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Joseph Prince - When God’s People Praise in Hard Times

November 25, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince - When God’s People Praise in Hard Times
Learn how a thankful heart draws heaven’s grace into your everyday life.
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - When God’s People Praise in Hard Times | November 25, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: the word "thanksgiving,"
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  • Is the word "eucharist" in greek,
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  • Which means "charis is there."
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  • The word "charis" is greek for favor, for grace.
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  • When you give thanks, you are flowing in grace.
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  • You are walking in the spirit of grace.
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  • If you are full of thanksgiving to god,
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  • You are in the spirit of grace.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Male announcer: when the demands of life come one after another,
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  • What will raise us up?
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  • In today's message, joseph shows us
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  • How to look above the waves, fix our eyes on jesus,
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  • And find confidence, peace, and strength in the word.
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  • Encouraged by today's message?
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  • Now you can fill your heart every day
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  • With wave upon wave of grace from joseph's book,
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  • "grace for today."
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  • Request your copy today for a gift of any amount
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  • To the ministry.
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  • Call the number on your screen, text offer to 71239,
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  • Or visit josephprince.org to request your copy now.
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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: god promised he'll pour on what?
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  • The house of david.
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  • And david for one, he understood the favor of god.
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  • He understood the favor of god.
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  • When the favor of god is on you,
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  • The spirit of grace and supplication
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  • Is one and the same,
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  • Spirit of grace and supplication.
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  • Supplication is what you bring before god.
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  • When you experience grace, all right, it translates
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  • Into prayer to god and praise to god,
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  • Worship to god.
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  • The word "thanksgiving," all right,
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  • It's actually the word-- or praise, "thanksgiving,"
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  • Is the word "eucharist."
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  • Eucharist in greek, which means, "charis is there."
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  • The word "charis" is greek for favor, for grace,
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  • Amen?
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  • When you give thanks, you are flowing in grace.
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  • You are walking in the spirit of grace.
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  • If you are full of thanksgiving to god,
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  • You are in the spirit of grace.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • And if you look at david, one thing
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  • That characterizes david's life,
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  • Anyone can see that, is praise, thanksgiving, and worship.
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  • In fact, david built a tabernacle for god
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  • At a time, remember this, the tabernacle at the time
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  • Was erected first, all right, at gilgal,
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  • And then later on a more permanent stay
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  • For a while over at shiloh, and then from shiloh, okay,
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  • It was brought to gibeon, and there you have
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  • The tabernacle of moses, all right?
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  • It was at gibeon.
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  • Say gibeon, mount gibeon.
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  • God raised david up to take the ark,
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  • Which represents jesus christ, to jerusalem,
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  • And there david erected another tabernacle,
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  • All right, don't forget the tabernacle of moses
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  • Was standing where?
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  • At mount gibeon.
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  • So the structure was there.
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  • It's a picture of religion, you know?
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  • Christian religion, for example.
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  • Christianity is not a religion.
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  • It's a relationship with the god of heaven
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  • Through jesus christ.
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  • Are you listening, people?
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  • But what happened is the tabernacle of moses,
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  • They had all the structure, they had the entrance,
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  • They had the outer court, they had the holy place,
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  • The holy of holies, but the presence of god
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  • Wasn't there.
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  • And the presence of god back then
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  • Was typified in the ark of the covenant.
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  • Are you listening, people? where is the ark?
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  • David took it to jerusalem.
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  • And there he erected a tabernacle
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  • Called the tabernacle of david.
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  • And david instituted 24 hours of praise and worship, wow.
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  • How do you like that?
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  • He obviously has a revelation.
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  • When god says the key of david, it's got something to do
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  • With our flowing in this eucharist,
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  • In this thanksgiving, praise and worship.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • It seems like the more we pray and the more we worship,
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  • The more we praise, jesus uses that key
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  • In your life.
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  • It's called the key of the house of david.
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  • Are you listening, people?
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  • And some people do not know how to praise,
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  • They don't know how to give thanks to god.
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  • They know how to grumble, they know how to complain,
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  • They know how to find fault, all right?
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  • And even in a good sermon, they are able
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  • To spit out the wheat and swallow the kernel,
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  • The chaff.
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  • There are people gifted like that.
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  • I didn't say that by mistake. i said that on purpose.
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  • There are people who are gifted in snatching defeat
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  • From the jaws of victory.
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  • Even if something is good in a great place like this,
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  • They'll find something bad to say.
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  • Even if pastor prince preach a good sermon,
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  • They'll find something, you know,
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  • They don't agree with, amen?
