in rest. don't leave your rest behind.
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  • The principle of rest is still there.
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  • "now that you are the righteousness of god
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  • In christ,
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  • 'rise, take up your bed, and walk.'"
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  • Only then, when we proceed from rest, amen,
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  • And realizing our position
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  • That we are righteous before god, amen, confess daily,
  • 00:10:34.876 --> 00:10:38.379
  • "i am the righteousness of god in christ."
  • 00:10:38.379 --> 00:10:40.381
  • Then you can walk.
  • 00:10:40.381 --> 00:10:41.950
  • Then you have the power to walk in the spirit,
  • 00:10:41.950 --> 00:10:44.285
  • Walk in holiness,
  • 00:10:44.285 --> 00:10:45.620
  • Walk worthy of the glory of god, hallelujah, amen,
  • 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:48.957
  • Walk a victorious life, amen.
  • 00:10:48.957 --> 00:10:51.993
  • And notice what they said.
  • 00:10:51.993 --> 00:10:53.328
  • The jews saw him carrying his mat.
  • 00:10:53.328 --> 00:10:56.164
  • "and they said, 'today is the sabbath.
  • 00:10:56.164 --> 00:10:59.467
  • How come you're carrying the mat?'
  • 00:10:59.467 --> 00:11:00.869
  • He answered them, 'he who made me well said to me,
  • 00:11:00.869 --> 00:11:04.539
  • "take up your bed and walk!"'
  • 00:11:04.539 --> 00:11:07.408
  • Then they asked him, 'who is the man who said to you,
  • 00:11:07.408 --> 00:11:11.246
  • "take up your bed and walk"?'"
  • 00:11:11.246 --> 00:11:14.048
  • Now let me call your attention to these two again,
  • 00:11:14.048 --> 00:11:16.751
  • These two verses.
  • 00:11:16.751 --> 00:11:18.453
  • "he answered them, 'he who made me well said to me,
  • 00:11:18.453 --> 00:11:22.891
  • "take up your bed and walk."'"
  • 00:11:22.891 --> 00:11:24.225
  • Notice the emphasis of the man who was healed
  • 00:11:24.225 --> 00:11:25.894
  • Was "he who made me well!"
  • 00:11:25.894 --> 00:11:30.431
  • "they asked him, 'who is the man who said to you,
  • 00:11:30.431 --> 00:11:33.768
  • "take up your bed and walk"?'"
  • 00:11:33.768 --> 00:11:35.737
  • Their focus was on work.
  • 00:11:35.737 --> 00:11:38.740
  • Their focus was not on the fact that he was healed.
  • 00:11:38.740 --> 00:11:41.743
  • Now, which is supernatural?
  • 00:11:41.743 --> 00:11:45.413
  • Which is really something that will bring joy
  • 00:11:45.413 --> 00:11:47.582
  • To your heart?
  • 00:11:47.582 --> 00:11:48.917
  • To know that your body is healed
  • 00:11:48.917 --> 00:11:50.685
  • Or "take up your bed and walk," amen?
  • 00:11:50.685 --> 00:11:54.222
  • Which is the work that they are emphasizing.
  • 00:11:54.222 --> 00:11:56.191
  • So it's a matter of perspective.
  • 00:11:56.191 --> 00:11:57.959
  • For them, they look at the man and they ask the question
  • 00:11:57.959 --> 00:12:01.529
  • "it is a sabbath day.
  • 00:12:01.529 --> 00:12:02.864
  • Why are you carrying your bed?"
  • 00:12:02.864 --> 00:12:06.167
  • His answer was "he who made me well said to me,
  • 00:12:06.167 --> 00:12:09.337
  • 'take up your bed and walk.'"
  • 00:12:09.337 --> 00:12:11.172
  • And they said, instead of seeing that he made him well,
  • 00:12:11.172 --> 00:12:15.143
  • "tell me who made you well," right?
  • 00:12:15.143 --> 00:12:16.811
  • "come on, tell me who made you well.
  • 00:12:16.811 --> 00:12:18.146
  • I want to bring him to see my aunt who is flat on her back
  • 00:12:18.146 --> 00:12:22.150
  • With this paralysis.
  • 00:12:22.150 --> 00:12:23.751
  • And come, tell me who is the one that made you well.
  • 00:12:23.751 --> 00:12:27.255
  • Tell me who is the man.
  • 00:12:27.255 --> 00:12:28.590
  • I want to bring him to see my son.
