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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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- Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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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,
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- "i am the righteousness of god in christ."
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- Then you can walk.
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- Then you have the power to walk in the spirit,
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- Walk in holiness,
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- Walk worthy of the glory of god, hallelujah, amen,
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- Walk a victorious life, amen.
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- And notice what they said.
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- The jews saw him carrying his mat.
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- "and they said, 'today is the sabbath.
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- How come you're carrying the mat?'
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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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- Then they asked him, 'who is the man who said to you,
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- "take up your bed and walk"?'"
- 00:11:11.246 --> 00:11:14.048
- Now let me call your attention to these two again,
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- These two verses.
- 00:11:16.751 --> 00:11:18.453
- "he answered them, 'he who made me well said to me,
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- "take up your bed and walk."'"
- 00:11:22.891 --> 00:11:24.225
- Notice the emphasis of the man who was healed
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- 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.
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- Their focus was not on the fact that he was healed.
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- Now, which is supernatural?
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- Which is really something that will bring joy
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- To your heart?
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- To know that your body is healed
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- Or "take up your bed and walk," amen?
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- Which is the work that they are emphasizing.
- 00:11:54.222 --> 00:11:56.191
- So it's a matter of perspective.
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- For them, they look at the man and they ask the question
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- "it is a sabbath day.
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- Why are you carrying your bed?"
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- His answer was "he who made me well said to me,
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- '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
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- With this paralysis.
- 00:12:22.150 --> 00:12:23.751
- And come, tell me who is the one that made you well.
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- Tell me who is the man.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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,
- 00:15:44.786 --> 00:15:47.422
- To believe you, lord, to thank you, lord,
- 00:15:47.422 --> 00:15:49.924
- 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
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- 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--
- 00:21:00.801 --> 00:21:04.605
- The most important thing the bible says:
- 00:21:04.605 --> 00:21:06.273
- "attend to my words."
- 00:21:06.273 --> 00:21:08.008
- Right before it says they are life, it says,
- 00:21:08.008 --> 00:21:09.643
- "attend to my words."
- 00:21:09.643 --> 00:21:10.978
- Attend means what?
- 00:21:10.978 --> 00:21:12.313
- If i'm busy and you say, "pastor prince, can i--"
- 00:21:12.313 --> 00:21:14.949
- I'll say, "i've got something to attend to.
- 00:21:14.949 --> 00:21:16.283
- I'll come back to you again." attend means there's a priority.
- 00:21:16.283 --> 00:21:18.919
- There's something i need to do, something important,
- 00:21:18.919 --> 00:21:21.522
- Could be a matter of life and death, right?
- 00:21:21.522 --> 00:21:23.657
- Attend, put things first, amen? first things first.
- 00:21:23.657 --> 00:21:26.861
- And then it says, "they are life to those that find them,
- 00:21:26.861 --> 00:21:30.731
- And health to all their flesh."
- 00:21:30.731 --> 00:21:33.401
- Praise god. so get into the word of god.
- 00:21:33.401 --> 00:21:35.202
- Get into the word of god, amen? god's word is exciting.
- 00:21:35.202 --> 00:21:38.406
- It has drama, romance, and pictures.
- 00:21:38.406 --> 00:21:43.411
- The chazon vision that god want to impart to you
- 00:21:43.411 --> 00:21:45.679
- That will steady you.
- 00:21:45.679 --> 00:21:47.014
- I believe that every time you tune in to god's word, amen,
- 00:21:47.014 --> 00:21:50.084
- Every time you are hungry and you get fed, amen,
- 00:21:50.084 --> 00:21:53.354
- You get fed, i believe that the messages,
- 00:21:53.354 --> 00:21:56.390
- The food that god gives me for you, will nourish you,
- 00:21:56.390 --> 00:22:00.628
- Sustain you, amen, strengthen you, revitalize you,
- 00:22:00.628 --> 00:22:06.267
- And prepare you, equip you, for the coming challenges, amen.
- 00:22:06.267 --> 00:22:10.838
- So god feeds you before he brings you to the battle, amen.
- 00:22:10.838 --> 00:22:14.041
- The battle is coming, and it's not from the lord.
- 00:22:14.041 --> 00:22:16.477
- Listen, god doesn't fight against you, okay?
- 00:22:16.477 --> 00:22:18.846
- 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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- Male announcer: we live in a world
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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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- Our mission your mission today?
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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.
- 00:25:28.636 --> 00:25:31.372
- 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."
- 00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:43.817
- 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.
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- 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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- Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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- Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
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