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  • And they'll focus on that.
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  • There's something wrong with their spirit.
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  • And that was what was wrong with the children of israel
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  • In the wilderness.
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  • When god himself led them in a pillar of cloud by day
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  • And a pillar of fire by night, they still found fault.
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  • And people like this, when they go to heaven,
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  • They'll say, "god, your throne is too bright.
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  • Can you sort of turn it down a bit," all right?
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  • "and god, the music is just too beautiful,"
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  • All right?
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  • "it's too peaceful here. make some noise.
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  • You know, god, i don't like this."
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  • I'm telling you, the other alternative
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  • You won't like.
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  • If god send you another place, i guarantee
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  • You won't like it, amen.
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  • So that's human nature. we like to complain.
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  • It's not normal to praise. are you listening?
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  • We spend time with our loved ones.
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  • It's not natural to praise.
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  • We have to teach ourselves to praise.
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  • People say, "well, pastor prince,
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  • I just flow with the spirit."
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  • I'll tell you what, some people flow with the spirit means
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  • I do what i desire to do at that moment.
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  • I'm telling you, you got to be careful
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  • When you hear people saying, "i'm flowing by the spirit,"
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  • All right?
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  • Because sometimes they are flowing
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  • With what they like, what they don't like.
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  • They don't like something, they say, "i'm not flowing,
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  • All right, i don't feel the spirit saying something
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  • To bear witness."
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  • And it's all because of their likes
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  • And their dislikes.
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  • And i'm here to tell you, we gotta learn to worship.
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  • We gotta learn to praise.
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  • Why?
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  • It's not natural.
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  • It's not natural for human beings to praise.
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  • Now, the tabernacle of david has no religion about it.
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  • It's direct access to the presence of god.
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  • See, the tabernacle of moses when you look up here,
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  • All right, you've seen this picture before,
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  • All right, once upon a time it was a place
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  • Where god inhabited because the ark was there,
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  • Right in the holy of holies, okay?
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  • So you enter in by the main gate and you're in the outer court,
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  • That's where the sacrifices are made
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  • And then when you go into the tabernacle
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  • Is the holy place, and then the holy of holies,
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  • Only the high priest can go once a year.
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  • But now, and this is what was at the mount gibeon,
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  • Called the tabernacle of moses.
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  • It was there.
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  • The only thing is that the presence of god is missing.
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  • So a lot of people, they go to church.
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  • They don't mind-- they don't mind
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  • The pastor preaching, all right, sharing.
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  • They don't mind some hymns and some songs and all that,
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  • But they don't want to encounter god's presence.
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  • We want the presence of god.
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  • We want the presence of our lord jesus christ,
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  • The ark of the covenant.
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  • One of the--the first sign that solomon received wisdom
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  • When he woke up from his sleep.
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  • He asked god for wisdom when god asked,
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  • "ask what i shall give you."
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  • God made him the richest man that ever lived, all right?
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  • He asked god for wisdom.
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  • And when he woke up, the very first thing he did,
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  • He was actually at mount gibeon,
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  • Worshipping there when he received the dream.
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  • But the first thing when he received wisdom,
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  • He left mount gibeon, the place of religion,
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  • And he went to jerusalem where the ark was.
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  • His father had erected the tabernacle of david,
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  • And there he worshiped god.
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  • So the first sign of wisdom is that you start to relish,
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  • Cherish, treasure the presence of the lord jesus christ
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  • In your life.
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  • Can i have a good amen, church?
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  • Amen, your riches are for him.
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  • Your life is for him.
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  • Your family is for him.
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  • Your health and strength is for him, hallelujah.
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  • Give the best to your master.
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  • And i'm telling you, he deserves the best, amen?
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  • Now watch this.
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  • The tabernacle of david has no procedures.
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  • You see the ark there, the presence of jesus
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  • In the old testament?
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  • He had 24 hours singing, playing of instruments,
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  • Dancing before god.
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  • Now i want you to know the king, you can see the king
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  • Kneeling down there, david,
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  • He's the greatest worshipper of all.
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  • He's called the sweet psalmist of israel.
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  • And he knew that every time he worshipped god,
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  • Every time he was in trouble, all right,
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  • Whenever he sang psalms to god, he sang praises to god,
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  • God turned on the key, amen, and new doors are opened.
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  • Right now he's being confined in a narrow space,
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  • He's being attacked on every side,
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  • It seems like there's no way out.
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  • David will give praise to god, he will sing psalms to god,
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  • And you know what?
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  • All of a sudden there's a door open
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  • That wasn't there before.