  • 00:12:28.590 --> 00:12:29.924
  • I want to bring him to see my daughter.
  • 00:12:29.924 --> 00:12:31.726
  • Come on, tell me, tell me, who is the man?"
  • 00:12:31.726 --> 00:12:33.962
  • Instead of focusing on that.
  • 00:12:33.962 --> 00:12:37.031
  • And there are people like that today, you know?
  • 00:12:37.031 --> 00:12:38.366
  • They'll focus-- they won't focus on
  • 00:12:38.366 --> 00:12:39.868
  • The ten people that are healed.
  • 00:12:39.868 --> 00:12:41.569
  • They will focus on someone who is not healed
  • 00:12:41.569 --> 00:12:43.705
  • And start to berate the entire ministry.
  • 00:12:43.705 --> 00:12:47.141
  • No, it's a matter of focus, amen.
  • 00:12:47.141 --> 00:12:49.444
  • They look at that and they are focused on work.
  • 00:12:49.444 --> 00:12:53.014
  • "no, no. you broke the sabbath.
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  • You are carrying the bed.
  • 00:12:54.916 --> 00:12:56.251
  • Who is the one that told you to carry your bed?"
  • 00:12:56.251 --> 00:12:57.986
  • Instead of "who is the one that made you well?"
  • 00:12:57.986 --> 00:13:00.355
  • And they could have been well as well before the day ends, hm?
  • 00:13:00.355 --> 00:13:04.359
  • Let's keep on reading.
  • 00:13:04.359 --> 00:13:05.693
  • "but jesus answered them,
  • 00:13:05.693 --> 00:13:07.228
  • 'my father has been working until now,
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  • And i have been working.'"
  • 00:13:09.931 --> 00:13:12.533
  • Did you hear that?
  • 00:13:12.533 --> 00:13:13.868
  • "my father has been working until now," so when god works,
  • 00:13:13.868 --> 00:13:20.341
  • People get healed, hallelujah.
  • 00:13:20.341 --> 00:13:22.443
  • Healing is god working.
  • 00:13:22.443 --> 00:13:25.280
  • I repeat: healing is the father working, amen?
  • 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:29.984
  • And jesus says, "and i work also.
  • 00:13:29.984 --> 00:13:32.487
  • When i see my father healing, i flow with him.
  • 00:13:32.487 --> 00:13:35.823
  • I work also."
  • 00:13:35.823 --> 00:13:37.158
  • And remember this: when god works,
  • 00:13:37.158 --> 00:13:40.028
  • Man should cease, man should rest.
  • 00:13:40.028 --> 00:13:44.766
  • And that's why the bible says, "our rest today," in hebrews 4,
  • 00:13:44.766 --> 00:13:48.670
  • "and let us labor therefore to enter that rest,
  • 00:13:48.670 --> 00:13:51.839
  • Lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."
  • 00:13:51.839 --> 00:13:56.778
  • Therefore it tells us the opposite of unbelief
  • 00:13:56.778 --> 00:13:58.846
  • Is not to rest.
  • 00:13:58.846 --> 00:14:00.315
  • And our only labor, child of god,
  • 00:14:00.315 --> 00:14:02.317
  • Your only labor today is to labor to enter the rest.
  • 00:14:02.317 --> 00:14:05.820
  • The devil comes to you and says, "what about your children?
  • 00:14:05.820 --> 00:14:08.156
  • What about that problem, that challenge,
  • 00:14:08.156 --> 00:14:09.590
  • And all that--in school?"
  • 00:14:09.590 --> 00:14:11.693
  • You know, you just say, "well, lord,
  • 00:14:11.693 --> 00:14:14.262
  • I'm entering into your rest even for this.
  • 00:14:14.262 --> 00:14:16.464
  • I rest and i see you work."
  • 00:14:16.464 --> 00:14:18.299
  • It doesn't mean you rest, nothing will happen.
  • 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:20.401
  • For the world, it is true, okay?
  • 00:14:20.401 --> 00:14:22.437
  • But for you, child of god, you have a shepherd, amen?
  • 00:14:22.437 --> 00:14:25.173
  • You have a father who watches over you.
  • 00:14:25.173 --> 00:14:27.108
  • When you rest, god works.
  • 00:14:27.108 --> 00:14:29.877
  • But if you want to work, amen, god rest.
  • 00:14:29.877 --> 00:14:33.448
  • You choose, amen. when you rest, god works.
