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December 4, 2025 | 29:45

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Joseph prince: we see the goodness and the blessings
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Of god in someone's life.
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And then we feel like, "hey, i used to know that.
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We see someone's life and we become even jealous
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And we want to be there.
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You know, friend, may your life be so blessed
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So that others be drawn to the god that you serve.
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Male announcer: epic battles, unexpected heroes,
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And a parted sea.
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It's time to experience the word of god
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In a fresh new way.
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In today's message, joseph opens the scroll
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On some of the most amazing scenes in scripture
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And shows you how the lord's love for us
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Has been woven into each one of them.
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Announcer: if a picture can paint a thousand words,
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Imagine the wonder of a book where every page
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Reveals the beauty of jesus.
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In his book "expedition promised land,"
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Joseph brings the stories of the bible to you
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In full color.
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The miracle of jesus in capernaum,
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The agony and love he poured out for us
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In gethsemane, and the faith and confidence
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To calm the storm on the sea of galilee.
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As you take in these breathtaking sights
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Through the lens of scripture and faith, we pray
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You will experience what the disciples felt
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On the road to emmaus: jesus himself drawing near,
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Walking with you, and opening your eyes
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To see him through the pages of his word.
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And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: remember when david
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Wants to bring the ark to mount zion,
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The place where god has his resting place.
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God said, "this is my resting place,
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And i have desired mount zion."
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In fact, another place it says that he chose judah
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And mount zion.
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He says and mount zion that he loves.
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He loves mount zion.
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It never says that he loves mount sinai.
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He loves mount zion.
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So david had a heart to bring the ark of the covenant
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From a place where it's long neglected
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And dishonored to the place where it would be loved,
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The place of grace, the centrality
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Of the heart of israel, mount zion.
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And david had this desire since he was a young man.
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And he said this in psalms 132: "lo, we heard of it,"
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About the ark of the covenant, "in ephratah."
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During that time, the king was king saul,
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And king saul had no desire for the ark.
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He had no desire for the presence of jesus.
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And we have established that the person of jesus
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Is illustrated most clearly, of all the furnitures
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Of the tabernacle, in the ark of the covenant.
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In fact, i want to show you this.
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It also illustrates jesus in a very clear way.
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If you would take the ark of the covenant
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And do this, this is what you see.
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If you open up all the sides of the ark of the covenant
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And see how it's laid out, even long before jesus died
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On the cross, this is what you see.
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You see the cross of jesus christ.
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And of course, the ark of the covenant,
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The material, speaks of the person of jesus.
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The wood speaks of his humanity.
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The gold speaks of his deity.
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He is the true god-man, hallelujah.
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Fully god, fully man.
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Our god-man, the one that we love, amen?
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Who is right now at the father's right hand.
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Don't forget, you have a perfect man representing you
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At the father's right hand.
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The bible says everything that he deserves,
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That he is able to execute, amen, he's there
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Making intercession for us, the bible says
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You and i will enjoy.
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Praise the lord. what do you reckon?
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Do you think jesus is doing a great job
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There at the father's right hand?
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Yes, amen! praise the lord.
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And as he is, so are we in this world.
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It is not how good we are before god.
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It is how good our representative man is
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At the father's right hand, praise the lord.
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As he is, so are we in this world.
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Praise the lord.
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And we see that david's desire is to bring the ark
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To mount zion.
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So this is a message for all of us
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That the lord wants us this year
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To bring jesus back to the centrality of our lives,
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The centrality of our families, in our marriage,
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To the center of our parenting, into the center of our career,
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In the center of our ministry,
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In the center of our church, amen?
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Pastors and leaders, let's bring jesus back
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To the center of our church, amen.
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In all our church life, in all our preaching
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And teaching, let's be christ-centered.
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That's the father's desire.
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The father says, "whatever you do with my son,
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I will do to you.
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If you reject my son, i'll reject you.
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If you accept my son, i'll accept you.
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If you honor my son, i will honor you.
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He that has the son has life."
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Praise the lord, hallelujah.