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  • One time the enemies, and in this case
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  • It was king saul that was pursuing david,
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  • He was pursuing david at a narrow ridge, all right,
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  • Where there was a jagged cliff.
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  • It still exists in israel, all right, the jagged cliff.
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  • And david was going this way, listen carefully, and saul,
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  • David's enemy, all right, and the soldiers
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  • Were going this way.
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  • They were pursuing david.
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  • They were just on the other side of the ridge.
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  • It was a ridge.
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  • And the moment the ridge comes to an end,
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  • David would have faced his enemy.
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  • But you know what happened?
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  • David started singing praises to god
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  • Right while he was walking along the ridge.
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  • And all of a sudden, god turned the whole thing around,
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  • And saul turned around and went the other way.
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  • Another time, david's son, absalom,
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  • Usurped the father's throne, all right, ousted his father.
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  • His father went crying, didn't want to fight.
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  • He could fight.
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  • He had the mighty men with him, but he didn't want to fight
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  • His own son.
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  • So he went crying, weeping, all right, up mount olives,
  • 00:10:25.276 --> 00:10:28.413
  • And the bible tells us the song that he sang
  • 00:10:28.413 --> 00:10:29.914
  • At the time was:
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  • ♪ but thou, o lord, art a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
  • 00:10:35.987 --> 00:10:40.225
  • ♪ but thou, o lord, art a shield for me ♪
  • 00:10:40.225 --> 00:10:44.596
  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪♪
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  • Joseph prince: and the bible tells us, we know the psalms
  • 00:10:47.599 --> 00:10:49.534
  • That he sing because, if you have a good bible,
  • 00:10:49.534 --> 00:10:52.337
  • It tells you the psalms when he sang those psalms.
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  • David sang this psalm when he was in the cave.
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  • David sang this psalm when he was being pursued,
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  • All right?
  • 00:11:00.445 --> 00:11:01.780
  • David sang this psalm when he feigned madness
  • 00:11:01.780 --> 00:11:04.516
  • Before king of gath.
  • 00:11:04.516 --> 00:11:06.518
  • It will tell you when he sang the psalms,
  • 00:11:06.518 --> 00:11:08.987
  • When it came out of him.
  • 00:11:08.987 --> 00:11:10.321
  • So when you learn to praise god, when david
  • 00:11:10.321 --> 00:11:12.223
  • Was up on mount of olives, the situation turned, all right?
  • 00:11:12.223 --> 00:11:17.095
  • God put someone in the camp of absalom,
  • 00:11:17.095 --> 00:11:20.765
  • His son, who gave him bad advice.
  • 00:11:20.765 --> 00:11:22.967
  • As a result, absalom never succeeded
  • 00:11:22.967 --> 00:11:25.203
  • To usurp successfully the father's throne.
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  • Church, i'm here to tell you, i don't care
  • 00:11:28.506 --> 00:11:29.841
  • What is your trouble today, all right?
  • 00:11:29.841 --> 00:11:32.076
  • What you need is an open door.
  • 00:11:32.076 --> 00:11:34.479
  • And if you'll just forget your trouble, amen,
  • 00:11:34.479 --> 00:11:37.048
  • Just learn to worship god, learn just to thank god,
  • 00:11:37.048 --> 00:11:40.118
  • Learn to praise god.
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  • At midnight paul and silas prayed
  • 00:11:42.053 --> 00:11:44.489
  • And sang hymns to god, amen.
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  • Acts 16, singing hymns to god.
  • 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:50.929
  • And i didn't realize that this word "singing hymns,"
  • 00:11:50.929 --> 00:11:55.266
  • When i check it out in the greek,
  • 00:11:55.266 --> 00:11:57.335
  • Literally it refers to psalms 113 to psalms 118,
  • 00:11:57.335 --> 00:12:02.040
  • All right, the great-- the hallel.
  • 00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:03.908
  • They call it hallelujah chorus, amen.
  • 00:12:03.908 --> 00:12:06.511
  • It's sung during the feast days, the pesach, the passover,
  • 00:12:06.511 --> 00:12:10.281
  • During the feast of pentecost, the feast of tabernacles.
  • 00:12:10.281 --> 00:12:14.953
  • And paul and silas sang with the words of david,
  • 00:12:14.953 --> 00:12:17.889
  • Yo, with the words of david.
  • 00:12:17.889 --> 00:12:20.758
  • The psalms i mentioned just now is written by david.
  • 00:12:20.758 --> 00:12:23.795
  • So they sang with the words of david.