  • 00:14:33.448 --> 00:14:36.217
  • The lord is saying, "my father is working," amen?
  • 00:14:36.217 --> 00:14:39.754
  • "that man--there's a reason i'm healing on the sabbath.
  • 00:14:39.754 --> 00:14:42.557
  • It's because sabbath is man's rest day, amen.
  • 00:14:42.557 --> 00:14:45.426
  • Man rests on that day. you don't work."
  • 00:14:45.426 --> 00:14:48.529
  • And that's why jesus performs so many healings
  • 00:14:48.529 --> 00:14:50.498
  • On the sabbath, amen.
  • 00:14:50.498 --> 00:14:52.700
  • When man is rested, god is able to touch and heal.
  • 00:14:52.700 --> 00:14:56.037
  • Now, one thing about healing,
  • 00:14:56.037 --> 00:14:57.372
  • I've noticed that when people learn about healing
  • 00:14:57.372 --> 00:14:59.173
  • And all that, one of the things they do:
  • 00:14:59.173 --> 00:15:00.608
  • They want so much to be healed
  • 00:15:00.608 --> 00:15:02.043
  • That sometimes they get into works.
  • 00:15:02.043 --> 00:15:05.146
  • They try to--"have i confessed all my sins?
  • 00:15:05.146 --> 00:15:08.649
  • Have i confessed the word of god enough?
  • 00:15:08.649 --> 00:15:10.585
  • Have i done this?"
  • 00:15:10.585 --> 00:15:11.919
  • And whenever you find yourself striving,
  • 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.255
  • No more in rest, it's a clear example
  • 00:15:14.255 --> 00:15:17.191
  • Of you are now in unbelief, okay?
  • 00:15:17.191 --> 00:15:19.761
  • So don't do that, amen?
  • 00:15:19.761 --> 00:15:21.396
  • When you find that, having done all, stand and say,
  • 00:15:21.396 --> 00:15:23.865
  • "lord, i'm resting in you.
  • 00:15:23.865 --> 00:15:25.400
  • I'm resting in you.
  • 00:15:25.400 --> 00:15:26.734
  • I don't have the faith to believe for my healing,
  • 00:15:26.734 --> 00:15:28.736
  • But i'm resting in you, lord jesus,
  • 00:15:28.736 --> 00:15:31.105
  • That your faith will carry me through.
  • 00:15:31.105 --> 00:15:33.441
  • I live by the faith of the son of god.
  • 00:15:33.441 --> 00:15:35.810
  • Lord, in regards to this situation,
  • 00:15:35.810 --> 00:15:37.945
  • My financial situation, lord, i rest in you, lord.
  • 00:15:37.945 --> 00:15:41.015
  • I thank you, lord, because you are working on it.
  • 00:15:41.015 --> 00:15:43.251
  • You are working on it, and i praise you.
  • 00:15:43.251 --> 00:15:44.786
  • My job is just to rest and to praise you,
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  • To believe you, lord, to thank you, lord,
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  • To enjoy your love for me."
  • 00:15:49.924 --> 00:15:51.592
  • If you'll do that, when you rest, god will work.
  • 00:15:51.592 --> 00:15:54.829
  • And he will work wonders.
  • 00:15:54.829 --> 00:15:56.164
  • Whenever he works, he makes all things beautiful,
  • 00:15:56.164 --> 00:15:59.567
  • The bible says, hallelujah.
  • 00:15:59.567 --> 00:16:00.902
  • Thank you, jesus.
  • 00:16:00.902 --> 00:16:02.236
  • "therefore the jews sought all the more to kill him,
  • 00:16:02.236 --> 00:16:04.005
  • Because he not only broke the sabbath, but also said
  • 00:16:04.005 --> 00:16:06.607
  • That god was his father, making himself equal with god," amen?
  • 00:16:06.607 --> 00:16:10.278
  • The bible says, "my words, they are life
  • 00:16:10.278 --> 00:16:14.048
  • Unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."
  • 00:16:14.048 --> 00:16:19.020
  • You know, one of the times
  • 00:16:19.020 --> 00:16:20.354
  • When i was reading the word of god--
  • 00:16:20.354 --> 00:16:21.689
  • Just to excite you, okay, just to excite you--
  • 00:16:21.689 --> 00:16:23.024
  • One of the times when i was reading god's word
  • 00:16:23.024 --> 00:16:24.358
  • In nehemiah 3, and this is what i read.