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Do you remember when david was gonna bring the ark back?
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The moment he became king, one of his first priorities
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Is to bring the ark back.
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Straight away, he consult all his men,
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His captains and all that, and they all
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Went to get the ark.
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Now david had a right motive, but he was not in obedience.
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He did things the way of the world.
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Like, god wants us to do things, but do things his way.
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And david did it the philistines's way.
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And the philistines, you know, when they wanted
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To get rid of the ark, they put it on a ox cart
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Driven by two milk cows all the way to beth shemesh.
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So here, the name "uzzah."
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He reached out his hand-- uzzah reached out his hand
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And touched the ark because the oxen stumbled.
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Of course it will stumble, because david did it wrong way.
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He followed the world.
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But hey, listen.
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The philistines didn't know any better.
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So they said that, you know, we'll hook this ox cart
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To two milk cows who have their young
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In the barn, okay?
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And if--the natural tendency of these two cows,
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Because they are milk cows, right?
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They have young and they will always want
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To feed their young-- their young.
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So the philistines said,
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"if these milk cows
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Go all the way to the land of israel,"
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Which is beth shemesh, he said that "then we know
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That the afflictions that happened to us
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Came from god.
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That we cannot mess around with this ark.
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It belongs to israel.
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But if the milk cows turn around to their young,"
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Which is a natural tendency, all right, of these animals,
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"then we know that whatever happened to us
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Is by chance, has nothing to do with god, the god of israel."
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Of course, the milk cows went a beeline
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Straight to beth shemesh, the land of israel.
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And the philistines knew it was of god.
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So god allowed them to do that and none of them died.
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The oxen didn't stumble in that case
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Because they didn't know any better.
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But god's people, god expects us to learn.
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God expects us to honor his son, amen.
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And uzzah, his name means power.
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Man's strength, man's power, man's strength, uzzah.
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So he put out his strength, uzzah.
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It's not uzziah.
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Uzziah means the strength of yah,
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God's strength.
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This is uzzah. it means his strength.
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He put out his strength and he died.
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And david called that place perez-uzzah.
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The breach of uzzah.
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The point where it was broken, amen?
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The point where something came in
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That was destructive, that brought death.
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That is a picture of perez, a breach.
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And god promised that when he restores
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The tabernacle of david, he will repair the breaches.
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The word there is perez.
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He will repair all the areas of perez,
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All the broken areas, all the breaches.
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So friend, david, instead of responding
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With an attitude of humility and seeking the lord,
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He said, "no, i'm not going to let
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The ark come to me."
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Well, guess what happened?
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He removed the ark to the house of a man called obed-edom.
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And the bible says the lord blessed obed-edom so much,
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Blessed him and all he had and all his household,
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That people got to see it.
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I mean, it was so evident for all to see.
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So i want to tell you this.
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That the first area, right after the first breach,
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Having to do with the tabernacle of david,
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The first breach was a death that came in.
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And in this very first restoration
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Was actually the blessings of god
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On the house of obed-edom and on all his household.
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So we see that the first thing god wants to do
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In repairing the breach is blessing.
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All the while, while david was afraid of god,
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Obed-edom was being blessed.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Obed-edom was being blessed.
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All the while david was afraid of god,
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Obed-edom was being blessed.
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Now that tells us something.
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That tells us that god wants to be good.
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God wants us to receive his blessings,
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Believe in his mercy, believe in his goodness,
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Believe in his love for us.
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Yes, he is a holy god.
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But listen, the holiness of god has got to do with us
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Not pretending to be the one who can supply ourselves,
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The one who is able.
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And our strength is the very hindrance
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To his goodness,
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Because if you believe you are strong,
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It's hard to believe in his goodness, in his mercy,
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Because you're always taking the place of god
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To save yourself, to deliver yourself,
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To protect yourself, to supply for yourself.
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Well, god wants to do all this for you.
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Are you listening, people, amen?
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So we see that the blessing of god
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Was on the house of obed-edom.
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The very first area this year that he wants
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To repair the breaches is in the area
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Of your family life.