  • 00:12:23.795 --> 00:12:25.797
  • You know, when david was in the cave,
  • 00:12:25.797 --> 00:12:27.665
  • He wrote more than one song in the cave of adullam.
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  • If you look at the title of psalm 57,
  • 00:12:30.602 --> 00:12:32.704
  • It says the psalm of david when he was in the cave,
  • 00:12:32.704 --> 00:12:37.108
  • The cave of adullam.
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  • "be exalted o god above the heavens,
  • 00:12:38.943 --> 00:12:41.546
  • Your faithfulness above the clouds.
  • 00:12:41.546 --> 00:12:44.582
  • I will give thanks to thee."
  • 00:12:44.582 --> 00:12:46.751
  • And that was a time, one of the lowest times
  • 00:12:46.751 --> 00:12:48.286
  • Of david's life.
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  • Are you listening, church?
  • 00:12:51.089 --> 00:12:52.657
  • We're going to learn to sing with the words of david,
  • 00:12:52.657 --> 00:12:55.226
  • They're anointed.
  • 00:12:55.226 --> 00:12:57.095
  • It's not for no reason it's called the key of david.
  • 00:12:57.095 --> 00:13:01.032
  • God will lay upon his shoulder the key of the house of david.
  • 00:13:01.032 --> 00:13:04.936
  • Now there was a time in the early church
  • 00:13:04.936 --> 00:13:07.272
  • When they were all quarreling, all right,
  • 00:13:07.272 --> 00:13:09.540
  • About whether once the gentiles received jesus christ,
  • 00:13:09.540 --> 00:13:13.444
  • The non-jews, whether they should keep
  • 00:13:13.444 --> 00:13:15.079
  • The ten commandments, they should keep the law,
  • 00:13:15.079 --> 00:13:17.548
  • And this argument became so severe,
  • 00:13:17.548 --> 00:13:21.052
  • Just like it is today, that they went to james,
  • 00:13:21.052 --> 00:13:24.689
  • The senior pastor of the church of jerusalem
  • 00:13:24.689 --> 00:13:27.258
  • At that time, all right?
  • 00:13:27.258 --> 00:13:29.193
  • It is called today the jerusalem council.
  • 00:13:29.193 --> 00:13:33.097
  • It was a debate about whether should keep the law or not
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  • After you are saved.
  • 00:13:35.733 --> 00:13:38.169
  • And then paul stood up and say, "look,
  • 00:13:38.169 --> 00:13:42.040
  • I preach to these gentiles.
  • 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:43.841
  • They're not perfect, they're not circumcised.
  • 00:13:43.841 --> 00:13:46.244
  • They do not understand the law that god has given to us.
  • 00:13:46.244 --> 00:13:49.213
  • But you know something?
  • 00:13:49.213 --> 00:13:50.548
  • God worked miracles in their life.
  • 00:13:50.548 --> 00:13:52.583
  • Doesn't stop god from moving in their lives."
  • 00:13:52.583 --> 00:13:54.886
  • And then finally simon peter stood up and says, "guys,
  • 00:13:54.886 --> 00:13:57.355
  • Let's stop arguing about this.
  • 00:13:57.355 --> 00:13:58.990
  • You know how god used me, all right,
  • 00:13:58.990 --> 00:14:01.125
  • To preach to cornelius's house?"
  • 00:14:01.125 --> 00:14:02.527
  • Remember that?
  • 00:14:02.527 --> 00:14:03.861
  • Okay, and finally the senior pastor, james,
  • 00:14:03.861 --> 00:14:05.997
  • Stood up, the pastor of the church of jerusalem,
  • 00:14:05.997 --> 00:14:08.333
  • And this is what james said.
  • 00:14:08.333 --> 00:14:10.101
  • "after they had become silent, james answered, saying,
  • 00:14:10.101 --> 00:14:12.403
  • 'men and brethren, listen to me.
  • 00:14:12.403 --> 00:14:14.405
  • Simon,'" which is simon peter, "'has declared
  • 00:14:14.405 --> 00:14:16.941
  • How god at first visited the gentiles'"
  • 00:14:16.941 --> 00:14:19.610
  • During cornelius's incident, "'to take out for them
  • 00:14:19.610 --> 00:14:22.280
  • A people for his name-- out of them
  • 00:14:22.280 --> 00:14:23.648
  • A people for his name.
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  • And with this the words of the prophets agree.'"
  • 00:14:24.983 --> 00:14:27.518
  • Now he's about to quote the old testament.