  • 00:16:24.358 --> 00:16:27.428
  • The first time the sheep gate was mentioned is here.
  • 00:16:27.428 --> 00:16:31.866
  • "then eliashib the high priest rose up
  • 00:16:31.866 --> 00:16:34.502
  • With the brethren the priests and built the sheep gate."
  • 00:16:34.502 --> 00:16:38.639
  • Does that ring a bell?
  • 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:39.974
  • The sheep gate of john 5. we just read that.
  • 00:16:39.974 --> 00:16:42.577
  • And this is the first time the sheep gate is mentioned
  • 00:16:42.577 --> 00:16:44.912
  • In the bible.
  • 00:16:44.912 --> 00:16:46.247
  • And it's the time when nehemiah and his people were rebuilding
  • 00:16:46.247 --> 00:16:50.751
  • The walls of jerusalem.
  • 00:16:50.751 --> 00:16:52.420
  • And they were rebuilding and repairing
  • 00:16:52.420 --> 00:16:55.456
  • The gates of the walls, all the different gates.
  • 00:16:55.456 --> 00:16:59.861
  • But notice the very first gate they repaired
  • 00:16:59.861 --> 00:17:02.897
  • Was the sheep gate, was the sheep gate.
  • 00:17:02.897 --> 00:17:05.700
  • So when i read this, i felt the spirit of god impress on me
  • 00:17:05.700 --> 00:17:08.703
  • To look up the names and then to study the names.
  • 00:17:08.703 --> 00:17:11.372
  • So i studied eliashib. eliashib means "god restores."
  • 00:17:11.372 --> 00:17:16.043
  • Wow, i said, this is interesting.
  • 00:17:16.043 --> 00:17:18.146
  • So you have the sheep, right?
  • 00:17:18.146 --> 00:17:20.581
  • And do you remember that, talking about sheep,
  • 00:17:20.581 --> 00:17:24.519
  • Jesus's love for the flock is such that he shared
  • 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.955
  • A parable one time: "what man of you,
  • 00:17:27.955 --> 00:17:30.191
  • Having a hundred sheep,
  • 00:17:30.191 --> 00:17:32.660
  • If he loses one,
  • 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:34.529
  • Will not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness
  • 00:17:34.529 --> 00:17:36.731
  • And go out to find the lost one until he finds it?"
  • 00:17:36.731 --> 00:17:40.635
  • I love the way he says it. "until he finds it."
  • 00:17:40.635 --> 00:17:44.539
  • Even if you're lost, the lord is going to find you.
  • 00:17:44.539 --> 00:17:46.874
  • He's going to seek you out and find you.
  • 00:17:46.874 --> 00:17:48.843
  • He won't rest until he finds you, amen, praise the lord.
  • 00:17:48.843 --> 00:17:52.880
  • Until he finds it.
  • 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.215
  • Now, he says, "what man of you will do that?"
  • 00:17:54.215 --> 00:17:56.918
  • None of us will leave the 99 just to go for the one.
  • 00:17:56.918 --> 00:18:00.988
  • We'll say, "let's cut the losses," amen?
  • 00:18:00.988 --> 00:18:02.590
  • "if i leave the 99, something might happen to them."
  • 00:18:02.590 --> 00:18:05.259
  • Just for the one that's lost, but for the lord,
  • 00:18:05.259 --> 00:18:07.728
  • His perspective is different, amen?
  • 00:18:07.728 --> 00:18:09.664
  • He'll go for the one that's lost, amen?
  • 00:18:09.664 --> 00:18:11.799
  • I'm sure that he'll put the 99
  • 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:14.135
  • In the custody of another shepherd
  • 00:18:14.135 --> 00:18:16.370
  • Or someone else to make sure they are safe.
  • 00:18:16.370 --> 00:18:17.939
  • He's responsible, of course.
  • 00:18:17.939 --> 00:18:19.607
  • But the good shepherd will look for the lost until he finds it.
  • 00:18:19.607 --> 00:18:23.144
  • And jesus illustrated the hundred sheep, okay?
  • 00:18:23.144 --> 00:18:26.314
  • Now watch this in this nehemiah story.
  • 00:18:26.314 --> 00:18:28.816
  • "they consecrated the-- they built the sheep gate;
  • 00:18:28.816 --> 00:18:31.919
  • They consecrated it and hung its doors.
  • 00:18:31.919 --> 00:18:34.422
  • They built as far as the tower of the hundred."