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In fact, josephus tells us, josephus is the jewish historian
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That lived during the time of jesus.
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And he was a personal eyewitness to the destruction of the temple
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By the romans.
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He explained the blessing of obed-edom
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Like this.
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He said that when obed-edom brought the ark to his house,
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He was a poor man to begin with.
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But the lord began to prosper him,
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Enlarge him, and enlarge his territories,
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And bless him with every blessing.
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And many jewish scholars tell us that the blessings on obed-edom
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Were in the area of wealth as well as children.
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But he was blessed in everything.
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The bible said blessed in all that he had
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And on all his household.
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If you look at 2 samuel 6, it says that
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"the ark of the lord remained in the house
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Of obed-edom the gittite three months.
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And the lord blessed obed-edom and all his household."
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Notice all his family got blessed.
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There are two accounts of the bringing back of the ark.
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In 2 samuel 6 here, as well as 1 chronicles 13,
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"the ark of god remained with the family
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Of obed-edom in his house three months.
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And the lord blessed the house of obed-edom
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And all that he had."
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So in samuel's account, the lord blessed the house of obed-edom
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And all his household.
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But in chronicles, it says, "god blessed all that he had."
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So it's a total blessing.
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It's a total blessing.
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In fact, josephus says that obed-edom was so blessed
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To the envy of all his neighbors.
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So it's something visual, something that people around
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Can see, amen?
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So much so that someone brought the news to david
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And told king david this.
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"now it was told king david, saying, 'the lord has blessed
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The house of obed-edom and all that belongs to him,
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Because of the ark of god.'"
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Notice the source of this blessing,
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"because of the ark of god."
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"so david went and brought up the ark of god
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From the house of obed-edom to the city of david
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With gladness," hallelujah.
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The moment he heard about the goodness of god
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And the blessing of god on obed-edom
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And all that he had, on all his household,
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David says, "hey, i don't want the blessing of god
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To be just confined to one family.
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I want it to come to zion where it will spread out
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Across all israel.
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I realize my mistake right now.
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I'm on the wrong side of god.
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I need to be like obed-edom."
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He knew about the value of the blood.
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And friend, without the blood of jesus,
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We cannot be made righteous.
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.
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Without the shedding of blood-- the bible says
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We are made righteous, justified by his blood.
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We are sanctified by his blood.
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By the blood of christ,
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We are made near to god, hallelujah.
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God makes us perfect in every good word and work
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Through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Amen.
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Jesus shed his blood once and for all.
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By one sacrifice, we are sanctified forever.
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Praise the lord, amen?
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We are sanctified by the body of jesus christ
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Once and for all, amen.
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Christ crucified. what does that mean?
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That means he shed his blood.
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins,
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No remission of sins.
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Jesus took the cup of the communion
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And he said this to his disciples.
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On that night that he was betrayed, he said,
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"this cup is the new covenant in my blood.
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Do this, in remembrance of me."
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The more you esteem the blood of jesus,
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The more faith you have in the lord.
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The more you esteem the blood of jesus,
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You will want to take communion often.
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Jesus says, "do this as often," and we do it as seldom.
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Friend, the more you see that, the more you value the blood,
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The more you'll partake of the lord's supper, amen,
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Proclaiming his death until he comes for us.
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Praise the lord.
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So, obed-edom always offered blood
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On the sacrifice.
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He says, "i'm a sinner.
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I deserve death as much as uzzah,
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But because of the blood of an innocent lamb.
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Because of the blood."
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You know what happened to obed-edom?
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He stands in the place of a righteous man.
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God sees him in the righteousness of his son.
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Some people say, "well, the secret
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Of obed-edom's blessing is that he understood
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Praise and worship."
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Remember, my friend, there was praise and worship
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Before the oxen stumbled and uzzah died.
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There was praise and worship then.
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It didn't stop the oxen from stumbling.
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So friend, it is not the praise and worship,
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Because david had praise and worship
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Before uzzah died, and then when he came
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To take the ark, there was praise and worship.