  • 00:14:27.518 --> 00:14:30.288
  • He's about to quote
  • 00:14:30.288 --> 00:14:31.756
  • The book of amos chapter 9, verse 11,
  • 00:14:31.756 --> 00:14:35.259
  • Just as it is written.
  • 00:14:35.259 --> 00:14:36.794
  • Now god is saying, now quotation now from amos,
  • 00:14:36.794 --> 00:14:39.697
  • "after this i will return."
  • 00:14:39.697 --> 00:14:41.532
  • God says, "and i will," what?
  • 00:14:41.532 --> 00:14:44.268
  • Shout. shout.
  • 00:14:44.268 --> 00:14:47.305
  • "rebuild the tabernacle of david,
  • 00:14:47.305 --> 00:14:49.841
  • Which has fallen down; i'll rebuild its ruins,
  • 00:14:49.841 --> 00:14:53.644
  • And i'll set it up; so that the rest of mankind
  • 00:14:53.644 --> 00:14:56.447
  • May seek the lord."
  • 00:14:56.447 --> 00:14:58.616
  • There'll be a great harvest of souls
  • 00:14:58.616 --> 00:15:01.519
  • When the tabernacle of david is restored, amen.
  • 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:06.691
  • A great harvest of souls.
  • 00:15:06.691 --> 00:15:09.060
  • Right now in our ministry we are seeing
  • 00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:11.863
  • The greatest harvest of souls at any time of our ministry.
  • 00:15:11.863 --> 00:15:17.835
  • We are seeing a great harvest, i mean a great harvest of souls
  • 00:15:17.835 --> 00:15:20.438
  • Even among the young people.
  • 00:15:20.438 --> 00:15:22.640
  • It's a great harvest of souls.
  • 00:15:22.640 --> 00:15:24.342
  • And why?
  • 00:15:24.342 --> 00:15:25.676
  • God says, "i'm rebuilding the tabernacle of david,
  • 00:15:25.676 --> 00:15:28.946
  • And i'll rebuild its ruins, and i'll set it up;
  • 00:15:28.946 --> 00:15:31.783
  • So that the rest of mankind may seek the lord,
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  • Even all the gentiles who are called by my name,
  • 00:15:34.252 --> 00:15:36.687
  • Says the lord who does all these things."
  • 00:15:36.687 --> 00:15:38.189
  • So the senior pastor of jerusalem
  • 00:15:38.189 --> 00:15:39.891
  • Quoted amos saying that,
  • 00:15:39.891 --> 00:15:41.993
  • Hey, the tabernacle of david
  • 00:15:41.993 --> 00:15:44.395
  • Which welcomed the gentiles, all right,
  • 00:15:44.395 --> 00:15:46.998
  • Is not just for that time, for that era.
  • 00:15:46.998 --> 00:15:49.801
  • It's not a bygone era.
  • 00:15:49.801 --> 00:15:52.003
  • Some of you are saying, "pastor prince, why go to david?
  • 00:15:52.003 --> 00:15:53.671
  • He's in the old testament."
  • 00:15:53.671 --> 00:15:55.039
  • You don't understand god is rebuilding
  • 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.641
  • The tabernacle of david now.
  • 00:15:56.641 --> 00:15:58.743
  • And when we praise and worship, god will bring in the souls.
  • 00:15:58.743 --> 00:16:02.914
  • What you're seeing around the world
  • 00:16:02.914 --> 00:16:04.248
  • Is happening already all these decades.
  • 00:16:04.248 --> 00:16:06.484
  • You see the life that you are in right now,
  • 00:16:06.484 --> 00:16:09.287
  • The life that you are living.
  • 00:16:09.287 --> 00:16:10.621
  • You are that generation that saw god
  • 00:16:10.621 --> 00:16:13.291
  • Rebuilding the tabernacle of david.
  • 00:16:13.291 --> 00:16:15.393
  • Praise and worship has never been so abundant
  • 00:16:15.393 --> 00:16:17.595
  • As it is now.
  • 00:16:17.595 --> 00:16:19.397
  • But my concern right now is that we must not forget
  • 00:16:19.397 --> 00:16:23.101
  • The psalms of david.
  • 00:16:23.101 --> 00:16:25.303
  • In fact we are to worship with the words of david.
  • 00:16:25.303 --> 00:16:28.072
  • "well, pastor prince, modern words can do also."
  • 00:16:28.072 --> 00:16:30.108
  • Of course, i am not belittling that.
  • 00:16:30.108 --> 00:16:32.076
  • You can write in your own words, you can paraphrase some things,
  • 00:16:32.076 --> 00:16:35.246
  • But the essence of your praise and worship,
  • 00:16:35.246 --> 00:16:37.582
  • You cannot surpass david.