  • 00:18:34.422 --> 00:18:37.558
  • There you have the hundred.
  • 00:18:37.558 --> 00:18:38.893
  • Hundred sheep, god restores. mm, interesting.
  • 00:18:38.893 --> 00:18:43.331
  • I was getting very excited when i saw this.
  • 00:18:43.331 --> 00:18:44.932
  • "and consecrated it,
  • 00:18:44.932 --> 00:18:46.534
  • Then as far as the tower of hananel."
  • 00:18:46.534 --> 00:18:50.438
  • Hanan-el. hananel.
  • 00:18:50.438 --> 00:18:53.574
  • Hanan is favor or grace. el is god.
  • 00:18:53.574 --> 00:18:57.612
  • So it's the grace of god.
  • 00:18:57.612 --> 00:18:59.447
  • It's another way of saying the house of grace.
  • 00:18:59.447 --> 00:19:03.818
  • Isn't this amazing?
  • 00:19:03.818 --> 00:19:05.152
  • The father put the story that we just read just now
  • 00:19:05.152 --> 00:19:09.223
  • Of his son at this point in time
  • 00:19:09.223 --> 00:19:12.593
  • When the walls were being rebuilt.
  • 00:19:12.593 --> 00:19:14.228
  • It's in the old testament. he has not yet come.
  • 00:19:14.228 --> 00:19:18.299
  • He has not yet come even as a baby, amen?
  • 00:19:18.299 --> 00:19:21.702
  • The story of john 5 has not yet happened.
  • 00:19:21.702 --> 00:19:24.272
  • Yet the father loved his son so much, amen,
  • 00:19:24.272 --> 00:19:28.676
  • The father put this in the nehemiah,
  • 00:19:28.676 --> 00:19:32.146
  • In the old testament, amen.
  • 00:19:32.146 --> 00:19:34.081
  • The very first mention of the sheep gate
  • 00:19:34.081 --> 00:19:36.250
  • Has an idea of, has a hint of, john 5,
  • 00:19:36.250 --> 00:19:40.955
  • Where jesus would heal that lost sheep, amen,
  • 00:19:40.955 --> 00:19:44.792
  • Lost, amen--lost in his sin, lost in sickness--
  • 00:19:44.792 --> 00:19:50.298
  • And he would heal, amen, that one out of the hundred.
  • 00:19:50.298 --> 00:19:55.436
  • And, the grace of god.
  • 00:19:55.436 --> 00:19:57.238
  • So put this-- there's a message here.
  • 00:19:57.238 --> 00:19:59.106
  • And the message is this: god has restored that one lost sheep
  • 00:19:59.106 --> 00:20:03.678
  • Out of the hundred into his grace.
  • 00:20:03.678 --> 00:20:06.180
  • Now i just want to excite you because--by the way,
  • 00:20:06.180 --> 00:20:07.848
  • This is my bible when i first wrote it down,
  • 00:20:07.848 --> 00:20:10.584
  • Quite some time ago.
  • 00:20:10.584 --> 00:20:11.919
  • And notice this is exactly how i wrote it down.
  • 00:20:11.919 --> 00:20:15.156
  • And this is my white-margin bible.
  • 00:20:15.156 --> 00:20:17.224
  • I want to encourage you.
  • 00:20:17.224 --> 00:20:18.559
  • Have a relationship with your bible like this, amen?
  • 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:20.795
  • Get excited. read the word of god.
  • 00:20:20.795 --> 00:20:22.763
  • Not every name you have to look it up.
  • 00:20:22.763 --> 00:20:24.932
  • But when the spirit of god, you know, touches you
  • 00:20:24.932 --> 00:20:27.001
  • Or impress on you to look it up,
  • 00:20:27.001 --> 00:20:28.336
  • Just, if you're curious, you know?
  • 00:20:28.336 --> 00:20:29.804
  • And then the holy spirit put that desire there.
  • 00:20:29.804 --> 00:20:31.939
  • Look it up, look it up.
  • 00:20:31.939 --> 00:20:33.274
  • Sometimes you look up the numbers,
  • 00:20:33.274 --> 00:20:34.775
  • And the numbers have a meaning.
  • 00:20:34.775 --> 00:20:36.110
  • Sometimes you look at a story and just a wide reading of it,
  • 00:20:36.110 --> 00:20:39.113
  • You feel a washing of the word of god, amen?