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But there's something else that david did
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For the first time when he came to recover the ark
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From obed-edom's house.
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What was it?
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This is what the bible says.
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"so david went and brought the ark of god
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From the house of obed-edom to the city of david
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With gladness.
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And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the lord
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Had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen
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And fatted sheep," wow.
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This is the first time we see david
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Sacrificing oxen and sheep.
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In chronicles's account, it says seven bulls
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And seven rams.
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So every sixth pace, think of it this way.
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Every sixth pace, when they traveled,
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Every sixth pace, he sacrificed burnt offering
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And peace offerings.
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Every sixth pace, he offered burnt offering.
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And you know that journey all the way from kiryat ye'arim
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All the way to jerusalem, mount zion in jerusalem,
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All the way there, you know, you will see, like,
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Pillars of cloud, pillars of-- columns of smoke, all right,
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From the burnt offering.
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David offered all the way.
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Now, would you say that's radical?
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This is the first time david did this.
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He didn't offer burnt offerings before uzzah's death.
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There was praise and worship before uzzah's death
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As well as after when david came to recover.
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But the only difference is that he started offering
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Burnt offerings.
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And that means blood is shed.
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Where did he learn that from?
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I believe he learned it from obed-edom.
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Now he learned it, of course, when he was young.
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He knew about the importance of blood sacrifice, amen?
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God says, "for the life of the flesh is in the blood,
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And i've given it to you for an atonement
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For your souls."
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David knew this. david knew this.
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But sometimes, like many of us in our own lives,
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God used the goodness that he bestows on someone else,
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The blessings of god on someone else,
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To recover all of us, amen?
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To cause all those of us who are backslidden, amen,
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To come back to him, amen.
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We see the goodness and the blessings of god
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In someone's life, amen?
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And then we feel like, "hey, i used to know that.
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Where is that wonderful peace?
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Where is that sense of favor on me?
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Where is the goodness of god in my life?"
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And we see someone's life and we become even jealous
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And we want to be there.
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You know, friend, may your life be so blessed
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That you provoke all the backsliders
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And those fallen from grace all around you
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To want to come to know the lord jesus christ, amen?
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Or to come back to jesus christ, amen.
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Praise the lord.
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So friend, there's something here
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That we need to learn and cherish
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Before we can see the family blessings
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In our lives.
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And that is the appreciation of the blood of jesus christ
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Which obed-edom had.
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Two things: he wasn't law conscious, why?
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He's a gittite.
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He's a philistine.
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In fact, during the time of david,
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David actually had 600 philistines in his army,
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600 of them.
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And if god is restoring the tabernacle of david,
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He's going to restore gentiles because at that time in israel,
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Under the law, the salvation message is
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Only for the jews, only for the nation of israel.
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But then, david is-- how do i explain-- say this?
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I always like to say it like this.
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David is an old covenant man with a new covenant mentality.
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And god allowed him to have that new covenant mentality.
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And he lived his life like that.
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And those 600 philistines around him,
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They became mighty warriors.
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One of them is called ittai.
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And ittai was in charge of one third of david's army.
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He divided his army into three parts.
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And joab was in charge of one third,
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And joab's brother, abishai, was in charge of another.
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And then the third one was actually a philistine,
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A gittite, by the name of ittae, who was faithful to david,
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The bible tells us, amen.
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So, obed-edom the gittite.
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He wasn't law-conscious.
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He was jesus-conscious.
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Because he wasn't law-conscious, he was not sin-conscious.
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He was jesus-conscious, hallelujah, amen.
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So they followed the ark. how do i know that?
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Because the bible says god made him a doorkeeper
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In the tabernacle of david, hallelujah, amen.
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And this is what it says.
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Let's read on about his children.
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"moreover the sons of obed-edom
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Were shemaiah the firstborn, jehozabad the second,
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Joah the third, sacar the fourth,
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Nethanel the fifth, ammiel the sixth,
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Issachar the seventh, peulthai the eighth;
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For god blessed him."
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So remember, god blessed him with many children.