  • 00:16:37.582 --> 00:16:39.517
  • I find that every time praise and worship
  • 00:16:39.517 --> 00:16:42.687
  • Is going up to god, that is the greatest time
  • 00:16:42.687 --> 00:16:46.491
  • Of israel's history.
  • 00:16:46.491 --> 00:16:49.127
  • Their victory, their blessings,
  • 00:16:49.127 --> 00:16:50.928
  • The amount of favor they receive.
  • 00:16:50.928 --> 00:16:52.897
  • And i'm here to tell you, long before the devil
  • 00:16:52.897 --> 00:16:55.833
  • Steals your victory, he steals your song.
  • 00:16:55.833 --> 00:16:59.003
  • He steals your praise.
  • 00:16:59.003 --> 00:17:01.072
  • And slowly, he makes you say things.
  • 00:17:01.072 --> 00:17:03.808
  • You start criticizing people.
  • 00:17:03.808 --> 00:17:05.743
  • You start finding fault.
  • 00:17:05.743 --> 00:17:07.512
  • You're no more eating, you're tasting and spitting out.
  • 00:17:07.512 --> 00:17:10.882
  • You find fault in everything.
  • 00:17:10.882 --> 00:17:12.950
  • You become a very bitter person, and i'm concerned
  • 00:17:12.950 --> 00:17:14.852
  • Because you will grow up to be a very bitter old man
  • 00:17:14.852 --> 00:17:18.723
  • In the next few years.
  • 00:17:18.723 --> 00:17:20.491
  • That means you grow old fast, all right?
  • 00:17:20.491 --> 00:17:22.994
  • As for us, we'll not be like that person.
  • 00:17:22.994 --> 00:17:26.097
  • We'll continue to praise god.
  • 00:17:26.097 --> 00:17:28.332
  • When we see our brother's faults, all right,
  • 00:17:28.332 --> 00:17:30.168
  • We'll look for the gold, all right?
  • 00:17:30.168 --> 00:17:32.737
  • Beyond the wood, we'll look for the gold
  • 00:17:32.737 --> 00:17:34.338
  • Beyond the splinter, amen.
  • 00:17:34.338 --> 00:17:36.707
  • We'll find something good to say, amen.
  • 00:17:36.707 --> 00:17:39.810
  • With god, we'll always be praising him,
  • 00:17:39.810 --> 00:17:41.746
  • Being thankful, being aware of all the blessings of god
  • 00:17:41.746 --> 00:17:43.948
  • In our lives.
  • 00:17:43.948 --> 00:17:45.283
  • And there's no one better to learn from
  • 00:17:45.283 --> 00:17:46.617
  • Than david.
  • 00:17:46.617 --> 00:17:47.952
  • Can we improve on the words
  • 00:17:47.952 --> 00:17:49.820
  • Of the sweetest psalmist of israel?
  • 00:17:49.820 --> 00:17:51.522
  • No way.
  • 00:17:51.522 --> 00:17:52.857
  • You know what hezekiah did when he restored
  • 00:17:52.857 --> 00:17:54.192
  • The praise and worship?
  • 00:17:54.192 --> 00:17:55.526
  • Look at this, 2 chronicles 29, "moreover, king hezekiah
  • 00:17:55.526 --> 00:17:58.963
  • And the leaders commanded the levites
  • 00:17:58.963 --> 00:18:01.599
  • To sing praise to the lord with the words of david
  • 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:06.304
  • And of asaph the seer.
  • 00:18:06.304 --> 00:18:08.673
  • Now, david wrote most of the psalms.
  • 00:18:08.673 --> 00:18:13.711
  • Asaph wrote a few, but notice this king
  • 00:18:13.711 --> 00:18:16.981
  • Who lived a long time after david the king lived,
  • 00:18:16.981 --> 00:18:20.751
  • All right?
  • 00:18:20.751 --> 00:18:22.086
  • He wanted his praisers, his worshipers,
  • 00:18:22.086 --> 00:18:24.989
  • His levites to sing with the words of david.
  • 00:18:24.989 --> 00:18:30.127
  • And that's why god gives us the psalms.
  • 00:18:30.127 --> 00:18:32.730
  • Do you know jesus was actually quoting the psalms
  • 00:18:32.730 --> 00:18:36.000
  • When he was on the cross?
  • 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.035
  • It seems like the greatest suffering
  • 00:18:38.035 --> 00:18:39.470
  • That our lord went through, what came out of his mouth
  • 00:18:39.470 --> 00:18:41.939
  • Was the psalms.