  • 00:20:39.113 --> 00:20:42.683
  • I mean, you can take time with your korean drama
  • 00:20:42.683 --> 00:20:45.953
  • And this drama and all that.
  • 00:20:45.953 --> 00:20:47.521
  • But if they are taking so much of your time
  • 00:20:47.521 --> 00:20:49.890
  • That you don't have time for the word,
  • 00:20:49.890 --> 00:20:51.859
  • These are not healthy things.
  • 00:20:51.859 --> 00:20:53.194
  • Why eat things that does not satisfy, amen?
  • 00:20:53.194 --> 00:20:56.997
  • I'm not saying you cannot.
  • 00:20:56.997 --> 00:20:58.332
  • I'm just saying don't get overboard with it, amen?
  • 00:20:58.332 --> 00:21:00.801
  • Don't get so obsessed with it to the point that, you know--
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  • The most important thing the bible says:
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  • "attend to my words."
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  • Right before it says they are life, it says,
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  • "attend to my words."
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  • Attend means what?
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  • If i'm busy and you say, "pastor prince, can i--"
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  • I'll say, "i've got something to attend to.
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  • I'll come back to you again." attend means there's a priority.
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  • There's something i need to do, something important,
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  • Could be a matter of life and death, right?
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  • Attend, put things first, amen? first things first.
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  • And then it says, "they are life to those that find them,
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  • And health to all their flesh."
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  • Praise god. so get into the word of god.
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  • Get into the word of god, amen? god's word is exciting.
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  • It has drama, romance, and pictures.
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  • The chazon vision that god want to impart to you
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  • That will steady you.
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  • I believe that every time you tune in to god's word, amen,
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  • Every time you are hungry and you get fed, amen,
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  • You get fed, i believe that the messages,
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  • The food that god gives me for you, will nourish you,
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  • Sustain you, amen, strengthen you, revitalize you,
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  • And prepare you, equip you, for the coming challenges, amen.
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  • So god feeds you before he brings you to the battle, amen.
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  • The battle is coming, and it's not from the lord.
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  • Listen, god doesn't fight against you, okay?
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  • The battle is from the enemy. but god nourishes you.
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  • He makes sure that you are fed, amen?
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  • Remember this?
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  • Melchizedek met abraham
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  • Before the king of sodom met abraham.
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  • The king of sodom is a picture of the devil.
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  • Melchizedek is our lord jesus.
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  • God will always feed you before your temptation,
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  • Before your testing, before your trial,
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  • Before your battle, amen?
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  • He nourishes you.
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  • So when god wants to feed you, allow him to feed you, will you?
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  • Praise the name of jesus.
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  • Thank you, lord jesus, hallelujah.
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  • Announcer: pastor joseph prince
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  • Will return in a moment with a special prayer
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  • To close today's program, right after this.
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  • And now, a closing word from pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: i pray, father, right now, in the name of jesus,
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  • That you will just impart to them, lord, that rest,
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  • Lord, into their hearts, their minds, and their spirits,
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  • And help them, father, give them the grace to labor
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  • Throughout this week only for one thing, lord:
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  • To enter the rest.
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  • Labor to enter the rest.
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  • I know it's an oxymoron, but labor to enter the rest,
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  • Will you, amen?
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  • The lord protect you and your loved ones
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  • From every harm, danger, throughout this week.
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  • The lord favors you, smiles on you,
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  • Grant you supernatural favor everywhere you go.
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  • You are a blessing going somewhere
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  • To happen throughout this week.
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  • And the lord lift up his countenance on you
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  • And your loved ones
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  • And grant to you and yours his wonderful shalom,
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  • Well-being, wholeness, and peace.
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  • In the name of the lord jesus christ, amen.
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  • Until then, i'll see you.
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  • That moves faster than ever.
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  • Headlines change by the hour. values shift.
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  • Truth feels negotiable.
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  • What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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  • But through all the noise and the shaking,
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  • There is one who is still the same.
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  • In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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  • In the panic, he is still the promise.
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  • Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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  • He is still jesus, above it all.
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  • So no matter what's popular today
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  • Or forgotten tomorrow,
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  • This ministry will still always be
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  • All about jesus-- still the center of our call,
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  • Still the heartbeat of our people.
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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
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  • 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 the identity of the old man
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  • And the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
  • 00:26:03.804 --> 00:26:06.073
  • Now after this, did i still have 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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  • The next morning, i had no desire 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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  • ♪♪♪
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