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Not just the quantity, even the quality
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Of the children, amen.
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Look at the children that he had.
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"also to shemaiah his son were sons born
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Who governed their fathers' houses,
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Because they were men of great ability."
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These are his grandsons.
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They were men of great ability, amen.
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"the sons of shemaiah were othni, rephael, obed,
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And elzabad, whose--"
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They're all bad dudes, man, i'm telling you.
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"whose brothers elihu and semachiah were able men."
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All these were-- are the sons of obed-edom.
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So they are all able men, amen.
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And the word "able," you know, is really the word "chayil,"
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Which is actually the word for who can find
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A chayil woman?
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Who can find a virtuous woman, amen?
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It has that idea of not just virtue, virtue,
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Or moral character, it's also a picture of wealth.
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Read it up.
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For example, it says, "you shall remember
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The lord your god, who gives you power,"
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Deuteronomy 8:18.
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"you shall remember the lord your god,
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For it is he who gives you power to get wealth."
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Well, the word there is koach, power to get, what?
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Wealth, chayil, amen. chayil.
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So chayil is translated for wealth
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In many places in the bible.
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So it's both moral strength as well as wealth, amen.
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These able men, "all these were of the sons of obed-edom,
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They and their sons and their brethren,
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Able men with strength for the work:
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Sixty-two of obed-edom."
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So god blessed him.
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God blessed his sons.
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God blessed his grandsons, hallelujah.
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May that be true for you and your families, amen.
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May the blessing of obed-edom rest in your house, hallelujah.
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This year, it will manifest, amen?
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And let it rest in such a way, let it manifest also
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In such a way that people will talk about it, amen.
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Just like obed-edom.
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It's-- obed-edom's blessings, people will talk about it
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And they will talk about it so that it's god's way
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Of sharing the good news, amen, so that others will be drawn
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To the god that you serve, amen?
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The god who has blessed your house
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Like the house of obed-edom, amen, amen, amen.
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Praise the lord.
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Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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Announcer: and now, a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: lift your hands to the lord, wherever you are.
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Let me pray this over you for this coming week.
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The lord bless you and your families.
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Let the blessings that were on obed-edom
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And his household be upon you and your houses,
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Upon your families, upon your little ones.
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And in the name of the lord jesus christ,
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May that blessing be so manifested
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That people will talk about it,
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That you're someone to be envied,
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That they will desire the god that you serve,
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That wonderful savior jesus christ,
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That they will hunger after him.
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Even this coming week, may the blessings of god
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Begin to manifest in an accelerated way,
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In the name of jesus.
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In this coming week, the lord grant to you and yours
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His wonderful shalom, wholeness and peace
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And tranquility to lead and govern your lives, amen.
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All is well this week for you and yours
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In the name of the lord jesus christ, amen.
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God bless 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.
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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, this ministry will still
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Always be all about jesus.
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Still the center of our call,
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Still the heartbeat of our people.
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Will you still choose
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To make our mission
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Your mission today?
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Make your best gift
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Before december 31.
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Visit josephprince.org
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To make your gift now.
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Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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I was so excited.
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Male announcer: church.
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It's not a place. it's a people.
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Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
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Female: hello.
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Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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How in the world do you do an online church?
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And we gather in our living room and we sing and we praise
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And then we sit there and we take in the word
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And then afterward you can talk about it.
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Announcer: church is not four walls.
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It's one body of christ.
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Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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You know, doing the online church.
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But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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In the chat house, and when i was sick,
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I had people praying for me.
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I had people taking communion for me.
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They're right there when you need it.
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Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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It's who you meet.
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Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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From people we can't see
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And we're not in the same room as.
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It helps us to make that connection,
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That i can't see god
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And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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Even online.
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Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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Or text church to 71239 today.
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join pastor joseph prince next time
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For a fresh word from the lord.
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Joseph prince ministries
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Is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
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And your gift is tax-deductible for the amount that exceeds
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Any fair market value of the materials
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You receive from us.
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Joseph Prince - What Social Media Never Tells You About Comparison

December 4, 2025 | 29:45

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