  • 00:18:41.939 --> 00:18:44.141
  • "oh my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"
  • 00:18:44.141 --> 00:18:46.677
  • But it goes to praise, "but thou art holy,
  • 00:18:46.677 --> 00:18:48.746
  • Oh thou that inhabits the praises of israel."
  • 00:18:48.746 --> 00:18:52.950
  • That's the psalm that jesus quoted on the cross.
  • 00:18:52.950 --> 00:18:55.720
  • Something happens when you sing the words of david.
  • 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.756
  • I'm telling you, church, something happens inside you,
  • 00:18:58.756 --> 00:19:01.659
  • All right?
  • 00:19:01.659 --> 00:19:02.994
  • First of all, fear begin to melt away.
  • 00:19:02.994 --> 00:19:06.564
  • You cannot psyche yourself out of fear.
  • 00:19:06.564 --> 00:19:08.966
  • Some of you today, you're afraid of the future.
  • 00:19:08.966 --> 00:19:11.469
  • You're afraid, all right, of lack.
  • 00:19:11.469 --> 00:19:14.272
  • You're afraid of losing your youth.
  • 00:19:14.272 --> 00:19:17.642
  • You're afraid of some disease.
  • 00:19:17.642 --> 00:19:20.044
  • You're afraid of losing the love of your loved one.
  • 00:19:20.044 --> 00:19:24.282
  • You are afraid your friends will make fun of you.
  • 00:19:24.282 --> 00:19:27.018
  • You are afraid of rejection.
  • 00:19:27.018 --> 00:19:29.120
  • You are afraid of not having enough.
  • 00:19:29.120 --> 00:19:31.389
  • You are afraid of yourself or what you will do.
  • 00:19:31.389 --> 00:19:34.859
  • And then sometimes you are afraid
  • 00:19:34.859 --> 00:19:36.193
  • Because for a while there's nothing to be afraid.
  • 00:19:36.193 --> 00:19:41.432
  • But i'm here to tell you, the only fear
  • 00:19:41.432 --> 00:19:44.135
  • That god wants you to have
  • 00:19:44.135 --> 00:19:45.770
  • Is the wholesome fear of the lord.
  • 00:19:45.770 --> 00:19:48.539
  • Which is actually defined by jesus as the worship of god.
  • 00:19:48.539 --> 00:19:51.976
  • When the devil tempted jesus in the wilderness
  • 00:19:51.976 --> 00:19:53.911
  • And the devil said, "fall before me and worship me,"
  • 00:19:53.911 --> 00:19:56.614
  • Jesus says, "it is written, 'thou shall worship
  • 00:19:56.614 --> 00:19:58.416
  • The lord thy god.'"
  • 00:19:58.416 --> 00:19:59.750
  • He was quoting from the old testament,
  • 00:19:59.750 --> 00:20:01.485
  • Deuteronomy, where it says, "thou shall fear
  • 00:20:01.485 --> 00:20:04.188
  • The lord thy god."
  • 00:20:04.188 --> 00:20:05.523
  • But jesus translated the fear of god
  • 00:20:05.523 --> 00:20:07.458
  • As the worship of god.
  • 00:20:07.458 --> 00:20:09.126
  • So there must be no fears in your life.
  • 00:20:09.126 --> 00:20:11.962
  • "but pastor prince, how do i get rid of fear?"
  • 00:20:11.962 --> 00:20:14.198
  • Learn from david.
  • 00:20:14.198 --> 00:20:15.766
  • He had every reason to fear.
  • 00:20:15.766 --> 00:20:17.635
  • Now david is a type of christ.
  • 00:20:17.635 --> 00:20:19.470
  • One of the clearest illustrations of christ.
  • 00:20:19.470 --> 00:20:22.473
  • He ran away from king saul.
  • 00:20:22.473 --> 00:20:24.608
  • He was rejected.
  • 00:20:24.608 --> 00:20:26.210
  • When he was rejected, during the time
  • 00:20:26.210 --> 00:20:27.945
  • Of his rejection, there were men that came to david.
  • 00:20:27.945 --> 00:20:31.215
  • This speaks of the time that we live in.
  • 00:20:31.215 --> 00:20:33.217
  • When jesus first came to israel, he was rejected.
  • 00:20:33.217 --> 00:20:36.220
  • And he became the bread of life to this dying world.
  • 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:39.824
  • Today, you and i, we are the ones
  • 00:20:39.824 --> 00:20:41.659
  • That go to jesus during the time of his rejection
  • 00:20:41.659 --> 00:20:45.329
  • And these are the people who came to david,
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  • And they became mighty men.
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  • When david was enthroned as king,
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  • All those that came to him during his rejection,
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  • He gave them positions.
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  • One day our lord will return and this earth will become,
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  • Once again, the kingdom of our god
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  • And of his christ, the bible tells us,
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  • And he will reign from jerusalem.
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  • Guess where you will be?
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  • You will reign with him.
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  • But meanwhile, he wants you to reign over your fears,
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  • Over your inadequacies, over your anxieties and stress.
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  • I'm here to tell you, church, okay?
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  • You cannot even entertain stress for one minute.
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  • It will destroy your body,
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  • It will destroy your relationships.
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  • All of a sudden you say things to your wife or your husband
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  • You don't plan to say, but you were under stress.
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  • You say things to your children
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  • You didn't plan to say, all right,
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  • But because you were under stress.
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  • "so how do i free from myself from fears,
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  • Worries, stress, pastor prince?"
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  • Learn from david.
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  • It's in the words of david.
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  • The most quoted psalms that you know,
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  • The world knows, is what?
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  • Psalms 23.
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  • "the lord is my shepherd; i shall not want."
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  • Not according to some people in the world,
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  • "the lord is my shepherd, i have plenty of wants."
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  • I shall not want means i shall not lack.
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  • Now if you call that prosperity, guilty as charged.
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  • But david, the words of david, "the lord is my shepherd;
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  • I shall not lack.
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  • He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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  • He leads me beside the still waters.
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  • He restores my soul.
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  • He leads me in the paths of righteousness
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  • For his name's sake.
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  • Yea, do i walk
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  • Through the valley of the shadow of death,
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  • I'll fear no evil, for thou art with me.
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  • Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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  • Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my,"
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  • Not y'all, "my enemies.
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  • Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runs over."
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  • If you call that prosperity, "my cup runs over,"
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  • Guilty as charged.
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  • Blame it on the one that loved me.
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  • "my cup runs over.
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  • Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me,"
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  • The hebrew word means hunt you down,
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  • "all the days of my life.
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  • And i will dwell in the house of the lord
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  • Forever, amen and amen."
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  • Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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  • With a special prayer to close today's program,
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  • Right after this.
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  • With wave upon wave of grace from joseph's book,
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  • Announcer: and now a closing word
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: the lord keep you throughout this week, people,
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  • From dangers, harm, unforeseen accidents,
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  • And dangers, you and your loved ones.
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  • Your shepherd preserve, guard, and defend you in jesus's name.
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  • Never feel unloved.
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  • In a world that makes you feel cold and rejected,
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  • In a world that does not care but for themselves,
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  • Remember the lord loves you and the lord cares for you.
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  • You may be in the world, but you're not of the world.
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  • So don't expect the things that come on the world
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  • To come on you.
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  • You belong to a different kingdom.
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  • You're a child of the king.
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  • And you are sheep of his pasture.
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  • The lord is your shepherd, you will not lack.
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  • In jesus's name, and all the people said--
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  • God bless you, church, amen.
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  • Announcer: we live in a world 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.
  • 00:24:46.103 --> 00:24:49.206
  • Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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  • He is still jesus above it all.
  • 00:24:53.143 --> 00:24:56.246
  • 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.
  • 00:25:02.086 --> 00:25:05.122
  • Still the center of our call,
  • 00:25:05.122 --> 00:25:07.291
  • 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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  • Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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  • I was so excited.
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  • Announcer: church, it's not a place.
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  • It's a people.
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  • Male: welcome, everyone.
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  • Male: we get people asking us, you know, how in the world
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  • Do you do an online church?
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  • And, you know, we gather in our living room,
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  • 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.
  • 00:25:50.634 --> 00:25:52.369
  • We feel planted.
  • 00:25:52.369 --> 00:25:53.704
  • It does take some getting used to
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  • A little bit, 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.
  • 00:25:58.876 --> 00:26:01.078
  • Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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  • Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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  • In the chat host.
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  • And when i was sick, i had people praying for me.
  • 00:26:08.185 --> 00:26:10.788
  • I had people take the communion for me.
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  • They're right there when you need it.
  • 00:26:13.057 --> 00:26:14.992
  • Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
  • 00:26:14.992 --> 00:26:17.461
  • 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 and i'm not in the same room as him,
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  • 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 a corporate anointing
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  • Whenever we come together to worship the lord
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  • As the body of christ, 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 for a fresh word
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  • From the lord.
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